Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - Could the Mariners Trade For Vladimir Guerrero Jr.?

Episode Date: May 20, 2024

Is the Mariners' 25-22 start under-appreciated or worthy of the skepticism its received? What's going on with George Kirby and why is his groundball rate so significantly down? And could the M's trade for Blue Jays star Vladimir Guerrero Jr.? Ty and Colby answer that and more as they open up the mailbag.Ask us questions!Follow the show on Twitter: @LO_Mariners | @TyDaneGonzalez | @CPat11 Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!DoorDashGet all your Mother’s Day gifts, all in one place and get 50% off your next order, up to $15 when you spend $15+ on your next flower, convenience, grocery, or retail order now with code LOCKEDONMLB. That's LOCKEDONMLB. Order using DoorDash today. Terms apply. Monopoly GO!Get in the game and join your friends. Click HERE to Download MONOPOLY GO! now free on The App Store or Google Play. PrizePicksGo to PrizePicks.com/lockedonmlb and use code lockedonmlb for a first deposit match up to $100! eBay MotorsFrom brakes to exhaust kits and beyond, eBay Motors has over 122 million parts to keep your ride-or-die alive. With all the parts you need at the prices you want, it’s easy to bring home that big win. Keep your ride-or-die alive at EbayMotors.com. Eligible items only. Exclusions apply. eBay Guaranteed Fit only available to US customers.GametimeDownload the Gametime app, create an account, and use code LOCKEDONMLB for $20 off your first purchase. FanDuelFanDuel, America’s Number One Sportsbook. Right now, NEW customers get ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS in BONUS BETS with any winning GUARANTEED That’s A HUNDRED AND FIFTY BUCKS – win or lose! Visit FanDuel.com/LOCKEDON to get started. FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN) Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Could the Mariners trade for Vladimir Guerrero Jr. this summer? We'll answer that and more coming up here on mailbag Monday. Colby, hit it. You are Locked-on Mariners. Your daily Seattle Mariners podcast. Part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day. Oh, hoys sailors. It is Monday, May 20, 20, 24.

This is Taddy Gonzalez and Colby Patnaud for the Locked-on Marers podcast. Part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team, every day. On today's show, we're going to open up the MailBet and answer some of your Mariners questions. But before we do that, if you want to hear more from me and Colby and support us along the way, check out our Patreon. The link is in the description, and you can check it all out for free with a seven-day trial. Let's kick off Mailbag Monday here with Mariners to the Moon,

who wants to know the team is 25 and 22 in first place on the ALS and in the midst of a really challenging road trip. I might not fully call this the quote, hot start that everyone wanted, but do you think fans are underappreciating the job that the team has done so far? I think the skepticism is warranted, but I look at this schedule and, you know, they've already played Cleveland, Milwaukee, Chicago, Texas on the road, Arizona, Atlanta, Houston on the road, Minnesota, and Kansas City and Baltimore. And those are all teams that were either really good playoff teams last year or have really good records this year. And the mayors have already played them. They haven't gotten to play Chicago, right?

They haven't gotten to play the Angels. Like they haven't gotten to play a lot of these really bad, bad teams. And they've played a lot of good teams. And they've won a lot of those series. So, you know, the fact that they're hovering around 500 right now, and they've done all of that, by the way, mostly without J.P. Crawford, mostly without Dominic Canzone, entirely without Matt Brash and Gregory Santos. And with an underperforming Julio, a hit or miss Mitch Hanig

at disappointing Mitch Garber and Jorge Polanco, like they've managed to find themselves here in first place and all of that, despite having a pretty tough schedule, they managed to do that without those guys for, you know, you know, either actually without them or without any production from them. So I think there's also plenty of reason to be optimistic here because I think we know Julio's not at 95 WRC plus hitter.

