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Kyle Tucker’s future · North Side Territory: A Chicago Cubs Podcast

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  Speaker 1: Welcome into Northside Territory. Foul Territory Networks Cubs podcast. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Sharma with my partner Patrick Mooney, where your Cubs beat
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  Speaker 1: writers over at the Athletic Patrick, what are we ten
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  Speaker 1: days into spring training about?
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  Speaker 2: Or we're getting there? Not not not quite? I guess
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  Speaker 2: a full week a week?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, so you it feels like I was
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  Speaker 1: gonna say, Patrick, I feel like you're You're haggard, you're exhausted,
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  Speaker 1: You're already to come home.
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  Speaker 3: You know, you know how spring training is. This is
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  Speaker 3: not complaining.
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  Speaker 4: It's just like such a groundhog day experience that and
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  Speaker 4: like all the years kind of blend together that once
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  Speaker 4: you're back for like two days, just like okay, well
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  Speaker 4: this is just the routine now, and like time kind.
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  Speaker 3: Of ceases to exists in the same forum. You know,
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  Speaker 3: is not like weekends, you no, not.
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  Speaker 4: A whole lot of nighttime activities, and it's just a
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  Speaker 4: lot of you know, not complaining.
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  Speaker 2: Again, but it's just that no complaining.
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  Speaker 3: That pace of spring training.
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  Speaker 4: I would saying with someone at the end of the day,
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  Speaker 4: like it feels like you're there for a month just
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  Speaker 4: because like your your brain is just wired and you
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  Speaker 4: know your muscle memory of doing it, and.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, after a bregnant it's like, you know, like that
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  Speaker 3: was exciting, that.
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  Speaker 4: Was a big story and then there was a big,
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  Speaker 4: big letdown.
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  Speaker 3: So it's kinda gotta gotta pivot.
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  Speaker 2: Now you now you grind through it.
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  Speaker 1: And we were not allowed to complain, right because especially
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  Speaker 1: you and I because we get to tap in back
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  Speaker 1: and forth. The others have to be there for majority
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  Speaker 1: of the six weeks and uh so we can complain
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  Speaker 1: amongst ourselves, but if we complain to them, we may
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  Speaker 1: get It.
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  Speaker 3: Is a total job. I love doing the job.
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  Speaker 4: It's just that you fall into this like okay, well
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  Speaker 4: I just go hotel, ballpark, you know, yeah, may have
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  Speaker 4: grab dinner, then do work at home, just like rin
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  Speaker 4: rinse repeat.
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  Speaker 3: So it's very agreable.
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  Speaker 4: Ah, work day just you know, very very repetitive getting
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  Speaker 4: into the uh you know, rhythm of the season.
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  Speaker 3: Which is good.
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  Speaker 1: No, no, I get you. I'm I'm I'm looking forward
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  Speaker 1: to it. You missed out on some snow, so I heard, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it'll be back. It'll it'll still be here. I think
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be pretty cold, so you're here, you'll.
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  Speaker 2: Come back to it.
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  Speaker 1: You're not missing out on all of it, don't think.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So Kyle Tucker met with the media finally,
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  Speaker 1: uh like, I mean it sounds like Bregman and is
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  Speaker 1: this a one year thing?
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  Speaker 2: Are the topics there? Right?
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  Speaker 1: Like you had a little bregmant thoughts and then you know,
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  Speaker 1: trying to win in what feels like a one year
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  Speaker 1: stint with the Cubs.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I think I think Bregman would have
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  Speaker 4: helped optimize Tucker's year in Chicago, no doubt of just
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  Speaker 4: having that presence in the lineup, someone to take some
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  Speaker 4: of the pressure off, someone who he's very close with,
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  Speaker 4: and someone who Tucker called one of the best players
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  Speaker 4: and one of the best people in the game. I think,
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  Speaker 4: like we all spend way too much time on social
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  Speaker 4: media and stuff like that. But I think part of
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  Speaker 4: the rationalization that I saw out there, I was like, Oh, well,
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  Speaker 4: he's not pregnant's not worth the money, He's not gonna
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  Speaker 4: be that you know, he's not that good. It's like, well,
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  Speaker 4: I don't know, the best player on the team thinks
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  Speaker 4: he's that good. The president of the team thinks he's
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  Speaker 4: that good.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 4: The manager said Oos basically said obviously disappointing. That's why
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  Speaker 4: you go after the player, because you want him on
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  Speaker 4: your team. So when he's not on your team, that
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  Speaker 4: is a let down. So that's what that's one aspect
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  Speaker 4: of it. And also I think it's really hard to
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  Speaker 4: kind of report out the Bregman negotiations and look at
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  Speaker 4: this franchise's track record and look at, you know, project
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  Speaker 4: what Kyle Tucker may get a year after.
