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Ken Rosenthal on Harper's future, Pete Rose HOF fate + WOAH Roki, Padres sign Jose Iglesias · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: What would have happened if his first pitch would have
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  Speaker 3: Astro's camp today has it going there? Aja, looks like
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  Speaker 3: they gave you a nice setup. I got a box
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  Speaker 1: over my years at Fox and doing this show, I've
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  Speaker 1: spent a lot of time in Houston. They kind of
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  Speaker 1: jokingly call it my second home because every time we
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  Speaker 1: happy here in Astros camp, and I'm not sure. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: it's because they win every year.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, successful franchise, that's what has to do with it.
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  Speaker 3: And you get to watch a bullpen session right behind you,
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  Speaker 3: which is cool. But let's show everyone the schedule for
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  Speaker 3: the rest of the week as we hit NAT's camp yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: We started off our week with the Toronto Blue Jays.
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  Speaker 3: Everyone's been great talking to a lot of the dudes,
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  Speaker 3: and we'll definitely get both manager and GM among others
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  Speaker 3: here at Astros camp. Tomorrow Phillies camp with Outcrats Tier,
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  Speaker 3: but he'll be on remotely and then the race on Friday.
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  Speaker 3: It's time for the inside. Itsoop great to see FT
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  Speaker 3: senior insider Ken Rosenthal. Ken, I want to start with
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  Speaker 3: your freshest article, and that was on Bryce Harper. What
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  Speaker 3: can you give us that you learned about Bryce, including
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  Speaker 3: the fact that maybe just maybe he could head back
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  Speaker 3: to the outfield at some point.
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  Speaker 5: That probably was the newsiest item in the story that
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  Speaker 5: I wrote, and I interviewed him for about, I don't know,
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  Speaker 5: ten minutes yesterday. We hit on a number of topics,
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  Speaker 5: his future, his length of career, all of these different things,
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  Speaker 5: five hundred homers. But the most interesting thing he said
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  Speaker 5: from a news value standpoint again was yes, he is
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  Speaker 5: willing to go back to the outfield, perfectly willing. He
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  Speaker 5: has no preference, and his thought is if the Phillies
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  Speaker 5: can get a first baseman who is a difference making
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  Speaker 5: kind of player, then he would definitely do it and
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  Speaker 5: gladly do it. But in the meantime, he's at first base.
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  Speaker 5: He is happy at first base and comfortable there, and
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  Speaker 5: he enjoys the extra work that he does there. So
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  Speaker 5: so far, so good. He really rated well defensively according
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  Speaker 5: to the advanced metrics last season, so he's there for now.
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  Speaker 5: But the scenario he mentioned during the offseason was if
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  Speaker 5: there was a chance to Philly could have gotten peed
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  Speaker 5: Alonzo toward the end, then maybe at that point, sure
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  Speaker 5: he would have moved back to the outfield. But that
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  Speaker 5: never really materialized at all, so it was just a
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  Speaker 5: thought in his head.
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  Speaker 2: Did you discuss an extension with him? Ken?
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  Speaker 1: That's what I want to know, because remember, was it
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  Speaker 1: last year where he said, oh, I want to renegotiate
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  Speaker 1: my twenty two year deal that I signed seven years ago.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, did that come up at all? It did?
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  Speaker 5: He did not say he wanted to renegotiate it, but
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  Speaker 5: he did mention that, yeah, an extension would be great.
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  Speaker 5: His point is on this, even though he signed through
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  Speaker 5: twenty thirty one, is that he wants to end his
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  Speaker 5: career in Philadelphia and he's not going to push it.
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  Speaker 5: He told me he's very comfortable where he is, where
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  Speaker 5: his feet are right now. But at some point, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: he would probably like to entertain that. Would definitely like
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  Speaker 5: to entertain that because that is his goal. His contract
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  Speaker 5: goes through age thirty eight. He talked about playing into
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  Speaker 5: his early forties, assuming good health and everything is fine.
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  Speaker 5: So yeah, he would ultimately like that extension. Whether you
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  Speaker 5: get an extension with six years left on your current
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  Speaker 5: deal actually seven right now, that would be pretty unlikely,
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  Speaker 5: but yeah, he'll be open to that for sure.
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  Speaker 4: Can you hit on his desire to win a World Series?
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  Speaker 4: And how much that burns inside of him.
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  Speaker 5: Well, Eric I started the article with an anecdote from
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  Speaker 5: twenty twelve the Division Series. The Nationals lost to the
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  Speaker 5: Cardinals in five games. If you remember, they blew a
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  Speaker 5: six to nothing lead in that game, a seven to
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  Speaker 5: five lead in the ninth, and they lost nine to seven.
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  Speaker 5: They were eliminated. And I remember after that, I lingered
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  Speaker 5: in the clubhouse a long time, waiting for different guys
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  Speaker 5: to emerge, and I was one of the last reporters
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  Speaker 5: there and Bryce came out and kind of looked at us.
