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Episode 64 Part II feat. Julian Guilarte - Positional Player Market, MLB Trade Potentials, the WBC · Sports Avenue Twisted Podcast

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  All right, let's let's talk about the position of players.
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  This is one, this is probably my favorite topic to talk about.
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  And we talked about the guys are still out there, right?
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  That's yet to sign. And we've seen what the market
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  dictates, right? Like with Cody, he's a free
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  agent. Kyle Tucker, it's the biggest
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  name out there. We knew that the Pete Alonzo
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  signing shocked me. We knew that Kyle Shruger was
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  going to go back to Phillies. I thought Alonso was going to be
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  a Red Sox, knowing that those two had fairly.
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  Similar Red Sox too for me. Too every everybody thought that
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  right and The thing is that I think because his wife is from
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  Boston and thinking that the geography made sense.
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  You know, what's the funny part is that he goes to Baltimore and
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  he goes there directly for the money.
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  And now they look like they're they're going to be an
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  interesting team to compete for next year.
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  But what is going to what's going to have to happen for
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  these traditional players aside? And we talked about Car Talk
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  have been linked to the Jays a lot more recently.
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  Him and both still been linked to the Jays.
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  But Bregman's been a name that's been recently talked about as a
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  report with the Jays and Arizona and Boston, of course, but
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  Detroit hasn't really been mentioned around it.
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  But what are your thoughts about all this?
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  How I don't think so, but what are your thoughts about like
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  what's your what's your thought process about like who's going
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  to go 1st and who's what what has to happen for the market to?
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  Dictate, I think, I think like you're looking at 2 situations.
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  I think you're looking at outfield situations and in field
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  situations you're looking at Pichette, Tucker, Bellinger, and
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  I'm forgetting 1. I don't know how because shed
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  Tucker, Bellinger and and. Bregman.
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  There we go. So Bregman is not going to be a
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  Tiger, I don't think because I heard some stuff last year that
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  like there was some hard feelings and negotiations after
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  didn't take their offer because they had a six 172 on the table
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  and he didn't take it. So I don't think he's going
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  there. It also doesn't fit his
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  offensive game very well to go there.
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  He lose like 30 something home runs throughout his career.
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  He played there. So I don't think he goes there.
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  I think the Diamondbacks are very in play.
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  Like Murray said, I'm going to agree with him.
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  If they trade Marty, I think they'll sign him.
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  I definitely think that's going to happen.
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  They can't take both of them though, apparently.
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  So I think they have to trade Marty and that would get
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  Bregman's market moving potentially.
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  I think Bellinger and Tucker is very interesting debate because
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  there is rumors that they're waiting for Tucker to sign and
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  set Bellinger's market kinds of. And at first I thought Ballinger
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  would have easily went quicker, but now I think Tucker actually
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  might go first. And then once Tucker goes,
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  Ballinger goes. And then like once Bregman goes
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  to Shack goes. But I'm surprised the Blue Jays
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  are taking so long. I think it's because they're
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  waiting on Tucker to see what they're going to do with
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  Bachette. And then that's the only reason
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  I haven't ever signed Bachette yet.
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  So I think we're playing a big game of Chicken Scott.
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  Boris holds three of the cards, and you're seeing actually two
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  of them. But Shack's not a Boris guy,
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  right? No, he's great.
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  Benny. Benny Sports.
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  OK, so he holds two of the cards, which obviously is making
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  things slow, and he probably has the lower end on both players.
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  So he's probably waiting to see what happens with the top guys.
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  And then Bregman's definitely waiting to see if Cattell gets
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  traded, because I think he wants to be an Arizona like Corbin
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  Burns wants to be an Arizona. That's what it appears to be
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  because he lives there and stuff and I think he's already won a
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  championship, so he doesn't need to chase a ring anymore.
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  He just wants to get paid and if he can get paid and stay home,
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  like that's a win win for him I think.
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  Yeah, I, I, I, I couldn't agree more, man.
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  Let me ask you guys this. You think the Shaq could be a
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  Red Sock of the Blue Jays? Don't retain him.
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  Do you think that's a serious threat or you think that's all
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  Tom? I think it's on top.
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  I think it's all. Go ahead, I'll say.
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  I'll talk, don't. But what if they don't get
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  Bregman though? So if they don't get pregnant, I
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  think they go, they go get Donovan or or Marte.
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  I think the. Trademark.
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  It seems to be their row, right? That's.
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  The thing and The thing is that. Because of stupid.
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  Because you're giving up all your prospects, you can just
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  pay. People.
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  They ate something like they ate something like 10 trades.
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  So soft season I know how you get, but I haven't given up any
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  minors, right? But I haven't given up anything
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  crazy, you know, like, Oh my God, they gave up this.
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  Guy well, they get well, well that hasn't happened yet.
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  Well, you have to remember, you have to remember 2 to 3 trades
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  they traded. I wonder if they deal with
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  Christian Campbell. I feel like he could be a guy
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  that gets traded. I could.
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  See, that's the thing. But who would want to take that
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  contract, right, giving him that money, right, Because he's.
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  Yeah, that's the thing. His value's definitely low now
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  because of that. That's my issue with.
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  Play for Boston, right for them in the line up again like I'm.
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  Durant, we do, right? Yeah, I just.
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  Think Cassius is another guy. Process is definitely going to
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  get traded, I think because they got Contreras.
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  I think the writing's on the wall there.
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  But like with Duran, Breslow's overvaluing him.
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  That's why he hasn't been traded.
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  So this is my problem with Boston right now.
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  Their payroll, I looked at their payroll yesterday, their
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  payroll's at 234 right now. If they do sign, let's just say
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  a Brightman Bichette, whoever, they would go over the second
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  attacks. And I haven't seen I haven't
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  seen John Henry have the willingness because they want to
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  get rid of Bever's contract completely out of the way that
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  happened, right? So so now, now that Brendan
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  opted out, he should have opted in, right?
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  Because now that both are playing, playing cat and mouse,
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  it just now looks bad on both sides.
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  Like Boston wants. Like a long.
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  Term deal, that's why it's out. I mean, he wants to get the long
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  term money. Like I don't think Bregman
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  signed the deal for less than four or five years at this
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  point. Well, I can't see it really.
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  Really. Yeah, because like he's looking
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  for his long term deal. That's why he opted out.
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  I don't think he's going to take another deal with escalators and
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  opt out. So I think he's going to just
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  try to do the full thing finally.
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  Do you see him getting a five year contract?
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  Yeah, I think someone might do it.
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  I mean, how old is he? Is he 30 still or like is?
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  He, 31. 3132 all. Right.
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  I mean, yeah, they could do it. I mean, I don't know if it'll
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  age well, but someone will do it.
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  Probably. Maybe it's just maybe four
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  years. I guess five could be a lot, but
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  I know he's looking for that and the Tigers had six on the table
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  for him last year. So if we rewind time now,
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  someone just has to do 1 less year than that.
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  I mean, it's possible, definitely.
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  That's what he's looking for, obviously.
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  I guess the Diamondbacks could do it.
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  I mean, why not? Also the fact that, yeah, The
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  thing is that, well, Rob, you can go after me here.
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  But like if you look at it this way, like you said, the Boston,
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  they haven't shown me that they're willing to compete with
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  spending money. Like, well, are they trying to
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  establish the core of their team or are they are they trying to,
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  are they going to continue to go through the trademark?
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  I mean, Brandon Dogman would be a great pickup defensively.
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  Defensively, they need to be better.
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  That's been their issue too. Brendan and Bregman.
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  What? The hell of a season last
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  season. That's what I'm saying.
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  He fits perfectly for Boston, right?
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  And. I would almost like him more
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  than Bregman, man. Like I would love if, and I get
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  the Jays wouldn't trade for him, I don't think, but man, he is a
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  type of player that I would love to have on a team.
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  I think he's a winning player. Yeah, I think he's a very good
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  player too. I just don't think he's as good
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  as Katal or Jazz, personally. But he's a lefty and the Yankees
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  need rights. If I was one of the Yankees
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  term, like Boston, I didn't see the fit as much, but I guess I
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  do now. I mean, who's playing second for
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  Boston right now? I guess it could be him, right?
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  Yeah, he would probably be the guy.
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  I'm just Christian. Christian Campbell could be the
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  guy at second base. I mean, they say we got a.
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  Brain they got right well, Marcelo Mayor so.
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  Yeah, or so like yeah, yeah, they got well that Trevor story
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  opting in, I mean that was a no brainer for but that clogs up a
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  little bit of the situation, right.
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  So yeah, I. What are you going to do?
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  What are you going to do with? I mean, I mean they're stuck,
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  but I mean. Yeah, they are kind of if you
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  think about they still have. They still have.
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  They have too many positional players still.
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  And I know, I know, Julian, you, you told me this, there was a
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  report about Duran and perhaps tool bitch on a for framework of
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  working a deal potentially, but that nothing has moved that
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  much, right. I could see that happening
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  because like, the Royals need a player like Duran desperately
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  and the Red Sox could use Ubik, I guess, to like be there two or
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  three. But I don't know if it'll
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  actually happen. We got to.
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  See, they trade for Duran. I think that makes them
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  exponentially better. The Royals.
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  So like you said, they they're they're, they need a guy like
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  Duran in their lineup and they don't have one, no.
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  Outfield play is poor. The Royals don't have like any
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  good outfielders, really. Another guy I've heard name too
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  is Will Your Brave Could possibly get traded too.
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  I think it's one of the other situation like so one of the
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  other Duran maybe they're moving right you I guess like I don't
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  think they would trade both of them.
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  No, I'm with you there. I just I just saw his name in
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  rumors. No, he's been out there.
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  I definitely agree with you. I think their preferences move
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  Duran, but we'll have to see. So how many teams are competing
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  for positional players? So it would be Toronto, Boston,
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  Arizona, Yankees because of Bellinger.
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  We got to talk about the Bellinger thing.
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  Like what's going on with like with Bellinger?
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  Like is he is he waiting for a bigger deal?
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  Do you think the Mets can compete with the Yankees for for
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  Bellinger? You think that's a possibility?
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  Yeah, I think it's all above. Like you know, Boris is holding
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  out for like a six or seven, which he's not going to get
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  obviously. I think the Mets would have
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  signed him though by now if they really wanted him.
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  So I actually think the Yankees will get him back because like
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  the Mets, if they wanted him, they could have already taken
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  care of and they haven't. But again, maybe I'm wrong and
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  they do it in the last minute. I think the Yankees ends up
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  doing like 4 years with an option for five maybe I could
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  see. I don't see a team giving
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  balance in more than five years based off the roller coaster his
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  career has been. I think it would be very
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  irresponsible to give Bellinger A6 year deal.