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  Speaker 3: Juan Soto as a more well rounded.
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  Speaker 4: Player, though slightly older and not as generational Hall of
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  Speaker 4: Fame ish.
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  Speaker 3: At this point, it's still really really good.
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  Speaker 4: I am not seeing any sort of contract extension coming
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  Speaker 4: out of this. It doesn't mean the Cubs and Tucker
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  Speaker 4: can't reassess at the end of the year, but I
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  Speaker 4: think the odds of them coming together on a long
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  Speaker 4: term contract extension and spring training during the season is
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  Speaker 4: very close to zero.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I and that's not changing much what
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  Speaker 1: we've said yea, they traded.
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  Speaker 3: It's more confirmation than like a.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah exactly, which you know, people, I think there
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  Speaker 1: is this sentiment that, well, they didn't spend on Bregman,
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  Speaker 1: they're saving for Tucker. I would not think in that
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  Speaker 1: fashion like that is not what's happened. They want and
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  Speaker 1: they and yes, exactly, it's just not like, don't look
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  Speaker 1: at it.
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  Speaker 2: It's like, well, they're saving up for Kyle Tucker.
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  Speaker 1: Like there's going to be a bidding war for Kyle Tucker,
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  Speaker 1: assuming he's healthy, assuming he continues to perform like he's performed,
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  Speaker 1: there will be a bidding war for him. And the
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  Speaker 1: Cubs are not set up to win bidding wars. They
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  Speaker 1: couldn't even win a mini bidding war from Alex Bregman.
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  Speaker 1: It wasn't a real bidding war. They didn't even enter
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  Speaker 1: the Jan Soda bidding war because and it's not because
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  Speaker 1: Jed Hoyer doesn't think Jan Soda is a good player.
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  Speaker 1: They understand what type of budget they're working with, so
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  Speaker 1: like they like unless something changes with the way they spent,
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  Speaker 1: like the with the budget, Like I like, how are
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  Speaker 1: they gonna win this bidding war? I think, like I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to like rain on the parade before the
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  Speaker 1: season starts, but this looks more and more like this
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  Speaker 1: is not okay. They're saving up the war. They're building
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  Speaker 1: the war chest and and they're gonna spend dump it
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  Speaker 1: in in Kyle Tuck Tucker's lap. That doesn't seem to
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  Speaker 1: be what's happening. Uh, you know, things can change. I
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  Speaker 1: like they can you know, if they have a good season, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: they can adjust and and maybe uh maybe the budget.
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  Speaker 2: Increases or or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: You know, this isn't locked up locked in right now,
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  Speaker 1: that he's not extending, or that he's not going to
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  Speaker 1: come back to the Cubs as a free agent. I
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  Speaker 1: just don't see a realistics here in scenario where they're
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  Speaker 1: in a bidding war. Uh, Kyle Tucker is I don't
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  Speaker 1: know who's a free agent after this season, but on
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  Speaker 1: the open market unless I'm missing some one. And if
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  Speaker 1: if I'm right on that, like he's going to be
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  Speaker 1: highly sought after. One obvious team that tried to trade
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  Speaker 1: for him are the New York Yankees. If they may,
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  Speaker 1: it would probably make sense for them to go after him, right,
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  Speaker 1: a lefty at that park, Uh, they they need a
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  Speaker 1: they'll still need an outfielder. In all likelihood, my guess
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  Speaker 1: is they're going to go after Kyle Tucker. And and like,
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  Speaker 1: I just don't think the Cubs are set up to
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  Speaker 1: to win that. And it's it's frustrating to think in
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  Speaker 1: that manner when we're six months away from free agency.
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  Speaker 1: More than that, when when we're still in spring training.
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  Speaker 1: And this is uh, you know the reality of their
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  Speaker 1: financial situation. When I say that, and it's not like
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  Speaker 1: they don't have the money. We need to emphasize that
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  Speaker 1: they have the money. They're not acting like a team
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  Speaker 1: that can you know, swing it around and and uh,
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  Speaker 1: you know, kind of throw the hammer down financially.
