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Fair Territory: Angels GM shuffle, Trade Deadline needs for AL WC contenders, Phillies & Rays surge · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to the Monday edition of Fair Territory. As usual,
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  Speaker 1: our sport is a live a ton going on, and
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  Speaker 1: I will tell you, and I will promise you today
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  Speaker 1: you're entering a Mets free zone. We're not going to
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  Speaker 1: talk about their firings, their Shenanigans, or anything else involving
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  Speaker 1: the New York Mets, including mister met We're going to
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  Speaker 1: talk about a lot of other things going on in
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  Speaker 1: the game, including, to start with on the lead, another
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  Speaker 1: team that had a big change last week, which we
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  Speaker 1: didn't get to because it happened on Friday, and that
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  Speaker 1: would be the wonderful Los Angeles Angels. Los Angeles Angels
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  Speaker 1: firing Perimanesian as their general manager, bringing in in what
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  Speaker 1: was really a stunner, the former Cardinals president of Baseball Operations,
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  Speaker 1: John Mozzeloc, who is hired as a consultant and an
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  Speaker 1: interim GM and man. This raised more questions than an answered. Question.
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  Speaker 1: Number one was second, John Mozelok said he didn't talk
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  Speaker 1: to Arti Moreno before taking the job, Arti Moreno being
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  Speaker 1: the owner of the team. That's what he said, and
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  Speaker 1: apparently he dealt just with their new president, Mali Jolly
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  Speaker 1: it's hard to believe that happened, but it happened. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the bigger question, or two questions for the Angels as
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  Speaker 1: we go forward here what happens in the draft, which
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  Speaker 1: is the next big event for general managers in Major
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  Speaker 1: League Baseball. That's July eleventh, And then, of course, what
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  Speaker 1: happens at the trade deadline August third. Now, the draft
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  Speaker 1: for the Angels is an interesting question because in recent
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  Speaker 1: years they have not selected any high schoolers high in
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  Speaker 1: the draft. This apparently was a dictate from Moreno. I
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  Speaker 1: don't know exactly why, but it cost them, among others,
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  Speaker 1: Connor Griffin if they had wanted to draft him. They
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  Speaker 1: have not drafted a high schooler in before the fifth
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  Speaker 1: round since twenty twenty. Again, they have not drafted a
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  Speaker 1: high schooler before the fifth round since twenty twenty. College
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  Speaker 1: players generally get to the majors quicker. High school players
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  Speaker 1: are a bigger risk. But if you're going to ignore
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  Speaker 1: an entire segment of the player population in the first
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  Speaker 1: four rounds, you're probably gonna have some problems. So that's
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  Speaker 1: one question. The next question for the Angels, yes, will
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  Speaker 1: be the trade deadline, because this is a team and
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to say this not lightly. This is a
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  Speaker 1: team that can control the trade deadline. And what I
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  Speaker 1: mean by that is as a seller. The Angels have
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  Speaker 1: any number of attractive pieces. The biggest two would be
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  Speaker 1: Jose Soriano and Read Debtmers, both under club control for
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  Speaker 1: two more years after this one. Then you have Zach
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  Speaker 1: Netto a shortstop. What're difficult to trade at this time
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  Speaker 1: of year most teams are set at short but he
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  Speaker 1: is under control for three more years. Joe Adele under
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  Speaker 1: control for one more. This is all after this season.
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  Speaker 1: So when I say Soriano and Debtmo for two more years,
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  Speaker 1: it's this year plus two more. These are attractive pieces.
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  Speaker 1: The Angels under Moreno have resisted this kind of thing,
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  Speaker 1: most famously with refusing to trade show hey Otani, not
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  Speaker 1: once but twice, and we will see what they do here.