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  Well, not even 4. Or five, to be honest with you,
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  but if you go 6 and above, forget about it.
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  I think, I think it's just, you know, with Boris finally final
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  contract, pretty much his final payday, he's trying to get the
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  Max out. He's not going to do another opt
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  out deal like for like a few years.
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  He's already done that. So like he's looking for his
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  long term. Right.
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  And I think that's what's the importance of like how the how
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  these guys are going to establish themselves, right?
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  Because even the trade market too, like like we saw, we saw
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  trades happen. I mean, Taylor Ward got traded
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  to to Baltimore for Grace and Rodriguez.
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  That to me is still a shock. Like I didn't I still didn't
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  understand that deal. But I mean, it went down in the
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  end, right. So ultimately.
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  Is Carson Bench ready for the Mets?
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  Yeah, I think he is. I think he's going to have to
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  be, but I think he actually is. I think like, I think he's very
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  good. And I think the fact that last
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  year was his first year being a full time.
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  So I think he's he's going to get better because like he used
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  to pitch in college. So I think that Bench is a very
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  good player. I think the Mets are going to
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  put them in their Opening Day. I think he's going to get a job.
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  I really do. Yeah, I've heard a lot of his
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  name. He's a great.
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  He's a very good header. He steals a lot of bases.
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  He plays good defense. I think he may be in center left
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  for the Mets this year. I think he's going to get a lot
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  of time. I think the Mets really like him
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  and I don't think he's going to get traded.
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  I'd be surprised unless it's like a huge deal we're not
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  thinking about because I think they do vision him as one of the
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  two outfield spots that need to fill.
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  So I think they really need to fill left.
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  You'll get a mix of binge and tailor and center.
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  And then like left could be Bellinger or Hayes maybe, unless
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  it's like a trade for a Quan type or something else off the
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  board. If the Mets didn't sign Polanco,
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  I would have said Luisa Rise would make a fit for them, but
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  that doesn't make any sense now. So his mark has been really
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  murky. I don't know what's going on
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  there. Completely off the board a
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  little bit, but talk about the fall from grace.
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  Like this guy was regarded as like a batting champ and like an
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  excellent hitter, and now he's kind of just viewed as a flawed
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  player and only hit singles. So his perceptions really
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  change. I don't know, like what type of
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  deal he's looking for, what he's going to get to the Padres,
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  bring him back. Like, I don't know, I heard the
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  Rangers might be interested, but I haven't seen anything too
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  concrete there. So I'm not sure where he's going
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  to end up. All right, I'll get to question
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  6 now. It's so much not a question, but
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  I'm going to give you guys some names of some players who have
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  been rumoured to get traded. Just tell me if they get traded
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  or not in your opinion, and tell me where you think that is the
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  best fit for them. All right, sounds fun.
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  All right, Katel Marte. Yes, and Tampa Bay.
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  Rocky, I'm going to say yes. I'm going to say Seattle,
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  Seattle. Seattle has Seattle.
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  Makes too much sense. Too much sense.
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  Like that in the beginning, Rocky, but I've.
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  Changed I know what I'm telling you about it makes sense it just
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  for them and I would. Like to see it personally?
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  But and they have the acid fit because because The thing is
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  Seattle's not going to spend and the fact that they let go of
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  Polanco and they have what's his name with one more year, JP
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  Crawford. So Cole Young is probably going
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  to be their shortstop, but they got Cole.
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  Emerson and they want. To play Emerson, Yeah, right,
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  right. And that line up with Marte, you
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  put in with the Rosa, Rena, Julio Cal, like we're talking,
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  we are talking, right. So I would say Seattle.
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  I don't mind that. I wouldn't mind seeing it.
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  I'm just skeptical that they be blowing the added salary.
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  That's the biggest problem with that trade, I think.
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  Right. But I think but with that
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  contract. Yeah, could do it though,
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  because they lost Polanco and there's no Suarez.
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  Well, we were. Talking and.
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  Also also he was from Seattle in that organization, six years,
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  six years, 106 million. That's very affordable for
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  Seattle. They probably.
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  Highly regret. Moving on from him, I'm sorry.
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  Oh, for sure. But they had to, I mean, I mean,
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  with Arizona when they gave up him and Taiwan Walker in that
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  deal for Segura, it's not a good deal.
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  So I think a reunion makes a lot of sense.
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  But Seattle has the assets, especially now you gave Cal
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  Riley that extension. You have to start winning with
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  them now, like coming off from ALCS game seven against the
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  Jays, They that's their, they need it.
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  They need to pull him back to upgrade.
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  So I think Seattle. Yeah, they do.
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  I want to see them do something. I agree.
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  Yeah, well. Next time oh, what do I think
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  about? I think he gets traded, Yeah,
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  but I. Like that?
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  I like both of those answers though, that you guys gave men.
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  I'm going to say either the Rays or the OR the Seattle Mariners.
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  I'm going to say what's out to a wild card depending on yeah.
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  Yeah. I think so because of how many
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  trades they made to stop. Well, also, it all depends if
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  where Donovan ends up getting trading too, right?
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  So I don't think San Francisco has the assets.
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  I just don't think. Who gets sell first, right?
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  Because I think a lot of people are waiting to see.
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  I think I think kicked out gets traded before Donovan.
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  I don't think Kyle blooms into rush to figure out so.
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  That's what it seems like based of what we just read.
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  OK, next guy, Stephen Kwan. Dodgers, I already gave you my
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  answer. I say Dodgers too, I think.
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  I think it's just a match made in having his basketball skills.
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  He's a, he's probably a he's, he's probably one of the most
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  patient. And you even told me this.
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  The Jays wanted Quan, but they wanted them all and they said
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  no. They hung up the phone on that,
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  right? Can't do that.
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  I like. That yeah, I.
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  Like that I think Quan Dodgers left fielder, elite defender,
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  great, but contact hitter. I mean, I don't.
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  Like that? But I like the answer you know
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  but. Robert.
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  Hunter Green. No.
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  No, I it's just that contract is too affordable for them.
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  They they they're in a win out mode.
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  Like unless your game is substantial, I agree you can't.
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  You can't trade. With you I think I think the
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  whole the whole rumor for him is total BS like.
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  I think so too. I think it's all fabricated.
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  Yeah, Yandi Diaz. This is tough, no?
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  I'd say not now, but I think it's traded the trade deadline,
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  So what not not as. Possible, yes.
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  We'll take a rain check on Diaz. Yeah, we'll come back with you.
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  Guys, And I think it's more towards the trade deadline too.
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  OK? Mackenzie Gore, Yes.
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  Yes. So where, where, where?
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  Would be a fit. Yankees or Cubs?
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  Yankees are. Yankees, Cubs.
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  I'll put the Phillies in that low key conversation.
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  Phillies code maybe, but. They have the assets, yeah, They
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  might have to give up Painter in that deal, but they they could
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  do it because they got gauge, gauge what they drafted.
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  So I could see that Mets, it's also a possibility.
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  Make a lot of sense because they still haven't gotten their
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  starting pitcher unless they get him I, but then Gore is still
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  lefty, so they could still add him Yankees.
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  I already explained why, like I think there's been a lot of
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  connections there, right? I could see it like if they
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  can't get anything else done and they want to add a pitcher, I
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  mean, Gore is not going to come cheap, but I can see the Yankees
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  going for a guy like that because he strikes out a lot of
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  guys. He has like high UPS like they
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  do like that. So I could see them trying to
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  use him as a map like project because he has shown the ability
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  to be an Ace, but he's more of a two or three, right?
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  Now you know who's my wild card team, I'll give you my wild card
• 19:12
  team, Houston Astros, and here's why.
• 19:15
  When you look at the rotation right now and look at that,
• 19:19
  they're trying to trying to look at the trade market.
• 19:22
  Yeah, they need they need another frontline starting
• 19:26
  pitcher after a Hunter Brown. I like Garrigan, but can't stay
• 19:29
  healthy. They got micro.
• 19:32
  Guys, those big time contracts. And it's a wild card, yeah.
• 19:36
  Yeah, he is. I like Blue, but I like but but
• 19:40
  challenge you. Though Rocky, what the hell are
• 19:42
  the Astros giving up to get Mackenzie Gore?
• 19:44
  They don't have anything. That's a good question because
• 19:46
  The thing is that they might have to give up like I don't
• 19:49
  know if they trade is like, I mean, they would have to give up
• 19:52
  one of the young at Zach Cole's. Forum with the national sake.
• 19:58
  Parade, That's the interesting part because like Parade, his
• 20:01
  name has been out there. I don't know if they trade him,
• 20:03
  but the question is like what it what are they going to do with
• 20:06
  Bryce Matthews? Are they going to?
• 20:08
  Is he part of the plans of this team?
• 20:11
  Because the question is like, because that's the thing, that's
• 20:14
  probably. But.
• 20:16
  I mean, he, I mean, he showed a little promise like him and Zach
• 20:19
  Colt showed something last year for them.
• 20:21
  And they have Jeremy Pena who's still available.
• 20:23
  He's still under control for two more years.
• 20:25
  They reacquired Korea. Christian Walker is probably
• 20:28
  going to be the first base. It's a it's a interesting
• 20:31
  situation. It's not bad situation, but
• 20:33
  interesting because they got Altuve and Yoda.
• 20:36
  Are those guys going to play at left field all the time or
• 20:38
  they're going to vice versa, play DH and play left field and
• 20:44
  might have to play some second, is it a question Dana Brown
• 20:46
  might have to ask himself like but they do need a starting
• 20:49
  picture of my opinion you need. Yeah, I agree with you 100% and
• 20:53
  viral answer is not going to cut it.
• 20:55
  So they need to do something more than that.
• 20:57
  He's in the back end of his career.
• 20:59
  He won't be 100. Percent who makes sense for
• 21:01
  them. You made them up before Chris
• 21:02
  Bassett. Going to Houston makes a lot of.
• 21:04
  Sense. Yeah, he makes a lot of sense.
• 21:05
  I'm with you there. I was talking to somebody about
• 21:07
  this and with Bassett, veteran leader, Clubhouse guy has played
• 21:14
  in the AL West. Yeah, but they need some
• 21:18
  someone. They need someone in.
• 21:20
  That rotation I I do agree. Yeah, yeah.
• 21:24
  All right. All right, I got a couple more
• 21:26
  names here. Let's go.
• 21:28
  We will go to the next guy on the list, I would say Jake
• 21:34
  Cronoworth. No, that contract's not
• 21:37
  tradable. No.
• 21:39
  Agreed. Agreed.