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  Speaker 5: He was nineteen at the time, he was not yet twenty,
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  Speaker 5: and he said, eh, he was disappointed, but he goes,
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  Speaker 5: I'll be doing this for the next fifteen years. And
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  Speaker 5: he's in year fourteen coming up, and he's not won
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  Speaker 5: a World Series. It's not as easy as sometimes players
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  Speaker 5: might think when they're young. I remember from cal Ripken,
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  Speaker 5: for so many years he won a World Series in
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  Speaker 5: his second full season, never won another one, and he
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  Speaker 5: played forever. So at this point in his career, that
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  Speaker 5: is what Harper wants most, more than anything, and he's
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  Speaker 5: been pretty clear about that. They came close. In twenty
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  Speaker 5: two they got to the World Series, but he obviously
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  Speaker 5: wants to finish the job. And he mentioned I didn't
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  Speaker 5: include this in the article, that they've got an elite
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  Speaker 5: pitching staff. They have some players who are eligible for
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  Speaker 5: free agency coming up. So with this particular group, the
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  Speaker 5: time is now.
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  Speaker 2: Ken.
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  Speaker 1: We had Mike Rizzo on yesterday from natscamp. He was
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  Speaker 1: also in that twelve and I didn't inadvertently brought that
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  Speaker 1: two thousand or he brought up to twenty twelve and
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  Speaker 1: I said that was the Cardinals. He's like, yeah, thanks
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  Speaker 1: for bringing it up, as you mentioned, But do you
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  Speaker 1: think that drives guys like Bryce Harper. I know he
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  Speaker 1: hasn't won, but when you lose a series the way
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  Speaker 1: and then he leaves for Philly and then the Nats
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  Speaker 1: win it after leaves, right, doesn't that you think that's
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  Speaker 1: a driving factor in Bryce being who he is the
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  Speaker 1: player he is.
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  Speaker 2: That is just as just. I mean, he is like
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  Speaker 2: all go, all the time when he steps on the field.
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  Speaker 3: He would have been that way anyway.
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  Speaker 4: I believe aj that.
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  Speaker 5: Was him from the start of his career, and I
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  Speaker 5: don't know that the loss in twenty twelve affected that
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  Speaker 5: burning desire as much as the year by year going
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  Speaker 5: forward the postseason. He's had monster postseasons, He's been in
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  Speaker 5: seven of them, but he has yet to get to
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  Speaker 5: the point where he is a World Series champion, and
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  Speaker 5: that is the goal of any player, and a guy
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  Speaker 5: like that, it has become pretty clear over the years
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  Speaker 5: that that is the number one driver for him. That's
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  Speaker 5: what he wants to do more than anything. It is
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  Speaker 5: for every player, but this is a guy who shows
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  Speaker 5: his intensity and it is manifested in that drive to
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  Speaker 5: win a World Series. So I don't know that it
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  Speaker 5: was any one event, even the Nationals winning the year
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  Speaker 5: after he left. I don't know that that drove him necessarily.
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  Speaker 5: It's just that is something he has always wanted and
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  Speaker 5: will always continue to want.
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  Speaker 4: Can you elaborate on his thoughts of the Wan Soto deal?
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  Speaker 4: You hit on an article, but you had a ten
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  Speaker 4: minute interview, was there? You know, you get the extra
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  Speaker 4: different feelings when you're actually talking to somebody. When he
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  Speaker 4: talked about the Soto deal, I.
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  Speaker 5: Asked him, point blank, does it bother you at all
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  Speaker 5: that he's making Soto is more than twice what you
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  Speaker 5: are in total value in the deal seven sixty five
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  Speaker 5: versus three thirty it's incredible a difference of four hundred
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  Speaker 5: and thirty five million. And Harper's answer was a little
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  Speaker 5: bit surprising to me. He said, no, it doesn't bother
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  Speaker 5: me at all. That didn't surprise me. I didn't expect
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  Speaker 5: him to say, oh yeah, now I want to renegotiate.
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  Speaker 5: He said, I'm making a lot of money. He said,
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  Speaker 5: what does surprise me is when he sees players that
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  Speaker 5: he perceives didn't get enough. He mentioned Darren Judge nine years,
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  Speaker 5: three hundred and sixty million, and he mentioned Bobby Witt.
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  Speaker 5: He felt that if Bobby Witt had waited until free agency,
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  Speaker 5: that he could have gotten a Soto type deal. And
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  Speaker 5: maybe he's right, but Bobby with Junior decided to take
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  Speaker 5: that eleven year, two hundred and eighty seven million dollar
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  Speaker 5: deal with Kansas City. That too, is a lot of money.
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  Speaker 5: He's gonna be okay. But that was Harper's point, and
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  Speaker 5: he pointed to also to Gunnar Henderson as a guy
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  Speaker 5: who once he becomes a free agent, and I believe
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  Speaker 5: he becomes a free agent at twenty eight or twenty nine,
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  Speaker 5: is a little bit older than some of these other ones,
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  Speaker 5: But in any case, twenty eight teams are not publicly owned.
