Latest / Foul Territory / Why Laureano for Orioles? Extend Skenes? Twins sign Bader, D’Backs reunite w/Grichuk, Cubs add Brasier

Transcript

Why Laureano for Orioles? Extend Skenes? Twins sign Bader, D’Backs reunite w/Grichuk, Cubs add Brasier · Foul Territory

• 0:00
  Speaker 1: I want to get you and tear a Scoob ball.
• 0:01
  Speaker 2: And because scooball seak a strake out and Barry Bonds goes,
• 0:03
  Speaker 2: who I go to, dude like three chairs.
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: Down from you know in the American League? So young?
• 0:07
  Speaker 1: He goes, Oh that guy, Yeah, he's got no chance.
• 0:13
  Speaker 3: Hey, you know what I was thinking about before we
• 0:18
  Speaker 3: get into some fresh signings. What about a Paul Sken's
• 0:23
  Speaker 3: extension offer from the Pirates because they do extend some
• 0:27
  Speaker 3: of their own and he makes them money. He is
• 0:31
  Speaker 3: a cash cow on his start days. Why not aj.
• 0:36
  Speaker 1: Do we know who their owner is?
• 0:39
  Speaker 3: He did hand out an extension of Brian Reynolds. Hey,
• 0:41
  Speaker 3: Brian Hayes and Mitch Keller.
• 0:44
  Speaker 1: Do you know who Skeins agent is?
• 0:48
  Speaker 3: Is he a Boyds guy?
• 0:50
  Speaker 1: No? No, it doesn't matter, doesn't matter. I can't.
• 0:53
  Speaker 2: I mean unless they blow Skins out of the water,
• 0:56
  Speaker 2: I can't see I can't see him uh doing it.
• 1:01
  Speaker 2: I can't see Paul Skins doing it. I mean, I listen,
• 1:04
  Speaker 2: unless they come to him and say here's eight years,
• 1:05
  Speaker 2: two hundred million, I don't. I just don't think it's
• 1:07
  Speaker 2: going to happen. That'd be a lot, that'd be a lot,
• 1:14
  Speaker 2: but no, too late. Had to sign him, had to
• 1:17
  Speaker 2: sign him a big league deal. When you drafted him,
• 1:19
  Speaker 2: that was your last chance to extend Skeans on a
• 1:22
  Speaker 2: pirate's salary, because look like what Strider got. He's he's
• 1:26
  Speaker 2: done better than what Strider. Moore won more awards than
• 1:29
  Speaker 2: what Strider had at this point in his career. Strider
• 1:31
  Speaker 2: got like seventy five million.
• 1:33
  Speaker 3: I think, yeah, so that's why you're playing. To my point,
• 1:36
  Speaker 3: seventy five million is actually doable for them. Trying to
• 1:40
  Speaker 3: look back to the contracts. I actually was there for
• 1:42
  Speaker 3: that press conversation.
• 1:43
  Speaker 1: What are you going to sign him too?
• 1:44
  Speaker 2: Five five year, five year seventy five because he's not
• 1:47
  Speaker 2: going to want to opt into a free agent year
• 1:49
  Speaker 2: because he's still young, right, so we'll hit the open
• 1:51
  Speaker 2: market of what twenty eight, twenty nine, so he's not
• 1:54
  Speaker 2: going to want to sign a where it takes in. Now,
• 1:57
  Speaker 2: the Pirates are going to want to grab those free
• 1:58
  Speaker 2: agent years and that's going to get you into bigger numbers,
• 2:02
  Speaker 2: and he's going to say, uh, nope, trade him.
• 2:06
  Speaker 3: Well, this is the reason why I brought it up
• 2:08
  Speaker 3: because some fans are like, he's a Yankee. He's a dodger,
• 2:12
  Speaker 3: you know the classics on social I'm like, what about
• 2:16
  Speaker 3: ten years, three hundred million dollars for a twenty whatever?
• 2:19
  Speaker 3: He is two year old or three year old buying
• 2:24
  Speaker 3: buying barely.
• 2:25
  Speaker 1: Got to one hundred, pirates barely got to one hundred.
• 2:28
  Speaker 3: They can backload, but.
• 2:31
  Speaker 1: Then they then they're just setting him up to be traded.
• 2:35
  Speaker 3: Zero zero percent chance that there's an extension there.
• 2:39
  Speaker 1: Six years.
• 2:39
  Speaker 2: I mean, what is it, Tommy what is what is
• 2:42
  Speaker 2: the likelihood of Tommy John Like six years? Like, no way,
• 2:45
  Speaker 2: they give no way. We'll in my in my opinion,
• 2:50
  Speaker 2: we're not going to see a ten year extension for
• 2:52
  Speaker 2: any pitcher ever anymore.
• 2:56
  Speaker 3: How much did they give Mitch Keller five years seventy seven,
• 3:00
  Speaker 3: which was the second biggest deal in franchise history, I
• 3:03
  Speaker 3: think to Reynolds, okay, just throwing it out there.
• 3:06
  Speaker 2: But m Keller was in as what second or third
• 3:09
  Speaker 2: year when he got that, so even more, Yeah, they
• 3:13
  Speaker 2: bought out free agent years. Paul Skeans is not gonna
• 3:15
  Speaker 2: want him to buy out free agent years unless it
• 3:18
  Speaker 2: is ridiculous amount of money. And I don't think the
• 3:20
  Speaker 2: vers are going to go to that amount.
• 3:22
  Speaker 3: The reason I brought it up is that he is
• 3:24
  Speaker 3: making them money, and there are very few players in
• 3:26
  Speaker 3: the league that will actually create significant attendance spikes and
• 3:31
  Speaker 3: TV rating spikes and help you on sponsorship money. Otani
• 3:36
  Speaker 3: is the gem. He's the crown jewel of this conversation.
• 3:39
  Speaker 3: There are not many others that fit that. Bill and
• 3:41
  Speaker 3: Skeens is that guy. I was listening to Cardinal Territory
• 3:44
  Speaker 3: talk about how Katie Wu was at a Pittsburgh game
• 3:47
  Speaker 3: with the Cardinals in town, I think it was later
• 3:49
  Speaker 3: in the season, and how it was like sell out,
• 3:51
  Speaker 3: crazy playoff vibes in Pittsburgh's. They have a great crowd
• 3:55
  Speaker 3: or a great fan base out in Pittsburgh, they just
• 3:58
  Speaker 3: don't really bless them with a team that you know
• 4:01
  Speaker 3: is invested on the ownership side. But I'm like, this
• 4:04
  Speaker 3: is a double whammy because he helps the team. He's young,
• 4:07
  Speaker 3: it's not going to get your free agent kind of money.
