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Fair Territory: Mariners sign back Josh Naylor, Kyle Tucker dark horse team, Phillies offseason outlook · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to the Monday edition of Fair Territory. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Ken Rosehal hear you here with you for the next
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  Speaker 1: I don't know twenty five minutes or so. We do
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  Speaker 1: have some stuff to talk about today, some more stuff
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  Speaker 1: than usual actually at this time of year, because we
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  Speaker 1: have a major free agent signing last night, news coming
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  Speaker 1: out Josh Naylor five years with the Seattle Mariners. And
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  Speaker 1: you might say five years, well, Josh Naylor is not
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  Speaker 1: even twenty nine yet, doesn't turn twenty nine until June.
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  Speaker 1: We do not have the money yet. The expectation is
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  Speaker 1: that it will be somewhere in the ninety million to
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  Speaker 1: one hundred million dollar range. I would not be surprised
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  Speaker 1: if it was one hundred, but again we don't know
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  Speaker 1: the exact figures yet. And for the Mariners, this is
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  Speaker 1: a guy that they targeted, that they wanted to have,
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  Speaker 1: that they traded for in July and decided, you know what,
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  Speaker 1: this guy is really important to us, and he is.
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  Speaker 1: You saw what he did for the Mariners toward the
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  Speaker 1: end of the regular season, and of course you saw
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  Speaker 1: what he did in the postseason, batting three with a
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  Speaker 1: nine to sixty six ops in October. In fifty one
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  Speaker 1: played appearances. Beyond all that, Josh Nayler is a guy
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  Speaker 1: who has a lot of savvy for the game. We
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  Speaker 1: saw that in the way he stole bases this season,
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  Speaker 1: and he also brings a certain edge, an edge that
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  Speaker 1: you don't see in a lot of players today. And
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  Speaker 1: it's not that guys don't want to succeed, but he
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  Speaker 1: has a fire about him in a way about him.
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  Speaker 1: Teammates love him, and he just seems to elevate the
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  Speaker 1: teams that he is on. It's a guy who is
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  Speaker 1: just a really good player and worthy of the five
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  Speaker 1: year deal considering his age. That's the key thing here now.
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  Speaker 1: Obviously the Mets are waiting to sign or trying to
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  Speaker 1: sign Pete Alonzo, and five years is going to be
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  Speaker 1: the minimum for him. I would expect this kind of
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  Speaker 1: sets the bar, at least in the term. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know that the money will be anywhere the same because
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  Speaker 1: Alonso is the more accomplished player, but the Mets people
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  Speaker 1: or Mets writers noted last night, just takes an option
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  Speaker 1: off the board. If the Mets do not resign Alonso.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see about all that. We'll see how that all
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  Speaker 1: plays out. Also with regard to the Mariners, this is
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  Speaker 1: only step one. They still have a need either for
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  Speaker 1: a second baseman or a third baseman, and the likely
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  Speaker 1: next target is Jorge Polanco. This is a guy who,
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  Speaker 1: of course, like Naylor, was extremely valuable for them, especially
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  Speaker 1: in the postseason. A guy who was coming off knee
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  Speaker 1: surgery at this time last year, but got healthier as
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  Speaker 1: the year went on, and he is someone that they
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  Speaker 1: will probably resign if they do to play second base,
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  Speaker 1: but also to DH they want to keep him healthy.
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  Speaker 1: That would be the key. With Jorge Polanco. They have
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  Speaker 1: Cole Young at second base as well. Didn't really hit
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  Speaker 1: much in his debut, but he is a guy they
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  Speaker 1: are extremely high on. He was their number one prospect
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  Speaker 1: just a year ago, and their infield is interesting also
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  Speaker 1: for another reason. Their top prospect now, Colt Emerson, is coming.
