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Devers Drama · The 3-0 Take

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  Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Three O Take where we talk
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  all things Major League Baseball.
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  Here's Kyle Corwin and Nate Reyes.
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  It all starts right now. Welcome back to the Three O Take
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  presented by Sea Kick. This episode 514.
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  I'll be your host, Kyle Korne. I'm here with my Co host Nate
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  Reyes. Nate.
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  Hey, Hi. How you there?
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  Hi. Yeah, there.
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  Start off buddy, I know you. I I feel like this is your
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  episode. I feel like this is all you.
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  I don't want to start it off dude, but I look, I was in a
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  good place like a week ago, not even like 3 days ago.
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  And then all this stuff comes out of Sox camp and you know
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  what? This just, I mean, this isn't
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  just bad for, for Reds, the Red Sox organization.
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  This is bad for all of baseball. I'll just go ahead and say it,
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  'cause when you, when you don't have an, when you have an
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  unhappy Rafael Devers, it's just not good for the sport.
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  You know, because you, you want to talk about one of the more
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  bubbly, more, one of the more childlike players in the game
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  with just a childlike enthusiasm, a childlike spirit.
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  Rafael Devers is that player for you.
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  But when, when you got to go, when you got him out here just
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  chirping and, and barking back and, and planting his flag, it's
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  just, it's not good, not good for baseball.
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  And I'm not happy about it. So we're going to talk about it
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  the, the, the news that we're referring to at this point.
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  I'm sure you've heard Rafael Devers little drama coming out
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  of Red Sox camp. Rafael Devers, when asked by
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  media if he had plans of moving off of third base was was very
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  firm, very, very stern in his comments for which we have which
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  we have right here. No need for translation.
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  That's just my position. How would you what would you
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  react if they asked you to DH How would you feel about that?
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  No, can you translate that, please?
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  So that's that's that's what we're working with.
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  And then you, you, you kind of go into that thinking that it's
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  a possibility that he's going to say no, but you're like, this is
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  Raphael Devers. There's no way he actually says
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  this when asked. And he does it.
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  And then you think, OK, well, he said yes.
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  So that's presumably got to be the end of the the saga,
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  correct? That's where you'd be wrong.
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  Tristan Costas of all people decided to chime in when asked
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  by media. I don't know what it is with the
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  Boston media. They just love a good, a good
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  stirring of the pot. You know, they love, they love
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  when, when vibes are high, when things are good.
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  They say, what can we do to ruin this?
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  Because we're miserable. We don't enjoy the lives that we
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  have. So we're going to ruin the lives
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  of those around us and those who the lives of those who enjoy the
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  product that is the Boston Red Sox.
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  And I'll be honest, there hasn't been much to enjoy with the
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  Boston Red Sox the last few years.
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  And again, so this offseason was was really a changing of the
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  guard, a change in momentum. And then they they recognize
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  that they be in the Boston media, recognize that and said,
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  we're going to put it, go ahead and put an end to this.
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  So then they, as I mentioned, they brought it up to Tristan
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  Costas, to which he said, I'm here, I'm.
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  Curious one if you heard it and two if like.
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  I feel like that's. Something you have to maybe
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  navigate in the clubhouse between him and pregnant or I
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  mean I know you're a younger guy comparatively, but how will you
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  maybe navigate that and how approach that in the clubhouse?
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  I think, I think it's, I think it's Raffi Dever's position.
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  I think he's he's the third baseman.
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  And at that point, that's where it stands.
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  And he's done it for, you know, a really long time now.
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  And and I think he's only getting better at that position.
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  I think his defense is getting better every single year.
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  We don't know what the future holds, but we know it holds
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  rapid Evers. So I think he's got to play
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  defense. It's going to keep him athletic
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  and he's going to hit because of, you know, him being at their
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  base. He doesn't know any other
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  position. He doesn't want to play any
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  other position and he's going to fight for it, even if it's with
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  any of the younger, younger guys, any new guy.
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  I I mean, I think he's the best third baseman in the league.
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  I wouldn't take him. I wouldn't take anybody over
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  him. So I think he should play third
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  base, Yeah. You think Bregman should play
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  second? I think Bregman should play
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  second base, yeah. I think he's going to make the
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  transition. Well, I think he's athletic
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  enough to. And I think Trevor, you know, is
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  going to play an awesome shortstop.
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  OK, so now that I've had another chance to process what Tristan
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  Cost has said, and by the way, there's more that we got it, we
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  got to touch on here. But in response to this, there's
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  a lot of people saying, OK, well how can you, how can you really
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  fault Costas for what he's saying?
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  He's just offending the teammate when when prompted about Alex
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  Bregman. Alex Bregman is his teammate,
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  too, folks. Like, let's not get, let's not
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  lose that truth in all of this. Let's not lose that reality
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  here. Sure, he's been teammates with
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  Rafael Devers longer, but let's not act like Alex Bregman plays
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  for another team. And the Red Sox are.
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  This isn't like Sunday league softball where like, you're down
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  a guy because he tripped and sprained his ankle and you're
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  like, hey, can we borrow one of your players?
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  This isn't the same thing. Like Alex Bregman plays for the
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  Boston Red Sox, too. So to say that, yeah, he's
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  defending his teammates at Rafael Endeavours, well, in the
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  same breath, in the same sentence, he's essentially
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  disrespecting the talent, the potential and the leadership
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  that Alex Bregman provides as his teammate.
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  So we, we can go ahead and put that narrative to rest.
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  I've seen enough of that conversation.
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  But All in all, the reality is that Tristan Costas was asked
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  these questions. It's not exactly like he can
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  just say no comment cuz that's not the type of person that
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  Tristan Costas is. But certainly I think put his
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  foot in his mouth a little bit. Nate thoughts?
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  Yeah, I mean, big time. There's PR meetings, there's
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  there's they have people that have the sole job of working
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  players through politically correct answers.
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  And I'm not going to sit here and say that it doesn't go too
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  far sometimes. As the Yankees fan, I'm pretty
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  sick of the politically correct answers and lack of answering
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  questions. And I think the average fan
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  enjoys transparency. Obviously the media does.
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  That's what journalism is about, is getting the transparent
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  answer. And I can't sit here and in one
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  breath dream about that and, and wish that players would answer
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  truthfully and honestly and then in the next breath, you know,
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  chastise them. But there is a message that has
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  to get across. And the truth is it's not hard
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  to fall back on those answers. It's not hard to fall back on.
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  I don't write the lineup. It's not hard to say that.
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  It's not hard to dodge these these questions by answer.
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  You know, I'm glad I don't have that job.
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  There's an easy way to spin this.
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  This is a good problem to have. That's all you got to say.
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  This is a good problem to have. We have a lot of good
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  infielders. Our lineup is extremely solid
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  and we made some great additions this offseason to better our
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  position. However, the front office and
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  our manager Alex Cora decides to proceed is what's going to
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  happen and all of us are pulling the rope in the same direction.
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  That's how you answer it. That's how you bail out a Rafi
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  Devers, who I don't know if he regrets the comments he made.
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  I think you watched Alex Bregman take a pretty solid approach and
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  veteran approach about it and say I'll play anywhere.
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  Then that's what most winners respond with.
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  I'll do anything. We just went through this last
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  week with Marcus Stroman saying I'm a starter, I'm a starter.
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  Then in turn you can have a lot of winners across league.
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  I would say majority of guys would say I'm going to do what
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  my team needs me to do because that's my employer and they paid
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  me and I make a check doing a pretty privileged job.
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  So there's a lot of different ways to go about this.
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  This is definitely not the right way.
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  You had a great offseason, all the momentum carrying into what
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  seems to be a fresh start and hope and a lot of a lot of hype
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  around Boston right now for the right reasons.
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  Well, when your superstar is dealing with these types of
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  rumors all offseason and it wasn't just Bregman that was
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  being talked about. It was an it was a Nolan Arenado
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  that was talked about being brought in.
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  Like all of these conversations are being had.
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  And this was his first opportunity to get in front of
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  the media and talk about it. And I'm not surprised he chose
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  this route. We're talking Devers.