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  Speaker 1: They have a number of potential free agents, lesser guys
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  Speaker 1: as well, So there would be one Adam Fraser brand Suter,
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  Speaker 1: but you could trade those guys. You could enter or
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  Speaker 1: at least accelerate a retooling of this roster. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know that they want to do that. The other way
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  Speaker 1: to look at it would be this would be another
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  Speaker 1: departure for Arti Moreno to actually build around what you have,
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  Speaker 1: build around story. I know Debt Meres and the third
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  Speaker 1: pitcher that has come up and done a good job
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  Speaker 1: for them, they have pieces here netto being one of them,
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  Speaker 1: a cornerstone piece that they could use to construct the
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  Speaker 1: team if they choose to spend money. If Arty Moreno
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  Speaker 1: chooses to spend what are we expecting here. We probably
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't expect a whole lot given their recent history, given
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  Speaker 1: their history I don't know for a decade now under Morenos.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll be watching the Angels closely over the next
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  Speaker 1: few weeks just to see if anything changes in the
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  Speaker 1: way they operate. John Mozelac, unlike Perimanas, unlike Billy Eppler,
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  Speaker 1: unlike even going back to Jerry Depoto, is not a
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  Speaker 1: first time GM. I don't recall if the Poto had
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  Speaker 1: been a GM before. I think he had just been
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  Speaker 1: an interim with Arizona. So you have an experienced guy
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  Speaker 1: in there for the first time in a while, and
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be again quite fascinating to see what
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  Speaker 1: this team does. All right, let's go out to stories
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  Speaker 1: that involve teams that actually are good. These would be
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  Speaker 1: two divisions that have turned over in recent days and weeks.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm talking first about the National League East. The
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  Speaker 1: National League East in mid May, and I want to
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  Speaker 1: show you the standings here was a much different ap
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  Speaker 1: animal than it is right now. You are the Atlanta
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  Speaker 1: Braves with a ten and a half game lead over
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  Speaker 1: the Phillies. That's as of May twenty second, ten and
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  Speaker 1: a half games today. What are we looking at? You
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  Speaker 1: can see it right there, the Braves that lead is
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  Speaker 1: down to three games. I had a National League executive
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  Speaker 1: tell me last week this is going to flip. The
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  Speaker 1: Phillies are going to take this division. And you can
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  Speaker 1: certainly see an argument for that. The Phillies are thirty
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  Speaker 1: eight and eighteen now under Don Manningly thirty eight and eighteen,
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  Speaker 1: best record in the majors since the managerial change. You
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  Speaker 1: have to applaud David Dombrowski for this. I questioned it, well,
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  Speaker 1: once again, wrong about a Phillies managerial change. But here
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  Speaker 1: is Atlanta and this is the bigger question here. Atlanta
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  Speaker 1: is three and seven, its last ten, four and twelve,
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  Speaker 1: and it's last sixteen and most to the point because
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  Speaker 1: teams will go through these kinds of slides. Even really
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  Speaker 1: good teams. Their rotation is crumbling. And in this sixteen
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  Speaker 1: game span, the rotation is over six And as Mark
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  Speaker 1: Bowman of MLB dot Com wrote yesterday, if the playoffs
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  Speaker 1: started today, the braves number one starter, of course would
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  Speaker 1: be Chris Slee. Their number two starter would be Martine Peretz,
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  Speaker 1: who was designated for assignment and resigned earlier this season.
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  Speaker 1: That was in April. That's where they are with the rotation.
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  Speaker 1: Bryce Elder has faded badly. Grant Holmes, okay, you've got him.
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  Speaker 1: You've got also Raynaldo Lopez coming back trying to be
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  Speaker 1: a legitimate starter. Hurston Waldrop Smith Shauver is starting a
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  Speaker 1: rehab assignment he hopefully will be back at some point.
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  Speaker 1: Strider is out. So these rotation problems, we all saw
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  Speaker 1: them coming. What was so interesting about the Braves, and
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  Speaker 1: here's something I wrote in February. By not adding another
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  Speaker 1: established starter to the rotation, the Braves are taking a
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  Speaker 1: big chance. What's so interesting is that for two months
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  Speaker 1: this was pretty good. This rotation really good, third in
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  Speaker 1: the majors in era through May twenty second, and at
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  Speaker 1: one point I said to a Braves person you know
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  Speaker 1: what I was wrong about you guys, And the Braves
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  Speaker 1: person actually said to me, not so fast. Let's see
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  Speaker 1: what happens. Let's see how this plays out. One hundred
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  Speaker 1: and sixty two games, so this is turning into a
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  Speaker 1: very interesting race. These two teams, the Braves and Phillies,
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  Speaker 1: play seven times in a two week stretch in September,
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  Speaker 1: so we shall see how this all transpires going forward.
