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Guards sign Sewald, Monster Territory launch, Brian Giles was Soto?! · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: He brings just a lot of things to the table
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  Speaker 1: that the Red Sox need right now. They need that
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  Speaker 1: balance in the lineup. They also need a little bit
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  Speaker 1: better defense in the infield as well.
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  Speaker 2: You know how many news shows or total shows we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna have in the FT network by mid February. I
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  Speaker 2: have no idea I have an exact number.
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  Speaker 3: That's great. But your jacket right now, it's not that cold.
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  Speaker 2: It's cold.
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  Speaker 4: It's it's that cold. I can tell Scott of your
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  Speaker 4: jacket is like, is that a poofy jacket or is
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  Speaker 4: that just your arms?
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  Speaker 2: It's not a poofy jacket. It's like a it's like.
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  Speaker 5: A small puffy jacket.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's like exactly the puffy jacket you would expect
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  Speaker 3: Scott to wear. Yeah, dang, like from Gap Kids, Yes, exactly,
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  Speaker 3: medium and Gap Kids. It might be Gap Kids, let's see.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it's like, is the twelve twelve shows? Are
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  Speaker 4: we up to twelve shows February?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Now, Mark New York.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I was gonna say, but you're taking it off.
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  Speaker 3: Well now now we made youself conscious about your jacket.
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  Speaker 5: He's gonna put it on the rest of his close
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  Speaker 5: on your face.
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  Speaker 3: It is like a high of forty seven today here,
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  Speaker 3: which is precoculous.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I don't like to talk about the
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  Speaker 2: weather all day long, but it is quite cold in
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  Speaker 2: all parts of the Northeast or the East coast, I
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  Speaker 2: should say in different ways. But we're about to be
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  Speaker 2: up north. We both have flights later. Sadly Saturday. Mark
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  Speaker 2: your calendars while you're inside freezing your butt off. Seven
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  Speaker 2: talking to Baseball Royalty.
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  Speaker 5: What time do I have to be there?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know. Six, Okay, actually maybe a little before six,
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  Speaker 2: because we'll probably going to get five.
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  Speaker 3: Because I was thinking, like I had to be there
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  Speaker 3: like three.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no, we're getting fair with that. Some TV
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  Speaker 2: places in the past would have big events and they'd
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  Speaker 2: be like, you have to be here eight hours before.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, you need me there eight hours before, Like
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna be tired by the time we want to
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  Speaker 2: go on air. So no, we're pretty fair with that
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  Speaker 2: stuff there. It is hundredth thannual New York Baseball Writers
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  Speaker 2: Dinner Saturday night. It's a huge event. It is the premiere,
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  Speaker 2: really the only awards event in baseball. I kind of
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  Speaker 2: comment on hundred years old and we are now the
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  Speaker 2: rights holder, so we are streaming that.
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  Speaker 4: Ish, I want to tell more people about it, like
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  Speaker 4: I want to tell more people. People just need to tell,
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  Speaker 4: Like to me, this is a show that everybody needs
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  Speaker 4: to see, Like we're seeing the MVPs get their awards,
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  Speaker 4: We're seeing the cy youngs, like the trophies and everything.
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  Speaker 5: Everybody loves a trophy, like everybody needs to I can't wait,
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  Speaker 5: tell everybody. I can't wait.
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  Speaker 3: People are saying to the chat, I'm not excited. I
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  Speaker 3: am excited about going to the awards show. I'm just
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  Speaker 3: not excited about the cold weather y'all have up there.
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  Speaker 3: Like I can't wait to get to New York and
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  Speaker 3: do the awards and do that whole thing and get
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  Speaker 3: to walk around New York for three days and have
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  Speaker 3: a great time. Mark's even buying dinner, which is like
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  Speaker 3: whoa the Red Sea party? But I mean, I can't
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  Speaker 3: wait to get up there and.
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  Speaker 4: Find Mark always buys dinner. You don't ever, you don't
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  Speaker 4: ever come to our events.
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  Speaker 5: Oh maybe that's why I didn't know.
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  Speaker 3: Man, it was weird. I was in Borgado last week.
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  Speaker 3: I swear it Mark didn't buy But that's weird.
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  Speaker 2: I think you did.
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  Speaker 3: I was too busy winning. I was too busy winning
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  Speaker 3: poker turn Sorry, I'm sorry about that.
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  Speaker 2: Busy winning a meal. Yes, we catered a meal. We
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  Speaker 2: we feed our people. All right, let's starry we got.
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  Speaker 3: Before we go on. Chrosch was talking about more people
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  Speaker 3: needing to know about the awards thing.
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 3: I saw something on Twitter today. I think Claudia has
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  Speaker 3: the picture of it, and I think it fits perfectly
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  Speaker 3: for what he just said about not enough people knowing
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  Speaker 3: about stuff? Can we can we show that the picture
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  Speaker 3: of Lindor Francisco indoor. Did you see this photo? It's unbelievable.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he's a fashion week okay. If Lebron James,
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  Speaker 3: if Tom Brady was there, there would be wall to
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  Speaker 3: wall coverage. I barely saw this. I only saw it
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  Speaker 3: because it's a badass picture of them into.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, right, no doubt.
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  Speaker 3: How does MLB not have that post it?
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  Speaker 2: That should be every did post it?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: But I mean it should be blasted everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: This is a bigger problem.
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  Speaker 3: With us, That's what I'm saying. Like the same with
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  Speaker 3: the BBWAA thing that we're doing on Saturday. It should
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  Speaker 3: be blasted everywhere. Now, we're helping to blast it on Saturday.
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  Speaker 3: But the fact that one of our biggest stars in
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  Speaker 3: baseball was that fashion Week in Paris, and I only
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  Speaker 3: know because I was fortunate to scroll across it on Twitter,
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  Speaker 3: that's wrong. There's some wrong with that. You think if
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  Speaker 3: Lebron James wasn't there taking that picture, that wouldn't it
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  Speaker 3: would have been on every channel everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: Very different league approach. Okay, I'm just saying, NBA lets
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  Speaker 2: everyone use all of their highlights. NBA considers players partners.
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  Speaker 2: It's very, very different. The way that they run their league.
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  Speaker 2: NBA and MLB are opposite. The way that they have
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  Speaker 2: run their league in the past fifteen years is completely
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  Speaker 2: opposite in terms of business media, it's time, et cetera.
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  Speaker 2: Just letting you know, but we're gonna give this thing
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  Speaker 2: the attention that it deserves. And a also one of
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  Speaker 2: a friend of the show just signed let's charge.
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  Speaker 5: Charge a.
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  Speaker 2: Friend of the show, Paul Stewalt and known nice guy
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  Speaker 2: in MLB, because you know he's up there in that category.
