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Fair Territory: Mets-Dodgers, A's sunk, Padres OF search, ABS in 2026 · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: And when you go into a place for three days
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  Speaker 1: like a visiting team does, Okay, you can deal with it.
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  Speaker 1: When it's day after day at home eighty one times
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  Speaker 1: a year, it's a little bit of a different equation.
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  Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to the Thursday edition of Fair Territory. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Ken Rosenthal here with Alana Rizzo. A lot of good
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  Speaker 1: to be with you, and we start the show today
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  Speaker 1: with a very interesting debate.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Ken, always great to spend my Thursday with you.
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  Speaker 2: It is an interesting debate. The question remains, who is
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  Speaker 2: going to beat the New York Mets? Are they the
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  Speaker 2: best team? Ken?
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  Speaker 3: In the National League on.
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  Speaker 1: June fifth, I would say the answer is yes, but
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  Speaker 1: it's only June fifth. But this debate stems from what
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  Speaker 1: we've seen in Los Angeles. The last couple of nights.
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  Speaker 1: The Mets have won the season series from the Dodgers,
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  Speaker 1: some really excellent games. Last night was not closed, but
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  Speaker 1: the first two are outstanding and the Mets. Right now,
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  Speaker 1: I want to show you guys the National League overall standings,
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  Speaker 1: not the division by division, but just the overall records
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  Speaker 1: of teams in the National League, because it's quite frankly
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  Speaker 1: and it's telling because the Mets are on top thirty
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  Speaker 1: nine and twenty three, the Cubs thirty eight and twenty three,
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  Speaker 1: even with their starting pitching injuries. The Phillies follow the
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  Speaker 1: Dodgers thirty seven and twenty five, then the Padres thirty
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  Speaker 1: five and twenty five, and frankly, not far behind these
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  Speaker 1: teams are the Cardinals, the Brewers, and the Giants. The
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  Speaker 1: National League looks really strong. What's interesting about the Mets
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  Speaker 1: is that they're doing this again with a pitching staff
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  Speaker 1: that does not include a major free agent signing. They
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  Speaker 1: signed Sean and I a back three years, seventy five million.
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  Speaker 1: They signed Clay Holmes to a three year contract as well.
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  Speaker 1: They brought in Griffin Canning, who was terrific last night
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  Speaker 1: against the Dodgers. But they seemingly have this secret sauce
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  Speaker 1: with their pitching, and it's coming to the four again.
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  Speaker 1: Let's show you the era standings overall in the major leagues,
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  Speaker 1: and I'll show you exactly what I mean by just
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  Speaker 1: how well the Mets are performing. From er. You look
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  Speaker 1: at it right here, Mets at two point a three,
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  Speaker 1: the only team under three in Baseball. Giants three point
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  Speaker 1: zero six, Rangers three point one, seven, followed by the
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  Speaker 1: Royals and the Tigers. So the Mets right now, Alana,
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  Speaker 1: you have to like the way they're playing the big
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  Speaker 1: three in their lineup, My goodness, Lindor Soto, Alonso, just
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  Speaker 1: a fantastic grouping there. But again, it is June fifth.
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  Speaker 1: The Dodgers in particular, are going to be a much
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  Speaker 1: different looking team entering the postseason than they are right now.
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  Speaker 1: We know some of their injuries. Pitchers will come back,
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  Speaker 1: we know we will see Otani on the mound as well,
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  Speaker 1: and who knows what all of these teams will do
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  Speaker 1: with the deadline, But right now, you'd have to say
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  Speaker 1: the Mets look like a really strong club.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they are tremendous so far in the National League.
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  Speaker 2: Ken are you more surprised that we're talking about the
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  Speaker 2: Mets starting pitching and not to the offense of Juan
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  Speaker 2: Soto as to why they're doing such a great job
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  Speaker 2: so far.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, I'm surprised, and I thought initially that David Sterns,
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  Speaker 1: as President of Baseball Operations, doing this for the second
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  Speaker 1: straight year, kind of just identifying free agents that aren't
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  Speaker 1: going to be big money guys, guys who aren't going
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  Speaker 1: to sign for six seven years. His preference for shorter
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  Speaker 1: term deals, with Yamamoto being the exception in the previous offseason,
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  Speaker 1: I thought that might bite them, and yet it hasn't,
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  Speaker 1: And Soto is coming on now, he's playing like Juan Soto.
