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Anthony Rendon Still Hates Baseball · The 3-0 Take

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It all starts right now. Welcome back to the Three O Take
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Reyes and Nate. 413, that's how. That's how deep I'm taking ya.
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Left, center cranked. I saw, I saw this video today
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and I I feel bad for the kid. I really do.
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But it was this like prospect page trying to get like kids
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signed or whatever. Sure.
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And I think it was parody. I'm not going to lie, I think it
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was parody. I think this was intentionally
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done. I think there's a conspiracy at
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play here, but it was like class of such and such prospects name,
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blah blah blah, high school. And it was like, what are you
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doing with this pitch? And you you think he's just
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going to throw the nastiest hook or just the cleanest, tightest
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slider or something. He just loops this curveball in
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and every single one of the IT clearly went viral.
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Every single one of the comments in there was not to be a hater,
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but I'm taking that minimum 450. Thank you.
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So bro, recruiting is so crazy cause like kids are like 9 years
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old and they'll just throw something out like class of
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2037? Like, stop, dude, stop.
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No one wants to see you in your first game of your double header
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where you're doing what we did in between.
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You're crushing a Subway sandwich and going back on the
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Let's start off with some Jorge Solaire talk real quick.
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I believe. As luck would have it, this
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happened within 24 hours after we finished last episode.
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It's actually. It's actually a nice thing, I
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think, like a lot of our. Listeners can just expect some
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type of free agency move after this gets dropped.
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So you're welcome. Yeah, it's us.
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Clearly we're the straw that stirs the drink.
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You're welcome. Jorge Solaire, Giants and Jorge
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Solaire agreed to a three-year contract worth 42,000,000
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presumably will be the DH and it's it beefs up the line up a
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little bit. What are you looking at the
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projected line up for the Giants right now because you know
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they've made they've made some additions certainly Jung Hui,
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Jordan Hicks. Looking at what they're bringing
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to the table in 2024, how do you feel about it?
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It sounds like a sole record. Dude, it sounds like a broken
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record. I sound the same every single
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Giants move. I sound the same for last three
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years. I I say the same freaking thing.
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I don't get it. I don't get what they're doing.
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I don't. I don't fully under understand
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the reasoning behind certain moves.
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I understand you need pop, but like from everything we saw, I'm
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not following the Giants as closely as some, but from what
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we saw, Casey Schmidt coming onto the scene at third base.
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So now you have JD Davis that you brought in.
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Now you have Wilmer Flores that you brought in who like are
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gonna have to rotate through that DH spot.
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You have Austin Slater in the outfield mixed with Yaz in the
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outfield mixed with Conforto. Guys that need to rotate through
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Jung Guli's presumably being the starting center fielder.
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So it's like you're just. I don't.
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I don't get it. I don't get it.
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You don't have to just sign guys just to sign them, like make it
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make sense. I don't understand.
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Legitimate question for you, and I may have proposed this to you
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once before, but as a refresher, now that we're back on the
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Giants yet again, would you rather be a team such as the Red
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Sox who have made it clear that they're obviously we'll get to a
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a, a move they just made today here in a moment.
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But generally speaking, making it clear that they're not
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trying, they're not trying to lock down guys for more than a
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year's worth of performance because they have signed a
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couple guys already who are effectively out through the 2024
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season, so they're really just giving you one year.
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Would you rather be in a situation like that where you
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don't make moves just to make moves, or any moves for that
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matter? Or would you rather be the
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Giants, where you sign some guys, you sign some noteworthy
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names, you sign a few guys to plug in some holes, but maybe
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you look at it and you go, I don't really know if that makes
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sense, but hey, at least we're making these moves.
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I don't know. Where would you rather be?
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I don't know. I'm somewhere in between.
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I understand. I get it.
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Like you have to fill out a roster.
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I get that. I just don't understand.
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Like, I I wouldn't want this. I wouldn't want this if I was a
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Giants fan. And this, like, weird you.
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You're in this position where you kind of have to overpay for
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free agents, but at the same time like you're not really,
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like you're not going to go run down the division with this
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roster. You're incredibly lucky to find
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yourself in a wild card position considering how like between the
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East and West and the NL being what it is.
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I just, I don't see how. It's just like the it's the
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weird fit and it's every year. Every year they bring in like an
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older outfielder who I just don't get it.
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It's 14 milli year. Was it three years, 42.
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It seems like an overpay it seems like.
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Did you? Just do that math in your head.
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Good for you. Thanks.
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Appreciate that. I just, I don't if he's not
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gonna play the outfield at all. But you have like three third
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baseman. You have 5 outfielders that
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you're going to want to get some time that are all aged.
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I think what it seems like. I could assume like Wilmore
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Flores slides over to 1st sometimes but you have Lamont
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Wade Junior there. Why did you bring in JD Davis
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when you have Casey Schmidt, who I understand, you don't know if
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prospects will turn out, but like, he looks pretty good.
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The the, the outfield situation. Like, I just, I don't understand
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it. There's more than just one or
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two names out of the loop. And when you're so, like you're
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so thin at certain positions, like you're super thin in the
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bullpen, you're super thin at short.
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But you're electing to spend money on ADH, where you already
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have names that you absolutely presumably need to fill in that
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DH and rotate through that position.
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So when you bring in a full time DH, it's like, I would rather
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you spend your 14 a year somewhere else 'cause this just
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doesn't add up. And they do it over and over
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again. They did it last year.
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It's every year. It's an it's an aged outfielder
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who needs DH time every year, and Solaire has his moments.
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Goodyear last year that he saw, he hit like 25035 Jacks, 7080
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Eddie Ribs, something like that. Probably one of his best years.
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But he's 31 and you're giving him 14 a year for three years.
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It's just, I don't. I don't get it.
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I feel like you're just no one else is interested in you and
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you're just willing to write checks out for whether it's a
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good fit or not. Nothing against Solaire.
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I I think he can bop when he when he is on and definitely a
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good piece for most lineups. I just don't understand this
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lineup and I again baffled by what the Giants are doing.
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That went about as that that went as as exactly as I thought
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it would. Am I crazy?
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I can't be the only one on this island.
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No, I mean when you when you dwindle it down to that an aging
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outfielder who needs DH time or I mean you even could you could
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flip that script and say an aging primary DH who could maybe
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provide you a a few games here and there in the outfield.
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It's one or the other that's what you're that's what you're
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getting from the Giants year in and year out.
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So Yep. No, I mean you, I think you
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nailed it with that and we'll see.
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I I don't know that the Giants could have done much this
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offseason post Ohtani Yamamoto signings to close that gap
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really at all. Yeah.
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And I'm not. Yeah.
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I'm not saying like, there's amazing options elsewhere.
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I think they're still in hopes for Snell, but like I, the
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roster configuration, specifically on the offensive
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side is just it's it's horrendous.
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It's horrendous and they do it every year.
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Just doesn't make sense to me. I mean, honestly, if we're
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talking smart moves from the Giants, at least when it comes
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to the eye test, right off the top of the head, I feel like
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Logan Webb is the smartest move they've made in terms of
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identifying a guy that could, yeah, provide, can produce.
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I'm gonna be. I'm getting.
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I'm getting blind squirrel vibes.
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I'm getting blind squirrel finds a nut every once in a while
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vibes. That's what that feels like to
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me. Him.
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I think Patrick Bailey is an absolute freak of a catcher.
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I think the offensive stuff will show up eventually.
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I think defensively, that guy's a wizard.