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  Speaker 2: When you see people actually tweet that, I saw some
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  Speaker 2: people be like one of the nicest guys in the league,
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  Speaker 2: and I do fullheartedly agree with that if that was
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  Speaker 2: a word. Seven million dollars over one season to the
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  Speaker 2: Cleveland Guardians. The Cleveland Guardians spending a little dough And
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  Speaker 2: if I recall aj, their bullpen was pretty damn good
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  Speaker 2: last year. So this helps.
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  Speaker 5: What helps because a lot of their bullpen was young.
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  Speaker 5: Plus they lost a couple of those guys would they
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  Speaker 5: lose They.
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  Speaker 3: Traded away Eli Morgan right right right, and the other
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  Speaker 3: they lost the other guy to Esque. Oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 3: does it starts with an s. Sandlan like that?
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  Speaker 2: Nick Allen nick Clan.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, So they lost those two guys, so they needed
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  Speaker 3: a righty. And the other thing you have to understand
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  Speaker 3: about bullpens is their guys were young last year other
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  Speaker 3: than Class A, and so they're bullpens kind of go
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  Speaker 3: like this. You're never going to have a historic bullpen
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  Speaker 3: like they did last year forever. So I think this
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  Speaker 3: is a great signing for the Garden. It brings in
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  Speaker 3: a veteran guy who has closing experience of God forbid,
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  Speaker 3: So appams a Class A. He can pitch the seventh, eighth, ninth,
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  Speaker 3: whatever you need him to pitch. And he's a veteran
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  Speaker 3: guy to stick down there to talk to these guys.
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  Speaker 3: So I love this signing and seven million, good for you, Paul, yep, easy.
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  Speaker 4: That's an easy signing for me. Unfortunately, Cleveland's not going
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  Speaker 4: out and getting those big bats. They brought back Santana,
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  Speaker 4: but they were never going to make a big move.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it's just Cleveland's mo besides the Edwin, Edwin
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  Speaker 4: and Carnacion signing back in fifteen sixteen somewhere in there.
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  Speaker 4: You know, they never make the big move unless it's
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  Speaker 4: a trade. And I like when good teams double down
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  Speaker 4: on what they did really well. If you have good defense,
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  Speaker 4: a add to it, add a goal Glover at a
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  Speaker 4: platinum Glover, and to me, I think they had an
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  Speaker 4: incredible bullpen and his veteran leadership. He's been to the playoffs,
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  Speaker 4: He's pitched in big games. He's had success in big
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  Speaker 4: games and failures in big games. So I think he's
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  Speaker 4: a great addition to that group.
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  Speaker 2: So last year, Seawald had a four to three to
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  Speaker 2: one E ninety eight RA plus. The RA is not
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  Speaker 2: everything for relievers. We talked to Griffin Jacks about that
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  Speaker 2: in yesterday's show. The thing that stands out to me
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  Speaker 2: for Seawald is that he did hit a pretty big
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  Speaker 2: speed bump last year around July, so you're like, ah, man,
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  Speaker 2: what happened. But it's one thing if you see a
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  Speaker 2: reliever pop up and have a bad year overall, never
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  Speaker 2: really shine. His first eighteen appearances last year produced an
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  Speaker 2: five to four era. He was eleven for eleven for
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  Speaker 2: saves through June. So for me, I'm usually like, you
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  Speaker 2: got off kilter. Cleveland sees something thinks that they can
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  Speaker 2: get him back on track from what happened at the
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  Speaker 2: second half of the season, So I'm like, good signing. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you know, it'sund like you looked at him last year
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  Speaker 2: and they can fix them.
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  Speaker 3: They can fix them though, because Cleveland has a history
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  Speaker 3: of kind of fixing guys a little bit, so especially
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  Speaker 3: bullpen guys.
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  Speaker 5: So I love that Carl Willis is great there.
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  Speaker 3: Stephen Vote gets it. Stephen Vote probably knows him from
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  Speaker 3: Seattle days. It's never guess Steven Vote was in Seattle
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  Speaker 3: when Seawall was playing there.
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  Speaker 5: So I love this signing for the Guardians. I think
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  Speaker 5: it's a good one.
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  Speaker 2: Where are we at on the Guardians. We haven't talked
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  Speaker 2: about them a lot this offseason. They did have you know,
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  Speaker 2: arguably the best bullpen in baseball last year. Maybe not
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  Speaker 2: even that much of an argument. And I know you
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  Speaker 2: mentioned a couple guys gone, but most of their big
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  Speaker 2: boys are there and are young. You know. Obviously Kate
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  Speaker 2: Smith and his fastball ridiculous Class A is still a stud.
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  Speaker 2: You add see Waalds. There are a lot of names
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  Speaker 2: in that bullpen that really stand out. So do we
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  Speaker 2: feel like the Guardians are still the team to beat
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  Speaker 2: in the American League Central?
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  Speaker 5: No?
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  Speaker 2: No, No, I think the Royals.
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  Speaker 4: I think the Royals are the team to beat. I
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  Speaker 4: think the Tigers and Guardians. You wonder if they can
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  Speaker 4: capture what they had last year? Can they go a
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  Speaker 4: whole because because the the rhetoric behind them is, oh,
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  Speaker 4: that bullpen unbelievable. The bullpen pushed him. Can you push
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  Speaker 4: the same group of guys, same with the Tigers too,
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  Speaker 4: Can you push the same group of guys to make
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  Speaker 4: another run like that? Can Carlos Santana step up for
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  Speaker 4: what Josh Naylor? Josh Nayler didn't only have good numbers, clutch,
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  Speaker 4: he had clutch homers. He had so much Any big
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  Speaker 4: RBIs for this team, Who's gonna step up?
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  Speaker 5: And be that.
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  Speaker 4: Protection for Jose Ramirez who down the stretch kind of
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  Speaker 4: you know, for Jose Ramira's style, he slumped a little bit.
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  Speaker 5: But I just feel like there's too much.
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  Speaker 4: It's too there's too it's too tenuous to be able
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  Speaker 4: to say, oh, yeah, we're gonna we're gonna definitely repeat
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  Speaker 4: what we did after.
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  Speaker 5: I think the Royals have improved.
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  Speaker 4: I know they got rid of Singer, but I think
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  Speaker 4: they improved an area that they needed to improve in
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  Speaker 4: with getting India. And I think it's to me, I
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  Speaker 4: think it's a Royals division because Bobby WIT's only going
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  Speaker 4: to get better because he's still super young.
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  Speaker 2: That's true level for Bobby Whitt.