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  Speaker 1: That was never going to be a major issue, but
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  Speaker 1: their pitching was always going to be a question. And tonight,
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  Speaker 1: David Peterson, actually today David Peterson goes in the series finale.
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  Speaker 1: The Mets already have won the season series, so any
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  Speaker 1: tiebreakers they've got in their favor. But you see a
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  Speaker 1: story by Will Salmon and Fabian Ardaya today of The
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  Speaker 1: Athletic the fine pitching details behind why the Mets are
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  Speaker 1: better equipped to hang with the Dodgers. If you remember,
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  Speaker 1: in the NLCS last year, the Mets pitching was gassed
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  Speaker 1: and that was really the reason why they had such
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  Speaker 1: difficulty handling the Dodgers. Now, the Dodgers still have superior depth,
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  Speaker 1: even though half their pitching staff seems to be on
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  Speaker 1: the il, But the Mets are deeper than they were before.
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  Speaker 1: And listen, not to discount the Phillies, the Padres, any
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  Speaker 1: of these other teams in the mix here, but it's
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  Speaker 1: really interesting to see how this National League is evolving,
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  Speaker 1: because there are several several excellent teams.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no doubt about it.
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  Speaker 2: The Mets pitching, it has been so good this year
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  Speaker 2: and obviously going into the postseason. Last year, Kenny, the
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  Speaker 2: Mets seemingly were the hottest team in baseball. You mentioned
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  Speaker 2: one Soto coming of age, got some Sodo shuffles at
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  Speaker 2: Dodter Stadium recently. Let me ask you this, though, because
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  Speaker 2: you make a compelling argument about why the Mets are
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  Speaker 2: the team to beat in the National League, But are
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  Speaker 2: they the best team in all of baseball? We talk
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  Speaker 2: so much about how complete the Tigers are. Are the
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  Speaker 2: Mets the best of all thirty?
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  Speaker 1: I would say, And Jim Bowden has said this, I
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  Speaker 1: believe on our network foul Territory, and he's written it
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  Speaker 1: that the five best teams in the National League are
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  Speaker 1: probably better than the best team in the American League.
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  Speaker 1: It's a National League dominant year. Now, does that mean
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  Speaker 1: in this seven game series the Tigers or the Yankees
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  Speaker 1: or any other representative from the AL could not beat
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  Speaker 1: the National League representative? Of course, that does not mean
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  Speaker 1: that we never know what might happen in a series,
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  Speaker 1: But as far as pure strength, pure quality, the National
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  Speaker 1: League is better this year. And I love the Tigers.
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  Speaker 1: I love what they've done, and yes, they are complete.
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  Speaker 1: They come at you in a lot of different ways.
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  Speaker 1: They have maybe the best manager in the game right
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  Speaker 1: now in aj Hinch. But at the same time, can
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  Speaker 1: they match the lineup of the Mets, the Dodgers, the Phillies.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that the answer to that is yes.
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  Speaker 1: And the Yankees they're quite good too, and I'm not
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  Speaker 1: going to disrespect the Yankees in any way. I just
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  Speaker 1: don't see them necessarily as strong as some of those
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  Speaker 1: National League clubs.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Detroit Tigers the first team so far to forty wins.
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  Speaker 2: Much more to come on Fair Territory with Ken Rosenthal,
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  Speaker 2: Moving on here on fair Territory with Ken, rosenthal Evandrelik
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  Speaker 2: of The Athletic. Ken just wrote a piece your colleague
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  Speaker 2: about introducing the ABS a proposal to the Competition Committee. Obviously,
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  Speaker 2: that's automated ball and strike system. What more can you
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  Speaker 2: tell us and when can you imagine that this might
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  Speaker 2: take place?
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  Speaker 1: This has been coming, Alana. We all know it. They've
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  Speaker 1: been experimenting with it for years in the minor leagues,
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  Speaker 1: first in the Atlantic League and then the affiliate affiliated leagues,
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  Speaker 1: and it's something Baseball wants. It's something that's been hotly debated.
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  Speaker 1: But the challenge system, as Rob Manford told reporters yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: is probably coming for twenty twenty six. The way it
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  Speaker 1: works is this Manfred will propose it through the Competition Committee,
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  Speaker 1: and the competition committee is stacked in Major League Baseball's favor.