I think we know that, you know, Mitch Garver probably isn't going to hit a buck 70 all year. I think we know that Jorge Polanco is certainly better than what he's been recently. And we know that J.P. Crawford, it can step up and all that. So I think, you know, overall, I would still be pretty optimistic in the start, you know, considering everything that's gone wrong and kind of the difficult schedule. And now they're still in the middle of it because they got 17 games and 17 days and all that stuff. Like all things considered where they're at right now, I think is pretty good. It's a pretty fair assessment of how the club is. And I think, you know, the, the fear of some regression is, is fine. I don't think it's misguided. But I do think that,

you know, regression can work both ways, positive regression, getting guys back and healthy, getting guys into the roles that they're actually supposed to be playing. I think those type of things can help. So yeah, do they have to go out another bat this summer? Yes. Do they have to go out a bullpen arm? Yes. Like, is there work to be done on the shrub? roster, absolutely. No. And that includes by guys who are already on the roster. So yeah,

absolutely. Things aren't going perfect right now, but things are going pretty well. You know, you just, you ran into a buzzsaw in Baltimore. You know, now you got a tough one,

four games set against the Yankees and the Yankees Stadium. Like, yeah, things are going to be tough at times. Like this isn't a team that's going to win 110 games and just crews. They're never going to be that. So the fact that they're in first place right now, that they're in even decent position in a wild

card spot considering the injuries the inconsistent offense you know and honestly even some inconsistent starting pitching like this this team has had ever runs now where they've gone through a turn through the division or turn through their rotation you're like ooh like that that doesn't look so and the schedule's been brutal like you mentioned right right so what does this team look like once the schedule lightens up but it's not even about like who they play just look at the days off structure after uh i think it's yeah we actually have a question about this a little oh we do okay We'll get to that later then. Yeah.

Okay. But yeah. So it's just been a brutal schedule overall. So, you know, the fact that they've also had to do that with all the injuries that they've sustained with all the inconsistent play in every facet of their roster. It's pretty remarkable, frankly, that they are in the position that they're in. So I think that aspect is certainly underappreciated. But I think the just the general, like, how did we get here, right? the inconsistencies and performances across the board.

Like, yeah, that is worthy of some skepticism about how sustainable this is. Next question here from Distraught. It seems like George Kirby's ground ball rate has plummeted this year. What do you think could be causing this? Yeah, I think it's down by about 8% from last year to this year. So Colby, what do you think is contributing to that? And just to add on to the question, what do you? make of Kirby's woes as a whole.

Yeah. You know, Kirby's ground ball rate is something that I suspect will normalize. He does seem to be pitching more up in the zone than he usually is. Like he's really attacking the top of the zone, particularly with the fastball. So that could just be a design thing where he's just trying to get more whiffs by being up in the zone. I feel like most of the Marrish pitchers have tried to live more top rail than in years past this year. Yeah, I mean, that's just kind of the way baseball in general has been trending. But the one thing I've noticed from all the marriage pitchers is that they are very aggressive with their fastball.

Like they are, you know, they're willing to live with the outings that like George had yesterday and Miller had on Friday. Like, yeah, you know, we're going to try and get ahead with our fastball. We're going to be really aggressive with it. And if you can hit it, if you can put it in play, like, fine. Like, well, our pitch count will still be good. And, you know, a sneaky underrated thing that the Mariners rotation did. this last week is they got deep into the game despite, you know, Miller and Kirby getting hit around a little bit.

Like they were able to kind of manage this bullpen, which is huge. But specifically with Kirby, I think he's just pitching up in the zone more. I think he's trying to get more whiffs. But I think the knee is affecting command and control a little bit. You know, and again, we just don't really know what version of Kirby you're going to get because there have been times with, you know, despite the, the knee thing that he's been dominant and he's been, you know,

right where he wants it. And then the next start, he'll go out and he'll be kind of in the middle of the plate a little bit more. And it's not, you know, 70 command. Now it's 55. And that kind of variance to me where one day it's 70 and the next day it's 55. Like that to me does point to some kind of nagging injury that he's trying to work through. And he's not quite sure what he's got on any given day. So I'm not too worried about it overall.

I think that the ground ball rate will normalize. But it's probably going to be a little bit lower than it has in the past because I think George is trying to miss more bats. and the way you miss more bats with Kirby's stuff in particular is to go up in the zone because we know he's not going to generate a ton of whiffs outside of the strike zone. Right. Yeah, I think some of it is just like he needs to figure out how to work around those days when the command is more like 50 to 55. Right.