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  Speaker 3: There is, but I just don't know that again, Seth
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  Speaker 3: Lugo is going to have the same year, right. I
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  Speaker 3: mean there's a lot, there's a lot that goes into it.
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  Speaker 3: I love where the Royals around and the hell they've done.
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  Speaker 3: They spent some money and done some things. The Tigers
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  Speaker 3: to me, are the team that should be taken that
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  Speaker 3: next step, and they didn't go out and sign it
• 11:01
  Speaker 3: to people that they needed to sign so far, So
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  Speaker 3: to me, I think they're missing the boat. Now, what
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  Speaker 3: will the Twins. Let's not forget the Twins had a
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  Speaker 3: lead in this division and were right there until the end.
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  Speaker 3: They kind of choked it at the end and then
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  Speaker 3: it kind of took it. They did choke it at
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  Speaker 3: the end. So the Twins still believe.
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  Speaker 5: In what they have.
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  Speaker 2: They didn't have the division, the playoff's division whatever. They
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  Speaker 2: playoff for a while with the Guardians too.
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  Speaker 3: They were close, right, so they had a chance and
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  Speaker 3: then they choked it away. So will they step up
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  Speaker 3: and make a signing here at the end of late
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  Speaker 3: night Twins kind of under the radar signing.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: I know this for a fact. There's one team in
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  Speaker 3: that division that ain't winning it. There's four other ones
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  Speaker 3: that have an opportunity, but there's one in that division
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  Speaker 3: that is not winning that division.
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  Speaker 2: They don't like the Tigers.
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  Speaker 3: I just said, the Tigers need to take that next step.
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  Speaker 2: I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I'm gonna do this here. If
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  Speaker 2: this is okay, just baby signing. John Birnie signed. He
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  Speaker 2: got major league money. Did you see that?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah? Good for him.
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  Speaker 2: He's a Cub.
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  Speaker 3: He's their big move. They're in the eighth inning right now.
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  Speaker 3: The Cubs offseason. They got Kyle Tucker and John Birdie.
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  Speaker 2: They're in the mix for a lot of relievers. We'll
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  Speaker 2: get to that actually in spreading rumors next. But two
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  Speaker 2: million dollar base salary up to one point three million
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  Speaker 2: in incentives, need depth.
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  Speaker 3: Good for him big league, Yeah, a lot of positions,
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  Speaker 3: Concilia Bass it's good, good, good pick up for the Cubs.
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  Speaker 4: Surplus value create surplus value, definitely. I was gonna say
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  Speaker 4: created surplus value, but he also created his career. He
• 12:41
  Speaker 4: wasn't getting a much many opportunities, kind of squandering in
• 12:44
  Speaker 4: the minor leagues a little bit, and then he finally
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  Speaker 4: got his opportunity as an older player, and he's stuck
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  Speaker 4: and been I know, he's hurt. Last year, probably would
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  Speaker 4: have won the World Series had had he been healthy
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  Speaker 4: for the whole wait. He did play in the playoffs,
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  Speaker 4: but then they benched him.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, picked up a half a win of Baseball Reference
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  Speaker 2: war in twenty five games last year with the Yankees.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm sure their projection model has him as a
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  Speaker 2: whatever two win player if he plays a full season,
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  Speaker 2: and so they're going there's.
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  Speaker 5: Also a thing called overexposure two wins.
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  Speaker 2: If we value we win.
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  Speaker 5: It at ten.
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  Speaker 3: Over exposure. I mean, I know he no, he knows
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  Speaker 3: his role, he's yeah. I mean I hate what you
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  Speaker 3: can't project that out because if you had the same guy.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes guys that played twenty five games and do great,
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  Speaker 3: if they have to play one hundred and twenty five,
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  Speaker 3: guess what crafts they figure out you can't hit the slider,
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  Speaker 3: but they figure out that something about you. Whereas if
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  Speaker 3: you come in for them and you're hitting eight in
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  Speaker 3: the bottom of the order and you're like, oh, there's
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  Speaker 3: this guy. We don't really know much about him, even
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  Speaker 3: if you're a veteran guy, because the crawts will tell you.
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  Speaker 3: There's times as the catcher and as the pit you're like, ah,
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  Speaker 3: Eric Krautz is up just throwing sliders down the way.
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  Speaker 3: If we have to throw fastball, you know, just make
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  Speaker 3: sure he can't hit it or whatever. You don't you
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  Speaker 3: just go all right, next, let's think about it, right right, Like,
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  Speaker 3: there are times and that's where you can as a
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  Speaker 3: bench player, you can kind.
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  Speaker 5: Of sneak attack some guys sometimes.
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  Speaker 4: That's why it's smart smarter older players, not young prospects
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  Speaker 4: coming to sit on a bench. They don't understand that
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  Speaker 4: guys are going to do that. That is I mean,
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  Speaker 4: I can I can show you so many of my highlights.
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  Speaker 4: There's very few highlights of my big league career. Most
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  Speaker 4: of them are exact situations that you talked about AJ, Like,
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  Speaker 4: you know, we just got to get through this eight
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  Speaker 4: to nine hitter Kratz back Homer.
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  Speaker 5: Dang it, I should have paid a little more attention.
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  Speaker 2: Spighting rumors. Sadev Sharma and Patrick Mooney from The Athletic,
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  Speaker 2: along with the hosts their dual role as North Side
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  Speaker 2: Territory hosts, posted about the Cubs interest in a number
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: of different relievers. Chandler Rome quote tweeted them, said, the
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  Speaker 2: Cubs are among the teams that have shown interest, inquire, acquiring.
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  Speaker 2: I can't talk today, Ryan Presley, I'm too cold. Who
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  Speaker 2: is still being very actively shopped by the stid Astros.
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  Speaker 2: Other names, I don't want it. I'm not asking for it.
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  Speaker 3: That name Electric Bough, I'm not turning on the heat.
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  Speaker 2: Other names being mentioned for the Cubs Kenley Jansen, David Robertson,
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  Speaker 2: basically every reliever on the market, philm Ayton, Ryan Stanik
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  Speaker 2: Brooks Rally. I do think the Astros are going to
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  Speaker 2: end up trading Ryan Presley.
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  Speaker 5: He's valuable right now.
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  Speaker 2: They're just gonna have to eat a little bit of money,
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  Speaker 2: not a lot, maybe a few millions, because.
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  Speaker 3: If you look at if he was on the free
• 15:33
  Speaker 3: agent market, he'd probably get more than what he would
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  Speaker 3: get for one year. So I don't necessarily agree with that.
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  Speaker 2: You think they'll just be able to trade him straight.
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  Speaker 3: I think if they find the right trade partner, they
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  Speaker 3: should be able to. But why are they trading them?
