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Ken Rosenthal's Inside Scoop: 2B Trade Market, Mets cleaning house + Pete Alonso's Home Run Projections · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: Here we go the indide scoop with FT senior insider
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Speaker 1: Ken Rosenthal, the last one of twenty twenty five, and Ken,
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Speaker 1: let's start by pushing forward a move that was just made.
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Speaker 1: What do you think about the A's acquiring Jeff McNeil
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Speaker 1: and the Mets continuing to dismantle their core with Jeff McNeil,
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Speaker 1: a longtime member of the Mets now moving on.
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Speaker 2: Well, First off, the A's they were looking for a
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Speaker 2: second baseman, maybe a third baseman two, So McNeil certainly
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Speaker 2: fills a hole for them. And I saw David Forster,
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Speaker 2: the general managers, say that maybe he can be what
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Speaker 2: Ben Zoeberst was for a previous A's team. I think
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Speaker 2: back in twenty fourteen or so. I don't know about that.
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Speaker 2: I don't know that McNeil is at that level of
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Speaker 2: performance that Zoebrist was then. But I see what they're
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Speaker 2: doing here, adding the veteran who can help stabilize what
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Speaker 2: has been As you guys just were talking about an
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Speaker 2: emerging lineup, and certainly with a guy like McNeil who's
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Speaker 2: been there, done that, it should only help. Now the
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Speaker 2: Met's we knew this was coming. They basically had signaled
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Speaker 2: that they were going to trade McNeil. They really didn't
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Speaker 2: have a place for him anymore the way they once did.
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Speaker 2: And it just is another person that was there a
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Speaker 2: long time, another homegrown fixture who is out the door.
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Speaker 2: It's of course, kind of a whole thing now, right,
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Speaker 2: Nimo Alonzo McNeil all homegrown, all career long Mets. Edmund
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Speaker 2: Diaz was not homegrown. He was acquired into trade, but
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Speaker 2: certainly he had been there a while as well. They
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Speaker 2: obviously are trying to change things around in a big way,
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Speaker 2: and not just from a performance standpoint. They clearly did
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Speaker 2: not like what was going on in the clubhouse. You
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Speaker 2: can say, well, the clubhouse was certainly fine in twenty
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Speaker 2: twenty four, and it was twenty twenty five, for whatever reason,
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Speaker 2: was different. And it's not Juan Soto walking in the
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Speaker 2: door that sent the Mets crumbling. It's just a situation
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Speaker 2: where they obviously feel things had gotten stale, things had
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Speaker 2: gotten hour, and they have taken steps rightly wrongly to
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Speaker 2: make some changes.
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Speaker 3: I mean, obviously, yes, they didn't make the playoffs, yes, whatever.
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Speaker 3: We don't know exactly what was happening in the clubhouse
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Speaker 3: other than you know, stories and innuendos and all that stuff.
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Speaker 3: But how does David Sterns actually replace the production that
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Speaker 3: is now off the roster because you just it just
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Speaker 3: keep piling up. And I get it, Jeff McNeil didn't
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Speaker 3: have a position, so it's fair, But how do you
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Speaker 3: actually because you have to actually replace that production that
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Speaker 3: just keeps piling up on David Stearns here.
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Speaker 2: Eric, you're absolutely right, and we're all waiting to see
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Speaker 2: what the Mets are going to do here. Jorye Polanco
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Speaker 2: is not going to be their last move. And I
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Speaker 2: had to chuckle a little bit. And the Notes column
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Speaker 2: that I wrote with Will Simon this morning, we mentioned
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Speaker 2: that what they're looking for is a right handed hitting
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Speaker 2: for at baseman. What does that describe? How about the
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Speaker 2: guy who just walked out the door, Peter Alonzo. Clearly
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Speaker 2: they want a different look, a different vibe, whatever it
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Speaker 2: is they're looking for, and they're going to need to
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Speaker 2: do some things. I don't know what it's going to be.
