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Fair Territory: Kyle Tucker's impact on Mets/Dodgers/Blue Jays, Red Sox sign Ranger Suárez · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to the Thursday edition of Fair Territory. I'm
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Speaker 1: Ken Rosenthal here with Alana Rizzo and Alana it could
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Speaker 1: be Kyle Tucker Day. But right off the top, we
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Speaker 1: have some big news on the WBC. Mister Clayton Kershaw
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Speaker 1: has announced that he will be pitching for Team USA
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Speaker 1: as well. In addition to schoobl and Schiens and all
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Speaker 1: the other guys that we've seen sign up.
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Speaker 2: It's going to be an unbelievable starting rotation. Ken Rosenthal
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Speaker 2: for Mark de Rosa and Team USA. And I love
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Speaker 2: this for Clayton Kershaw. Obviously, he announced his retirement. We
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Speaker 2: know that he's not going to be in Major League
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Speaker 2: Baseball next year. But this is an opportunity, I believe,
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Speaker 2: for the future Hall of Famer to be able to
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Speaker 2: don the USA jersey and start doing things that he
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Speaker 2: wasn't necessarily able to do allowed to do when he
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Speaker 2: was playing for the Dodgers. You know, he doesn't have
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Speaker 2: to worry about when he's going to be making his
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Speaker 2: first start, he doesn't have to be worried about is
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Speaker 2: he healthy or not. So for Clayton Kershaw to be
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Speaker 2: able to be a participant for Team USA and the WBC.
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Speaker 2: I think it's awesome, one final hurrah for one of
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Speaker 2: the greatest to ever play for the Dodgers, Ken.
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Speaker 1: And remember in twenty twenty three he wanted to play,
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Speaker 1: but there was some kind of insurance issue Alona, so
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Speaker 1: he didn't get the chance. Then won't be a problem
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Speaker 1: now and Clayton Kershaw a member of Team USA. But
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Speaker 1: we have a lot more to get to and this
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Speaker 1: could be, as I mentioned at the top, the day
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Speaker 1: in which Kyle Tucker makes his decision. I actually thought
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Speaker 1: it was going to be yesterday. It might not be today,
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Speaker 1: but we have this thing looming in our sport. Ken.
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Speaker 2: Is it a situation where it just may come down
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Speaker 2: to where Kyle Tucker wants to go? Everyone seems to
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Speaker 2: think the decision may be made today, But I don't
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Speaker 2: know that there's a team in the forefront. Maybe it's
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Speaker 2: just where Tucker feels the most comfortable. Am I right
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Speaker 2: in saying that?
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Speaker 1: I believe that you're right to a degree. The question
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Speaker 1: here is what does Tucker want? Now? We've heard reports
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Speaker 1: of the Blue Jays offering a ten year long deal.
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Speaker 1: Does he want a long deal? We've heard various times
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Speaker 1: that Kyle Tucker is not a guy who necessarily wants
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Speaker 1: to play forever. So then if it's a shorter term
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Speaker 1: deal with opt outs, if that's the other option on
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Speaker 1: the table, would he want to play for the Mets
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Speaker 1: because he's a low key guy, might not want New York?
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Speaker 1: And does that point to the Dodgers as the team
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Speaker 1: because they can offer the same kind of short term
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Speaker 1: deal with opt outs. None of this is known right now.
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Speaker 1: His decision will speak volumes. Maybe he does want the
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Speaker 1: long term deal, and maybe all of this talk about
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Speaker 1: him not wanting to be playing forever is bunk. And
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Speaker 1: maybe he does want to play in New York and
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Speaker 1: is willing to do it and get the opt out
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Speaker 1: and take it from there. There are all kinds of
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Speaker 1: things in play here. But what's really interesting is these
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Speaker 1: are three big time teams right now. The Toronto Blue Jays,
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Speaker 1: Los Angeles Dodgers both in the World Series last year,
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Speaker 1: and the New York Mets, of course, spend a ton
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Speaker 1: of money, and the implications for each of these teams
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Speaker 1: along will be the immense depending upon what he decides.