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  Speaker 1: It contains or includes six owners, four players, and one umpire,
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  Speaker 1: So if all of the players and the umpire object,
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  Speaker 1: it's still six to five in the club's favor. So
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  Speaker 1: if Manfred wants it, he's going to get it. And
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  Speaker 1: in the latest CBA, the one that is currently in place,
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  Speaker 1: the one that was adopted in twenty twenty two, it
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  Speaker 1: gave him the right to implement a new rule through
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  Speaker 1: this committee on forty five days notice. So he's going
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  Speaker 1: to go through that process. And they are listening to players' concerns.
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  Speaker 1: As we've written in The Athletic. They have heard about
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  Speaker 1: the margin of error from players. The concern the players
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  Speaker 1: have expressed with that and other things as well. But
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  Speaker 1: they're going to listen and they're going to be respectful,
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  Speaker 1: but in the end, they're going to do what they want.
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  Speaker 1: And it was interesting also yesterday when Manfred addressed reporters,
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  Speaker 1: he was asked, do you want to pick a fight
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  Speaker 1: the year before the collective Bargaining Agreement expires? I don't
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  Speaker 1: know that he was asked in just those words, but
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  Speaker 1: that was the issue that was raised. Hey, why rat
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  Speaker 1: all their cages and do something that the players might
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  Speaker 1: not want a year before you're going to bargain with
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  Speaker 1: them about a new CBA. And his reply was interesting.
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  Speaker 1: He said, in the past, I have been little squeamish
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  Speaker 1: about the year before bargaining about doing things like this.
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  Speaker 1: I don't feel that way right now. And part of
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  Speaker 1: the reason he doesn't feel that way, in my opinion,
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  Speaker 1: is because this is not like he's springing something on
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  Speaker 1: the players. This is something again that has been discussed
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  Speaker 1: already at length. It is also something that while the
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  Speaker 1: players reflexively oppose pretty much anything MLB wants, a number
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  Speaker 1: of players want this, They want the challenge system, they
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  Speaker 1: want these calls corrected. We have seen it seems to me,
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  Speaker 1: in the last several weeks, a number of disputes over
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  Speaker 1: ball strike calls, maybe even more vehement than in the past.
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  Speaker 1: I know it might be recently biased on my part,
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  Speaker 1: but it seems like every night there's some other issue.
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  Speaker 1: The ABS system would hopefully solve that it would be
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  Speaker 1: a different strike zone, the players would have to adjust,
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  Speaker 1: and as we've reported, there is talk and it's going
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  Speaker 1: to happen. Then MLB is going to put the ABS
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  Speaker 1: strike zone on the player's iPads so during games, players
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  Speaker 1: can see the differences between the two zone and where
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  Speaker 1: the pitches are in each of the zones. But with
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  Speaker 1: all that, with all the consideration that is given to
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  Speaker 1: the players, it's still MLB's ballgame here and they're going
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  Speaker 1: to do what they think is best for the game.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it seems like that conclusion that it's coming, and
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  Speaker 2: it seems like it's going to be coming sooner rather
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  Speaker 2: than later. Can Let's move our focus to the Athletics
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  Speaker 2: based in Sacramento. Right now, at least for the next
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  Speaker 2: three years, they have plummeted. This is a team that
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  Speaker 2: we thought might be doing something special, maybe get into
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  Speaker 2: the postseason via the wild card.
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  Speaker 3: They've really struggled. What is your take?
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  Speaker 1: They were twenty and sixteen at one point in early May,
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  Speaker 1: and then a few days after that they go into
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  Speaker 1: Dodger Stadium. They win the first game eleven to one.
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  Speaker 1: They're down four to three in the eighth inning against
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  Speaker 1: Yamamoto in the second game, and since then they have
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  Speaker 1: just fallen apart. It's been a stretch of three weeks.
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  Speaker 1: They are one in twenty. In that stretch, they've lost
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  Speaker 1: nine straight and as I write today, you can see
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  Speaker 1: the column blame the bullpen for the a struggles, but
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  Speaker 1: also blame their situation. The bullpen is the primary culprit
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  Speaker 1: in a baseball sense. If you're looking strictly at this
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  Speaker 1: from baseball terms or in baseball terms, it's the bullpen.
