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00:00 You Darvish, by the way, won his 200th career game, Matt, over the weekend.
00:04 That's 200 between Major League Baseball and overseas combined.
00:08 Only Hiroki Kuroda and Hideo Nomo have more, and he is going to pass them.
00:12 Yeah, I mean, I wonder if eventually he's a potential Hall of Fame candidate.
00:16 He has been doing this a long time.
00:18 Yeah, I don't think so right now.
00:21 I think he probably has to keep going.
00:23 But the days of seeing pitchers who win 300 are completely gone.
00:27 And it's really fascinating to see what kind of career he's carved out for himself.
00:32 Yeah, absolutely.
00:34 And I feel like there was a few years ago where it almost felt like he was done, whether
00:39 it was between injuries, declining performance.
00:42 He was obviously moving around a little bit.
00:44 And he sort of had this late career renaissance.
00:48 And at 37, he's obviously pitching as well as he ever has this year.
00:53 And he's in a good park.
00:55 He's got a pretty good team around him to do it.
00:58 And he's got good stuff.
00:59 I mean, you talk about, will he be a Hall of Famer?
01:02 That might be a tall order right now.
01:03 I mean, I think if the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame was similar to the NBA Hall of
01:08 Fame, where they take into account some of your foreign action, yeah, he'd probably be
01:13 in.
01:14 But as it stands right now, he'd have to have quite the ending to his career to get there.
01:18 But the way he's pitching this season, he could really put a fine exclamation point
01:24 on things because he's just been fantastic.
01:28 And the key this year has obviously been lowering that home run rate.
01:32 Now whether or not that'll continue remains to be seen.
01:34 A lot of guys start out great.
01:36 The hitters haven't quite caught up yet.
01:37 And then it gets warm and the ball starts flying a little more.
01:41 But he's certainly doing what's needed to help himself and, of course, help his team
01:47 in every regard so far this year.