• 21:44
  Byron Buxton. Rocky, you go for a this one.
• 21:51
  I thought initially in the awesome he would thinking that,
• 21:56
  you know, with the with the with the twins just trading 10
• 22:01
  players of the trade deadline, they would take a major step
• 22:03
  back and start going on a full-fledged rebuild like like
• 22:08
  like Washington or Saint Louis, what they're trying to do.
• 22:12
  But I just don't say it Now it seems like they've got some new
• 22:15
  minority owners on their team and they need fans to show up.
• 22:19
  So he's the face of that team. So if you'd ask me a month ago,
• 22:25
  yes. Now, no, I don't see.
• 22:27
  It I think it's a no for me as well because, like I don't
• 22:30
  understand what the twins are doing at all because they sold
• 22:32
  everything but their house as a trade Zen line and now they want
• 22:36
  to undo it and say like, Oh, we're going to try to compete.
• 22:38
  Like, no, you got to fully tear it down.
• 22:40
  Like it's just like you got to trade Lopez.
• 22:42
  You got to trade ride, you got to trade bucks to like what's
• 22:44
  going on. If it is so it doesn't make any
• 22:46
  sense. It's not like you compete with
• 22:48
  them, like they're not good enough.
• 22:49
  Still. I'm going to try to pretend they
• 22:51
  go into AL Central, but the Tigers are still better than
• 22:53
  them and the Guardians are still better than them, and the Royals
• 22:55
  are probably better than them and the White Sox might be sneak
• 22:57
  up and catch them. I mean, the Twins are a train
• 23:00
  wreck. I understand what I wouldn't see
• 23:02
  all these guys, but it looks like they won't, so I'm going to
• 23:03
  say no. I'm with you, I'm with you.
• 23:08
  I'm a new. Disaster, but it's so I have no
• 23:10
  idea what's going on. Terrible.
• 23:13
  OK, next, next guy, we kind of talked about this already.
• 23:17
  We know the answer is yes, but where would be some fits for for
• 23:21
  Joe Ryan and Pablo Lopez? OK, I mean, I think it's no, but
• 23:28
  I'll say eventually they figured it out and trade them.
• 23:31
  So I'll give you some fun ones, I guess.
• 23:34
  I really like the Yankees. For Pablo Lopez.
• 23:37
  I know they tried to get him when he was on the Marlins.
• 23:40
  So the deal that involved Labour, Torres, that fell
• 23:42
  through. Now, I know he's been hurt a
• 23:45
  little bit, but he's still only 29, which is surprising because
• 23:49
  I thought he was older, but he's very mature for his age.
• 23:52
  I really think that could be a decent one.
• 23:54
  Baltimore makes sense for either team, either player.
• 23:57
  So I think the fit for Joe Ryan was the Red Sox.
• 24:01
  Now they're saying they're out. I'm trying to think of a good
• 24:05
  fit, a good team. The Cubs could go for one of
• 24:08
  them. Atlanta.
• 24:09
  The Cubs? Atlanta.
• 24:11
  Yes. What?
• 24:12
  About the rays. The Rays for for a guy.
• 24:14
  To the Rays right the wrong of Joe Ryan after trading him.
• 24:17
  I don't see it. They love to get him back.
• 24:19
  I don't. They probably get to mistake.
• 24:23
  I'm trying to think Red Sox, Nah, I mean AL Central team.
• 24:28
  Can I give you a team? Can I give you a team?
• 24:30
  Who makes? It would be really fun if the
• 24:32
  twins would. Send them to the Yeah, crazy.
• 24:34
  Hey, hey, what about the athletics?
• 24:38
  Yes, they need. That's a good, that's a good
• 24:40
  one, yeah. I actually have Lopez going
• 24:43
  somewhere. I think I had Sebby going off
• 24:45
  the A's and then like maybe Lopez going the A's or
• 24:48
  something. I think I actually thought about
• 24:50
  that. So you know what?
• 24:50
  Yeah, go ahead. Yeah, athletics makes a lot of
• 24:53
  sense because, because like if the Giants.
• 24:55
  See the picture of. Giant giants don't have the
• 24:58
  acids. They have some acid, but they
• 25:00
  have to give up like Wizard Hunt.
• 25:02
  And there was another player I read in an article that they
• 25:05
  would have. Time to give them up.
• 25:07
  Time. Time to give them up.
• 25:09
  Unless unless you're giving up Bryce Eldridge.
• 25:11
  Are you giving up Bryce Eldridge in any deal that's up?
• 25:15
  To them, I know I've heard his name around as well.
• 25:18
  I don't know if they'd actually do it, but we'll see.
• 25:21
  But what about a guy like? What about a guy like Alcantara
• 25:24
  and Edward Cabrera? I say yes to Cabrera.
• 25:29
  Know that Alcantara? Could the Giants be in play for
• 25:34
  him? I don't know if the Giants be in
• 25:37
  play, but I would say I thought that Orioles could have took a
• 25:41
  Brera, but they backed out through Shane Boss deal.
• 25:44
  Astros as well. Yeah, those are the Astros.
• 25:46
  I don't know what assets they have again, but like, I know the
• 25:50
  Yankees have been floated for Sandy.
• 25:52
  I can see Boston getting involved in one of those
• 25:54
  pitchers. There's the Cubs again.
• 25:58
  I mean, there's a lot of teams that could use those guys, I
• 26:01
  would say. But I think the.
• 26:02
  Yankees, it's a. Similar situation to like,
• 26:05
  they've been trying, but they're just not matching up the Red
• 26:08
  Sox. I mean, I was just thinking of
• 26:11
  something. It was something to do with
• 26:14
  Alcantara or Cabrera. I do wonder, like if the Padres
• 26:19
  would try to get an arm from them.
• 26:21
  The Padres needed starting pitching desperately.
• 26:24
  They could trade some relievers for an Alcantara or a Cabrera
• 26:27
  maybe, or like a bat or something.
• 26:29
  Maybe like eat some money and give the Marlins an offensive
• 26:33
  player. Not crowing the word, but like
• 26:35
  someone else. I don't know, I have to think
• 26:37
  about it, but Padres could make some sense.
• 26:42
  Well, with the. Padres, I agree.
• 26:45
  Well, with the Padres, they got a plethora of believers.
• 26:48
  They're stacked on that. Would they would they want to
• 26:50
  trade Adrian Warhan or would they trade a Jeremiah Estrada?
• 26:55
  Yeah, yeah. I don't think Mason Miller gets
• 26:59
  traded because their price is just.
• 27:00
  Too much. No, like the Mets are not
• 27:04
  giving. I don't see the Mets giving up
• 27:07
  on playing at all. Maybe they give up a sprout.
• 27:09
  Maybe, I don't think. Yeah, I.
• 27:11
  Could keep a bunch of Tom. They got Santucci coming.
• 27:16
  Yeah, they got Jonathan Santucci coming.
• 27:18
  They got some prospects. I remember Santucci.
• 27:20
  From Duke. Yeah, he's a good pitcher for
• 27:23
  them. He's actually been a guy for
• 27:25
  them. So they've got some guys in
• 27:26
  their system that's coming. So they're going to figure out
• 27:28
  what they want to trade with, right.
• 27:30
  So. So we'll see.
• 27:32
  We'll see. OK, got three more guys, Alec.
• 27:39
  Boom. Oh.
• 27:43
  Yes. I'll say yes because his name's
• 27:49
  been thrown around the last two years.
• 27:52
  I don't know where you go though.
• 27:54
  That's the answer. Oh, actually I have a fed for
• 27:56
  you guys. What's the team?
• 27:58
  Get ready, Tigers. Yeah, I can see the tigers.
• 28:03
  I like it. What would they have to give up
• 28:06
  to go get him a reliever? Probably some prospects, so
• 28:11
  maybe some prospects I. Don't know they.
• 28:13
  Do have a bunch of prospects they could trade.
• 28:15
  Would they give up Parker Meadows because they got Clark
• 28:19
  coming? Max Clark's coming next year?
• 28:22
  Max Clark or they would have to give up one other infield if
• 28:28
  pick up. Mcgonigal should be up there.
• 28:30
  I'm telling you right now, ironical for Detroit, it's going
• 28:33
  to be rookie beer. I think it's going to be him and
• 28:35
  your savage, so those two. Pointing for the stock up for
• 28:41
  McConnell. Yeah, you can interview them in
• 28:43
  the AFL. That was good.
• 28:45
  And I talked to AJ about, I have a clip I haven't posted yet.
• 28:49
  AJ was talking about him at the winter meetings.
• 28:51
  I got to post it like maybe. I'm probably going to wait
• 28:53
  closer towards spring training later and get typed about him,
• 28:56
  but we'll see. It's going to be special, yeah.
• 29:01
  He has a chance to make it an opening day.
• 29:03
  Like he might skip triple AI. Don't fully know but like they
• 29:06
  didn't rule it out when I asked about it.
• 29:10
  Awesome. OK, two more names.
• 29:13
  Jason Dominguez. You're here, guy.
• 29:20
  This is so tough because like there's three layers to this.
• 29:24
  Like do they resign Bellinger? Yes, I think so.
• 29:27
  It's a hammer. Spencer Jones I could sell.
• 29:29
  They do it. I'll say no for now, but a team
• 29:35
  that makes a lot of sense for Jason Dominguez.
• 29:37
  I think you guys saw this. How about the Cincinnati Reds
• 29:41
  for Jason Dominguez? Oh yeah, I like that.
• 29:45
  That power of play in that ballpark?
• 29:48
  Rocky. Oh, I'm going to say no for now
• 29:55
  because we get traded because do you have Grisha for one more
• 29:59
  year? You got Judge, Judge, you need
• 30:02
  some. You need him to establish
• 30:05
  himself. He needs to play every day.
• 30:07
  So where would he play? That's a bigger question.
• 30:10
  But if you guys bring back Bellinger, then where does Jones
• 30:15
  and Dominguez fit in all this? I don't know that's.
• 30:18
  Why one of them probably gets out, but like which ones do they
• 30:20
  pick and what do they? Get I think Dominguez is the guy
• 30:23
  and I trade Dominguez. Over, over for Jones.
• 30:26
  And the reason why I say that because Jones service time isn't
• 30:29
  up yet, Jason Dominguez is what, 2, two years in or, or whatever.
• 30:35
  Well I know I think it's only one because he was heard the
• 30:37
  first year. Only that year really counts.
• 30:38
  Like he barely played in 23 and 20. 4 So he played, I think.
• 30:41
  He was eligible as a rookie. Like I have to check his
• 30:44
  contract to see what? Yeah, that's, I think that's the
• 30:46
  thing because his service time, well, that's the thing because
• 30:50
  his service time already started too, right.