• 4:09
  Speaker 3: There are comps that you can blast past, and he's
• 4:12
  Speaker 3: making you money this coming season. If he's like he
• 4:15
  Speaker 3: was last year, he might be making them ten fifteen
• 4:18
  Speaker 3: million dollars just by being there. So if that's the case,
• 4:21
  Speaker 3: you feel a lot better about paying him twenty five
• 4:23
  Speaker 3: to thirty because you're really only paying him ten or fifteen.
• 4:25
  Speaker 3: Just throwing it out there, I might be totally off,
• 4:28
  Speaker 3: and I'm coming from no background on this. I've not
• 4:30
  Speaker 3: spoken anyone about this, just was thinking about it before
• 4:32
  Speaker 3: the show and wanted to throw it out there better.
• 4:35
  Speaker 1: By the way, I got a question, wor go ahead? Good? No?
• 4:38
  Speaker 1: Go ahead?
• 4:38
  Speaker 2: Mine isn't about this better chance? What better chance to
• 4:41
  Speaker 2: him getting traded? Blow the doors off of the trade
• 4:45
  Speaker 2: market that you're set the bar so high, you know,
• 4:49
  Speaker 2: a future, a franchise, future type of trade for Paul
• 4:53
  Speaker 2: Skains than him signing the extension with the parts.
• 4:56
  Speaker 3: I'm a hard to stry.
• 4:57
  Speaker 1: That takes up free agent trade.
• 4:59
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think they'll trade him. I think there's
• 5:00
  Speaker 3: a better chance of extension, but we'll see what happens.
• 5:03
  Speaker 1: By the way, can we show the Cardinals territory logo again? Please?
• 5:09
  Speaker 1: Pretty please? Yeah?
• 5:11
  Speaker 3: What about it is on the screen?
• 5:13
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, sorry? So small on ice screen? I can
• 5:16
  Speaker 1: barely see it. How do we not put birds on
• 5:18
  Speaker 1: the little line across that? Like?
• 5:20
  Speaker 2: I just don't understand how there's like, no, you know,
• 5:21
  Speaker 2: they're famous for birds on the bat, we could add
• 5:23
  Speaker 2: birds on the line.
• 5:24
  Speaker 1: Arch is there.
• 5:25
  Speaker 3: Yeah, the arch is there. And also we're not toppying
• 5:28
  Speaker 3: the exact logo. We're putting our own spin on it.
• 5:30
  Speaker 2: I know if you should have put like a little
• 5:32
  Speaker 2: bit of like a bird on the bat. Just my
• 5:33
  Speaker 2: opinion doesn't matter, I know.
• 5:35
  Speaker 1: I'm just saying we.
• 5:37
  Speaker 3: Can have an option made. Our graphic artist loves us.
• 5:39
  Speaker 3: We can ask him about it and then show it
• 5:40
  Speaker 3: to you. So someone buying the scenes market down, let's
• 5:43
  Speaker 3: charge them out. Oh there, it is nice. There you go.
• 5:47
  Speaker 3: Nice full screen for AJ to look at. Katie and Trevor.
• 5:51
  Speaker 3: All right, lovely hosts. I just listened to their episode
• 5:53
  Speaker 3: breaking down the NL Central this morning. It was awesome,
• 5:56
  Speaker 3: really good. So you can find it wherever you get
• 5:58
  Speaker 3: your shows. Hey, val Times Day is coming up and
• 6:01
  Speaker 3: we have the recommendation for you to check out right now.
• 6:03
  Speaker 3: Don't wait. It's one eight hundred flowers dot com. This year,
• 6:06
  Speaker 3: we're partnering with one eight hundred Flowers to make sure
• 6:09
  Speaker 3: you're a Valentine's legend with an exclusive offer for the
• 6:12
  Speaker 3: ft fam. It's double the roses for free when you
• 6:15
  Speaker 3: buy one dozen. They're gonna double your bouquet to two
• 6:18
  Speaker 3: dozen roses. It's the perfect way to wow her without
• 6:21
  Speaker 3: breaking the bank. One eight hundred Flowers always delivers. Let
• 6:24
  Speaker 3: them dominate this holiday. It's what they do best.
• 6:27
  Speaker 2: Think about everyone in your fam that deserves some love.
• 6:29
  Speaker 2: On Valentine's Day, I sent a bouquet to my daughter
• 6:31
  Speaker 2: at college and it lit up her day. I also
• 6:33
  Speaker 2: added an awesome base to the order for so she's
• 6:35
  Speaker 2: got it all.
• 6:36
  Speaker 3: All roses from one eight hundred Flowers are picked at
• 6:39
  Speaker 3: their peak, cared for every step of the way, and
• 6:41
  Speaker 3: shipped fresh to ensure lasting beauty. Don't wait, think ahead
• 6:45
  Speaker 3: this year. Make it easy and get that deal right now.
• 6:47
  Speaker 3: When you order one dozen, they'll double the rose bouquet
• 6:50
  Speaker 3: for free. That's the ft deals that we're always looking
• 6:53
  Speaker 3: out for. Go to one eight hundred flowers dot com
• 6:56
  Speaker 3: slash ft. That's one eight hundred flowers dot com slash ft.
• 7:01
  Speaker 3: And now let's go over news. We have a few
• 7:03
  Speaker 3: signings over the past twenty four hours. Let's charge charge out.
• 7:12
  Speaker 3: I want to start here because I think this one
• 7:14
  Speaker 3: has the most to chew on. Ramon Loriano to the
• 7:19
  Speaker 3: Orioles one year contract, four million dollars guaranteed. The Orioles
• 7:25
  Speaker 3: have had an interesting offseason. They are spending money. Their
• 7:28
  Speaker 3: payroll is going to be significantly higher than it was
• 7:30
  Speaker 3: last year. I think it's consensus that US three and
• 7:35
  Speaker 3: many others have questioned the way they're spending it. We'll
• 7:39
  Speaker 3: see how that plays out. Do they need to keep
• 7:41
  Speaker 3: adding Orioles outfielders? Ag I want to show you what
• 7:45
  Speaker 3: we put together in terms of the depth chart, because
• 7:49
  Speaker 3: actually a lot of it has to do with the
• 7:50
  Speaker 3: Baseball America ranking side of things. And we're going to
• 7:52
  Speaker 3: talk to JJ Cooper later, so maybe we can ask
• 7:54
  Speaker 3: him about this. But they're starting outfield, and I'm going
• 7:57
  Speaker 3: to list this out so that people listening later can
• 8:00
  Speaker 3: feel included. Tyler O'Neil, who they signed for big bucks
• 8:03
  Speaker 3: this offseason. Cedric Mullins, very solid player, still sub ten
• 8:06
  Speaker 3: million dollar player. I think he's making close to nine.
