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Robert Murray predicts free agent landing spots + Padres to-do list · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: Let's get to our next insider on the line right now,
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Speaker 1: Robert Murray joining us.
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Speaker 2: And this is a big day.
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Speaker 1: Robert read you on the other day, but now we
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Speaker 1: can officially say welcome to the FT fam. It would
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Speaker 1: be one of our regular insider contributors. Man, we love
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Speaker 1: talking to you, so thank you for greet to talk
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Speaker 1: to us more frequently.
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Speaker 3: Now, no, thank you guys for having me. I've been
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Speaker 3: a huge fan of you guys for for years. I've
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Speaker 3: known Eric for years covering in with the Brewers, and
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Speaker 3: he's always just incredible to me. So to be part
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Speaker 3: of this, to be on here with you more like
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Speaker 3: this is an honor and I'm gonna make the best
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Speaker 3: decision you guys have ever made.
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Speaker 4: Well, welcome aboard, Rookie. I know you got you got
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Speaker 4: some like you were you were just like a baby face.
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Speaker 4: Now you're a sauna babyface guy. But we treat rookie,
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Speaker 4: We treat rookies on on the FT network pretty well.
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Speaker 4: But don't don't get don't get, don't get comfortable.
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Speaker 2: Don't take that.
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Speaker 4: So that's no hazy, no hate, not hate.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, so let's get into biz, shall we.
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Speaker 1: Let's start with your thoughts on the Mets Rangers trade
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Speaker 1: that broke last night.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it was a real surprise seeing that won for
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Speaker 3: one trade there, but overall it made a ton of sense.
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Speaker 3: And Marcus Simeon's name has been mentioned on the trade
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Speaker 3: block for basically the entire offseason. I want to say
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Speaker 3: Evan Grant, who covers the Rangers, started it and I
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Speaker 3: asked Chris Young about it at the GM meetings and
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Speaker 3: he didn't necessarily dismiss the idea, like he wasn't like
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Speaker 3: trying to trade him by any means, But they were
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Speaker 3: very open to the idea, and when this scenario presented itself,
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Speaker 3: it made sense for both sides to consider here, Like
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Speaker 3: for the Rangers, you move off of Simeon, you end
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Speaker 3: up adding a guy like Brandon Nimo, who is a
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Speaker 3: tremendous option there. He adds leadership at like it creates
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Speaker 3: more payroll flexibility, because that was a big priority for
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Speaker 3: them in terms of trying to shed some payroll, and
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Speaker 3: they did so with the non tenders. They did so
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Speaker 3: at this trade and it's been a real focus for them.
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Speaker 2: But for the.
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Speaker 3: Rangers' perspective, I totally get it, and from the Mets' perspective.
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Speaker 3: I think it's really interesting here adding Marcus Simion moving
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Speaker 3: on from a gully Brandon Nemo, who is as respected
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Speaker 3: as anyone in that clubhouse, has been there his entire career.
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Speaker 3: There's so many layers to it that like it's it's
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Speaker 3: hard to dissect. But at the end of the day,
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Speaker 3: it made sense for both teams, and that's why they
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Speaker 3: did it, because they've been talking about it for a
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Speaker 3: couple of weeks now, for a few weeks now.
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Speaker 5: There's a lot of impacts here. So you think about
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Speaker 5: Pete Alonzo, you think about the as Edwin Diaz here,
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Speaker 5: like what what especially is the impact on those two guys.
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Speaker 5: What happens if the Mets don't get any of those guys, so,
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Speaker 5: like where where would they go after that?
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Speaker 3: Yeah?
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Speaker 4: They?
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Speaker 3: I think Will Salmon of the Athletic put it really well.
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Speaker 3: Is it shows that even though these guys have been
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Speaker 3: with the organization for so long, like David Stearns, isn't
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Speaker 3: afraid to move on for what he feels is best
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Speaker 3: for the team. And I think that's a really good
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Speaker 3: attribute by him because we've seen gms both in base
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Speaker 3: in other sports as well, get really attached to players
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Speaker 3: that they've been around long term, or that they drafted
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Speaker 3: or like that they signed as free agents or just whatever,
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Speaker 3: and it's it's led to some issues. And with Stearns,
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Speaker 3: it like he wasn't afraid to move on from Nimo,
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Speaker 3: and if that's the case, he's definitely not going to
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Speaker 3: be afraid to move on from Edwin Diaz or Pete Alonzo.
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Speaker 3: Like that being said, they want to retain both of
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Speaker 3: those guys if possible, and then also Sterens didn't rule
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Speaker 3: out adding it like another impact player, even if they
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Speaker 3: ended up resigning both of those guys. So from the
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Speaker 3: Mets perspectively, they definitely want to keep both of those guys.
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Speaker 3: But that being said, let's say that Diaz leaves in
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Speaker 3: free agency. You can immediately go after a Devin Williams type,
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Speaker 3: who Stearns was with in Milwaukee and knows him better
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Speaker 3: than almost anybody in baseball. They could go after a
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Speaker 3: Robert Suarez type, which is a really intriguing option because
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Speaker 3: he was dominant in San Diego. He's a very good player.
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Speaker 3: Both of those guys are going to do very well
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Speaker 3: in free agency. So like if they lose Diaz, it's
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Speaker 3: not the end of the world with if they end
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Speaker 3: up losing Pete Alonso, they're gonna have to get creative
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Speaker 3: and trying to figure out how to fill first base,
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Speaker 3: because he's as durable as any guy in ball, like
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Speaker 3: he can consistently play around one hundred and sixty two
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Speaker 3: games a year, which not many people can say. But yeah,
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Speaker 3: they're definitely, definitely would not roll out either of them leaving,
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Speaker 3: especially since Sterens showed that he's willing to part with
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Speaker 3: those kind of guys.