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  We're talking Devers. Yeah, I mean, yes, I'm not
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  surprised that he, you know, he, he wanted to take pride in his
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  ability and, and and plan his flag to an extent, but there has
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  to be a little bit more self-awareness.
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  He since he debuted in Major League Baseball, the worst
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  defensive third baseman in all of baseball.
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  So you can sit here and go ahead and say, no, I play third base.
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  No, Rafael Devers, you attempt to play third base, you take up
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  space at third base. You make the occasion, you make
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  the occasional routine play at third base, but you don't play
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  third base. You just, you play there because
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  you can't play anywhere else and they're not ready to put you at
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  DH yet. I, I'm not, I'm not turning on
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  Rafael Devers. I love Rafael Devers.
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  And like you said, it's possible that maybe he regretted he he's
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  already gotten to a point where he maybe regretted jumping the
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  gun a little bit. They're coming off a little bit
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  too strong. But have a little bit of
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  self-awareness. I I did not anticipate waking up
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  the other day thinking that I was going to be siding with Alex
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  Bregman. Yeah, Well, versus Rafael
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  Devers. I mean, what are we talking
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  about here? Do you look like you said you
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  looked at the way Bregman handled it and then you looked
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  at the way Devers handled it? Just two completely different
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  sides of the coin. But then bringing it back to
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  Casas, he wasn't done. He he wasn't done.
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  He he added these comments shortly after You're running the
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  team. Would you have the would you
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  have Campbell, Anthony and Meyer?
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  No, no, I I think we got some grown men up there right now
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  that needs to iron some things out.
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  We need to show up and see what that first little taste of us
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  all together looks like. I think their time time is going
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  to come and it could be earlier rather than later, but I think
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  for right now, the roster is is beautiful, it's organized, it's
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  great and it's structured really well.
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  Are you the GM Tristan Constant now?
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  What are we? What, OK, like I could
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  understand how you could maybe like put your foot in your mouth
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  and be like, no, that's Raffi's position and you again, you
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  could justify it. Oh, he's just defending his, his
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  teammate of longer 10 years since he's only been teammates
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  with Bregman for like 3 days at this point.
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  I could maybe let that slide. But when you start talking about
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  the talent that's that's down in the system and, and trying to
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  take a stab at making the opening day roster to sit there
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  and say, no, they don't belong up here yet.
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  We've got grown men up here, my brother.
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  They're projected, they're poised to have better careers
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  than you. So like in terms of in terms of
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  you sitting here saying, well, we're, we're, we got some grown
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  men up here. I don't know if you're including
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  yourself, Tristan Costas, but let's let's relax on playing GM,
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  OK? Let's leave that to the folks in
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  the front office and you just worry about playing first base
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  because reality is likelihood of it being the case, yes, that
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  you'll still be here come opening day, but it's not
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  completely out of the question that you're not even going to be
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  here come opening day. Like that's I'm not, I'm not
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  entirely ruling that out. So for you to be sitting here
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  talking about, well, these guys should stay down and and and
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  these players should have a stab at no, that's not your job to
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  talk about. That's your job is to simply
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  play first base and hit, hit baseballs.
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  That's your job, especially considering your lack of
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  experience, all things considered.
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  Thank you. I'm going to I'm going to
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  preface this with saying this, this will this will be a non
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  story pretty soon, I don't think.
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  I sure hope so. I I think this is just plus as
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  fans and media just extremely thirsty for any kind of content
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  in spring training because it is a little dry and it's a little
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  boring when we first start out. So I don't think this is going
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  to be a a very long story. So I'm going to preface that
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  this with that the, I've seen a few different videos and
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  interviews and you know, some of the guys over at Section 10 and
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  George Robbins talking about how this organization in this
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  current roster has lacked some, some leadership and has lacked
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  some of the, the, the right way to go about your business kind
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  of guys. And I do think that if we
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  extract everything and, and kind of take out everything from
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  2017, it would just kind of move on.
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  It's it's been a while now. I think you can look at Bregman
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  and, and objectively say that he is, he's a winner and he's a
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  leader. That's just kind of how he
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  operates. This is extremely necessary, but
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  this is what is so unpredictable and difficult about our game.
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  And you can, you can. You can win the offseason, you
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  can win spring training, you can win the first half, you can win
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  the regular season. It's going to come down to a
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  time in October that everyone needs to be pulling on the rope
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  in the same direction. And there's so much against you
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  as an organ. That's why it's so hard for
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  teams to repeat. It's so hard because there's so
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  many things that have to go right.
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  It's not just about filling up roster spots.
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  It's not just about making the correct trades or signings.
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  There's so many things that have to fall into place and go the
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  right way for you to be able to pull off winning a trophy at the
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  end. These are things that can get in
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  the way and are unnecessary. And again, I preface this was
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  saying I don't think this is going to be much of a story very
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  soon. Give it a couple weeks, maybe
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  even by, you know, first few games in spring training, and
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  everything is going to be, you know, kind of gone.
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  It's like a fart in the wind, man.
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  It never happened. So I think that we are kind of
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  witnessing a little bit of a transition period because it has
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  been a rough few years for the Boston Red Sox and they have
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  lacked some of those things. You still have winners in that
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  building. You still have one of the best
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  managers in baseball and Alex Cora, there's ways to absolutely
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  right the ship from this stuff. But This is why a new helm has
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  been placed, right? Like a new GM has come in and
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  there's been a mentality shift of what's happened over the last
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  few years. And you're still going to see
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  some of that bleed through a little bit.
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  You're still going to see that kind of kind of come out and
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  it's and it's stuff like this. You know what I mean?
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  Like, that's not your job, Tristan Costas.
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  I'm sorry. Like, lettuce looks great, by
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  the way. The flow looks top tier.
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  But that, that ain't your job, dawg.
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  And there's plenty of big leaguers and there's plenty of
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  opportunities. There's been plenty of mics
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  shoved in your face over the few years you've been in the league
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  that you should know how to answer these questions.
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  And that's what I'm saying, it was so shocking because it was,
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  it was rather refreshing to see the way he and we talked about
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  it, the way he handled the trade rumors, literally what a month
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  ago. And he handled it with such
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  class. And, and I haven't always been
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  the, the biggest cost this guy, obviously.
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  But when that happened and I like I said, like I said, we
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  talked about him here. I, I gave him credit.
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  I was like, talk about a pro's pro handling it the way that he
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  did. Like they were in that moment.
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  I think they were maybe trying to get a little, little sound
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  bite from him and he, he didn't bite.
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  And he he's like, you know, what is it essentially is like, it's
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  going to be what's going to be and I'm just going to I'm going
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  to be ready. And if I'm here, I'm here.
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  And if I'm not, so be it. And then to have this happen,
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  it's almost like you let it get to his head a little bit where
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  he's like, yeah, you know, I'm, I think I'm a little bit better
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  with the handle on the mic than than these folks give me credit
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  for. So sit back and enjoy the show.
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  And then just rips into sound bite after sound bite.
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  I'm like dude, again, not your job.
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  It's not and, and I don't, I don't know if he's, I don't know
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  if he's earned the right yet to be able to speak that way.
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  And I'm not saying that like you, you can say whatever you
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  want to say. I'm not saying that you're not
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  allowed to. I'm just saying that like it
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  there's a earning your stripes kind of period that you need to
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  go through that. You need to have a little bit
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  more proof before you can just whip it out and say here's what
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  I got. You know what I mean?
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  And Tristan Costas hasn't done that yet.
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  In my opinion. It's been, it's been a lot of
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  hype and there hasn't been a lot of fire where the smoke has
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  been. So there needs to be more that
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  happens over there. But again, I think it's winning
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  solves everything and I think the Red Sox are going to do a
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  lot of that this year. You want to talk about a guy
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  that has earned the right to do and say what he chooses?
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  Mike Trout Mike Trout has made headlines recently for the move
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  that the Angels are making to shift him to right field in an
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  effort to preserve his body and preserve the remainder of his
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  career. Here he is on the mic.