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  Speaker 1: He is widely seen as a shortstop but can also
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  Speaker 1: play third base. I don't know that he'll be ready
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  Speaker 1: for opening Day. The Mariners don't know that, but at
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  Speaker 1: third base last year they played Ben Williamson, a lot
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  Speaker 1: great defender, didn't hit. Traded for Ajohanno Suarez. So if
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  Speaker 1: they get Polanco or even sign a third baseman, whether
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  Speaker 1: it's Suarez or Murkama. They can do some things then
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  Speaker 1: and wait for Emerson fill him in JP Crawford or
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  Speaker 1: free agent after this season, so maybe that ultimately will
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  Speaker 1: be Emerson's spot. The Mariners are not only a team
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  Speaker 1: that was quite accomplished at the major league level this year,
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  Speaker 1: but also a team with one of the best farm
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  Speaker 1: systems in the game. So Naylor for five years, the
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  Speaker 1: first signing, the first big signing of the offseason. You
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  Speaker 1: see right there, Aaron Gleaman of the Athletic They ranked
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  Speaker 1: Josh Naylor number fourteen of all the free agents on
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  Speaker 1: the Athletics Big Board, and Aaron said, I just had
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  Speaker 1: a very hard time seeing him anywhere, but re signed
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  Speaker 1: with the Mariners. Most everyone agreed with that. This was
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  Speaker 1: hardly a surprise last night. Maybe the timing was it
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  Speaker 1: was pretty early for a free agency. It's only November
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  Speaker 1: sixteenth last night, November seventeenth today, So good for the
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  Speaker 1: Mariners getting this done. Step one for them in this
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  Speaker 1: free agency. Also something to look at here a team
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  Speaker 1: that we've talked about a little bit as a team
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  Speaker 1: that's going to be quite interesting this offseason. And Matt Gelbo,
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  Speaker 1: the Athletic wrote a fascinating notes column on this team
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  Speaker 1: just yesterday, and that team is the Philadelphia Phillies. Why
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  Speaker 1: are they so interesting? A couple of reasons. One, they
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  Speaker 1: want to resign their free agents, Kyle Schwarber and j
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  Speaker 1: t Romuto, and yet they can't do it right away.
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  Speaker 1: Both these players are testing the market. Schwarber is a
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  Speaker 1: guy who is coming off a monster season, is in
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  Speaker 1: some demand. Now you might say, well, who is going
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  Speaker 1: to sign him besides the Phillies. I'm not sure exactly
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  Speaker 1: which team might be. You can look at the Mets
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  Speaker 1: if they lose Alonso, the Red Sox perhaps, or the
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  Speaker 1: left handed the Cubs, the Rangers, the Reds. All of
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  Speaker 1: these teams would seemingly have an interest. But my goodness,
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  Speaker 1: fifty six home runs last year one hundred and thirty
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  Speaker 1: two RBIs one I'm sorry, nine to twenty eight ops
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  Speaker 1: second in the NL MVP.
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  Speaker 2: I trust that there are teams besides the Philadelphia Phillies
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  Speaker 2: that want to sign Kyle Schwarber, and that is a
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  Speaker 2: reason why the Phillies can't get this done necessarily right away.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna want to see what's out there, so it's
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  Speaker 1: holding up the Phillies right now, and that's just the
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  Speaker 1: way it's going to have to be. At some point.
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  Speaker 1: I guess there is a point where they'll need an answer,
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  Speaker 1: but we're not nearly there yet. Also with the Phillies,
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  Speaker 1: they are looking to trade a left handed reliever, perhaps
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  Speaker 1: maybe Matt Strom. And one other interesting thing in Matt's
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  Speaker 1: notes column, they're talking about trading off the major league
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  Speaker 1: roster now. Dave Dombrowski, as president of operations, not known
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  Speaker 1: for trading anything but prospects and has always been willing
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  Speaker 1: to trade prospects. But they're at a point now where
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  Speaker 1: they've got some I wouldn't call it duplication at the
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  Speaker 1: major league level, but some players that they can move,
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  Speaker 1: and this way, by trading off the major league roster,
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  Speaker 1: they can keep some of their better prospects. They're a
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  Speaker 1: little thin right now, and they know that. After the
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  Speaker 1: deadline they made some big moves. So that is something
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  Speaker 1: to watch with the Phillies as well. Strom Castianos's future
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  Speaker 1: is in big trouble there. They could trade Bom, they
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  Speaker 1: could trade someone else. They're going to be an interesting team.