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Speaker 4: All right, let's stick with the Rangers. Since we're talking
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Speaker 4: a little bit about the Rangers here. They're non tenders
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Speaker 4: A doles Garcia and Jonaheim. Obviously a doles Garcia is
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Speaker 4: you know, we just talked to Jim Bowden about it,
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Speaker 4: and he's kind of that high side, high upside. But
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Speaker 4: Jonaheim was an All Star catcher. The catching position this
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Speaker 4: year in free agency is thin. Does that bode well
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Speaker 4: for Jonaheim? Does that bode well for the fact that
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Speaker 4: somebody could take him on a flyer? Do you feel
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Speaker 4: like his value has been decreased enough that you know
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Speaker 4: what he's looking at, like a James McCann type of
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Speaker 4: contract where it's a one year, we might get you
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Speaker 4: ninety games type of contract.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's gonna end up benefiting from this, And I
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Speaker 3: don't necessarily think he's gonna dup getting the contract that
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Speaker 3: he was doing arbitration. I want to say it was
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Speaker 3: for aron six million that he was supposed to get
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Speaker 3: an arb But there's gonna be plenty of different suitors here.
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Speaker 3: You look at it, you have I mean, I could
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Speaker 3: end up seeing a team like the Milwaukee Brewers taking
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Speaker 3: a look at it like because they, you know, better
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Speaker 3: than anyone, they value the backup catcher position and they
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Speaker 3: just value the catcher position in general. And obviously they
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Speaker 3: have William Contreras there, but they also they at the
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Speaker 3: trade headline. Last year they added Danny Jensen from the
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Speaker 3: from the Rays, who they thought could end up being
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Speaker 3: an impact guy. So maybe he could end up being
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Speaker 3: pencil in there. The San Diego Padres can make a
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Speaker 3: lot of sense there as well, because they've been looking
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Speaker 3: for a catcher for a couple of years now. They've
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Speaker 3: tried getting different guys over trader through free agency and
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Speaker 3: hasn't necessarily worked out. But there's so many different teams
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Speaker 3: that can end up being impossibility for him, which will
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Speaker 3: only lead to the bidding being getting more lucrative. Again,
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Speaker 3: I don't think six million is gonna be gonna be
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Speaker 3: the number for him, But that being said to like
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Speaker 3: Adula's Garcia, he is a player. There's not many people
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Speaker 3: who can match the power that he's got. And obviously
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Speaker 3: he's not like the perfect player. He's got his flaws
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Speaker 3: to his game, but the power immediately makes him a
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Speaker 3: player that should be of interest to a lot of
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Speaker 3: different teams. And like, this isn't necessarily something that I've heard,
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Speaker 3: but I would love to see him with the Pittsburgh
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Speaker 3: Pirates because they they need big boppers in that lab.
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Speaker 3: They want to end up upgrading the offense in a
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Speaker 3: big way, and we've seen them connected to Schwarber and
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Speaker 3: some of these other guys Garcia. I mean, I don't
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Speaker 3: necessarily not much money is going to get, but clearly
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Speaker 3: the Pirates are willing to spend because they were after
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Speaker 3: Josh Naylor and connected with some of these other guys.
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Speaker 3: So I would love to see Garcia possibly being a
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Speaker 3: fit with the Pirates, but he's gonna have a bunch
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Speaker 3: of other teams after him as well.
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Speaker 4: Maybe the guy that is most coveted in free agency
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Speaker 4: isn't always the Kyle Tucker, isn't always the Kyle Schwarverer,
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Speaker 4: isn't Cody Bellinger. Cody Bellinger has been linked to possibly
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Speaker 4: the Angels and obviously any team once and because of
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Speaker 4: the versatility. Do you feel like the Angels are in
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Speaker 4: a spot where, hey, you know what, we are taking
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Speaker 4: a gamble on Grayson Rodriguez. If it's a gamble and
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Speaker 4: now we're gonna try to just solidify and get another
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Speaker 4: player in there, or do you think it's a you know,
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Speaker 4: more of a ploy from from Bellinger's side, hoping he
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Speaker 4: gets to go back to the Yankees, hoping he gets
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Speaker 4: to go to a team that's closer to contention.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: The as soon as the Angels traded Taylor Ward, my
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Speaker 3: mind immediately went to, like, could they pursue a guy
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Speaker 3: like Cody Bellinger? And as John Hayman reported, like they
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Speaker 3: have checked in there. And if I could see Ardie Mareno,
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Speaker 3: who owns the Angels, being just a guy who just
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Speaker 3: gets totally obsessed with Bellinger, I could see it. But
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Speaker 3: that being said, do I see that happening? Probably not.
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Speaker 3: And one of the prerequisites for Bellinger and his agents
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Speaker 3: got boored. I believe made this clear the GM meetings
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Speaker 3: is he wants to win. And if you can end
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Speaker 3: up if like Bellinger's gonna have a bunch of different
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Speaker 3: teams involved, it's gonna be the Yankees a bunch of
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Speaker 3: other contending teams. And he's been with the Yankees, he's
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Speaker 3: been with the Cubs, and he's been with the Dodgers.
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Speaker 3: What all three of those have in common, They've all
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Speaker 3: been contending teams. And going to a team that's not
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Speaker 3: necessarily contending after being with those organizations would be really
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Speaker 3: tough on anyone, but especially a guy like Balinger. But yeah,
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Speaker 3: would be being close to La again be enticing to him.
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Speaker 3: I'm sure it would. But winning is really important for him,
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Speaker 3: and that's part of why I think that's pretty unlikely.
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Speaker 3: Money does talk, and the Angels can end up offering
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Speaker 3: him a deal that he just can't refuse, and maybe
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Speaker 3: that's how he ends up going there. That being said, though,
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Speaker 3: Perry Manassei and their GM there said that they have
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Speaker 3: more flexibility now after moving war than they had envision
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Speaker 3: going into the offseason, So maybe that's possible, But I
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Speaker 3: just do not see that fit happen for Bellinger, and
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Speaker 3: I would think of return to the Yankees. Are just
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Speaker 3: going to a different contending team is far more likely.
