Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - How Sam Haggerty and Dylan Moore Helped the Mariners Snap Their Playoff Drought

Episode Date: November 1, 2022

Sam Haggerty and Dylan Moore were huge pieces of the Mariners' success in 2022, providing much-needed depth and athleticism throughout the year. Colby and Ty recap Haggerty and Moore's respective seasons and then go over two potential free agent targets who Mariners fans may be overlooking.Be sure to follow or subscribe to Locked On Mariners wherever you prefer your podcasts! For questions and other inquiries, email: [e-mail] the show on Twitter: @LO_Mariners | @danegnzlz | @CPat11For more of Ty and Colby, check out their Patreon: patreon.com/controlthezone/BetOnlineBetOnline.net has you covered this season with more props, odds and lines than ever before. BetOnline – Where The Game Starts! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Dylan Moore and Sam Haggurty provided a spark off the bench for the Mariners in 2022, filling out several roles in helping in key moments as injuries depleted Seattle's offense. We're going to look back on their seasons and also talk about two free agents. Colby believes are flying under the radar for Mariner fans here on the Lockdown Mariners podcast. Colby, hit it. You are Locked on Mariners. Your daily Seattle Mariners podcast. Part of the Locked on podcast network, your team every day.

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On the show today, we'll be reviewing the 2022 seasons of Dillam Moore and Sam Haggurty. And at the end of the show, Colby will tell us two free agents. He believes Mariners fans are overlooking. But Colby, let's start here. There were 14 players this season, 14 hitters, rather, that played in fewer than 110 games and accumulated at least 2 F4. Byron Bucson, Travis Darnow, Lars Neupar, Danny Jansen, Jazz Chisholm, Trace Thompson, weird. William Contreras, Trevor Story, Bryce Harper, Jake McCarthy, Matt Carpenter, Luis Robert, and Tim Anderson, and Dillam Moore. Colby, you are the resident Dylan Moore hater.

What do you have to say in response to that? I can't believe that you're seriously suggesting that Dylan Moore is a better player than Bryce Harper and Tim Anderson, or even in that same range. That's exactly what I'm saying, yes. Yeah, so see, somehow I'm the Dylan Moore hater for saying he's not as good as Bryce Harper and Tim Anderson. And Todd just gets to skate through life lying to you guys trying to insinuate that they're roughly in the same class. So yeah, it's an interesting little tidbit there You can do a lot of fun things with stats

Like, you can lie To be fair, to be fair Bryce Harper was worth 0.3F more than Dillamore this season While playing in five fewer games in Dillamore What Ty is saying is that he would not trade Dillon Moore For Bryce Harper I'm just saying that Maybe the Phillies would have to throw something in

you know, to sweeten the deal for the Mariners. Hey, why did Bryce Harper only, why did Bryce Harper play in so few games? Is it because he's kind of a bad player like Dylan Moore? Or was there another reason maybe? I don't know. It's hard to say. But, you know, it's interesting about this. I was set to say something pretty shocking about Dylan Moore.

And then here you are. You just had to try and paint me into a corner. So now maybe I don't. I don't know. Oh, no, no, no. Say it. Say it. The people want it.

The people want it. Come on. Come on. Oh, wow. Maybe it'll come up organically. I don't know. All right. So let's talk about more season here.

The Mariners sorely lacked athleticism overall across their roster. Moore was one of the few players that was actually able to provide some. He ends up stealing 21 bases after stealing 21 paces back in 2021. Overall, he slashes 224, 368, 385 with a 126 WRC plus. Like I said, he was worth. 2.1F where he struck out 29.4% of the time, which was the exact same K rate that he ran last year in 126 games. He did walk 13.3% of the time, though the power wasn't as prevalent this year. He actually hit a career low in home runs with six and ran a career low in slugging percentage,

or no, no, no, second lowest slugging percentage in his career. He ran a 334 clip last season. But overall, 2.1 F4 is pretty good to get off of your bench. And of course, Moore had to start fairly regularly at times during the season because of injuries. But overall came through in some pretty big moments for this team when it needed the depth. And he was able to provide that and bounce back from a pretty rough 2021. So overall, what did you see out of Dillan Moore this year? Just a dude. He's a, he's a, he's a.

perfectly adequate 26 man on your roster. I think the Mariners should try to do a little bit better, but I don't think they will. And there's a role for Dylan Moore if you use him properly. You shouldn't be giving him any at-bats against right-handed pitching because you should have better options than Dylan Moore. But, you know, occasionally he's going to have to go on for a guy who, you know, jammed his thumb or slept wrong and has a neck cramp or whatever, and he's going to have to get those starts.