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Speaker 2: Ken with the three teams, they're all heavy hitters, big players.
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Speaker 2: Would any of the three surprise you.
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Speaker 1: No, I would not say it would be surprised by
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Speaker 1: any of the three. Now what's interesting is Toronto is
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Speaker 1: a player here in part because two of their outfielders,
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Speaker 1: Dalton var Show and George Springer might be more of
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Speaker 1: a DH now are up for free agency at the
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Speaker 1: end of this season. They need a long term solution
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Speaker 1: in their outfield. Tucker would fit perfectly in that regard.
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Speaker 1: He see he's from Tampa. The Blue Jays train in Dunedin.
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Speaker 1: We know he's visited their complex. We heard about that
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Speaker 1: early in the offseason. In that sense for them, he
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Speaker 1: is a really good fit for the Mets. I wrote
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Speaker 1: this yesterday. It's a little more curious. You're gonna have
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Speaker 1: two fifty million dollar corner outfielders. That's a little odd, certainly,
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Speaker 1: something that's never happened before. And neither one of them
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Speaker 1: is a plus defender. Tucker was at one time, but
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Speaker 1: hasn't been lately. And this is a team that has
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Speaker 1: talked endlessly about improving its defense. And then there were
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Speaker 1: the Dodgers, looking right now at basically a left field opening.
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Speaker 1: They've got Alex call there as a possibility. They've got
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Speaker 1: the kid that bringing in from Triple A the Triple
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Speaker 1: A PCL MVP last year. He's another possibility they could
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Speaker 1: platoon those two. And they have a definite need for
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Speaker 1: an outfielder in the wake of the Michael Confordo signing,
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Speaker 1: which did not work out well for them obviously. So
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Speaker 1: right now they're sitting down pies and center or perhaps
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Speaker 1: a corner if Tommy Edmond cannot recover from ankle surgery
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Speaker 1: in time to play center, and then Tayo Hernandez probably
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Speaker 1: in right, or he could move to left if they
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Speaker 1: signed Tucker. So the Dodgers actually have a need for
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Speaker 1: Tucker too. How far they want to go contractually that
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Speaker 1: remains to be seen.
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Speaker 2: Insane to think a guy that hit two sixty six
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Speaker 2: could be getting a fifty million AAV. Listen, it's a
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Speaker 2: good gig if you can get it. Ken. Let's switch
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Speaker 2: our focus now to the Boston Red Sox. It seems
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Speaker 2: like they're thinking more about run prevention can versus run
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Speaker 2: production signing Ranger Suarez. But you told me earlier today
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Speaker 2: in our production meeting that you don't think the Red
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Speaker 2: Sox are done. They didn't land a heavy hitter in
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Speaker 2: Alonso or Schwarb or Obviously Alex Bregman is now with
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Speaker 2: the Cubs. What do you make of the Suarez signing.
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Speaker 1: Well, they can't be done. First of all. Now, I
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Speaker 1: have no problem with what they did here in pivoting
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Speaker 1: from Bregman to Suarez short term, because what they have
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Speaker 1: now is a surplus of starting pitching. I know that's
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Speaker 1: hard to say, and teams talk about that and then
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Speaker 1: it suddenly disappears. That can happen, of course, and they
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Speaker 1: also have what we've been talking about for I don't
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Speaker 1: know months now, a surplus in their outfield. They have
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Speaker 1: the ability to go trade for an infielder now, Katel Marte,
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Speaker 1: that's someone that they talked about prior to the Diamondbacks
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Speaker 1: taking him off the market. Seems to me it would
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Speaker 1: be kind of odd for the Diamondbacks to change their
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Speaker 1: minds now and suddenly tell Katel, you know what, we
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Speaker 1: aren't going to trade you, but now we are going
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Speaker 1: to trade you. But there are other options available. Ezach
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Speaker 1: Parides from the Houston Astros, Nico Horner from the Cubs.
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Speaker 1: To me, that's a long shot. I don't think the
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Speaker 1: Cubs want to do that, but that is a possibility.