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I think there's some good in there.
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I just. I just.
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I don't. I don't understand Sable,
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Slater, Yaz, Jung Ho Lee. Conforto.
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Conforto Solaire, I would say 1520 games in the outfield like
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I and then three, three third baseman and Lamont Way junior.
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Wasn't he an outfielder and transitioned into being the
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first baseman just to fit for them.
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I I don't understand. I don't get it.
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It's it's not so much about Solaire.
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It's about like this series of moves that they made the last
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few years where it's like, what's that that meme where
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they're like there's that red button and you know, I can't
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wait to press it. Aging outfielder who needs to
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age time. That's that should be the Giants
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tweet right now. It's getting old.
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Brandon Woodruff resigned by the Brewers to A2 year deal.
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He'll be out for 2024 following surgery last October.
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So essentially paying him to rehab for 2024.
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Get him back 2025. I think this is this was much
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needed for them following losing Corbin Burns.
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Yeah at least keep some of that some of what you had in that
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rotation intact. And then I also see that they
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are now out on the possibility of moving Devin Williams.
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Did I did I read that Sure. I believe.
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I believe that's what I saw. So they're they're, I did have
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to do that, right? Like quite now.
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Yeah, but they're they're identifying pieces, as they
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should, that they want to keep at Bay, at least for the next
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couple years, hopefully for their sake, and make a run at
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the Central. What?
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Was the Woodruff deal for? What was that deal for?
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I. Didn't get the I think at the
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time when I when I was pulling my notes together.
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I don't know if the financials were released.
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He's freshly 31, but it is a two year deal obviously.
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Yeah. Yeah, I don't see any numbers
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either O34. So 617 per, hmm, 17, zero to
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rehab. That sounds nice.
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Yeah. I I guess, 'cause, like you got
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to assume when he comes back, if there isn't any injury stuff,
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he's kind of steps into an ace roll pretty easily.
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We've seen him be an ace before that He's had some rough, some
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rough patches, but. He'll step in.
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Quality stuff. He'll step into a number one,
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Number one to you, to use your words.
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Correct, Correct. From years past, he'll step into
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a number one role, not an ace. Correct.
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Step into the number one role. No, no rush on the Devin
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Williams thing. Like yeah, it's you might as
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well just see what you have and then assess closer to the
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deadline. But I guess interesting.
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I've the gut feeling maybe obviously he doesn't pitch this
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year. You bring him back in 2025 maybe
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he has really good stuff and like the the whole hey, we liked
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you when you were down bad. Would you maybe be down to take
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a hometown discount to stay here for the rest of your career?
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That's kind of the vibe I get. So or again, comes back 2025 and
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is nails and they're out of it. And you know, you ship them out
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for whatever that remainder. Half of, half of 17 is, you
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know, eight, 8, 1/2, whatever it may be.
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That's pretty sellable, pretty tradable.
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So I guess it makes sense. This is like the new standard,
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huh? Like we're gonna get into
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another deal here in a minute. That like when they go out for
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for TJI. Hate it.
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Let's pay you for your recovery. And then, I don't know, maybe
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just beat the rush of what the demand would be after surgery
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and recovery. Yeah, there has to be like,
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there's a reason I think teams are shifting to this approach
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because I don't recall this being as prominent.
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Me neither. In recent years I I don't
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understand the the switch but there must be something that
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says that there is success in finance approach like you said
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maybe you're beating beating some some sort of rush maybe an
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inevitable rush based on who who it is that you're dealing with
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like what name you're dealing with.
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But he is he turned would have turned 31 within the last month.
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So by the end by next spring once he's once he's back for
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2025 he'll be 32. And then if it's if they do
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decide to ship him out starting 2026 he'll be 33.
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So that's that's what you're dealing with with Brainer
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Woodruff. He's got good stuff like he's
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he's got great stuff and like you said he's he's given you ace
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quality stuff before. But if if this is their move for
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that number one role for the next handful of years like if
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they if they're like OK that we're not we're not bothering
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going out and sunning somebody like we we feel like he can be
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our guy. That's what you're dealing with.
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It's a no brainer if you're the player I'll take 17 to to rehab,
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yeah. Yeah, I feel like there's got to
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be there's there has to be some level of like if you are a
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player, as we mentioned, there's been, there's been many over the
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last two to three years who have who have done this, they've
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signed to rehab to then come back.
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What do you think the level of indebtedness looks like for
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these guys? Like what do you think goes
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through their mind? Yeah, they're they're cashing a
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check just to hit the training room just to work on these
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regiments day in and day out. I'm not saying they're not doing
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anything, but in terms of the value they're providing the team
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for that given year plus very minimal.
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So do you think there's a a, a degree of willingness to take
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that take a discount should the opportunity arise?
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One would think if this contract, I mean now that I'm
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thinking about this contract kind of sucks because I mean
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you're he had 10.8 last year on a one year deal and to sit there
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and say, hey, we're the Milwaukee Brewers.
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We're not gonna be able to afford him after TJ recovery
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year. Like, are you thinking he's
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gonna make more than 17? Do you think there's a club out
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there that's gonna say you're 32?
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You just missed a year from TJ. We're gonna give you 20.
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Like, I I think 17's a bit of an overpay.
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Then 34 total is like if you only get, say they get him back,
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you missed 2024, say they're out of it halfway through 2025 and
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you ship him out of town before the deadline.
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In reality like is the return you're gonna get worth at that
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point Like what 25 all in. If you're paying half of 2025
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season salary like is are you going to get a haul that's worth
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$25 million for 12 games started out of Brandon Wood.
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You're I I don't like it. Actually now that I think more
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about it I don't like the number.
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I don't hate the idea of you being a small market team and
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saying hey let's keep them let's show our loyalty.
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Hopefully he returns the favor when he find success again and
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is a free agent again. But for 34, I don't love that 34
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mil a year or 34 mil total. And he's 32 by the time he's
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pitching for you again. Yeah, maybe.
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So I'll pull up numbers. He's he's definitely dipped down
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at times. Maybe selfishly if you're the
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Brewers, you kind of ride it out and let time work in your favor.
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Brandon Woodruff kind of slides into the the shadows for a year
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and then when it comes time to re up you go, OK, like you're
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coming you're you're fresh off surgery.
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I don't know if we necessarily want to commit a whole lot of
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money. Let's let's play it by ear and
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you may have been able to save a few million but maybe that that
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plays into they're they're banking on a big bounce back.
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Maybe they know more than they're letting onto by by
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bringing it back. I'm not.
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I'm not sure. But the most uneasy he's ever
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thrown is 179 in 2021. Yeah, 2020, 253 innings, 2019,
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121, I I just don't know if there's enough there to say
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you're gonna be our ace. And I definitely don't see $34
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million here. Good, but not great.
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It's win for Woodruff. Definitely a win.
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Win for Woodruff, Liam Hendricks.
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Two year deal with the Boston Red Sox announced today he will
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be out from TJ. It's possible he pitches late
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into 2024, but with the way that the Red Sox offseason has gone,
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I feel that there will be no need to rush him back.
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So one can assume given the ramp the the only the only reason I
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would say Liam Hendricks, it would be a possibility that he
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returns late in 2024 is because it's Liam Hendricks and we've
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we've seen how he works back in. Front of the pod Liam Hendricks.
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Friend of the pod, Liam Hendricks.
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We've seen how he's come back before and how accelerated he
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can make that process, so it's possible that even if they're
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not in contention, I'm banking on that being the case.