But he's a valuable player because he can play multiple positions pretty well. He can steal a base if you need him to. And he continually hits left-handed pitching pretty well. There's power there. There's certainly bat speed. If Dylan Moore had a better swing, we could maybe talk about him being more than just kind of a platoon guy. That would be a ceiling.

But his swing is so bad, not conducive to contact, that the bat speed really kind of gets zapped. fortunately he still walks quite a bit that's always been part of his game he can draw a walk he can hit a home run he can steal a base you can play defense I would say about in an average clip pretty much across the board probably a little below average shortstop but good enough so yeah he's he's a valuable player he's not a guy that you want to play every single day if Dylan Moore is getting, you know, 400 plate appearances, something probably didn't go well for you.

But he's a guy that if you can keep him between 250 and 350 somewhere in there, mostly against left-handed pitching, use them off the bench as a late game replacement. There's value. And, you know, pretty good teams have, I would say, better versions of Dylan Moore, but Dylan Moore is good enough that you can, you know, you can roll with them in the role, basically he had this year, more or less. It's a pretty good role for him. I think the Mariners pick their spots very well with Dylan Moore because with a swing like that,

he should not be generating a 126 WRC plus or whatever it is. He just shouldn't. Like go find me one person who likes Dillan Moore's swing. Who knows anything about, you know, swing mechanics? You can't. That person doesn't exist. So the Mariners did a really good job of picking their spots on when to use them. And they seem to have a good grasp on that.

And so, yeah, I mean, why not? He should be a fairly safe member of the opening day roster next year. barring some kind of like insane offseason where the Mariners add like six six new bats. Delamore is going to be on the opening day roster next year. Yeah. Let's dive into the splits here a little bit because he was really, really good against lefties this year. 247, 393402 with a 137 WRC plus. Did strike out 29 and a half percent of the time, but did also walk 15.6% of the time against lefties.

against Ritey's it's not as bad as you would think but it's a lot of singles you know he he hit 204 344 370 with a 117 WRC plus walked 11.3% of the time that's pretty solid but struck out 29.3% of the time so that's not very solid um I want to get into because I actually haven't looked into this but I want to get into his inside zone um swing rate And yeah, it was about the same as it was last year. You know, we talked about this. He's not very aggressive on pitches inside the zone, especially early on in counts.

Last year ran a 62.8% zone swing rate. And then this year, just a 62.3% zone swing rate, which is below average. And so, you know, and we talked about this last year when either we were previewing him or reviewing his, 2021, whatever it was, that he was finding himself in disadvantageous counts because of that, because he was taking pitches early on, and he was finding himself in a lot of 02s, 1-2s. And I feel like that continued this year.

Is that lining up as well for you? Yeah, I think part of the reason he takes so many pitches inside the strike zone is that he's very aware of the limitations of swing, there are certain pitches he just can't cover. That's evident by the 29% strikeout rate. Like there's just pitches that he can't handle. And so I think Delamore is a smart enough player to understand that if I swing at that pitch, it's probably an out. Whereas if I don't swing at it, there's a chance that it's ball one or ball two, right?

There's my odds go, like my odds, if I swing at that pitch are very low. So I might as well take it and wait and see if I can get a pitch later that I can actually handle. Like I think part of that it comes from the awareness that, you know, I can't cover large portions of the plate. So until I get to two strikes, why would I even try? Like I'll just wait and see if something comes in my zone. So like I said, Delmore is kind of an ambush hitter. He's a guy who just stand up there and stand up there and stand up there. And then you make the one mistake. And he might do some damage on it. But he's not a guy who's going to hit, you know, the fastball on the outside corner, like dotting the outside corner. And, and he might do it.

at the knees. He's not a guy who's going to drive that into the right center field gap. He's not that type of hitter. So I think part of that is just knowing his limitations. So I don't know if being more aggressive would actually help him or not. I think it might just lead to even more soft contact. So sure, we'll see. But maybe more strikeouts even if you were walks. So I think it's just a, you know, it's a unintended or, well, I guess it's a very purposeful, purposeful consequence of his, of what he knows about a swing. Sure. All right.