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Speaker 1: Brendan Donovan less so because he hits left handed. They
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Speaker 1: already have too many left handed hitters. So from the
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Speaker 1: Red Sox perspective, Suarez is a bit of a departure
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Speaker 1: for them. He's not this big, tall, hard thrower that's
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Speaker 1: what they traditionally signed, but his pitch ability is off
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Speaker 1: the charts. He is a guy that has proven himself
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Speaker 1: in huge moments in the postseason. I like the signing
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Speaker 1: for them. I don't know that twenty six million dollars
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Speaker 1: a year for them is too much or too much
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Speaker 1: for Ranger Suarez. That is about where I would have
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Speaker 1: slotted him. So while this deal is unusual for them
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Speaker 1: and he cost them draft picks where Bregman wouldn't have.
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Speaker 1: And also, as Buster only a ESPN tweeted yesterday with
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Speaker 1: the deferrals, the offer that they made to Bregman was
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Speaker 1: actually for less in present day value than the offer
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Speaker 1: they made to Suarez. That's inexplicable, hard to even believe.
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Speaker 1: You see the tweet from Buster right there, but that
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Speaker 1: is what they did. They blew it. They came back
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Speaker 1: with Suarez and no deferrals. Smart move Red Sox, and
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Speaker 1: now it seems that they have the ability to go
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Speaker 1: out and get another hitter in addition to Wilson Contreras.
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Speaker 1: They do that, maybe it's Paradis, maybe it's someone else
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Speaker 1: they do that. They suddenly look like a formidable group.
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Speaker 2: Okay, so you mentioned that they decided to go, you know,
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Speaker 2: obviously after him, no deferrals. They're also going after a
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Speaker 2: guy ken Ensuarez. It's a little bit older kind of
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Speaker 2: breaking protocol for what the Red Sox typically do. Does
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Speaker 2: that give you a sense of desperation because they missed
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Speaker 2: out on Bregman or is it more of listen, we
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Speaker 2: now have a very formidable starting rotation with Garrett Crochet,
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Speaker 2: Sonny Gray, now Ranger Suarez, obviously Brian Beao some talented
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Speaker 2: young guys at the back end of the rotation potentially.
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Speaker 2: Or is it just like we're going to focus on pitching,
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Speaker 2: we'll still have time for another bat.
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Speaker 1: Well. They obviously reacted to what had happened with Bregman.
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Speaker 1: They were embarrassed by it and should have been now.
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Speaker 1: They probably were talking to Suarez the entire time and
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Speaker 1: had him as an option based on how things might go.
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Speaker 1: But it clearly was a response. In my opinion, they
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Speaker 1: might say, well, hey, we're cool. You know, we were
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Speaker 1: not necessarily guaranteed to get Bregman, so we had to
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Speaker 1: have other things in place, which is true. But the
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Speaker 1: speed with which they acted certainly indicates that for sure
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Speaker 1: they had a plan in mind or an ida in
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Speaker 1: mind that accelerated when they got embarrassed by the Bregman departure.
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Speaker 1: So here they are, Here they are, and Suarez is
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Speaker 1: a different kind of picture for them, but I still
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Speaker 1: like him an awful lot. I believe this is going
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Speaker 1: to be a good signing for them. And now when
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Speaker 1: you look at them, I didn't love the idea of
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Speaker 1: Sonny Gray as a number two, but now okay, to
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Speaker 1: go Crochet left, Sonny Gray Wright, Suarez left, and then
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Speaker 1: Oviedo and whoever else you want to mix in there.
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Speaker 1: They've got a ton of options. That's a good position
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Speaker 1: to be in.
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Speaker 2: I'm dis just in right now on fair territory with
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Speaker 2: Ken Rosenthal Alex Bregman. Ken says he's going to participate
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Speaker 2: in the WBC. So not only is it going to
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Speaker 2: be future Hall of Famer Clayton Kershak to be future
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Speaker 2: Hall of Famer Alex Bregman in the WBC. What do
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Speaker 2: you make of it. And do you think that had
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Speaker 2: to be a conversation with the Cubs.