• 8:08
  Speaker 3: Colton Kowser, great player, great season, just now he's going
• 8:12
  Speaker 3: to play every day now. Loriano's on their bench. Heston Kersted,
• 8:16
  Speaker 3: who is still I think a their third ranked prospect
• 8:20
  Speaker 3: because they think he still has prospect status. He's on
• 8:22
  Speaker 3: their bench for now, and you can platoon Jorge Matteo
• 8:25
  Speaker 3: will be back at some point. I think he had
• 8:27
  Speaker 3: elbow brace surgery. They signed Dylan Carlson for depth. Daz
• 8:30
  Speaker 3: Cameron's there. Those guys have options. Technically, her cursedad has
• 8:33
  Speaker 3: options too. The reason I'm showing a little mix of
• 8:36
  Speaker 3: versatility here on the right is because eventually it's not
• 8:40
  Speaker 3: just the outfield, it's first and third base. Where's everyone
• 8:42
  Speaker 3: playing if their highly ranked prospects are coming up this
• 8:46
  Speaker 3: year and many of these guys are going to be
• 8:48
  Speaker 3: ready soon. Kobe Mayo, Sammy Bassio, Enrique Bradfield, Junior Vance, Honeycutt,
• 8:53
  Speaker 3: Judd Fabian, Dylan Bievers. They might not all be stars,
• 8:58
  Speaker 3: but most of them should be big leaguers. So I'm
• 9:00
  Speaker 3: just confused on the way that money is being spent.
• 9:04
  Speaker 3: To me, it either means aja that these minor leaguers
• 9:08
  Speaker 3: are not ready and maybe not as good as they thought,
• 9:11
  Speaker 3: or there's some type of trade conversation brewing. Otherwise, why
• 9:15
  Speaker 3: spend your money this way?
• 9:17
  Speaker 1: That is a great question, Scott.
• 9:19
  Speaker 2: I don't know the answer to it, because when I
• 9:20
  Speaker 2: saw this come across, I was like, am I missing
• 9:22
  Speaker 2: something here? Because it doesn't make sense that Loreano with
• 9:26
  Speaker 2: the outfield options Listen, Kirsten Hurstad has to play every day,
• 9:29
  Speaker 2: O'Neil has to play every day, and said Mullins, and
• 9:31
  Speaker 2: centerfield is a great thing for the Orioles and what
• 9:35
  Speaker 2: he does out there in centerfield, along as being a
• 9:37
  Speaker 2: veteran leadership.
• 9:37
  Speaker 1: Now you got all these other guys that are supposed.
• 9:39
  Speaker 2: To be coming, coming, coming, coming, coming. Michael Last won't
• 9:42
  Speaker 2: trade anybody, we know that until they're absolutely blocked. So
• 9:45
  Speaker 2: does that mean a trade's coming? I don't know, But
• 9:48
  Speaker 2: is Kobe Mayo or one of those guys not better
• 9:51
  Speaker 2: than Ramon Loreano for seven to fifty versus four million?
• 9:56
  Speaker 2: To me, it just doesn't make sense they should be
• 9:58
  Speaker 2: spending this money on bullpen help finding another starter. Possibly,
• 10:03
  Speaker 2: I don't know. It just seems like there was a
• 10:04
  Speaker 2: better allocation of resources. But Michael Oast knows better than
• 10:07
  Speaker 2: we do, so we're gonna have to watch them, can
• 10:10
  Speaker 2: we can we look ahead two weeks? Does this mean
• 10:14
  Speaker 2: like Luis Castillo could be a guy that could be
• 10:18
  Speaker 2: going for some of this, like outfield depth, I mean
• 10:22
  Speaker 2: teams that I mean maybe I'm maybe I'm being hopeful,
• 10:25
  Speaker 2: I'm being hopeful that they go and get because those
• 10:27
  Speaker 2: are the starting pitcher's names, Dylan cees A, Michael King,
• 10:31
  Speaker 2: although you just signed that contract, so I doubt it.
• 10:34
  Speaker 2: But you sit here and you go, how are they
• 10:38
  Speaker 2: getting their team better? Everybody needs depth, even the vaunted
• 10:42
  Speaker 2: Dodgers need depth, and they have depth galore. They're adding depth,
• 10:47
  Speaker 2: but they're adding it in places where I feel like
• 10:49
  Speaker 2: they're still a little thin. So is this a precursor, like, Hey,
• 10:53
  Speaker 2: we got to make sure we lock in Ramon before
• 10:56
  Speaker 2: we trade this out. I'm confused by it. And if
• 11:03
  Speaker 2: the season starts and this is exactly what the roster
• 11:06
  Speaker 2: looks like, you're not only hurting some of these prospects,
• 11:10
  Speaker 2: but you're hurting your big league team by not adding
• 11:13
  Speaker 2: big chunks of help on this team.
• 11:17
  Speaker 3: Bingo. Yeah, if there's a ce strade and evolve some
• 11:20
  Speaker 3: of these guys, awesome, that's that is exactly what they
• 11:23
  Speaker 3: should be doing. Castillo is exactly what they should be doing.
• 11:26
  Speaker 3: I heard about Kyle Stowers and Connor Norby for a while,
• 11:29
  Speaker 3: not that they were going to be stars, but solid
• 11:30
  Speaker 3: big leaguers. The end up trading them in that what's
• 11:33
  Speaker 3: turned out to be at least so far disastrous Trevor
• 11:35
  Speaker 3: Rodgers deal last year. Rodgers might bounce back and be
• 11:37
  Speaker 3: okay for them, but at the time it was the
• 11:39
  Speaker 3: wrong move. They were like, oh, we want controllable guys,
• 11:41
  Speaker 3: Like don't you want to win in the playoffs? So
• 11:44
  Speaker 3: that's why we crushed it back then we were right.