Lastly here, you mentioned the defense. He was a 69th percentile and out's above average, 70th percentile in outfielder jump, 76 percentile in sprint speed. Again, for what he gives you defensively and on the base pass, at the very least, he adds some value coming off of the bench.

He's a good 26 man to have, 25th, 26 man to have, as you said. So here, do you want to hear the one nice thing I was going to say about Dillmore? All right, all right. It's sad, sad, sad. We're doing off-season plans on the CTZ show, yes?

So if you guys want to hear our off-season plan and it's pretty in-depth, go subscribe to our Patreon show. Link will be in the description down below. But in my plan, I have the Mariners signing Dylan Moore to an extension. So, yes, I want them to buy out the last two years of arbitration and try and buy a free agent here because I think, and more at $3 million a year is a really good player to have. Once he starts getting five, six, eight, no, he's not worth that. He's not any more close to that. You just roll with Sam Haggertie

for the minimum. So the mayor's consigned for like three years, $10 million. Yeah, sure. Why not? He's valuable enough that you can swing that, even if he sucks. You can swing that. So, yeah, it's something I think they should consider. But my guess is they'll just roll with it through the two R-Bers. It's not a high priority thing. But, you know, you got a little bit something left over. Yeah, why not? Yeah.

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11 WRC plus. He was worth one and a half F war, uh, five home runs, 23 RBI, 13 steals, 26.4% strikeout rate, 9% walk rate in 83 games played. 201 plate appearances overall. And for the exact same reason that Dylan Moore is valuable, Sam Hargherty is as well to this team because of the defense, because of the value that he gives you on the base pass. The Mariners, again, sorely lack that kind of athleticism. And Haggurty and Moore were able to provide that.

So, you know, when, when Haggurty first came up, he was red hot. He was hitting well over 300 for a while there. a big part of the wind streak, the 14 game win streak before the All-Star break. He was massive during that time and, you know, cooled off a little bit towards the end of the season, but was still able to contribute at least offensively while the offense kind of regressed. And unfortunately, did not get to finish the season with the team due to a groin injury. But how do you look at Harry's season overall here, Colby?

It was for, you know, Sam's standards, it was a very good year for him. He showed that he can at least hit left-handed pitching. You know, he's at least as that tool in his bag. It feels like he got better as an outfielder. You know, it didn't play much infield. It kind of feels like the Mariners don't view him as a legitimate option at second base, which I don't know. I think he's at least average over at second.

So I don't know why the Mariners don't want to play him there, but they didn't repeatedly. They went to other players at second base instead of Haggerty. So I just, you know, I think he had a very good year. I don't think he's, I don't think he proved that he is, you know, a guy who has to play regularly. I don't think he proved that he's a guy who even has a guaranteed roster spot entering, you know, spring training next year.

He'll get through the season on the 40, man. I'd be really shocked if they, if they DFA'd him because he is a valuable player. a very good base dealer, fast, good defender, well, pretty good defender in the outfield. And, you know, he at least showed that he can hit left-handed pitching. We'll see if that can continue next year. But he should have a pretty good shot to make the opening day roster, but I wouldn't guarantee it by any stretch. And I really doubt that Sam is under the impression that he is absolutely going to head

into spring training as a lock to make the 26-man roster. Yeah. You know, of course, so Jerry DePoto and Justin Hollander in their end of season press conference, we're certainly singing the praises of Sam Haggurty. And so they really like him. I'm going to assume that he's going to be mostly a lock. I don't think he's a for sure lock, but I think he's pretty close. Let's see what they add.

Yeah, we'll see what they add. But you talked about the success against left-handed pitch. Well, here, you finish your thought. No, no, no. I was just going to say, you know, because he was so bad offensively in the second half, well, in the second half of his season, and because he really didn't do much against right-handed pitching, which is, you know, the preferred side. If you're a part-time player, you want to be good against right-handed pitching,

and you already have Dylan Moore, who's, you know, lefty-only type of bat. And so how many of those guys can you carry? We'll see. But there certainly is, I would say, like, if I had to play. place like, you know, rent money on the, on whether or not Haggerty makes the major league roster on March 28th or whenever opening days. I would probably right now bet that, yeah, he does. So against left-handed pitching, as you noted, 364, 449, 652, and 66 plate appearances.