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Speaker 1: I would imagine it did, and I would imagine he
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Speaker 1: expressed to all the teams that were talking to him, Hey,
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Speaker 1: I want to play in the WBC, and that's something
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Speaker 1: that I'm going to do. I would think he had
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Speaker 1: the leverage to do that, and it's a great addition
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Speaker 1: again for Team USA. This is the most loaded Team
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Speaker 1: USA in the history of the World Baseball Classic and
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Speaker 1: there's going to be I don't know, i red call
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Speaker 1: it pressure, but there will be an expectation that this
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Speaker 1: team performs really well. Now the last team did. They
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Speaker 1: went down to the final pitch against Team Japan, lost
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Speaker 1: when Shoho Tani struck out Mike Trout. But this team
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Speaker 1: has Aaron Judge, cal Raley, Alex Bregman, Trek Scooble, Paul Skeins,
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Speaker 1: go right down the line. It's an incredible collection of
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Speaker 1: talent and they're going to be fun to watch. And
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Speaker 1: a side note on Bregman here, the initial round for
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Speaker 1: Team USA will be in Houston, so he will get
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Speaker 1: to play in Houston, and I'm sure he's still quite
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Speaker 1: well remembered there because of his role in two World
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Speaker 1: Series Championships.
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Speaker 2: They played World Baseball Classic. Always a good time. It's
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Speaker 2: All right, well, welcoming back to fair territory with Ken Rosenthal.
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Speaker 2: It is time to ask Ken some questions. We start
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Speaker 2: in Toronto. Michael would like to know could the Blue
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Speaker 2: Jays pivot to Bellinger, meaning Cody Bellinger if they don't
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Speaker 2: get Tucker, or would they go back to Bo first.
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Speaker 2: I think Bo's gone. What do you think, Ken?
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Speaker 1: I've thought that all along, and the greater need for
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Speaker 1: them certainly is in the outfield. But this question raises
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Speaker 1: a really good point. The team that doesn't get Tucker,
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Speaker 1: maybe they do get involved with Bellinger, whether it's the
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Speaker 1: Dodgers or whether it's the Mets, or whether it's the
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Speaker 1: Blue Jays. And the assumption has been and it's still
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Speaker 1: the right call, that the Yankees will resign Bellinger, that
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Speaker 1: that's going to happen. But once Tucker goes, assuming this
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Speaker 1: happens in sequence here, once Tucker is gone and off
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Speaker 1: the board, those teams might step up their pursuits of
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Speaker 1: Cody Bellinger. And maybe it's not fat accompany for the Yankees.
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Speaker 1: So this is something to watch in the hours and
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Speaker 1: days ahead.
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Speaker 2: Okay, So we go from whether Bellinger's going to sign
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Speaker 2: somewhere if they don't get Tucker to the Baltimore Orioles,
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Speaker 2: which in the Al East can they have done some things?
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Speaker 2: So this question is in regards to the o's from
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Speaker 2: Rhino Thunder sixty eight, what do you think the Orioles
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Speaker 2: do for pitching?
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Speaker 1: Good question now from ber Valdez still out there, Zach
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Speaker 1: Gallen's still out there. Those are free agents. I don't
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Speaker 1: know that the Orioles are loving the idea of giving
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Speaker 1: up a draft pick, but they have said they would
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Speaker 1: do it, and they would do it. They didn't have
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Speaker 1: to do it for Peter a Lonzo, who had gotten
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Speaker 1: a qualifying offer last year. Then there are trade possibilities
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Speaker 1: now Freddie Peralta would be a one year guy. There's
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Speaker 1: Mackenzie Gore right down the road from Baltimore in Washington.
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Speaker 1: I don't know that there are many more options Trek
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Speaker 1: Scoogle and don't expect to be traded. I know the
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Speaker 1: Tigers have not shut the door, but teams never shut
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Speaker 1: the door. So the Orioles right now, it looks like
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Speaker 1: to me Valdez would be their play. Now. I don't
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Speaker 1: know that from any inside perspective or anything like that.