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Maybe he just wants to get back and fine tune some things before
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they head in the offseason, where he really ramps it back up
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for 2025. But if there's any sort of
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hiccup, if the if the Red Sox are on pace to win 55 games, not
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going to happen. Hopefully not.
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But if that happened, just bank on Liam Hendricks not taking the
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mound until 2025. But big I'm.
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I'm a huge Liam Hendricks fan dude.
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I like when I when I saw that notification this morning, I
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was. A little bummed.
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I had a feeling you would be. And on the flip side, I was.
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I was rather excited. It's one of the few bright spots
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I've had this offseason that's Red Sox fan, and it almost made
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me forget the lack of effort we've seen from the front
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office. Yeah, at the Boston Red Sox.
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Just for a moment. Just for a moment.
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It made me forget. But then I thought.
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You remember he's not pitching this year?
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And then on top of that, you remember he's not pitching.
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So I'm like, yeah, it was, it was a fleeting happiness.
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What? Were the numbers on this deal.
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Two years, 10 mil. Makes much more sense.
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Makes much more sense. Pay guy 5 mil to rehab?
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Sure. Well, we're also talking about a
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reliever first. Reliever different
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circumstances. But the rehab year I think is
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key. Like, I mean, yeah, Woodruff was
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also already under contract anyway.
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But if you have the opportunity to pay that upfront and you're
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looking at a guy who's about to rehab, you're going, we'll,
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we'll bring you in or we'll keep you around depending upon the
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contract situation. But we're not going to go crazy.
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And I think again, five years or five, 5 / 2 or five each year is
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just, that's totally fine. I don't think that's anything to
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make you feel bad about. And best case scenario, you got
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lightning in a bottle in 2025. And when I mean lightning that
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that guy is lightning. So I'm a little bummed about the
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location, but this makes more sense as far as, like a monetary
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deal goes of signing a guy to rehab.
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I don't hate it. I don't hate it.
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I still think they try to ship Kenley out.
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I think this allows. Costs.
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This allows you to probably hold on to Kenley until the deadline
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and then, similar to a lot of teams, just assess where you are
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in the season. If you're 12 games out, excuse
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me? If you're 12 games out at that
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point and you're like this season's toast, you finish the
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season with no closer knowing that you have a pretty good
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closer coming into next year. Interesting.
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I like it more that we're talking it out.
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But this is now the second arm that the Red Sox have signed,
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who will be of 0 value to them, presumably in 2024, the other
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being Michael Fulmer. Mm hmm.
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Mm hmm. Not not sure what we're doing
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there, but go, go socks, am I right?
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Go socks. So we go for.
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You get. Crickets on one of those buttons
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so you can press. This is as good as I I can get.
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That's all of That's all of Red Sox Nation collectively.
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Anyone's speakers or eardrums if they're wearing earpods that
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that came in hot. How about that?
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Yeah, so we go from a guy who. There you go, figure this out.
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Literally would give his arm to pitch to a guy that actively
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hates baseball. Perfect transition.
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I knew you're going to nail it. I knew you're going to stick the
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landing. Thank you.
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That's a 10 out of 10, yeah. Anthony Rendon, can I be honest
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with you? Please.
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Can I be honest, when I woke up this morning, I did not think we
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were going to be talking about Anthony Rendon.
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I thought we were done. I thought we were done talking
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about Anthony Rendon, but unfortunately we had to talk
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about Anthony Rendon because Anthony Rendon has given us yet
29:34
another reason. Yeah.
29:39
To talk about Anthony Rendon. Look, I I wish I could give
29:44
credit to where this interview or was it an interview?
29:47
Was it in the clubhouse or the? Who is still talking to this
29:52
idiot? Media availability.
29:53
I don't know what what this was from, but I pulled a screen grab
29:57
from some interaction he had with somebody.
30:02
I think I saw Sam Blum. Sam Blum.
30:05
Sam Blum tweeted it. I don't know if he was the one
30:08
that was having this interaction, but let me just
30:11
read you. Let me just read you this
30:15
transcript from this interaction.
30:17
Last year you said you'd consider retiring.
30:20
What's your mindset now? Anthony Rendon?
30:23
My enthusiasm has been the same since I got drafted.
30:25
To be honest with you, I was actually deleting old emails
30:28
because my storage to my maximum in my e-mail.
30:32
So I'm going back and deleting old emails.
30:36
I emailed myself a pros and cons of why I wanted to stay in the
30:40
game. This was in 2014.
30:42
My thought process of the game has not changed since then.
30:45
I keep making it this long, guys.
30:49
Not good with words. I don't.
30:50
I have a hard time understanding what he's talking about.
30:54
Next question, How does your pro pros and cons list compared to
30:57
10 years ago? It's a lot different.
31:00
I'm married. I have 4 kids.
31:01
My priorities have changed since I was in my early 20s, so
31:04
definitely my perspective on baseball has been more skewed.
31:08
Is it still a top priority for you?
31:10
It's never been a top priority for me.
31:12
This is a job. I do this to make a living.
31:14
My faith, my family come before, come first, before this job.
31:18
So if those things come before it, I'm leaving.
31:21
Is it a priority? Oh, it's a priority for sure,
31:24
because it's my job. I'm here, aren't I?
31:27
Do you want to be here? I don't want to talk to you guys
31:30
at 7:00 in the morning or whatever time it is.
31:33
Do you want to be here playing baseball for the Angels?
31:35
I have answered your question. So why do you keep picking at
31:38
it? Let me just say right off the
31:40
top, because I've seen a lot of of, I've seen a lot of accounts
31:44
post this quote without the context and super.
31:48
Out of context for sure, I I really.
31:51
Whether or not you want to believe me, I do my best to post
31:54
quotes like this in their full context because I know how easy
31:58
it would be to post it out of context.
32:00
I I'm not perfect in that sometimes I I leave the tail end
32:04
of something out and it throws everything off.
32:08
But something like this, I feel like it's important to post the
32:11
full quote within its full context because it's easy to sit
32:16
there and look at the part where he talks about It's never been a
32:20
top priority for me. This is a job.
32:22
I do this to make a living. If you cut it right there,
32:24
you're going, OK, Anthony Rendon, like, how much more do
32:27
you want the public to hate you? How much more do you want
32:29
baseball fans that hate you? But then he goes on to say my
32:33
faith, my family come first before this job.
32:35
So if those things come before it, I'm leaving.
32:38
I know we've shared our thoughts on Anthony Rendon with over the
32:41
last month. I don't disagree.
32:43
With that. I don't disagree with that.
32:46
It's just the the issue that I have with this is the timing of
32:51
it. Like why?
32:52
Why are we dabbling in that? Like he's he's made it very
32:56
clear that he doesn't have a problem answering a question in
33:01
a way that could rub peoples the wrong way.
33:04
That's known. But with what little
33:09
self-awareness you have left Anthony Rendon, can you not use
33:12
that to go? I've been in some really hot
33:15
water recently for some things I've said and for the ways in
33:18
which I've said them. Maybe I don't use these words in
33:23
this way to make it sound like I don't care about my team, I
33:26
don't care about my, my what I do for a living, because at the
33:30
end of the day it's just a job. He didn't do that.
33:32
He just went out and said I I do this to make money essentially,
33:37
is what he said. And if something more important
33:40
comes up, I'm going to, I'm going to take that route.