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  Speaker 1: And finally, before we sign off on this first segment,
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk about Jose Ramirez. Here's a guy
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  Speaker 1: that we often refer to myself included, as underrated. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know that underrated is the right way to look
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  Speaker 1: at Jose Ramirez anymore. He's not underrated, but is he underappreciated?
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  Speaker 1: I would suggest that he definitely is underappreciated. Here's a
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  Speaker 1: guy who finished third in the MVP voting. That was
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  Speaker 1: his sixth top five finish in his career. You see
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  Speaker 1: the little ex post from the Guardians right there. Thirty homers,
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  Speaker 1: thirty four doubles, forty four steals, eight sixty three ops.
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  Speaker 1: This is just a really good player. And some people
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  Speaker 1: have said, well, it's he a Hall of Famer, and
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  Speaker 1: the Guardians referred to him as cooper'stown bound. And I
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  Speaker 1: would suggest, yes, that he is definitely on a Hall
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  Speaker 1: of Fame track. Jason Stark of the Athletic who covers
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  Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame better than anyone outside of maybe
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  Speaker 1: j Jaffier Fangras. They're different, but they both cover the
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  Speaker 1: Hall of Fame exhaustively. Jason had him across the fifty
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  Speaker 1: yard line in his July analysis of Hall of Fame candidates.
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  Speaker 1: Across the fifth yard line is of course, heading toward
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  Speaker 1: the end zone, and he is not yet at three
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  Speaker 1: hundred homers and three hundred steels, though he should get
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  Speaker 1: there this next season. And keep this in mind, no
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  Speaker 1: third baseman has reached both those totals three hundred home
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  Speaker 1: runs and three hundred steals for his career. That way,
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  Speaker 1: if he gets there, and he should obviously he's in
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  Speaker 1: the two eighties with both, that would make him a
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  Speaker 1: unique candidate. Also staying with his team the entire career,
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  Speaker 1: all of these things kind of recommend Jose Ramirez as
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  Speaker 1: a Hall of Fame player. So underrated, No, you can't
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  Speaker 1: call him underrated when he keeps finishing in the top
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  Speaker 1: five for MVP, but underappreciated certainly. And if he wasn't
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  Speaker 1: in the same league as I don't know, Aaron Judge
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  Speaker 1: and cal raally, then maybe at some point Jose Ramirez
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  Speaker 1: would be a stronger candidate for MVP. But this guy
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  Speaker 1: almost single handedly offensively lifted the Guardians to their shocking
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  Speaker 1: Ale Central title nineteen and four down the stretch. He
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  Speaker 1: is a really special player, and he was acknowledged yet
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  Speaker 1: again in the MVP vote. All right, a lot more
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  Speaker 1: to come. We're going to talk about the qualifying offer.
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  Speaker 1: The deadline is tomorrow, and it's something that is quite
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  Speaker 1: a trend in the game, maybe something else going on
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  Speaker 1: in the game this week, kind of a combination of
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  Speaker 1: all three. We've got the qualifying off for deadline tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: The qualifying off for this year worth twenty two point
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  Speaker 1: zero two five million, almost over, I should say over
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  Speaker 1: twenty two million for one year. Thirteen players received it,
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  Speaker 1: and when I talked with an executive last week at
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  Speaker 1: the GM meetings, he said, every one of them is
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  Speaker 1: going to reject it. No one wants to be a
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  Speaker 1: free agent with the lockout potentially looming next off season.