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Speaker 1: Michae Elias, of course familiar with Valdez from his time
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Speaker 1: in Houston, and Valdez would be for them a really
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Speaker 1: good addition in addition to what they've done already, which
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Speaker 1: is Shane Boz and Zach Eflin on top of Trevor
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Speaker 1: Rodgers and Kyle Bradish in that rotation along with Dean Kramer.
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Speaker 1: So one more would put them in a really good spot.
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Speaker 2: Ken Brandon Donovan seems to come up in a lot
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Speaker 2: of different conversations about where he's going to land in
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Speaker 2: twenty twenty six, Saint Louis Perfecto's wants to know. Looking
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Speaker 2: at donovan suitors, who do you believe is the favorite?
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Speaker 2: Could nowt Bar get paired in a deal to Seattle
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Speaker 2: to help fill rightfield as well? Remember, of course, that
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Speaker 2: Arenado now no longer in Saint Louis, so there's some
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Speaker 2: more news. As far as the Saint Louis Cardinals are concerned.
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Speaker 1: I still see Seattle as the favorite, and the reason
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Speaker 1: for that is their farm system is one of the
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Speaker 1: best in the game. San Francisco is in the mix
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Speaker 1: and has been for Donovan for quite some time, as
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Speaker 1: Katie Wu reported, but their farm system is not very
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Speaker 1: good at all, and they don't have much to give
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Speaker 1: that the Cardinals would necessarily want. Then there is Kansas City.
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Speaker 1: They've been kind of on the fringes of this thing
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Speaker 1: the whole time. I don't see them necessarily outbidding the Mariners,
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Speaker 1: but they do have some interesting young pitching in particular.
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Speaker 1: So those are the teams, and I do believe he'll
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Speaker 1: get dealt and the idea of neot Bar and Donovan
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Speaker 1: together to Seattle, I could see that being a possibility
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Speaker 1: really quickly.
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Speaker 2: Circling back on from Berveldez, are you surprised Ken He's
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Speaker 2: still available.
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Speaker 1: A little bit, but there have been questions about him
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Speaker 1: that incident with his catcher last year, makeup in general,
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Speaker 1: that's been one thing. He's a little older for free
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Speaker 1: that's another thing. So given the pace of this market,
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Speaker 1: I can't say I'm shocked, but at the same time,
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Speaker 1: his moment should be coming pretty soon.
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Speaker 2: Okay, talking about the New York Mets. Our next question
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Speaker 2: here on Gorilla and Ken the Metropolitans. A lot of
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Speaker 2: it is about whether they're going to get Tucker or not,
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Speaker 2: but this one wants to know. Are the Mets more
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Speaker 2: likely to look for starting pitching through free agency or
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Speaker 2: through the trade market.
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Speaker 1: Well, ditto to everything I said with the Orioles, but
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Speaker 1: the Mets preference has been a trade so that could
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Speaker 1: be paral to it, could be Gore, could be someone
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Speaker 1: else that we don't have in mind necessarily with from
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Speaker 1: bra Valdez, I could see the Mets doing something short
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Speaker 1: with him. They do not want to go long term
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Speaker 1: with starting pitching. We've seen that time and time again
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Speaker 1: play out, and I wouldn't necessarily rule out Gallon for
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Speaker 1: them either. Depending on how things play out here.
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Speaker 2: All right, We're going to see what happens. In terms
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Speaker 2: of the Mets. I think everyone's just really can trying
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Speaker 2: to figure out where the heck is Kyle Tucker going.
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Speaker 2: There's a question here that says, do you think by
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Speaker 2: the the week we would see where Kyle Tucker senns
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Speaker 2: I would imagine right most folks thinking it could happen today, Ken.