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Speaker 4: Sent you intriguing free agent pitcher Michael King came off
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Speaker 4: a little bit of injury, got healthy at the end
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Speaker 4: of the season. The Marlins are supposedly in on the
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Speaker 4: Marlins pitching factory. The Marlins, like I remember, I know
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Speaker 4: the pitching the minor league pitching coach Jeremy Powell before
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Speaker 4: he got traded. He was the guy that kind of
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Speaker 4: was instrumental in all these guys. Is this a shift to, well,
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Speaker 4: you know what, we don't have a guy that's creating
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Speaker 4: all these pictures. They're all up in the big leagues
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Speaker 4: right now. Do we want a veteran type? Is this
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Speaker 4: a like shift from we're not just going to use
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Speaker 4: our younger pictures for the Marlins or is it all hogwash?
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Speaker 3: I don't think it's hogwash at all. It's really cool
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Speaker 3: coming on this show and being able to talk about
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Speaker 3: the Marlins, and previously we talked about the Pirates being
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Speaker 3: teams that could contend and try to end up adding
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Speaker 3: in free agency and add meaningfully. And with the Marlins,
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Speaker 3: they're interesting. King is I think it's real and you
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Speaker 3: can look at it from a number of different ways here,
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Speaker 3: like they far exceeded expectations last year. Clayton mccallaugh did
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Speaker 3: a terrific job in Miami, and they have a pitching
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Speaker 3: staff that allows them so much different flexibility there. Like
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Speaker 3: Samuel Contra they didn't move him, Edward Cabrera, they didn't
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Speaker 3: move him. They have super high expectations for a guy
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Speaker 3: like Gary Perez, and those three together give them just
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Speaker 3: endless possibilities. It's kind of like what we've been talking
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Speaker 3: about with the Pirates there too. And if you end
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Speaker 3: up adding a guy like Michael King to that rotation,
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Speaker 3: just you have a front four that's as good as
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Speaker 3: almost any in baseball. He's got tremendous upsiders, teams that
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Speaker 3: love Michael King around the league, and he's going to
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Speaker 3: do very well in fre agency and especially so I
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Speaker 3: think that showed after he made it. It was kind
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Speaker 3: of a no brainer for him to turn on the
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Speaker 3: qualifying offer. But you can end up having the flexibility
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Speaker 3: where you can have those four leading the rotation, or
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Speaker 3: you sign King and it allows you to maybe move
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Speaker 3: one of those starting pitch pieces to improve the offense.
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Speaker 3: I don't know which one would be more likely, but
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Speaker 3: it's a scenario that would give that front office in
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Speaker 3: Peter Bendix, just so much different flexibility and options that
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Speaker 3: I think it would be a really good thing for them.
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Speaker 3: But I hope they continue to try to add because
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Speaker 3: them contending and also getting the Pirates contending as well
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Speaker 3: is just only going to be a great thing for baseball.
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Speaker 5: Let me ask you this said, I had another question,
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Speaker 5: but just thinking now, can you see him going back
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Speaker 5: to the Yankees on a little deal, little nugget over
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Speaker 5: there back to New York or No.
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Speaker 3: I don't think it's impossible at all. Like we've seen
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Speaker 3: the Yankees like they need to add pitching, and they're
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Speaker 3: going to be connected to bats, they're going to be
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Speaker 3: connected to bullpen pieces. But a guy like Michael King
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Speaker 3: for them would make a whole lot of sense. And
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Speaker 3: we've seen players after getting traded they've signed back with
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Speaker 3: their teams in free agency. I mean, it's not the
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Speaker 3: most likely scenario by any means, but it's definitely an
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Speaker 3: option that I think both sides should consider. And if
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Speaker 3: they end up offering King the best dealing for agency,
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Speaker 3: I thank you for his perspective. You absolutely have to
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Speaker 3: go out and do it, but his market is going
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Speaker 3: to be very lucrative. I think he's going to end
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Speaker 3: up doing very well in free agency. And the Yankees,
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Speaker 3: like even Steinbrenner said that his ideal goal would be
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Speaker 3: to cut payroll. They're going to figure that out around
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Speaker 3: the winter meetings time, is what he said. So we'll
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Speaker 3: see there. But I hope they don't cut payroll because
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Speaker 3: they're the Yankees. They should be able to go out
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Speaker 3: and sign just about anybody, and that just it's it
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Speaker 3: sounds sounds really weird to me.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, definitely talk about a little more trade possibilities here.
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Speaker 2: I know, I think I know your answer.
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Speaker 5: But Terrek's school boy, I mean, the best picture in
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Speaker 5: all the land left handed wise, talk to me about
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Speaker 5: where you think he might get traded.
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Speaker 2: If he might get traded, what do you think, Robert?
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Speaker 3: I think every team in baseball should be checking in
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Speaker 3: on this guy, Like how could they not? Like you
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Speaker 3: can you have him possibly being mentioned on the trade market.
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Speaker 3: You have to check in to see what the price
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Speaker 3: is going to be. And the price is just going
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Speaker 3: to be absolutely insane, and as it should be. As
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Speaker 3: you said, he's the best picture in all the land.
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Speaker 3: He's the best picture in base ball, and he's left handed.
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Speaker 3: He's only saved for one more year, and that could
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Speaker 3: be what entices the Tigers to really listen on any
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Speaker 3: trade inquiries. But that being said, you have Schooble in Detroit.