• 15:43
  Speaker 3: Why don't they just write it out one more year?
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  Speaker 2: Trying to maintain their budget?
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  Speaker 3: Come on, what you make thirteen this year?
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  Speaker 2: I think it's fourteen coming up?
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  Speaker 5: Oh? Sorry, one? I think it's fourteenth.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, excuse me.
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  Speaker 5: Sorry.
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  Speaker 3: That one million is really going to put Jim Crane
• 15:59
  Speaker 3: out of business if they have to eat, If they
• 16:01
  Speaker 3: have to eat some of that money, I think I
• 16:04
  Speaker 3: think the market is broken.
• 16:06
  Speaker 4: I don't know. I don't I don't see why. I
• 16:09
  Speaker 4: don't see why Ryan Presley would have to make less
• 16:13
  Speaker 4: than fourteen million.
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: Would you rather have him or or I'll just Chapman.
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: I don't think it's closed. Yeah, I take Presley. So
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: Chapman got a little under eleven and Presley's due to
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: make fourteen. I mean, what are we doing here? Good picture?
• 16:32
  Speaker 5: Surplus value?
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: And and oh if the playoffs.
• 16:35
  Speaker 5: Come along, don't have any surplus value.
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: Now, if the playoffs come along, check out the track record?
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: Yeah pretty good? All right? Next up, the Reds are
• 16:46
  Speaker 2: talking to Carlos to Steves. It sounded like the Blue
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: Jayson Cubs have been interested in him as well as
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: most people should be interested in a Stebs fifty seven
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: saves the past couple of seasons. I like that for Cincinnati.
• 17:01
  Speaker 5: I love that for Cincinnati.
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I love one comment.
• 17:05
  Speaker 5: I love it.
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: One comment was like they already have Alexis Dz.
• 17:09
  Speaker 5: I'm like, so what, so what? I love this? Are
• 17:13
  Speaker 5: you kidding?
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: Guys? You need to stop.
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: Anti has a great opportunity this year with Tito coming in,
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: kind of like what Cleveland did. When Cleveland brought in Tito,
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: they actually did spend. They brought in Swisser. Remember, they
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: brought in some other guys to try to make that
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: team better that year when Tito was there, they tried
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: to sign me and I didn't end up going there
• 17:31
  Speaker 3: because I was like, what happened?
• 17:33
  Speaker 5: Eh?
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: I ended up in Texas, I think which worked out
• 17:37
  Speaker 3: better for me. Yes, but they got yeah exactly, I
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: got young.
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: Hold up, but I'm just saying, huh, you were like
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: Dallas or Cleveland? Is that what happened?
• 17:48
  Speaker 3: No, No, it was. There was way more though, but whatever.
• 17:51
  Speaker 3: But I love this because you know, you get Tito,
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: you gonna get Brady Singer. Okay, right, You're allegedly gonna
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: have McClean back. You're gonna have all the young kids
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: coming up, all the guys off totally suspensions, a lot
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: of arms, keeps healthy, okay, and then if you can
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: get another bullpen piece and Carlos and Stevens who has
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: great track record of closing games out and is pitching
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: the postseason, go do this Cincinnati, please now, like you
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: just be done already because you have a chance to
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: win the division because the Brewers have gotten worse. I
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: think we all agree the Cubs haven't made the moves
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: to take them.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: Huh.
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, but I mean they haven't. There were eight, you know,
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: but I don't have they taking a large enough steps exactly.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: The Pittsburgh still Pittsburgh. I mean, I love this one
• 18:39
  Speaker 3: for Cincinnati. You like the Reds this year, don't you,
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: I pick the reds of wind last year they.
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: Okay, My only fear, my only fear with Carlos Estevan
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: is not the strikeouts, for the role that he's going
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: to be playing in and in that division, I mean,
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: in that in that field at Great American Small Park.
• 18:59
  Speaker 4: Little fear full of that. But to me, you add
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: and I would go and what Aj said, I completely
• 19:05
  Speaker 4: agree with everything except for he said for this year.
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: They have an opportunity to win for quite a few years,
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: in my opinion, and adding a Carlos to Stevez if
• 19:13
  Speaker 4: it's on a one year deal, if he's a guy
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: that you can get for two years, like this is
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: how they have to be thinking because their window is
• 19:22
  Speaker 4: now and their window to me is probably like a
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: three year window.
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: Can I counter your point on a Stebez because I've
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: seen quite a few write ups that are like, well,
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: a strikeout numbers are down, agreed, But he doesn't walk anyone.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: And if you're in Cincinnati, can not put players on
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: or runners on base, right, you cannot walk dude. Three
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: passes in Cincinnati gets.
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: Big outs too, and he's done it for this isn't
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: a one hit guy, one year guy.
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: He's done it.
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: He's gonna give up some contact. Okay, fine, he's not.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: He's not going to get the Tanner Scots.
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: So does Edwin Diaz, and he strikes out the world,
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: but he still gives up contact after walking three guys
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: and gives up a home or sometimes. I mean stuff
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: like that happened. Yeah, Craig Kimberl forever. That's why he
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: was so great. He struck everybody out when he started
• 20:04
  Speaker 3: walking guys and took one hit and he blew a.
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: C I think some Philly fans thought he was going
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: to be like invincible, right.
• 20:12
  Speaker 5: It's good for them though.
• 20:13
  Speaker 2: He was good, but he wasn't amazing.
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: Right that well, I mean compared to who he was
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: putting a bullpen with. I think they thought they were
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: getting like a lockdown closer. But when you're comparing them
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: to Strom and Hoffman, like dudes weren't giving up runs
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: for like entire months at a time.
• 20:32
  Speaker 5: He's not on that level. But he has experience. He
• 20:37
  Speaker 5: has the bit like you need more than one closer.
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: Everyone who says Alexis Diaz like, hey, awesome, great job,
• 20:46
  Speaker 4: You need two more guys if you want to be
• 20:48
  Speaker 4: a true playoff contender, not just ooh, make the playoffs
• 20:53
  Speaker 4: like a playoff contender.
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: You need that.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: One more rumor. A report yesterday from Dennis Lynn and
• 21:03
  Speaker 2: Dan Hayes, who cover the Padres and the Twins. They
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: said there could be a deal with the Padres acquiring
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: Christian Vozcuaz, who's making ten million dollars coming up this season,
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: so the Twins are going to have to eat some
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: of that money. The even more interesting part to me
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: was that the Twins are looking into Dylan Cees, but
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: they'd rather give up quantity over quality. I'm like, okay, well,
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: good luck with that. If the Padres are trading Dylan Sees,
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: who is a young candidate type, then aj Preler is
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: going to get him some quality over quantity when you're
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: making a trade like that, and Preller's actually pretty good
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: at that in prospect deals in the past. He'd rather
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: get one name he really loves than four names. You know,
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: look at the difference between his deal, his James Shields deal,
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: and the Pirates Carrott Cole deal. That should tell it.