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  Speaker 5: what they're talking about, you have to be skeptical. It's
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  Speaker 5: only natural to be skeptical. And we're entering a period
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  Speaker 5: now scot as we've discussed, where there is going to
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  Speaker 5: be a CBA negotiation, and owners are going to try
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  Speaker 5: to make their teams and positions look as weak as possible,
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  Speaker 5: when we all know they can only be so weak
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  Speaker 5: when the sport as a whole is drawing record revenues
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  Speaker 5: of twelve point one billion last year.
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  Speaker 4: Well they ever open their books? Because we always hear
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  Speaker 4: the all is there ever going to be a salary cap?
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  Speaker 4: Will they ever open their books? No?
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  Speaker 5: And I don't know that any privately held company in
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  Speaker 5: America is going to willingly open their books. And I
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  Speaker 5: guess you could say, well, if you wanted to make
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  Speaker 5: your argument better, if the owners wanted to really drive
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  Speaker 5: home their points and they could show that they were
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  Speaker 5: losing or not making as much, whatever the case might be,
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  Speaker 5: maybe that would be a motivation for them. But I
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  Speaker 5: don't believe they are losing or doing as poorly as
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  Speaker 5: maybe they would like us to believe. So why would
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  Speaker 5: you open your books and let everybody see the truth?
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  Speaker 2: Hey?
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  Speaker 1: Ken, I know you discussed this yesterday on Fair, but
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  Speaker 1: as we've discussed many times in the show, I've never
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  Speaker 1: seen fair territory.
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  Speaker 2: So one of your topics.
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  Speaker 1: Was Pete Rose, what did you say about Pete Rose,
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  Speaker 1: because I've given my opinion on this many times. You
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  Speaker 1: worked with Pete at Fox, You've known Pete for a
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  Speaker 1: long time.
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  Speaker 2: What did you think?
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  Speaker 1: Do you think something will change because the President comes
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  Speaker 1: out and says he's pardoning them, and then Brob Manford
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  Speaker 1: all of a sudden is looking back into it. Do
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  Speaker 1: you think anything will change over the long haul now
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  Speaker 1: that Pete has passed away?
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  Speaker 5: Well, first of all, Rob Manford was looking into it
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  Speaker 5: or talking with Pete's lawyer and daughter well before Trump
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  Speaker 5: was even elected, or he was after he was elected,
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  Speaker 5: but well before Trump issued his statement about pardoning him
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  Speaker 5: for whatever he's going to pardon him for, if that
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  Speaker 5: indeed takes place. I said on my show that I
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  Speaker 5: don't believe Manfred is going to change. Baseball has been
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  Speaker 5: very very consistent about this through the years, that he
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  Speaker 5: is a person that agreed to a permanent ban, and
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  Speaker 5: that permanent ban is going to remain in place even posthumously.
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  Speaker 5: But the wild card is and I didn't mention this,
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  Speaker 5: and I regretted it after the show. Let's say President
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  Speaker 5: Trump decides he's going to put a lot of pressure
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  Speaker 5: on Baseball. At that point, Rob Manford's in a difficult spot.
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  Speaker 5: He's in kind of a difficult spot already. People a
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  Speaker 5: lot of people really want to see Pete Rose made
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  Speaker 5: eligible for the Hall of Fame again, to see that
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  Speaker 5: permanent band lifted. So I don't know what's going to happen,
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  Speaker 5: and I probably shouldn't have been a strong saying I
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  Speaker 5: think just Manford will stick to his guns. I don't
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  Speaker 5: know that if the pressure comes both from Trump and
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  Speaker 5: the public and or that he will be as able
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  Speaker 5: to just withstand that pressure. We'll see should he be reinstated.
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  Speaker 5: Everyone has their opinion. I would like to see him reinstated,
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  Speaker 5: and I would have liked to have seen it happen
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  Speaker 5: before he passed away, just so the Eras Committee, which
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  Speaker 5: everyone would be the one, probably the Classic Era Committee,
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  Speaker 5: could vote one way or the other on whether they
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  Speaker 5: think he deserves to be in the Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 5: I wish the writers would have had a chance. It's
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  Speaker 5: passed that now his eligibility for the Writer's ballot is done.
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  Speaker 5: But to me, that's a question that should be decided
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  Speaker 5: by the people who are selecting Hall of Famers, not
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  Speaker 5: Major League Baseball. Actually it's the Hall of Fame saying
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  Speaker 5: we won't have an opportunity for any player on the
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  Speaker 5: permanently ineligiblest to be in the Hall of Fame. The
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  Speaker 5: Hall of Fame could change their mind tomorrow on that, but.
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  Speaker 3: As not Ken quick File, I know we got less
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  Speaker 3: than a minute, but do you think that MLB might
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  Speaker 3: say okay because it was a quote, a lifetime ban
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  Speaker 3: or that was what it was looked at, and then
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  Speaker 3: they do put the onus back on the Hall of
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  Speaker 3: Fame because it has sounded like MLB doesn't want to
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  Speaker 3: be the ultimate decision maker and the Hall of Fame
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  Speaker 3: kind of pushed it back on them.