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Speaker 3: He wants to be there, the organization wants him to
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Speaker 3: be there. I just don't see any real possibility of
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Speaker 3: him being moved at this point. I've been surprised before,
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Speaker 3: but this one would really surprise me. And my expectation
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Speaker 3: is that he starts the season in Detroit. He does
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Speaker 3: not have a new contract because they're so far apart,
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Speaker 3: is what various reports are saying about that. And also
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Speaker 3: his agent, Scott Bors, prefers his the open market, so
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Speaker 3: I don't see that being a real possibility there. But
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Speaker 3: he's gonna probably start the season in Detroit, and if
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Speaker 3: they're aut of contention at the deadline, then we can
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Speaker 3: end up seeing him be moved. But my guess is
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Speaker 3: he plays out the season in Detroit on the same deal,
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Speaker 3: enters free agency for the season, and then it's going
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Speaker 3: to be the bidding war of all bitting wars for services.
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Speaker 4: This is how we make it tough for you, rookie
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Speaker 4: insiders on FT. All right, we just we just asked
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Speaker 4: the same question to Jim Bowden with the big league
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Speaker 4: trade of Nemo for Simeon. What's another expected, like or
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Speaker 4: future possibility this offseason of a big league trade that
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Speaker 4: you see could possibly happen. Doesn't have to be exactly
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Speaker 4: like this, but you know, not the one big leaguer
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Speaker 4: for six minor leaguers type of trade, like a true
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Speaker 4: big leaguer everybody wins type of big league trade.
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Speaker 3: Wait, can I take this in a different direction? Or
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Speaker 3: am I not allowed to as a rookie.
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Speaker 4: It's your creative. We want you to be you, Robert,
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Speaker 4: but don't screw it up.
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Speaker 3: Okay, I'm not gonna be shaking in my boots over here.
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Speaker 3: Oh oh, that's talk about pressure.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 3: We've seen a bunch of different guys here mentioned in
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Speaker 3: trade rooms this offseason. The first one I'll start with
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Speaker 3: is Fernando Tattis Junior, and people people are on the
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Speaker 3: league of texting me being like like, have you heard
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Speaker 3: him connected to the Yankees? Have you heard him connected
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Speaker 3: to so and so team? My expectation as of right
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Speaker 3: now is that Tatisz Junior will not be traded that
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Speaker 3: you will be part of the Padres in twenty twenty six.
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Speaker 3: That being said, though, if let's say or the Padres
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Speaker 3: potentially new ownership want to shed payroll, does that become
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Speaker 3: a possibility in future seasons, then I could see that
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Speaker 3: being a possibility there for sure. I heard Jim say
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Speaker 3: ti Oscar Hernandez, I'd be really surprised by that. I
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Speaker 3: think he's I think Todd said it best. He's a
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Speaker 3: great fit in LA and the only way you could
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Speaker 3: really move him is if you have all assurances that
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Speaker 3: you're gonna end up sign Kyle Tucker. So I'm not
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Speaker 3: looking for that one to be a possibility. I do
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Speaker 3: think Corey Seeger after this trade, you got to definitely
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Speaker 3: consider this being a possibility here, and contending teams are
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Speaker 3: gonna want him. He's obviously a tremendous player. He's an
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Speaker 3: MVP caliber player. He's dealt with injuries for sure. Tracked
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Speaker 3: is big and that always complicates things. But when an
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Speaker 3: elite player like that could possibly be had, especially with
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Speaker 3: the Rangers trying to ship Peril. Of all the guys
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Speaker 3: that I mentioned, I would think he's probably the most likely,
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Speaker 3: but I still have a hard time seeing the trade happen.
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Speaker 1: Well, Robert, you crushed it in your first official FT appearance,
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17:39
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17:41
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17:43
Speaker 3: Hey, Happy Thanksgiving to you guys. And I just want
17:45
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17:46
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17:52
Speaker 1: Time to hit our off season to do list covering
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Speaker 1: the San Diego Padres, and we're very pleased to be
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Speaker 1: joined by Marty Caswell, who right for the Sporting Tribune
18:01
Speaker 1: and is now going to be a regular contributor to
18:05
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Speaker 2: So Marty welcome.
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Speaker 1: We're excited to have you and to chat with you
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Speaker 1: more frequently and get right into the San Diego Padres.
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Speaker 2: So how you doing and congrats?
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Speaker 6: Hi everybody. I'm happy Monday. Thank you so much, Todd,
18:20
Speaker 6: Eric and Scott. I am so thrilled to be here
18:22
Speaker 6: and join your outstanding crew, work with our guy Kyle
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18:28
Speaker 6: for having me. It's a it's a true pleasure.
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Speaker 1: Thank you. Yeah, pleasure is all ours. Love your coverage
18:35
Speaker 1: of the Padres. So let's get right into it. Let's
18:37
Speaker 1: give everyone a taste of what Friar Territory has to offer.
18:40
Speaker 1: Lay down the off season to do list in your
18:43
Speaker 1: mind for the Padres the top three most important.
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Speaker 6: Number one has to start with their president and baseball
18:49
Speaker 6: ops and their GM AJ Preller, entering the final year
18:52
Speaker 6: of his deal. We've been talking a bit the idea
18:54
Speaker 6: of an extension for aj Preller for I mean shoot,
18:57
Speaker 6: since since the last month of the regular season, and
18:59
Speaker 6: it was brought up up during the intro press conference
19:02
Speaker 6: for Craig Stammen, their new manager. We asked Padres CEO
19:06
Speaker 6: Eric Grupner about what's going on. No one will really say, oh,
19:09
Speaker 6: this is a done deal. It's going to happen. There
19:11
Speaker 6: is the likelihood and the expectation it's going to happen,
19:14
Speaker 6: but it still hasn't happened. So I don't think you
19:16
Speaker 6: can really move on with anything else and know what
19:19
Speaker 6: this future is going to be about until we have
19:20
Speaker 6: absolute certainty on Padre's GMAJ Prowler. All indications, including from
19:26
Speaker 6: Craig Stamman, was that this is going to happen. But
19:28
Speaker 6: the fact that it is now November twenty fourth, the
19:31
Speaker 6: Baseball meetings are upon us or the GM meetings are
19:34
Speaker 6: the GM meetings, The Winter meetings are upon us, and
19:37
Speaker 6: there's still no deal. That's going to be interesting. Number two,
19:40
Speaker 6: it's going to be the starting pitching. We know that
19:43
Speaker 6: Michael King, Dylan Cees, they declined their options. They are
19:47
Speaker 6: now free agents. You Darvish is out for all of
19:50
Speaker 6: twenty twenty six and who knows where his future with
19:52
Speaker 6: the Padres is. He has three years left on his deal.