• 11:46
  Speaker 3: So this time around the off season, I'm just like,
• 11:48
  Speaker 3: I don't We're all for spending money and investing in
• 11:51
  Speaker 3: your team. I'm good with that, but I'm just curious
• 11:54
  Speaker 3: about some of the decision making here, and I wonder
• 11:56
  Speaker 3: if there's something that we don't know. So from an
• 11:59
  Speaker 3: outfield perspective, AJ, if you're one of the guys that
• 12:02
  Speaker 3: we just listed and there is a significant logjam and
• 12:06
  Speaker 3: you are a good prospect, are you not pissed to
• 12:09
  Speaker 3: see this news? This guy's not like, oh, split contract,
• 12:12
  Speaker 3: minor league deal, whatever, that's all cool, competition veterans in
• 12:15
  Speaker 3: spring training. This is one year, four million dollars guaranteed
• 12:18
  Speaker 3: for a guy who was terrible in the first half
• 12:19
  Speaker 3: the year. Got much better again with the Braves, but
• 12:22
  Speaker 3: just didn't seem like the guy that was necessary. If
• 12:24
  Speaker 3: you're going to spend an extra several million dollars on
• 12:26
  Speaker 3: a player for Baltimore, or.
• 12:29
  Speaker 1: Let me ask you.
• 12:30
  Speaker 2: This is this Michael Olia saying we don't think Heston
• 12:33
  Speaker 2: Kurstad is going to be as good as we think
• 12:34
  Speaker 2: he is. Is Dylan Carlson not going to be there?
• 12:38
  Speaker 2: Is Kobe Mayo? I know he's a first and third baseman,
• 12:40
  Speaker 2: but das Cameron has been around, maybe he's not the guy.
• 12:43
  Speaker 2: Dylan Beaver's outfield prospect, Enrique Bradfield, Junior Van Sunnycutt, Jedd Fabian,
• 12:48
  Speaker 2: these guys, maybe they don't think they're as good as
• 12:49
  Speaker 2: they other people do. I don't know, because if you're
• 12:53
  Speaker 2: if I'm Michaelias, and again I'm not. But Heston Kurstad
• 12:57
  Speaker 2: has to play every day? Why am I calling him up?
• 12:59
  Speaker 2: If he's been a prospect for how many years? How
• 13:01
  Speaker 2: long have you been hearing about Heston Kurstad, Jackson, Holiday Gunner, Henderson,
• 13:05
  Speaker 2: Kobe Mayo, stours, this whole crew of Orioles prospects. Heston
• 13:11
  Speaker 2: Kurstad has to be given an opportunity to come up
• 13:13
  Speaker 2: and play every day. And what Tyler O'Neil said, Mullins
• 13:15
  Speaker 2: and Colton Kowser, he's already the fourth option if not
• 13:19
  Speaker 2: the DH, then you go and sign another guy. Like
• 13:22
  Speaker 2: to me, this just doesn't make sense unless a trade
• 13:25
  Speaker 2: comes through or they don't think that these prospects are
• 13:28
  Speaker 2: as good as everyone else does, because otherwise it doesn't
• 13:31
  Speaker 2: make sense to me.
• 13:33
  Speaker 3: Thank you that we're on the same page, because we
• 13:36
  Speaker 3: do promote doing things in activity, but we're not just saying, oh,
• 13:40
  Speaker 3: I want every team to just sign every player. I
• 13:42
  Speaker 3: want them to do it smartly, and I don't want
• 13:44
  Speaker 3: them to block talent if that talent looks fire, and
• 13:48
  Speaker 3: I don't think they're the kind of team that's just
• 13:50
  Speaker 3: going to cut him in spring training if they feel
• 13:54
  Speaker 3: like they've got other players ready to roll. Like you
• 13:57
  Speaker 3: look at their top ten prospects, crats, there's a ton
• 13:59
  Speaker 3: of outfield talent, and most of that outfield talent is
• 14:02
  Speaker 3: in the upper levels of the miners. They drafted college
• 14:05
  Speaker 3: talent that doesn't need a ton of seasoning.
• 14:09
  Speaker 2: And right, so it's less and less at bats for
• 14:12
  Speaker 2: all these guys, which actually pushes some of the other
• 14:14
  Speaker 2: guys down to.
• 14:15
  Speaker 1: The lower level double A high A that type of thing.
• 14:19
  Speaker 2: But we kind of saw this last year, not a
• 14:22
  Speaker 2: direct correlation, but it kind of correlated the fact that
• 14:24
  Speaker 2: Noel Vie Marte got a fifty game suspension. But you
• 14:29
  Speaker 2: sit there and you go, well, why would why would
• 14:32
  Speaker 2: the Reds have signed GMR Candelario And you're like, it
• 14:37
  Speaker 2: didn't really totally work out. They could have maybe allocated
• 14:39
  Speaker 2: that those funds other places. Doesn't mean he's not a
• 14:42
  Speaker 2: good player. It just means when you have a team
• 14:44
  Speaker 2: that has a dearth of you have a ton of
• 14:48
  Speaker 2: people in one spot in one like middle indfield or
• 14:54
  Speaker 2: outfield for the Orioles, and you keep adding to it
• 14:56
  Speaker 2: with not a like elite level out prospect or outfield
• 15:01
  Speaker 2: free agent, You're wondering, like, what is actually going on?
• 15:05
  Speaker 2: Are there other things that could be happening in somebody
• 15:08
  Speaker 2: from this list isn't going to be able to make
• 15:11
  Speaker 2: the team to start the year.
• 15:13
  Speaker 3: Okay, good run the same page. I just don't want
• 15:16
  Speaker 3: to piss off prospects if they feel like they're close
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: to ready, right, you want to give them a lane
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: and say this could be you. You sign a big,
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: big bat or someone that.
• 15:28
  Speaker 2: But how long have they been How long have they
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: been saying those prospects are clothes?
• 15:32
  Speaker 1: How long? How long can you say these prospects are closed.
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: They're closed.
• 15:35
  Speaker 2: At some point you got to let them go. You
• 15:37
  Speaker 2: either got to trade them or you got to let
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: them play. You can't just keep saying, oh, well, they're
• 15:41
  Speaker 2: not quite ready.
• 15:42
  Speaker 1: We've been again. We've been hearing about Herestaed for how
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: many years? Now?
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: When's he going to get four hundred and fifty at
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: pass to have a chance to prove himself at the
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: major league level? Jackson Holiday came up, struggled, went back down.
