Latest / Foul Territory / Ken Rosenthal reveals details about Angels’ Ohtani failure + Pete Alonso’s BIG improvements
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- 0:00Speaker 1: He described his swing as out of control. Well, he
- 0:03Speaker 1: fixed it, and he fixed his mind by fixing his
- 0:06Speaker 1: body first and not talking about getting in shape, just
- 0:10Speaker 1: the way he moved in the box, and that's what
- 0:12Speaker 1: changed everything.
- 0:19Speaker 2: That's the inside scoop with that, FT senior insider Ken Rosenthal. Ken,
- 0:23Speaker 2: I'm getting right to the headliner from this morning in
- 0:25Speaker 2: the Athletic that you released. The Angels didn't capitalize on
- 0:28Speaker 2: having show Aotani. Now they get to watch the Dodgers do.
- 0:32Speaker 2: So it sounds like a simple headline, but then can
- 0:35Speaker 2: you get into how the mistakes were made over the
- 0:37Speaker 2: course of his career with the team.
- 0:40Speaker 1: First of all, this hit me when I was at
- 0:43Speaker 1: Dodgers camp this spring and there were thousands of people
- 0:46Speaker 1: on the backfield at Dodgers' camp, and I thought to myself,
- 0:50Speaker 1: this is an amazing phenomenon. We all know about the
- 0:52Speaker 1: money they've made, we all know about Otani being followed
- 0:56Speaker 1: by Yamamoto and Nasasaki, and why couldn't this have been
- 1:00Speaker 1: the Angels. That's what came to me. The Angels had Otani,
- 1:04Speaker 1: they had him for six years, and yet they never
- 1:07Speaker 1: capitalized in the way that the Dodgers have and really
- 1:10Speaker 1: what I talked about in the article were three things. One,
- 1:14Speaker 1: their failure to capitalize economically the way the Dodgers have,
- 1:17Speaker 1: and that means bringing in sponsorships, it means bringing in fans. Now,
- 1:21Speaker 1: they had obviously some economic benefit, that's perhaps one reason
- 1:25Speaker 1: why they wouldn't trade him, but they didn't do it
- 1:28Speaker 1: to the extent that the Dodgers have done it. And
- 1:30Speaker 1: for those who might say, well, that's la Anaheim and
- 1:34Speaker 1: Orange County is a pretty nice place too, and there's
- 1:36Speaker 1: plenty of things to do there, Disneyland and beaches and knots,
- 1:40Speaker 1: very farm, you can go on and on. So they
- 1:42Speaker 1: had every opportunity didn't take advantage of that. Then they
- 1:46Speaker 1: had every opportunity to trade Otani, and they didn't do that.
- 1:50Speaker 1: And in the article I mentioned that Jackson Merrill was
- 1:54Speaker 1: at one point part of the talks between the Padres
- 1:57Speaker 1: and Angels when they were discussing Otani. This was in
- 2:00Speaker 1: twenty two the deadline. Remember, the Padres at that time
- 2:05Speaker 1: couldn't get Otani, so they pivoted to Sodo. Two and
- 2:07Speaker 1: a half years of control for Sodo, one and a
- 2:09Speaker 1: half Forrotani. But the packages likely would have been similar.
- 2:13Speaker 1: This was show he Otani, and again Merrill was part
- 2:16Speaker 1: of it. Whether he would have been part of the
- 2:18Speaker 1: final deal hard to say. We don't know. But the
- 2:22Speaker 1: mere fact that they could have made that kind of
- 2:24Speaker 1: deal for Otani, well, it just shows that again they
- 2:29Speaker 1: missed on an opportunity. Now, if you were going to
- 2:31Speaker 1: sign on Tani, if you had that in your head, okay,
- 2:35Speaker 1: then maybe you don't trade him, and maybe you think
- 2:37Speaker 1: we'll just keep them and do that. But they didn't
- 2:40Speaker 1: sign on Tani either. So in every step, every stage here,
- 2:45Speaker 1: they fell short and they missed an opportunity. And that's
- 2:48Speaker 1: why I wrote the story. People were saying, some of
- 2:50Speaker 1: them in the comments, Hey, whoa, whoa, we know all this. Well, no,
- 2:54Speaker 1: you don't know all of it. First of all, there's
- 2:56Speaker 1: some new stuff in there. And second of all, it's
- 2:59Speaker 1: the whole piece together. It's everything. It's the failure to
- 3:04Speaker 1: capitalize financially, it's the failure to trade him, and then
- 3:06Speaker 1: the failure to sign him when you could have had
- 3:09Speaker 1: Otani for the same deal that he took from the Dodgers. Now,
- 3:12Speaker 1: I don't know that Otani would have taken the Angels
- 3:14Speaker 1: over the Dodgers, but the Angels didn't value him properly,
- 3:18Speaker 1: didn't see his place in the sport properly, and it
- 3:21Speaker 1: all led.