• 30:52
  So once the service starts, starts I mean.
• 30:54
  And they've they've had so many opportunities over the years to
• 30:57
  trade days, Jason Dominguez, and they haven't so well.
• 31:01
  Cincinnati one in case. They've had a lot of, yeah, a
• 31:04
  lot of opportunities, man, over the years and.
• 31:07
  Well, Cincinnati. Has happened, yeah.
• 31:10
  Dominguez has five years left, so I it's tough to say.
• 31:15
  I'll say no, but like it's not as strong though.
• 31:19
  Right, Yeah, I don't think it gets traded.
• 31:21
  I don't, I don't see it. I if it does, yeah, I feel like
• 31:27
  if Dominguez is going to get traded, it's going to be for a
• 31:30
  young infield prospector or somewhere towards those lines.
• 31:34
  Like if that's the case, because Yankees have the pitching, I
• 31:37
  don't question their pitching. It's their, it's their
• 31:39
  positional players. That's what I'm questioning
• 31:41
  right now, where the fit is. Me too, yeah.
• 31:43
  I just like I need to see better production from certain people
• 31:47
  in the infield and like I feel was pretty solidified, but it
• 31:50
  didn't show up in October as I judge.
• 31:53
  Yeah, OK. Last guy, Jason Dominguez, Sorry
• 31:58
  I just said that. Oh, no one there now though,
• 32:00
  sorry. This is so complicated but I'll
• 32:04
  say yes, but I wouldn't be shocked if he also gets caught.
• 32:09
  But I'm going to say Angels or Phillies.
• 32:13
  One of the two. If the Phillies trade out bomb
• 32:15
  it might be Phillies. Angels make a lot of sense
• 32:18
  because they literally don't have 1/3 baseman.
• 32:20
  So if they miss out on Okamoto, which I think is likely, then I
• 32:25
  could definitely see them pulling it for Aronado.
• 32:28
  Well, Aronado is a West Coast guy, he's from LA, right?
• 32:31
  I believe so it does think so. Ton of said.
• 32:33
  I saw something what Katie Wu wrote and I thought about it for
• 32:37
  one second. Let's just say if if Bregman's
• 32:44
  ends up going back far, I could see Arizona and Aronado.
• 32:48
  I could see. That would be interesting.
• 32:50
  I could see that. And you know, it's so funny.
• 32:52
  I can. See that too, actually.
• 32:54
  If you see Aronado and then you get a reunion with Paul
• 32:57
  Goldschmidt going back to Arizona.
• 33:00
  Arizona and a one year deal they played together reunite together
• 33:04
  from their Saint Louis Cardinals days right so imagine that it'd
• 33:07
  be. Interesting.
• 33:08
  I wonder if Goldie is still trying to get a deal really, if
• 33:11
  he's going to retire. I mean, I have heard some stuff
• 33:13
  saying the D back should bring him back.
• 33:14
  And I don't know if they've actually reached out to him, but
• 33:16
  I wouldn't be shocked if he goes back there, right?
• 33:18
  Because they kind of need a first baseman anyway.
• 33:21
  So like it would make some sense.
• 33:23
  Well, also the fact that they got Jordan Lawler caught in
• 33:26
  their system, like they want to play with more next year, which
• 33:28
  makes sense, right? Either you're up in your rising
• 33:31
  player for them so they it makes a ton of sense.
• 33:34
  Yeah, but I've also heard some stuff that they think he might
• 33:37
  be a boss. Like, I don't know how good that
• 33:38
  guy. Actually is you think he
• 33:39
  betrayed? Though he might be over height.
• 33:42
  You think you think he gets traded If if they feel like.
• 33:45
  Well no because no, because they'll probably deal Marte.
• 33:49
  But if they sign Bregman then I guess they could trade him
• 33:52
  right? Because they still get Domo
• 33:53
  short. I don't know who would play
• 33:55
  second. Maybe they'll put Wall or second
• 33:57
  at that point. That'd be interesting to see
• 34:01
  what Arizona they're. They're going to be a watch, a
• 34:04
  must watch situation. Haven't really seen anything
• 34:06
  from him that makes me think he's a can't miss prospect
• 34:09
  though. That's all I'm going to say.
• 34:10
  Like I haven't been like overly impressed with him.
• 34:13
  Right. No, I get it and I I get it.
• 34:15
  The injuries have been a big factor to him, to his career
• 34:18
  too. But he was ranked #4 according
• 34:20
  to the pipeline. So I don't know.
• 34:22
  No, I remember I. Remember I was, I was tracking
• 34:25
  it, but like, it never really materialized.
• 34:27
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 34:27
  It just never established to the point where he he's lived up to
• 34:30
  it. Yeah.
• 34:31
  And I agree. I just don't know where that
• 34:33
  stood a lot. But let me let me throw out one
• 34:36
  more name out there. Go for it.
• 34:39
  What do you think? Before we get to the next
• 34:41
  question, what about CJ Abrams? Interesting.
• 34:47
  Tough one. I'm going to say no for now.
• 34:50
  OK. I'm going to say no to for now.
• 34:53
  I think they will deal Mackenzie Gore.
• 34:55
  I don't think he'll deal both him.
• 34:56
  I think they will. I think they would take AI,
• 34:59
  think they would deal Abrams, but I'm not sure exactly where
• 35:02
  that's coming together because the problem is he's a mess
• 35:06
  defensively, A shortstop. So you might have to change his
• 35:08
  position like I don't. Even know if he's a shortstop
• 35:10
  and the reason why he's. Attitude too, This guy who's got
• 35:13
  some. Yeah, there's other things all.
• 35:14
  Field stuff with him, like, yeah, like I've talked to him
• 35:18
  before, like he's a chill dude. Like I could definitely see
• 35:21
  like. You need the right fit for him,
• 35:23
  the right team that can handle all that though.
• 35:25
  Yeah, you got to bring him into a strong clubhouse.
• 35:27
  I don't think the environment in DC is beneficial for him though,
• 35:30
  Like he might benefit from going somewhere else.
• 35:33
  I just don't know where that is right now, but I'm sure a lot of
• 35:36
  teams could use him. Sure.
• 35:38
  Actually, Oh my God, just had a terrible thought and you guys
• 35:41
  are going to hate me for this. I've just spoken into existence.
• 35:43
  Get ready. Dodgers trade for CJ Abrams and
• 35:48
  they make him their second baseman.
• 35:50
  Oh God. They have the access to do it
• 35:54
  too. Oh, sure they do if.
• 35:57
  They wanted to. It could get done.
• 35:59
  Yeah, that's what I'm saying. They could.
• 36:02
  That would be a scary thought. Then the Dodgers are just
• 36:06
  lurking to see what the market is establishing.
• 36:08
  Like I know they don't want to give long term deals to guys.
• 36:11
  It seems like because because they're they're going to wait
• 36:14
  till what happened to Gunner Henderson.
• 36:18
  I feel like they're waiting for those.
• 36:19
  That's why they don't want to give long term.
• 36:21
  It's like the whole Bryce Harper thing.
• 36:22
  Remember the Bryce Harper situation?
• 36:24
  Oh, I want to give you 4 years, but the higher AAB out of
• 36:28
  everybody else but Bryce Harper wanted the long term.
• 36:30
  It's like Tucker wait. Who thinks waiting?
• 36:32
  For her, who do you think's waiting for schemes?
• 36:35
  I think the Dodgers are waiting for schemes or Henderson.
• 36:39
  No act or school ball maybe. Or school, yeah, that's a
• 36:43
  possible. That's why I think they're
• 36:44
  waiting for the market to set right.
• 36:46
  But for that, money's never going to be an issue for them,
• 36:48
  especially the way they're. I think Skeins is going to, I
• 36:50
  think Skeins is going to be a Yankee though, because they're
• 36:52
  going to have all their contracts off the books except
• 36:54
  free for their Patriots and. That well, I think Skeins gets
• 36:57
  traded before he signs a contract because Skeins wants to
• 37:02
  go. I mean, once he gets expensive,
• 37:04
  I have to see what Pittsburgh does first.
• 37:06
  But it's a possibility. But the Mets?
• 37:07
  You know the Metro. Yeah, I know.
• 37:10
  That's a long time. That's another 3-4.
• 37:11
  Years. But I think the Yankees will
• 37:13
  guide him, though. Somehow.
• 37:15
  I think they actually do figure it out.
• 37:16
  But we'll see. Well, they would have to well,
• 37:18
  it would have to be through trade, right?
• 37:20
  So that's the only way I think. Because when he gets into
• 37:23
  arbitration and Pittsburgh and he decides like, oh, I want out
• 37:27
  then then he's going to be traded, right?
• 37:29
  So match will be played Dodgers. Trying to do all the pirates are
• 37:32
  trying to do all this stuff now because they already wasted two
• 37:35
  years. They want to waste.
• 37:36
  They don't want to waste a few years.
• 37:37
  They might have left. So I give them.
• 37:38
  Credit. There's a control left, yeah.
• 37:41
  No, I think it's 4 because he's pitched 2 years already.
• 37:45
  So Speaking of small market teams here, so small market
• 37:49
  teams are not doing what they're supposed to do is try to spend
• 37:53
  it complete. And this is big reason why there
• 37:57
  could be a potential lockout, potential lockout.
• 37:59
  Yeah. So it's not helping anything.
• 38:01
  So let's talk about this for a SEC with with Pittsburgh.
• 38:05
  They're starting to do something finally for once and and the
• 38:09
  problem and The thing is that like we just talked about with
• 38:11
  Paul schemes like they're trying to compete while schemes in his
• 38:14
  prime years, right. They made some trades, they got
• 38:17
  Brendan loud, but somehow you have Cleveland.
• 38:21
  They haven't spent money. The Marlins are not spending
• 38:25
  money. Athletics.
• 38:26
  I mean, we'll see. Well, I mean, Fairbank's the one
• 38:30
  guy. I mean, they're not going after
• 38:32
  the big, big fish, right? That's another thing,
• 38:34
  Cincinnati, even Cincinnati, the problem with Cincinnati, it's
• 38:37
  like they go get like, OK, gone fine.
• 38:40
  They had them last year. They gave them two years, 20
• 38:42
  million. But they're not going after like
• 38:43
  a Bellinger or like, like, why aren't these teams doing this?
• 38:48
  Like, what's the issue? What's going on and how long
• 38:51
  will this trend continue to hold?
• 38:53
  And I'll include Chap as well. Yeah, so I think the Pirates are
• 39:01
  basically doing it because A, they want to try to do something
• 39:04
  with Paul schemes. The A's are starting to spend
• 39:07
  money too because they have Super Vegas.