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: You know what it happens. He came back up, did better, right,
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: but they at least gave him a shot gun. Or
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: Henderson they just threw out there. Why don't they just
• 16:01
  Speaker 2: do this? If here's Staded again, is the guy who
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: they're say he's supposed to be. Or Enrique Bradfield, Trade
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: Cedric Mullins, maybe let him break you in. Enrique Bradfield
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: junior play center field.
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: I don't know.
• 16:10
  Speaker 2: It's like, why are we just It's the thing we
• 16:12
  Speaker 2: always talk about with the Orioles. They hoard prospects for
• 16:15
  Speaker 2: prospects for prospects until they train them to the Marlins.
• 16:17
  Speaker 2: For a guy they had to be sent to Triple
• 16:19
  Speaker 2: A last year. Nothing against Rogers, but it didn't work
• 16:22
  Speaker 2: out last year, might work out this year. But they
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: hoarded prospects, horder prospects until they're like, oh, we can
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: get something for him, so let's just throw them away. Hey,
• 16:31
  Speaker 2: the Orioles think they are a World Series team. Any
• 16:34
  Speaker 2: team that you are have been a part of. Have
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: you ever gone to spring training going you know what,
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: we probably got two spots in our lineup for guys
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: that are prospects, and we're gonna We're gonna let them
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: figure it out in the big leagues while we're trying
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: to win the World Series. No, but you know what
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: you do with those prospects. You normally have a spot
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: if you're a World Series winning team or a contending team,
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: have nine guys that you're pretty locked in on. Now
• 17:02
  Speaker 2: you can have one or two guys that are younger
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: that can play or do whatever. Because I remember when
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: I was the Twins, we have Michael Kdeier come up
• 17:09
  Speaker 2: and some other guys come up, and.
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: You know what they did.
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: They helped us, right, But we were also had older guys,
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: you know, not that old, but like Tory Hunter, uh,
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: Corey Koskime and Kaevich like that had been through a
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: couple of years, right until we're like, all right, we're here,
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: but you can sprinkle them in. But if you're the Orioles, okay,
• 17:26
  Speaker 2: Tyler O'Neal, nice edition, right, sed Mulin has been a
• 17:28
  Speaker 2: good playerform, then field's pretty much set. Catchers set with
• 17:31
  Speaker 2: Adley Gary Sanchez as his backup right second base, Jackson
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: Holliday or someone else possibly, right, But then you go
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: to Ryfield and you have Colton Kowser, who people said
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: could have won the Rookie of the Year last year. Okay, Son,
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: why do you hoard all these other all these other
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: outfield guys and then go sign outfield guys? Your nine
• 17:49
  Speaker 2: are pretty much set for the Orioles depth piece. Nice,
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: So you're gonna tell Houston curse Heston Kurstad, who's been
• 17:56
  Speaker 2: at Triple A and he's raked the last couple of years.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: You know what you're not read? Go back to Norfolk,
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: enjoy it, hit thirty again. Maybe next year you'll be ready.
• 18:05
  Speaker 1: What else can he do?
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: Give the guy a shot first base? Mountcastle Westburg's the
• 18:10
  Speaker 3: stud at third. Kobe Mayo might be good enough to
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: break camp with the team, but he's not gonna have
• 18:15
  Speaker 3: a spot unless somebody's hurt. So it's just lodg jam
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: City and I believe in the prospects, but I want
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: to see him, So it was worth the combine to.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: Go get a Dylan Ceas like they did last year
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: with Corbyn Burns.
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: Oh look at that.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: I mean Corbin Burns had a great ear for him
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: when Corbyn bird's ball. They got swept in the first round.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: They didn't hit and they didn't score runs at the
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: end in that playoff last two playoff series.
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: Really, but what did they I mean, yeah, they gave
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: up some.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: Nice players, Joey Ortiz, they have a short stop in
• 18:39
  Speaker 2: the third baseman. Didn't need them. Deal Hall didn't throw
• 18:41
  Speaker 2: strikes for him, didn't really need him. Right, it was
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: a great trade. You got Corbyn Burns for a year.
• 18:46
  Speaker 2: Go get Dylan Seas, go get somebody, use some of
• 18:49
  Speaker 2: these guys, because guess what we just showed.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: Their list of prospects. They got like ten doll filders.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: You only have three at a time.
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: Thank you, thank you. The Dodgers are so damn good
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: that they had to trade Ryan Bradge who's thirty seven
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: years old, and they dfa'd him. But you knew he
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: was going to land with the team he goes for
• 19:05
  Speaker 3: a player to be named later or cash. He was
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: pretty good last year. I mean, he's a helpful player.
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: He might be a high leverage reliever for a Cubs
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: team that actually is starting to build a decent bullpen here,
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: because if Nate Pearson tells he's got really good stuff,
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: Porter Hodge looked really good towards late last year. Presley's
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: on board, Here's Brazier, and there's there's a few others
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: too that stand out, and that's been a problem for them. Kratz,
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: if you want to win and win close games, this
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: is what you do. You take the scraps from the Dodgers.
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: Because Ryan Brasier is a good, pretty good reliever.
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: I would put him higher than the scraps.
• 19:37
  Speaker 2: I think it's just you know, he got pushed out
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: in LA and I don't think anything that he did wrong.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: But again, we're gonna hit this with Patrick like, you
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: still need a ninth inning guy to the point where
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: if you want to be a playoff contending National League
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: winning type of team, you almost need two closer.
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: You need two dudes, and.
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: I don't know that they have that yet there's just
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: so many questions in that bullpen. Could Braves give you
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: a few saves, absolutely, But councils used to having a
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: Devin Williams having a having a job Pater in the
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: back and they don't have even remotely close to that.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: Yet.
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: I think it's going to be a much better bullpen.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: Ay j.
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: Coubs have had a nice offseason. I'll give them that.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: The Tucker and then Brazier and some of the other
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: pieces they brought it and it's been it's been a
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: nice I love this justin y Almas and the and
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: the thing goes trading Trading Brazier just to sign Yates
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: is hilarious gluttony by the Dodgers.
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: True.
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: I mean, how many teams would sign Kirby Yates and
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: then at the DFA a guy like Brazier, especially a
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: guy who had a great year for him. None except
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: the Dodgers. So that's a that's a great point. Uh, Listen,
• 20:45
  Speaker 2: it's a nice piece for them. It's a back end piece.
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: Councils usually go with these guys. I'd still love to
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: see them have like a you know, one more, but
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: we'll see you with the coutremium Guy a Premium Guy,
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: William Guy one more one.
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: More DFA Because David O'Brien pointed this out on Twitter.