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: All Pirates get like four or five prospects. I don't
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: think any of them panned out. He gets tatist. That's
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: the type of player that he looks for. He'd rather
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: take one over four. Anyway, thoughts on any of this.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: I mean Boz because obviously makes sense for them. They
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: lost Higgy can't Usano.
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: Struggle the worst catcher in baseball after defensively.
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: He has struggles on d and they know it.
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: I mean, Vescue has makes sense. He's hadn't hit for
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: a couple of years. Since he's gone to Minnesota. He
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: hasn't hit a lake. He's actually struggled.
• 22:20
  Speaker 5: They haven't.
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: He got of got to play a lot either offend.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he lost a job to Jeffers, but the pitchers
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: I think like working with him still.
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: I mean, listen, Christophvskus, is that a nice career. He's
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: done some things, won a World Series? So I like
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: this move for San Diego. But the ten million, if
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: they don't have any money, why would they take ten
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: million on cellar? The Twins are gonna have send some
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: money with them.
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think they're gonna probably have to eat half
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: the contract. Crats.
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: He's won two World Series actually, and there's value in that.
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: There's forgot about There's Boston and Houston. I forgot about
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: I forgot he was in Houston.
• 22:55
  Speaker 5: Yeah, and I mean, is it a good pick up? Yeah?
• 23:01
  Speaker 4: To me, I thought I thought San Diego needed to
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: bring higgyback. But clearly as the off season goes on,
• 23:07
  Speaker 4: you're seeing that they are strapped for cash and they're
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: not able to add so going outside the box looking
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: at a trade, and I think his time is up
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: in Minnesota. Jefferson's really stepped up and been really really
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: good behind the plate, and Christian Vasquez is going to
• 23:26
  Speaker 4: give you. To me, what Scott said was perfect five million,
• 23:29
  Speaker 4: I think five million for Christian Vasquez is is very
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: good because I think it still gives Campusano time to
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: maybe become what they hope he was. He has so
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: much movement at the plate, and behind the plate, he
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: looks too stiff. It looks like he's like panicked a
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: little bit. Maybe a young guy that just needs to
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: needs to play more and needs to continue to improve.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I think the Twins would take that five
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: I think that's the number they're gonna settle on. Right now.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: They're battling. I'm sure that's the situation they're battling on
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: what the number is that they're gonna eat. But the
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: seas parts super interesting too. It would be crazy to
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: see the Padres giving cease to the twins. But anyway, we'll.
• 24:09
  Speaker 5: Step the prospect. No, that happened.
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: I actually do think they have the prospect capital to
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: make that happen. I don't think they will trade that.
• 24:17
  Speaker 3: I asked why they traded for him last year, and
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: they almost beat the Dodgers and made them So I'm
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: gonna ask why would they trade them this year when
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: he's gonna be a free.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: Age thirteen point seventy five mil. There's there's something going
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: on there.
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: You trade Dyllancy's for let's say, for Christian Vasquez.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: No, they're not the same. I don't think that's in
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: the same trade.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: I'm just saying, but either way, the money goes either way. Okay,
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: if he goes thirteen point five Yeah, and even if
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: they have the five, so you're gonna trade Villancies away
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: to save eight million dollars.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: To me, it's crazy that I would not trade. To me,
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: I just saying, look back started the off season when
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: some people threw his name out for rumors, I was like,
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: that's insane. Why would you trade him? He could be
• 24:57
  Speaker 2: a top three cy young guy. In the National League
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: this year, and he's in his platform season, which you
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: always like. I don't want to spend a whole segment
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: on this, but I did want to bring it up
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: during a break. Did you see Roki Sasaki's press conference
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: yesterday and the part that stood out to most people
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: that watched mm hmm, he said, I didn't it that
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: no stability in the front office was a really important
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: factor with him, which was obviously a dig at the
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: Padre strife and even the Blue Jays with front office
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: guys that are lame ducks in their contracts. Meanwhile, Shoeo
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: Tani has a clause in his contract that if ownership
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: or president of Baseball Operations moves on, he can opt out,
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: So I do understand that part it matters. At the
• 25:44
  Speaker 2: same time, I think that was pre coordinated, Like, if
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: you really felt that way, why were your three finalists
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: the two of them having that kind of issue.
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: Because there was nobody else who was going to ex.
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: Well. No, the point of this that I bring up
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: is Padres fans, I feel for you here because I
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: think he's taking a shot that is unnecessary at you.
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: Oh well, I ultimately made this call because you know,
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: I want stability. Come on, then why are you dragged?
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: Has a better question. Jeremy has the better question. Worse,
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: why did he go our Sazaki? Because there is there
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: another Sazaki on the Dodgers? Like is there?
• 26:21
  Speaker 2: Like I don't know, I didn't catch that. That's the
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: specific stuff where you guys see right there boom.
• 26:30
  Speaker 3: I want to know what kind of car he was
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: brought in?
• 26:33
  Speaker 5: A black car?
• 26:35
  Speaker 3: Oh Uber select, maybe Uber Black.
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: There's some articles including al the Gonzalez's story from yesterday
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: that he spoke to more team officials and they're really
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: pissed that they gave up proprietary info on how he
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: can get his fastball groove back like his velo and spin. Yeah,
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: they're like, we gave up our proprietary.
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: And you know what, this plays me back to when
• 26:57
  Speaker 3: the White Sox didn't in interview anybody for their GM,
• 27:00
  Speaker 3: like they think about it, they could have got proprietary influence.
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: That's why you do it. I know, you play that
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: process out And if you really really thought he had
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: no chance of signing with your team, then you should
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: have called Sazaki and his agent and said, bug off,
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: we don't believe you.
• 27:16
  Speaker 3: So do you think if by moving your wrist a
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: quarter an inch, Like, do you think the Dodgers ain't
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: down on the same stuff?
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: Come on on both sides of the spectrum. Here on
• 27:25
  Speaker 2: that side, I'm like, you don't have crap. He's fine,
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: he knows what he's got to do from the Dodgers
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: on the other side of it, no matter what excuse
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: he says, I don't believe that he had any other
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: real team in mind beside the Dodgers. We all talked
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: about that for three freaking months half corner time. This
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: one got some attention this week. Comps Brian Giles and
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: Juan Soto, and it was during a period of hold
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: on the same whatever it years.
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: Brian Jails ninety nine to two thousand and five, okay,
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: and won soto is first six years is what it
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: was basically.