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  Speaker 1: It's obvious. I've got the numbers in the column. You're
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  Speaker 1: going to look them all up. It's not very pretty
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  Speaker 1: at all. And the bullpenk honestly wasn't that good even
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  Speaker 1: before this stretch. But with the A's there's this other
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  Speaker 1: layer as well. And I know a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: are commenting on the article already saying I don't want
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  Speaker 1: to hear excuses. There's no excuse. Sorry, there is an excuse.
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  Speaker 1: They're playing in a minor league park, and it's not
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  Speaker 1: just for this year, it's for three years at least,
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  Speaker 1: and they know it. The players know it. They have
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  Speaker 1: not started off well at home. They're nine and twenty
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  Speaker 1: two in Sacramento. Now Tampa Bay has played much better
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  Speaker 1: at home since an awful start. They're twenty and nineteen
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  Speaker 1: at home, and they have adapted to their surroundings at
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  Speaker 1: Steinbrenner Field. The Yankees been training complex much better than
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  Speaker 1: the A's have. But the A's have to look at
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  Speaker 1: this as a three year thing at least. The Rays, no,
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  Speaker 1: they're getting out of that place. It's one year. They'll
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  Speaker 1: suck it up and they'll do their best. And it
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  Speaker 1: seems the psychology of that is much different from my perspective,
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  Speaker 1: and I believe from the A's perspective, though you're not
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  Speaker 1: going to hear it from the players and the coaches
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  Speaker 1: and the manager Marcotte just yet. They don't want to talk.
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  Speaker 1: They don't want to be perceived as entitled. And Mason
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  Speaker 1: Miller told me in this article, Listen, they're playing the
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  Speaker 1: opponent in the same environment we are. There's no excuse,
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  Speaker 1: no question about that. Gotta win games, and you got
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  Speaker 1: to figure it out. But this is a circumstance created
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  Speaker 1: by the league and created most specifically by the owner,
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  Speaker 1: John Fisher, and it's a circumstance that never should have happened.
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  Speaker 1: And here they are in this purgatory for three years.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm sorry. Folks. You can say the players don't
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  Speaker 1: have any excuses, they should just shut up and play,
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  Speaker 1: But you know what, this is not an easy environment
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  Speaker 1: for them to be playing in. They were at a
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  Speaker 1: disadvantage and that's part of this.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Imagine if you were just in any sort of job
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  Speaker 2: and you had to go to work and you were
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  Speaker 2: having to work in a tent versus in a building
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  Speaker 2: with air conditioning. Maybe that's a bad example, but is
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  Speaker 2: not a good space for them to play. And let
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  Speaker 2: me ask you this, Ken, You said you talked to
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  Speaker 2: Mason Miller and he was very diplomatic in his approach.
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  Speaker 2: Some guys have complained about it, but Mason was diplomatic.
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  Speaker 2: Does this make him more of a tradeable piece.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that they want to trade Mason Miller,
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  Speaker 1: and he has struggled to in May. Every pitcher, it seems,
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  Speaker 1: on that staff, every reliever, I should say I struggled.
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  Speaker 1: But what they're trying to do is build around Mason
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  Speaker 1: Miller and Brent Rooker and Lawrence Butler and some of
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  Speaker 1: their other players. They want to maybe make a foundation here,
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  Speaker 1: not maybe they want to create a foundation. And they
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't trade Miller last year, and I don't expect they
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  Speaker 1: would trade him this year. It's interesting, And somebody told
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  Speaker 1: me this yesterday. If they wanted to trade Louis Severino
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  Speaker 1: right now with a zero point eight ORA on the
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  Speaker 1: road and a six point nine to nine ERA at home,
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  Speaker 1: they probably could do it. It's the first year of
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  Speaker 1: a three year, sixty seven million dollar deal. They want
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  Speaker 1: several Reno to be part of what they're doing as well.
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  Speaker 1: But his splits in particular speak to the oddity of
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  Speaker 1: this all, and he's been somewhat outspoken about it's saying
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  Speaker 1: I need to adjust, but this is different for me.
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  Speaker 1: And the thing about the clubhouse is being in the outfield.