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Speaker 1: Yes, that's my expectation today, tomorrow, sometime this week, and
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Speaker 1: as you just pointed out, a lot of Once that happens,
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Speaker 1: the outfield market will open up. Bellinger will go, and
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Speaker 1: then some of the lesser outfielders Harrison Bade or Austin Hayes,
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Speaker 1: guys like that, they'll be able to find their homes too,
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Speaker 1: because right now it's all contingent on Tucker and not
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Speaker 1: just the outfielders. By the way, there are pitching moves
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Speaker 1: that are contingent on Tucker. A team might think if
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Speaker 1: we don't get him the Mets, for instance, if they
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Speaker 1: don't get him, they will pivot in other ways and
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Speaker 1: perhaps invest more in a picture than they might have otherwise.
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Speaker 2: Man Tucker the man of the hour, at least the
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Speaker 2: man of the day. Another question on Kyle here, what
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Speaker 2: do you make of the fact that the Mets offer
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Speaker 2: is public, but the Jays and Dodgers offers not public.
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Speaker 2: In regards to Kyle Tucker, I.
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Speaker 1: Don't know what to make of that, and I'm not
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Speaker 1: going to say where I think that figure came from,
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Speaker 1: although I think I have an idea where it came from.
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Speaker 1: But getting that number out there is probably in Tucker's
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Speaker 1: best interest because it would push the two other teams higher,
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Speaker 1: and that generally is where you see these things play
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Speaker 1: out the way you see these things play out, So
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Speaker 1: that certainly is a possibility that his side wanted it
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Speaker 1: out there to obviously make the other teams jump. But
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Speaker 1: I will not say exactly again what I think about
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Speaker 1: where that came from, because I don't know, and sometimes
18:34
Speaker 1: things come from places that are unexpected. I know this
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Speaker 1: for a fact having done this a long time, and
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Speaker 1: it's just interesting that it happened that way, And certainly
18:42
Speaker 1: it does work in Tucker's favor if he indeed wants
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Speaker 1: those other teams to come up in their price.
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Speaker 2: Drive up the market. I love this question. Our last
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Speaker 2: one here for Grill and Ken. Alex Bregman will wear
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Speaker 2: number three with the Cubs because Nico Horner wears number two.
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Speaker 2: If Ken were a Cubs fan, would he wait to
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Speaker 2: buy that Bregman jersey in case number two suddenly became available.
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Speaker 1: I would wait, just to be sure. You never know
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Speaker 1: in baseball, you never know in the offseason. But the
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Speaker 1: question ultimately is do I expect the Cubs to trade
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Speaker 1: Nico Horner their current number two? And the answer to
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Speaker 1: that is no. I just do not understand why you
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Speaker 1: would make moves for Edward Cabrera and Alex Bregman win
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Speaker 1: now moves and then go trade a second baseman who
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Speaker 1: is coming off a magnificent year. I don't care if
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Speaker 1: he has just one year of club control remaining. Sign
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Speaker 1: him to an extension and keep your twenty twenty sixteen
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Speaker 1: as strong as possible. I do not expect the Cubs
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Speaker 1: to trade Nico Horner. Might they trade Matt Shaw? Perhaps
19:43
Speaker 1: more realistic, But even then I would like to keep
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Speaker 1: Shaw too for depth, and give Gregman days off, give
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Speaker 1: Horner days off, put him in the outfield at times.
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Speaker 1: It's your best possible team with all of those guys.
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Speaker 2: How about Alex Bregman Just by Nico Horner a Porsche
19:59
Speaker 2: or Rolex, and then Alex Bragman can get number two
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Speaker 2: and you can just go get the jersey right now.
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Speaker 2: I mean, I think Alex Bregman will be wearing number
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Speaker 2: two at the beginning of twenty twenty six. All right,
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Speaker 2: Dude, dude, dude, all right, Ken, who's your due.
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Speaker 1: To the week? Ranger Suarez and so often in baseball,
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Speaker 1: Lina and you know this from having covered the game
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Speaker 1: as long as you have, we don't have a full
21:13
Speaker 1: grasp of the backstories. When a player signs a free
21:15
Speaker 1: agent contract. Ranger Suarez five years, one hundred and thirty million,
21:19
Speaker 1: that's what people know. What people might not know is
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Speaker 1: that he is the son of a Venezuelan farmer. He
21:25
Speaker 1: signed for twenty five thousand dollars. That was his big bonus.