We saw Luis Castillo do it on Saturday night. Right, because command is going to ab and flow even for the most elite strike throwers, which that's what George Kirby is. is the elite of the elite in terms of strike throwers in major league baseball. But when his command isn't all the way there, we've seen him struggle. When he's more middle of the plate, there's going to be a lot of damage done to him. So he's got to look to find a way to circumvent that this year or else, again, it's just you basically take him at a start-by-start basis where the command isn't really there.

He's probably going to get hit hard. He's probably not going to be able to go deep into the game. and you're probably going to find yourself in a 5-6-0-0 hole to start the game. Like we've seen a couple times already this year. All right, we are going to answer more of your questions here in just a moment. But first, a reminder, this episode of the Lockdown Marys podcast is brought to you by PolicyGenius and Yahoo Finance. Choosing the right life insurance policy is a very important and overwhelming decision. And you want to be able to feel fully confident making that decision.

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That's yahoofinance. And you're listening to the locked on Mariners podcast. You can catch the Mariners upcoming series with the Yankees on the Marry's hometown broadcast with Sirius XM via the SXM app. All you have to do to find that is search the word mariners. Let's get back into your questions here on Mailbag Monday. Glenn wants to know when Profford comes back, would it make sense to send Luis Arias down to play every day? if your plan is to then platoon Dillamore with Josh Rojas, then maybe. But that's not what the plan is going to be.

Moore is going to play a bit of everywhere. So Arias is still going to have plenty of opportunities to play with some consistency. Obviously, it's up for the Mariners and up to Scott's service to, I don't know, follow that through. But, yeah, Erius shouldn't have any issues seeing the field as much as he needs to. right um you know and with with rojas you know beginning to struggle and and regress back to the mean a little bit here you might see urea's get more starts against right he's just to see him get more at bat so uh you know he was he had a good day yesterday uh which is good for

tie's brand because it was a struggle bus for about a week yeah the the royal series did not not great it was not great for the brand did not go well did not go well and the brand but the brand is like the brand is back after yesterday louise is like ties one shot to have a guy on his flag list hit. Yeah. Well, you have Logan, right,

or Bryce? I have Bryce. So yeah, I hit on, I hit on Bryce. We think so far. Garver and Polanco would be the, the biggest swing for me.

It would. But, yeah, I don't think you're sending it down, Urius. No. Because I think what would change between, you know,

now and, and the way it was for the first three years. weeks when JP was healthy. Nothing. It just kind of goes back. And remember, Dylan Moore's role on this team originally was he was going to be a platoon partner in the outfield. And then he was going to play a little bit in the infield as needed. So like, I think he just goes back to that. Like you can keep Delamore's bat in the lineup without, it's the same conversation we had with Luke Grayley, right? You can use Dylan Moore. You can move him around and not take away significant at batts from anybody and give Dylan Moore five, six starts a week. So, you know, that's what

versatility brings. So now you don't have to send down Eureas and I'd be pretty shocked if they did. And I get this question is more for like Ereus's sake. Like you want him to play often, right? Sure. Who are you sending him down for? Like who down in triple A helps you? Revas is still on this roster. Right. So like you're sending Revas down for JP. Okay. Who are you flipping for Euras? Cade Marlowe. Why? I have my fourth outfielder now. Like, and he's not hitting. Ryan Bliss, why?

He's just going to sit on the bench too. Right. So, yeah, who helps me more than Louisa Rias right now? Right. Pretty much anybody you're, anybody you're moving down to AAA

or anybody you're calling up for Urius is going to have the same problems that Euras might have and not playing every day. And Alicia Rius is a veteran who you can pick and choose your spots and you know what you're going to get out of them when you do. So now it doesn't make a lot of sense. Michelle wants to know three things you do immediately. to improve the mariners. This is kind of cheating because like two and three kind of go hand in hand,

but I'll go one trade for Austin Adams to call up Blake Hunt three DFA, Sabi Savala. I don't think there's three true things that you could do right now. Right. And we're assuming that you can even acquire Austin Adams right now. I mean, like you probably can, but it's like, okay, acquire Austin Adams at all costs. You could force Oakland sand. Sure.

but like are you giving up Michael Arroyo for Austin Adams? Probably not. But like would you give up like Michael Morales for Austin Adams? Sure. But like is Oakland taking that right now? I don't know. That's why the whole like the trick, just go trade for this guy thing at this time of year. Not saying you can't.