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: He's like, sub one whip about a five to one
• 21:09
  Speaker 3: or whatever. Strike out to walk right was great? Remember
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: he was he was bad with Boston. They cut him
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: and then the Dodgers were like, hey, how about a cutter?
• 21:18
  Speaker 3: And then he was awesome for that twenty three.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: So did you guys see by the way, did you
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: see there was a rumor out there that the Cubs
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: offered Bregman four years, one hundred.
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: With opt out.
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's not as good as five to one whatever
• 21:31
  Speaker 3: he got from Houston, though, So I'm like, why would
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: he take that? M All right, let's sizzle. We've got
• 21:41
  Speaker 3: two outfielder signings to cover one super fresh Harrison Bader
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: to the Minnesota Twins one year deal plus a mutual
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: option for twenty twenty six. It's called Byron Buxton insurance.
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: Hey yo, wingo dang ding ding ding ding ding Ding
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: Dan dang exactly is what that is.
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: And they have some lefties, although they did lose Kepler,
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: but they still have a lot of lefties in that lineup,
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: so it's right handed protection. Also for that lineup. Great
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: center fielder, m hm, can he hit? If he could
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: just hit, he could be one of the best players
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: in the league because he's fun as hell to be around,
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: springs and energy.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: That's awesome.
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: Great center fielder, but he still hasn't quite figured out
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: the old slider ball.
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: Last year he made ten and a half million bucks.
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: We didn't get the money in yet, it's gonna be less, right.
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: Why do we why do we have them? Just stop?
• 22:37
  Speaker 3: I can tell you why. No, I can tell you
• 22:38
  Speaker 3: why mutual options become a fancy way for just deferred money.
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: Because what it does is it gives you the money
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: at the end of the contract instead of during the
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: entire season. So it's just for teams to push it
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: towards the end. Yeah, as a buyout, right, because it's
• 22:54
  Speaker 3: going to take us to the next signing recover in
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: one minute. But for Bader, the other thing I've noticed, right,
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: and this is me taking a step out and just
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: as more of like the fan watching him, is that
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: I feel like he's balanced over the years between the
• 23:07
  Speaker 3: aggressive contact guy and the passive, like going for a
• 23:10
  Speaker 3: little more pop guy, and just like hasn't quite landed
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: on the right mix, and last year went back to
• 23:16
  Speaker 3: more of the contact aggressive approach, but that did not
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: put out good numbers when you're looking at like the
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: OPS plus and just how he performs based on the
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: league average. So I don't know, that's my like dumber
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: take on it.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: Oh, you're better off trying to hit twenty five homers
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: this year now in at today's game, striking out two
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: hundred times and walking fifty than you are of trying
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: to hit three hundred and drive in, you know, and
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: hit thirty doubles. Because the way the system is set
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: up OPS plus and all that, it's set.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: Up for walks, homers. That's it. The rest of it
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: doesn't matter.
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: Right set up for the three true outcomes. That's the
• 23:50
  Speaker 3: problem that we have. And look the guy who does
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: it better than anyone else, Luisa Rise, still gets traded
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: and bounced around and not valued by front offices the
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: way that other people think he should. So on the
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: topic of mutual option, Randall Gritchik definitely applies to what
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: Kratz is talking about. He signs back with Arizona, great
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: move based on the fit last year. He was a
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: great fit for them in a platoon role. He can
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: come off the bench and obviously do some outfield dh
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: action for them two million bucks. You're like, that's it.
• 24:19
  Speaker 3: Five million dollar mutual option, which of course is not
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: going to happen for twenty twenty six. It just means
• 24:23
  Speaker 3: there's a buyout on it for three million dollars. So
• 24:26
  Speaker 3: he gets two million dollars this season, three million at
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: the end of the season to make it five total,
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: and it can get up to five and a half
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: million dollars if he hits some pretty reasonable played appearance incentives. There,
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: you go, Kratz, that's why they have a mutual option.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but let's let's let's just call spade a spadet.
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: Let's stop putting. We don't need to put that in
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: there because nobody's picking it up.
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: I think aramis Ramrez is the last one. I remember.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: Aramis well that the Brewers maybe pick. They both love
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: the mutual option, but to me, great pickup. I'd love
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: to see where those incentives are. I didn't see where
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: the at that incentives are because I think I can
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: tell you I thought Velo used him awesome.
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: What are it said?
• 25:12
  Speaker 3: Two hundred fifty thousand dollars for two hundred plate appearances,
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: and for two hundred seventy five plate appearances. My guess
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: is that it's probably hit two hundred, then you hit
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: two seventy five, not like total, not five seventy five, right,
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: So it's pretty reasonable. It's like, just just stay on
• 25:28
  Speaker 3: the field and hit. Okay, what you don't think he's
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: gonna get two hundred and seventy five plate appearances?
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: No, I was just worried about your math there, but
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: we'll talk about that later.
• 25:37
  Speaker 3: No. No, he gets to two hundred plate appearances, he gets
• 25:40
  Speaker 3: to check for two hundred and fifty grand seventy five
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: plate appearances later he gets two hundred fifty grand.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: Said seventy five.
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: You said five to seventy. Oh, sorry, it's not for
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: four seven.
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: Still still worried. I'm still trying to figure out.
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: We didn't go to the same college. Aj I went
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: to UM, which she gets.
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: It's not back.
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: I went to the minor leagues.
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: Doctor Pepper. I can do I can do math. Though
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: I can do some math. Trust me.
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: I spent many an hour sitting there looking over the
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: scoreburg going, man, I need three hits to day to
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: hit two with forty, man, trust me, I did a
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: lot of math in my head.
• 26:17
  Speaker 3: And I was promoting at the club. I was about
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: bottle at this rate plus this bottle. Anyway, he had
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: a rich mom, dad, I need money. No, they said,
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: bug off, go get a job, and I did. I
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: worked the clerbs one forty oh ps plus in two
• 26:36
  Speaker 3: hundred and seventy nine plate appearances for Gritchick this past
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: season absolutely annihilated lefties. Remember they had that platoon going
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: with him and Jock Peterson at times that was money.
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: They scored more runs than anyone in baseball. So it's
• 26:49
  Speaker 3: a smart move in my mind. Right, we're all good
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: with this.
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: One, yes, and I'm not. I mean, Randall Gritchick's a
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: good player, but he's been the same player, same plane
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: swing his entire career, and Tory Lavello gets a lot
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: of to me, gets a lot of credit for any
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: bench guy that has a year like that that always
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: been the same guy, always taking the same swing. Put
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: him in games where hey, we know that same swing plane.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: You know, this guy throws a lot of cutters, is
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: he's got a short arms, gets to a lot of them.