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  Speaker 1: Players generally go back to the clubhouses during games, pictures especially,
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  Speaker 1: and whatever they're doing, they're looking at their iPads, getting
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  Speaker 1: ready for the next ending. It's just the normal way
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  Speaker 1: of doing things. And when you go into a place
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  Speaker 1: for three days like a visiting team does. Okay, you
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  Speaker 1: can deal with it. When it's day after day at
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  Speaker 1: home eighty one times a year, two hundred and forty
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  Speaker 1: three games at least over a three year period, it's
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of a different equation.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's a little bit taxing. I can understand that completely.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks for bringing us to light on all of the
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  Speaker 2: athletics issues. Hopefully they can turn things around, but it's
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  Speaker 2: certainly an uphill climb.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 2: Time now for Grill and Ken a little bit of
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  Speaker 2: a new approach here. In addition to taking questions from
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  Speaker 2: our YouTube chat, which we certainly are doing, we are
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  Speaker 2: also taking questions from chat BCC. It's a free chat app.
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  Speaker 2: so you can do it and join the conversation. So
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  Speaker 2: we're going to take our first couple of questions from
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  Speaker 2: chat BCC. The first is from armand welcome to the show,
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  Speaker 2: armand we appreciate you taking the time to be with us.
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  Speaker 2: What other outfielders will the Padres pursue Ken besides Jaren
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  Speaker 2: Duran armand.
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  Speaker 1: One of the problems in this trademarket is that the
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  Speaker 1: teams that we've identified as sellers so far don't have
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  Speaker 1: a lot to sell now. Besides Darren Durant, who I
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  Speaker 1: expect will not be traded and not traded to the
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  Speaker 1: San Diego Padres, who I'm not sure have enough to
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  Speaker 1: get Jaron Duran who's a really good player. Luis Robert Jr.
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  Speaker 1: Is the most obvious outfielder available, and he is not
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  Speaker 1: hitting again the way you would expect from Luis Robert Jr.
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  Speaker 1: He is stealing bases and he is playing good defense,
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  Speaker 1: so you can justify an acquisition of him by citing
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  Speaker 1: those things. He still has a lot of money left.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know the teams are going to want to
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  Speaker 1: do it. The Orioles have not yet proclaim themselves sellers,
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  Speaker 1: but eventually will be. Cedric Mowens is certainly a guy
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  Speaker 1: that the Padres can look at. Now. He's a center fielder.
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: They've got a great center fielder in Jackson Merrill. But
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: you can switch one of those guys and just readjiggle
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: your lineup and outfield that way. I don't know exactly
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: where this is going with the Padres. They do need
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: a little bit more offense, they do need an offensive
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: left fielder, but it's really early still, and I would
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: expect over time other opportunities will emerge for them and arise,
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: because you'll see teams become sellers that maybe we don't
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: expect right now, and you'll also see maybe buyers willing
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: to trade pieces off their major league roster for other pieces.
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: Well, I certainly hope for the sanity of the Red
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: Sox and for our producer Jeremy Meyer, that Jaren Duran
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: is in a Red Sox uniform for.
• 16:58
  Speaker 3: A long time.
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: Next question here on chat BCC for Ken Rosenthal comes
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: from Charlie Custer. Hello, Charlie, what are some guys you
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: envisioned the Mets pursuing? Who are some of the guys
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: you envisioned the Mets pursuing around the trade deadline?
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: Charlie, I'm not sure how much they need to be
• 17:17
  Speaker 1: perfectly honest, and right now, their depth is pretty good.
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: They have coming from their minor league system players that
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: they've been plugging in now. Pitching is always in need.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: Bullpen for the Mets would be a specific need, and
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: I would expect it that is where they're going to
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: be most active. But what I like about the Mets
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: is even with the Viano's injury. Now, well you bring
• 17:37
  Speaker 1: up Mauricio. Now, Mauricio might not be ready coming off
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: his injury just yet, but he's there and he's legit acunya.
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: He's also a player that they've plugged in. They have
• 17:48
  Speaker 1: different guys now that are adding from their system and
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: making a contribution. They could trade McNeil, maybe they could
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: trade Marte if he has value. But expect their focus
• 18:01
  Speaker 1: is bullpen and I would expect that maybe they use
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: minor leaguers to go get the pieces that they want.
