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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 for our regular Thursday
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Speaker 1: edition in Alana. As always, there is action in Major
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Speaker 1: League Baseball.
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Speaker 2: There is action. Great to be with you, Ken, as always, Hello,
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Speaker 2: Fair Territory family. I tell you what, Ken, what an
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Speaker 2: off season it has been for the New York Mets
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Speaker 2: this week.
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Speaker 1: A lot. That's a great way to put it, and
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Speaker 1: you're absolutely right, Starting with the signing of Bobaschett, which
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Speaker 1: seemingly came out of nowhere. Actually go back even a
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Speaker 1: day before that, missing out on Kyle Talker. Then they
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Speaker 1: signed Bobachhett the next day, the quick pivot to Bishett,
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Speaker 1: then the trade for Luis Robert Junior, and then last
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Speaker 1: night the trade for Freddie Peralta, the ace or the
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Speaker 1: top of the rotation.
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Speaker 3: Starter that they needed.
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Speaker 1: They are a much different team than they were at
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Speaker 1: the end.
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Speaker 3: Of last season.
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Speaker 1: They expect or should be expected, to have at least
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Speaker 1: eight new players from last year on the opening day roster.
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Speaker 1: They believe they are better defensively, even though Boba Schett
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Speaker 1: and Joge Polanca will be playing positions for the first
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Speaker 1: time in their careers bo at third base, Jorge at
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Speaker 1: first and they believe that also they've changed the mix
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Speaker 1: in a satisfactory way. And they still need to address
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Speaker 1: their bullpen to a degree. But at the same time,
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Speaker 1: from where they were a month ago or a little
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Speaker 1: bit more than a month ago on those back to
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Speaker 1: back days when they lost Pete Alonzo and Edwin Diaz,
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Speaker 1: they certainly have come a long way.
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Speaker 2: Okay, So why does this make sense for the Brewers then, Ken,
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Speaker 2: I can understand from a David Stern Steve Cohen New
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Speaker 2: York Mets perspective, But why if you're the Brewers seemingly
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Speaker 2: a good chance to win the Central again, why trade
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Speaker 2: away Freddy Peralta You're top of the rotation.
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Speaker 3: Guy, Alana.
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Speaker 1: The only answer to that is this is what they do.
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Speaker 1: They did it with Corbyn Burns before that. They did
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Speaker 1: it with Josh Hater though all at the deadline, and
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Speaker 1: when they have players who are getting up there toward
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Speaker 1: free agency one year away, as Burns was, as Peralta is,
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Speaker 1: then they feel that rather than get a draft pick
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Speaker 1: in return by offering that player a qualifying offer, at
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Speaker 1: times it is better to make a trade and get
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Speaker 1: what they got in this deal, which were two top
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Speaker 1: one hundred prospects, Brendan Sprote and Jet Williams Sprote, the
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Speaker 1: right handed pitcher. William's a guy who can play infield
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Speaker 1: and outfield. Now, what's interesting about the Brewers is that
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Speaker 1: that don't always do this. They didn't do with Willia Domis.
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Speaker 1: They carried him the whole year. But in this case
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Speaker 1: they feel that they have with Brandon Woodruff and Jacob
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Speaker 1: Mazeroski and Quinn Priester Sprokee coming over now and a
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Speaker 1: number of others Logan Henderson, that they have enough depth
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Speaker 1: in their rotation to carry forward as an L Central
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Speaker 1: champions and be a really competitive team. They're all tired
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Speaker 1: of doubting them and being mistaken when we doubt them,
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Speaker 1: and I'm not going to doubt them this time. I
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Speaker 1: understand where they're coming from. And I'll say this about
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Speaker 1: Peralta too. He's really good, there's no question about that.
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Speaker 1: But there are teams that kind of balked at him
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Speaker 1: because one he had the one year of control and
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Speaker 1: that's of course not that much. And two his season
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Speaker 1: last year there were some underlying things that teams felt he.
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Speaker 3: Was perhaps a bit fortunate.
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Speaker 1: His expected era was significantly higher than his actual era,
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Speaker 1: which points to some of this. So for the Mets,
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Speaker 1: I definitely see the logic here. They needed a guy
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Speaker 1: like this, they didn't really want to pay for any
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Speaker 1: of the free agents. And from the Brewers, I also
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Speaker 1: see the logic. It's a very similar return to what
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Speaker 1: they got for Burns. Now Burns was making more money
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Speaker 1: about fifteen million versus Parolta's eight million, and for Burns
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Speaker 1: they got Joey Lopez, deal Hall and a draft pick.