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Speaker 2: They seem averse to long term deals for pitchers and
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Speaker 2: for hitters free agents, but you're right, Eric, their production
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Speaker 2: has gone down. It's interesting if you look at fangraphs
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Speaker 2: and you go to the individual team war pages or
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Speaker 2: the rankings of the team by war there's still a
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Speaker 2: top ten team by that measure. We'll see if it translates,
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Speaker 2: We'll see what else they do. But yes, I think
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Speaker 2: everyone agrees that they have a lot that they still
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Speaker 2: must get done.
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Speaker 4: Hey, Ken, when you talk about needing a right hand
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Speaker 4: hitting first baseman, is that for hey Polonko? Where do
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Speaker 4: they see him more as a twenty million dollars platoon
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Speaker 4: at first base?
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Speaker 2: Polanco's part of the solution there, but they would like
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Speaker 2: to add a right handed hitter in addition to them.
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Speaker 2: I'm sorry him. They have said basically from the beginning
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Speaker 2: with Polanco, he'll be at first base some but not exclusively.
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Speaker 2: So with him being a switch hitter, they can do
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Speaker 2: some things move him around, Dhim. I expect to dh
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Speaker 2: a good amount with the Mets, and we'll see again
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Speaker 2: how they put the pieces back together, because that's what
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Speaker 2: they have to do here. And Eric just asked about
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Speaker 2: the production. He was talking about the offensive production. Let's
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Speaker 2: not forget the reason this team crumbled last season was
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Speaker 2: they're pitching crumbled. They're starting pitching in particular, and that
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Speaker 2: is why after June whatever that date was, when they
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Speaker 2: were the best team in the major leagues. They did
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Speaker 2: not end up that way. So yes, they have to
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Speaker 2: address their starting rotation and maybe even some more help
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Speaker 2: in the bullpen as well to go with Devin Williams
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Speaker 2: and what they've done there.
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Speaker 3: To sum it up, Ken says, the Mets have a
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Speaker 3: lot to do, so it'll be exciting. It'll be exciting
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Speaker 3: new year for us to watch. But my last question
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Speaker 3: on this is the A's part of this. Last year,
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Speaker 3: at this time, the a signed or maybe a little
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Speaker 3: bit sooner, they signed Luis Severino, and KP brought it
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Speaker 3: up that it was it was kind of maybe a
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Speaker 3: little bit of a larger contract than what he needed
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Speaker 3: to get, But it was also like, hey, their a's
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Speaker 3: need to spend money. Is there still that issue? Where
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Speaker 3: did the A's like spend that money last year? And
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Speaker 3: then now no one's really even looking at that because
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Speaker 3: they clearly need to spend a lot on pitching.
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Speaker 2: Eric I wrote about I don't know a year and
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Speaker 2: a half ago, maybe it was a year ago that
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Speaker 2: their plan was to ramp up. In the years preceding
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Speaker 2: their move to Las Vegas, they ramped up a little
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Speaker 2: bit last year obviously, but when you ramp up, you
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Speaker 2: were going upward.
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Speaker 3: On a ramp.
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Speaker 2: You're not kind of going staying the same. They're not
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Speaker 2: showing that upward mobility that I anticipated, And at some
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Speaker 2: point I'm going to get back to them and address
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Speaker 2: that in some form because John Fisher, or their owner,
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Speaker 2: he has said everything's going to be fine once they
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Speaker 2: get to Vegas. Well, you've got to put a competitive
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Speaker 2: team on the field, preferably before then, but certainly by then,
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Speaker 2: you want to open that new ballpark with a competitive team.
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Speaker 2: They're getting there. Their core, as you guys mentioned, is
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Speaker 2: really intriguing. On the offensive side, it's exciting, but they
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Speaker 2: have a lot of work to do, and yes, they
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Speaker 2: should be spending more money than they are. I don't
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Speaker 2: think there's any question about that.
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Speaker 4: Ken. Let me ask you about the Red Sox and
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Speaker 4: the Cardinals. They've already made a trade. Obviously, there's history
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Speaker 4: there with the front offices. Do you anticipate some more trades?