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  Speaker 5: It's possible, Scott, and again my initial thought, and if
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  Speaker 5: I had to make a bet, I would still say no.
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  Speaker 5: I don't expect Manford to change his mind on this.
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  Speaker 5: He's been very adamant if they do change their mind,
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  Speaker 5: Guys like me can pull up quotes from many different
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  Speaker 5: points in which he was quite strident and pointed about
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  Speaker 5: not taking Pete Rose off the permanently ineligible list. But
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  Speaker 5: times change. He has passed away now Pete, and I
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  Speaker 5: would imagine that in that meeting with Rose's daughter, she
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  Speaker 5: made an emotional appeal on behalf of the family. And
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  Speaker 5: I know a lot of fans look at this and
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  Speaker 5: say baseball has connections now with gambling companies. The point
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  Speaker 5: baseball always makes as well. He bet on baseball. Now,
• 15:55
  Speaker 5: that's the cardinal sin. It's on every clubhouse door. You
• 15:58
  Speaker 5: can't do that. I'm not sure what the proper thing
• 16:03
  Speaker 5: is at this point, but I would like to see
• 16:05
  Speaker 5: him made eligible again, and let the Hall of Fame Committee,
• 16:08
  Speaker 5: the Veterans committees that exist now in different forms, let
• 16:12
  Speaker 5: them decide.
• 16:13
  Speaker 3: Sounds like we'll get an answer from MLB at some
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: point soon. Ken, Thank you, enjoy camp in Florida. We'll
• 16:18
  Speaker 3: talk soon.
• 16:20
  Speaker 5: Thanks guys.
• 16:22
  Speaker 3: FT senior insider Ken Rosenthal. Fair Territory of course out
• 16:26
  Speaker 3: there for the world from Monday's episode to learn more
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: about his thoughts on Pete Rose and then ooh, nice
• 16:31
  Speaker 3: shiny new graphics too, and then on Thursday Live with
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: Alana Rizzo taking your questions on YouTube, a little breaking news.
• 16:37
  Speaker 3: Jose Gleasias has found a home. I think signs with
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: the San Diego Padres. I say I think because there's
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: Robert Murray breaking the news. We find out after that
• 16:47
  Speaker 3: Kratz it's a minor league contract, so if he doesn't
• 16:50
  Speaker 3: make the club, they don't really pay him anything. I'm like,
• 16:52
  Speaker 3: hold up, Candalita gets a minor league deal after hitting
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: three thirty seven last year one thirty seven oh P
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: plus his defense is slick. Finished the season on a
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: twenty two game hit streak. Was clutch as hell, clutch
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: as hell runners in scoring position. Monster. It's like every
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: time there was a clutch moment and he came up,
• 17:15
  Speaker 3: he delivered. How does someone like that not get even
• 17:18
  Speaker 3: some type of guarantee. There are very few left on
• 17:22
  Speaker 3: the board where I'm like, hey, let's see what this
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: looks like. But not one team can use Jose Iglesias
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: to any extent. To me, it starts to mean are
• 17:29
  Speaker 3: some teams not into the song and dance literally from
• 17:32
  Speaker 3: last year.
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: They're not into winning, They're not into a w like
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: this was a winning player. Mendy came on last year
• 17:43
  Speaker 4: and said, Hosey Iglesias might be the MVP of this team.
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: Like when you make a run like that, there are
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: certain key people that are part of that. And I'm
• 17:52
  Speaker 4: not saying the Mets need to have him back a
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: minor league deal. I'm shocked when I saw this. I
• 17:59
  Speaker 4: was shocked.
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: Do you think it's because he's got the singing career
• 18:02
  Speaker 3: and some teams are like, oh, I don't want to
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: deal with that. Well, then I just hey, I know
• 18:08
  Speaker 3: him for a long time. He is nice as can be,
• 18:11
  Speaker 3: very open and honest and easy with the guys. Obviously
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: with his teammates. You know, he's can play multiple positions, veteran,
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: not expensive. I don't know that one's crazy. Hey, I
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: want to give props to the Padres because that's a
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: great depth piece for them, right.
• 18:28
  Speaker 4: Right, another athletic shortstop whop is willing to play another position.
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: Shocker than the Padres got him.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: True. True. I'm just looking around at lineups across baseball
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: and I'm like, you don't buy into this one because
• 18:42
  Speaker 3: he had a high batting average on balls and play.
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: I think it was three eighty two, So you don't
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: believe that it's real. That one's tough for me. I mean,
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: he had this problem last year, you know, and he
• 18:52
  Speaker 3: spoke to aj about it a year ago and it
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: was like, I can't figure out why I can't get
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: an offer. And finally, you know, spend some time in
• 18:58
  Speaker 3: the minor leagues. The Mets were like, hey, we're gonna
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: get you called up as soon as there if there's
• 19:02
  Speaker 3: a problem. And he comes up and he was freaking gangbusters,
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: and hey, I mean the Mets lost Nick Madrigal. He
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: was the guy that came in to replace him. And
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: Magical's probably done for the year, So you're right, it
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: would have been sick to see him like burst through
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: that door.