33:44
That's basically what he. Said, yeah, I don't hate where
33:47
we ended, but but again, everyone that reads that is
33:53
going to stop there. They're going to stop it out of
33:55
out of context quote that makes it seem like it doesn't care.
34:01
But in reality, pretty much every, I think every adult man
34:07
would say that same thing, right?
34:09
Like, you of course have priorities.
34:12
Any other superstar in the game would probably answer that the
34:15
same way. Anybody that's married or has
34:18
faith would answer that the same way.
34:20
So you can't argue it. It's just like they would give
34:23
the same answer, not answer the same way.
34:26
He answered it in a horrible way, and there's definitely ways
34:29
to lead with that. Is baseball your top priority?
34:35
It's not my top priority. Faith and family come first, but
34:40
after that, yeah, baseball. I've spent my whole life working
34:43
for this, and it is a top priority, but it's not the top.
34:48
It's it's not that hard that it's clear that he's doing this
34:51
on purpose. He's answering these questions
34:54
this way, on purpose. This like, desire to be the
34:59
villain with this, like the almost self-righteous chip that
35:08
he's put on his shoulder for, for seeming like he's being
35:15
attacked by media. It's like you're putting your
35:17
own foot in your mouth, dude, you're doing this to yourself.
35:23
I just don't get why he continues to do the same thing.
35:27
But at a certain point, I mean we've had this across sports for
35:30
decades. There's there's just there's
35:32
athletes that enjoy doing this to media.
35:37
They enjoy it. They're polarizing and sorry to
35:42
say it, but this is the only way we're ever talking about Anthony
35:45
Rendon, because outside of this stuff, he's not really relevant
35:49
anymore. But it I think, why?
35:54
Why say this stuff to stay relevant if it's not positive?
35:58
I think Anthony Rendon has forgotten that we're at a day
36:02
and age where you can no longer keep things like this in the
36:07
clubhouse. I, again, I don't know what the
36:10
context of this conversation was.
36:13
I don't know if it was it media availability or spring training
36:16
or whether this was a podcast, what I honestly don't know.
36:20
But where did day and age where you can't?
36:23
Like if he's trying to be like tongue in cheek, you know,
36:28
little jab here, little jab there to the media and like have
36:31
fun with it. Like if that's the route he's
36:33
trying to take, we we you can't do that anymore as a
36:37
professional athlete. These your quotes get out far
36:41
too fast. They spread far too wide.
36:43
The context gets skewed wildly and when you do it as frequently
36:50
as he's doing it, the narrative surrounding you is going to
36:54
change pretty terribly and it's going to be hard to recover.
37:01
And he's at a point now where I I think he just doesn't care.
37:04
And I think it started the beginning of last year and it
37:06
may have even been before that. Like I saw, I saw, I saw a post
37:11
the other day and I don't remember what the like what the
37:15
what it was stating a case for. But it was basically talking
37:20
about his heart rate in the 2019 World Series and like the
37:25
comments were starting to put the pieces together, talking
37:30
about how calm he appeared in the 2019 World Series.
37:33
And people were saying, well, if this whole like not really
37:36
caring about baseball thing has been going on for some time.
37:40
But it's probably pretty easy to keep a relatively low heartbeat
37:44
and high pressure situation just show up thinking like I'm just
37:47
here to collect my money, I I really couldn't care less
37:50
whether we win or lose or whether or not we bring home a a
37:55
championship or not. So it's I don't know man.
37:59
The I I think we maybe have been deceived a little bit by the the
38:03
earlier probably Narendran's career or maybe he's just
38:06
becoming jaded. Dude, I I I really don't know.
38:09
It doesn't make any sense. It's why he's behaving this way.
38:12
Cocktail of all those things. I don't get it.
38:16
I don't get it. But I think it's safe to say
38:20
that he just doesn't he. He hates baseball.
38:23
Yeah. I'm I'm not going to put words
38:25
in his mouth, but based on what he has said to the media.
38:28
What I think he hates being a pro.
38:30
That's what it really seems like.
38:32
But he'll sit there. He'll collect his check.
38:35
Yeah. I don't.
38:38
Get He's been emailing himself going back 10 years,
38:42
contemplating retirement. What you waiting for, dude?
38:47
Because nobody wants you here. I some people have asked me,
38:53
they said like, why doesn't, why why don't the Angels just cut
38:57
ties? And I'm going.
38:59
I actually was having a conversation with somebody today
39:02
and I responded and I said honestly, I think the Angels are
39:07
waiting for Anthony Rendon to somehow violate his contract by
39:12
behaving in such a way that voids the rest of his contract
39:15
so they can get out of it Scott free.
39:18
And I said that screw up eventually.
39:20
I said yeah, I said that like partially joking but the but
39:22
then I thought about it more and I'm like, no, that's very that's
39:25
very much within the realm of possibility with this guy.
39:28
It is he's been he's made headlines what, two to three
39:31
times this offseason and he he hasn't done anything like a
39:36
value. It's just been for all the wrong
39:37
reasons. I don't like him.
39:43
That's what I'm dealing with. That's what we're dealing with.
39:48
Rob Manfred will be all done in 2029.
39:51
He announced told reporters on Thursday that this will be his
39:56
final term in office and will retire in January of 2029.
40:01
Look, man, there's a lot of people out there going out.
40:04
Everybody calm down. Why are we getting so excited?
40:06
Well, because we know when the end is.
40:08
I don't care if it's not happening this week.
40:10
I don't care if it's not happening next month.
40:13
I don't even care if it's not happening next year.
40:15
I can. I can wait it out.
40:16
I just needed to know. When the end was going to be, I
40:20
didn't want this sprung on me 10 years down the road.
40:24
Like, oh, we had to sit through 10 tantalizing years not knowing
40:29
when this madness was going to conclude.
40:33
But now we know. January 2029.
40:39
Dare I say we get our game back? Probably not, because the next
40:44
CBA is what, 2027? Is it five years or 10 years?
40:51
I can't imagine him leaving. It's.
40:53
Not ten years. I can't imagine him leaving
40:58
before the next CBA. Well, I mean, I no, I let me
41:05
rephrase. I don't mean we get our game
41:07
back in the sense of like immediate action will follow.
41:10
I'm just saying, I know what you're saying.
41:12
A new face? Yeah, yeah, for sure.
41:17
New new conversations can be had about whoever feels the role and
41:21
I'm just going to go ahead and throw throw a Theo Epstein's
41:25
name in into the ring for consideration.
41:28
Yeah, I'm all done with owner style commissioners.
41:33
I know that there the guy that represents the owners, but
41:37
someone who has their, you know, figure on the Pulse a little bit
41:40
more would be nice. The reason I asked is because
41:46
after when I was scrolling through articles, after that
41:48
article, I saw something that he was, which I actually he only
41:53
says a few things that I agree with, and this was one of them.
41:58
He said before his time is done, he's hoping to create a free
42:03
agency deadline in the offseason where he's really hoping for
42:08
like a week or two of just free agency frenzy and then there's a
42:13
deadline. And I was like, say it, say it,
42:19
say it. I like it.
42:21
I like it too. I like it.
42:23
I got to tip my cap and the for the record, not my first time
42:27
tipping my cap, told Robbie Manfred.
42:30
I'm just saying the majority of times I'm going, what are we
42:33
doing? But this is certainly one of
42:36
those times from go, you know what that would be?
42:38
AI think that would be a a breath of fresh air.
42:41
That would be a welcome change. I mean, and of course.