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: They put him in situations to succeed, and look what happens.
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: So I think it's a great, great pickup five million
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: for these guys. I think he gets to the first threshold,
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: probably doesn't have as great as a year if he
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: has to get to the same threshold, But I know
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: he's close.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: He did it last year.
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: There's some lefties in that division too, Don't forget there's
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: some lefties in that division, and he's probably him and
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: Peven Smith. They're going to be the the DHD outfield,
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: the combo platoony kind of thing. Hey, so, and you
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: know what else I played with the Randall Gritchick when
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: he first came up. Good looking fella and a nice fella.
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he presents himself well, psych nice, presentable.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: He's never been an FT guy, has he? No agent?
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: Must not have been a nice fellow to him? Have
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: it ever asked when I can reach out?
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: We should? We should? He's a nice guy. Good conversation
• 28:18
  Speaker 3: questions questions going back to earlier in the show, Carl
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: without Corbyn Burns. How do the Birds compete in the
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: Ale East with that current rotation. I mean it's fine.
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: I'm more concerned about it, guys for the postseason.
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: This is how they compete.
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: They're gonna have six outfielders play all at the same time,
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: and they're all gonna hit, and they're gonna hit back
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: twelve guys and they're just gonna make a new role
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: that because they have prospects and not big free agents,
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: they're all gonna play. They're gonna have to hit. This
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: team is built to hit. Yes, they need an upgrade
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: in rotation. They have to hit. To me, the American
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: League East, who said it? Who was the what guests
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: did we have on that?
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: Said?
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: American League East? Oh, papal ban American League East is
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: gonna pitch. You got Max Freed coming in, You got
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: Garrett Crochet coming in, like you already had Garrett Cole
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: like hands back the Rays, the Rays always yeah, Jeffrey
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: spring I mean, Jeffrey Springs has gone.
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: Mcclanahan's back. You better. You got to bang.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: You gotta bang. And that's what the Orioles are like.
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: You know what, everyone else is good at pitching. We're
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: gonna hit.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: We'll see.
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: And there were some questions about season if the Padres
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: are asking for too much, probably not necessarily. I bet
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: you the Orioles are trying to not give up as much.
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: The reason I say this is I'm gonna paraphrase, but
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: it was either last trade deadline or last offseason where
• 29:47
  Speaker 3: Michael Ayas was kind of saying, teams are asking for
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: our higher end prospects, but even our you know, six, seven, eight,
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: nine rank prospects would be at the top of other systems.
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: I'm like, well, if that's true, then you should either
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: playing those guys and opening them a plane for them,
• 30:03
  Speaker 3: or you should do those deals. Right. He was kind
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: of saying, like, they're not judging our system correctly because
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: our system's better than everyone else. I'm like, well, then
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: do something or let them play.
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: Use them if they're so good and so valuable, use
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: them to go out and get established major leaguers. Give
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: them a chance to play. That's my thing, is like,
• 30:25
  Speaker 2: if your six through ten is better than teams one
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: through five, then teams should be knocking your door down
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: to get those six through ten guys, right. They don't
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: seem to be. If they were, they wouldn't make the
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: trade for Rogers for the other guys they would, Right,
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: you go get Corbyn Burns and those guys weren't their
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: highest rate of players, right.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: That was a smart play. Use some of your lower
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: ranked prospects to go get established. Guys like Corbyn Burns
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: that go on have a year like he had, do
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: it again. You still got enough do it again?
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: I want that for mal from Loreano. Spent on a
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: bullpen piece you know where you added it up to
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: someone else? Right, I would the Super bowlpen out of them.
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: It's gonna be good, not great. Yeah, we're real critical,
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: but look at last trade deadline? Bet MGM, futures? Should
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: I even go on this one? Or am I two?
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: Best?
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: Okay? Ellie de la Cruz one runs twenty five and
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: a half over under. Insert AJ Prizinski joke about Ellie
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: de la Cruz being my favorite player to watch in
• 31:32
  Speaker 3: the sport over under twenty five and a half times?
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: Will AJ throw those jokes out there? Last year Ellie
• 31:39
  Speaker 3: de la Cruz had how many home runs?
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: Guess twenty five.
• 31:46
  Speaker 3: Over over?
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: Wow? Thanks guys, over you've converted us. You've converted us. Scott?
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: Why why is he going over Eric?
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: Because he's twenty he's like sixteen years old. Like this
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: dude's gonna learn to he's a switch hitter. He's twenty three,
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: he'll be twenty three the whole season. He's a switch
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: hitter who's learning two different swings, and I think he
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: struck out two hundred and seventeen times. Even if he
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: strikes out two hundred times, which is still an astronomical amount,
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: that's seventeen more times that he's putting them on play.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: And with his.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: Levers and folk rooms and how tall he is, he's
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: he's gonna be able to run into more than twenty
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: five home runs.
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: It is.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: I think this is pretty easy over and a lot
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: of these home run total stuff are tough is. I
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: think I think he could. He could easily be a
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: thirty homer guy.
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: M aj Baseball Reference projections have him at twenty one homers.
• 32:49
  Speaker 3: And I think there is a contingent that is concerned
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: that because he runs so damn much, stolen bases do
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: often increase your injury percentage. Just pointing the other side,
• 33:01
  Speaker 3: that might be like, hey, I like docs and points here.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: How old did we say? He was?
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: Twenty three? A fresh twenty three January birthday?
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: When I mean, I don't know the Crafts remembers this,
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: but when I was twenty three, I didn't ever get tired.
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: I could go all night long, all day long.
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: I was NonStop, so I mean unless something freaky happens
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: where he has a bad slide or something, He's going
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: to be fine. This dude's high energy. He's going to
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: be there every day. And where does he play eighty
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: one games?
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: The small park, This small small park, right, that's right.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: Or protection is here too.
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: Let's talk hockey for a moment and offer for hockey
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: fans you're not going to find anywhere else. On bet MGM.
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: Each Wednesday throughout the season, pick a SKATERO think's going
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: to light the lamp first in a game. If that
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: player is not the first, but the second to score
• 33:51
  Speaker 3: a goal, you get your stake back in cash only
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: on bet MGM. Gambling problem more concerned called hundred gambling.
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what he said.
• 33:59
  Speaker 3: That's what he said.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: That's what he said.