- 3:21Speaker 3: To all this. Okay, you kind of hit it on
- 3:24Speaker 3: the article, but I'll let you say it. Who's to blame?
- 3:28Speaker 3: Who's to blame in the Angels organization? Ultimately?
- 3:31Speaker 1: Well, the article is about Ardi Moreno and why he
- 3:35Speaker 1: is the one to blame because he is the one,
- 3:37Speaker 1: of course, as the owner overseeing all this, he was
- 3:40Speaker 1: the one who did not take advantage full advantage of
- 3:43Speaker 1: the economic benefits. He's the one who did not allow
- 3:46Speaker 1: his front office to trade O'tani, and of course he's
- 3:49Speaker 1: the one who ultimately did not sign Otani either. So yes,
- 3:53Speaker 1: Moreno is the focal point of this, the centerpiece of this,
- 3:57Speaker 1: And it just strikes me as here's a team with
- 4:03Speaker 1: every possibility of going into its tenth straight losing season.
- 4:07Speaker 1: That's what's going to happen here. They're going to have
- 4:08Speaker 1: their tenth straight losing season, and for six of those
- 4:12Speaker 1: they had Shohyo Tani and Mike Trout. O'tani was hurt
- 4:15Speaker 1: for part of that. Trout was heard for a lot
- 4:17Speaker 1: of it, but they never took advantage.
- 4:21Speaker 2: I'm also seeing in the article how Arty Moreno thought
- 4:25Speaker 2: that the contract would be in the fours. It was
- 4:29Speaker 2: in the fours in net present value. So does he
- 4:32Speaker 2: not understand how deferrals worked and that's why he thought
- 4:35Speaker 2: it was actually seven hundred but it's not.
- 4:38Speaker 1: I don't know. Scott and Tom Verducci was the one
- 4:41Speaker 1: who reported that, courting a source saying that he thought
- 4:44Speaker 1: Arty Moreno did that the contract would be in the fours.
- 4:47Speaker 1: And you're right, in present day value once you eliminate
- 4:51Speaker 1: the deferrals or incorporate the deferrals, I should say then yes,
- 4:55Speaker 1: by both the union's calculation and the league's calculation, it's
- 4:58Speaker 1: in the four hundred million five one hundred million range.
- 5:01Speaker 1: That's where he supposedly wanted to be. My guess is
- 5:04Speaker 1: and I wrote this that he objected to the total
- 5:07Speaker 1: value the seven hundred million, and that's why he made
- 5:11Speaker 1: the decision not to even engage the Angels. I'm sorry,
- 5:14Speaker 1: engage Otani on that particular number that he was talking about.
- 5:20Speaker 3: Do you know if Atani and obviously he would be
- 5:22Speaker 3: the one to asked, but saw the Angels and how
- 5:26Speaker 3: they had money into Trout, how they had money into
- 5:28Speaker 3: Rendon and he said, well, that kind.
- 5:30Speaker 1: Of locks us up.
- 5:32Speaker 3: Do you think he learned that from the Angels? That
- 5:35Speaker 3: I don't want my team to be locked up and
- 5:37Speaker 3: I want to win. I saw what happens when it's
- 5:39Speaker 3: all locked up into two players.