19:55
Speaker 6: So right now, when you look at the Padre's rotation,
19:58
Speaker 6: this is what they have. They have Nit Paveta, he
20:00
Speaker 6: was an absolute bargain who was a fine for the
20:03
Speaker 6: Padres late last December. They have Randy Vasquez, who is
20:07
Speaker 6: a fine back of the rotation sort of piece. And
20:10
Speaker 6: they have uncertainty around JP Series, who was part of
20:13
Speaker 6: the interesting trade for Mason Miller that also saw them
20:17
Speaker 6: giving up a top prospect, Leo Derie. So the starting pitching,
20:21
Speaker 6: you can never have enough starting pitching, and right now
20:23
Speaker 6: the Padres have one guy that's a lot. Also, I
20:25
Speaker 6: should have mentioned that Joe Musgrove is going to return
20:29
Speaker 6: after major Timmy John surgery, but we don't know what
20:32
Speaker 6: he We don't know what to expect from Joe Musgrove
20:35
Speaker 6: when he does return. I spoke to him a couple
20:37
Speaker 6: of weeks ago in the Padres hired Craig Stamm, and
20:41
Speaker 6: he says that he is in the right spot right now.
20:43
Speaker 6: The velocity the spin is very good when he has
20:45
Speaker 6: his bullpen, and he is proceeding with this off season
20:48
Speaker 6: in a normal off season. But who knows on Joe
20:51
Speaker 6: Musgrove what to expect when he does join the Padres.
20:55
Speaker 6: But he does expect to be part to be ready
20:57
Speaker 6: for spring training and last on my list right now,
21:00
Speaker 6: it's a long list, but we during top three would
21:03
Speaker 6: be first baseman. Not sure what the future is for
21:05
Speaker 6: Luisa Rise. He is currently a free agent. I know
21:08
Speaker 6: he wants to return, but I think the Padres want
21:10
Speaker 6: a little bit more slugged from their first baseman. We'll
21:13
Speaker 6: see how that market sorts itself out. I know the
21:16
Speaker 6: Padres might be interested in bringing back Ryan or Hearn,
21:19
Speaker 6: but right now they do not have a true first baseman.
21:22
Speaker 6: Although although they could move Jake Crunerworth from second base
21:26
Speaker 6: back to first base, where he filled in very, very well,
21:29
Speaker 6: but right now my top three AJ Pewler the uncertainty
21:32
Speaker 6: about his future starting pitching. They can they convert Morohone
21:36
Speaker 6: or Mason Miller into a rotation piece and finding a
21:40
Speaker 6: slugging first baseman.
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Speaker 3: You can't beat that, all right?
22:45
Speaker 4: You said extend, aj Preller, No extensions are two sided.
22:50
Speaker 4: Is there any chance that aj Preller says, I've already
22:54
Speaker 4: spent all this money, I've already spent all these prospects.
22:56
Speaker 4: I've built this team up. If he sees what all
23:00
Speaker 4: ownership or the flux and owner ownership that we're at
23:03
Speaker 4: in San Diego, is he like, eh, you know what,
23:07
Speaker 4: Maybe I do want to go and be probably the
23:09
Speaker 4: most coveted GM out there on the market and walk away.
23:14
Speaker 4: Or is this definitely a two sided extension talk where
23:18
Speaker 4: they both want AJ Prewler to be the GM for
23:21
Speaker 4: a long time in San Diego.
23:23
Speaker 6: I think it's too it's two sided, and I don't
23:26
Speaker 6: know that there's any certainty where that we know for
23:28
Speaker 6: sure that aj Prowler is going to be the guy
23:30
Speaker 6: long term. I think that the big, the giant elephant
23:32
Speaker 6: in the room is the uncertainty about Padre's ownership. He
23:36
Speaker 6: was very, very close with the late Peter Sidler, who
23:39
Speaker 6: is a big reason why the Padres were able to
23:41
Speaker 6: spend that kind of money and extend Fernando Tatis Junior
23:44
Speaker 6: and Manny Machado and Bogart and you know, big contracts
23:47
Speaker 6: for Joe Musgrove and for you darbish. But Peter passed
23:51
Speaker 6: away a couple of years ago, and now the current chairman,
23:55
Speaker 6: John Siler, has made it clear that he's looking to
23:57
Speaker 6: sell the team. So I don't know right now that
24:00
Speaker 6: we know what's going to happen with Padre's ownership. And
24:04
Speaker 6: when ownership comes in a lot of times they want
24:07
Speaker 6: their own people. And maybe j Pler is like, listen,
24:09
Speaker 6: I've been here for ten years. I did my thing.
24:11
Speaker 6: We would We tried to go ahead and build up
24:13
Speaker 6: on Peter's vision. Padres have one of the greatest atmospheres
24:17
Speaker 6: in baseball. As you guys know, Peco Park is sold
24:20
Speaker 6: out every single night. But we don't know what's going
24:23
Speaker 6: to happen now with the future of this organization. John,
24:27
Speaker 6: we have not spoken with John Syler. I think he
24:29
Speaker 6: spoke maybe once with the Padres radio flagship, but he
24:32
Speaker 6: has not made himself available to speak with the media.