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  Speaker 1: The other division, that's rather interesting right now. They all
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  Speaker 1: are interesting, but this one has flipped in a big
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  Speaker 1: way in recent days. The Al East. Now, I want
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  Speaker 1: to show you the Ale East standings as of just
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, twelve days ago or so, and they
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  Speaker 1: looked much different. At the time. The Yankees had a
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  Speaker 1: three and a half game lead over the Tampa Bay Rays.
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  Speaker 1: I believe this was as of June. I don't know
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  Speaker 1: it was recently, and that lead is now gone. It
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  Speaker 1: was twelve days ago. Here it is June seventeenth. Yankees
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  Speaker 1: three and a half game lead over the Rays now
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  Speaker 1: lead the division by one game. The Yankees went into
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  Speaker 1: the weekend still leading by two, and what happened. They
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  Speaker 1: got swept in a four game series at Fenway Park
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  Speaker 1: by the Red Sox and now they trail in the
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  Speaker 1: division race. Now the Yankees slide here is completely understandable.
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  Speaker 1: They without Judge, they were without Stanton, they're without Grisham,
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  Speaker 1: even Ryan McMahon, four of their nine regular position players,
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  Speaker 1: although Stanton has barely appeared. Even without Max Freed, you
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  Speaker 1: can't forget him either. And beyond that, you had their
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  Speaker 1: two best hitters, Ben Rice and Cody Bellinger finally struggling
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  Speaker 1: and going through a little bit of a slump. So okay,
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  Speaker 1: you can see where the Yankees, running into some terrific
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  Speaker 1: Red Sox pitching over the weekend would struggle, and that
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  Speaker 1: is exactly what happened. Now the Red Sox are now
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  Speaker 1: four and a half out in the Wildcard and we've
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  Speaker 1: been trashing the Red Sox all season long, and not
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  Speaker 1: without reason. But they now enter an easier part of
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  Speaker 1: their schedule with a roster that suddenly looks more functional.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not saying they're going to make a run, but
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  Speaker 1: they have starting pitching. We saw that in this series.
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  Speaker 1: We've seen a really the better part of the season,
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  Speaker 1: So who knows, maybe that gets interesting. We're going to
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  Speaker 1: talk about the AL wild card in a little bit now.
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  Speaker 1: The Rays. The Rays went into this slide at one
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  Speaker 1: point until recently. They lost eighteen of twenty seven. Eighteen
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  Speaker 1: and twenty seven not good. They've now won five straight
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  Speaker 1: cam and Arrow's going nuts. Home runs in four straight games.
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  Speaker 1: His longest home run of the season yesterday, four intred
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  Speaker 1: and sixty three feet, actually the longest of his career
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  Speaker 1: and the fourth longest in the majors this season. So
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  Speaker 1: this is getting interesting now. The Rays, when you look
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  Speaker 1: at them on paper, and they now have a physical
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  Speaker 1: concern with Yandy Diaz and his shoulder, you look at
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  Speaker 1: them on paper, they do not match up with the Yankees.
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  Speaker 1: They certainly do not match up with a healthy Yankees team.
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  Speaker 1: And yet they're kind of like the Brewers, not quite
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  Speaker 1: as successful. They're always there. The Guardians are another team.
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  Speaker 1: They're always there. So I would still predict the Yankees
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  Speaker 1: would win this division. But what I think the Raids
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  Speaker 1: would get a wild card based on the way they
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  Speaker 1: put things together and the fact that they probably will
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  Speaker 1: be aggressive at the deadline. Yeah, I'll predict that raised
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  Speaker 1: in the playoffs. All right, we're going to be back
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  Speaker 1: with a look at the American League Wildcard race, a
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  Speaker 1: race of turtles, right after this. As I alluded to earlier,
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  Speaker 1: we have an interesting race going on for the American
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  Speaker 1: League Wildcard. It's the race of the turtles. And this
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  Speaker 1: will be the inside dish this week, an analysis of
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  Speaker 1: what exactly is going on in this ridiculous American League season.
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  Speaker 1: Now we start with the Detroit Tigers. They're not part
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  Speaker 1: of a wildcard race, of course, and that's the story here.
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  Speaker 1: They're not part. They're back to fourteen games under five hundred.
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  Speaker 1: They've lost five of six. So all that talk last week,
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  Speaker 1: here come the Tigers. The AL Central stinks. They're gonna
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  Speaker 1: make a run. They're gonna have to face a difficult
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  Speaker 1: choice with scooball and Mice and all their other potential
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  Speaker 1: free agents. I'm not buying it. I wasn't buying it
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  Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago when they were sixteen under.