That's an 1100 OPS, 2111 WRC plus struck out. 24.1% of the time against lefties and 12.7% walk rate against lefties. Against righties, however, 183, 264, 257. That's a 54 WRC plus, 27.3% strikeout rate, 6.6% walk rate. So do you think that it's just he's just better from the right side? or is it just he just can't pick up right-handed pitching? Because, like, do you entertain the possibility of getting him to just exclusively hit from the right side? Because it just seems like he's useless from the left.

I don't think it's, you know, I don't think you give up switch hitting. That pretty much, you know, nerves his value. I know there's not a ton of value if you're a bad left-handed hitter, but there is still some value because we don't know what right-on-right looks like for Sam Haggerty. And I don't know when the last time, Haggerty, you know, took at bats against right-handed pitching as a right-handed hitter. So it's not something you just kind of flip the switch on and be okay with. So, but I don't know. When I look at him, it just the right-handed swing just looks so much better than the left-handed swing.

It looks smoother. There's much more fluidity to it. Now, the left-handed swing sometimes kind of looks more like he's, you know, hacking instead of, you know, a smooth, clean stroke. So I just think it's a better swing from the right side. I would assume that's his natural side. It just, it looks, it's just the swing is so much better. And it's conducive to making lots of hard contact. And, you know, it's where all of his power is from.

It's from the right side. So I don't think you give up switch hitting. I think this is more of just you have to pick your spots very carefully with him. And, you know, I think you probably don't want him getting more than 300 plate appearances. if that even, it's just, I just don't think he's that type of guy. He's not an everyday guy. And, you know, towards the end of the year, we were talking about he should be in the lineup every day.

Yeah, because in, you know, September, I mean, even, even left-handed Sam Haggurty was providing you more than Jesse Winker in left field. So there's definitely times where Haggurdy will need to play a lot, but ideally he's, he's not. He's the guy who comes off the bench and maybe gets a start or two a week against a left-handed pitcher. And yeah, like you said, the left-handed swing is just, it's really janky looking. It's hacky, like you said.

It's kind of a chopping motion more than a fluid straight swing. Can't cover the top half of the zone with his left-handed swing. Yeah. So it's just, you know, again, like you said, you know, I'm more asked the question about, you know, just dropping the left side entirely. Because I know that's probably going through a lot of people's heads when they see those splits, but it's not an easy thing, like you said. It's not an easy thing to just drop that.

And again, we don't know what right on right looks like for him. But as you said, too, you know, the fluid swing, I mean, you feel like you might have a decent chance to hit right-handed pitching with that, at least maybe a better chance from the left side. But that's entirely up to Sam and what Sam wants to do. And, hey, maybe he can work on his swing from the left side this off. season and maybe you know come back in spring training with kind of a reinvented setup there on the left side but we'll see all right so let's switch gears here let's move on to the

off season uh colby you messaged me a couple hours ago saying i got a couple of uh free agent targets uh for the mariners that i think mariners fans are overlooking that are flying under the radar for mariners fans so let's get into that who who are you talking about all right so we We have one guy that we've talked about off and on, you know, for the last two years or so, dating back to even before our days at Lockdown. And we have a guy who we talked a lot about last off season, who's a free agent again this year. Which one do you want first? I don't know.

Let's go with the latter. Let's go with the ladder. All right. Which one did I say last? No. Was the one that was we talked about a lot last year. Yeah. It's Michael Conforto.