- 5:42Speaker 1: I don't know, Eric, He's never addressed that, and I'm
- 5:45Speaker 1: quite certain never will address that. In my opinion, and
- 5:50Speaker 1: this is just me talking. He saw the whole view
- 5:53Speaker 1: of the Angels what you just mentioned. Yes, also some
- 5:57Speaker 1: of the stuff we've mentioned this year, about what they
- 6:01Speaker 1: do with their travel schedule, right leaving later than they
- 6:05Speaker 1: should be leaving on certain getaway days. Just the way
- 6:08Speaker 1: they went about their business overall, the way they tried
- 6:11Speaker 1: to build a team, the way they developed everything. He
- 6:14Speaker 1: saw that, he was living it, and then he sees
- 6:17Speaker 1: the opportunity to join a team that is at the
- 6:20Speaker 1: vanguard of all these things, Los Angeles Dodgers. To me,
- 6:24Speaker 1: it was a pretty simple decision.
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- 7:30Speaker 2: Merril part of that article is certainly getting attention from
- 7:34Speaker 2: Padres fans who are like, oh my gosh, thank you
- 7:38Speaker 2: so much that they were not picking up on what
- 7:40Speaker 2: they should actually be doing at the time. So I
- 7:43Speaker 2: think the way to cap this is spinning it forward.
- 7:45Speaker 2: Here we are team's not good again probably and should
- 7:49Speaker 2: be sellers at the trade deadline. A state of the
- 7:52Speaker 2: Angels for a moment, like what is next for this team?
- 7:55Speaker 2: You know, Trout's hurt again, unfortunately, and it just seems
- 7:58Speaker 2: like the wheels are turned and nothing's actually moving forward.
- 8:04Speaker 1: I can see where you say that, Scott. They would
- 8:07Speaker 1: say that they've got a better base of young talent
- 8:10Speaker 1: than they've had in quite some time. And we see
- 8:12Speaker 1: that to an extent. We see that Netto and o'hapi,
- 8:16Speaker 1: Jose Soriano, some of the players that might be coming,
- 8:19Speaker 1: they're better off with pitching than they've been in the
- 8:21Speaker 1: minor leagues than they have been in the past. But
- 8:24Speaker 1: the same thing applies, well where you're going with it,
- 8:28Speaker 1: and what are you gonna do about it now? With Trout?
- 8:31Speaker 1: Even if he gets healthy and gets hot, and he
- 8:33Speaker 1: wasn't really hot before he got hurt. Here he was
- 8:36Speaker 1: hitting home runs, but he was not hitting for average.
- 8:39Speaker 1: Can you trade him at the deadline. It's gonna be
- 8:41Speaker 1: difficult off season, we mean more likely if he is
- 8:44Speaker 1: even willing to go, And what they should do is
- 8:48Speaker 1: probably go in that direction. And wait for Ren Dolan's
- 8:51Speaker 1: contract to expire, pass on Trout or at least pass
- 8:55Speaker 1: him along and get what you can out of that,
- 8:57Speaker 1: at least get the contract off your books or most
- 8:59Speaker 1: of it, and then go forward. But I don't see
- 9:02Speaker 1: them doing that. Ardi Morino has not done things along
- 9:06Speaker 1: those lines since he has been older. And while I
- 9:09Speaker 1: applaud him for wanting to be competitive, that's great, but
- 9:13Speaker 1: you got to figure out how to do it, and
- 9:15Speaker 1: they have not done that.
- 9:17Speaker 5: So you guys talk about as far west, we're going
- 9:20Speaker 5: to come back to the East coast here a little bit.
- 9:21Speaker 5: Talk a little bit about Pete Alonzo. I mean when
- 9:24Speaker 5: you talk about hitters, and you talk about specific things
- 9:27Speaker 5: the hitters, there's a couple of things that you try
- 9:29Speaker 5: and teach guys. It's one is pitch recognition swinging at
- 9:33Speaker 5: the right pitches, and one is plate discipline. And I
- 9:36Speaker 5: think Pete Alonzo last year, as you talked about, struggled
- 9:39Speaker 5: in that he was swinging a lot of pitches. And
- 9:41Speaker 5: you've said in this article how much he's improved. Can
- 9:44Speaker 5: you expand on that a little bit and and please
- 9:47Speaker 5: let the audience know, if they haven't already, how good
- 9:49Speaker 5: this guy has been this year so far.