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  Kind of just threw everything on the table as in what's best for
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  me body wise, keep me on the field.
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  Came to conclusion that I'm going to go to right field, like
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  it, try it out, see where it goes.
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  We mixed in center at all. Is this going to?
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  Be Yeah, no, it's not It's I mean, I'm going to play right.
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  But they say that there could be sometimes where I do play center
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  too. So was that a tough?
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  Thing, I mean, obviously you've kind of always been a center
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  fielder. Is it tough to kind of.
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  I knew it was, I knew it was coming, but just got used to it.
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  But just won't be on the field, so.
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  Joe Madden broached this a couple years ago, and at that
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  time you were no, I'm a center field.
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  So what has changed in your? Mind no, I mean it's looking my
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  last couple years just trying to preserve the legs and just you
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  know, go out there and run some balls down and right and you
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  know, that's what we came to and I'm with it.
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  Was there offseason any different to kind of prepare for
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  that at all or anything like that so.
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  How different do you think that will be physically playing right
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  as opposed to centre? I don't know.
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  I mean, I talked to talked to a few guys and we'll talk to Tory
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  when he gets here, you know, because he he did it.
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  You know, it's just there's a lot of guys that you know, that
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  like right field that I might talk to see, see the difference,
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  you know, just go out there and, you know, get comfortable and
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  spraying, see where it goes. You think go off some mix in DH
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  and more off days or was that part of what?
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  Was I'm sure DH Sure, yeah. We had a good discussion of, you
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  know, I just got to be honest with them, how I feel going
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  there. And, you know, obviously he's
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  going to give me, you know, data off, but you know, I'm going to
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  be out there as long as I can. You know, I'm going to, I'm just
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  going to go ahead and I'm going to take the optimistic route
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  here because I, I said, I said that I was going to do that
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  probably what, a year ago now at this point that I'm with the
• 22:01
  limited time we have left with Mike Trout's career, however
• 22:05
  long that ends up being, I don't want to be the person.
• 22:09
  Who? Spends again, what little time
• 22:14
  we have left ridiculing the guy for things that at this point
• 22:18
  are very clearly just working against him.
• 22:21
  I won't even say out of his control because, you know, it is
• 22:25
  his, his physical health. So you, you wonder how much of
• 22:28
  that can fall under his control. I don't know, but I I don't want
• 22:32
  to waste any more time talking about, you know, what a like
• 22:35
  what a boss, what, what, what could have been this and that.
• 22:39
  I'm just pulling for one more. I won't even say MVP winning
• 22:44
  year because I think those days are are are behind Mike Trout,
• 22:48
  unfortunately, but just give me like an MVP caliber year.
• 22:52
  That's all I've wanted. I thought we were off to a great
• 22:54
  start last year and I got real excited because I thought we
• 22:57
  were finally going to get the revenge tour for Mike Trout that
• 23:00
  we so desperately have been hoping for.
• 23:03
  But I in response to this, this news about moving him to right,
• 23:09
  I'm very much on board. I think it's long overdue and I
• 23:13
  I genuinely look forward to seeing how this helps him stay
• 23:18
  on the field because I think if we can keep him on the field,
• 23:23
  we're looking at a guy that I think still has like a 3035100
• 23:29
  season still still left in the chamber.
• 23:32
  Yeah, I, I absolutely, he's still got that.
• 23:36
  I think this does a few different things, but I will say
• 23:40
  that like it's not like right field.
• 23:44
  I mean Angel Stadium is like the easiest to play, you know what I
• 23:47
  mean? Like it does have that weird
• 23:51
  Boston esque corner that has that low fence and it kind of
• 23:54
  juts out and it gets a little bit deeper as it goes, you know,
• 23:58
  back up the line. So like it is unique.
• 24:01
  It's not just a standard right field, I think, but this does a
• 24:05
  few different things and permission to pop off
• 24:11
  permission, permission to pop off on the angels.
• 24:14
  It's time to blow it up. It's time to blow it up.
• 24:17
  It's time to really, really go off.
• 24:22
  I think they're bottom, at least bottom 3IN prospect in the in
• 24:29
  the in the farm system ranking. Now.
• 24:32
  I know that like a lot of young guys have been coming up and
• 24:34
  getting opportunities to play and sometimes it kind of like
• 24:37
  effects how your farm ranking goes.
• 24:42
  It's time to I I would say there's three names you can't
• 24:46
  touch outside of that. Open this thing up.
• 24:48
  That's Zach Netto, it's short, that's Ben Joyce because he's
• 24:52
  got something special and that's Logan.
• 24:54
  No hoppy outside of that. Everyone's up for grabs.
• 24:58
  So I think the offseason that they had the the guys they
• 25:01
  brought in, the moves they made to get Solaire and Kikuchi and
• 25:04
  Darno, you know, Taylor Ward is still there, like Ren Hefo.
• 25:08
  I think will will probably get moved Chanwell maybe maybe a guy
• 25:14
  you hold onto too. So maybe four guys.
• 25:17
  But outside of that blow it up man.
• 25:19
  Everybody is for sale and that includes a mic Trout.
• 25:22
  This is probably your last opportunity to take advantage of
• 25:27
  some of of of a solid start to a season.
• 25:30
  If he can stay healthy and he can show that he can play right
• 25:34
  field and even just league average.
• 25:37
  You know what the bats going to do if he could just play league
• 25:40
  average right field on a regular basis and show that he doesn't
• 25:44
  need to DH 2-3 times a week, that opens up a lot of doors for
• 25:50
  you to be able to move them because I can.
• 25:52
  I'm sure there's some reluctancy of other teams saying you know,
• 25:55
  I'm not going to I'm not going to do this and move him to
• 25:58
  center field everyday. I'm not going to make I'm going
• 26:00
  to going to eat this amount of money if he can't stay healthy.
• 26:04
  So it's a perfect cocktail where I think you're doing what's
• 26:07
  right for my Trout. You're keeping him healthy,
• 26:10
  you're keeping him on the field, and you're also showcasing that
• 26:13
  he can play another position. And let's face it, I think based
• 26:17
  on how we've seen him play center field, I don't see any
• 26:20
  issue of him moving to right. I think he's going to be just
• 26:22
  fine. This needs to be absolutely
• 26:27
  everyone is on block and I don't care how successful of a first
• 26:32
  half you have, if you're the Los Angeles Angels, you need to take
• 26:36
  advantage of everybody. And with all these vets, chances
• 26:40
  are you're not going to hit the lottery on every one of them.
• 26:43
  But anybody that is successful, move, move, and that includes
• 26:50
  Mike Trout. If someone is willing to take
• 26:53
  any kind of money, you got to eat some.
• 26:56
  You got to eat crow with Rendon because Rendon is just Rendon at
• 27:01
  this point and you got to start rebuilding.
• 27:06
  And if that's your biggest piece, if that's your biggest
• 27:08
  asset and all you have to do is that he can play 75% of the
• 27:13
  first half and avoid multiple IL stints, this is your last chance
• 27:19
  to move him. I just had this thought
• 27:23
  permission to propose a scenario.
• 27:27
  Absolutely. All right.
• 27:30
  It's been it's very, very well documented.
• 27:33
  I think both with us on occasion.
• 27:36
  We haven't been, I mean, we haven't been pushing this hard,
• 27:38
  but there there been a lot of folks out there that have been
• 27:40
  really pushing the whole get Mike trot home, get him to
• 27:43
  Philly scenario. My guy, could you imagine Like
• 27:53
  I, I don't care. I don't care logistically, if
• 27:55
  this makes sense. I don't care about, you know,
• 27:58
  prospect capital. I don't care about returns.
• 28:00
  I don't care about halls going back to going back to the
• 28:04
  Angels. I don't care.
• 28:05
  I'm just talking about I'm just talking about pure cinema here.
• 28:11
  Deadline, get Mike Trout to Philly.
• 28:17
  We've already talked about it. You've got, you've got a
• 28:19
  Philly's team who I think is, is, well, I, I know, we, we know
• 28:24
  is aging. We've got a Phillies team who I
• 28:27
  think is falling out of favor with a lot of baseball fans.