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Speaker 1: They didn't get the draft pick in this deal, but
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Speaker 1: for whatever reason, he turned out this way. Maybe because
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Speaker 1: Bruins was coming off a little bit of.
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Speaker 3: A better season, I'm not exactly sure, but no.
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Speaker 1: One should have been surprised by this. We've been reporting
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Speaker 1: on the possibility for months now that they would trade Peralta.
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Speaker 1: It's just I'm sure jarring. For Brewers fans. You need
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Speaker 1: to go through this again. You get attached to guys,
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Speaker 1: they leave, It happens. It's part of the small market
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Speaker 1: issue that this sport faces. So we'll just have to
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Speaker 1: see how the Brewers come out of this, and we'll
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Speaker 1: have to see how the Mets come out of it.
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Speaker 1: Alan I wrote at length today about the Mets and
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Speaker 1: whether they actually are a better team, and certainly they're
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Speaker 1: a different team and they have the chance to be
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Speaker 1: really good, but there's also some risk there, some defensive risks,
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Speaker 1: players at new positions, some injury risk, even some chemistry
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Speaker 1: risks introducing this many new players.
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Speaker 2: And don't sleep on Tobias Meyers. Also Kennemy is a
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Speaker 2: lot of upside as well as far as the Mets
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Speaker 2: are concerned, do you think they have done enough now?
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Speaker 2: Because we remember we were waiting to see where Kyle
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Speaker 2: Tucker was going to land, Steve Cohen even tweeting on
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Speaker 2: ex waiting to see smoke. Let me know when you
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Speaker 2: see smoke, something to that effect. A quick pivot of
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Speaker 2: course to Bobaschett and now obviously Freddy Peralta, Luis Robert Jr.
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Speaker 2: Have they done enough?
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Speaker 1: Yes, as presently constituted, they're pretty close to where they
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Speaker 1: need to be, maybe a little bit more bullpen depth.
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Speaker 1: And remember it was Devin Williams and Luke Weaver added
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Speaker 1: to the bullpen. We talked about the offensive additions, from
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Speaker 1: Simeon to Bishett to Polanco, now to Luis Robert Jr.
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Speaker 1: They've done quite a bit to remake themselves, and they've
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Speaker 1: got a kid named Carson benj a rookie who is
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Speaker 1: going to get a chance to make the team somewhere
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Speaker 1: in the outfield. So yeah, they've done enough except for
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Speaker 1: that bullpen that they still perhaps will do a little
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Speaker 1: bit more work with. But if you look at the
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Speaker 1: Fangrafts projected team war totals right now, the Mets ranked third,
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Speaker 1: behind only the Dodgers and the Yankees. That might surprise
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Speaker 1: some people, atually surprise me, but that speaks to the
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Speaker 1: talent level on their roster. And let's not forget this
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Speaker 1: is a team built around Juan Soto and Francisco Lindor.
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Speaker 1: They're going to be competitive in one form or another.
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Speaker 1: But there are some things that can go.
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Speaker 3: Wrong, no question.
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Speaker 2: There are some big dominoes that have finally been placed. Ken,
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Speaker 2: of course, the Pee, Alonzo's, Kyle Schwarber, Kyle Tucker, Alex Bregman,
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Speaker 2: Bobashett now we know, but there are still some free
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Speaker 2: agents out there. Ken, what does this mean now as
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Speaker 2: far as the market is concerned. I forgot to mention
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Speaker 2: Cody Bellinger. Obviously, going back to the Yankees Peralta. Now
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Speaker 2: with the Mets, what does this mean for the likes
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Speaker 2: of fromer Valdez and Ejujaneo Suarez. We'll start there.
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Speaker 1: Fromer Valdez is a good question, and so is Aohania Suarez,
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Speaker 1: but a lot. I'm going to start with both Valdez
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Speaker 1: and Zach Gallen, two guys who were pected qualifying offers.