This is a guy who didn't play last year. Shoulder injury. Those are serious, yes, but he's a guy who's hit everywhere along the way. In fact, if not for a down year last year in 2021, he probably would have cashed in over $100 million last winter. But he did have that down year. His defense is, let's say average in a corner, which is a significant. upgrade from Jesse Winker, even if he was a little bit below average. So there's that. But he's a left-handed bat. He's got 25-30 home-run power. He's going to hit 270, 250 to

270 to 270. He's going to put up, you know, 350 to 370 on base. He's going to slug 470 to 500. He's basically the best version of Mitch Hanaker. And I just feel like, you know, we're sitting here, we're talking about, well, the mayors need to add outfielders. And boy, it sure would be great if one of them was left-handed because this is a right-handed heavy lineup. And if they add Trey Turner or they add Carlos Corray or they add Xander Bogarts or whoever. Those are all righties. Like they need a lefty bat. We've been sitting here like, well, I guess it's Brandon Nimmo or bust and it's not.

Michael Conforto makes a ton of sense. By the way, he's a local kid. He's from the Seattle area, went to school at Oregon State. He's a guy who's not going to have any draft pick compensation attached to him. He's a left-handed swing. He's definitely an upgrade defensively over Mitch Hanigur and Jesse Winker. assuming that the shoulder is healing nicely and you can make all the throws and stuff like that. So medicals will come into play for Conforto.

But the guy is basically at his best, he's Jesse Winker at Jesse Winker's best. And at his worst, he's probably still current Mitch Hanigar. Like, he's a good player. You're probably going to get him for a year or two. This is probably a guy who needs to reset his market a little bit. So what better way to reset your market than coming home? playing in an area you're very familiar with, with a team you grew up rooting for,

who has a need, has an opportunity to give you a bat's, and has an opportunity to win big. It just feels like last year we talked about how it was such an obvious fit, and it just never happened. And now we know why. Well, by that logic,

the fit should still stand, and it does. If Michael Conforto's shoulder checks out okay, which we don't know if it will or won't, but if it does, the Mariners should be pretty aggressive here, I think. I think, you know,

if it's going to cost you one and I would rather give, I would rather give Conforto one and 20 like the qualifying offer than I would just flat out give the qualifying offer to Mitch Hanager. Conforto is a better player than Mitch Hanager. So I think we should probably spend more time talking about him and working on that plan because Conforto is a guy who hits one through five in this lineup. He's a lefty who's going to hit in the middle of your lineup, which is something the Mariners really don't have right now. Well, that's very interesting. You mentioned Michael Conforto Colby because I think on today's episode of Control the Zone, Michael Conforto's name might be mentioned. Hey, me too.

Okay, cool, cool, cool. Yeah. So, yeah, I just, to me, I, like I was sitting there, I had honestly forgotten about Michael Conforto until like, I don't know, 24-ish hours ago, like 23 hours ago. I just kind of like, I did that list. I was like, here's the 10 best hit and I didn't put Conforto on it. And then I was just scrolling through. trade rumors. I was like, wait a minute. Yeah. And I forgot Michael Conforto is a free agent.

And if I'm not mistaken, he can sign now, right? I think he technically could, yes, because the season's still going. It's still technically the 2020 season. So yeah, you can sign whenever. I just, I think Seattle's a really good spot for him. And I feel like if he doesn't sign in Seattle, he's probably going to sign on like Houston or something. So like let's let's get this done, Jerry and Justin. to me assuming he's a clubhouse fit, and I don't know anything about him in the clubhouse type of guy. But assuming he's a good fit there and assuming the shoulder checks out, to me, it's kind of a no-brainer.

Yeah, last year the shoulder issue and his vaccination status, I was told, had a few teams rule him out. I think that was the issue initially once the lockout ended. And then the shoulder thing cropped up and that got leaked. everything. I had also heard that he was asking for $100 million plus still, which coming off of the year he was coming off of at 30 years old, it just, it wasn't going to happen. So some bad advice from his agency. I don't, is he a Boris guy? He might be a Boris guy. Yeah. Anyways. All right. So who else do you, do you want to talk about here? Yeah. So we spend a lot of time, at least, you know, I think we have on CTZ talking about the need to add. an outfielder who can maybe play a little first base. You know, we talked about Trey Mancini. We talked about Josh Bell.