I'm just saying it's. Yeah. It's a little tough to be like, oh yeah, just go do that. No brainer. Yeah. The only reason that I mentioned Austin Adams is because like, yeah, that's more feasible and reasonable than you know, trade for jazz chisholm right now here on May 20th.

Trade for Luis Robert here on May 20th. Next question here from D. Pankey. After June 16th, the Ms only have one week where they don't have an off day with their longest stretch being just 10 games. How potentially big of a factor

is that if they survive the current stretch? Houston, by comparison, has an 18 game stretch in August and a 16 game stretch in September. So yeah, that's huge, right? Because we saw the Mariners go on a long stretch last year, and we saw how that impacted their rotation and how they deployed their bullpen.

And I think that, frankly, costs them a couple of games at the very least last year. So it's massive. I don't think that can be overstated. Sure. I don't know how the, how, like, Texas's schedule is and Houston's schedule is, whatever. apparently Houston's got a pretty two really long stretches late in the year. But I was looking at Seattle's schedule and it's, you know, after this long stretch, they get a day off and then they play 10 more in a row.

Then they get a day off. But then you get, you know, one, two, you get three Mondays in a row off after that. And obviously you have the All-Star break. So there's four days off in a row. And then you get a couple Thursdays off in a row. Then you get a couple Mondays off in a row. like it's not only that you're getting like one day off a week there are a couple times in the schedule where you're going to get day off three game series day off and so like the ability and that

also helps guys like Brian Wu who you know you're trying to get through the season and all that stuff because like like throwing like asking him to go 150 innings this year probably a bit extreme but if he only has to throw every six days for pretty much the entire second half you can probably push him a little more than you otherwise would have. So yeah, it's huge. It could be huge, we should say. You still have to play well, right? Like for this to matter and all that.

So yeah, schedule is something. It's not so much who you play. It's about when you play them when you're trying to look ahead to things like this. So, you know, cool. Yeah, Seattle's got three against Miami. They've got seven against the White Sox. They've got, you know, X number of games. They still got all 13 against L.A.

They still got, you know, blah, blah, blah. nine or 10 against Oakland who's really started. So like, yeah, you can look at the strength of schedule going forward and be like, okay, well, yeah, that's better.

But really, it's the days off. It's how you can manage your bullpen. It's, are you facing, you know, like their best pitcher that day? Like,

did you avoid Corbyn Burns the second time around? That could be a huge difference, you know, so, looking ahead in the schedule is always really tough. But the days off are something that are always a good thing. Right. Especially when you're a team that has bullpen questions and especially when you're a team that is so

heavily reliant on your, you're starting pitching carrying the load. Like those built in days off where you can, you know, hey look, Gilbert gets to pitch on six days rest this time. Like those are huge. Yeah. So, yeah,

in theory, it's a really good advantage. In practice, the advantage is as good as the Mariners make it. Right. But win or lose, it's still a big thing for you because just from a maintaining health and keeping guys fresh standpoint.

Right. So, yeah, I mean, you remember last year, Seattle was playing pretty much every day from like September 10 on. And Houston got like four days off. in that stretch and it made a huge difference.