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Speaker 1: Two guys who are still free agents. Two guys that
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Speaker 1: will cost the teams that sign them draft picks as
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Speaker 1: well as money. Clearly, their markets have not been to
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Speaker 1: this point what they desired. Now there are still a
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Speaker 1: number of teams looking for starting pitching. I will list
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Speaker 1: the Orioles first among those teams. They've been active in
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Speaker 1: the free agent and trade markets, but you also have
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Speaker 1: the Blue Jays exploring some things still. You have the Giants,
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Speaker 1: the Padres other teams as well, and from that perspective,
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Speaker 1: there should be places for these guys. I would expect
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Speaker 1: the Angels or another club that is still looking for
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Speaker 1: a starting pitching at their price. And then beyond those guys,
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Speaker 1: there are pitchers like Chris Bassett, Lucas Giolito still out there,
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Speaker 1: justin Verlander, Max Schurzer, so there are still a number
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Speaker 1: of starters available now, Aohanger Suarez, another interesting guy. Jenn
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Speaker 1: McCaffrey of The Athletic My colleague there wrote that the
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Speaker 1: Red Sox really would prefer to play Marcelo Meyer at
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Speaker 1: third and then get a second basement, some kind of
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Speaker 1: option there, a good defender who could really kind of
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Speaker 1: round out their team. They've got one big move left
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Speaker 1: in them, I believe, and if they do that, people
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Speaker 1: will point toward Nico Horner. I don't know that the
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Speaker 1: Cubs are going to trade Nico Horner. Brendan Donovan also
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Speaker 1: out there in a trade, but the Red Sox don't
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Speaker 1: necessarily want to go left handed at that position. They're
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Speaker 1: pretty left handed as it is. So there are a
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Speaker 1: lot of interesting things still to come. Some first basement
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Speaker 1: out there, Rehys Hoskins, Paul Goldschmid, some outfielders Austin Hayes
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Speaker 1: might finally found this spot. Find the spot now that
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Speaker 1: the Mets and Yankees have settled with their outfield pursuits.
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Speaker 1: So there's a long way to go still in this offseason,
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Speaker 1: even though the calendar is telling us there aren't that
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Speaker 1: many days left until spring training.
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Speaker 2: Ken Jen McCaffrey's article talking about having Marcelo Meyer at
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Speaker 2: third base for the Boston Red Sox. If that's the case, Ken,
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Speaker 2: and that's where they want to play him, why not
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Speaker 2: go harder on Boba chev for second base?
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Speaker 1: Good question, And they pivoted to Ranger Suarez. They wanted
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Speaker 1: the pitcher at that point, and I'm not exactly sure
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Speaker 1: where they were on Bishop, but that is certainly a
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Speaker 1: fair question. Bashett Is, a right handed hitter, would have
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Speaker 1: fit perfectly, has great numbers at Fenway.
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Speaker 3: It all made a lot of sense.
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Speaker 1: And you could still do Suarez Aohano Suars at third base,
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Speaker 1: put Meyer at second aoh Suarez is getting the interest
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Speaker 1: from other teams as well. Cincinnati Reds have been linked
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Speaker 1: to him, The Pirates have been linked to him. His
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Speaker 1: former teams where he was so popular.
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Speaker 3: Seattle and Arizona.
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Speaker 1: There are always threats to sign Suarez. So I don't
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Speaker 1: know exactly how it's going to turn out with him,
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Speaker 1: and I don't know how exactly it's going to turn
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Speaker 1: out with the Red Sox. But again the point is
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Speaker 1: a lot of dominoes still defall.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, the Mets certainly win the week, and I
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Speaker 2: back to Fair Territory with Ken Rosenthal. Time now to
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Speaker 2: ask Ken some questions. The first question in regards to
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Speaker 2: one of those dominoes Ken that still has not fallen
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Speaker 2: Frombert Valdez. How much is Valdez's character playing into his
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Speaker 2: free agent offers. There is a narrative out there. I'm
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Speaker 2: not certain if it's true. I don't know him personally.
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Speaker 2: What are you hearing?
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Speaker 4: Ken?
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Speaker 1: It certainly has been out there about what happened to
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Speaker 1: mix up with his catcher last season with Houston. That's
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Speaker 1: something that teams have mentioned focused on his agent. Louis
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Speaker 1: Ulysses Carrera from Octagon put out a long video at
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Speaker 1: the start of the offseason, showed it to teams kind
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Speaker 1: of explaining where Fromber came from.