24:35
Speaker 6: So we don't know really what John Siler thinks on
24:39
Speaker 6: on AJ Preler. So we're going to We're gonna find
24:42
Speaker 6: out a lot. But again, I don't know that I
24:45
Speaker 6: feel like this is an absolute lock. Maybe if you're
24:48
Speaker 6: a J Preler, you want to go somewhere where you
24:50
Speaker 6: you have firmer footing, like you know, with the future
24:53
Speaker 6: of the organization is going to be, and right now
24:55
Speaker 6: there's a lot of I don't know when it comes
24:57
Speaker 6: to the future of the Padres ownership, talk.
25:00
Speaker 5: To me a little bit about Well, first off, I
25:02
Speaker 5: think the Padres have one of the best reliever relieving
25:06
Speaker 5: teams in the country. I've always thought that. I've always
25:09
Speaker 5: thought when the relievers came in almost lights out. But
25:13
Speaker 5: as we've seen, but you know, we're talking about mister
25:15
Speaker 5: Miller here, Mason Miller. All of a sudden in the rotation,
25:19
Speaker 5: we got throws over one hundred and three miles an hour.
25:22
Speaker 5: I mean, talk to me a little bit about that
25:25
Speaker 5: question and what their you know, prognosis and thoughts are there.
25:29
Speaker 6: I can't wait to get a spring training so we
25:30
Speaker 6: can ask Mason Miller. I know that you guys had
25:32
Speaker 6: Jim Bowden in a while ago and he mentioned a
25:34
Speaker 6: conversation that he had with Mason Miller. I want to
25:37
Speaker 6: say a year and a half ago at the All
25:38
Speaker 6: Star Game, where Mason Miller said he did not he's
25:40
Speaker 6: done that before. He doesn't want to be a starter.
25:43
Speaker 6: And of course you know that Robert Suarez he is.
25:45
Speaker 6: He's was allowed to become a free agent. There was
25:48
Speaker 6: a mutual option there, so the Padres don't have a
25:50
Speaker 6: true closer. We thought at that time that Mason Miller
25:53
Speaker 6: was brought into to be that guy. But if Mason
25:56
Speaker 6: doesn't want to do it, then I don't know how
25:58
Speaker 6: you you can't make him do it. But then again,
26:00
Speaker 6: then again, Rubin Diebla is different. This is a different
26:03
Speaker 6: situation than Mason Miller was with the Oakland A's or
26:07
Speaker 6: the Sacramento A's or the Vegas A's or whatever they
26:09
Speaker 6: call him in these days. It's a completely different situation.
26:12
Speaker 6: So maybe if you're Rubin Diebla and you're a former
26:14
Speaker 6: reliever of Craig Stammon who's now his manager, perhaps they
26:18
Speaker 6: can they can convince him into it. But if not,
26:20
Speaker 6: you can look at Adrian Morohane the idea of converting
26:23
Speaker 6: him into a starting pitcher, or maybe it's going to
26:25
Speaker 6: be David Morgan. But right now, right now, I wouldn't.
26:29
Speaker 6: I thought Mason Miller at that time was brought in
26:31
Speaker 6: to be the future for Robert Suarez, who's now a
26:34
Speaker 6: free agent. So that's a good problem to have if
26:36
Speaker 6: you're the Padres. I'm looking forward to seeing how convincing
26:39
Speaker 6: Rubin Diebler and Craig Stammon can be in convincing him
26:42
Speaker 6: that he has a future, a better future in the
26:45
Speaker 6: rotation than the back of the bullpen. And one more
26:48
Speaker 6: another point there, Todd. One thing that Adrea Peller has
26:52
Speaker 6: done an incredible job of is finding all star relievers.
26:56
Speaker 6: We know what Robert Suarez is and he was an
26:58
Speaker 6: All Star this year, but don't forget Kirby Yates was
27:00
Speaker 6: an All Star for the Padres as their closer back
27:03
Speaker 6: in twenty nineteen. Before that, it was Brad Hand in
27:06
Speaker 6: twenty seven twenty seventeen and twenty eighteen. That was during
27:10
Speaker 6: an era though where the Padres could not afford to
27:13
Speaker 6: pay their stars. They traded their all stars. But one
27:16
Speaker 6: thing it tells me is an AJ Puller does not
27:19
Speaker 6: have a problem when it comes to finding all star relievers.
27:24
Speaker 4: Right. Well, your last point was first base. First base
27:28
Speaker 4: is a need for San Diego, and they showed you
27:30
Speaker 4: know what, we have Luisa Rise here last year, and
27:34
Speaker 4: so we don't need off, We don't need a lot
27:37
Speaker 4: of power from first base. The Padres is a team
27:41
Speaker 4: need power. First base is the I mean, if your
27:44
Speaker 4: rest of your team's not going to hit for power,
27:46
Speaker 4: your first basement has to. Is there a chance because
27:49
Speaker 4: of the payroll flexibility or inflexibility of their payroll that
27:54
Speaker 4: they can bargain shop for home runs? Essentially, you need
27:57
Speaker 4: if the Padres stick to where they're at, you need
28:00
Speaker 4: about thirty home runs from first base. And that's not
28:04
Speaker 4: happening under fifteen million million dollars a year on the
28:07
Speaker 4: free agent market.
28:09
Speaker 6: It's it's not going to happen. I almost feel like
28:11
Speaker 6: part of their philosophy for last year, I mean, you
28:13
Speaker 6: want to you want to get slug I think they
28:14
Speaker 6: were expecting a lot more slug from their platinum glove
28:18
Speaker 6: right fielder. And that's going to be interesting right there,
28:20
Speaker 6: because what they said all along was, you know, if
28:22
Speaker 6: we you can you can get a first basement, and
28:25
Speaker 6: you can get you can survive with ten to fifteen
28:27
Speaker 6: home runs if you're getting major slug from your outfielders.