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  Speaker 1: And I thought about that, and I asked some other
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  Speaker 1: people about that, and even with the lockout looming, and
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  Speaker 1: I understand what the GM was saying. He's saying, hey,
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  Speaker 1: no one wants a one year deal then to become
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  Speaker 1: a free agent again with a lockout scenario. If you
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  Speaker 1: go back to twenty twenty one, when the lockout took
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  Speaker 1: effect on December first, what happened right before that? Do
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  Speaker 1: you guys remember, I remember was a fleet free agent flurry.
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  Speaker 1: Siemen and Segy I'm sorry, Semeon and Seger Kovere Seger
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  Speaker 1: and Marcus Semon signed huge deals with the Rangers. Max
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  Speaker 1: Schurzer signed his big deal with the Mets. You also saw,
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  Speaker 1: obviously al Garcia sign. You saw Edward Rodriguez sign. There
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  Speaker 1: was a flurry right before December first hit, and it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't as if teams shunned free agents. So I don't
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  Speaker 1: expect teams to shun free agents either this offseason or
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  Speaker 1: next off season, because even if we lose time in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty seven, and I don't know that, I expect
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  Speaker 1: that to happen necessarily. Even if we do, even if
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  Speaker 1: we miss games, eventually the sport's going to return. Teams
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  Speaker 1: to need players, and players are going to need jobs.
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  Speaker 1: So with that, there are a few players who were
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  Speaker 1: offer qualifying offers who might indeed consider it taking them.
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  Speaker 1: And I wrote about this last week with Will Simon
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  Speaker 1: and Katie Wu and I focused. We focused on four players,
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  Speaker 1: Labor Torres, Trent Grisham, Brandon Woodriff, and showed to Imanagan.
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  Speaker 1: I'll go through them one by one because they're all
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  Speaker 1: interesting in their own ways. Now, Torres is a guy,
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  Speaker 1: if you remember last year, monster first half a twelve
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  Speaker 1: ops before the All Star Game, named to the All
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  Speaker 1: Star Team, one of a number of Tigers who made
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  Speaker 1: the All Star Team, and then he fell off in
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  Speaker 1: the second half. He struggled. He had a six fifty
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  Speaker 1: nine ops after the All Star Game, and we learned
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  Speaker 1: later that he was dealing with a sports tourney. I
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  Speaker 1: had sports TURNEA surgery after the season, so teams might
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  Speaker 1: be a little bit wary because of that. But he's
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  Speaker 1: expected to be ready by spring training. So he's a
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  Speaker 1: guy who signed a one year, fifteen million dollar deal
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  Speaker 1: with the Tigers last off season. This offseason, well, he
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  Speaker 1: has coming off a better year. He turns twenty nine
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  Speaker 1: next month. This is the same age that Josh Naylor
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  Speaker 1: will be next season, and he just got a five
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  Speaker 1: year deal, and that's a relatively young free agent, as
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  Speaker 1: we know, So will Glabor Torres take this deal? Well,
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  Speaker 1: he was happy in Detroit, comfortable there, and twenty two
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  Speaker 1: million is a big number in a multi year deal.
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  Speaker 1: He is unlikely to get twenty two million, So maybe
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  Speaker 1: he takes one year and says, you know what, I'll
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  Speaker 1: do this again, go out next season, next off season
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  Speaker 1: without a qualifying offer, saddling me, without the potential for
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  Speaker 1: a team to lose draft picks by signing me, and
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  Speaker 1: maybe be that much more attractive. It's an interesting choice.
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  Speaker 1: He'd still be relatively young going into next off season,
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  Speaker 1: turning thirty in twenty twenty seven, so I'll be interested
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  Speaker 1: to see what he does. My guess is he rejects,
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  Speaker 1: but I would not be surprised to see him take
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  Speaker 1: it either. Now. Trent Grisham is another interesting taste, maybe
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  Speaker 1: even more interesting than Torres. Here's a guy that a
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  Speaker 1: year ago the Yankees weren't even certain they were going
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  Speaker 1: to tender him, offer him a contract, ends up taking
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  Speaker 1: a pay cut from five and a half million to
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  Speaker 1: five million, and then what happened We all saw it.