• 28:31
  They're moving, they're moving their, their favor elsewhere.
• 28:34
  They're moving their interest elsewhere around the league and
• 28:36
  say, oh, that was Phillies gave us a, a few fun years there, but
• 28:41
  it's time to look elsewhere because they're getting older.
• 28:44
  They're they're not as fun and, and they're falling short year
• 28:47
  after year, it seems. And and they're they're falling
• 28:49
  shorter year after year in terms of how far they make it into
• 28:53
  October. Get Mike Trout to Philly.
• 28:59
  You want to talk about a bounce back?
• 29:03
  You want to talk about a revenge tour?
• 29:06
  Get Mike Trout to Philly, have him produce over a second-half
• 29:11
  healthy and propel the Phillies against all odds.
• 29:17
  If you want to say it back to an NLCS, dare I say World Series,
• 29:23
  when everybody's falling in love with the LA Dodgers and have
• 29:29
  Mike Trout and Bryce Harper be at the center of it again, I
• 29:34
  don't care about logistics. I don't care if it makes sense,
• 29:37
  you know, line up wise, whatever.
• 29:39
  I'm just talking about how great of a movie that would be and.
• 29:42
  It would be perfect. And how, how quickly I would I
• 29:46
  would purchase tickets to said movie.
• 29:48
  That's what I'm talking about. Oh 100% we would have to.
• 29:51
  We would have to find a way to get there.
• 29:54
  You have to find a way to have Castillanos play left, which I'd
• 29:59
  assume he'd be. Seems like a I'll, I'll take
• 30:02
  whatever on the chin for the Phillies.
• 30:04
  And if that means Mike Trout is in the locker room and then I'm
• 30:09
  down, I I think he would do it. I think.
• 30:15
  I think it's the dream. I think every baseball fan wants
• 30:18
  to see it. I think he'd be great.
• 30:22
  I just, yeah, I don't know. I mean, it's hard to imagine
• 30:27
  anywhere else. That's what's weird.
• 30:28
  Like it's hard to picture them anywhere else.
• 30:31
  And I would love to see it. I would love to see it.
• 30:35
  I just, I don't know, man. I think the angels just really,
• 30:40
  truly need to understand that if all things go right, all these
• 30:47
  vets do well, all your young guys do well this year, have
• 30:50
  some self-awareness. Realize who you are and
• 30:54
  understand you're not going anywhere anytime soon.
• 30:58
  Bail, get rid of these guys. Load up if you if, if you move
• 31:04
  some of these veterans. If Solaire is on pace to have
• 31:09
  another 3530 home run year. My Trout is the same.
• 31:13
  We've seen what like it. It means to have a backup
• 31:17
  catcher who can hit. If some of these guys, Kikuchi,
• 31:21
  I mean, like, come on, if some of these guys do well, you could
• 31:25
  really, really Fast forward through the next three to four
• 31:33
  years and load up on prospects and fix your farm and commit to
• 31:39
  a direction. I'm not telling.
• 31:42
  I'm not saying they had a bad offseason.
• 31:44
  I think this is how you fix it. This is how you commit to a
• 31:48
  rebuild is load up with these guys and sell them, get them out
• 31:55
  of town. Thanks for being here.
• 31:56
  Appreciate you. Thanks for your service.
• 31:59
  Go get a young cat. And that serves as a perfect
• 32:04
  segue into what is our next topic.
• 32:06
  Talking about getting out of town, Vladdy Junior set to
• 32:10
  become a free agent after the Blue Jays failed to reach an
• 32:14
  agreement on an extension at his February 17th deadline.
• 32:22
  He said after February 17th at 9:00 PM, don't even bother
• 32:27
  calling the phone, but apparently they did.
• 32:31
  They did call him at 10:30 is what I saw, so you know.
• 32:35
  One specify what time, what time zone you know.
• 32:38
  That's fair. You know, Jays are trying to
• 32:41
  work the system I guess a little bit, see what they can do for
• 32:43
  their guy. But as expected, nothing really
• 32:47
  panned out. I I anticipated this being the
• 32:49
  case. I just do not think Vladdy wants
• 32:52
  to play in Toronto. I don't think it matters how
• 32:56
  much money they offer him. I think he is simply positioning
• 33:02
  himself to hit well at this point.
• 33:03
  He is to hit free agency and I think the conversation that was
• 33:09
  leading up to this situation to where it didn't pan out was him
• 33:13
  simply saying that they didn't reach my number, when in reality
• 33:19
  it's possible that they did reach his number, but that he
• 33:24
  was simply going to say no regardless.
• 33:26
  They could have thrown $600.00 out there and he said I'm going
• 33:29
  to free agency because I don't think he wants to play in
• 33:31
  Toronto, nor should he. Yeah, yeah, it's weird, man.
• 33:39
  Because like, I, I feel like it's maybe just a little like
• 33:42
  too little too late. They had a good offseason, they
• 33:46
  made good moves. I I would give them AB or B plus
• 33:50
  for what they were able to do in the offseason.
• 33:54
  I think if they would have pulled off getting a Bregman,
• 33:57
  that would have pushed him into a all day.
• 34:02
  It's hard, man. Like I said, it's too little too
• 34:04
  late. Like they've had this young core
• 34:07
  they've been able to we talk about all the time.
• 34:10
  Like when you have a a controllable young core who has
• 34:13
  hit their their prime early. It's been in the league for a
• 34:16
  while. It's been in the league since
• 34:20
  19. We're getting old.
• 34:22
  So like you've had plenty of chances to to push chips in the
• 34:27
  middle of the table and build around some of these guys and
• 34:29
  show that like, hey, we're going to we're going to do something
• 34:33
  different with you as, as this generational cornerstone.
• 34:38
  And and they've they've missed the boat.
• 34:40
  They've been disappointing. And it's it's, I don't know,
• 34:45
  like I don't know how much of this offseason could have saved
• 34:48
  that. I don't know how much of a good
• 34:51
  showing this year is going to save the chances of of re
• 34:54
  signing him. I think he wants to go.
• 34:58
  I don't I'm not I'm with you. I don't believe that the Blue
• 35:02
  Jays aren't willing to meet his number.
• 35:06
  I'm not buying that. I've I can't wait until these
• 35:09
  numbers come out. I'm I'm excited to see where I'm
• 35:13
  sure something's going to happen, But I like they were in
• 35:20
  the hunt for Otani. They were in the hunt for Soto.
• 35:23
  It's clear that they're willing to go north of 700 like they're
• 35:27
  willing to do that. Is Vladi worth that?
• 35:32
  Are they evaluating him the same way?
• 35:38
  I'll give him over five. I think he gets over 500 pretty
• 35:41
  easily. I think there's multiple teams
• 35:43
  that would give him over 500. But the guy's been really good.
• 35:48
  He's he's put up some good numbers.
• 35:49
  They had a really good year last year.
• 35:51
  Strikeouts are just continuing to go down.
• 35:54
  He's taking his walks like I think he's starting to become
• 36:00
  who he's supposed to be. I think he's poised to have a
• 36:03
  really, really big year. Sorry, Toronto.
• 36:10
  Like you, you just you kind of fumble the bag here.
• 36:14
  You like you really fumble the situation.
• 36:16
  I honestly. I just don't know how much I can
• 36:19
  put on the Blue Jays here. It's, it's, it's hard to
• 36:22
  convince somebody to stay when they are dead set on not doing
• 36:27
  that. Like I, I, I think we're going
• 36:29
  to be genuinely shocked because like you were saying, these
• 36:32
  numbers are going to come out. They always do after the fact
• 36:34
  when once the the player in question ends up on their new.
• 36:38
  Team yeah, the Blue Jays are going to leak this number.
• 36:40
  They're going to leak their offer any day now.