Yeah, so hopefully the baseball gods will bless the Marriss similarly near towards the end of the season and hopefully the Maris can take advantage of that. All right. We are going to answer a couple more of your questions here in just

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If he's available, what's a realistic offer? So we actually talked about this on our Patreon show last week. And since I live in Toronto, I'm aware more so of the Blue Jays than maybe your average fan. But I don't know everything about the situation. So maybe they are open to trading Vladimir Guerrero Jr. But from the outside looking in, you know, I look at what Ross Atkins and Mark Shapiro have done over there.

and this is kind of the roster they built, and they've basically stuck their flag in and have sold to that fan base as like their identity of their regime. And it feels like trading Vlad or Boba Chet, who have been the faces of that era of Blue Jays baseball would be essentially waving the white flag on their jobs. So from a pride standpoint,

especially with Vlad and Boe still having a year left, I believe, respectively on their deals. Maybe one has another year. more than the other. I can't remember. I think it's I think they both have the same club control right now. I'd be fairly surprised going off of that if they got traded. Yeah. I mean like I think at that point like the Blue Jays have to be so far out of it that like they can that's the only way that like Shapiro and Adkins can go to that fan base and be like look we're nine and a half games out of the wild card. Okay. Like we're clearly not competing this year like it's over for us. And at that point maybe you can sell it. but GMs who try to save their jobs, they do really weird things, sometimes stupid things.

And the really good GMs are the ones who just operate knowing that like, hey, this might give me fired or all that, but I have to do what's best for the long-term interest of the ball club, blah, blah, blah. So, you know, is Atkins that guy? I don't know. I'm not too impressed with him as a general manager in general. So we'll see.

I mean, we saw what like a guy who's desperate to keep his job will do. Look at AJ Preller. and the deals he made and that team's 500 now like are those deals working yes and no like yeah the deals themselves are working out fine but is it providing the impact that he probably feels it needs to for him to keep his job right now no so it's you know it's a bit of a balancing act it really is so uh i think when i look at the blue jays like first of all when you look at the blue jays Yeah, they have to be like out. If there's even a hint that they think they can make a run here in July,

I don't think they're selling anybody. If they're kind of fringy, maybe they sell some rentals, you know, some guys on expiring contracts and they maybe listen on somebody like Vlad. But we also need to understand that Vlad Guerrero Jr. is not the hitter that he was two years ago, three years ago. Like he's still good. Like he's certainly an upgrade over Thai France, what Thai France is giving you right now.

but he's not hitting 45, 50 home runs. Like he's not going to put up a 160 WRC plus. That guy is not there. Like he's a 125 WRC plus guy provides no value offense or defensively or on the bases. Like doesn't strike out a ton, draws a lot of walks. Does have more power than Thai France, certainly.

But it's like what would you have given up for a year and a half of 2021 Thai France? Because that's pretty much what Vlad is right now. Right. Like would you give up Blockler for a year and a half? of, you know, good Thai France essentially with more power? Yeah, you might. But would you give up like Harry Ford? No.

I don't think I would. But I mean, it's not the, it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world. I wouldn't be upset if they did it. But it just, I think Vlad is a guy whose name carries more value than his actual production right now. And for that reason,

I'm not super thrilled about going in there and trying to convince the Blue Jays to sell the face of their franchise to me when those guys are, you know, trying to cling on to their jobs. Because to me, that sounds like I have to overpay to get a guy that I don't really love. Like I'm not a huge Vlad fan. So like, it's like, do I want to over? Is this the guy that I'm going to go overpay for and going to take me over the top? No.

I don't think he is. So at that point, I'm probably out unless the prices are much more reasonable than I think they are. Yeah. Again, if they are going to trade Vlad, again, given what that's. says about their, you know, about Atkins and Pyro's reputation. Like they're going to charge a hefty price on that. I'm not willing to pay that for Vladimir. He's been too inconsistent and doesn't play a premium position.

No. Like, like, we've seen what, how power dependent hitters look when they, you know, start playing half of their season at T-Mobile Park. I'm just saying. Right. I think, I think Vlad's one of those guys where it's like his power plays anywhere. You know, I don't think he would be as effective. I don't think he would be as affected, you know, by playing at T-Mobile Park than,

you know, most guys. But still, I just, too many red flags for me. Sure. If the headliner is Tyler Locklear or if the headliner is, you know, Michael O'Royo, like if it's someone in that 8, 9, 10 range, like, fine, whatever, like, if it's Colt Emerson, if it's Cole Young, if it's Harry Ford, if it's Laz, if it's, It's Feldman. I'm just like,

no, no, I'm not doing that for a first base only who's not an elite hitter, very good hitter, not an elite hitter. And I know that sounds like semantics, but like a 120 WRC plus, which is a very good hitter versus,

you know, 140, 145, which is elite, it's 25%. Like, that's pretty sizable. And the difference between the value of,

you know, Johnny Farmello and Michael Oroyo is significant. So to me, like, if they want Locklear and they want to start there, then like, fine. They want Locklear and Hancock, fine. We can have a conversation about that. Do they want Emerson and, you know, Arroyo and, you know, doesn't even matter who after that point? No, I'm not interested. I'll go find somebody cheaper.