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: So for the crowd that listens later just.
• 28:13
  Speaker 5: Is also older at this time.
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: That's the key is that we did get. But it's
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: applied tweet to this that said, through age twenty five
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: season Brian Giles Baseball War one point seven through age
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: twenty five season one, Sodo thirty six point four baseball bar.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: But just comparing their seasons for a six year span
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: or whatever it is, seven year span. What do we have?
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: Well, here's my question, I don't understand. I mean, they're
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: very similar. Actually, Brian Giles beats him in a lot
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: of things. If we can put that back up again,
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: my question is this is what I don't understand about
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: how war is calculated. And again I'm confused with this
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: because I don't understand how whoever you know, and how
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: people can have different things of war? Can we can
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: we show that again though back to back?
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: Remember war is all categories.
• 28:57
  Speaker 5: I understand. Okay, Okay, okay.
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: My question is is Brian Giles beats him and everything
• 29:02
  Speaker 3: listed right except OBP by three points?
• 29:05
  Speaker 5: Okay?
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: How does Wan SODA's ops plus nine points higher than
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: Brian Giles? And how does Brian Giles have less war
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: than one Soda? When he played more games and more hits,
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: more homers more? Are you has more stolen bases?
• 29:17
  Speaker 5: More?
• 29:17
  Speaker 3: His opp is three points lower? Better? Slug?
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: I have an answer, Okay, want soon is not a
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: good defender either. I have an answer, and I'm just
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: the messenger. Okay, So he has the ops plus advantage
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: at one sixty versus one fifty one because OPS plus ways,
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: ballpark ways the time period, right, So they're taking everyone's
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: numbers right during certain eras and being like, okay, those
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: numbers look great, but offense was up a little bit
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: during that time period, right, or you were in this
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: ballpark versus this ballpark. That's what the stat does ops plus.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: So that's that side of it. The other side is,
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: I don't know what they had for base running in
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: defensive metrics for Sodo versus Giles, but that's what will
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: give him a little boost. But also in fairness, I mean,
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: Soto's out a thirty six point four during this time
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: period and Giles at thirty five point eight. So I
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: don't get into too many semantics when they're that close,
• 30:11
  Speaker 2: I understand.
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: But still if you look at the numbers though, and
• 30:13
  Speaker 3: I know they're different ages, I get it. But Brian
• 30:16
  Speaker 3: Jones beats him in everything, so I know defense does
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: to matter, but he still beats him in everything except
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: for OBP by three points.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: He's got nine points on him on ops plus. That matters.
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: Okay, So that goes into war. Oh yeah, okay, So
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: again I'm gonna you know what, I'm gonnaide a crafty
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: me and you were gonna come up with a stat
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: We're gonna make like some guy look really good on
• 30:36
  Speaker 3: some stat.
• 30:37
  Speaker 5: We're just gonna make some stat.
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: Up because I get it, But it just it does.
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: This is why I think people look too much into
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: war sometimes because it just doesn't make sense all the time.
• 30:46
  Speaker 5: Too.
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: It doesn't make sense all the time. It's they're trying
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: to they're trying to make it easier, and it.
• 30:54
  Speaker 5: Convolutes a little bit.
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: But I'll be honest, I had no idea Brian Giles
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: had it like this. I saw him at the end
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: of his career. He had kind of got deflated a
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: little bit. I had no idea his numbers were like this.
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: They're elite numbers like and he's pretty much the age
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: when he had started his career.
• 31:17
  Speaker 5: He's the age Soto is now.
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: So if Soto has the same years and like equals
• 31:23
  Speaker 4: what Brian Giles did, then they're getting Then they're getting some.
• 31:27
  Speaker 5: Of their money's worth, not all their money's worth, but
• 31:29
  Speaker 5: some of it. But man, I had no idea.
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you would have gotten a lot more money back
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: then if you hit the free agent market at the
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: right time. Different error, But just throwing it out, let's
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: bringing our next Yep, well that's true. That's the big
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: difference is the age, So that's why peaked. Yeah, let's
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: bring in our next guest, and we are going to
• 31:55
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• 31:57
  Speaker 2: new show to the mix and you are going to
• 32:00
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• 32:03
  Speaker 2: who is awesome on YouTube creator Baseball World four years now,
• 32:09
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• 32:12
  Speaker 2: you on and let's introduce what was Fenway Faithful and
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: is now Monster Territory. How you doing, man doing great?
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  Speaker 5: Man, Thanks for having me. It's an honor to be here.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's a great time right now.
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  Speaker 2: So it's been a long time coming. We've been talking
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: about this for a minute. So why don't you let
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: fans and especially Red Sox fans know what you'll be
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: bringing to the table this coming season. And of course
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: you can use a comp you can use their rival
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: for a comp to give them an idea of what
• 32:43
  Speaker 2: it'll look and sound like.
• 32:46
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 32:46
  Speaker 1: So obviously on the Foul Territory Network you have Pinstripe
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: Territory and we're going to be Monster Territory we're gonna
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: be doing postgame shows. We're gonna be talking all Red
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: Sox news. I mean day, we'll be talking something over there.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: Uh you know in this offseason if we've already had
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: a lot to talk about, so it's it's only gonna
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: get busier as the season goes on.
• 33:09
  Speaker 5: So I'm excited for it.
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: Podcast battle, podcast battles, Derrek and Robbie. Let's go, let's
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: go Red Sox.
• 33:19
  Speaker 5: Let's go like the old days.
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: All right, I'm surprised he let me on a show
• 33:23
  Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago.
• 33:24
  Speaker 5: I thought I was, but now we got through it. It
• 33:28
  Speaker 5: was pretty good.
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: It's pretty good.
• 33:30
  Speaker 5: Okay, he loves the Red Sox. Anyway, so.
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: You haven't had much to talk about. They made the
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: Girt Crochet move, but since then it's kind of been
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: the Red Sox are in on this guy Buehler.
• 33:45
  Speaker 5: Okay, I forgot about Bueller, but you know they've been.
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: In on this guy. They're in on this guy. They're
• 33:49
  Speaker 3: in on this guy. They're in on this guy, and
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: they never get them. Now they went and traded for Crochet.
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: They got Bueler for on a short term deal. What
• 33:57
  Speaker 3: are the Red Sox doing and where is John Henry
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: putting his money? Is it under his mattress?
• 34:03
  Speaker 5: I mean, who knows?
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: It could be hidden in some little corridor around Femway Park.
• 34:07
  Speaker 5: I'm not really sure.
• 34:07
  Speaker 1: But Alex Bregman is the guy right now they need
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: a right handed hitter in the lineup. He brings just
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: a lot of things to the table that the Red
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: Sox need right now.