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Speaker 1: Twenty five thousand dollars in a relative sense in baseball,
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Speaker 1: that's nothing. He also took four years to escape the
21:37
Speaker 1: phillies of Venezuelan academy, so he didn't get state side
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Speaker 1: until his fourth year in pro ball. And now look
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Speaker 1: at him, five years, one hundred and thirty million. Ranger
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Speaker 1: Suarez due to the Week.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, I love that living the dream and fulfilling
21:50
Speaker 2: a dream. I'm sure not only for himself but for
21:52
Speaker 2: his family. My dude to the Week is a guy
21:54
Speaker 2: that I love that can just make fun of himself.
21:57
Speaker 2: And if I want to bring up a tweet here
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Speaker 2: from Carl Rabbits, if we have it, but Carl Rabbits
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Speaker 2: was talking about the fact that of course Alex Bregman,
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Speaker 2: you know, is going to wear number two because he
22:07
Speaker 2: wore number two because Dansby Swanson in the same year
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Speaker 2: that he was drafted, was drafted number one. Okay, so
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Speaker 2: Alex Bragman was a little irritated that he wasn't taken
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Speaker 2: number one because he's that competitor. So that's why Alex
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Speaker 2: Bregman wears number two. It's a well known story. But
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Speaker 2: Vinnie pass Quentino tweeted this, this is why I wanted
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Speaker 2: to wear number three hundred and nineteen, but three digit
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Speaker 2: numbers aren't allowed. I love that he was a drafted
22:29
Speaker 2: what the three hundred and nineteenth pick, and he's having
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Speaker 2: a fine career. So Vinnie pass Quentino and your humor,
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Speaker 2: you are my dude of the week. Okay, time now
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Speaker 2: for the dork of the week. Ken this one on
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Speaker 2: a much more serious note, Who is your dork of
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Speaker 2: the week.
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Speaker 1: Well, it's getting to the point alion with the Angels
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Speaker 1: where we might have to rename the award the Artiber
23:00
Speaker 1: Dork of the Week. We once had a John Fisher
23:02
Speaker 1: Dork of the Week. We abandoned that, but the Angels
23:05
Speaker 1: seem to be in this category every week, and I
23:07
Speaker 1: encourage everyone out there to read Sam Blum's story yesterday
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Speaker 1: about an Angel's prospect who was in a car accident
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Speaker 1: last September and is in a really bad place and
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Speaker 1: he doesn't know if the Angels are going to keep
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Speaker 1: his insurance going after this month. He's twenty two years old.
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Speaker 1: His name is Real Foster, and he's a guy who
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Speaker 1: had some promise, had done some things as an outfielder
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Speaker 1: coming up in their system, former thirteenth round pick. It
23:34
Speaker 1: was a horrible situation that happened. A woman was driving drunk.
23:39
Speaker 1: He was the passenger in that car. He also was drunk.
23:41
Speaker 1: He was not wearing a seatbelt. Okay, but we have
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Speaker 1: seen time and time again organizations step up for players
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Speaker 1: in need. Maybe the Angels will do that, and we
23:52
Speaker 1: don't know. They did not comment for this story, but
23:55
Speaker 1: they need to do it. And it seems that so
23:57
Speaker 1: often this team is in these kinds of situations and
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Speaker 1: we don't need to recount them all here, but the
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Speaker 1: Angels of Dorks of the Week until proven otherwise in
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Speaker 1: this case, and if they step up, we will be
24:09
Speaker 1: happy to acknowledge that on the show.
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Speaker 2: And they should step up. And it just reminds me
24:13
Speaker 2: of a team up the Five, the Los Angeles Dodgers
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Speaker 2: who continue to have Andrew Toles on the payroll. Andrew
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Speaker 2: Tooles has dealt with a lot of mental issues. He's schizophrenic,
24:24
Speaker 2: diagnosed as a schizophrenic, and the Los Angeles Dodgers have
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Speaker 2: kept him on their insurance plan to try to continue
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Speaker 2: to get him the help that he so desperately needs.