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  Speaker 1: Thirty four homers, career high and a career high eleven
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  Speaker 1: eight eleven ops. A thirty four home run total was
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  Speaker 1: double his previous career high. So he too is a
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  Speaker 1: younger free agent plays next season at twenty nine. The
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  Speaker 1: question with him is is he a center fielder. His
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  Speaker 1: defensive metrics went down last year significantly. He wasn't the
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  Speaker 1: center fielder he was earlier in his career, but a
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  Speaker 1: number of his offensive metrics were really intriguing. Chase rate
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  Speaker 1: fourth lowest in the majors, behind only Sodo Glabor Torres
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  Speaker 1: and Kyle Tucker. Walkerrate was the ninth highest. He did
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  Speaker 1: a lot of good things at the plate. He's kind
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  Speaker 1: of remade himself, changed his mental approach, changed things in
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  Speaker 1: the box. He's done a lot of good things offensively.
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  Speaker 1: So in a market short on center fielders, he really
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  Speaker 1: is number three behind Tucker and Cody Bellinger. Will they
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  Speaker 1: reject I kind of think he's going to reject the offer,
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  Speaker 1: and if he does, then the Yankees have some more
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  Speaker 1: interesting choices in the outfield. They have said they would
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  Speaker 1: be comfortable with both Grisham and Bellinger if they could
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  Speaker 1: resign Bellinger, and if that happens, they've got some interesting
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  Speaker 1: choices with Spencer Jones, whether to trade him or not,
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  Speaker 1: but we'll see what Trent Grisham decides. He is going
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  Speaker 1: to be an interesting guy tomorrow to watch. Finally, two
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  Speaker 1: starting pitchers, Brandon Woodriff and Shoeda in Monaga. Now they
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  Speaker 1: are much different as far as their circumstances, but they're
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  Speaker 1: both starters, and starting pitchers generally in free agency generate
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  Speaker 1: the most fervent markets, the most interest because of course
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  Speaker 1: they are in such short supply quality starting pitchers. That
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  Speaker 1: is now, Brandon Woodriff is a really interesting case. You
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  Speaker 1: would think this guy's definitely going to take it. He
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  Speaker 1: turned thirty three in February, missed all of twenty four
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  Speaker 1: coming off shoulder surgery, made only twelve starts for Milwaukee
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  Speaker 1: last season, and then was shut down in September with
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  Speaker 1: a separate issue. So here's a guy twelve starts in
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  Speaker 1: two years and he's getting off for twenty two million.
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  Speaker 1: Might want to take it, but I don't know that
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  Speaker 1: that's the case. He had a great performance in those
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  Speaker 1: twelve starts. He had a three point two strikeout walk
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  Speaker 1: race that was the best of his career, albeit in
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  Speaker 1: a limited sample. So Mac boyd, if you remember last year,
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  Speaker 1: the same number of starts as Brandon Woodriff, including postseason,
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  Speaker 1: got twenty nine million for two years from the Chicago Cubs,
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  Speaker 1: Brandon Woodriff might be able to do the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: Excuse me, and then the show to Imanaga, thirty two
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  Speaker 1: years old. The Cubs turned down his three year option,
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  Speaker 1: he turned down a player option in return, and he
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  Speaker 1: goes out in the open market after getting the qualifying
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  Speaker 1: offer from the Cubs. So what will he do. He's
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  Speaker 1: an interesting guy because he wasn't as good in his
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  Speaker 1: second year as he was in his first. But I
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  Speaker 1: would still expect him to get a multi year. So
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  Speaker 1: with Woodruff and Imenaga, because they are starting pitchers, because
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  Speaker 1: the demand for starting pitchers is so intense, I would
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  Speaker 1: expect that they're going to get significant multi year interest.