• 19:16
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: Good for the Padres though, great pick up. All right,
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: back for another minute, just because I have more on
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: the Iglesias signing. It's a three million dollar contract if
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: he is in the major leagues, and I believe there's
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: about a million bucks in incentives as well, because some
• 19:29
  Speaker 3: people online were like, I thought he had a major
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: league offer. So we'll get more details as we go
• 19:33
  Speaker 3: along here, Kratz, maybe he had a major league offer
• 19:36
  Speaker 3: for less, but the minor league offer gives him more
• 19:39
  Speaker 3: if he makes the big league team. I'm just throwing
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: things out there. That's not crazy. That's happened before, where
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: a team's like, hey, you got to make the roster
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: at a camp, but if you do, then you'll make
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: more than you know, say, uh, I think Magical signed.
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: I think it was about a million bucks on a
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: major league deal. But then it's not as much upside.
• 19:57
  Speaker 4: Nobody's guaranteed a spot? What what so, what's gonna happen?
• 20:02
  Speaker 4: What's And and I get a little irritated when people
• 20:05
  Speaker 4: are like, oh, well, you'll make the team, Like, what's
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: gonna happen if something happens with Jose Glaciers in spring
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: training now even talking about like him not playing well
• 20:14
  Speaker 4: to make the team, but just you know, oh he's
• 20:16
  Speaker 4: got a little tweaked tammy. Okay, don't worry about it.
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: We'll pick you up. We'll still pay you three million dollars,
• 20:22
  Speaker 4: We'll still give you that, you know, the roster signing bonus. No, Like,
• 20:26
  Speaker 4: to me, a guy that played as well on a
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: winning team should have some type of guarantee and he
• 20:32
  Speaker 4: has nothing right now, according to what I see in
• 20:35
  Speaker 4: the contract that's coming out.
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: By the way, you guys, I saw Luis Guillor Mate today,
• 20:42
  Speaker 1: who was obviously a METT, and we had a we
• 20:44
  Speaker 1: had a conversation about Jose Glaciers day and I'm like,
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: how is this guy free agent? He had three hundred
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: last year, had the whole OMG. But you know he
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: wanted to go back to New York. Now he's going
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: to San Diego. You're right, there's nothing guaranteed, but I
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: would think that the padresy depth, he's probably gonna.
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: Make the team.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: And by the way, when you say when you say no,
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: one's guaranteed to a spot. Crotzy, Bryce Harper, Mike Trout,
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: Aaron Judge one so get were making the team.
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: I met league contract, all right, ft fam. You know
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: who was supposed to join us today on the guest list,
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: Christian Walker, and we got some news that he was
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: scratched from the lineup today. A little oblique soreness is
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: what they're calling it, left oblique soreness. I was trying
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: to look up real quick if that was the same
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: side as last year, because he did miss some time
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: in the second half of the season with an oblique issue.
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: But I don't remember. I'll have to it would have
• 21:32
  Speaker 3: to again.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: I would think it would get to.
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: Be left oblique from last year too.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: And by the way, I have my earpiece out just
• 21:38
  Speaker 1: so everyone can complain about me having mine out too,
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: so but mine is actually customed so it stays in
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: unlike the other ones that you know. Unless Scott wants
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: to buy Customerer pieces for every player in baseball.
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: It's going to be tough slot.
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: But yeah, I don't think that you would pull your
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: right one as a right handed hitter. That would be
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: you know, everything he does is kind of this way,
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: so I would think it would be the same one.
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: I don't know that, but I would think, right, Cratzy.
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: You can, you can pull your right one. To me,
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: it happens either on the swing. One side is on
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: the swing, another side is on check swings, like the
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: front one. The front one I think happens more on
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: the swing, and then the back one I think happens
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: more on check swings. I don't know. It's been a while,
• 22:19
  Speaker 4: but somebody told me about it, and now I get
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: them mixed up, like my rights and my lefts?
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: You got this anyway? Do we get concerned when something
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: pops up for someone that was an issue late last year?
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: It's early.
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: I'm sure this is very precautionary and they have time.
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: They still have what almost over three weeks until opening day.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: I think they have enough time to get this calm down,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: and with the minor leagues will be full swing by then,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: so he'll be able to get as at Bats. If
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: he's if he has to sit up for a few days.
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: He'll be fine.
• 22:55
  Speaker 1: He'll he'll be able to get back into the groove
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: and Christi Walker will be fine.
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: I'm not concerned. I'm always concerned about obliques still, like
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: spring training is the time when you're like, just relax,
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: just take take your time. If they stay a week,
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: take two weeks. This is the famous Ajas quote, take
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: your time or an old.
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: Linger biggest losses. We don't get him on the show today,
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: but we did that him on late last year, and
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: we can wave.
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: He did wave when he walked by me. Though he waved.