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  Speaker 4: You know, we're not gonna linger on this like every
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  Speaker 4: single day of Kyle Tucker's cub's tenure. But the Bragmant
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  Speaker 4: thing was not only revealing, it was a guy who's
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  Speaker 4: super tight with Tucker Tucker shows up, you know, if
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  Speaker 4: Fragmant's signed elsewhere, you know, on January twelfth, Like sure,
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  Speaker 4: maybe it would have come up at CUPS convention, I guess.
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  Speaker 3: At that point.
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  Speaker 4: But it's not like this is going to be the
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  Speaker 4: thing about Kyle Tucker the whole time. It's more like,
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  Speaker 4: let's get this out of the way now so that
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  Speaker 4: everyone's expectations are in the right place of like CUPS SYNC,
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  Speaker 4: he's going to have him awesome year. Kyle Tucker has
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  Speaker 4: had awesome years throughout his major league career. If he
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  Speaker 4: has an awesome year, their playoff odds go through the roof.
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  Speaker 4: And so that's just it's kind of a one year
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  Speaker 4: arrange and then see what happens, and that's fine. I
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  Speaker 4: think this is someone who seems pretty unbothered by a
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  Speaker 4: lot of it. He's not a not allowed talker, Council says,
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  Speaker 4: he's very like simple routine. He's been, you know, a
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  Speaker 4: top of the draft type of talent guy who got
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  Speaker 4: to the big leagues very quickly. I think he's been
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  Speaker 4: in the last five alcs's and three of the last
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  Speaker 4: five World Series if I look that up.
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  Speaker 1: He missed last let well not this past as right,
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  Speaker 1: they missed the ALCS.
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  Speaker 2: They they're streaking it this year.
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  Speaker 3: That's right, So buddy ad bitch to I think five
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  Speaker 3: of them?
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  Speaker 4: What mean yeah, yeah, right right, which is.
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  Speaker 3: Kind of staggering, you know what I mean?
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  Speaker 4: Like it was just like this guy's got a lot,
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  Speaker 4: a lot of experience and he was not like loong
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  Speaker 4: for the ride like he was, you know, a driving force.
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  Speaker 3: It'll be different. You made this point, I think basically
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  Speaker 3: at the.
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  Speaker 4: Winter meetings, as these rumors were circulating, like he's not
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  Speaker 4: gonna have the same supporting cast as he did in Houston,
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  Speaker 4: and I think that'll be different, but not necessarily prohibitive
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  Speaker 4: to what he wants to accomplish this year and what
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  Speaker 4: the Cubs want to accomplish this year. And I mean,
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  Speaker 4: Kyle Tucker flat out was talking about winning the World
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  Speaker 4: Series this year, and I think he has a lot
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  Speaker 4: more credibility than most when he brings that up. He's
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  Speaker 4: someone who's to help him get towards that path.
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  Speaker 1: Right right before we move on. I think it is important.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to be all negative and just like
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  Speaker 1: act like I mean, adding Kyle Tucker is a huge addition.
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  Speaker 1: I want to re emphasize that. And like, this team
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  Speaker 1: is a good team for twenty twenty five, that built
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  Speaker 1: a really strong team.
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  Speaker 2: I like this team. Are they World Series favorites? Obviously not?
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  Speaker 1: When the Dodgers exist the way they do what they've built,
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  Speaker 1: like they're going to just be the favorite for a while,
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  Speaker 1: it feels like. But I like, weird things happen in
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs, and and the Cubs are good enough to
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  Speaker 1: get to the playoffs, and they have a team that
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  Speaker 1: can make some noise, Like there's no doubt about it.
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  Speaker 1: I would not I'm not going to pick them to
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  Speaker 1: win the World Series entering the season. I likely will
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  Speaker 1: pick them to make the playoffs, and and I think
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  Speaker 1: they could make some noise. And they have a superstar
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  Speaker 1: on offense, and they have a strong rotation, and they
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  Speaker 1: have young players. When you have young talent, that's that's
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  Speaker 1: always intriguing to me as well. Right, And one of
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  Speaker 1: those players, we're going to be talking about him a
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  Speaker 1: ton all season long, has inside track at third base.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Matt Shaw is apparently taking advice from Ryan Samberg.
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  Speaker 2: You were there, You've been there. What's the what's the
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  Speaker 2: story there?
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  Speaker 1: What's uh Rhino obviously a Hall of Famer come into
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  Speaker 1: spring training.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, there's some gravitas there.