42:44
You got bores coming out being like no we're good Yeah, I'm
42:48
sure for sure. Chill, you've made your.
42:50
Money. There's certain things that
42:52
don't get that probably get a more blown up and blown out of
42:58
proportion. I think we're guilty of it at
42:59
times and there's probably some things that need more attention.
43:03
I think there are some good things he's done.
43:06
What flew under the radar was the Then again this is more of
43:11
like AMLBPA&MLBCBA type agreement thing but minor
43:18
leaguers being able to have just minor league agents like that.
43:24
You know and the things he's doing or has done with minor
43:28
leaguers and and again like it's probably more the player
43:31
association side that's fighting for these things.
43:34
But he is agreeing to it and it is in his tenure.
43:39
When you talk about him like I think we're going to probably
43:43
look back and be appreciative of the shift being eliminated.
43:50
I can kind of get on board with the limited disengagements.
43:55
I think the bigger bases in the pitch clock, those are two
43:57
things that I'm don't really love, but I think we'll end up
44:02
being OK with him and and being fine.
44:04
So when you talk about him going to 2029, I think you'll see all
44:08
of these rules he's put into place.
44:09
You're going to see an uptick in in what's probably, I'm assuming
44:14
viewership. There's a lot and and I don't
44:16
know how much credit goes to him versus just us being in the day
44:20
and age that we are having a technology to be able to watch
44:23
games from anywhere. I'd like to see blackouts
44:27
addressed before he leaves. I'd like to potentially see the
44:33
A's elsewhere and I'm going to go ahead and say two more teams
44:37
added into the league and probably a divisional
44:40
reconstruction. I think there's a a lot coming
44:45
in these next five years that he's going to do.
44:48
That's why I was asking about when the next CBA is.
44:50
Did you find an answer on that? They're five years, five years,
44:55
so. 2027 will be the the next one, so that gives him another
44:59
CBA and then two years to watch it all kind of unfold, yeah.
45:06
I I think he you you mentioned, I think that the expansion, I
45:09
think he that's gonna be the bookend to his tenure.
45:13
Yeah. And possibly the realignment
45:16
could be the cherry on top. I've I could really see that
45:19
because, like, it's almost like the realignment happens
45:22
naturally with expansion. So I could genuinely see it.
45:26
I really could. Yeah, it I'm, I'm looking
45:36
forward to a new name in the Commissioner's role.
45:43
But I just, I really hope it's not one of those situations
45:47
where, well, be careful what you wish for, because if you somehow
45:52
end up with somebody that's more, even more radically
45:55
progressive with the game and it's.
45:58
Yeah, there's not too much left I.
46:02
Don't know. I don't know how I'm gonna feel
46:04
about it. I'll know how I feel about it.
46:07
But I'm gonna tread lightly. In terms of wanting to rush, I
46:14
don't forget there. I'm not even, like, fully
46:17
familiar with what that process is of electing a new
46:20
commissioner and the voting process or the nominee.
46:26
I don't even know. I I feel like every time we find
46:28
out, it's just like, boom, here's who's taking over.
46:31
And we find out like a couple months before the the prior
46:34
commissioner steps down, you know?
46:37
So I don't know what it looks like, but I would assume there's
46:41
probably some type of protege that's gonna be just cooking in
46:47
the oven for the next five years to be prepared to take over and
46:50
take the reins in the same ocean.
46:53
I mentioned Theo. I would have loved for him to
46:56
just stay in the office. Yeah, until then.
47:02
I I genuinely feel I would feel so much better.
47:06
It would. It would really change things to
47:08
be able to see someone with baseball either playing or
47:14
operational experience. Either of those things, I think,
47:22
would do wonders. I just don't see it.
47:30
But I like that there's a there's an end date to this and
47:33
five years is gonna flow fly by, fly by.
47:37
Yeah, I'm. Just gonna go quick.
47:43
I mean, I just think, I think back to like when we started the
47:46
podcast. I'm like, I feel like that was
47:48
just yesterday, but you go back and you see the things that were
47:51
happening in like 2018-2019. I'm like, holy cow, that's it's
47:55
been five years. Yeah.
47:58
So the record, I will say I'm fully on board with a couple
48:01
more teams. I don't see a problem going to
48:05
32. Yeah, I don't hate it.
48:07
I. Don't really see a problem with
48:09
alignment or realignment. I think certain things you can't
48:15
mess with. Cubs, Cardinals, Yankees, Red
48:17
Sox, Braves, Phillies, Dodgers, Giants, probably all need to
48:22
remain in that same division. But I think, like the inner
48:26
division rivalry stuff is fading even more just because of the
48:31
fact that we play less games against each other now.
48:35
So I think it's just becoming less and less important.
48:38
But I don't mind the additional teams, especially when you were
48:44
saying what last week where you look at the map of all the
48:46
cities who don't have teams. Yeah, I mean, get some more
48:53
baseball out there. What's wrong with more baseball?
49:03
Do you wanna do you wanna talk about this?
49:05
I know we get a lot of heat for talking at length about this
49:10
particular topic. Which one?
49:16
Can we talk about these jerseys real quick?
49:18
Oh. Boy, sure, I.
49:22
Didn't want to bring it up, but it's all the you know, they say
49:28
it's all the rage. This is all the outrage across
49:32
baseball right now is these horrendous fanatics.
49:38
Nike jerseys. I don't.
49:41
Last I checked, they're Nike uniforms with the Nike swoosh on
49:45
them. But they're produced and
49:47
manufactured by fanatics who, if I'm if I'm not mistaken, I
49:55
believe manufacturers the NHL jerseys now.
50:00
I do not know that interesting. And if I read correctly, I think
50:04
NHL fans are fed up with. The really.
50:07
That. Fanatics put yeah dude fanatics.
50:09
And which I agree with. But the the consensus that I'm.
50:16
I'm gathering out there is that anything Fanatics touches turns
50:21
to crap. This.
50:22
They did the same thing with didn't they?
50:27
They Or we talked about it. They bought out tops, right?
50:30
Or so they own tops. They now are the manufacturer
50:37
for the uniforms they're in. The NHLI think there's even
50:39
another sport that they're involved in with the jersey
50:42
production, but it's just garbage man.
50:45
It's garbage. And the the most egregious
50:50
element of all of this is the incredibly obvious PR stunt that
50:57
they put these players on. I know you're you're on social
51:00
media for the offseason but the just blatant under the table
51:07
paychecks that they're giving these guys.
51:11
Mike Trout's on there. Jason Hayward's on there.
51:14
Corbin Carroll's on there. I I want to say Adly was on
51:20
there. Adly I'm sorry if I'm wrong.
51:22
I I feel like I remember seeing something from Adly but it's and
51:28
they're just like can't wait to embrace this new technology Like
51:34
change is good. I really like them.
51:35
They they breathe better. But then you've got other guys
51:38
that around the league who've been around the league for much
51:41
longer going yeah now these are crap.
51:44
This is they're cheap knockoffs and you have you have fans out
51:49
there going why does it matter like just don't buy the jerseys
51:52
in. It's like we're not even we're
51:54
not just talking about the replicas that you can buy at the
51:57
store. We're talking about the jerseys
51:59
that they're literally wearing. We're we're rolling these guys
52:02
out in heat press uniforms. I never thought I'd see the day.
52:07
Yeah, where we would be rolling these guys out in, I think it's
52:12
exclusively heat press. Am I?
52:14
If if I'm not mistaken, I think the front now is heat pressed.