• 39:09
  So there is some reasons why they're spending.
• 39:12
  It's not all just because they try to go to the game.
• 39:14
  The Marlins, yeah, they're still not spending enough.
• 39:16
  To your point, like they need hitters, so they don't have any.
• 39:18
  They haven't acquired 1 hitter yet.
• 39:21
  The Rays are kind of puzzing around, but if they get Marty,
• 39:24
  that would be some money spent, even though it's not a signing.
• 39:28
  They're not going to sign any big hitters, obviously.
• 39:32
  And then like, yeah, the small market seems there's definitely
• 39:35
  a problem, which is why we're probably heading towards the
• 39:37
  lockout. I don't really know what to do
• 39:38
  to fix it at this point. We'll probably just wait until
• 39:41
  to see what the new rules are, I guess, but I don't really know
• 39:47
  if any other small market seems besides the Pirates or A's are
• 39:49
  really going to spend this offseason.
• 39:54
  I don't think so. I'm with you.
• 39:56
  I was kind of shocked that the pirates are starting to spend a
• 39:59
  little bit, to be honest with you.
• 40:01
  I don't know if that, I don't know what the reason for that
• 40:05
  is, if that's just they're trying to, you know.
• 40:07
  Keep up appearances, so to speak.
• 40:09
  I, I I. Think it's, I think it's because
• 40:11
  first of all they will get penalized and then the second
• 40:13
  thing is like they want to maximize whatever time they have
• 40:15
  left with schemes. For schemes, yeah.
• 40:18
  I mean, I like I love the trade for for Brendan Lau.
• 40:23
  I was saying to Rocky, like, you know, he brings something that
• 40:27
  that team doesn't have experience, right?
• 40:30
  You know, a veteran guy to their clubhouse.
• 40:33
  Yeah, no, they need that lefty pop too.
• 40:35
  Like I plugged the pants in a loud fan and didn't have a
• 40:38
  second baseman. Really.
• 40:40
  I think he's going to be really good for them.
• 40:42
  I think go ahead a few went to the Allegheny and get some
• 40:44
  people excited, so that'll be fun.
• 40:47
  And then O'hara's a good pickup for first base and they.
• 40:49
  Got I like that pickup good. Pickup.
• 40:52
  That's another. That's a great pickup, actually,
• 40:54
  yeah. If they get Okamoto then they're
• 40:56
  really talking. It's 3 new bats.
• 40:58
  Who would have thought? Yeah, no, it's definitely, it's
• 41:02
  interesting. I forgot about O'hearn.
• 41:04
  That's that's a really good move, man.
• 41:07
  Ever since something's changed with him, ever since he's left
• 41:10
  Kansas City, he's been a good, really good hitter, you know,
• 41:14
  like, so it's I I love it for him.
• 41:16
  Yeah. Another veteran guy, too, to
• 41:19
  help, you know, with that clubhouse environment with all
• 41:23
  them young players. I I think it's great.
• 41:26
  I love, I love what they're doing.
• 41:27
  But yeah, I don't see like teams like Colorado or fucking even
• 41:33
  the Marlins, man doing much, you know, like I don't see it.
• 41:37
  Yeah. See Cleveland's.
• 41:39
  Not doing. Anything.
• 41:41
  Yeah. Cleveland's like normal.
• 41:43
  See, I just don't see The thing is Cleveland developed so well
• 41:46
  with the with the prospects. I get all that.
• 41:49
  But at the same time, you got Julio Ramirez.
• 41:53
  He's 33 right now. How many more prime years does
• 41:56
  he have in you? This goes into.
• 41:59
  Just say he wanted to stay there.
• 42:02
  Yeah, but he. Knew what he was getting into,
• 42:04
  man. He wanted to stay.
• 42:05
  I don't feel bad for him at. All he's the only person that
• 42:09
  that they're paying. Basically that's the problem.
• 42:11
  No one else is being paid from them on an.
• 42:13
  Offensive standpoint, paying them a lot, Julian, They're not
• 42:16
  I. Know it's a discount deal that
• 42:18
  he took with them because he knew he had to take that if he
• 42:20
  wanted to stay. So he gave them a break, right?
• 42:22
  Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Well, he wanted to.
• 42:26
  Stay there and he took that cheap deal and that's it.
• 42:30
  And it was either that or he became a Blue Jay that day.
• 42:33
  I still believe that they were on the verge.
• 42:35
  Of half of Cleveland's half of Toronto's front office went to
• 42:39
  Cleveland just to go and get Roser Americans and Roser
• 42:42
  Americans decided to sign an extension, wanted to be in small
• 42:46
  market team and he wanted. To say so.
• 42:49
  I mean, there's something wrong. With it, I just, I just, you
• 42:52
  know, don't feel bad for the guy that did that.
• 42:54
  They're not. Winning.
• 42:55
  Well, I don't feel bad, but you made that decision.
• 42:58
  It's the same situation where Mike Trout, except he got paid a
• 43:01
  lot more. Right.
• 43:02
  Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
• 43:03
  Yeah. He knew what he was getting
• 43:05
  into. Like he did, yeah.
• 43:07
  Like what with the glad siding that money, Vlad, Vlad, I mean,
• 43:12
  you know, he's going, you know, this ownership is going to spend
• 43:14
  they they flex their muscle and they're continuing to flex their
• 43:17
  muscle, right? That's right with Toronto, it's
• 43:19
  not a big deal for if you add that money, right?
• 43:21
  Because they know that they have to win while he's in the prime
• 43:24
  years, right? They got a good 8-9 years of
• 43:26
  glad to build a route with right.
• 43:28
  So with Julio Ramirez, they've heard so many years already,
• 43:32
  man, like what have you been up since what, 2014 or in 2025?
• 43:36
  So we've been in the lead for 11 years.
• 43:38
  That's a long time and just. I, I, I go ahead.
• 43:42
  No, go ahead, go ahead. No, no, one of my issue is that
• 43:44
  they don't retain their guys. And I was talking to somebody
• 43:47
  about this four guys when the ALCS all played for the
• 43:51
  Guardians slash Indians. Yeah.
• 43:53
  Josh Naylor, Shane Bieber, Ernie Clement, Andre Jimenez.
• 43:57
  If you kept those four go to that, that team could have been
• 44:00
  a different situation by that. Oh, somebody.
• 44:02
  And then they were saying about Gavin Williams.
• 44:05
  Gavin Williams is a divorce guy. He ain't siding shit.
• 44:08
  So yeah, no, Gabby got a hell of a contract, right?
• 44:11
  So like the problem about them is that they can't retain their
• 44:14
  guys and now they were in the stuck situation where they could
• 44:19
  they could be a pedestrian team that could compete for the
• 44:22
  division, but nothing more. Now at this point, right, Like
• 44:24
  they got sure, they got chased the Lauder coming, Travis Bazana
• 44:28
  fine and then CJK for fine. But they and Commons are they
• 44:33
  have nice young players. Like you need veteran guys
• 44:38
  decide like in those 90s teams. I was saying like how Cleveland
• 44:43
  was getting like veteran, like they got a nice young team at
• 44:46
  that time, but they got guys like by ergo Robbie Alamar, I
• 44:50
  mean Travis Fryman, Matt Williams, like they had guys to
• 44:56
  build and said he was a big veteran guy too with Tony Padia.
• 44:59
  Like it's like they don't have that Jim taught while he went to
• 45:04
  the White Sox after, right. But that they got Oh.
• 45:07
  You're talking about afterwards? Yeah, yeah.
• 45:09
  Yeah, well before, even before that, but like Mark Chicago even
• 45:12
  said like you came to Toronto and you want to go somewhere
• 45:15
  where you can win while in a big market team in Toronto with
• 45:18
  perfect time trying to do both right.
• 45:20
  So that's the thing. So but yeah, overall what I'm
• 45:23
  saying is like these small market team starts to because I
• 45:27
  think it's a money hold games team doesn't work.
• 45:29
  How many championships does the athletics have in the moneyball
• 45:32
  team? Not the Rays, How many bannings
• 45:36
  do they have? Not like Cleveland has the
• 45:40
  longest route without a World Series 77 I think, or what it
• 45:45
  is. Yeah, 77 years and counting,
• 45:48
  long time. So they and I hope with the CBA,
• 45:53
  I know we'll get into another game about this that'll take
• 45:57
  another hour. They need to do something about
• 46:01
  small marketing. How do you get new ownership or
• 46:03
  do you start figure out a floor? But then if you're going to get
• 46:07
  a floor, you need to count. But I mean we'll see.
• 46:09
  They need to start doing something about those small
• 46:11
  market teams to get there. Those fan bases deserve better.
• 46:15
  The Marlins fan bases. I love what they're doing, but
• 46:17
  they deserve better by spending more like I, I, I just, I just
• 46:21
  don't understand these teams sometimes.
• 46:23
  I just I know the athletics will once they go to Vegas, right.
• 46:26
  So we know that, but this this is an issue in baseball and
• 46:30
  Julia, we've talked about this. This is a reason why the locker
• 46:33
  is is a big part of it because teams like, like those teams we
• 46:37
  mentioned, don't spend, right? Yeah.
• 46:39
  It's a big problem to like the competitive balance has never
• 46:42
  been shittier. Yeah, exactly.
• 46:47
  Exactly. Yeah.
• 46:48
  So I don't know how that's going to get solved.
• 46:50
  Yeah, I don't know either. We're going to have to see.
• 46:53
  Well, I mean, I mean the Rays sold their ownership right with
• 46:57
  the with and that ownership will spend once they get the new
• 47:00
  stadium athletics. I think the Fisher both end up
• 47:03
  selling that franchise, right? So because once I go to Vegas,
• 47:08
  there's going to be a list of owners that would want that
• 47:10
  franchise, right? You would want it, yeah, they
• 47:15
  they will. They will.
• 47:16
  And they're going to get 2 new expansion teams.
• 47:19
  So I want to see how this unfolds in the new CBA once it
• 47:23
  once it's settled and how, how they're going to realign the
• 47:26
  division because the next CBA, they're going to do all that,
• 47:28
  right? So, but we got to.
• 47:30
  We'll get it to another day. They still got to add the new
• 47:32
  teams though, like they're still going to add two more teams.
• 47:34
  They want to realign it though, and that's going to take a
• 47:36
  while. Yeah, they will.