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  Speaker 1: There's something to be said when when you have players
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  Speaker 1: like that, former players like that that can come around
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  Speaker 1: spring training and and you know, get getting these guys here.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's one of those kind of you know, weekend
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  Speaker 4: snapshot at spring training is not exactly what I was
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  Speaker 4: planning to Red just kind of popped up, you know,
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  Speaker 4: people were asking about it, I guess, And there are
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  Speaker 4: just lots of elements within this. I think I filed
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  Speaker 4: like a six turndred words story, but there was like
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  Speaker 4: six or seven ideas I tried to kind of cram together.
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  Speaker 4: I guess start with the top of Ryan Sandberg looks great,
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  Speaker 4: sounds great. Our buddy Jesse Rogers and I were in
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  Speaker 4: the middle of the Cups clubhouse and kind of Rhino
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  Speaker 4: tap me on the shoulders that I had to Jesse,
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  Speaker 4: and all of a sudden we're talking to him and
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  Speaker 4: the kind of media access time is sort of wrapping up.
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  Speaker 4: But when Rhino's in the middle of the room talking,
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  Speaker 4: you just you can't be like, you know, just walk away.
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  Speaker 4: And so he was in great spirits and just the
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  Speaker 4: day before, Craig Counsel had said, like, look, whenever a
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  Speaker 4: Hall of Famer shows up, walks into the room, he
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  Speaker 4: brings impact. And we're thrilled to have Rhino here, particularly
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  Speaker 4: after his battle of cancer last.
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  Speaker 3: Year, the relapse that he announced in December.
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  Speaker 4: He's back in Mesa and he came across Matt Shaw,
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  Speaker 4: and Shaw said that Samberg said, Hey, you know, I
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  Speaker 4: went through a similar thing earlier in my Cup's career.
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  Speaker 4: And you know, Sandberg's advice or kind of outlook is
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  Speaker 4: very simple, like just keep doing what you're doing, like
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  Speaker 4: whatever got you to this point, just stay consistent to that.
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  Speaker 4: And I did not realize this, but he was actually
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  Speaker 4: an opening day third baseman for the Cubs in nineteen
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  Speaker 4: eighty two that he came up mostly as a shortstop
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  Speaker 4: with the Phillies. You know, was just hoping to like
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  Speaker 4: mega major league roster. And you know, at that time,
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  Speaker 4: teams had Coorse for like almost a decade, right, I
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  Speaker 4: had every day yea for years and years and year.
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  Speaker 4: He wanted to break in kind of as a utility guy.
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  Speaker 4: No one was thinking like statue outside the stadium at
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  Speaker 4: that point.
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  Speaker 3: And I believe his.
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  Speaker 4: First nine games he was like one for thirty and
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  Speaker 4: got a call the office with Dallas Screen and le Ilia.
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  Speaker 3: And he's like, am I getting sent down?
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  Speaker 4: And the game him a vote of confidence, and you know,
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  Speaker 4: shortly thereafter, you know, had like a nice game in Pittsburgh,
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  Speaker 4: got a couple of hits, and you know, sort of
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  Speaker 4: the rest is history. Again, not saying that Matt Shaw
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  Speaker 4: is on some paths towards Cooper's town, but counsel noticed
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  Speaker 4: and stuff like that of like, okay, who's paying attention,
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  Speaker 4: who kind of recognizes the opportunity, who who's listening? And
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  Speaker 4: then just to kind of wrap it up, Shaw obviously
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  Speaker 4: had been following the Bregman sweepstakes. He knows he has
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  Speaker 4: this opportunity in front of him, still dealing with some
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  Speaker 4: oblique tightness.
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  Speaker 3: The plan is on.
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  Speaker 4: Monday, hopefully he's clear to do kind of light hitting
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  Speaker 4: and throwing maybe at like seventy percent, and that you know,
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  Speaker 4: probably not gonna be ready for the start of Cactasy games.
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  Speaker 3: They don't see the need to push it.
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  Speaker 4: But y'all is like, look after everything that's going on,
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  Speaker 4: maybe it makes sense just kinda take a deep breath here.
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  Speaker 4: Don't need to go all out to like, you know,
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  Speaker 4: be in that first spring game. They're moving him a
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  Speaker 4: little slowly, but yeah, I mean, all indications are he's
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  Speaker 4: he has the inside track and it would take something
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  Speaker 4: kind of going wrong or something unforeseen to force.