52:18
The patches are heat pressed. Here's the theory.
52:21
Here's my theory #1. Fanatics started with
52:26
memorabilia. This is where they took off,
52:29
right? This is where they gained their
52:30
name. Then they got into purchasing
52:34
tops. Now obviously with the with the
52:37
deal with jerseys, I think there is this desire to figure out
52:47
what the margins are for on field uniforms as well as
52:52
replica jersey uniforms. The closer you make those, you
52:58
know what I mean? It's like we're not going to,
53:00
we're not going to spend money creating these jerseys for fans
53:03
that are affordable. So why don't we drop down the
53:06
level of quality for the players?
53:09
Make those a little bit more affordable.
53:11
Make these closer and more even. Then when you talk about turning
53:15
it into memorabilia, if they're cheap, if they're crap, players
53:18
are going to wear through them quicker.
53:20
And what do you do with worn jerseys?
53:22
Give them to the Fanatics. Fanatics sells them online as
53:27
game worn memorabilia. It's just a sick cycle of stuff,
53:30
but this is what happens when you get companies that just
53:33
monopolize. You were good at one thing, and
53:36
then you monopolized and you've taken over too much stuff, and
53:39
now your brother, your butter's spread too thin.
53:41
So just stick to what you're good at and leave it alone.
53:48
Look, I love butter and I love, I love Monopoly both.
53:54
But I I don't love what fanatics is doing.
53:58
They just how these got passed through so many channels of
54:03
approval is mind blowing like how can you we've we've seen the
54:08
before and after pictures they're it's it's night and day
54:14
the heat press I'm. Gonna pull them up.
54:17
The size of it Here, I'll send you the I'll send you the one
54:21
that I think is the most. Like really does it in the.
54:24
Most the most telling it was a before and after.
54:27
Which by the way, glad I brought that up.
54:30
Brings up a whole another topic. OK, so here we go.
54:35
I'll send this to you. OK, yeah.
54:42
There's just so many elements to these jerseys that are garbage.
54:47
Like, they made the name smaller, They dropped the MLB
54:49
logo down, which to most people are to a lot of people, maybe
54:53
doesn't matter. But if you're a fan of jerseys,
54:57
If you're a fan of just overall aesthetic.
55:00
Oh boy. It's it looks like the the
55:06
giveaway jerseys you get when you walk through the ticket
55:09
gate. It's exactly what that looks
55:11
like and So what I was what I was alluding to is that I posted
55:17
this graphic the other day. It was like the side by side and
55:20
it was making the drowns all over social well initially and
55:25
then I get this notification that said my post had been
55:28
removed. Oh.
55:31
On on Instagram and Facebook, who obviously are, they're both
55:36
owned together. Sure.
55:39
And so I do a quick search on Facebook.
55:41
Real quick. I do a quick little search on
55:45
Facebook. Could not find a single post
55:50
about the fanatics. Uniforms, I'm not saying they're
55:53
they're sweeping the. I'm not saying they're sweeping
55:56
social media because I'm I I see it still on Twitter and whatnot.
56:00
I'm just saying I thought it was odd.
56:02
Yeah, but that's Elon, baby. You can't, can't mess with him.
56:06
He's gonna let it. He's gonna let whatever needs to
56:08
be out there, he's gonna. Let it eat.
56:09
Yeah, he's gonna let it eat. I just thought it was
56:12
interesting. I I I've been known to to
56:14
promote various conspiracies. I'm not saying this is a
56:17
conspiracy. I'm just saying I thought it was
56:19
interesting. That's all.
56:23
It's tough. It's real tough.
56:28
I don't know, man. There's something about I've
56:30
never I. To be honest with you, I thought
56:34
when you brought this up, we were gonna talk like the city
56:36
connects. I didn't even realize it was
56:38
this bad. It was this bad.
56:42
This is real bad. So the the.
56:48
Day we see a letter like come off when a guy dives head first
56:52
or something. I'm not gonna be happy like with
56:58
the. We have seen this, We have seen
57:01
this. In the W the WBC.
57:03
Remember that. Man, look at the sun coming
57:06
through the window there. That's nice.
57:07
That's nice. Look.
57:08
Yeah, right on my face. How about that?
57:12
No, we've seen that with, wasn't it Ivaldi didn't.
57:18
Didn't like his seven come off because, like I think or that
57:32
May, that may have not fallen off.
57:33
I think he may have just wore the wrong jersey number.
57:36
That's what I thought it was like.
57:37
I've seen like wrong jersey numbers or like a letter not
57:40
being in there. You know what I mean?
57:44
Like the I and Cardinals missing or something random like that,
57:47
which is it's a manufacturer issue, whatever.
57:49
But like the quality of stuff. The heat press is.
57:56
So this makes more sense with like the Yankees, like trimming
58:00
down a little bit on their away jersey.
58:04
Like the border going away makes it feel like it's less of a
58:09
Yankees call. But their relationship with Nike
58:14
is too big. So who's really at fault?
58:17
Is it more Nike or is it more fanatics?
58:20
In this scenario, I think it's fanatics because they're just
58:23
garbage. Nike is also, I think should be
58:27
held accountable because they're the ones who.
58:30
Like baseball. So I don't care.
58:32
I don't care. Yeah.
58:33
But they're the one trotting, trotting these uniforms out
58:35
there with their logo on it. So how many of these athletes
58:39
are you? Or how many of these players
58:40
that you just mentioned are like Nike athletes like Adly and Mike
58:44
Trout and. Again, I think Adly was in
58:48
there. I don't.
58:49
I don't know for certain. But I saw Corbin Carroll.
58:51
I saw Jason Hayward, Mike Trout, another one who I know for a
58:56
fact is a Nike guy. There are some others.
59:03
An interesting correlation. Yeah, I mean, I get it, like,
59:08
these guys were most certainly getting commentated for these
59:13
comments. But I'm like, I mean, I'm not
59:18
gonna sit here and say, like, I'm cutting ties with Nike over
59:20
how bad they are, but I'm also like, no, you're not gonna make
59:23
me say this. This is these are these are
59:25
atrocious. I wonder if there's a day where
59:32
our teams just start going rogue.
59:33
Man, Do it in college football, you know.
59:39
Some have Nike, some have Adidas, some have Jordan, I
59:44
wonder. Just go back to Russell, man.
59:50
Big time. Shout out to Russell.
59:53
I'll take Majestic back. I'll talk.
59:54
I'll take Majestic back in a freaking heartbeat.
59:57
Yeah, I like Majestic. But you want to talk about a
59:59
durable uniform. Russell can put together a
1:00:03
durable uniform. I'm a big fan.
1:00:08
Closing the book here. Just a couple quick items and
1:00:11
then gonna run through our. Real quick, last thing on the
1:00:14
jersey thing. Sure, What was?
1:00:15
I saw that there was only two or 11 remaining teams that hadn't
1:00:21
had a City Connect jersey, and then now there's two left off of
1:00:25
that list 'cause there's only 9 coming out this year.
1:00:27
Did you see that? Yeah, it's the Yankees and the
1:00:30
A's. They're not gonna commit, at
1:00:34
least, Yeah, from what I've red, they're not going to commit.
1:00:38
To. An A city connect when there's
1:00:41
just the turmoil between the city, the organization, Vegas,
1:00:46
even, there's just way too much going on.
1:00:48
So I mean I from that point of view I get it.