We were really like, you know, none of those guys are very good in the outfield. And we want somebody who could potentially spell Thai France so that France can, you know, DH a day or if he gets in the wrist, you can give them three days off without, you know, feeling tremendous drop off in your lineup. And we've talked about a lot of different guys. We've talked about some pure first baseman. We've talked about some guys who really should just be. pure first baseman but have outfield experience and we're like yeah well that's good enough but

why are we not talking about will myers the guy is literally the exact player we we've been wanting he's a guy who plays in the outfield but also has experience at first base he's pretty good at both defensively he's at least average in the outfield he's a little bit above average at first base he's a right-handed hitter who is a very safe hitter he's not he's not a star like he's not a 130 w rc plus guy but he's going to be in the 100 to 110 range pretty consistent consistently. He's going to hit left-handed pitching very well. And like I said, all three outfield spots, you'd like to keep him out of center field. But he can handle it for a game if you need them to. He's actually, you know, the outs above average on stack assay. He's about average

in the corner outfield spots. And he's a pretty good first baseman. Good base runner. There's some athleticism here to tap into. He's going to hit for a pretty high average. He's going to hit around 260, which is well above league average. It's going to strike out some. That's always going be part of his game. The power's not as high as you would like for a corner guy. But overall, he's just, he's a solid average hitter who can play the exact role we've been looking for. He's a better bet to hit than Trey Mancini. He's going to be less expensive than Josh Bell. And you're not going to have to deal with Mark Rogers as you would with Trey Mancini. Right. Yes. And I think, you know, this is something we pointed out last year when the Mariners made the A.

Eugenio Suarez trade was like just how good this guy was in August and September. And we were maybe he's found something out. Maybe he's figured something, you know, and you look at what, what Will Myers did in the first half where he was playing hurt and he actually missed the entire month of June and July. He missed two months straight. And he was playing hurt before then. In April, he had a 51 WRC plus and May he had a 77 WRC plus.

When he got back healthy in August, he put up a 129 WRC plus. He had 294, 347, 456 in September. He had 275, 351, 551, 501, 501, 501, 5.07. Good 4145 WRC plus. So we're talking about a guy who in the second half of last year, you know, had a 137 WRC plus and, you know, had an 830 OPS with the average defense in left field and the ability to play first base. If Will Myers is your fourth outfielder, that's a really, you're in a really good spot. That's a guy who can circle through the DH sometimes. haven't played first base. He doesn't need to play more than three or four times a week,

but if he has to, you're fine because he's at least an average bat. And honestly, when you factor in defense and base running, he might be better than Mitch Hanager. But if you want Mitch Hanager back, go get Will Myers. They're the perfect tandem because the Mitch gets hurt, or should I say when Mitch gets hurt, I have a guy. And if the planet's aligned and Mitch is able to play 145 games for just the third time in his career, hey, no problem. I have Will Myers who can either platoon with Jesse Winker in left field or he can play left field or he can play right field on days when Hanager wants to go to DH or he can

dh or he can play first base. Will Myers is a really interesting fit here. I think he's a really obvious fit, quite frankly, because he's exactly the type of player we've spent time talking about trying to get on this roster, somebody who can cover multiple gaps for guys. You can't really quite trust yet. Like he's not a star. That guy doesn't exist.

there's not a guy who can play every single position and is also a 145 WRC plus guy. That guy doesn't exist. So go get the guy who can run, who can play some outfield defense, who's at least an average bat, who has put up seasons of, I don't want to say well above average,

but like 120 WRC plus type of seasons. And he's going to be cheap. He's 31 years old. The Padres aren't picking up a $20 million option on him. He's going to get one year. He's going to get two years. He's going to get six. $6 to $10 million.

That's nothing for a player like Will Myers who can get 400 to 500 played appearances and feel pretty good that you're getting at least an average hitter, average defender, an average base runner. It's a really good value. 261, 315, 398 with a 30.1% strikeout rate. That was a career high this year for him.

7.3% walk rate only hits seven home runs, but he missed 85 games this year, which is part of the reason that he's going to be cheap. He's going to be very, very affordable. And also in 2021, by the way, again, strikeouts, he's going to strike out, right? That's just kind of what he's going to do. But in 2021, he had almost 11% walk rate.

In his career, he's at 9.8. So that's an above average walk rate. So he's going to walk. He's 254, 329, 442, 110 WRC plus. He's at least Mitch Hanager. He's at least what we saw for Mitch Haniguer this year. All right, so that's going to do it for our show today. Thank you so much for joining us here on the Lockdown Mariners podcast.

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