- 9:51Speaker 1: Well, what strikes me about Alonzo is which strikes a
- 9:55Speaker 1: lot of people about Alonzo this season, just how much
- 9:57Speaker 1: he has improved the play discipline. And that was the
- 10:00Speaker 1: subject to that story. And what I set out to
- 10:02Speaker 1: do is find out why what has he done batting
- 10:05Speaker 1: eye just get that much better from one season to
- 10:08Speaker 1: the next. That seemed improbable to me, And he explained,
- 10:12Speaker 1: and Eric Shavez, the Met's hitting coach, explained as well
- 10:14Speaker 1: that what really happened is he got his body under control.
- 10:19Speaker 1: He's staying back now, he is more efficient in his movement.
- 10:23Speaker 1: He is just better positioned to see the ball, and
- 10:26Speaker 1: that enables him to have better control of the strike zone,
- 10:29Speaker 1: to dominate the strike zone, and when you're swinging the
- 10:32Speaker 1: better pitches to hit, I don't need to tell either
- 10:33Speaker 1: of you guys, obviously you're gonna have a better chance
- 10:37Speaker 1: of doing some damage. That is what's happened now. He
- 10:39Speaker 1: slumped a little bit of late going into the Subway
- 10:41Speaker 1: Series tonight, but overall, strikeout percentage is way down, walk
- 10:47Speaker 1: percentage is way up. He was at the time I
- 10:49Speaker 1: wrote the article in the top fifteen in changes in
- 10:52Speaker 1: both those categories, and it's really been cool to see
- 10:56Speaker 1: how he dedicated himself in the offseason to getting better
- 11:00Speaker 1: with this. He was not happy last season. He described
- 11:03Speaker 1: his swing as out of control. Well, he fixed it
- 11:07Speaker 1: and he fixed his mind by fixing his body first
- 11:10Speaker 1: and not talking about getting in shape, just what the
- 11:13Speaker 1: way he moved in the box, and that's what changed everything.
- 11:17Speaker 3: Wait, so he was out of control in a free
- 11:19Speaker 3: agent year trying to do more. WHOA That is shocking
- 11:25Speaker 3: And people say, oh, there's no free agency curse, there's
- 11:28Speaker 3: no free like. Some guys don't handle it. And I'm
- 11:31Speaker 3: not saying Pete can't handle it, and he can become
- 11:33Speaker 3: a free agent again, but there is that level of
- 11:38Speaker 3: you know, you hit it on the head. You just
- 11:40Speaker 3: wrote it in a different way than a baseball player
- 11:42Speaker 3: would say. I'm just trying to do everything. I'm trying
- 11:45Speaker 3: to hit my six home runs tonight in one swing.
- 11:49Speaker 3: And that gets your body out of control. So a calm, cool,
- 11:53Speaker 3: collected polar bear probably is more under control.
- 11:59Speaker 1: Right, Eric. And you make the point about the free
- 12:01Speaker 1: agent year, and it's a valid one. Guys do sometimes
- 12:04Speaker 1: get out of themselves in a free agent year. And
- 12:06Speaker 1: then we seen other guys perform like never before in
- 12:09Speaker 1: their free agent years too. Soto. I wouldn't call him
- 12:13Speaker 1: that or say that about him, but he had a
- 12:14Speaker 1: great free agent year Alonso. Maybe he did get away
- 12:19Speaker 1: from himself because of that, or maybe that contributed to it.
- 12:22Speaker 1: But as you mentioned, Eric, this is a free agent
- 12:24Speaker 1: year too, and he seemingly has everything under control.
- 12:30Speaker 2: Hey, what do you think about the Wan Soto factor
- 12:33Speaker 2: for the lineup for the Mets?
- 12:35Speaker 5: Right?
- 12:35Speaker 2: I mean, this a guy who obviously is going to
- 12:38Speaker 2: infuse you know what he does to a lineup, which
- 12:41Speaker 2: is of course, get on base, clutch, hits some swag.
- 12:45Speaker 2: You know he's there. So how much of a fact
- 12:47Speaker 2: do you do you think that's been for Pete just
- 12:50Speaker 2: to have another superstar there on board, not like they
- 12:54Speaker 2: don't have already. I mean, I know Lindor was an
- 12:56Speaker 2: MVP candidate last year, but I mean this lineup's really
- 12:59Speaker 2: good look on paper, and we're seeing that play out
- 13:01Speaker 2: for a first place team.
- 13:03Speaker 1: Certainly the first three hitters in that lineup, that's a factor.
- 13:07Speaker 1: It's a force and which are by lind Or Soto Alonso.