• 34:16
  Speaker 5: They need that balance in the lineup.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: They also need a little bit better defense in the
• 34:20
  Speaker 1: infield as well, but they really do need a big
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: voice in that clubhouse in my opinion. You know, Raphael
• 34:26
  Speaker 1: Devers is the guy that you know people look to,
• 34:29
  Speaker 1: but he said himself, he doesn't.
• 34:31
  Speaker 5: Really want to be that guy.
• 34:32
  Speaker 1: Alex Bregman has that championship pedigree, a lot of success
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: in Houston. He's hit very well at Fenway Park in
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: his career. To me, he just makes all the sense.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: It's just a matter of are they going to open
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: up the check book. I'm not sure. I don't know
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: if they're going the JD. Martinez playbook from what they
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: did back in twenty eighteen. We'll see what ends up happening.
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: But Bregman is the guy that Red Sox fans are
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: hoping for right now.
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  Speaker 2: So you recently connected with Alex Korra. People can hit
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: up your channel and check out That interview was really good.
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: I listened to it yesterday. Did you get any inkling
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: of his interest in Bregman? I know he talked about
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: him in the past. What do you think that he's
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: pleading for with the front office. I do think he
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: has more influence than most managers, do. Do you agree?
• 35:24
  Speaker 5: Yeah? I would agree on that.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: And they're very good at hinting at things without actually
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: saying it out loud, and I felt like I got
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: that in the interview that we had, where you know,
• 35:35
  Speaker 1: we're talking about adding a right handed hitter. He brought
• 35:38
  Speaker 1: up the jad Martinez situation from twenty eighteen, you know,
• 35:41
  Speaker 1: go back to that time. You know, they were looking
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: for two hundred million dollars and the Red Sox called
• 35:47
  Speaker 1: their bluff and he was saying, just be patient, you know,
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: just like try and wait this out. And you know,
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: I've felt like he was sort of hinting at that possibility.
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: But you know, there are teams would who would also
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: love to bring him in, So we'll see what ends
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: up happening. But it you do get a strong inclination
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: that Korra, he really would like to have him on board.
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: How about what Alex Cora said when he was on
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: your show about Jared Duran, Is that the sentiment that
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: you feel the same about being a top three most
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: dynamic players, if not top three best players in the
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  Speaker 4: American League.
• 36:28
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: I mean when you just take a look at the
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: growth of Duran, that's kind of to me is where
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: Cora was getting at with him, because he's really come
• 36:37
  Speaker 1: a long way over the last few years. You know,
• 36:39
  Speaker 1: you take a look at the you know, the bad
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: defensive plays that happened. There was one game against Toronto.
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: I think they lost like eighty two to one or
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: something like that. But you know, that was a moment
• 36:50
  Speaker 1: where he was getting, you know, pretty drugged on by
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: the fans, and you know, and take a look at
• 36:56
  Speaker 1: the year that he just had going to the All
• 36:58
  Speaker 1: Star Game. He is very highly of him and he
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: but I think most of all, he's just seen him
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: mature and grow into the.
• 37:05
  Speaker 5: Player that he is today. So I think he's very
• 37:07
  Speaker 5: excited about him moving forward.
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: Wait just quick look, so I can see a case
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: for maybe even top five coming off this season, Yeah,
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: Judge and Wit, and I think he then considered him next.
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna give Gunner Anderson the edge. And I know
• 37:23
  Speaker 2: it's not like he's been doing it forever, but I
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: think top five is probably a more reasonable space to
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: make a case for cool. Are we good at that? Okay?
• 37:32
  Speaker 5: Cool? Lussy.
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: He's got a sweet attitude, which I love.
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: So he came on our show and he was bringing.
• 37:41
  Speaker 5: It in special. That's fine.
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: But Robbie you mentioned I think mentioned Tristan Casss. What
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: do we expect from him? Is he going to be healthy?
• 37:50
  Speaker 3: You know, he does all the quirky things. He goes
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: out there and sche mask and grounds himself and does
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: yoga with his shirt off and all these quirky things.
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: But at some point you have to play. You have
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: to be healthy and you have to be out there
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: is this year where he takes that next step and
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: becomes the first round pick and the first basement of
• 38:07
  Speaker 3: the future for the Red Sox. You know, getting back
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: to Duran here, right. You know, Duran has been a
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: guy that's you know, miss time in the past two
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: and he was able to put it together this past year.
• 38:16
  Speaker 3: I think there's a lot of high hopes for Casas.
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: You know, he has been in the rumor mill a
• 38:19
  Speaker 3: lot this offseason. But you know, Craig Breslo, he's come
• 38:23
  Speaker 3: out and said, you know, I don't know where this
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: is coming from. You know, who knows, you know how
• 38:26
  Speaker 3: truthful he's being there. But in the end, you know,
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: Casas does have a ton of upside with the bat.
• 38:32
  Speaker 3: Breslo himself has said, you know, forty home run power
• 38:35
  Speaker 3: per season, this is a big year for him and
• 38:38
  Speaker 3: he needs to show that he can stay on the
• 38:41
  Speaker 3: field and be consistent, and quite frankly, they need that,
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: you know. They they lost him a lot this past
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: year and they're going to need that power production in
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: the middle of the order.
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: So well, Robbie, great analysis as always a lot more
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: than people can get on Monster Territory. And it's a
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: fire logo too, So go check that out. QR codes
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: on the screen wherever you get your pods, wherever you
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: watch or listen. Robbie, thanks for joining us. Man there
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: it is. There's the side by side with Core. We
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: haven't even had Alex Cora on. Robbie's getting Alex Corus,
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: so I gotta give it to you. Robbie, We're excited.
• 39:14
  Speaker 2: We'll catch on after every single Red Sox game and
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: obviously plenty of content every week for Red Sox fans
• 39:22
  Speaker 2: to absorb. You'll have some friends joining you. So thanks again, man, congrats,
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: We're excited.
• 39:27
  Speaker 5: Thank you very much.
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: You know I'm wanting to cover the Red Sox for
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: a long time now, and to have this opportunity, it's
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: a huge honor. So thank you to all of you,
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: and I'm excited for this season.
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: How ironic we're in that Jim Marlin's wint right off
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: that conversation, sixty three and a half. We're all going under.
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: They're gonna be freaking terrible. What's the number market, sixty
• 39:57
  Speaker 2: three and a half.
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: They don't even have losing one hundred.
• 40:00
  Speaker 5: I know, what did I say? What did I say?
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: My gosh, under under under, under, under, under, under.
• 40:06
  Speaker 2: Bucket, under look at it.