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Speaker 3: His background everything.
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Speaker 1: And explaining that he might not be the guy that
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Speaker 1: he was that night.
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Speaker 3: It wasn't the guy that he was that night. That
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Speaker 3: was obviously not a great look for him.
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Speaker 1: Is it playing into it? I believe it is playing
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Speaker 1: into it. And if not for that, and if not
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Speaker 1: for other questions maybe about his makeup, perhaps he'd have
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Speaker 1: a deal by now. But do I expect in the
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Speaker 1: end that from ber Valdez is going to do well? Yes,
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Speaker 1: I expect he's going to do well. And why is that, Alana.
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Speaker 3: Because he's really good and there's not a lot of
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Speaker 3: starting pictures of his caliber in this sport right now?
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Speaker 2: Where do you think is the best fit? You had
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Speaker 2: mentioned the Orioles? Is there anywhere else?
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Speaker 1: Well, the Mets were talked about before they got Peralta,
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Speaker 1: and the Giants could use a starter, There's no question
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Speaker 1: about that. And it's been curious to me, Alana, why
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Speaker 1: they have not.
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Speaker 3: Been more aggressive in the free agent market.
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Speaker 1: They've signed Adrian Hauser and they signed Tyler Molly. Okay,
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Speaker 1: those are adequate major league pictures, but you would think
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Speaker 1: that they would want maybe a higher level guy, And
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Speaker 1: then you look at them and the way they see themselves.
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Speaker 1: They like their younger pictures, and hey.
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Speaker 3: That's their evaluation.
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Speaker 1: Maybe they're right, maybe they're wrong, but just seems to
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Speaker 1: me they could use one more.
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Speaker 2: Next question in regards to Lucas Giolito currently does not
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Speaker 2: have a home ken. Of course, he was with the
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Speaker 2: Red Sox last season, not in the postseason. But Black
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Speaker 2: Sheep twenty nine wants to know what's up with Giolito?
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Speaker 2: Guy was pretty good last year, could be relatively cheap
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Speaker 2: for a contender.
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Speaker 1: Not exactly sure what's up with Geolido and he is
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Speaker 1: in that next tier with Bassett and some of the
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Speaker 1: others Nick Martinez and one team I have not mentioned
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Speaker 1: here is the Atlanta Braves. The Atlanta Braves are another
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Speaker 1: club that needs a starting pitcher. Whether in the end
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Speaker 1: the price for a Geolido someone like that falls to
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Speaker 1: their level, whatever the level that they are willing to
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Speaker 1: spend is that remains to be seen. But are all
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Speaker 1: these guys wanting to get jobs? The answer to that
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Speaker 1: question is yes. The question is how does the game
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Speaker 1: of musical chairs end? Where? Where do the Atlanta Braves go?
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Speaker 1: Where do the Padres go, Where do the Angels go?
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Speaker 1: Where do the Giants and Orioles go again remains to
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Speaker 1: be seen.
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Speaker 2: Another question regarding the Giant because you had just said
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Speaker 2: Ken that you're a little surprised that they haven't been
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Speaker 2: as aggressive as perhaps we thought they would be in
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Speaker 2: this offseason. I see s Samuel wants to know Ken Vittello. Obviously,
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Speaker 2: Tony Vittello the new manager of the Giants, please turn
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Speaker 2: the Giants into a Herzog dynasty.
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Speaker 1: Well, I'm sure that's the giants hope for Tony Vitello.
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Speaker 1: I don't know that it's going to happen, and I
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Speaker 1: don't know that it's going to.
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Speaker 3: Happen right away.
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Speaker 1: I will say this, the Giants in spring training, but
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Speaker 1: especially once the season starts, are going to be one
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Speaker 1: of the most fascinating stories in the game. To see
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Speaker 1: Tony Vitello come from the college ranks and now into
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Speaker 1: the major leagues without any experience prior to that. That's
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Speaker 1: going to be something to be following closely. We have
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Speaker 1: abs getting introduced this year. We have the major league
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Speaker 1: game being so much different than the college game.
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Speaker 3: Similar in some.
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Speaker 1: Ways, but overall you're dealing with major league players on
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Speaker 1: major league salaries, with major league egos. A little bit
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Speaker 1: different than having control of the University of Tennessee.