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: I feel like everybody can. All thirty teams are gonna
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: be going after bullpen. Help if you are a bullpen arm,
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: show me the money, all right. The next question here
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: on Grilla and Kennis from Sarah Harmon. This is in
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: regards to the Giants ken Buster Posey made some moves yesterday,
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: more than his predecessor made at one time. But was
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: it too late to fix the offense or is this
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: just the beginning of unfarhending their rouster? Of course, referring
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: to farhanxiety, it has.
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: To be the beginning, and certainly Dominic Smith has had
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: some success in the Major Leagues. Daniel Johnson had a
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: nice game for them last night, but Dominic Smith is
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: essentially a guy who's bounced back and forth between Triple
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: A and the Major's last couple of years. Daniel Johnson
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: is kind of a career journeyman as well. They're not
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: going to stop there. They can't stop there. This is
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: a team with a clear need at first base. Now,
• 18:55
  Speaker 1: if Dominic Smith takes the baton and runs with it,
• 18:59
  Speaker 1: to use that cliche, great, but I don't expect this
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: is going to be the last of it for them.
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: This is what they could accomplish right now again each
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: June fifth. It's not July thirty. First. We've got a
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: long way to go before the deadline. And as Buster
• 19:15
  Speaker 1: Posey is quoted as saying he's their president of baseball operations,
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: of course, it's a time of year that there just
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: isn't a lot of activity and that's the problem that
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: the team, like the Giants, has in trying to improve
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: their offense. They finally ended their streak last night of
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: only scoring four or fewer runs. It took about two
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: half weeks for them to get through this, so good
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: news for them. Six to five victory, over the padres.
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Buster Posey is a three time World Series champion.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: Still weird to me he's the president of the team,
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: but obviously the guy is pretty smart.
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: All right, this is a super chat. Thank you, Daniel Rothenberg.
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: We appreciate you.
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: Five dollars from Daniel. If he stays healthy. Ken Given
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: the way starting pitchers are being signed, what will Trek
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: Schoobel's value be on the open market?
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: Extremely high? Put it that way, And if I'm not mistaken,
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: he has two years left after this year, so we're
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: a ways away from him being on the open market.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: But at the same time, once he is out there,
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: if he gets out there and he is this version
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: of Trek's Schooble, he's going to be I would expect
• 20:20
  Speaker 1: the highest paid pitcher in baseball history. He's that good.
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: And the way the market, of course operates, generally, players
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: build off the players before them. So you have Yamamoto
• 20:31
  Speaker 1: at three twenty five, you have Cole at three twenty four. Yamamoto,
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: granted got his deal because he was young. Schooble won't
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: be that young when he hits if he hits the
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: open market, but by that point, maybe the average annual
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: value for him will be higher. So if it gets
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: to that, and let's hope Terrek Schoobl's state stays healthy
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: because he is a joy to watch. If he gets
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: to that, he's going to do rather well.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's gonna look great in a Dodger's uniform. At
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: about three, Ken Rosenthal, all right, dude and Dork of
• 21:03
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• 21:37
  Speaker 1: Dude, dude, dude.
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: All right, Ken, who's your dude of the week?
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: All right? First off, Tarek Scoogle one more year of
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: arbitration after this one, so he is closer to free
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: agency than I suggested in the last segment. Now, due
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: to the week, I know they're twelve and fifty. I
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: know their run deferential is negative one point eighty one,
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: and I know their playoff odds are zero point zero percent. However,
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: the Rockies just recorded their first sweep in a calendar year.
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: The Rockies are my due to the week. Hey, it
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: isn't easy to go through a season like this if
• 22:18
  Speaker 1: you're the players in staff. They've obviously had their manager
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: fired already, So kudos to the Rockies for winning and
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: sweeping the Marlins.
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, really was Bud Black's fault, of course it was.
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: My dude. Is LSU Shreveport?
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: They finished fifty nine and oh Ken, an undefeated season,
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: going on to win the Nail title. They are not
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: the LSU Tigers, the big team, But I tell you what,
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: Shreveport also getting it done. They are my due to
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: the week, all right. Time now for the dork of
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: the week. All right, Ken, So if the Rockies are
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: your dude, who's your dork?
• 23:00
  Speaker 1: You're thinking right there with me? If the Rockies are
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: the dudes of the week for sweeping the Marlins. That
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: makes almost automatically the Marlins the dorks of the week.