- 13:10Speaker 1: And when you ask statistical analys analysts about lineup protection.
- 13:16Speaker 1: They say, it's more in front of you than behind you.
- 13:18Speaker 1: Alonzo certainly has that this year. Lindor got off to
- 13:21Speaker 1: a much better start than usual, Sodo not on fire,
- 13:24Speaker 1: but still getting on base, So I am sure that helps.
- 13:28Speaker 1: But it seems to me, Scott, in this particular case,
- 13:31Speaker 1: it's more Alonzo doing what he needed to do to
- 13:34Speaker 1: improve himself in the box. That to me seems to
- 13:38Speaker 1: be the overriding thing, because if he was the same
- 13:40Speaker 1: hitter he was last year, even with perhaps greater opportunities
- 13:44Speaker 1: or more fastballs, whatever my case might be, I don't know.
- 13:47Speaker 1: The deeper performing like this.
- 13:50Speaker 2: My last one, and it relates to this still is
- 13:53Speaker 2: of course the subway series going down, and Juan Soto
- 13:58Speaker 2: seems to be public enemy number one in Yankee fan
- 14:03Speaker 2: brains right now. For me, I mean, being in New
- 14:06Speaker 2: York City about half the year, I hear his name
- 14:09Speaker 2: all the time from Yanks fans. I hate him. I
- 14:11Speaker 2: can't stand him. To me, I've kind of hit my point, Ken,
- 14:15Speaker 2: So I'm wondering where you're at with this, because when
- 14:17Speaker 2: we do reflect on the offseason that we had talking
- 14:19Speaker 2: to you about the chase, the Mets paid more money
- 14:23Speaker 2: for Juan Soto period, and everyone including you, always said
- 14:27Speaker 2: he is going to follow the money. Also, this isn't
- 14:30Speaker 2: Derek Jeter. He was on the team for one year
- 14:33Speaker 2: and brought them to the World Series. So is this
- 14:36Speaker 2: kind of silly because when we see the reaction, we
- 14:39Speaker 2: know it's going to be wild. It's going to be
- 14:41Speaker 2: like this guy is a criminal and all he did
- 14:44Speaker 2: was bring them some success for a year and then
- 14:46Speaker 2: got paid by someone else for it.
- 14:49Speaker 1: Well, I know the default emotion for a lot of
- 14:51Speaker 1: fans is anger. And certainly if I were a Yankee
- 14:55Speaker 1: fan and I was raised to boo, which I wasn't,
- 14:58Speaker 1: I was raised not to boo, I why we're a
- 15:00Speaker 1: Yankee fan In that particular mindset, I'd be bowed him tonight.
- 15:04Speaker 1: I'd be bowing him just for the heck why not?
- 15:07Speaker 1: But if you look at the reality, Scott, first of all,
- 15:10Speaker 1: what you said is right. I know it's only five
- 15:12Speaker 1: million in total value, but there was a year difference
- 15:15Speaker 1: in that too, so the Yankee AAV was lower, whatever
- 15:20Speaker 1: factor in that. And if you're a Yankee fan, you're
- 15:24Speaker 1: also perhaps thinking, you know what, our team with that contract,
- 15:29Speaker 1: maybe we wouldn't be better off, And that is a
- 15:32Speaker 1: fair question to ask.
- 15:34Speaker 3: You.
- 15:34Speaker 1: Look at the Yankees. Their offense has been great without Soda,
- 15:37Speaker 1: the way they restructured it with gold Schmidt and much
- 15:40Speaker 1: lesser extent Bellinger, with Grisham emerging or re emerging now
- 15:44Speaker 1: as a real force, with the younger players coming on,
- 15:47Speaker 1: Ben rice foremost among them. They're fine without Sodo. So
- 15:53Speaker 1: I'm sure we'll get booed. He might even thrive on
- 15:56Speaker 1: getting booed. That seems to be the way Wan goes
- 15:58Speaker 1: about it. But I don't know that fan should be
- 16:01Speaker 1: so much in a lather. But I can't really say
- 16:04Speaker 1: one way or the other, can't really give an opinion
- 16:06Speaker 1: because I'm not a fan like that. I'm a fan
- 16:09Speaker 1: of the game. Obviously, I cover the sport, but I
- 16:12Speaker 1: don't have an allegiance to one team, and if I did,
- 16:15Speaker 1: perhaps then I wouldn't even try to be rational about it.