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Speaker 4: And then I kind of ask you, is it Brian
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Speaker 4: Beayo has been quietly shopped. Do you see him being
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Speaker 4: a fit for the Cardinals and maybe a return package
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Speaker 4: for a Brandon Donovan, Kevin.
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Speaker 2: They've made two trades with the Red Sox and Cardinals.
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Speaker 2: It's between the Red Sox and Cardinals since heim Bloom
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Speaker 2: has taken over, and it's the Sunny Gray trade, the
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Speaker 2: Wilson Contrera's trade, And we reported last night in our
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Speaker 2: notes column that yes, they have discussed Brendan Day as well.
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Speaker 2: Now doesn't mean they're going to complete a trade for
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Speaker 2: Brendan Donovan. Those two teams, the Cardinals could trade him
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Speaker 2: somewhere else. Maybe it's Seattle, maybe it's San Francisco. Two
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Speaker 2: teams that Katie Wu of The Athletic has mentioned as
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Speaker 2: front runners could be another team entirely. But it's so
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Speaker 2: interesting the dynamic that is in place between the Red
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Speaker 2: Sox and Cardinals. Because, of course, ham Bloom, having been
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Speaker 2: previously the Red Sox chief baseball officer, is well acquainted
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Speaker 2: with their system and some of the players he has
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Speaker 2: acquired or players that he brought in when he was
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Speaker 2: with the Red Sox, so they've had a lot of talks.
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Speaker 2: That's why Donovan's name has come up. I'm sure the
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Speaker 2: Red Sox see him as potentially a good fit, but
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Speaker 2: at the same time as Craig Wrestler said last night
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Speaker 2: in a news conference with reporters, the Red Sox have
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Speaker 2: made ten trades most of the minor, but you can't
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Speaker 2: keep trading from your system, and Brendan Donovan would cost
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Speaker 2: more in prospects than Contreres or Gray did, so I expect.
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Speaker 2: I've written that their next move should be a big
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Speaker 2: free agent hitter, whether it's Bregman or Bishett even someone else,
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Speaker 2: but that is the way they should go at this point,
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Speaker 2: because again, they've traded enough from their system where they
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Speaker 2: would probably be better suited now making a free agent signing.
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Speaker 4: Is it something you see a lot in the game
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Speaker 4: when assistant gms are people part of certain organizations move on,
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Speaker 4: they find a common ground to make a lot of trades.
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Speaker 4: Obviously they know the farm system very well.
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Speaker 2: You do see it, Kevin. It's not that uncommon. And
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Speaker 2: I didn't answer your question about bo. He's a guy
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Speaker 2: that the Red Sox say they are not shopping, but
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Speaker 2: because they have a good amount of young pitching, they're
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Speaker 2: getting hit on those guys and his name has come
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Speaker 2: up often in those discussions. That's what we reported. I
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Speaker 2: don't know that they're going to trade him, but there
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Speaker 2: is a certain logic to it. Whereas they have now
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Speaker 2: at the top of the rotation Crochet, Gray and Oviedo,
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Speaker 2: They've got Crawford comeing off an injury, and they've got
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Speaker 2: Patrick Sandoval coming off an injury. And they've got the
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Speaker 2: two kids connerly Early and Peyton Toley who were kind
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Speaker 2: of ready to go. So could I see a Beyo
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Speaker 2: trade happening potentially, Yes, I don't know that it would
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Speaker 2: be for Brendan Donovan. I don't know that the Cardinals
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Speaker 2: even want to take on an affordable contract like the
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Speaker 2: one Bo has. But to answer your second question here, yes,
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Speaker 2: you definitely see gms who go to another place or
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Speaker 2: come from another place having a certain attachment to players
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Speaker 2: from their past. You also see it with players that
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Speaker 2: maybe they drafted before. And some people have speculated before
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Speaker 2: the Orioles signed Pete A. Lonzo that maybe Mike Elias
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Speaker 2: with Baltimore would want to sign Kyle Tucker because if
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Speaker 2: he has that connection going back with him he drafted
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Speaker 2: Kyle Tucker, didn't happen, probably not going to happen now
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Speaker 2: that they've kind of set their team up a little bit,
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Speaker 2: still needing some pitching, but you do see that often
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Speaker 2: in the game.