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Speaker 2: Whether he's taken advantage of that or not. Continues to
24:36
Speaker 2: be seen on a year and a year out basis,
24:38
Speaker 2: but they're still in touch with his family as they
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Speaker 2: try to get Andrew the mental health that mental health
24:45
Speaker 2: help that he needs. So again, take a page out
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Speaker 2: of the Dodgers' book, because they're doing the right thing.
24:52
Speaker 2: And when you're a team that has the money that
24:54
Speaker 2: the Dodgers have, of course, and the money that Ardi
24:57
Speaker 2: Moreno has, of course, you can do the right things.
25:00
Speaker 2: Some things are just bigger than baseball. All right, we
25:02
Speaker 2: welcome you back. If you're still here, we appreciate you
25:04
Speaker 2: guys listening and watching on YouTube. We're going to take
25:07
Speaker 2: a couple of more questions here from the chat. Are
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Speaker 2: the Yankees still in on starters? If so in free agency,
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Speaker 2: can or via trade?
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Speaker 1: They just acquired Ryan Weathers for for prospects from the
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Speaker 1: Miami Marlins. I don't know that they'll do anything else.
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Speaker 1: I would not expect it to be a major move necessarily. Remember,
25:26
Speaker 1: they've got Cole coming back, They've got Schmid coming back,
25:28
Speaker 1: They've got Rodin coming back. Actually in reverse order of
25:31
Speaker 1: what I just said, Rodin first. So they needed someone
25:36
Speaker 1: like Weathers to be a bridge. Remember they had been
25:38
Speaker 1: talking to the Marlins about Edward Cabrera, and then once
25:41
Speaker 1: Cabrero went to the Cubs, they pivoted to Weathers. Could
25:44
Speaker 1: they do more? Of course they could do more. They
25:47
Speaker 1: always can do more. But their focus right now is Bellinger,
25:51
Speaker 1: and if they do not get Bellinger back, then it's
25:53
Speaker 1: a whole other question. How they go about finding another
25:57
Speaker 1: bat of that caliber? Yeah? About that?
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Speaker 2: All right? One more question I think here on as
26:03
Speaker 2: we get ready to sign off from the YouTube folks,
26:06
Speaker 2: what happens ken to Alec Boom. We haven't talked about
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Speaker 2: the Phillies at all today, but he's not going to
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Speaker 2: be there. Where do you think he ends up?
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Speaker 1: I don't know. And the question obviously refers back to
26:17
Speaker 1: Bobachhett and the expectation by many in the industry. Matt
26:20
Speaker 1: Gilb has written about this for The Athletic that ultimately
26:24
Speaker 1: Bishett will wind up of Philly and probably at third base.
26:28
Speaker 1: Once that happens, Bom goes now. They've been trying to
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Speaker 1: trade him for the better part of a year now,
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Speaker 1: haven't been able to accomplish it. Could it be the
26:37
Speaker 1: Red Sox. I guess it could be the Red Sox,
26:39
Speaker 1: but they're aiming other players too. It could be any
26:43
Speaker 1: number of teams with Alec Bohm. He is a good player.
26:46
Speaker 1: He is not a bad player. This guy is an
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Speaker 1: above average Major leaguer and I would think, even though
26:51
Speaker 1: he's got one year left, it's about ten million that
26:54
Speaker 1: the Phillies could get something of some quality in return.
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Speaker 2: All right, Kyle Tucker, all of us in the baseball world,
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Speaker 2: all of us that love this sport so much, please
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Speaker 2: sign so we can figure out where you're going and
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Speaker 2: the rest of those dominoes can fall. Thank you guys
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Speaker 2: for watching and listening. Foul Territories Next, Todd Frazier, Eric
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Speaker 2: Kratz and Scott Braun Welcome, Padres, pitcher Mason Miller, Angels,
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Speaker 2: starter Grayson Rodriguez. Fair with Ken returns on Monday at
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Speaker 2: ten am Eastern have a great week. Everybody