• 36:42
  Oh, for sure. And, and it's going to I think
• 36:46
  the Blue Jays, quite frankly, are going to be in a position to
• 36:49
  whenever he signs this massive contract that he is, he's poised
• 36:53
  to get the Blue Jays are going to be looking around going see
• 36:58
  what did we tell? Like we, we put the and I'm not
• 37:01
  going to sit here and say they're going to make up some
• 37:02
  number to make themselves look better.
• 37:04
  I think I think you're right. I think they're going to make a
• 37:07
  or I think they did now that the negotiations over.
• 37:10
  I think they they made a genuine effort.
• 37:12
  I I have to believe that because it's it's that's their guy.
• 37:16
  Like if whether or not you think a guy like Otani or Soto was
• 37:20
  actually realistically considering the Blue Jays,
• 37:23
  that's one thing. But Vlad, it like that's their
• 37:25
  guy. He's he's been there for some
• 37:27
  time. But I think when when Vlad
• 37:30
  Vladdy signs for whatever he's going to sign for, you're going
• 37:34
  to look at that and go, there's no way the Blue Jays didn't meet
• 37:38
  that or surpass that. There's just no way.
• 37:42
  And at that point, we will then understand that again, Vladdy
• 37:46
  just did not want to. Be there.
• 37:47
  That's the reality of it. It's fair.
• 37:51
  He's he's probably just gotten burned at this point, dude, like
• 37:54
  they've they've lost their opportunities, they've lost lost
• 37:57
  their chances, they've run out of excuses to succeed with this
• 38:01
  group. And I'm I don't know if it's
• 38:06
  solely about that or solely about money in Vlad's camp.
• 38:10
  It's got to be a part of the equation.
• 38:13
  Winning cures all. We know that and they just
• 38:15
  haven't done enough of that to show that like, hey, if we do
• 38:21
  commit to your number, we're also going to commit to winning
• 38:25
  during that length of the contract.
• 38:30
  I don't know what, who, where the blame is.
• 38:35
  I don't. I don't blame for one to get out
• 38:37
  of town, that's all. I don't say I.
• 38:39
  Mean, I mean, how many teams? I mean, obviously that the Red
• 38:43
  Sox, the Yankees, the Mets, I've said it.
• 38:49
  I've said it before, dude, I do not think the the Yankees are
• 38:53
  legitimate contender. Not because I don't think
• 38:56
  they're willing to meet whatever number he's wanting to.
• 38:58
  I there's a personal I. Don't think that they're an
• 39:03
  option for Vladdy, but the Yankees absolutely think they're
• 39:06
  an option. No, that's that's exactly what
• 39:09
  I'm saying. Vladdy being smart in his camp,
• 39:11
  being smart saying that's what the Yankees do.
• 39:13
  The Yankees drive up numbers for everyone else.
• 39:16
  We're going to, we're going to say all the right things to make
• 39:19
  sure that the Yankees feel like they got a shot right, because
• 39:22
  that's obviously going to drive up the number.
• 39:24
  But like, there's not a ton of teams that have a have a real
• 39:29
  opportunity to 'cause I do think he gets over 500.
• 39:32
  How many times have we had this conversation in the last five
• 39:34
  years? Aaron Judge, Juan Soto, Shohei
• 39:37
  Otani, Bryce Harper, Manny Machado?
• 39:39
  Like, there's this. Yeah, Every time it comes to it.
• 39:41
  There's just not a lot of teams, you know, that are really in the
• 39:44
  mix. And then you look at you you
• 39:46
  take you look OK, you go down the list, OK, money who can
• 39:50
  afford them? And then you go down the down
• 39:52
  the checklist to the next thing personnel positioning.
• 39:56
  Do we even have a fit for this guy?
• 39:59
  The the the list of teams it's that can serve as a fit for for
• 40:04
  these guys in question get smaller and smaller when you
• 40:07
  take into account these other factors and I.
• 40:11
  I, I'm with you. I think the list is is very
• 40:13
  small. I think the list is very small
• 40:15
  for the for Vladdy, but I I do not see him ending up in
• 40:20
  Toronto. Yeah, and it and it's look like
• 40:23
  the first base market is pretty much running it back the same
• 40:25
  way. If Pete opts out, he's back in
• 40:28
  that back in that conversation, Josh Naylor, Paul Goldschmidt
• 40:34
  and there's there's a pretty big fall off, you know what I mean?
• 40:36
  Like it's not a super deep position.
• 40:39
  So, but I think the Giants are in that camp, by the way, the
• 40:43
  Giants are obviously going to throw a number out there because
• 40:46
  they can. And I don't know, it's, it's a
• 40:55
  weird situation, man. It's a weird situation, but he's
• 40:58
  going to get paid. Going to get paid.
• 41:08
  What do you think of this? We got to close the book here
• 41:10
  with a few items. You down for a little bit of a
• 41:15
  speed round here, because I do. I do want to keep our our our
• 41:20
  tradition of a of a draft at the end intact.
• 41:23
  We're running out of out of draft draft odds, you know?
• 41:29
  For sure, yeah. Yeah, we're running out of
• 41:30
  opportunities to have a draft. I thought you were going to say
• 41:33
  topics. I was like, we can make, we can
• 41:35
  make up topics for days. We absolutely can.
• 41:37
  I'm saying the chances, you know.
• 41:40
  Yeah. We are running out of out of
• 41:42
  opportunities to do these drafts.
• 41:44
  So I want to make sure we get to them while we still can.
• 41:47
  All right, instant reaction here.
• 41:51
  Keep your thoughts, keep your thoughts brief and all all sort
• 41:54
  of drive the train here. Rualdo Perdomo 4 year, $45
• 41:59
  million contract extension with the D backs and a club option
• 42:03
  for 20-30. Thoughts.
• 42:05
  Love it. Great move.
• 42:08
  I I really like him and I think the D backs have a all things
• 42:13
  going right so keep this group together.
• 42:19
  Yeah, you love having you. You got to have guys that can
• 42:21
  serve as sort of the heart of the team.
• 42:23
  Like whether or not they're going to put out the numbers
• 42:26
  that you're looking for you, you hope that they will.
• 42:28
  And I can't, I can't imagine him not, you know, producing at the
• 42:32
  level that they hope he can. But at the very least, you know
• 42:35
  that he's going to, you're going to have the tools, you're going
• 42:38
  to have the heart that comes with it, and you're going to
• 42:40
  have an energy that's just infectious that I think for a
• 42:44
  team like the D Backs and a team that I think is poised to make
• 42:47
  some noise in that division and possibly beyond in October,
• 42:51
  having a guy like him around is is key.
• 42:54
  Talk about a team carrying momentum too.
• 42:56
  Like good offseason, good move getting into spring training.
• 42:59
  All vibes are high. Like they're they're doing all
• 43:02
  D. Backs D Backs are doing it
• 43:04
  right. Justin Turner in agreement with
• 43:07
  the Chicago Cubs on a one year, $6 million contracts.
• 43:10
  Cubs as you would as you could only assume, sort of pivoting
• 43:16
  for some corner depth after missing out on on some other
• 43:19
  names. I think they probably had their
• 43:21
  eye on dots. Still got some, still got some
• 43:27
  swings left. I think he's still got it, man.
• 43:29
  Yeah, he's still, he's a professional hitter.
• 43:32
  He'll he'll be fine. But I they're eventually going
• 43:36
  to need to make a move for an everyday third baseman at some
• 43:40
  point during this this season before the deadline.
• 43:45
  Keep now Matt Shaw. That lineup ain't bad.
• 43:49
  That lineup ain't bad. That's true.
• 43:52
  Sounded pitching for Chicago I. Want, I want to make sure you
• 43:58
  hear me on this. Matt Shaw.
• 43:59
  Keep now. Matt Shaw, All right.
• 44:01
  Got. You Frankie Montes, will be shut
• 44:04
  down for six to eight weeks for the New York Mets.
• 44:09
  Signed A2 year $34 million deal with the Mets back in December
• 44:13
  and spent last year with the Reds and Brewers posting A484
• 44:18
  over 30 starts. Thoughts.
• 44:23
  This is are the Mets back-to-back to Mets in, I mean
• 44:26
  this. No, I, I'm not going to go that
• 44:29
  far. I'm, I'm just going to say this
• 44:31
  is this is what just. Trying to stir the pot.