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Speaker 3: All right back to some and you said, maybe the
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Speaker 3: Red Sox don't want to pay as much for a
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Speaker 3: trade as Brendan Donovan would cost. Katel Marte and Brendan
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Speaker 3: Donovan are clearly the two options that are out there
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Speaker 3: right now. Can you assess the value of each of
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Speaker 3: those based on the fact that katel Marte is at
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Speaker 3: a completely different place, probably a much better player overall.
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Speaker 3: But Brendan Donovan is a younger player with two years
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Speaker 3: two full years of control. So our teams balking at
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Speaker 3: both of those? Or is it more of a wait
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Speaker 3: to see where Alex Bragman goes and then we'll fill
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Speaker 3: in our lineup and our position player stats with one
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Speaker 3: of these two guys.
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Speaker 2: Eric, These are all excellent questions. I'm not sure I
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Speaker 2: have the answers now. The one thing you're talking about there,
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Speaker 2: which is really interesting is the comparison between the two.
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Speaker 2: Brendan Donovan is more of a super utility guy at
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Speaker 2: this stage of his career. He can play any number
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Speaker 2: of positions. Second base, of course, is one of them.
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Speaker 2: He's outfield as well. He is a guy, as you mentioned,
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Speaker 2: with two years of control left, whereas Marte is signed
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Speaker 2: for six more years. Now people say, oh, that's too
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Speaker 2: long for a guy who's thirty two years old. Yes,
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Speaker 2: but his contract is so affordable that, as we wrote today,
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Speaker 2: even if he's productive for only three or four more years,
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Speaker 2: he probably would pay for himself in that regard. The
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Speaker 2: difference with Marte is the Diamondbacks want young pitching in return.
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Speaker 2: They aren't going to trade him, I believe, unless they
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Speaker 2: get that young pitching. But he's a guy that they
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Speaker 2: are seemingly motivated to move because of that ten and
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Speaker 2: five rights that kick in with him tenth day of
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Speaker 2: the season. He becomes a player with ten years of service,
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Speaker 2: five consecutive with the same team, and then you get
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Speaker 2: full no trade protection. You can effectively decide your fate
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Speaker 2: if the team wants to move you. So there is
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Speaker 2: a motivation there to trade Marte. There's a different kind
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Speaker 2: of motivation for the Cardinals to trade Donovan, and the
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Speaker 2: motivation there is he is simply their most attractive piece.
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Speaker 2: He is the guy who would bring them the most
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Speaker 2: and the two years of control very enticing for clubs,
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Speaker 2: and the fact that he can bounce all over I
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Speaker 2: wrote this today where actually we wrote this together Will
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Speaker 2: and I. Marte is not a great fit for Seattle
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Speaker 2: because Seattle wants to play their youngster, Cole Young at
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Speaker 2: second base. But Donovan is a good fit because Donovan
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Speaker 2: doesn't have to play just second base. So it's a
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Speaker 2: real interesting dynamic with those two guys right now. Do
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Speaker 2: I expect they both will be traded? I actually do.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm looking through your notes right here, and I
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Speaker 4: see the Braves not being a fit for them, And
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Speaker 4: kind of on that topic of David Stearn's kind of
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Speaker 4: changing up the roster configuration. It's even tough for me
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Speaker 4: to say it because the Braves are near and dear
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Speaker 4: to my heart. It was one of the best years
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Speaker 4: of my career in terms of the way all the
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Speaker 4: pieces fit. The clubhouse is the best I've ever been in.
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Speaker 4: I love Ozzy Albi's to death. But tell Marte is
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Speaker 4: a better player than he is. Could you see Alex
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Speaker 4: going out and making kind of a move to kind
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Speaker 4: of maybe change up, you know, you know, what's been
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Speaker 4: there for so long and bringing in a could tell Marte, I.