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  Speaker 1: They are not a true contender. In fact, they've got
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  Speaker 1: the second worst record in the American League. And that's
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  Speaker 1: pretty telling. Second worst record in a bad league. So
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  Speaker 1: let's go to the teams actually in contention. And let's
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  Speaker 1: start with a team that currently holds the third wildcard position.
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  Speaker 1: Why are we starting with them? Because they are the
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  Speaker 1: Seattle Mariners and they are under five hundred. Yes, if
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs started today, an under five hundred team would qualify.
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  Speaker 1: That is not a good thing necessarily. And the Mariners
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  Speaker 1: not only have fallen in the wildcard race or where
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  Speaker 1: they are in the standings, but they are second now
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  Speaker 1: in the American League West to the Texas Rangers. Another
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  Speaker 1: team that hasn't played particularly well might be facing the
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  Speaker 1: loss again or is facing the loss again of Wyatt Langford.
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  Speaker 1: But Seattle, I don't get them because they should be
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  Speaker 1: better offensively. I know Donovan's been out, but this is
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  Speaker 1: a team that until yesterday when thirteen straight games without
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  Speaker 1: scoring scoring more than three runs. Thirteen straight games not
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  Speaker 1: scoring more than three runs. So with each of these teams,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to discuss what they might need at the deadline.
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  Speaker 1: With Seattle, it's a right handed bat for sure. Rob
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  Speaker 1: Refsneider has been a big disappointment. Victor Roebliz is not
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  Speaker 1: that guy. They clearly need a right handed bat, and
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  Speaker 1: as Adam Jude of The Seattle Times reported over the
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  Speaker 1: weekend they also would like to add a high impact reliever,
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  Speaker 1: maybe build a super bullpen. So that's your wild Cardly,
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  Speaker 1: they're struggling Seattle Mariners. The team right behind them Houston Astros.
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  Speaker 1: Now the Astros, as always are in this thing. They're
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  Speaker 1: not a particularly strong team either, but of all the teams,
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  Speaker 1: they are the one that so far is, or at
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  Speaker 1: least lately playing the best. Twenty two and thirteen since
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  Speaker 1: May twentieth, they are one out in the American League West.
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  Speaker 1: Two straight comebacks over the Tigers this weekend. Hater escaped
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  Speaker 1: the bases loaded now now jam yesterday. They have some
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  Speaker 1: issues too. Their issues are twofold. One is the outfield,
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  Speaker 1: one of the least productive outfields in the major leagues.
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  Speaker 1: And the other is the rotation. And you can see
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  Speaker 1: where Chandler Rome wrote in The Athletic this was just
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  Speaker 1: last week. Will the Astros have to choose between outfield
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  Speaker 1: help and pitching at the trade deadline? You might say, well,
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  Speaker 1: they need both, go get both, and maybe they do,
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  Speaker 1: but their system, as always is thin. Now the good
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  Speaker 1: news with the rotation is that Hunter Brown as back,
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  Speaker 1: that I my has pitched better as last two. Mike
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  Speaker 1: Burrows pitch better as last one. Arraghetti has struggled and
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  Speaker 1: he's had a bad June. But Javier is close to
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  Speaker 1: coming off the injured list, so maybe they can more
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  Speaker 1: settle on the outfield depending on what happens over the
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  Speaker 1: next five weeks. They're an interesting club to say the least.
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  Speaker 1: They have the pedigree, they always seem to figure out
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  Speaker 1: a way to compete. Their outfield is hard, There's no
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  Speaker 1: question about it right now, but they're the Astros and
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  Speaker 1: I expect they're going to do things. Dana Brown their
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  Speaker 1: GM in the last year of his contract, and I
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  Speaker 1: expect they will be in the thick of this thing.
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  Speaker 1: Next on this list another AOS team, the Athletics. Now
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  Speaker 1: the Athletics, their offense has come around and certainly Kurtz
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  Speaker 1: is an MVP candidate, brilliant player, Shay Langeleiers having a
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  Speaker 1: great year. They've got some good things going on the
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  Speaker 1: offensive end. Geloff has come on for them. They obviously
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  Speaker 1: need starting pitching. They have a prospect Gauge Jump who
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  Speaker 1: has emerged and really look good for them. JT. Ginn
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  Speaker 1: also is having a really good year. Jeffrey Springs and
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  Speaker 1: Savali not as good, Severino out with an injury. Starting
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  Speaker 1: pitching will be their focus at the deadline. It has
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  Speaker 1: to be like all teams. They could also use another reliever. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the Minnesota Twins are next on my list, and the
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  Speaker 1: Minnesota Twins are a team you might not expect would
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  Speaker 1: even be here. Remember last year they were not just sellers,
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  Speaker 1: they were big sellers, the major sellers at the deadline.