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  Speaker 1: They are among the better free agents out there, beyond
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  Speaker 1: the top tier, which is from er Valdez, Dylan Cees,
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  Speaker 1: Tatsua Ami and Ranger Suarez. Those are the top four.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll see how this goes. We'll see if anyone
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  Speaker 1: takes the qualifying offer tomorrow, or we'll see if that
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  Speaker 1: head of Baseball Operations who told me no one's taken it.
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  Speaker 1: No one wants to be a free agent next offseason,
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  Speaker 1: we'll see if he's proven correct. Could possibly be correct,
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  Speaker 1: but I do expect maybe one or two of these
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  Speaker 1: players to accept the qualifyal offer again. We will see.
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  Speaker 1: All right. That is it for the inside dish, grilling
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  Speaker 1: Time out for Grill and Ken. The part of the
• 19:07
  Speaker 1: show where I answer your questions. Let's get right to
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  Speaker 1: them and get to as many as we can. First
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  Speaker 1: week question comes from Tyler Max Smith, who asks, who
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  Speaker 1: if the Braves failed to sign hot showing Kim, what
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: are some other options at shortstop? Good question, Tyler, and
• 19:23
  Speaker 1: the answer is there aren't many, and they might have
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  Speaker 1: to be creative and make a trade because free agent wise,
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  Speaker 1: there really aren't any shortstops out there. Bobashett, yes, but
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: teams for the most part do not consider him a shortstop.
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  Speaker 1: And I don't believe that the Atlanta Braves are going
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: to pay Bobashett what he is going to command in
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  Speaker 1: the open market. So they could do a couple of things.
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  Speaker 1: They could bring back Nick Allen. They can maybe make
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: a trade, figure out something else. But I don't necessarily
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  Speaker 1: see a great alternative besides Kim, which of course puts
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: Kim in a great position with the Atlanta Braves and
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  Speaker 1: in general in the open market, because the supply of
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: shortstops is so short. All right. Next question, this one
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  Speaker 1: comes from doctor Utu, who says, what are the chances
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  Speaker 1: Marte gets traded? I assume he's talking about Katel Marte
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  Speaker 1: and not Starling Marte, because katel Marte is a name
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  Speaker 1: that is out there and you might say, whoa why
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: would the Diamondbacks want to trade katel Marte. He's one
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: of the best second basemen in the game, if not
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: the best. He is under a contract that extends for
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: a while but pays him at a relatively reasonable rate.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: What are they thinking? What they're thinking is that they
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: have a lot of holes. If you recall, Corvin Burns
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: underwent Tommy John surgery last year, so did a j
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: Puck and relief, so did Justin Martinez. I will, said
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: Nick Martinez. So that's three important pictures that they're down
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: just by injury alone. And of course Merrill Kelly and
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: Zach Allen, two of their starters, are also in free
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: agency and not expected to resign with Arizona. So in
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: that case, they have a lot of needs. They also
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: have some needs in the outfield, and that is why
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: they see Marte potentially if they get the right offer,
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  Speaker 1: filling some of those needs and allowing them to do
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: some other things. So what are the chances he gets traded?
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  Speaker 1: My guess would be fifty to fifty. I'm sure the
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: Diamondbacks would want a lot Forktel Marte and it will
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  Speaker 1: be interesting to see whether some team is willing to
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: meet their demands for him or their desires. I don't
• 21:28
  Speaker 1: want to say demands because teams hate that word their
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: desires for kateel Marte. So we'll see how that goes.