28:30
Speaker 6: And they didn't get that from Tatis last year. So
28:33
Speaker 6: I don't know that we can expect the Padres to
28:35
Speaker 6: be the market for like a p Alonso or something
28:37
Speaker 6: like that. But we'll see what the market is for
28:39
Speaker 6: a guy like Ryan on her And who was a
28:40
Speaker 6: great hit in the a great fit in the Padres clubhouse.
28:44
Speaker 6: But I with the way the payroll is right now
28:47
Speaker 6: and you're pushing two hundred million dollars even though you
28:51
Speaker 6: don't have your rotation set up, I don't know that
28:54
Speaker 6: I'm expecting the Padres to spend a ton of money
28:56
Speaker 6: when it comes to their first base. For their first baseman,
28:58
Speaker 6: you're probably going to hope that you get a lot
29:00
Speaker 6: more slug from Tatis, you know, maybe rebound from Fremti Machado.
29:05
Speaker 6: Of course, Romon la Riano before he was injured, he
29:07
Speaker 6: was slugging like crazy. So I don't know that the
29:10
Speaker 6: Padres are going to be in the market for a
29:13
Speaker 6: top hitting first basement. That's where you want your slug
29:16
Speaker 6: but they just they haven't gotten it. Then again, they
29:18
Speaker 6: haven't really gotten it consistently from the spots they were expecting.
29:22
Speaker 6: This last season.
29:24
Speaker 5: New manager Craig Stamon. You know, everybody was thinking like,
29:28
Speaker 5: oh wow, look at this. It was kind of like
29:30
Speaker 5: over there in the distance. Nobody really thought yeah. I mean,
29:33
Speaker 5: I don't think anybody knew at the end of the day.
29:35
Speaker 5: But hey, I'm not mad about it. I think this
29:38
Speaker 5: is this is different. I think the baseball is different.
29:40
Speaker 5: I like X players getting in in my faily. Look
29:43
Speaker 5: at you laughing at that? Well, I love what. I
29:45
Speaker 5: want to get your thoughts on that for one, But
29:47
Speaker 5: for two, k, how do you think the players are
29:50
Speaker 5: going to adjust to this and the new manager in Craig.
29:54
Speaker 6: Todd, they're going to adjust a lot better than they
29:57
Speaker 6: did with the previous first time managers all start with
30:00
Speaker 6: the Andy Green era, and the Andy Green era was
30:02
Speaker 6: different because he was not brought in to win. He
30:05
Speaker 6: was brought in to be the bridge to when they
30:07
Speaker 6: could start. You know, spending some money. He started off
30:09
Speaker 6: his his Padres career with four rule five picks on
30:14
Speaker 6: the opening day roster right and Jace Tandler, Jase tangler Man.
30:17
Speaker 6: He was a good buddy of a j Peler from
30:20
Speaker 6: their time in the Rangers. He didn't have a chance
30:22
Speaker 6: because he didn't have a clubhouse that bought into him.
30:25
Speaker 6: He never had a chance with guys like Eric Cosmer
30:27
Speaker 6: and and Manny Machado and a young Tatis. This is
30:30
Speaker 6: gonna be different though with Craig Stanmon, because number one,
30:33
Speaker 6: he has a support of the guy that I keep
30:35
Speaker 6: saying is the most important clubhouse guy on the Padres,
30:39
Speaker 6: and that's Manny Machado. Manny Machado's Stammin said that he
30:42
Speaker 6: heard Manny Machada right away and he was so excited
30:45
Speaker 6: for the hire. And when when Craig Stammon was a
30:48
Speaker 6: reliever of the Padres, he had he was so respected
30:52
Speaker 6: he was he was you don't usually hear about like
30:55
Speaker 6: a relief pitcher being a leader in that clubhouse, but
30:58
Speaker 6: Craig Stanmon was was wildly popular in that clubhouse. He
31:02
Speaker 6: was so respected. He's really respected by Manny Machado. I
31:06
Speaker 6: think I think He told the story about how he
31:08
Speaker 6: and and Manny would play cards on every single flight,
31:11
Speaker 6: so he he has guys. I had Joe Musgrave on
31:14
Speaker 6: my on my on one of my shows, Gosh the
31:17
Speaker 6: day they may be the announcedmore the day that the
31:18
Speaker 6: news came out, and he said, give this guy a chance.
31:22
Speaker 6: That he's just give this guy a chance. I know
31:24
Speaker 6: he's a first time manager. He's never been he's never
31:26
Speaker 6: coached at any level. Players or fans fell in love
31:29
Speaker 6: with the idea of Poop of Albert Poohols, who was
31:32
Speaker 6: a Hall of Famer and one of the bigger stars
31:34
Speaker 6: of in baseball history. But Craig Stamon knows the organization
31:39
Speaker 6: in side out. He is a j Peller's trusted right
31:43
Speaker 6: hand man. He knows a scouting system, he knows the
31:45
Speaker 6: front office, he knows the organization. He's not going to
31:49
Speaker 6: be new, so I think he's going to bring instant
31:51
Speaker 6: respect inside that clubhouse. It's going to be different than
31:54
Speaker 6: it was for Andy Green, for for a Jase Tingler,
31:59
Speaker 6: and even Mike Schilt who had to really go out
32:01
Speaker 6: of his way when he was hired by the Padres
32:04
Speaker 6: two years ago and shil went on tour, he went
32:07
Speaker 6: to the Dominican Republic, he went to Miami, he went
32:10
Speaker 6: everywhere to get to know these guys and let them know, Listen,
32:13
Speaker 6: I've never played or coach, this is who I am.
32:15
Speaker 6: The difference that Craig Stalmon has is a good portion
32:18
Speaker 6: of the guys in that clubhouse, the leaders, the the
32:21
Speaker 6: key Coggs, the Tatis, the Mannies and Joe Muskrove, they
32:25
Speaker 6: know who Craig Stalmon is and AJ Prowler knows who
32:29
Speaker 6: he is, and that gives him a very big advantage.