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  Speaker 3: Him out of that spot. That's like the very strong
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  Speaker 3: sense in MESA.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, when you talk about like council notices these things,
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  Speaker 1: we've been hearing that since he was drafted, right like
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  Speaker 1: pretty much since he got in the orgization. Like this
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  Speaker 1: is a guy that stands out gets a lot of
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  Speaker 1: Nico Horner comparisons as far as work ethic, how he
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  Speaker 1: goes about business, you know, whatever. The baseball equivalent to
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  Speaker 1: a gym rat is that's Matt Shaw and you love
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  Speaker 1: to see that, you love to hear that obviously has
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  Speaker 1: to deliver on the field. Not the same type of
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  Speaker 1: player as Nico Horner, so we do that comparison a
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  Speaker 1: lot just because he gets those off the field comparisons. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and he makes a ton of contact like Nico, but
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  Speaker 1: he's got more power and obviously different defensively. But I'm
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  Speaker 1: fascinated to see how he does and how he grows,
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  Speaker 1: because you know, he's one of those guys that they've
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  Speaker 1: drafted and immediately were like, oh, this guy probably should
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  Speaker 1: have been drafted a little higher than he was. Really
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  Speaker 1: deep draft strong drafts, so it makes sense why he
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  Speaker 1: was drafted where he was. But yeah, excited to see
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  Speaker 1: what he can be, what he can turn into. Just
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  Speaker 1: one of many young talents, but probably the one that
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  Speaker 1: as far as the guys that haven't debuted yet, that's
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  Speaker 1: gonna you know, how it projects to have the biggest impact,
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  Speaker 1: especially early on.
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  Speaker 2: On this with this team.
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  Speaker 1: As far as adding veterans, uh, there's no Bregmann move
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  Speaker 1: coming or anything similar, right, We've talked about Dylan Seese.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: That's not going to happen. They're not trading for Dylan sees.
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: It's just you know, Adrian Peller wants the world for
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: him if he's going to move him, and he's likely to.
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: I don't know if anyone's trading for him right.
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: Right right, it would be a shocker. But that doesn't
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: mean they're done right. There are moves to be made,
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: and it mostly seems like building out the bench, maybe
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: some of the final pieces here.
• 18:38
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I would say just to circle quickly back to Shaw,
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: like that's the guy that teams would want right like
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: he is. That's how that's how he's viewed within the industry,
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: Like no one knows how good he's gonna be or not,
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: but he's viewed as very close.
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: To major league ready, a guy that you can.
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: Essentially like plug in for for six years and stuff
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: years at a very.
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: Low cost.
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: But that's what the Cubs need right now. I was
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: told they're looking at a lot of different names. There's
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: no name as compelling as Alex Bregman, but still still
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: hearing Justin Turner as someone they're looking pretty hard at.
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: I don't know kind of where they're going to land
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: on that, but that hasn't like gone away.
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: I've gotten kind of mixed signals on Jose Iglesias as
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: someone who would bring a ton of defense, kind of
• 19:38
  Speaker 4: some energy, maybe a little quirky personality, but does not
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: have that offensive profile that the IVY system is going
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: to love. I guess they're never never stop looking for pitching.
• 19:53
  Speaker 4: I think we've heard that David Robson's sort of sounds
• 19:58
  Speaker 4: out of there range, though Council had not ruled out
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: the idea of signing a veteran reliever to a major
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: league deal. You know, there's some money set aside still
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: for sprint training in season. I would say after that,
• 20:20
  Speaker 4: it's probably gonna have to go to the board and
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: see what the Ricketts family thinks. And I think we'll
• 20:27
  Speaker 4: be getting into this pretty soon. We'll have a mail
• 20:29
  Speaker 4: bag episode. We had got a lot of good questions
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: on that when we consulted on the old Twitter machine,
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: and I like some of the thoughts that people are having, like, Okay,
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: what's next, what's next?
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: What's next?
• 20:43
  Speaker 4: I think we'll see a little activity, you know, in February,
• 20:47
  Speaker 4: some smaller additions to round out the team, and then
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: it's just going to set up for just an enormous
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: trade deadline for this team.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: Yeah, especially if they if they keep to powder dry
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: as far as staying below the you know, artificial limit
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: that they've set for themselves.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: So if that's the case, yeah, I expect it.
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: As long as they're in it, there's gonna be some
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: potential for some solid moves, right, some the types of
• 21:16
  Speaker 1: moves that fans probably would like to have seen more
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: of at this point, but perhaps we'll see that in July.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: We'll I'll hold off on digging in on some of
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: these names because we did get some good mailbag questions,
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: so we'll save that for that episode later this week.
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: So we'll wrap this one up here. Thanks so much
• 21:36
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• 21:40
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• 21:49
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• 21:55
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