• 47:41
  Yeah, they will. So let's talk about the WBC with
• 47:46
  the coming up the competitiveness is that it seems
• 47:50
  to be at an all time high. So let's just talk a little bit
• 47:53
  about that. What you think will will be the
• 47:59
  the how you think this W WBC will be as a whole successful
• 48:05
  Successful wise, you know. I think it's going to be
• 48:08
  amazing, honestly. I think we're going to have the
• 48:10
  best WBC of all time. You have Tariq School and Paul
• 48:14
  Schemes committing to try to takedown Japan because there's
• 48:18
  American Republic, who has one of the best lineups ever
• 48:20
  constructed in modern history, I think, or any type of history.
• 48:25
  I question their pitching a little bit, but their bats are
• 48:27
  going to be crazy. Puerto Rico is going to be tough
• 48:30
  in Mexico too, and Venezuela. So there's a lot of good teams
• 48:34
  that could battle them and I can't wait to see how that's all
• 48:39
  going to go. I'm hoping the USA could pull
• 48:42
  through. I know Canada is going to be a
• 48:43
  little bit better. Canada is going to be better
• 48:45
  too. They'll.
• 48:45
  Have the Nailer brothers. I don't know if they're getting
• 48:47
  Freeman unfortunately, but they're trying to because I know
• 48:50
  he's been a little banged up. I know I think prevailing a few
• 48:53
  pitchers declined that could have helped them.
• 48:55
  But I'm I'm sure they're going to put together a respectable
• 48:59
  squad. We'll see if they get a pool
• 49:01
  play. So I can't wait to see how it's
• 49:07
  all going to be. I think it's going to be really
• 49:08
  exciting. I think the fact that you have,
• 49:10
  like I said, school ball schemes, you have Aaron Judge,
• 49:13
  we have Cal Raleigh. Like this is the best Team USA
• 49:15
  has ever put together. Maybe so their pitchers normally
• 49:19
  never this good. So I think the USA has a great
• 49:21
  chance to win it. So they only lost by one run to
• 49:24
  Japan last time, but Japan's no joke.
• 49:26
  Like Okamoto be in a probably Murakami will be in it again,
• 49:31
  Otani, Yamamamoto probably my Sasaki like that's still a
• 49:37
  loaded team in itself. So can the USA finally bring it
• 49:41
  home and will Dominican Republic breakthrough?
• 49:44
  Like who do you think is the favorite and The Who do you
• 49:50
  think is the favorite? The favorite stuff I I think, I
• 49:55
  think the with that rotation you can make an argument that the US
• 49:59
  is a favorite. Because you have Joe Ryan and
• 50:01
  Logan Webb too, and the Matt Boyd and Clay Holmes.
• 50:04
  Like you have a lot of bodies that rotation.
• 50:06
  Yeah, I mean, that Nard's closing for him.
• 50:09
  Maybe he's in the mix in the bullpen.
• 50:10
  Mason Miller's actually going to close, probably because he's in
• 50:13
  the bullpen. But you have Bobby Witt, you
• 50:16
  have Pete Crow, Armstrong, Corbin Carroll.
• 50:18
  Like USA is really leaving, Bryce Harper like USA is really
• 50:23
  leaving. No Stone on turns in this event.
• 50:27
  I think Gunner Henderson might be in it too if I remember
• 50:29
  correctly. I'm not 100% sure on that
• 50:32
  though. Gunner.
• 50:34
  Yeah, yeah, Gunner's going to be, yeah.
• 50:37
  He could be in that, in that mix, too.
• 50:40
  I know that there's a couple names for for Canada that'll be
• 50:44
  there like, like they're, they're younger players.
• 50:47
  But Tyler Black prospect with the Brewers, what's his face?
• 50:53
  Owen Casey has another one. That's only Casey.
• 50:55
  It's a big one, yeah. He'll be there probably.
• 50:58
  He got yeah, the Naylor brothers, you know, the pitching
• 51:02
  might be, you know, might be where they, you know, if if guys
• 51:06
  like Denzel Clark committed, you know, he's Yeah, he's.
• 51:11
  A he's a I'll tell you right now he's going to be 1.
• 51:16
  He's going to be one of their top center fielders in baseball.
• 51:21
  Like once all said and done, if you watch a game, he he is a
• 51:25
  hell of a player, man. He's going to be a.
• 51:27
  No, I've seen him make some crazy plays.
• 51:31
  Yes, yeah, I think he's Barshal comp.
• 51:33
  I really do. That's his comp to me.
• 51:36
  Like the stuff he he's going to be an incredible player.
• 51:39
  You know what another name that's going to mean?
• 51:44
  I don't know if Aveta is going to pitch in it though like they
• 51:46
  showed you. I don't know if he declines or
• 51:48
  whatnot, but they definitely tried to get him.
• 51:50
  Right, they should. Yeah.
• 51:51
  I mean I have to double check on that.
• 51:53
  I'm reading an article from a couple days ago.
• 51:56
  He had COVID in 2023 he was unable to pitch for, but he
• 52:01
  should be. Canonization.
• 52:04
  They're saying so. I mean, Jameson Tyone's probably
• 52:07
  the other guy. Jonah Tong from the Mets will be
• 52:10
  there. He'll probably be another guy.
• 52:12
  Oh. Yeah, Tong, it's possible.
• 52:13
  I did ask about him. They said it wasn't confirmed,
• 52:16
  but Oh no, he is going to. Oh no, this is 2023.
• 52:20
  I got a look. He's from Rocky's hometown, too.
• 52:23
  That's where Rocky from where where Rocky lives so.
• 52:26
  Thanks for exposing my address, Rob.
• 52:30
  You're act, I said. Your hometown, man.
• 52:34
  Your hometown Mitch Bratt. Mitch Bratt's another one.
• 52:41
  Kate Smith. They'll have him in the.
• 52:43
  Yeah. Yeah.
• 52:43
  Matt Brash. Yeah.
• 52:47
  Michael Soroka might be there. Oh yeah, Cal Quattro.
• 52:50
  Cal Quattro's another one. Yeah, Cal Quattro will probably
• 52:54
  be there. Otto Lopez.
• 52:57
  Zastrin Zastrini, Another guy. Adam, Mako, you.
• 53:04
  Know, you know what I say, it's like the last.
• 53:08
  Let me ask you guys this. Who has a better lineup than the
• 53:12
  Dominican Republic, do you think?
• 53:13
  US don't know. Unfortunate.
• 53:16
  I mean, the US has a. Good lineup, but like Dominican
• 53:18
  Republic, one of the best lineups I've ever seen.
• 53:21
  Their lineup is stacked. It's like you could name every
• 53:27
  player on that team. They're just stupid.
• 53:29
  Like you got Yaya Diaz of catcher flag junior at first
• 53:33
  place. We got Caminero.
• 53:35
  We can play by shortstop, depending where you want to
• 53:37
  play. Denver the Ted, Oh.
• 53:38
  Flag should play for Canada Man flag should play.
• 53:41
  For but he already said he played for you want to.
• 53:43
  Play. I know, I know, I know.
• 53:46
  Just. Maybe one day, maybe one day
• 53:48
  down. The road you look at you look at
• 53:51
  the US roster, though, I mean, they they got what Pete Alonzo
• 53:56
  fucking I mean, Trey Turner, Bobby Witt, Junior.
• 54:00
  I mean, they got a good lineup too, man, like.
• 54:03
  Yeah, but US and. Viber, Kyle Schwarber.
• 54:08
  Dude that that that lineup like they got like Yankee Diaz is
• 54:12
  Dominican. He's not on the team.
• 54:15
  I don't think so, but. Aaron.
• 54:17
  I. Forget about Aaron Judge, man.
• 54:19
  Well, like I could tell Marte Junior, Caminaro, J Ram, Santi's
• 54:25
  J Rod Vladi Solo. Yeah, one solo.
• 54:32
  I'm telling you, I was in it actually.
• 54:38
  I'm telling you, I would not overlook the the US lineup.
• 54:41
  I think US could be the favorite because of the pitching, but
• 54:44
  Dominican Republic probably has the best lineup.
• 54:46
  Although USI agree with the USA has Cal Raleigh now.
• 54:49
  They got Cal rally and pro. Armstrong was insane last year.
• 54:54
  Corbin Yeah, I mean, the US has some guys.
• 54:57
  How? Schwarber.
• 54:58
  Yeah, Bryce. Yeah.
• 54:59
  Bryce Terrang was great last year.
• 55:02
  I mean. I mean, is it better than could
• 55:04
  tell Barte? Is Pete better than?
• 55:08
  It was good, man. Last year you got better than
• 55:11
  you got. Better than Marte man.
• 55:13
  Yeah, no, I think TR is better than Marte, but the USA has a
• 55:17
  strong pitching edge though they.
• 55:19
  Got that? They might that that they might
• 55:23
  have the advantage. I think they it's without a
• 55:26
  question when you got scuba skins and, and you know, Logan
• 55:31
  Webb, I mean, you're, you're stacked, man.
• 55:34
  They're stacked. I think they got the best
• 55:36
  pitching in the tournament. I think they do as well.
• 55:43
  I'm just, I'm just saying you put together the lineup with the
• 55:46
  pitching. Yeah, I think you're, I think
• 55:49
  you guys have probably the best well-rounded roster, like the
• 55:53
  most well-rounded roster in that tournament.
• 55:57
  But yeah. And what do you always say,
• 56:00
  Rocky pitch. Good pitching beats good hitting
• 56:03
  any day. Yeah, pitching beats offense all
• 56:06
  day. No, I'm I'm not just doing bad
• 56:08
  with you. I'm just saying that I just like
• 56:10
  to see a good field of competition.
• 56:12
  Like, what is people going to look like?
• 56:14
  What is Venezuela going to look like?
• 56:16
  Like Venezuela's? Also interesting.
• 56:18
  Venezuela's interesting too, right?
• 56:20
  That's what I'm saying, right? Like there's there's guys with
• 56:23
  Gabriel Moreno, you have, Santander, you have.
• 56:27
  Santander. You got all 2.
• 56:30
  Like there's some guys that that they have there on that team.
• 56:34
  The catchers are very strong for Venezuela, right?
• 56:36
  That's what they're mostly known for, right?
• 56:38
  So I don't know what the pitching look like, but I mean.
• 56:43
  Luisa Rise I think is is Venezuelan.
• 56:48
  Yeah, I think he's Venezuela. He is.
• 56:50
  Yeah, yeah. So they are very underrated.
• 56:54
  Yeah, they're very underrated, right?
• 56:56
  So. Oh.
• 56:58
  Yeah, Narvaez from from Boston would be their catcher.
• 57:02
  He's Venezuelan. He's a good catcher, yeah.
• 57:06
  Yeah, Sal Perez. Sal Perez.
• 57:07
  Well, Dave, Dave Moreno would be another one too, right?