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: I used to do sometimes when I'm like, you're playing
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: or not. If there was a guy.
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: Who was hurt, I just waved to him.
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: Josh walked by too. Crats's boy Krawds has no poll apparently,
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: mm hmm, what.
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: Hater.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: That's the Josh that I know on the astros. M.
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: I mean, I got no pool you're there. Don't let
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: him cardinal you.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: I didn't see him. I didn't see him this morning.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: Whoa Roki Sasaki better than box scores. Dave Roberts was like, yeah,
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: that was the best we've seen him so far in
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: spring AJ What did you think of his first performance?
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: High nineties splitter is disgusting.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: Let Kyle Teal hit off of him and then get
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: back to me there, Dave. Okay, Kyle TiAl is just
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: waiting to take him deep again. Uh yeah, I mean
• 24:30
  Speaker 1: it's cool spring training. He pitched well, splitter was on
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: point what he was. He was up to what ninety
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: seven I think I saw in ninety seven or ninety eight,
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: So you know, good for him. But it's spring training.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: We always say spring training. No one's ever seen him,
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: no one's gotten to look at.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: Him yet, so I don't know.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Let's let's pump the brakes a little bit. It was
• 24:49
  Speaker 1: a spring training start. But you know, the splitter looked good.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: The fastball look good. We'll see once the lights come on.
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: But I like what I saw. It was a nice
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: first step. But Kyle Teal is not in the lineup.
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: Is he going to keep that fastball? That's my question.
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: Any any elite Japanese pitcher comes over, is he going
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: to keep that fastball? Because the years where guys, the
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: Japanese guys that came over had great years. Yes, the
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: splitter was a thing, but can you continue to spot
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: and locate that fastball. The Dodgers do a great job
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: of creating value out of each of your pitches. I
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: don't think they're gonna get rid of it. It's more
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: of when he gets that thing whacked the first time,
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: is he going to be like, well, that's the last one.
• 25:35
  Speaker 4: Now it's all fastballs out of the zone. You saw
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: it in Yamamoto a little bit last year. First heater
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: got whacked and he kind of shied away from it.
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: Then when he came back, he was he was able
• 25:45
  Speaker 4: to locate it and he had more success. So to
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: me that that's the biggest thing. But man, that I
• 25:51
  Speaker 4: don't that's twitter. I would love to see a little
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: breakdown analytically of how much that thing moves, because that's
• 25:58
  Speaker 4: that's extra someone we're looking like curveballs.
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: That was the talk on socials when people were you know,
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: like live tweeting and watching. People were saying, does he
• 26:09
  Speaker 3: have two different splitters? Looks like we've seen it break
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: a couple of different ways, guys.
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: I've guys that I've caught I've seen it. Masa used
• 26:20
  Speaker 4: to be able to manipulate his splitter guy the way
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: that guys like manipulate fastballs, and essentially that's what it is.
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: You're just it's just how far you're able to split
• 26:32
  Speaker 4: that out there? You don't get you know, Jose Contreras,
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: the forkball all the way up to guys being able
• 26:38
  Speaker 4: to throw like more of like a cut, a cut splitter.
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: His I mean, that thing is.
• 26:44
  Speaker 3: Thanks getting it three scoreless, five strikeouts, get him a
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: couple of hits, a walk, but it's just a good start.
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: And they hadn't seen him dial it up to that range.
• 26:53
  Speaker 3: And you know, last year, the fastball velost he was
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: down a little bit. Aj Remember he did his tour
• 26:59
  Speaker 3: even though he was basically sat on the Dodgers, and
• 27:02
  Speaker 3: he was asking different front office staffs about their thoughts
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: on his season last year and how he could whether
• 27:09
  Speaker 3: it was get more fastball Velo or more bite on
• 27:12
  Speaker 3: it or the shape, whatever it was. He was collecting
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: information from other teams. But he touched ninety nine on
• 27:19
  Speaker 3: the first pitch of the night. I know it's not
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: all about Velo. It's how that basketball has life, especially
• 27:25
  Speaker 3: late life. But I mean, this dude's pretty special and
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: it's better to see it this way than it would
• 27:31
  Speaker 3: have been if you know, we only saw him pick
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: up a couple outs and everyone was whacking the baseball
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: all over the field.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: What would have happened if his first pitch would have
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: been eighty nine? You think there would have been panic
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: in Dodgerland. All the other fan bases would have been like,
• 27:43
  Speaker 1: oh see, we told you we didn't want him anyways,
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: we didn't really want Rokie to come over here.
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: So no, I think this was a good showcase.
• 27:51
  Speaker 1: Again, Kyle Teal wasn't in the lineup, sorry about it,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: but he's not on the red I know.
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: But again there's one guy that's taking him.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: Deep so far, and he took way back. So uh, No,
• 28:01
  Speaker 1: I thought this was a nice start. Again, I thought
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: it was great. I thought it was cool. You know,
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: I'm sure Dodger fans were excited, and I'm sure Japanese
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: baseball fans were excited. Let's be honest. This is good
• 28:10
  Speaker 1: for baseball. It grows the game globally, and I'm all,
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: I'm here for it.