• 44:33
  This is what a Wan Soto signing does it.
• 44:35
  It kind of ties your hands a little bit and you have to, you
• 44:39
  have to give and take. This is one of those takes where
• 44:42
  it's just like you're thin and you can't afford this to happen.
• 44:46
  And it's not about his ERA, it's about his innings.
• 44:49
  And you got to go find innings elsewhere.
• 44:52
  And there's a lot of question marks around their rotation.
• 44:54
  So I would I would expect them to do a little something before
• 44:59
  opening day. Speaking of question marks, one
• 45:03
  of the questions moving into the 2025 season is just how good the
• 45:09
  Sacramento A's are going to be. I think, I think, I think we're,
• 45:15
  we're in store for a little surprise there.
• 45:17
  I'm not, I'm not going to go. I'm not going to go as far as
• 45:20
  make a bird. Don't.
• 45:20
  Get carried away. I'm not.
• 45:23
  I'm not. I know we're saving that for the
• 45:26
  for that episode. I I respect the Hot 6 episode
• 45:29
  coming up very soon. Yeah.
• 45:32
  I mean, what? Just a little over a month at
• 45:34
  this point. Yeah, oh boy.
• 45:37
  No, before that, because we got the Korea series we got to beat.
• 45:40
  No, we did this last year. We're we're, we're not doing the
• 45:43
  hot takes episode before that. We're we're going to treat that
• 45:46
  as AX, as the exhibition that it essentially is.
• 45:50
  And we're going to do our hot takes for the the good old
• 45:52
  American opening day, the good old March, when it should be in
• 45:57
  April opening day stop. Doing that, Rob Manfred, I hate
• 46:01
  it. I hate it.
• 46:03
  Baseball should not start in March, April, first week of
• 46:06
  April at the earliest anyway. Mark Kotze contract extension
• 46:10
  with the A's through the 2028 season includes a club option
• 46:13
  for 2029. Thoughts.
• 46:15
  Picking a direction and going towards it.
• 46:18
  Big fan. I like Mark Kotze, nose ball.
• 46:23
  Been in the league forever, smart.
• 46:26
  Then they got a lot of young talent.
• 46:28
  I like. I like what the A's are doing.
• 46:31
  And I'm not talking about their offseason.
• 46:33
  I'm talking about their their young guys.
• 46:35
  I get a lot of a lot of talent. I was thinking about this today
• 46:38
  in particular as I was thinking through this extension and, and
• 46:43
  sort of thinking about similar situations.
• 46:45
  Brandon Hyde comes to mind. I know the narrative around
• 46:48
  Brandon Hyde has, has sort of, you know, had its ups and downs,
• 46:51
  especially as of late. But I think when they decided to
• 46:55
  bring him back the first time, you and I were both on the same
• 46:59
  page. We got the receipts.
• 47:01
  You and I are both on the same page.
• 47:02
  When you when you have a guy that has to sit through crap and
• 47:07
  you decide to reward him once the moves have been made, once
• 47:10
  things are are sort of trending upwards, that's the way to do
• 47:13
  it. And I think for the A's to bring
• 47:15
  back Mark Kotze and his leadership that we saw play out
• 47:19
  down the stretch there as they wrap things up in Oakland, I
• 47:22
  think was was the right thing to do.
• 47:24
  And I think that's the, I think that's, you know what he
• 47:26
  deserves. So big fan of the move coming.
• 47:30
  To anything long term and the A's are just fine.
• 47:34
  Correct draft time. Draft time.
• 47:40
  Not draft time. Oh yeah.
• 47:44
  Oh yeah. Whose quote was this?
• 48:09
  Whose quote was this? And I'll be 100% honest with
• 48:13
  you, completely unintentional here.
• 48:16
  Well, we're talking, we're talking A's here with our quote.
• 48:21
  Perfect transition. All right, the quote is well, as
• 48:26
  always. Let me ask, you want the quote
• 48:27
  first or do you want the details of the quote?
• 48:31
  Details. You want the details this is
• 48:34
  from This is from the Three O Take episode 203 Oakland
• 48:40
  considering relocation, the Terrible Twins and Strikeout
• 48:43
  History from May 14th, 2021. Whoa.
• 48:49
  The quote, the quote, I think Vegas would be just, I think
• 48:56
  it'd be a really good spot. They don't have to restructure
• 48:59
  divisions. So it just, it makes sense.
• 49:02
  Vegas just makes sense. I just don't want to see them
• 49:05
  share. Don't share with anybody.
• 49:07
  Just get your own setup, do your own thing and stay.
• 49:11
  The A's don't share any facility with anybody.
• 49:14
  I don't want to see a mutual agreement with a minor league
• 49:16
  affiliate there. You know what I mean?
• 49:18
  I don't want to see anything like that.
• 49:21
  Just do your own thing, be your own place.
• 49:23
  Finally, let your A's be your A's.
• 49:26
  Ideally, though, my vote is for Oakland to figure it out.
• 49:32
  I'm going to say KC. No, really.
• 49:37
  That's you, man. That was all you.
• 49:41
  Wow. I found off the Oakland camp.
• 49:43
  I had a Yeah, you sure have. I really didn't realize I was
• 49:47
  ever. I didn't know I was in that camp
• 49:49
  at any point. Oh, yeah, I read the before and
• 49:52
  after and you were really pushing for them to figure it
• 49:54
  out in Oakland, but things clearly changed.
• 49:57
  But I, I, I had a smile on my face when I got to that bit
• 49:59
  about the share in the minor league facility.
• 50:02
  Like, you know, that's crazy. It didn't end up like as
• 50:06
  directly as you said it, but like, you know, in this weird
• 50:08
  way you kind of, you kind of called it.
• 50:11
  Yeah, that's how I do. That's how I roll.
• 50:14
  Wild, wild. Crazy.
• 50:16
  All right, You got time for a draft.
• 50:19
  I got time for a draft. You got time for a draft.
• 50:20
  I've got time for a draft. Drafts.
• 50:23
  All right, let's get the let's get this puppy up on the screen
• 50:26
  here. What?
• 50:26
  Were our results. Oh oh, did you finally get a
• 50:32
  dub? About time, Guy.
• 50:45
  The results were shocked. Well, not shocking to me.
• 50:49
  I mean, I, I knew I won that draft, but you know, finally I,
• 50:52
  I, I was able to wake up the, the chat, if you will, was able
• 50:59
  to wake up the, the people finally came to their senses and
• 51:03
  they, they rightfully voted for years truly to win the draft.
• 51:09
  All right, let. Me see here.
• 51:14
  I don't think anybody really reads the topic.
• 51:17
  I think the people are just looking.
• 51:19
  Yeah, dude, it's crazy. It's crazy.
• 51:23
  They people just don't pay attention.
• 51:25
  But for the for the record, the poll on the story was 66% Kyle,
• 51:29
  34% Nate. So I mean, I just ran away with
• 51:32
  it. That's.
• 51:34
  What I've been doing? And I even I even pinned a
• 51:37
  comment at the top on Instagram. I said read the notes at the
• 51:40
  bottom of the graphic before you say something dumb.
• 51:42
  And then somebody immediate like proceeded to say there's no
• 51:45
  Yadier Molina on this team. I said it's because we already
• 51:47
  had our catchers. Dude, read that.
• 51:49
  Just read. Understand how a draft works.
• 51:52
  Anyway, we are doing the MLB birth year draft.
• 51:56
  We are drafting the team based on birth year.
• 52:00
  I got. I'm not going to.
• 52:00
  I'm not going to lie, this can be a little tricky.
• 52:03
  How do we? How do we?
• 52:05
  Have you found a good way to search it?
• 52:07
  Yes, so if you just type in MLB players by birth year, there
• 52:12
  should be a baseball Almanac link should be the third one
• 52:17
  down, I believe. Nope, that's that's states
• 52:21
  players by year of birth and they'll give you the full list.
• 52:26
  So I'm going to pull up the random number generator here.