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: That's what he said. We take pride in our large,
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: large guest relations department or talent booking, whatever you want
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: to call it, bringing on all these great guests on FT.
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: But also we have some competition. The FT Network of show,
• 34:19
  Speaker 3: especially the team shows, are able to land quite a
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: few big fish. Here's one Tiger Territory talking to Trek
• 34:25
  Speaker 3: Scooble about his awards dinner experience. Sitting next to Tracy Morgan.
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: He was trying to tell me to get on, you know,
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: Saturday Night Live. I'm like, dude, I don't think i'm
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: your guy.
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: Like I'm not.
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: I don't really know if I'm going to go act
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: and then do that. He goes, no, that's the like,
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: that's the best thing you can do. I'm like, I don't.
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: I don't think I'm your guy, but I appreciate the confidence,
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: like you may think i'm that, you know. And then
• 34:50
  Speaker 4: once I got my award, I sat down with it.
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: He goes, you won the cy Young. I'm like, yeah,
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: I didn't realize you were that good.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: And I was like, well, thank you. I guess. I
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: was like, yeah, that's that's kind of why I'm here.
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: That's fine sitting up here.
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: That's really good. And I just came to, you know,
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: enjoy the company. There's the show, Kieren Steckley, Cody Stavenhagen
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: and Ajax, Austin Jackson on Tiger Territory. You can find
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: it wherever you find your shows, your pods, the whole deal.
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: And I think he's got a great point. The question
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: is a JA would s NL call for Trek School,
• 35:29
  Speaker 3: tex Scooble's fun, he's good personality. I think you could
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: do a skid or two. But MLB doesn't get the respect,
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: the national respect.
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: It's hard to get. But I'll say this, we judge
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: would do it, though Trout could do it. Harper, Harper
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: I think would be great. Harper would be awesome. But listen,
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: I gotta tell this Trek School story. When we were
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: at the BBW a A Harry Bonds obviously was there.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: We had him on.
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: I ran up to him and I said, hey, listen, man,
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: I got this idea. I want to get you and
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: Trek scoobl on because Schooble's seek a strake out And
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: Barry Bonds goes Who And I go to dude like
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: three chairs down for you know, on the American the
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: American League. So you he goes, oh that guy. Yeah,
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: he's got no chance. But it was just funny when
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: he goes Who. And we're talking about right because we
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: asked him, remember do you watch a lot of games?
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: And he said he want Giants games. I don't know
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: if school pitch against the Giants, but you know, Barry
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: pays attention to one team as the Giants. I just
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: thought it was funny because kind of like when Tracy
• 36:22
  Speaker 2: Morgan said, wait, you want to say Barry Bonds.
• 36:24
  Speaker 1: Is like, wait, who.
• 36:27
  Speaker 3: Not surprised? Not surprised. A lot of former players just
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: lock in on one thing. But Trek school needs more love.
• 36:34
  Speaker 3: He's the best pitcher in Major League Baseball right now.
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: And by the way, Tiger territory fire logo. See they
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: put stripes in there. You know they got the claw claws. Yeah,
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: fire logo right there.
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: Oh well, on our way to break guess who came
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: up with the tiger Clyde Idea Lady nailed it the.
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: Job producer, Lady.
• 37:14
  Speaker 3: Let's slap. Big birthday for soon to be one of
• 37:18
  Speaker 3: my two favorite college baseball players.
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: Yep, my son's eighteenth birthday today, Happy birthday, Happy birthday,
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: Austin theok two goats togethers. Do you know that is
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: on the bottom scout?
• 37:31
  Speaker 3: I hope I know that is Muhammad Ali.
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: You nailed it, that's right.
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: My son was I don't know, four or five at
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: the time, and Muhammad Ali. I was fortunate enough I
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: got to go to a seventieth birthday party in Arizona
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: during that spring training time. But yeah, my son got
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: a picture of Muhammad Ali. So happy birthday, Austin. We
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: love you and you're a man in age only. Let's
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: always remember that.
• 37:57
  Speaker 1: Because that's the thing. Kids turn eighteen and they're like,
• 37:59
  Speaker 1: I'm an adult.
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: Well I'm like, hold up, hold up, you're not paying
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: for your car, insurance, home, food, school when you get it.
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: When you get outside the home, then you become an adult.
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: I agree with that. Right, when you're independent, then you're
• 38:17
  Speaker 3: an adult.
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: Yes, adults pay rent. Yeah, that's you know what, that's
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: a great idea. I'll be like, Austin us rent. Now
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: you're an adult. See how that goes?
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: Right? And then we call you adult crats hats? What
• 38:31
  Speaker 3: do you got?
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: What's the what's the Triple used to be Paul Tucket
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: Red Sox, now it's the Worcester Red Sox.
• 38:43
  Speaker 1: There you go.
• 38:44
  Speaker 3: And also for some of you fans watching today wondering
• 38:46
  Speaker 3: where Ryan Walker is called out, But he will be
• 38:49
  Speaker 3: back soon, so I know we promised it yesterday and
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: legit excuse so we'll get him back soon. We'll put
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: it at that. Also, on the guest list coming up
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: for the rest of the week, we got Jim Boden
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: back with us tomorrow. Ken Rosenthal is back with us
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: on Friday. We'll gotta wit Meryfield appearance to find out
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: how many of the same exact offers he is getting,
• 39:10
  Speaker 3: because you know that's definitely happening. He is so in
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: that world like k Hernandez from a year ago. So
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: just a few of the names to look forward to,
• 39:20
  Speaker 3: and yeah, a couple other guests that will announce for
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: tomorrow's show. That's all I got.
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: Working on a big one, working on a big one
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: for next week. He's been on a couple of times,
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: but working on a big one.
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: For next week.
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: But he's been on m.
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: One of our favorites, one of our favorites. I won't
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: guess it though.
• 39:44
  Speaker 3: Does he know about FT's new facial hair policy. You
• 39:47
  Speaker 3: need facial hair to come on? Is that okay?
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: Does he have social hair?
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: Okay? I don't know, but everyone throw guesses in the chat. Also,
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: please hit us up on socials. I've been enjoying all
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: the messages from everyone on on Instagram, dms with segment ideas,
• 40:01
  Speaker 3: guest ideas. We're here for all of it, not going
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: to always give you all of them, but we're going
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: to try our best on the guest front and some
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: of the segments are pretty cool, so keep them coming.
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: Appreciate YOUFTFAM, See you on Thursday.