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  Speaker 1: And yet they now are run by Tom Pohlad, and he,
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  Speaker 1: as the guy who is controlling the team, wants to win.
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  Speaker 1: Shockingly enough, he feels an obligation to the players and
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  Speaker 1: the fans to do some things. So as of now,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know that they're trading Joe Ryan. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know that they're trading Ryan Jeffers. They're certainly probably not
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  Speaker 1: trade Byron Buxton, who has been vocal about wanting to stay.
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  Speaker 1: And what do they need? They need another starter, yes,
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  Speaker 1: and probably two bullpen arms. They are a team that
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  Speaker 1: in both those areas could use help. Imagine Sonny Gray
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  Speaker 1: going back to the Minnesota Twins. His first choice probably
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  Speaker 1: would be Atlanta. He lives in Nashville, but he's played
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  Speaker 1: for Minnesota. He was happy there if the Twins were bold,
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  Speaker 1: maybe that's the move that they would make. All right,
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  Speaker 1: Moving down the list, the Blue Jays. Now here's a
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  Speaker 1: team that is an utter mystery. They're the defending American
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  Speaker 1: League champions. Their need is clear. Their general manager, Ross
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  Speaker 1: Atkins said it. They need a starting pitcher. And what's
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  Speaker 1: shocking about this from the Blue Jays perspective is that
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  Speaker 1: they started the season or actually spring training with seven,
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  Speaker 1: maybe even eight starting pitchers. They had too many. We
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  Speaker 1: all thought this was going to be an amazing Blue
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  Speaker 1: Jays rotation. What happens. Pons gets hurt, Bieber doesn't come
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  Speaker 1: back that quickly. He just came back. Actually, Max Schurz
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  Speaker 1: are not good, Eric lower gets traded. All these things happen,
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  Speaker 1: and right now their rotation is not what we thought
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  Speaker 1: it would be. In fact, the Blue Jays are twenty
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  Speaker 1: fifth in the majors in rotation era. And yet that's
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  Speaker 1: not their only problem. First base, where Vladimir Guerrero Junior
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  Speaker 1: is a superstar, he has not been a superstar this season.
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  Speaker 1: First base ops. If you look at all the teams
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  Speaker 1: in the major leagues, where are the Blue Jays. They're
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: twenty eighth with flag Guerrero twenty eighth in first base ops.
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  Speaker 1: It's incredible to me the team as a whole, This
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: wonderful offensive team we saw last October went all the
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  Speaker 1: way to the seventh game of the World Series and
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: into extra innings in seventh game of the World Series.
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  Speaker 1: This team now is twenty third in runs per game.
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  Speaker 1: I know exactly what the Blue Jays will do with
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: the deadline. They clearly will be in it to win it.
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  Speaker 1: They have invested a lot in this team already. They
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: probably need one more bat as well as another starter.
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  Speaker 1: It's just been really curious that this funk that they've
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: been in has extended now for three months. That's kind
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  Speaker 1: of shocking considering the way they ended last season. And
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  Speaker 1: finally amid the wildcard contenders, and again, all of these
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  Speaker 1: teams are within three games of the Wildcard lead, just
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: three the Baltimore Orioles. Here's a team we've known their
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: needs for quite some time now. Top of the rotation, starter,
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: bullpen help as well. We're kind of repeating ourselves, aren't we.
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  Speaker 1: All these teams seem to need the same thing, but
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: the Orioles beyond that need to play a cleaner brand
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: of Baseball, and you know the story Brit Jeroli and
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: I wrote a few weeks ago about where they are
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  Speaker 1: with that and about how they are a difficult team
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  Speaker 1: to watch. They make mistakes on a nightly base, particularly
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: on the defensive end, but fundamentally all around. Yes, they
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: brought in Cal Ripken and Mike Shilt, well, that's fine,
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  Speaker 1: but that's not going to help them right away. And
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: where they are as a team, I'm not sure I
• 20:13
  Speaker 1: would bet on them to be a playoff team now.