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: And again, they're in a rebuilding situation. I'm not blaming
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: the players and the staff for this. I'm blaming management
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: for what they have done here. And yes, I understand
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: the need to rebuild, the desire to become the Tampa
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: Bay Rays of the East Coast of Florida. It's taken
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: a long time. It's going to take a long time
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: to get this team right. And the attendance figures coming
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: out of that ballpark in Miami right now not good.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: For the three game series against the Rockies, the total
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: attendance total was nineteen seven hundred and thirty eight total attendance.
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: They're average for the season eleven six hundred and forty nine.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: That's just ahead of the A's and the Rays. And
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: of course those teams are playing in minor league parks.
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: This to me is an embarrassment, and I've said this,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: there's no reason they should be drawing more than they are.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: They're not giving their fans a lot of reason to
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: watch their team play. And again with the Marlins, I
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: get it. I understand why they're rebuilding, but when is
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: it going to end?
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree with you. It's been a bad scene
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: in Miami for quite some time.
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: My dorks of the week are a team that should
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: be doing a lot better. We really thought they were
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: going to and that's the Boston Red Sox. Ken. It
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: seems like a bit of a circus, Sam Blum noting
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: they play some terrible fundamental baseball. They have the most
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: errors in the game Ken, even more than the Colorado Rockies.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: We have coaches picking fights with opposing players. They have
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: seventeen one run losses, so they can't get down the
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: big hit, can't win the close game. It's just a
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: bit embarrassing for a team that's supposed to be a
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: lot better. They have the talent to do it, obviously.
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: It just bums me out because this is a team
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: that should be playing better than they are. They should
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: be more competitive in that Al East they are, Unfortunately,
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: my dorks of the week, get it together. Boston Red
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: Sox fan base deserves more than what you are giving.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: Think of where they could be if they could just
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: win that close game, just a one run game, even
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: half of those, they'd really be in contention in the
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: Al East. All Right, for now, we are going to
• 25:12
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• 25:15
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• 25:19
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• 25:21
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• 25:23
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• 25:52
  Speaker 2: in the world is Carmen san Diego? Where in the
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: world is Ken Rosenthal? This weekend, What's Your Game?
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: On Fox New York, and we have Yankees Red Sox,
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: actually two straight weeks of Yankees Red Sox. The first
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: will be at Yankee Stadium this weekend on Saturday, with
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: Garrett Crochet scheduled to start for the Red Sox and
• 26:09
  Speaker 1: then we have one at Fenway Park the week after.
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: And what will be interesting about this matchup if indeed
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: Crochet is the guy he's scheduled. The Yankees are crushing
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: left handed pitching. Now part of that is Judge, of course,
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: but gold Schmid also crushing left handed pitching. Cody Bellinger
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: has been really good against left handed pitching, and Garrett Crochet,
• 26:29
  Speaker 1: as we all know, is one of the best left
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: handed pitchers in the game. So I am looking forward
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: to seeing Crochet live. I'm looking forward to seeing how
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: the Yankees handle him. And as you just mentioned, Alana
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: in the previous segment, the Red Sox are a bit
• 26:42
  Speaker 1: of a mess right now. Even after that big comeback
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: win yesterday, They're having to get in sync now against
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: the Yankees, and that's not going to be easy to do.
• 26:53
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's insane to think that the Red Sox can
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: signed to formidable ace in Garrett Crochet. Obviously, Lucas Giolito
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: is supposed to be healthy, Obviously Tanner Hawk is on
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: the il, but you also get Alex Bregman who is
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: now hurt, Tristan Cassis is now hurt. They are great
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: when Crochet is on the hill, but they need some
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: support for the remainder of the rotation, and obviously everybody
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: has some bullpen issues. We will watch you, Ken Rosenthal
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: on your game this weekend. Have a good broadcast. We
• 27:20
  Speaker 2: appreciate you always. Great to see you here on Fair Territory.
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: Don't forget guys, Ken. We'll be back with the fresh
• 27:26
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• 27:30
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• 27:34
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• 27:36
  Speaker 2: host Robbie Hyde will join. I'm sure Robbie's got a
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: lot to say about those Boston Red Sox.
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: And then, don't forget.
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: Clint and myself will be on Dodgers' post game today
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: when they wrap up the series against the New York Mets.
• 27:49
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