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Speaker 2: Let me ask you how much more important it is
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Speaker 2: than ken to have the likes of Buster Posey and
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Speaker 2: some of the coaching staff that he has around him,
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Speaker 2: guys that do have legitimate major league experience in the
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Speaker 2: coaching ranks surrounding Tony Vittello, so he can lean on them,
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Speaker 2: at least in his first year.
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Speaker 3: Very important.
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Speaker 1: And not only do they have Buster Posey there, Dusty
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Speaker 1: Baker's going to be around, I believe Bruce Bochi as well,
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Speaker 1: and certainly they can serve as sounding boards for Vytello.
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Speaker 3: It's going to help him.
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Speaker 1: And they have brought in some experienced coaches as well,
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Speaker 1: so he should be fine in all these regards. But
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Speaker 1: it's still one thing to say it in one thing
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Speaker 1: to think it, and then another thing to get in
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Speaker 1: the dugout at seven oh five, and the game moves
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Speaker 1: a lot faster in that dugout than people might imagine.
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Speaker 2: That's exactly what I was going to say. It's a
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Speaker 2: lot faster than you think it is. I tried to
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Speaker 2: manage a team one time on a video game and
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Speaker 2: I got absolutely blasted. All right, This from Scotti broun Our,
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Speaker 2: big boss at Falterit well, the Yankees or Mets add
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Speaker 2: another starting pitcher, it seems like it still seems like
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Speaker 2: both need another arm.
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Speaker 1: I would say it's possible in both cases. Neither team
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Speaker 1: is going to rule it out, especially as I mentioned,
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Speaker 1: if the prices for some of these players drop to
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Speaker 1: a level that they feel is within their range reasonable
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Speaker 1: for them.
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Speaker 3: At this stage with their payrolls where they are.
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Speaker 1: The Yankees did add Ryan Weathers, and the Yankees have
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Speaker 1: Max Freed, Louis Heel, Ryan Weathers, Cam Schlitzler, Ryan Yarborough,
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Speaker 1: Paul Blackburn. That's to start the season, and of course
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Speaker 1: they expect Colon Rodin back sometime in the first half
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Speaker 1: and then Schmidt back perhaps in the second half. So
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Speaker 1: I don't know that they really need to do something.
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Speaker 1: Could they use one more ace type? Yeah, every team could.
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Speaker 1: I just don't see the Yankees necessarily going there. And
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Speaker 1: the Mets, I can see where they could use another starter,
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Speaker 1: but it seems to me their focus.
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Speaker 3: Is going to be the bullpen.
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Speaker 1: Now. When you look at their rotation, they're pretty high
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Speaker 1: on Coode is Sega coming back. They've got Peterson, They've
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Speaker 1: got Sean Menya. They've got Parolta now, they feel like
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Speaker 1: they're in a better place. We'll see how it all
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Speaker 1: plays out. I'm not totally convinced, And of course I'm
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Speaker 1: forgetting Nolan McLain possibly at the top of that rotation,
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Speaker 1: but that's his second year now that he's approaching, and
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Speaker 1: it might be different for him in his second year,
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Speaker 1: So there's a lot of promise there. With the Mets,
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Speaker 1: they still have Jonah Than as well as McLain among
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Speaker 1: their younger starters and some behind them as well, so
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Speaker 1: I don't see them getting another starter.
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Speaker 3: But with neither either of those teams, I'm not going
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Speaker 3: to rule anything out.
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Speaker 2: Man, And when you think about Colon Rodan coming back,
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Speaker 2: the Yankees could have one heck of rotation. Ken next
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Speaker 2: question regarding Nick Costellanos. What's happening with Castillanos in Philadelphia?
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Speaker 2: Will he still be gone by opening day? Doesn't seem
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Speaker 2: like that's a good marriage.
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Speaker 3: Uh, it is not a good marriage.
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Speaker 1: And Philly's president of Baseball Operations, David Dombrowski, has said
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Speaker 1: that Nick Castillanos will not be on their roster opening days.
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Speaker 3: So then the question becomes, Okay, who wants them.
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Speaker 1: The Padres are looking for a right handed bat, and
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Speaker 1: they're looking for one who will be inexpensive. And Costillanos
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Speaker 1: has been taking round balls or at least training somewhat
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Speaker 1: at first base, which is a position to try and fill.
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Speaker 1: They were trying to get Arnado to play first base.