• 57:10
  Yeah, Moreno. Yeah, Jose Altuve, of course.
• 57:14
  Altuve Yeah, yeah, I think, I think, do you think this is the
• 57:19
  most talented WBC that we probably had?
• 57:22
  I think so. So much talk even we didn't even
• 57:26
  mention about Mexico in their team.
• 57:28
  Then we didn't even mention Ronald Acuna in Venezuela too,
• 57:31
  right? Oh yeah, Ronald, of course I.
• 57:34
  Mean, Ronald. What about the what about the
• 57:37
  Netherlands? And we didn't mention about
• 57:39
  Netherlands. I don't know what what would be
• 57:42
  the pitching, but they have some guys.
• 57:47
  Who's on the Netherlands? Very formidable.
• 57:51
  Yeah. I have to agree with you guys.
• 57:53
  I'm still watching with Puerto Rico.
• 57:54
  Venezuela has some dudes like, I don't know, Pablo Lopez is going
• 57:57
  to pitch because he's been banged up, but he normally
• 57:59
  throws for them. They might get Jesus Cesario to
• 58:02
  throw for them, which would be huge.
• 58:05
  I know they have Gleber Torres is going to play, Salvador Perez
• 58:08
  is going to play. El Tube probably plays.
• 58:11
  They definitely have some good guys.
• 58:13
  I think Willard Bray is playing. Mexico is not bad either, they
• 58:17
  made it to the semis last time. What would?
• 58:21
  Yeah, because they got, what's his name, the younger Osuna
• 58:23
  brother, right? Alejandro Osuna would be the one
• 58:26
  of the guys on the roster. Kirk would be on the roster.
• 58:29
  Kirk. Kirk, it's exactly able to pitch
• 58:32
  because he pitched for Mexico last time, right?
• 58:34
  I don't even know. It's a good question.
• 58:37
  They were talking about maybe Taiwan Walker doing it because
• 58:40
  Mexico's pitching a. Little bit there.
• 58:42
  He would be another one too. I actually.
• 58:47
  Ozzy Alby's is is Netherlands. Netherlands, yeah, they have.
• 58:51
  They have Zands or Bogarts or anything else.
• 58:54
  Well, Germany to. Germans and.
• 58:58
  I said Dan Rafael too. Is is.
• 59:00
  He held like. Too, Yeah.
• 59:02
  Yeah, he probably. Like I'm looking at the roster,
• 59:05
  man. Like Netherlands is actually
• 59:06
  pretty good. Dee Dee, Gregorius and But you
• 59:09
  won't go back to the old days of the like.
• 59:11
  Apparently they'll play like Kim and Jonathan Scope will still be
• 59:14
  on the roster. Yeah, I think that's a possible.
• 59:17
  So they definitely have some other prospects I forgot about
• 59:20
  the probably pretty good too. Yeah, system somewhere maybe
• 59:23
  just don't know who would really pitch for him.
• 59:25
  I can't. Really.
• 59:26
  I got a couple names here for you.
• 59:28
  Jerangelo. Jerangelo Sinchi.
• 59:31
  Yes, he's got the ambi, the ambidextrous guy.
• 59:34
  Yeah, he's the Netherlands guy. Yeah.
• 59:37
  How's that guy doing in the minors?
• 59:39
  I didn't check that much. He'd do well.
• 59:40
  For he was rumored he. Went up in the Brenton Todeman
• 59:43
  talks, yeah. Or or kicked on Marte.
• 59:45
  He would be in that deal too, right?
• 59:48
  Yeah, probably. Sam Reverse is the other guy
• 59:51
  from from That's Dutch. He he was traded from the Blue
• 59:55
  Jays organization to the card. I think I remember him.
• 59:58
  Yeah, we traded him in the in the in the Hicks deal, I believe
• 1:00:02
  it was right, Rocky. Well, the Netherlands are
• 1:00:04
  playing with Venezuela, Dominican Republic, Israel and
• 1:00:07
  and Nicaragua and two of the teams make it out so.
• 1:00:10
  Yeah, I think they can. Make it Venezuela, Yeah.
• 1:00:14
  Unless the Netherlands upset someone maybe?
• 1:00:16
  Oh, oh, they're in the same. Oh, you're saying they're in the
• 1:00:18
  same as those teams? Yeah, yeah.
• 1:00:20
  I don't know. That's tough with the pitch.
• 1:00:22
  I can. Upset Venezuela?
• 1:00:23
  Maybe, but that'll be hard to do.
• 1:00:26
  Yeah, yeah. I mean, I mean, their other,
• 1:00:30
  their other guys are Antoine Kelly and Tom Deblock, but I've
• 1:00:34
  never heard of those guys before so.
• 1:00:37
  Yeah, me either. Tom Dubloc.
• 1:00:41
  Yeah. Oh.
• 1:00:43
  God, yeah, I don't know. About that.
• 1:00:47
  What do you think about Cuba? Is Cuba anything or no?
• 1:00:52
  It's so confusing because all the bullshit that's going on
• 1:00:54
  with them, like, I don't know, they should be good.
• 1:00:56
  But like a lot of the guys don't want to play because all the
• 1:00:58
  shit that's going on and no answer has pulled out his
• 1:01:02
  commitment. I don't even know who's going to
• 1:01:04
  play. I got to check more because
• 1:01:05
  like, it's been so sporadic. Like Louise Robert, I know my,
• 1:01:09
  you know, we did the last time. You want my column is up in the
• 1:01:12
  air. I think like The thing is, they
• 1:01:14
  could put together one of the best teams of like it wasn't for
• 1:01:17
  all the crap they had to deal with.
• 1:01:18
  Unfortunately, like you're on Alvarez and enrolled as Chapman
• 1:01:21
  will never play for Cuba and think about how much they could
• 1:01:24
  do for them. Chapman might play for Great
• 1:01:26
  Britain, actually. Really he is ties to Great
• 1:01:30
  Britain eh, I didn't know that. Yeah, apparently so.
• 1:01:35
  Yeah, Opuscheck in the play for Brazil.
• 1:01:37
  Yeah, I think he will. He's going to play his his.
• 1:01:40
  His dream is to play with his brother Dante Junior.
• 1:01:45
  So I know he wants to. Yeah, I know that.
• 1:01:49
  The Italian team is kind of interesting too.
• 1:01:51
  Yeah, Italy might be that might surprise.
• 1:01:53
  I know they actually made it to the quarters last time I think.
• 1:01:56
  Yeah, they did. I mean, they got that kid from
• 1:02:00
  from the Florida Gators. What's his name there?
• 1:02:02
  Plays for the Royals. Caglione.
• 1:02:04
  Caglione. Yeah, I got Caglione.
• 1:02:07
  Is it is he playing for them or no?
• 1:02:10
  Yeah, he's playing for Italy. Yeah, he plays for Italy, Yeah.
• 1:02:14
  Betty Pascontino's going to play Pascontino.
• 1:02:17
  They have some guys, actually. I wonder if Arrogati Arrogati
• 1:02:20
  might play for them. I wonder if that guy who's the
• 1:02:25
  guy in the Angels picked up with Italian.
• 1:02:27
  It's another a name I'm forgetting though.
• 1:02:28
  He's the starting pitcher. Al Air.
• 1:02:30
  It's similar to Araghati, but it's something different.
• 1:02:33
  I got to check the roster shake he debuted for them this year.
• 1:02:37
  I think I'll find the only two seconds.
• 1:02:39
  Who's David? Fletcher.
• 1:02:49
  David Fletcher might be an option.
• 1:02:51
  I know he's retired, right? But he, yeah, he's.
• 1:02:53
  Retired. Yeah, Sam Al, Sam Al with Gary
• 1:02:58
  there we. Go like Gary.
• 1:02:59
  Yeah. Yeah, I've heard of that guy.
• 1:03:01
  He might play, maybe. Yeah, and what's it, Miles?
• 1:03:07
  Master Brony. Oh, logano Hape, maybe?
• 1:03:10
  Yeah, yeah, that's that's a day S Frelick, I guess plays for
• 1:03:14
  Yeah, he's in the beat. It's it's.
• 1:03:17
  Impossible. Yeah, it's, I have some guys
• 1:03:20
  like they're not terrible. Rizzo come back and play Rickey
• 1:03:23
  Lopez. Oh yeah, they're talking about
• 1:03:25
  Rizzo possibly playing too. They said they invited him
• 1:03:28
  because he. Played last time right?
• 1:03:31
  He might. He might do it for the
• 1:03:32
  tournament to play for his. He didn't.
• 1:03:34
  Play last time he but he might do.
• 1:03:36
  Maybe he would. We'll have to see if he's still
• 1:03:38
  in any type of playing shape I guess.
• 1:03:40
  Yeah, I guess so. Andre Polante from from the from
• 1:03:44
  the from the Cardinals. Yeah, that's a name, definitely.
• 1:03:47
  There's another one. Yeah, Vinny Natoli.
• 1:03:50
  That that guy. His name sounds familiar, too.
• 1:03:52
  He's a pitcher. That does sound familiar.
• 1:03:55
  Vinny Natoli, yeah, he picked for the Yankees for a bit too.
• 1:03:58
  Yankees. I think it's what the James.
• 1:04:00
  That's probably why. Yeah, the reliever, yeah.
• 1:04:03
  Yeah, I think I know who you're talking about.
• 1:04:06
  And Joe Biagini, Sam Gaviglio, Rocky.
• 1:04:09
  Well, you know, I know you. Don't want.
• 1:04:10
  Oh man, blast from the fat. Oh my God.
• 1:04:14
  Matt, Matt, Festa. Festa could be in the mix, yeah.
• 1:04:19
  A lot of guys out there he's. Not going to play for them,
• 1:04:21
  probably. Well, he's hard.
• 1:04:23
  He can't, actually. Well, he's hurt, right?
• 1:04:25
  Yeah. Yeah, I don't know if you.
• 1:04:27
  I don't know if the Yankees will want to play anyway.
• 1:04:29
  Yeah. Nikki Lopez.
• 1:04:31
  Yeah, Miles Mastroboni, which you said they were saying Brett.
• 1:04:34
  Oh, Brenton Nemo could maybe play.
• 1:04:36
  I don't know if. He yeah.
• 1:04:37
  The approval. But he's he.
• 1:04:39
  Maybe. Yeah.
• 1:04:43
  Yeah, the the, the another. The Israel team's pretty
• 1:04:48
  interesting, too. They got a lot of guys, too.
• 1:04:51
  Yeah, Harrison Bader's going to play.
• 1:04:53
  I know Bader's going to play it for them.
• 1:04:55
  I know they're going to have Rob Kaminski on the back.