1:00:50
I will say I'm not surprised what the Yankees put up a fight,
1:00:56
nor do I hate it that much. I think the entire baseball
1:01:03
world would be like this Sucks whatever they come out with.
1:01:07
Sure, there's just certain jerseys you don't.
1:01:11
You don't touch. You don't need to touch.
1:01:17
I mean, do you think it's less or do you think it's more of the
1:01:20
Yankees just saying, hey, don't even bother giving us a call
1:01:24
about? This.
1:01:25
That's what I read in the article.
1:01:27
How how Steinbrenner was like. We haven't even discussed this.
1:01:30
We got more important things to worry about.
1:01:32
I don't care about this. I mean, I respect.
1:01:34
I respect. I respect that.
1:01:35
Like like I don't care about this.
1:01:37
Like we're. We've been talking about what,
1:01:39
28 for how many years now we we gotta worry about that and and.
1:01:45
Let's just lock a little less of their.
1:01:46
Uniforms. Don't care so much about this,
1:01:52
Speaking of. Of the Yankees real quick.
1:01:55
Did you see? Did you see it?
1:01:58
Marcus Stroman's rolled out to yesterday's workout in a 2004
1:02:03
Yankees Opening Day T-shirt. Come get your boy.
1:02:08
Come get your boy Name. He's.
1:02:09
Absolutely tone deaf. Come get your boy.
1:02:12
What is that? Why would you do that?
1:02:15
Why I'm? Asking you.
1:02:17
That's so I'm asking you. No, I didn't see it.
1:02:19
I'm pissed now. That's so dumb. 2004 Opening
1:02:27
Day. Any other year is fine.
1:02:29
Any other year? Why not get a 2004 ALCS shirt
1:02:34
while you're at it? He probably has it.
1:02:36
Absurd, man. Yeah.
1:02:40
Jump. It's it's It's just starting
1:02:45
earlier than I thought it would start.
1:02:46
It really is. I'm glad I got.
1:02:48
I'm glad I got the juices going for you there, Stroman Guys.
1:02:53
Stinks. All right, closing the book here
1:02:55
super quick. The Giants signed Pablo Sandoval
1:03:00
to a as a non roster invitee to minor league camp or on a minor
1:03:06
league deal. I'm sorry, has not played since.
1:03:10
Let me double check. Here he was in that Dubai
1:03:13
league, wasn't he? Whatever that was.
1:03:16
Last played in 2021. What are we doing here?
1:03:19
I think he was in that Dubai league.
1:03:21
Yeah, he was. And yeah, no, just another.
1:03:25
Baseball. United just another guy that's
1:03:28
you know, aging and probably needs some DH time, so.
1:03:31
Yeah, right on. That's it.
1:03:35
Hit the nail on the head. And lastly, I shouldn't we
1:03:39
should have mentioned it when we were talking about the A's just
1:03:42
a minute ago, but the apparently Sacramento is the favorites or
1:03:48
is the front runner I should say to host the A's post lease
1:03:54
ending with the Coliseum pre move to Vegas.
1:03:59
But I did hear that there's still talks about a lease
1:04:04
extension in Oakland at the same time.
1:04:08
So like there's a Sacramento seemingly like a safety net.
1:04:12
If that falls through, maybe. Sure.
1:04:16
I don't know. I'm all done.
1:04:17
I'm so over it. I'm so over it.
1:04:21
What a cluster? So over it.
1:04:25
Let's bring it back to the Yankees.
1:04:27
Let's close it out here with our unbreakable record segments
1:04:32
featuring Joe, DiMaggio, Jolt and Joe.
1:04:38
Now I will say right off the top of all of the unbreakable
1:04:44
streaks, one that we've covered and two that just exist out
1:04:47
there in the baseball world. This one feels possible.
1:04:53
This one feels this one feels possible.
1:04:58
More so than any of the other ones we've covered, I think.
1:05:03
Just a little background on Jodi Hall of Famer three time MVP, 13
1:05:08
time All Star, nine time World Series champion, nine time World
1:05:15
Series champion, two time batting title champ and the
1:05:20
Major League Player of the Year. He had a career WAR of 79.1.
1:05:24
He accumulated 2214 hits, 361 home runs, career batting
1:05:29
average of 325 and had 1537. Ribbies and also had Marilyn
1:05:39
Monroe, so I mean, there's a lot of accolades up there.
1:05:42
And had Marilyn Monroe and stolen MVP, but we'll get into
1:05:47
that just a little later. 1941, the very season in which he
1:05:54
stole the MVP. As you, I'm sure you know by
1:05:58
this point 56 game hit streak has not been touched since.
1:06:05
I'd want to say the second closest was.
1:06:14
Who was it? I couldn't even guess.
1:06:23
Willie Keeler, 45 games back in. I say back in back in 1897, well
1:06:35
over the span of two years, 1896 and 1897.
1:06:43
Well, I mean, he had to break somebody's record, but his
1:06:47
record lasted from May 15th to July 16th.
1:06:51
He hit four O 8 during that span and surpassed, as I mentioned,
1:06:58
Willy Keeler's record of 44 games.
1:07:04
Did you know, Nate that Joe DiMaggio in 1933 also had a
1:07:10
hitting streak in the PCL of 61 games?
1:07:13
I. Feel like I heard that?
1:07:15
Yeah, I forgot about it. He had a knack for streaks, my
1:07:18
friend. It's.
1:07:20
Pretty nuts. What's the highest since the
1:07:24
closest we've gotten? That's a good question.
1:07:27
Where did that do you remember that kid in college, like 10-12
1:07:30
years ago? Yes, yeah.
1:07:34
I think he beat it, didn't he? He in.
1:07:37
Yeah, I think it's been, I think it's been beaten in college, but
1:07:40
also I think it's it's been topped in the minors too, has it
1:07:44
not? I don't know.
1:07:46
I want to say both levels. I think it's been topped.
1:07:50
Pete Rose, to answer your question 197844 Games.
1:07:56
Yeah. One thing I did not know about
1:07:59
this streak and I should have put the pieces together, but did
1:08:04
you know that in the middle of this streak was when Lou Gehrig
1:08:08
passed away? I did not know that.
1:08:11
I did not. I didn't realize that.
1:08:13
But if I would have thought about it for any length of time,
1:08:15
I would have been able to figure that out.
1:08:18
But as I was digging around, came across that he on June 3rd
1:08:25
hit in his 20th straight game, which was a day out.
1:08:30
Right. June 2nd is is Lou Gehrig day.
1:08:33
Yeah, June 2nd sounds right. A day after Gehrig passed away,
1:08:37
he had his 20th straight hit. Some Nuggets here from the
1:08:44
streak. I thought this was interesting
1:08:49
as as with any streak like this, you wonder like how close was it
1:08:53
to crumbling at any given point throughout the streak.
1:08:57
The closest call came on May 30th when Joe DiMaggio singled
1:09:01
in the 9th inning against Boston's Earl Johnson.
1:09:03
He extended it five times in the 7th inning and seven times in
1:09:07
the 8th inning. I'm sick cutting.
1:09:11
It close. Cutting it close.
1:09:13
And then I was reading. They asked him about it, like
1:09:15
why? Like why he wasn't letting the
1:09:19
pressure get to him at least letting like making it known
1:09:22
publicly that it was getting to him and he was like, he should
1:09:25
really only start to worry when you're not hitting.