• 52:31
  We're going to go 1984, which I believe is a year after Justin
• 52:39
  Verlander was born. Justin Verlander, the oldest
• 52:41
  player in the league, is a 1983 guy.
• 52:46
  So we're just going to, for the sake of ease here, we're going
• 52:49
  to go 1984 to 2004 and I just hope we don't end up on Jackson
• 52:56
  Cheerio because he's the only player in two in 2004 so.
• 52:59
  We're just baseball-almanac.com, correct?
• 53:03
  OK. Yeah.
• 53:04
  So there's it's very possible we're going to be overlooking
• 53:07
  some some things here because. Wait, what?
• 53:16
  Not baseball-almanac.com. No baseball dash almanac.com.
• 53:20
  Yeah. It only goes, oh, OK, OK, OK,
• 53:22
  OK, OK, OK, OK. We're good mom, brother.
• 53:24
  Had to hit the little scroll, you know, all right.
• 53:30
  Are we good? What what's the, what's the
• 53:32
  stipulation here? Are we going individual
• 53:34
  positions or are we going back to the roots, back to four
• 53:38
  infielders? Let's go back to the roots.
• 53:41
  What do you think like that? It's going to be a tricky 1, so
• 53:44
  let's just go. We'll go a pitcher, a catcher, 4
• 53:49
  infielders, 3 outfielders, and we'll go DH and let's let's
• 53:54
  scrap the relief pitcher. Let's just go starting pitcher.
• 53:57
  OK. All right, So that should be
• 54:04
  just make sure I got my math right here.
• 54:06
  One DH, that's 269, that's 10. Sure, yeah. 10 positions that we
• 54:17
  got to fill. All right, first, the first year
• 54:20
  we're going with 1990. That's a, that's a good year.
• 54:28
  I, I imagine, I imagine, dude, there's going to be so many
• 54:33
  names to sift through. Oh my goodness.
• 54:35
  Oh boy, oh I wish. Oh boy.
• 54:40
  Better way to sort. Oh boy.
• 54:49
  Wow. I'm just going to go ahead and
• 54:52
  tell you right now there's going to be some oversights here.
• 54:54
  There's. Going to be some oversights.
• 54:56
  There's scroll alphabetically here.
• 54:59
  I mean, this is crazy. Obviously these these guys don't
• 55:07
  have to can still be playing all right.
• 55:11
  This isn't like active only. Where is it?
• 55:19
  I mean, I think within reason all.
• 55:24
  Right, we'll go. We can.
• 55:25
  Go, I mean, because that that's that is why we made the cut off
• 55:28
  like the year after Berliners. This it's I'll admit it's a
• 55:32
  little bit different of a draft than we've done, but I, I, I
• 55:35
  still think we can make something work here.
• 55:38
  All right, I've got one name. I've got one name in mind that
• 55:42
  I'm I'm really liking. Let's see here.
• 55:53
  A 90s man. What a what a time.
• 55:57
  Whoa, what a time. Give me, oh, Oh no, I got my
• 56:04
  guy. I have got my guy.
• 56:08
  Give me. Oh, no, hold on.
• 56:15
  Wow. Find something.
• 56:18
  Wow, give me give me Jose Ramirez.
• 56:34
  What? No.
• 56:38
  Can't believe he's that old. Not Ramirez.
• 56:40
  Sorry, wrong name. Who the heck did I just see?
• 56:47
  Who is this? Not the same.
• 56:52
  Not the same guy. It's not the same guy.
• 56:55
  Not the same guy. Yeah, definitely.
• 56:56
  Not the same guy. There's no way he's that old.
• 56:59
  That's misleading. OK.
• 57:01
  All right. Well, if that's the case, then
• 57:03
  give me give me Zach Wheeler on the bump.
• 57:06
  Sure, sure. That's what AI mean.
• 57:08
  My goodness, what a what a start.
• 57:11
  One of the most. I'm not even going to I'm not
• 57:15
  going to try to sell them, but I will.
• 57:18
  One of the most underrated pitchers of the last half
• 57:22
  decade. I mean, he he's had a great
• 57:24
  career, but especially as of late you, if you look at the
• 57:26
  numbers, one of the one of the best pitchers in all baseball
• 57:30
  and certainly one of the most underappreciated.
• 57:33
  Feel like we're just coming across a lot of similar names
• 57:39
  from prior drafts, you know what I mean?
• 57:43
  Well, I mean, we are drafting baseball players, so.
• 57:52
  Well, he he ain't in the outfield yet, so I'm going to
• 57:59
  put him in the infield. Whoa, never mind.
• 58:02
  What the heck? Good thing I kept scrolling.
• 58:05
  Give me Garrett Cole on the bump.
• 58:09
  See what I mean? Didn't even see him.
• 58:10
  I wouldn't have picked him anyway, but I literally didn't
• 58:12
  see him. So there you go.
• 58:14
  That's fun. All right, no repeats, right?
• 58:18
  Correct. Almost win Jose Altuve.
• 58:23
  Also didn't see him so this is fun.
• 58:26
  There's gonna be tough, yeah. There's gonna be oversight.
• 58:28
  There's. So many names to sift through,
• 58:29
  but it's all right, it's all right next year, both of our
• 58:36
  birth years, right 909393 shout out I'm a. 1st.
• 58:45
  Shout out, you are first. What didn't I see Tim Anderson
• 58:49
  on the last? I mean, that seems like a pretty
• 58:53
  common name. I'm sure.
• 58:56
  I'm sure Tim Anderson pops up more than once in baseball.
• 59:06
  Wait, why do I? Why do I feel like I'm seeing
• 59:13
  similar names? Whatever, just keep going guy.
• 59:19
  Focus. Stay focused here.
• 59:29
  Man, you see some names when you're scroll, when you're when
• 59:31
  you're sifting through these players, man, you're seeing some
• 59:34
  guys, you're like wow, whatever, hat like what happened?
• 59:37
  I'm seeing names that like make me feel old.
• 59:40
  That's what I'm saying. I'm like, whoa, this guy's been
• 59:42
  in the league for a minute. I don't love that.
• 59:51
  I don't love that feeling personally.
• 59:56
  Sorry. Do my best here.
• 59:58
  Hey, it's all good, man. This is tough.
• 1:00:02
  OK, got a candidate. Just going to keep going just in
• 1:00:04
  case. Oh yeah, I bet you do.
• 1:00:11
  I bet you do. Why are you saying it like that?
• 1:00:16
  Don't worry about it. The way you're saying that makes
• 1:00:21
  me feel like I'm nervous over overlooking something.
• 1:00:24
  Nope. I don't, I don't love what
• 1:00:30
  you're doing there, guy. Don't worry about it.
• 1:00:32
  Just just just mind game. Just.
• 1:00:34
  Go. Just go.
• 1:00:40
  Almost there. We're just.
• 1:00:43
  Do I? Do I what?
• 1:00:48
  What am am I crazy in saying that 93 isn't exactly the the
• 1:00:52
  best represented year in baseball?
• 1:00:54
  It's not. It's not.
• 1:00:55
  Kind of disappointed in my birth year a little bit.
• 1:00:57
  Here like yeah. Not wild about it.
• 1:01:02
  Yeah, it's it's not great. I don't love the way you said
• 1:01:12
  that. I'm no like I'm having.
• 1:01:14
  I'm you made me. You made me second guess.
• 1:01:16
  So I'm not. I'm just go, just go.
• 1:01:19
  I'm having to go back through things, I'm having to rethink
• 1:01:22
  things. Just pick.
• 1:01:27
  I've got multiple names lined up here.
• 1:01:29
  Give me Frankie Lindor. Yeah, there it is.
• 1:01:32
  Give me Trey Turner on the infield.
• 1:01:34
  It's going to be a real Philly heavy.
• 1:01:37
  It's a real Philly heavy episode, if I'm being honest
• 1:01:40
  with you. Real Philly heavy.
• 1:01:44
  Didn't see Trey Turner, Yep, he was there because you were
• 1:01:48
  rushing me. You were talking smack when I
• 1:01:50
  was getting down those 3 days. I don't.