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Speaker 1: Didn't want to take on very much money. That is
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Speaker 1: one possibility. Miami is always another possibility. That's where Castianos
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Speaker 1: is from. I'm sure he'd love to go there. I
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Speaker 1: don't know that they would love to have him. It's
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Speaker 1: an unknown to me, but I do expect the Phillies
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Speaker 1: to trade him. I do expect to see them pick
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Speaker 1: up most of the money in that deal. And from there,
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Speaker 1: Nick Castianos will be entering his free agent year and
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Speaker 1: is going to have to kind of rebuild his value
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Speaker 1: in the game. Can still hit, of course, the defensive
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Speaker 1: part has been an issue for him.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, some part of some really fun Philadelphia teams. It's
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Speaker 1: Dude, Dude, dude.
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Speaker 2: This one makes me laugh. Ken, who is your dude
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Speaker 2: of the week.
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Speaker 1: My dead of the week is the Milwaukee Brewers, and
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Speaker 1: not because as they made a trade last night, per se.
20:02
Speaker 1: My dude of the week is the Milwaukee Brewers because
20:05
Speaker 1: they acquired yet another vertically challenged individual. And of course,
20:10
Speaker 1: anyone who has ever seen me on television knows why
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Speaker 1: I might empathize and have great affection.
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Speaker 3: For vertically challenged players.
20:17
Speaker 1: The Brewers are a team that has I believe now
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Speaker 1: six players position players, six position players under or five
20:26
Speaker 1: ten or under.
20:27
Speaker 3: There are the.
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Speaker 1: Six right there, Contraras, Ortiz, Siegler, von Burrough, and Freelick.
20:32
Speaker 1: Now Jet Williams, who came over in the trade with
20:35
Speaker 1: Brandon Sprote, is not on the forty man roster yet,
20:38
Speaker 1: but he's five foot seven, so Jet, welcome to the Brewers.
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Speaker 1: And yes, the Brewers are my dudes of the week
20:45
Speaker 1: because they.
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Speaker 3: Do not discriminate by height.
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Speaker 2: That is right, right, good things, small packages. Just look
20:53
Speaker 2: at Ken Rosenthal and the Milwaukee Brewers. My dude of
20:55
Speaker 2: the week. I don't know how tall he is, but
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Speaker 2: my dude of the week is Josh Rowitch. The reason
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Speaker 2: being he is now the current president of the Baseball
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Speaker 2: Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, longtime PR guy. Started his
21:06
Speaker 2: career with the Dodgers, then of course did a great
21:08
Speaker 2: job with the Arizona Diamondbacks, and now he's the head
21:10
Speaker 2: of the Hall. He did a tremendous job in the
21:13
Speaker 2: induction ceremony introducing both Andrew Jones and Carlos Peltron into
21:18
Speaker 2: the Hall of Fame. But he did it in both
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Speaker 2: English and Spanish on national television. They did it, of
21:22
Speaker 2: course on MLB network. That's hard to do. It's hard
21:25
Speaker 2: to be able to address an audience in both English
21:28
Speaker 2: and in Spanish. He is not a native Spanish speaker,
21:32
Speaker 2: but he does a tremendous job. And he also congratulated
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Speaker 2: both Carlos Beltron in Spanish and welcoming into the Hall,
21:39
Speaker 2: as well as Andrew Jones in Papamento, which is one
21:44
Speaker 2: of the official languages of Curasou, which is of course
21:46
Speaker 2: where Andrew is from, and the first native from Kirasou
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Speaker 2: to be elected into the Hall of Fame. So Josh, congratulations,
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Speaker 2: great job, not easy to do. What a week for him.
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Speaker 2: He went to Indiana. Indiana won the Natty. Big Week,
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Speaker 2: Big week for the Mets, big week for Josh Rowitch. Okay,
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Speaker 2: time now for our dork of the week? Ken, who
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Speaker 2: is your dork of the week. You're going a little
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Speaker 2: off the grid here, Alani.