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Speaker 2: Don't see it, but Kevin, you're right, there is some
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Speaker 2: sense to it, and The reason I don't see it
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Speaker 2: is because the Braves are so reluctant to give up
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Speaker 2: young pitching after especially what happened last year when really
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Speaker 2: their entire rotation went down. But yes, katel Marte at
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Speaker 2: this stage is a better player than Ozzie Albi's. Ozzie Albi's, though,
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Speaker 2: is important to that clubhouse, as you know, and he's
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Speaker 2: also well below market in what he's getting in his contract.
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Speaker 2: It's a seven million dollar salary this year. They hold
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Speaker 2: a seven million dollar option on him for next year.
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Speaker 2: That's a pretty good rate, a really good rate for
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Speaker 2: a guy who, while he had a horrible first half,
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Speaker 2: had a really good second half, or one that was
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Speaker 2: in line with his career averages. So I don't see
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Speaker 2: it happening. But at the same time, Kevin, we both
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Speaker 2: know this too, and Eric knows it and Scott knows it.
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Speaker 2: Trades do come out of nowhere. So if there is
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Speaker 2: a team that trades for kotel Marte or Brendan Donovan
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Speaker 2: or anyone else for that matter, that we haven't linked
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Speaker 2: to them, that we haven't heard about, it wouldn't surprise me.
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Speaker 2: These are really good players that teams want, and we'll
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Speaker 2: do things to make room for them. I just don't
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Speaker 2: know that the Braves will be one of those teams.
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Speaker 3: All right, Ken, this is a question I've asked you
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Speaker 3: probably the last three years around this time. Are you able?
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Speaker 3: But we have tons more followers than subscribers now, so
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Speaker 3: are you able to take this next week off? Or
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Speaker 3: do you just keep your phone at a little bit
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Speaker 3: of a lower volume and if you miss a little
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Speaker 3: scoop here or there over Christmas you're fine with it?
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Speaker 2: Well, Eric, as you know, I don't like to preveil
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Speaker 2: much about my personal life, but I will tell you this,
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Speaker 2: I will shut it down and if my phone rings,
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Speaker 2: I'll pick it up maybe, but I'm not going to
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Speaker 2: be doing much. So that's the way it's going to be.
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Speaker 2: And actually, when I do take off, and it's only
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Speaker 2: really two weeks a year, a little bit more than that,
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Speaker 2: maybe I have to shut it down otherwise I'll never
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Speaker 2: get away from it. And because we all know moves
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Speaker 2: will happen between Christmas and New Year's they do every
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Speaker 2: single year. Maybe some big moves this year because of
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Speaker 2: so much that is still pending. But at some point
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Speaker 2: even I have to walk away, and I will.
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Speaker 1: Good for you, good good, and I hope that some
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Speaker 1: front offices do the same, because there are fifty two
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Speaker 1: weeks in the year, and we've talked about this, Ken,
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Speaker 1: since i've been known you on any platform we've been
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Speaker 1: on together. Can we get one week? I'm actually only
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Speaker 1: asking it for the people that we know are hustling
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Speaker 1: behind the scenes and never get enough credit and always
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Speaker 1: work too hard and don't make that much money. It's
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Speaker 1: people that are in the lower level front office jobs
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Speaker 1: that work twenty four to seven, fifty two weeks a
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Speaker 1: year one week. I don't remember if this was on
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Speaker 1: air or not the other day, but Ken, I said,
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Speaker 1: can we have almost like this semi tampering rule where
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Speaker 1: you can't do real transactions and you're not supposed to talk.
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Speaker 1: You're not going to stop every agent from having a
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Speaker 1: combo with a team, but if you at least set
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Speaker 1: that tone, that blanket, it would stop most of this
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Speaker 1: just for one week. Obviously for us it's fine. I mean,
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Speaker 1: we're covering the game, but one week where we don't
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Speaker 1: have any news that comes out and people can disappear.