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  Speaker 1: Mike Elias, their GM came out or president basebar Oberations
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: came out over the weekend and said we're going for it. Well,
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  Speaker 1: you can understand that they've invested a lot in their team,
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  Speaker 1: but they're not very good right now. It's not going
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  Speaker 1: to take a lot with this group of contenders to
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: jump to the front or jump even too a second
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: wildcard position. But all of these teams, all these teams
• 20:40
  Speaker 1: within three games of the final wildcard berth which is
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: currently held by the Seattle Mariners, all of these teams
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  Speaker 1: with the right moves that the deadline possibly could do
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  Speaker 1: something special. I'm not looking at them and saying that's
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: really likely. It's not likely, but the deadline for any
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: of these clubs could be transformative. We will see what happens.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: The race of the Turtles continues all right. Time now
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  Speaker 1: for Grill and Ken the part of the show where
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  Speaker 1: I answer your questions. Let's get right to them. First
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  Speaker 1: question comes from Ricky shot five seven five eight, who says, so, Ken,
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  Speaker 1: what can the Brewers do? Then? I presume that Ricky's
• 21:26
  Speaker 1: asking about the Brewers at the deadline, and I was
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: looking at some of the statistics from the league last
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: night just overall, who ranks where, et cetera, and the
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: Brewers still have terrible production at shortstop and third base.
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  Speaker 1: If I were them, though, I would focus on pitching.
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  Speaker 1: They could use more depth in the bullpen for sure,
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  Speaker 1: And really I still see them as a team that
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: if they wanted to, could go get Trek Scooble because
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: they have one of the best form systems in the majors.
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  Speaker 1: I don't expect them to do that, but certainly they
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: can get another starting pitcher, maybe a less accomplished veteran,
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  Speaker 1: maybe someone like Casey Miz Schooble's teammate. So pitching would
• 22:07
  Speaker 1: be my focus if on the Brewers, even though that
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: production is short and third remains at the bottom of
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  Speaker 1: the league, and Cooper Pratt has taken over at shortstop
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: and they're kind of mixing and matching a third. Maybe
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: it's going to get better, and maybe they don't really
• 22:21
  Speaker 1: care that much about it because their defense is so good,
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: but one more bat would probably be useful as well.
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  Speaker 1: We can say this for every team. No team is perfect,
• 22:31
  Speaker 1: but the Brewers they are in a position to do
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: some special things. And I know everybody thinks, oh my gosh,
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: they can't beat the Dodgers. Can't beat a big market team.
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: No boloney, they can, but they have to do some
• 22:44
  Speaker 1: things to tweak their roster. All right. Next question, This
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: one comes from Jim Jim Huerta, who asks Ken, which team,
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: outside of the wildcard trio would you expect to make
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: a surprising run in both leagues? Okay, we sort of
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: cover that in the last one. What I said was,
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  Speaker 1: with regard to the American League, it's going to be
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: maybe the team that makes the best moves. Now, the
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: Red Sox are really interesting in the American League because
• 23:10
  Speaker 1: they're outside of the teams even that I mentioned, they're
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: four and a half games back in the Wildcard, But
• 23:16
  Speaker 1: we saw this weekend what they can do when they pitch. Now,
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: if they get another bat and maybe it's somebody that
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: can just be kind of a solid guy in the
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: infield pretty much anywhere, then they maybe get interesting and
• 23:32
  Speaker 1: maybe they go on and run again. They have an
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: easy schedule coming up. It's teams like the Mets, the Nats, Angels.
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  Speaker 1: They have a chance here to do something. So that's
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: the team I would say in the American League. In
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: the National League, it's a little more difficult, but certainly
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: the Marlins have played great in June. And the Marlins
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: are a team I've liked from the very beginning. They've
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: had these incredible pitching injuries this month where you thought
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: they would collapse at the start of June, and they
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: took off. So I like where they are under Clayton McCullough.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: I like where they are in general. They certainly could
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: use another starter as well. They can't trade our contrift.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to be trying to get into a playoff spot.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: But yes, I can see them maybe making a push here.
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  Speaker 1: You see where they are right now, half game out
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: in the wildcard standings. Pretty good for the Miami Marlins.
• 24:22
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• 24:31
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• 24:35
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• 24:38
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