32:32
Speaker 5: All right.
32:33
Speaker 4: Twenty twenty two, the Padres were Bryce Harper away from
32:36
Speaker 4: making the World Series. Twenty three. They did not make
32:38
Speaker 4: the World Series twenty four. They were one game and
32:42
Speaker 4: one throw into the dugout away from Manny Machado going
32:46
Speaker 4: to the World Series. Same, same old, same old. Is
32:51
Speaker 4: this successful for the Padre for Aj Perewler, who you
32:54
Speaker 4: want to get extended and the Padres fans who absolutely
32:59
Speaker 4: clam for this team and they love being in this environment.
33:03
Speaker 4: If they just keep making the playoffs and not finishing
33:07
Speaker 4: the job, because this is clearly the team, they need
33:11
Speaker 4: to make a splash. Will they make a splash this
33:14
Speaker 4: offseason to push it forward or are they just going
33:17
Speaker 4: to continue to hope and pray that something goes their
33:20
Speaker 4: way when they make the playoffs.
33:22
Speaker 6: I think there's a bit. I think give a great
33:24
Speaker 6: point there, there was a bit of a disc I
33:25
Speaker 6: think Padres funds are a bit disgruntled right now because
33:28
Speaker 6: they are seeing the separation. You want to have a
33:31
Speaker 6: you want to have a deep playoff run, and I
33:34
Speaker 6: don't know there was really that belief that the Padres
33:36
Speaker 6: were going to make a deep playoff run. This gosh,
33:39
Speaker 6: this in twenty twenty five because of the state of
33:42
Speaker 6: the pitching staff. That was a big issue when they
33:45
Speaker 6: didn't know what was going to happen with Michael King
33:47
Speaker 6: or his health. Dylan Sees was not Dylan Cees and
33:50
Speaker 6: the Padres don't have that guy. So I think I
33:52
Speaker 6: think there's a lot of unease with Padres founds because
33:55
Speaker 6: you want to see your team getting better and better.
33:57
Speaker 6: We saw what the Dodgers did, which is the last
33:59
Speaker 6: thing you want if you're a Padre's fan, and they
34:01
Speaker 6: have they have deep they have deep pocketbooks.
34:04
Speaker 1: So sorry, sorry, my nephew is here, so I don't so, I.
34:12
Speaker 6: Just I just think that right now there is an
34:14
Speaker 6: ease because I think again the the pal of ownership
34:17
Speaker 6: is a big deal. Padres fans have gone through this
34:19
Speaker 6: before with the with the team being sold and the
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Speaker 6: wild uncertainty left. There's a small feeling that last year
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Speaker 6: was was kind of the last their last best chance,
34:29
Speaker 6: that was their window, right because you it was you
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Speaker 6: had Dylan Cees, and you had Michael King and and
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Speaker 6: you have Manny Machada was like in his prime. So
34:37
Speaker 6: they're getting older and they have less pitching. So I
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Speaker 6: don't know that Padres fans are filling it, and I
34:43
Speaker 6: don't know that they think that they can make a
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Speaker 6: deep splash because of the uncertainty around the ownership. One
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Speaker 6: thing that Padre's CEO Air Groupner said at the pressor
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Speaker 6: for Greig Stammon was he expects that they're going to
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Speaker 6: it's going to be business as usual and they will
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Speaker 6: still hold a top ten table. But a lot of
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Speaker 6: those commitments are the players they have already under contract,
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Speaker 6: Manny Machado, Tatis Bogarts, They're gonna make but over one
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Speaker 6: hundred million dollars combine from twenty from twenty twenty seven on.
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Speaker 6: So I don't know that there's a there's a true
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Speaker 6: belief that the Padres can spend the way they did
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Speaker 6: when they under Peter Seidler, especially when it seems like
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Speaker 6: a sale is imminent.
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Speaker 1: Oh, Marty, this was great stuff, and we're excited to
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Speaker 1: have you for more of these conversations. But also make
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Speaker 1: sure you let your nephew know if you get in
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Speaker 1: the shot, there's a risk that he too has to
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Speaker 1: join the Foul Territory network. So you can play that
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Speaker 1: out for next time. I say, okay, but be careful
35:37
Speaker 1: you take one more step, you might have to appear
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Speaker 1: on foul Territory more frequent.
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Speaker 6: Okay, just so you know, though, his questions are only
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Speaker 6: about Jackson Merrill. So that's that's where he can that's
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Speaker 6: the depth of his knowledge when it comes to the
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Speaker 6: Padres fans. And by the way, he picked a pretty
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Speaker 6: good player. I'll tell you one more thing if you
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Speaker 6: guys don't mind. If there's one thing that you feel
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Speaker 6: better about for twenty twenty six, is that Jackson Merrill.
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Speaker 6: He's on his way, man, and he was he had
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Speaker 6: He suffered through multiple injuries last year with a concussion
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Speaker 6: with the hamstring. I am really looking forward to Jackson
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Speaker 6: Merrill being full strength, because that key is an absolute
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Speaker 6: difference maker. So despite some of the losses the Padres have,
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Speaker 6: the guys who are leaving in free agency, you get it.
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Speaker 6: You get a healthy Jackson Merrill for most of that
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Speaker 6: regular season. That to me is a that's a game changer.
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Speaker 1: I agree, that would be a big, big change if
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Speaker 1: you get the twenty twenty four version of Jackson Merrill
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Speaker 1: versus the twenty twenty five.
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Speaker 2: I'm with you.
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Speaker 1: Your nephew can be our Jackson Merrill specialist. Right for
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Speaker 1: more on.
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Speaker 2: Jackson Merrill, let's get sug Yes, it's a little neft,
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Speaker 2: but good stuff. Marty. This was great. Really appreciate it
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Speaker 2: and we'll talk to you soon.
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Speaker 6: Okay, great, thanks guys, I'm great week