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: Mm hm. And then Chris Sale for almost perfect innings yesterday,
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: no hits, a walk for strikeouts ninety five mile an
• 28:23
  Speaker 3: hour called third strike at the knees and the fourth
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: is coming from David O'Brien, who was there watching him.
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: Last year's Cy Young winner with six hitless innings in
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: two Great Free League starts this spring, also pitched once
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: on the backfield. The biggest thing aj for me in
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: this outing was who was catching him?
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: There was it Austin Barnes.
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: Drake not Baldwin.
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: I know, no, I'm just kidding.
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: I was thinking about Rokie and I can't really see
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: the monitor because of the sun. Drake Baldwin, Well, he's
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: gonna have to get ready now I can't Mark, Thanks Mark,
• 28:53
  Speaker 1: Drake Baldwin's better be ready. With Sean Murphy getting gosh
• 28:57
  Speaker 1: rib broken and you're like you're first at baut A
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: spring that sucks, But yeah, Drake Baldwin, better be ready.
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: I guess Chadwick Trump now will have to be on
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: the team. But Drake Baldwin, guess what You're time to
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: shout with the Atlanta Braves. Let's see what you got.
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: And you know why they did this by Brian Snicker
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: did this because he knows that he's gonna need him
• 29:12
  Speaker 1: comfortable catching Chris Sale when the season starts. So there
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: he was out there, and if I'm the Braves and
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: I know Murphy's gonna be out for a little while.
• 29:19
  Speaker 1: I'd rather have Drake Baldwin come up and start and
• 29:21
  Speaker 1: see what he's got, because that way, you can't have
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: him come up and sit and only play once every
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: few days.
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: You got to have him come up and play. So
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: I like this move by the Braves.
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: And they get to they get you know, that familiarity
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: with him is huge. But as a young player, you'd
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: look at Chris Sale like, oh my gosh, he's so intimidating.
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: He looks so like. Part of that transition is through
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: Sale too. Sale needs to be able to be who
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: he is with a young guy or with a veteran.
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: And so as much as they'll say, well, it's great
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: for Drake, you know, it's all that. You know, it's
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: all for him to me, you have to have that
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: confidence as a pitcher. I'm not saying Sale doesn't. Sale
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: seems like he can throw to one of those plastic
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: cutout dummies and he'd be fine. But you have to
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: have that confidence that this dude's gonna be a to
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: block my slider, Hang on to this slider, keep the
• 30:14
  Speaker 4: pace that I want to throw. When I'm out there.
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: A couple things. Number One, as you can see in
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: the corner of your screen there, we do talk about
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: Drake Baldwin with our Baseball America shows, specifically on their
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: prospect profile. It's on the Baseball America YouTube channel if
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: you want to check that out and learn more about
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: their top prospect and how he's going to be thrown
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: right into the mix to start the season. Number two
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: question in the live chat krats, and it's one that
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: we get every time you say it, who is Masa?
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: There are youngsters out there and also probably just people
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: who don't know the nickname, So you need to provide
• 30:50
  Speaker 3: context when you call out your buddy.
• 30:53
  Speaker 4: Masa hero tanaka unbelievable Yankee pitcher, super elite as he said,
• 31:00
  Speaker 4: also famous person in Japan.
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: Boom, there you go. All right, let's get two. Pete
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: Crow Armstrong inside the parker more just a chance for
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: us to talk about him because he's gonna get everydabes
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: in center field. He is stupid fast, So there he
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: is sliding head first into second and then he's willing
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: around and scoring. If you look at what he did
• 31:28
  Speaker 3: as a player last year, just the hitting stat DJ,
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: you're like me, but he is a wins above replacement
• 31:36
  Speaker 3: Darling because of the other parts of his game.
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: Hey listen, ya, dude can fly. He needs to get
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: the blue hair back again because it's not blue like
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: he used to be. But I think Krats could have
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: scored on that throat a second, you know, I mean
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  Speaker 1: that ball was That was just bad. That was spring
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  Speaker 1: training baseball. It's fine as cutoffs and relays. It must
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: have comes out for the Potters. Sorry, I haven't worked
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: on it yet. I think Peter Armstrong if you talk
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: to Craig so you talk to people inside the Cubs organization,
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: Creek Council stood up for him last year because there
• 32:04
  Speaker 1: was a lot of people saying, I don't know, I
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: don't know about this kid. Creig Council loves this kid.
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: And anytime you have a manager that has your back
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: the way Craig Council has PCAs, it's a good thing. Yes,
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: he plays defense, but they really do think he's going.
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: To be able to hit on a big league level.
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you need somebody, Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: You need somebody to stick up for you. When you're
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: hitting in the low two hundreds, you need somebody to
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: stick up for you. And I think this is an
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: unforeseen value that Craig Council brings to a marquee organization.
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: You think of the Cubs like, well, we have to
• 32:38
  Speaker 4: save some type of face here. We can't have a
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: guy showing up to regularly and hitting two hundred. If
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: your manager believes in you, then you start to have confidence.