• 40:09
  Speaker 5: I never I thought it would be like fifty eight under. Wow, okay,
• 40:14
  Speaker 5: boy got him at I previewed this.
• 40:18
  Speaker 4: I previewed this like their only hope is that Uri
• 40:22
  Speaker 4: Perez and al Contra come back and do well, and.
• 40:26
  Speaker 3: Then they're gonna get traded.
• 40:28
  Speaker 4: They're gonna get rid of those guys like two dudes
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: coming off with Tommy John when I when I locked
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: in the other one the other day for us, I
• 40:36
  Speaker 4: told you guys, I would lock it in. I stumbled
• 40:38
  Speaker 4: across the Marlins and I was like, oh, I've said
• 40:41
  Speaker 4: it like three or four times.
• 40:42
  Speaker 5: Please, I can't wait until we get to the Marlins.
• 40:46
  Speaker 5: Sixty three and a half under under under under.
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: Look at theirs? How much did I put down? Yep? Wait,
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: I want people to be serious and look at the
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: islands or don't look at the Marlins roster and really, right,
• 41:03
  Speaker 2: even if you're a hardcore baseball fan, as long as
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: you're not a Marlins fan, tell me how many players
• 41:07
  Speaker 2: you can name in their starting lineup?
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: Better question. I'm going to ask this question though, Dude,
• 41:11
  Speaker 3: are they able to beat the White Sox record last year?
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: No, they won't hit.
• 41:15
  Speaker 3: That Now there were some White Sox players you could name.
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: They won't hit that number. And I do think all
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: Contra gets moved, but Uri Prez doesn't. I think he's
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: still making league minimum. They're not going to move that.
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: I mean, they need somebody to throw innings. They had
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: one shy of the record I think for most starters
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: used in the season last year. So yeah, it is
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: an abomination and the game plan is ridiculous because they
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: think they're going to copy the Rais even the Rays
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: of kind of internally I'd heard this the other day said, hey,
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: like we were ahead of the curve, but like a
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: lot of places that caught up, the Marlins are like
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: twenty miles behind, being like we're gonna do what the
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: Rays did in twenty ten or whatever. It's like, dude,
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: we're so far ahead of you. It's this is a mess.
• 41:56
  Speaker 2: I lived there. I'm pissed. Think you know, football of
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  Speaker 2: Roman Anthony two. There's some Red Sox in there. Christian
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: Campbell number four overall prospect four. But that's why you know,
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: Korra wants Bregman, but the Red Sox want Campbell because
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: they think he's going to be ready soon. That's the
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: battle that's going on. I know they're just prospects, but
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: the Red Sox think they have to impact players for
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five, and Baseball America agrees, Roman Anthony and
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: Christian Campbell. That's why I think Bregman's signing with Detroit
• 43:27
  Speaker 2: or Toronto, not Boston when March twelfth. I don't know.
• 43:33
  Speaker 3: I mean, pregnant can rant your apartment. These signs of Detroit.
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: It's close enough to Lakeland, not that far. I guess.
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I feel like he can do better.
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: Let him downtown. But Travis Bozana popped up at twenty
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: four on their list in JJ Weatherholt twenty five. Just
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: some notable names from the draft last year. Chase Burns
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: Reds twenty seventh. I don't know. There's a difference, though,
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: Why you think Jack Kags should be higher on their list.
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: We've got two more minutes.
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: We've got a guy that have hit forty plus homers
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: in the SEC. Yeah, and you got JJ weatherhold nothing
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: against Jj, but he's a five eight slap hitter to
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: play short stuff, no offense.
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: I'm just saying, like, I mean, he's a great hitter,
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: but I just for me, I want the guy that
• 44:21
  Speaker 3: would hit me forty especially in Kansas City, these are
• 44:23
  Speaker 3: hard those guys are hard to find.
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: Is it swinging misconcerns?
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: He didn't swing and miss. I told him to stop
• 44:28
  Speaker 3: swinging and miss, and he stop swinging and.
• 44:29
  Speaker 5: Missing last year.
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: No, I'm not I know I'm high.
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: I don't know. I just don't understand Jack.
• 44:33
  Speaker 5: I don't get why. I don't know.
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: I don't know how prospect rankings work. But whatever, it's a.
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: Good question for JJ. Maybe next week we can get
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: one of the Baseball America people on there and we
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: can pick like five guys a bit. Why is this
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: player so high? Why is this player so low? Trying
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: to see if there's anyone else on the list that
• 44:52
  Speaker 2: stands out for being too high or too low. You
• 44:56
  Speaker 2: got Andrew Paynter in the top ten Philly's prospect if.
• 44:59
  Speaker 4: He's healthy, all he has had four Elli's had four
• 45:02
  Speaker 4: in a top hundred. That's pretty good for a team
• 45:05
  Speaker 4: that's spent so much in the big league team.
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: You're right, Aiden Miller is one of the fastest rising
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: prospects in the sport. If you want to look up
• 45:14
  Speaker 2: what he's up to and just what the swing looks like.
• 45:18
  Speaker 4: Prospects, I mean, if we if we mentioned every time
• 45:22
  Speaker 4: that a prospect fizzled out, they're they're they're something to
• 45:27
  Speaker 4: build your organization. Look at the Dodgers. The Dodgers have prospects,
• 45:32
  Speaker 4: they trade them to get the big leaguers that are
• 45:34
  Speaker 4: established and ready to go right away. That's okay. It's
• 45:38
  Speaker 4: okay if the Orioles trade from some of their prospect depth.
• 45:43
  Speaker 4: They're not all gonna they're not all gonna pan out.
• 45:46
  Speaker 4: You're really lucky that you already have Adley and Gunner
• 45:50
  Speaker 4: in the show. Like to me, that's that's where that's
• 45:55
  Speaker 4: where the value is with the prospect. It's okay, be
• 45:58
  Speaker 4: okay with them succeeding somewhere else. They don't have to
• 46:01
  Speaker 4: just succeed in only your organization.
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: I'm with you. We're back, she said.
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: We're out seeing New York people. Yeah, well fly from
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: New York. It's Saturday night.
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: J Prazinski.
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: Oh man, I can't believe I'm going to New York.
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: Do I need anything?
• 46:20
  Speaker 5: Mark? Do I need? Do I need? What? Do I need? Here?
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: Marks? A frozen.
• 46:25
  Speaker 5: Like it's not even that cold.
• 46:29
  Speaker 2: For AJ, it's cold, and for me it's cold, even
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: though I spent most of my life up there. One
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: hundredth Annual Baseball Writers Award Center Saturday. But also we
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: have a show tomorrow. AJ is off, but we got
• 46:40
  Speaker 2: Todd Father. I'll be there see you. Then I gotta
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: sneeze