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Speaker 2: Well, Scott the sport earlier in my career, and I
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Speaker 2: can't remember when this changed. It used to shut down
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Speaker 2: at this time of year. There would be nothing, and
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Speaker 2: it was adhere to. It was just kind of something
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Speaker 2: that was done. And I always joke about this, and
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Speaker 2: I'm not so sure I'm wrong, though, when Jed Hoyer
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Speaker 2: and THEOEPSTY went to Kurt Shillings house that one year
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Speaker 2: of Thanksgiving, it seemed to me that the rules kind
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Speaker 2: of changed after that. And it was almost like those
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Speaker 2: guys were, hey, man, look at us, we're working a holiday.
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Speaker 2: We're going to get Kurt shilling and they did, and
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Speaker 2: then front offices said, you know what, We're not going
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Speaker 2: to observe holidays anymore. We'll just keep going.
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Speaker 4: Now.
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Speaker 2: I'm not ripping THEO and Jed. They did a great job,
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Speaker 2: and hey, I'm sure others were working the same way
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Speaker 2: back then, but it just seems that at some point
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Speaker 2: it changed. And if you ask people in the game,
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Speaker 2: you talk to the executives, the presidents of base operations,
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Speaker 2: talk to the agents, talk to anyone involved in this
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Speaker 2: time of year in the transactions. They would like a
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Speaker 2: break too. But the way the calendar works, the way
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Speaker 2: the game is set up, with no direction, it seems
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Speaker 2: from Central Major League baseball as far as taking some time,
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Speaker 2: this is the way it's going to be. And I
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Speaker 2: don't think fans care one way or the other. They
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Speaker 2: like hearing the moves, even during Christmas time, of course,
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Speaker 2: But for people in the game, yeah, they could use
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Speaker 2: a break, There's no doubt about that.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it could be done. It could be done. That's
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Speaker 1: my if I was commissioner for a day, but for
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Speaker 1: another day.
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Speaker 2: Can I know other things ahead of that, Scott, But yes,
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Speaker 2: if we were committed, that's the problem.
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Speaker 1: It's too low on the totem pole to address. That
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Speaker 1: is the exact problem. But I'm just trying to think
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Speaker 1: of everyone on the holiday. Have a great holiday, can
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Speaker 1: and happy New Year to you. We'll see you on
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Speaker 1: one more Fair Territory I know, later this week.
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Speaker 2: Thanks guys. You guys have a great holiday too.
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Speaker 1: Thank you. We appreciate you. Fair Territory. Later this week
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Speaker 1: on Friday, will be the last episode of twenty twenty five.
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Speaker 1: Swinging right back with a signing last Leo of the year.
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Speaker 1: We just had him on the show. Pete Alonzo over
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Speaker 1: under thirty seven and a half home runs minus won
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Speaker 1: twenty five to win a hundo at the over it's
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Speaker 1: even money plus a hundo on the under Crats already
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Speaker 1: hit this yesterday. So for timing purposes, since we're getting
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Speaker 1: late KP, are you on board with Rats?
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Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 4: I was going to look up what his I don't
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Speaker 4: even need to look up. You know what his homers
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Speaker 4: per year is.
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Speaker 3: But it's also hits versus Baltimore.
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Speaker 4: Place to hit, Yeah.
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Speaker 1: And I mean man's going to be on a mission
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Speaker 1: first year off of that should be a better ballpark
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Speaker 1: for him.
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Speaker 3: Hit dingers right, Oh, entirely.
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Speaker 4: I know they move the left field back, but it
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Speaker 4: doesn't matter they up. Yeah, it doesn't matter where he
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Speaker 4: hits baseballs. It doesn't matter really what stadium is in
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Speaker 4: as long as the wind is in a factor. But
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Speaker 4: I love his ability and not only not only just
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Speaker 4: caved to the yards wears playing, but that entire division
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Speaker 4: he's playing. I think he's gonna feast. I think he's
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Speaker 4: going to feast in the Al East. I know there's
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Speaker 4: some really good pitching there, but Pete A. Lonz is
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Speaker 4: a good hitter and there's no ballpark that could hold
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Speaker 4: him in. So I mean I'm taking the over.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, So it's Krats, So am I it's actually one
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