- 16:20Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's why fan is short for fanatic. And
- 16:23Speaker 3: you've found to mention some of that money went into
- 16:26Speaker 3: Max Freed, who then filled in for Garrett Cole who's
- 16:29Speaker 3: been hurt. But quick question here at the end for
- 16:32Speaker 3: you, you're not really at a rivalry games the Braves Red
- 16:36Speaker 3: Sox is not really rivalry. Some of the teams don't
- 16:38Speaker 3: have that like rivalry like we have for other teams.
- 16:42Speaker 3: What's your favorite one to cover over the years of
- 16:45Speaker 3: all the game, of all the rivalries, true rivalries.
- 16:48Speaker 1: Well, the Braves played in Boston at one point, so
- 16:51Speaker 1: that's where we're getting that from. I'm with Eric. Well,
- 16:55Speaker 1: I grew up in New York. Actually, I'm from Long Island.
- 16:58Speaker 1: So when I was a kid, and I'm pretty old,
- 17:01Speaker 1: I know there was no Inner League play and in
- 17:05Speaker 1: New York we had something called the Mayor's Trophy Game,
- 17:08Speaker 1: and that was an exhibition game that took place during
- 17:10Speaker 1: the season every year, and the Mets and Yankees would play.
- 17:14Speaker 1: I grew up a Mets fan, and before anybody gets
- 17:16Speaker 1: carried away, you lose that the moment you start the job,
- 17:19Speaker 1: pretty much. But when they would play the Yankees, it
- 17:22Speaker 1: was so exciting, and that to me has always stood out.
- 17:26Speaker 1: Mets Yankees. It's for ownership of the city. It's kind
- 17:30Speaker 1: of like, and I wish AJ was on for this
- 17:32Speaker 1: matter alone. Clubs White Sox is a big thing too,
- 17:36Speaker 1: same way at Dodgers, Angels, no Giants, as when it
- 17:39Speaker 1: was going no, but this one.
- 17:43Speaker 3: You grew up a.
- 17:43Speaker 1: Mets fan, then you don't like the Yankees. You grew
- 17:45Speaker 1: up a Yankee fan, then you have contempt for the Mets.
- 17:48Speaker 1: And I always thought that was a really cool thing,
- 17:51Speaker 1: a cool rivalry, and when they played in the World
- 17:53Speaker 1: Series in two thousand that was the peak of this.
- 17:56Speaker 1: So that one is my favorite for personal reasons because
- 17:59Speaker 1: I grew up up there. Obviously, if my I grow
- 18:01Speaker 1: somewhere else, maybe i'd feel differently.
- 18:04Speaker 2: I'm shocked, Ken, I can't believe you didn't say the
- 18:07Speaker 2: Vetter series the cool.
- 18:12Speaker 1: It's cool, but it's just not that real, no exactly.
- 18:15Speaker 2: I'm like, we're really stretching here. I mean I've been
- 18:18Speaker 2: around actually, fortunately Eddie Vetter quite a bit during the
- 18:21Speaker 2: Cubs run and that when I saw Vetter series, it
- 18:24Speaker 2: was like, oh, is there a Cubs involvement?
- 18:26Speaker 1: No?
- 18:29Speaker 2: Yeah, So anyway, we'll get into that later. But Ken,
- 18:34Speaker 2: have a good weekend. We'll watch you this weekend, and
- 18:37Speaker 2: then we'll talk to you on Monday and hear from
- 18:39Speaker 2: you for Fair Territory. Thanks guys, Thank you, Ken Rosenthal.
- 18:43Speaker 2: Fair Territory back on Monday. Obviously, just did yesterday's live
- 18:47Speaker 2: show with Alana Rizzo. If you want to hear Ken's
- 18:50Speaker 2: take on Pete Rose, we asked him about it the
- 18:54Speaker 2: other day and he covered it here on Fair Territory,
- 18:57Speaker 2: so go check out that episode. Obviously, still super super
- 19:01Speaker 2: relevant everything you talked about in the story that he
- 19:03Speaker 2: wrote this week too. YouTube podcast wherever you get it.
- 19:06Speaker 2: Type in Fair Territory,