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: Then the organization is like, okay, well listen to you.
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: We've seen what you've done up in Milwaukee. And you
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: know what. I love this video of this little league
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: inside the park home run because I'm showing all the
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: guys on my baseball team how to back up basis.
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: So this is perfect. Guys, it's a base hit, all right.
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: Where's my center fielder on this play? There's so much
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: going on. Oh, the center fielder was backing up the
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: left fielder. Right fielder sleeping. Now he's bringing it in
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: basic basics, basics.
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: Where for the people, we asked for some takes on
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: the ABS Automatic Ball and Strike System robo umps for
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: some of you, So we'll show some from our friends
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: on Instagram. I love that graphic, by the way, Verry
• 33:36
  Speaker 3: Verry pro. But we asked people for their take and
• 33:41
  Speaker 3: let's run through a few right now. John said it's
• 33:46
  Speaker 3: going to delay the game more.
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  Speaker 5: L O.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know how to say, John hasn't been to
• 33:53
  Speaker 4: a game where they've done it. Yeah.
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a few seconds, So we're good on that front.
• 34:03
  Speaker 3: And also there's not thirty challenges. You know, you want
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: to debate how many a team should get. That's fine,
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: But another person, I don't know how to say this
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: name either, Leelo. There we go. I'll just take a
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: part of it that is not inappropriate. I'm not a fan.
• 34:16
  Speaker 3: I don't like how people believe technology can fix everything
• 34:18
  Speaker 3: right now? Do we really think it's that much of
• 34:22
  Speaker 3: a problem to fix a few more calls, especially the
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: ones that are going to be blatant? I get it,
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: if you get ten challenges, they're going to try and
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: just challenge everything and be real specific. And I just
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: think you got a few a game that you're gonna use.
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: I mean technically too, but obviously more. If you get
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: them right, it's not that big a deal. And it's
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: going to get rid of the really blatant ones in
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: our sport that go super viral. And some people might say, oh, well,
• 34:47
  Speaker 3: that's good for the sport, but I'm like, do we
• 34:50
  Speaker 3: really need Angel Hernandez to be getting more attention than
• 34:53
  Speaker 3: anything else in May of last year or whenever that was,
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: or does Wyatt Langford just go boom Challenge roasted boom Challenge,
• 35:01
  Speaker 3: roasted boom Challenge roasted on all three of those pitches
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: that he called a billion feet off the plate.
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: Okay, real quick, like, do you want to see the
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: best player continue his at bat? Go look down the
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: list of the players who have gotten some of the
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: worst calls or consistently missed calls because of their size,
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: because of how they stand in the box. Yesterday I
• 35:24
  Speaker 4: watched the Yankees game Spencer Jones. They called a pitch
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: this high in the above the strike zone a strike,
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: all right, challenged it switched it over. Aaron Judge has
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: the most called balls called strikes of anybody in the
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: Big leagues at some point last year. I forget when
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: it was. But like, you want to see those guys
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  Speaker 4: continue to play. You want to see the right calls
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: being out there. Technology is not taking over the game.
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: Yeah, this is a tough one to have hot takes on.
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: Royce said, the Braves wish it was in place in
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: nineteen ninety seven. Matt said it friggin sucks. If we
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: continue in this path, Catcher will be totally devalued.
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: Really no, no, no, Matt, Matt, somebody that the value
• 36:12
  Speaker 4: was in the receiving. I am not against that. I
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: get it. If they would go to complete robo umpire
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: and just have some machine making all the calls, yes,
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: the value would be gone. That's not what we're going with.
• 36:24
  Speaker 4: You would see you would see some big, hulking left
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: fielder who can't play left field behind a dish. The
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: value would then just go to blocking and throwing guys out,
• 36:34
  Speaker 4: which they devalue right now, although the good teams still
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: value it.
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: Agreed, it's not for every pitch. This is a really
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: nice solution, especially for now. Also, I just want to
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: be fair. Most people are for it. We just wanted
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: to get some takes and find out why they're against it.
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: We didn't get a ton of detail on most of them.
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: Besides technology to over the world. I'm like, don't we
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: just want to get some extra calls right that don't
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: take up time, that fix the really bad stuff? Do you?
• 37:08
  Speaker 3: And also even I mean for umps, sure they don't
• 37:11
  Speaker 3: want to be completely replaced either, but we're not replacing them.
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: We're fixing the really big mistakes that stand out, and
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: sure there might be one that's really on the edge,
• 37:19
  Speaker 3: and then it gets overturned and people like, we're getting
• 37:21
  Speaker 3: too specific here.
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: Okay, nope, still have a lot of one to strike.
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a line.
• 37:28
  Speaker 4: They're given a lot to the pictures. By the way
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: you're getting you're getting a full ball off of each side.
• 37:34
  Speaker 4: So now the plate is twenty two inches instead of
• 37:38
  Speaker 4: seventeen inches, like, oh, pictures need to take advantage of that.