1:09:27
And I was like, I I respect, I I respect the crap out of that
1:09:34
quote. So good for Jody in terms of
1:09:39
strikeouts. His first strikeout didn't come
1:09:41
until his 61st plate appearance during the Streak and did not
1:09:45
strike out a single time in the last 149 plate appearances.
1:09:50
Of the streak, just different baseball would.
1:09:53
Ultimately go 197 plate appearances between strikeouts.
1:09:59
Different all. The DiMaggio family, also, it's
1:10:02
worth noting, just seemed to have a thing for streaks because
1:10:05
his brother Dom had a hitting streak in 49 of 34 consecutive
1:10:10
games. But that is not the player that
1:10:13
I want to talk about. We need to talk about Ted
1:10:15
Williams here real quick 'cause when you look at 1941 as a
1:10:19
whole, you obviously have the Joe the Joe DiMaggio streak you
1:10:23
had Ted Williams hitting four O 6 also in that season.
1:10:25
Could you imagine? Absurd.
1:10:27
What a great year of baseball. What a.
1:10:29
Great year of baseball. Unbelievable.
1:10:32
This is who he robbed the MVP from.
1:10:35
Let's just, let's just do a little compare and contrast
1:10:38
here, OK? Ted Williams had a higher WAR.
1:10:43
He had more games played, had fewer played appearances.
1:10:50
Jodi had more hits, which is kind of wild.
1:10:56
Ted Williams hit four O 6, had fewer hits.
1:10:59
That's why that makes sense, yeah.
1:11:02
Ted Williams had more home runs. Ted Williams had a higher
1:11:05
batting average. Ted Williams had a higher on
1:11:07
base. Ted Williams had a higher slug.
1:11:08
Ted Williams had a higher OPS. Ted Williams had a higher OPS
1:11:11
plus won the batting title. And Jody gets the MVP.
1:11:20
I'm gonna need you to answer seems.
1:11:23
Pretty stolen. Seems pretty stolen to me.
1:11:28
I would concur. OK.
1:11:30
As long as there's some accountability here.
1:11:32
I just needed that. I needed that to be to be to be
1:11:35
known. All in all, I think bringing it
1:11:42
back to the the beginning, is there another streak you can
1:11:48
think of that's at this level of breakability, if you will, hits
1:12:00
in a season that's that's Ichiro, right?
1:12:03
What is that 27? What was that?
1:12:06
That's crazy. Was it 270-2262?
1:12:13
That's a lot of hits. That's a lot of hits.
1:12:16
But also you get like a What's the most Luis Riot?
1:12:20
I feel like I keep coming back to Luis Riot.
1:12:22
What's the most he's had in the season?
1:12:26
Because I feel like you get a guy like that, maybe not Luis
1:12:29
Rice, but a guy like a Luis Rice, he he just comes in and.
1:12:33
Yeah, and again, like shift being gone, a lot of this stuff
1:12:36
can be reintroduced. This style of play can get a
1:12:39
little more popular. So the most hits he had in a
1:12:44
season was last year at two O 3. So 59 hits short.
1:12:50
So, like, that's gonna that would require a heck of a
1:12:53
season, 'cause I think we were just talking all last year about
1:12:57
you. Talk about like Ichiro was in
1:12:59
probably the last era of horses when it comes to starting
1:13:05
pitchers, where you know you're getting three at bats against
1:13:08
them. True, true.
1:13:10
And there was maybe only one guy in the bullpen that was chucking
1:13:13
95 or above. Now everybody in the bullpen
1:13:17
does that. Now you're lucky to get 3 plate
1:13:19
appearances against a starter. So like the.
1:13:22
I think the difficulty of that, I would say pitching has
1:13:26
probably gotten harder even since Ichiro, definitely since
1:13:31
Jodi, like the quality of pitching has gone up.
1:13:37
But of the streaks that we've talked about, or of the records
1:13:40
we've talked about, it seems like this one could be the most
1:13:44
doable. And I would, honestly, it would
1:13:48
be fun to see. It would be fun to see.
1:13:52
It'd be really, really cool. It'd be very like Judge Esque
1:13:56
where you're tuning in each night to see if it happens.
1:13:59
That's, I mean that's the most recent example we have of what
1:14:02
that would look like, right? You've done the beat the streak
1:14:08
before right? Like the I've.
1:14:09
Never made it past like 4 so. Which when I when I started
1:14:14
trying, when I when I started trying doing that, I realized
1:14:18
I'm like, if it's this hard and I have the ability to pick
1:14:21
anybody I want, it's nuts. I know we're sitting here
1:14:26
talking about like, yeah, it's it's doable.
1:14:28
Like it could be broken it it could.
1:14:31
But I don't want it to be lost that, like this is still a feat
1:14:36
in and of itself. Like it's a big feat.
1:14:38
This is some tough, can't imagine still robbed him.
1:14:44
Still robbed Ted Williams with the MVP though.
1:14:46
But. It's fine.
1:14:47
I'm, I'm struggling to see 56 on base streak, much less a hit
1:14:53
streak. You know, you guys being able to
1:14:56
walk or get on base in any way. It's like I don't even see how
1:14:59
that could happen. What is that streak yet?
1:15:08
I'm curious on base game streak. Can't be that much higher,
1:15:16
right? The man whose MVP was robbed
1:15:19
from him blind, Ted Williams, holds the overall record for
1:15:22
consecutive games, reaching base with 84 in 19. 49 It's a lot
1:15:30
higher. Give Ted Williams the respect
1:15:34
he's due. Unbelievable.
1:15:36
I don't think he gets disrespected.
1:15:38
Do you think these writers just voted for Joe D in hopes that
1:15:42
maybe they could woo Marilyn Monroe or something?
1:15:44
Like, sure. How do you look at this and go,
1:15:47
yeah, Joe D is our guy, 100%. Come on, that's.
1:15:49
Exactly how it went down. Tell me I'm wrong.
1:15:54
I don't think you're wrong. Unbelievable.
1:15:57
Well, I guess it all depends on when they were seeing each other
1:15:59
trying. To figure out, Joe D might be
1:16:01
the ugliest baseball player of all.
1:16:04
Time. I didn't want to say how.
1:16:05
Did he pull that off? I didn't want to say it.
1:16:08
I was gonna leave that to you. As the It's all about status.
1:16:12
That's it, kids. Be good at baseball.
1:16:16
That's it, dude, 'cause that guy is busted.
1:16:22
Be good at baseball, kids. That's all I got.
1:16:28
Yeah, that's all I got. Unless you got anything else.
1:16:32
Spring training games this weekend?
1:16:34
Yeah, coming up. I'm about it pretty crazy.
1:16:40
I like it. It's finally getting here, man.
1:16:46
It's finally. Yeah, I'm getting there.
1:16:47
I'm getting there. I know I've been flip floppy.
1:16:51
I sense a Snell or Montgomery signing before our next episode.
1:16:54
Yeah, I agree It it has to happen like we're.
1:16:57
Yeah. Zoos need to if games are
1:17:00
starting this weekend, like, you're gonna need to get them
1:17:02
locked in somewhere. Like somehow?
1:17:05
Let's let's get wild. Have to be saying something
1:17:08
similar. Feel like their wives have to be
1:17:10
like, OK, let's go ahead and get settled into a city.
1:17:14
Or just get out of the house because I'm tired of right.
1:17:17
Just time. To go to work.
1:17:18
With you talking about how much you miss baseball, just go sign
1:17:22
with somebody and be done. Yeah, all right.
1:17:25
That's all I got. Now that we dropping the
1:17:27
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