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  Speaker 1: But I would not be surprised to see him moved
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: one bit. Next question, this one comes from Video Game
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: Nation twenty six, that could be any child in America. Ken,
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: who do you think is a better option for the
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: Red Sox for a number two started Joe Ryan or
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: signing someone like from Er Valdez. First off, we're not
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: even sure Joe Ryan is going to be traded, And
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: it just seems to me, after making the Crochet deal
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: last year and trading four good prospects, really good prospects,
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  Speaker 1: some of whom have already surfaced in the majors, that
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  Speaker 1: the Red Sox preference would be to sign a free agent,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's Valdez, whether it's Cease, whether it's in my
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: Ranger Suarez, whoever that might be. It just would seem
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  Speaker 1: that that would be the way to go. Now, if
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  Speaker 1: you can make a deal that you like for Joe
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  Speaker 1: Ryan for two years, you do have a strong form
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: system or some other starter in that category. Sure, maybe
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: that's the better alternative if the prices for the starters
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  Speaker 1: get I don't know, into a level where the Red
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: Sox are not comfortable, but my goodness, after trading Raphael
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: Devers and purging the three hundred and thirty million remaining
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: on his deal, the Red Sox should be comfortable signing
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: a big free agent. All right, next question, Let's see
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: what this one brings us from Jim. Jim Horta, who's
• 22:50
  Speaker 1: a relief picture that the Dodgers can be eyeing on
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: the trade market. From what you hear o the trade market,
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: I've been focusing mostly on free agents with regard to
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: trades and relief pitching. You know what, Jim, I'm not
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: going to answer that because I'm not sure of the answer,
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  Speaker 1: and I hate to answer questions what I don't know.
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: Sometimes it's better just to say I don't know. We
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: do know that they've been linked to some free agents,
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: Devin Williams being one. I would think they're an outside
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: contender for Edwin Diaz, but really only if his market
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: falls apart, and maybe some of these other relievers who
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: were out there as well. Ryan Hillsley would be another possibility.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: So I see them being more active in free agency.
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: But there is a possibility of a trade too. We
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: mentioned earlier in the show Matt stromp a guy that
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: the Phillies are at least listening on. That would be
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: one possibility. And I'm sure there are others. Relievers come
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: and go, and there are also quite a few others
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: who will be coming onto the free agent market this
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: week when the non tender deadline hits. That's Thursday, So
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: the Dodgers will play all their options out and just
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: see what it brings them. All Right, we have Banana,
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: the bad Guy, Williams forty eight to sixty. I love
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: these names. Who is the surprise team that you see
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: for Kyle Tucker? Great question, and I'll give you one,
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: and it came up. Will Salmon of The Athletic wrote
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: about it, as did Patrick Mooney. They wrote a combined
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: story about Kyle Tucker and they listed this surprise team
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: the Baltimore Orioles. Now, I do not expect the Oriols
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: to sign Kyle Tucker, let me say that right off
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  Speaker 1: the top. But while their bigger needs are starting pitching
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: a top of the rotation starter number three at least,
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: and a bullpen that they need to address and have
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: started to address with the signing of Andrew Kittridge. Tucker
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: would fit as he would fit for any team, and
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: not only that. Michae Elias when he was with the
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: Houston Astros, and of course he's now the president of
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: baseball Operations with the Oriols, Michae Elias drafted Kyle Tucker,
• 24:54
  Speaker 1: and people in baseball are often attached to people that
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: they draft. They kind of never lose that affection and
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: feel for them. And for that reason, I can at
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: least see their interest. I can also see them spending
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: more money than they did even last off season. So
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: I'm not saying the Oils are going to be in
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  Speaker 1: there deep for Kyle Tucker. I don't know that they will.
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  Speaker 1: They have these other priorities, but could they be a
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: team that surfaces. Yeah. Remember last off season they offered
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: KERB Corbyn Burns one hundred and eighty million for four years.
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: That was a serious offer. Now Kyle Tucker is going
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: to be twice that most likely. I don't know if
• 25:32
  Speaker 1: they want to go there, but it's something that I
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: think we will see them linked to in the coming weeks.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: All right, well, thank everyone for watching, for listening. Foul
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  Speaker 1: Territories coming up. Jim Bowden, Lance Lynn and Marcus Thames
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: join Alana, AJ and Krats. That's a lot of Rizzo.
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: AJ presents the and Aer Krats. Fair Territory returns Thursday,
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• 25:57
  Speaker 1: back with us. We'll talk to you then. Have a
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: great week. Everyone has been fast. Estaishmst