Yeah. All right. Last question of the day comes from Mark. How would you feel about the mayor is trading for a left-handed starter in the movie in Brian Wu or Bryce Miller into the high-levelage role? why does it have to be a left-handed starter? That's kind of my first question from that. Also, why not just go trade for a high leverage reliever and keep your rotation as it is?

Like, why do you have to move? Like using Wu and Miller out of the bullpen is something and or Miller is something that we've talked about quite a bit. In the playoffs. Yeah. But by the way, are we sure that Wu would even be good out of the bullpen? He doesn't have an off-speed pitch. right now. Yeah.

Like. Still, I'm open-minded to it, but, the important thing here is like, who's the left-handed pitcher, right? You're talking about like Rich Hill?

No. Are you talking about Lazzardo? Like, maybe. Again, why does he need to be left-handed? I think because, you know,

there's this idea. We don't have a left-handed pitcher in the rotation. Yeah, like, oh, they have five varieties. So. Yeah, yeah. I get five varieties so blah blah blah blah like they all kind of similar and it's like they're not similar though like the five mariner starters are not that similar to each other right they have some similarities but the stuff is different the release points are different the arsenal's different the extension is different blah blah blah blah blah so like just just shoehorning in a lefty just to say we have a lefty in the rotation like no yeah generally speaking though yeah if you can add a starter sure I'm totally up to the idea of adding a starter yeah yeah

right but like they've got to be better than woo and miller and by the way which left-handed start are you going to get who's better than woo and miller where you probably don't have to give up woo or miller to get said said the left-handed pitcher you know what i mean like or what because like if you're talking about like go get stephen mats no they're not better than miller or woo so like yeah that that that to me is only acceptable if you're like concerned about Wu's longevity this season if you're going to have to skip starts for him late in the year if you can't rely on him to go fairly deep into games late in the year right but if you just need a piggyback guy or a guy who can you know start seven to 10 games

in August and July then like I can go years ago you got Tyler Anderson for Carter Bens can you find your yeah your Tyler Anderson for Carter Bens trade this year? Even that I don't think I'd move Miller or Wu to the bullpen for for that I think I'd move that guy No, but again, it's only if you don't think Wu can give you the innings you need from him. You need from that spot in your rotation. Right. At that point, then it's really, I'm comparing these pictures to Emerson Hancock then at that point. Right.

So, I mean, you can. It doesn't have to be a lefty, but you can go upgrade your rotation. And if it doesn't cost you a Miller or Wu, you can move those guys to the pen. One of those guys at the pen, sure. But like, again, it has to be a guy who's actually. better than Miller or Wu. Otherwise, what's the point? Like, I just, I don't see a scenario where this makes a ton of, like, I wouldn't

spend a lot of time looking for this pitcher that you're describing. Like, I'm not spending the effort to go get Jesus Lazzardo when I need Luis Robert, or, you know, whoever it is, right? Like, I got to focus on the bat. I got to focus on the bullpen arm. And by the way, moving Brian Wu to the bullpen, which I assume would be him because he's the one who would have like durability concerns. that's not that doesn't count as my high leverage reliever at i still have to go add another high

leverage reliever so i'm using assets to improve a strength which is fine but am i doing it at the cost of improving a weakness maybe like you got to give us a name really is what it is because just a left-handed pitcher there's like you know 35% of the pitchers in the league are left-handed are we talking lizardo are we talking mats are we talking and Kikuchi, like, what are we talking about here? Yeah. That'll make a big difference. So, like, in theory, could you do that?

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