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Speaker 1: You know, I hate to stray from the baseball world
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Speaker 1: with the dork of the week. However, this week we
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Speaker 1: had the firing of a head coach in the NFL
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Speaker 1: by the Buffalo Bills. And not only do they fire
22:33
Speaker 1: their coach, Sean McDermott. You can like that or not
22:35
Speaker 1: like that, they issued a press release in which the
22:38
Speaker 1: fifth word was misspelled. Sean has done an admiral job,
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Speaker 1: admiral not admirable job of leading our football team for
22:47
Speaker 1: the past nine seasons. Now I know what people out
22:50
Speaker 1: there are thinking, Can you have typos in your stories
22:53
Speaker 1: all the time? That's true, that occasionally does happen. However,
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Speaker 1: if I'm an organization and I'm firing a coach who
23:00
Speaker 1: is pretty highly respected, I might want to save the
23:02
Speaker 1: type out until after the fifth word. If I'm going
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Speaker 1: to have a typo at all.
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Speaker 3: Buffalo Bill's dorks of the.
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Speaker 2: Week, I agree with you, and I'm more insulted that
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Speaker 2: they even fired Sean McDermott to begin with, considering what
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Speaker 2: a did coach he is. By the way, Mike Rabel's
23:17
Speaker 2: been a head coach in the AFC for a little
23:19
Speaker 2: over a year, longest tenured coach now in the AFC East.
23:23
Speaker 2: So there you have that. My dork of the week
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Speaker 2: is all of the autograph hawkers that try to go
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Speaker 2: and get autographs. And that's why the Rangers are not
23:32
Speaker 2: allowing them to do the winter warm up, because it's
23:35
Speaker 2: not even about an autograph seeker that bothers me. It's
23:37
Speaker 2: about the people that go and try to get multiple
23:40
Speaker 2: and then sell them. And furthermore, the people that use
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Speaker 2: their kids at two or three in the morning when
23:46
Speaker 2: the teams get to the hotels to use their kids
23:49
Speaker 2: to get autographs, when you know, it's not just for
23:52
Speaker 2: the father and son, it's not just for their personal collection.
23:56
Speaker 2: It's they give you twelve cards that are exactly the
23:58
Speaker 2: same for you to sign them, for them to turn
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Speaker 2: around and sell them. So the Rangers said, nay, on TV,
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Speaker 2: you will not be here. We're going to do it
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Speaker 2: for the true fan. And I'm not saying that you
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Speaker 2: can't be a collector, That's not what I'm saying, but
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Speaker 2: do it appropriately and don't use your kids. Good on
24:12
Speaker 2: the Rangers, bad on the autograph hawkers. Okay, so we
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Speaker 2: were talking a little bit ken about the challenges of
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Speaker 2: being a reporter and making sure that you're using the
24:24
Speaker 2: right pronunciation. So, for example, Ranger Suarez has been in
24:27
Speaker 2: the news a lot, of course, but actually he doesn't
24:30
Speaker 2: prefer ranger. He prefers run hit, which is the Spanish pronunciation.
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Speaker 2: But he also said, it's okay if we call him ranger,
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Speaker 2: how do you tackle that?
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Speaker 1: To me, it's the player's choice, and however the player
24:44
Speaker 1: wants his name pronounced, is the way we should pronounce
24:47
Speaker 1: it on our show on any other network on which
24:50
Speaker 1: we appear.
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Speaker 3: Now. In Rangers case, I did.
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Speaker 1: Not know, or Ronhurst case, that he even had a
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Speaker 1: different pronunciation until his news conference in Boston yesterday. I
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Speaker 1: had always called him Ranger. It always responded, He never
25:04
Speaker 1: corrected me. It was always just hey man, what's going on?
25:07
Speaker 1: So in this particular case, I would imagine people will
25:12
Speaker 1: still call him Ranger Swarz. It's been a while now
25:14
Speaker 1: since he's been in the league being called that. But
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Speaker 1: in general, you always try to honor the players wishes
25:21
Speaker 1: because that is only proper. You want your name as
25:24
Speaker 1: an individual pronounced the way it is intended to be pronounced,
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Speaker 1: and it is a reporter's responsibility or a television person's
25:31
Speaker 1: responsibility to get it right, and that includes pronouncing names right.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, Krans what is I'll work on that. But they
25:39
Speaker 2: also call him mister Rager, so maybe he's just going
25:42
Speaker 2: to continue to rage for the Boston Red Sox. It's
25:44
Speaker 2: always great to be with you, Ken Rosenthal, appreciate it
25:47
Speaker 2: very much. Thank you guys for watching and listening. Foul
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