• 1:04:57
  I think probably he's like a prospect and never really made
• 1:05:00
  to the major. One of the Yankees guys had a
• 1:05:03
  beta run. He said I'm going to play for
• 1:05:04
  Team Israel, and he started like he's jumping for joy.
• 1:05:07
  I forgot who it was. Was it Max Madness or was it
• 1:05:11
  Max? Yeah, it was Max Madness.
• 1:05:13
  OK. That's why OK.
• 1:05:15
  Like that, definitely, that's definitely going to have, is
• 1:05:19
  Zach Geloff, Spencer Horowitz. Yeah, they have some guys.
• 1:05:23
  They're not bad. They're not terrible.
• 1:05:25
  Matt Mervis. Yes, Mervis, I remember hearing
• 1:05:29
  that he was going to play. Jock Peterson.
• 1:05:32
  Oh yeah, I forgot, yeah. Is he actually playing for them
• 1:05:36
  though? I'm just looking at the roster
• 1:05:38
  on MLB.com. I don't know if he's if he's
• 1:05:42
  actually going to play for him or not, but Richard Blair the
• 1:05:46
  the reliever. Yeah, Ian Kinsworth's managing
• 1:05:51
  team, Israel. Yeah, he's the manager, Yeah.
• 1:05:52
  He's yeah, he's the manager, Yeah, yeah.
• 1:05:55
  You know who's the manager? It's who?
• 1:06:00
  Kristen Norfy, I believe, right? Oh, they said William Hendricks
• 1:06:03
  is going to play for Australia and then Travis Pazzano.
• 1:06:06
  Good for him, man. I love, I love to see, I love
• 1:06:09
  Hendricks. Another name is Dean Kramer.
• 1:06:12
  He's going to pay for Israel. Yeah, Kramer's going to be a be
• 1:06:15
  other team Israel. Yeah, decent.
• 1:06:19
  Job. That's the race.
• 1:06:21
  That's. The race, Yeah, that's that's
• 1:06:24
  the race. Wow, Dean Kramer.
• 1:06:28
  Yeah. That's a blast from the past.
• 1:06:31
  Yeah, he's still, he's with the Orioles still, isn't he?
• 1:06:34
  He's. Still a good catcher.
• 1:06:36
  Yeah. He's he'll be like there four or
• 1:06:37
  five probably after all the moves they made.
• 1:06:40
  Yeah. He's probably better than Zach
• 1:06:44
  Eflin though, I'd say. Yeah, you can make that
• 1:06:47
  argument. Yeah.
• 1:06:50
  I mean, I mean, that's what I'm saying, you know, with the C, So
• 1:06:56
  with the CBA coming up, we got the WC at least we've lost some
• 1:06:59
  early baseball, some extra baseball this year, right.
• 1:07:02
  So that's a good thing that we kind of talked about it.
• 1:07:04
  It's exciting because will you be able to cover it in your end?
• 1:07:09
  Try we got to see like I might be going to Puerto Rico for
• 1:07:13
  hopefully I got to see if I could pull it off.
• 1:07:15
  I think I probably will in some capacity.
• 1:07:17
  I just got to see how it's all going to work.
• 1:07:19
  I definitely really want to do it because especially because
• 1:07:21
  Cuba's in that pool too, so that'll be cool.
• 1:07:24
  Sir, I wish they would have had games at Rogers Center, man.
• 1:07:27
  You know, like. That would have been cool for
• 1:07:28
  you guys, yeah. Maybe in?
• 1:07:31
  Even fun. Yeah, maybe they will do that
• 1:07:34
  next time, since you guys show that for the World Series.
• 1:07:37
  Maybe they'll bring some BBC action.
• 1:07:38
  Well also that they're trying to get the All Star game for this
• 1:07:42
  exactly finishes right. So as far as the work hard.
• 1:07:46
  I'm sure the renovations will help with the All Star game so
• 1:07:49
  you guys have a shot maybe? Yeah, I can.
• 1:07:52
  Yeah, for sure. You know what, if they have it
• 1:07:54
  out there, I would definitely go.
• 1:07:55
  They'll be fucking sick. I will go to.
• 1:07:56
  Tom, it'll be it'll be like near the end of like I.
• 1:07:59
  Don't know if I can do it this year because I have probably a
• 1:08:02
  lot of other trips I want to try to do.
• 1:08:03
  Hopefully I can, but we'll have to see.
• 1:08:06
  Well, I mean, I mean they'll be, I'm pretty sure that there'll be
• 1:08:09
  more events with Toronto down the road now, especially where
• 1:08:12
  they're standing at the moment. The team is on the relevant for
• 1:08:14
  a little while too, right? So I think it's like after the
• 1:08:17
  CBA, I think we'll have a better clarity when the All Star game
• 1:08:21
  is if they're going to have WBC and Toronto, I could see Toronto
• 1:08:24
  and WBC around 2829, right? So it makes a lot of sense to
• 1:08:28
  so. Yeah.
• 1:08:30
  Well, well, Julian, we appreciate you doing this man.
• 1:08:33
  We thank you for being here. That was fun, man.
• 1:08:36
  That was great competition, that was.
• 1:08:39
  That was a good one. We got all our points in, Yeah,
• 1:08:44
  I got to see if we could have you guys in the mix soon on my
• 1:08:46
  show. Maybe like it's just.
• 1:08:48
  Been. Yeah, for sure I don't.
• 1:08:49
  Have like anything good to talk about yet like to bring in them
• 1:08:52
  on the guests. I mean, at some point in we know
• 1:08:54
  in. January, something's going to
• 1:08:56
  happen and I'll be able to do more shows like I'm trying to do
• 1:08:59
  2 a week, but it's getting challenging because nothing's
• 1:09:01
  happening. But this week I'm actually in
• 1:09:02
  business because I got the deadlines when he, Maya and
• 1:09:05
  Okamoto. So that's a show for Friday or
• 1:09:08
  Thursday at least. And then like Monday, I could
• 1:09:10
  probably do like wherever Okamoto ends up going.
• 1:09:13
  So I mean, at least I have those two I could do next.
• 1:09:16
  Yeah. Well, also also that, you know,
• 1:09:20
  we know that January, we're going to see more signings.
• 1:09:23
  I think January will be a lot more busier for sure.
• 1:09:26
  Before the spring, yeah. But I could also see it being a
• 1:09:29
  big stalling game with a lot of deals trickling into February
• 1:09:32
  because it's just that type of offseason, unfortunately.
• 1:09:35
  Like I'm very I'm lowering my expectations.
• 1:09:38
  Like I can see a lot of shake being slow played still, but I
• 1:09:40
  feel like in the new year once am I and Okamoto sign I feel
• 1:09:45
  like that should open up some stuff.
• 1:09:47
  Hopefully. Don't forget we're about six
• 1:09:50
  weeks away from pitcher to catcher reporting the cap, so
• 1:09:53
  don't forget that, yeah. That's crazy.
• 1:09:55
  I can't believe we're that close.
• 1:09:56
  We're already that. Close.
• 1:09:59
  I know. Yeah, we're.
• 1:10:01
  Like, right, we're actually, I think I saw a tweet that said
• 1:10:04
  we're already more than halfway through the offseason, which is
• 1:10:07
  crazy. It feels like.
• 1:10:10
  We just had our hearts broken yesterday, man.
• 1:10:13
  I know, right? It's like a.
• 1:10:17
  It's like. Before we go, would you guys
• 1:10:24
  have rather missed the playoffs entirely or dealt with that
• 1:10:27
  excruciating? This.
• 1:10:29
  Excruciating heartbreak every time, man.
• 1:10:32
  No, that's because I'll tell you why.
• 1:10:35
  Myself, I'd. Rather have the shot.
• 1:10:37
  Well, they haven't been to the World Series since 93.
• 1:10:40
  We were this close, OK. That is a big deal.
• 1:10:42
  You're right. It's for the Yankees.
• 1:10:43
  We don't have important to us anymore.
• 1:10:45
  It was 15 years, but we didn't deliver.
• 1:10:48
  So it basically doesn't matter because like we don't get.
• 1:10:51
  It to the World Series is a tougher Yeah, get it to the
• 1:10:53
  World Series. It is.
• 1:10:54
  I hate using the crabshoot Adelaja Cashman's, but yeah,
• 1:10:57
  it's tougher nowadays. Like I get it, but like it's
• 1:11:00
  tough for the Dodgers and they have the best team the money can
• 1:11:03
  buy. So spend more money and get
• 1:11:06
  better players. Also, if the Blue Jays missed
• 1:11:09
  the playoffs, like we would have been sellers, we would have got
• 1:11:11
  Dylan C's, we wouldn't have got Cody Ponce, we wouldn't have
• 1:11:15
  final Rogers like we we wouldn't have this and someone.
• 1:11:20
  You know, I understand it makes sense.
• 1:11:21
  It was a big launching pad, like it could lead to more stuff down
• 1:11:24
  the line. Right, that's what I'm saying.
• 1:11:25
  Like I don't a lot of. Revenue too.
• 1:11:28
  A lot of revenue. A lot of money made, yeah.
• 1:11:30
  So I think that those things, yeah, especially for Toronto,
• 1:11:34
  they haven't been this. Guys, I agree.
• 1:11:36
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• 1:11:39
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• 1:12:17
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• 1:12:19
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• 1:12:23
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• 1:12:26
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• 1:12:28
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• 1:12:30
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• 1:12:34
  I couldn't. I forgot what was going on with
• 1:12:37
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• 1:12:38
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• 1:12:46
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• 1:12:47
  Yeah, no, I think I was doing a show or.
• 1:12:50
  Something you might have been. Talked about it shortly after as
• 1:12:53
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• 1:12:57
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• 1:12:59
  Caine news break on my show recently, so that was
• 1:13:03
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• 1:13:05
  But I hopefully can get I could probably get the my one if I do
• 1:13:09
  it at the right time on January 1st, maybe yes, he's going to
• 1:13:14
  sign his A before because like they need to do the physical.
• 1:13:17
  So he's not going to wait till the 2nd.
• 1:13:19
  He's going to announce on New Year's Day, probably.
• 1:13:22
  Well, that. Makes a lot of sense.
• 1:13:25
  Hopefully get more news man it's like I know it's.
• 1:13:28
  Yeah, I feel like once once that happens, that should help the
• 1:13:31
  starting pitching market hopefully.
• 1:13:33
  And then like with Okamoto, I'll get it in.
• 1:13:35
  Deals are off the board. So what to see, but thanks boys.
• 1:13:38
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• 1:13:39
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• 1:13:47
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• 1:13:49
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• 1:13:54
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