• 1:01:54
  My reading comprehension is not as good as yours.
• 1:01:57
  I don't think that's true. All right.
• 1:02:00
  Who am I first now? You're first.
• 1:02:02
  The next year is All right. Well, we're ruling out 2004
• 1:02:07
  doesn't count 1993. That's a repeat 1990.
• 1:02:11
  Six Why did we take out O 4? Because it's Jackson Cheerio as
• 1:02:17
  the only player in 2004. Would have been a good get.
• 1:02:20
  Did you say 96 would? Have been a great get.
• 1:02:22
  But then what? What's the other person?
• 1:02:24
  What's the other person stuck with?
• 1:02:26
  It's tough. They just roll out a nine player
• 1:02:28
  lineup. They they don't have a pitcher
• 1:02:29
  or DH or something. O4 What'd you say, 96?
• 1:02:35
  96 And I know you're probably thinking if you're listening, if
• 1:02:40
  you're thinking or if you're thinking if you're watching or
• 1:02:42
  listening, you're gone. Well, it says 1984 to 2004 for
• 1:02:46
  the draft. It just sounds cleaner when you
• 1:02:48
  go 84 to O 4. It's just nicer presentation.
• 1:02:51
  But there's literally one player in the year 2004 and we can't
• 1:02:54
  pick him. So I mean, we could, but again,
• 1:02:57
  it really throw a wrench into this draft.
• 1:03:00
  OK, so 96, let's go 96, I can get back to the the menu here.
• 1:03:11
  96, OK. I feel like this town, it's
• 1:03:15
  going to be this town pool is going to be pretty good.
• 1:03:28
  Yeah. Whoa, Who do we got?
• 1:03:40
  Who we got 96? Who we got?
• 1:03:46
  We got some names. We got some names.
• 1:03:53
  We got some names. Wow, some of these guys I had
• 1:04:00
  pegged at like 37. Oh yeah, JoJo Romero could have
• 1:04:11
  swore he's pushing 40. Dude, you're telling me Eloy
• 1:04:13
  Jimenez was 90? You're telling me you're going
• 1:04:17
  to look at me and tell me that I'm three years older than Eloy
• 1:04:21
  Jimenez? Come on.
• 1:04:30
  Oh yeah. Derek School in here.
• 1:04:37
  Trying to throw me off my game. I know what you're.
• 1:04:38
  I know you're games. Yeah.
• 1:04:43
  Give me Terek Scubal. Give me Terek Scubal.
• 1:04:47
  I'll put them at DH. Why not?
• 1:04:51
  All right, I think I know my answer here.
• 1:04:53
  I know you do. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 1:04:55
  Yeah, that I don't know mine because it's obvious which one
• 1:04:59
  you're taking. Oh, yeah, But give me Gavin
• 1:05:02
  Sheets. No.
• 1:05:04
  Give me Rafael Devers, Man of the hour.
• 1:05:09
  Rafael Devers. Am I allowed to put him in the
• 1:05:12
  infield? Like, is that, is that OK?
• 1:05:14
  Like, is that my only option? Will he will he be upset with me
• 1:05:18
  if if I say that he's he's in my infield?
• 1:05:21
  I played their pace the way he said that.
• 1:05:25
  I played, I played third. I played, I played third base.
• 1:05:29
  Yeah, I bet you do, Rafi. You're like the worst at it in
• 1:05:31
  baseball, but OK. All right, give me Jaron Duran
• 1:05:34
  in the outfield. That's a good get, huh I?
• 1:05:39
  Love Jaron Duran, but I don't know that that may have hurt you
• 1:05:45
  this. No, I don't think so.
• 1:05:47
  This is very deep, honestly. If you keep scrolling, it's not.
• 1:05:49
  You're impressive. You're right.
• 1:05:51
  You're right. I'm with you.
• 1:05:53
  That's why I was glad I went first there 1984.
• 1:05:58
  This is going to get weird 1980. 4.
• 1:06:06
  Wait a minute. Oh, this is, yeah, this is the
• 1:06:09
  first year after we may, we may not be able to do this one
• 1:06:14
  because what I didn't consider is that while I gave it a year
• 1:06:18
  buffer from Verlander as the oldest player.
• 1:06:22
  It's not active. Yeah, it's, it's not like
• 1:06:24
  there's a whole lot, you know. There's really not.
• 1:06:28
  Oh boy, I. Mean I'm down to skip it if you
• 1:06:36
  are. Let me just keep scrolling.
• 1:06:43
  Double check if you go over to the right you can see that
• 1:06:47
  they're still active. Oh, right, right, true, true.
• 1:06:51
  True. So you can kind of like cruise
• 1:06:53
  past a lot of names. No chance.
• 1:06:55
  That guy's still active? Yeah.
• 1:06:57
  No chance. Active in what sense?
• 1:07:00
  And their minds. Was it Gerard Dyson by.
• 1:07:02
  Chance according No, it was Scott Kasmere.
• 1:07:06
  Ah, yes. Yeah, active according to who
• 1:07:10
  themselves, or to Major League rosters?
• 1:07:14
  Cliff Pennington still active. Get out of here.
• 1:07:17
  Come on now. Well, both our starters are
• 1:07:25
  taken. So that kind of I think we may
• 1:07:28
  have to re spin my guy. Yeah, there's.
• 1:07:33
  We didn't think this through too much.
• 1:07:39
  No, because that's what I'm saying.
• 1:07:40
  Like in my head I'm like, Oh yeah, we'll just cap it at at
• 1:07:43
  the oldest guy. But then I'm like, well there's
• 1:07:44
  AI would imagine a sizeable gap between I.
• 1:07:48
  Mean it's your call if you really feel like.
• 1:07:51
  What's the draw? Dyson by chance?
• 1:07:55
  If you feel like you're. Down, let's re spend.
• 1:07:57
  Yeah, let's go ahead and re spend.
• 1:07:58
  I'll make an executive decision here.
• 1:08:00
  Fine with me, I was going to go J teeth.
• 1:08:03
  That's fair. Yeah, I would have gone that
• 1:08:05
  too. But there was nobody else.
• 1:08:07
  Nobody. I can't go Scott Kasmere because
• 1:08:09
  that's not that's not a real thing.
• 1:08:11
  Yeah, 1989, not much better. Little better, little better.
• 1:08:15
  Little better. Going to be thin picking still
• 1:08:18
  which is OK It's. Going to be better Pickens than
• 1:08:25
  than what we just had, than what we just had.
• 1:08:34
  Am I still up first believe? Were you supposed to be first
• 1:08:38
  for that last one? Yeah, I said I went to rain.
• 1:08:41
  Yeah. Yep, Yep.
• 1:08:43
  Right. Same thing.
• 1:08:46
  I'm, I'm looking to the right first.
• 1:08:50
  Madison Bumgarner is not still active.
• 1:08:53
  Does anyone still work at baseball-almanac.com?
• 1:08:59
  Derek Dietrich. No and not active.
• 1:09:03
  The guns. Lifting weights on Muscle Beach.
• 1:09:06
  The guns tough, this is tough. We can't double up on re spend
• 1:09:15
  can no. We don't.
• 1:09:16
  We don't need to re spend here. Cool.
• 1:09:21
  Well, I don't feel like scrolling anymore.
• 1:09:23
  Give me Freddy Freeman. I thought you were going to.
• 1:09:25
  I thought you were going to miss him.
• 1:09:28
  I really thought you were going to miss him.
• 1:09:30
  Jeez. Well, it gives me hope.
• 1:09:33
  That gives me hope because I I didn't.
• 1:09:35
  I would have pegged Freeman for a little younger.
• 1:09:37
  But Aaron Hicks is available. Shut up.
• 1:09:43
  Give me stop, stop. Stop scrolling and stop getting
• 1:09:48
  in my head. Let me make my picks.
• 1:09:52
  Give me. Come on now.
• 1:09:59
  Come on now, give me somebody good.
• 1:10:02
  Give me somebody good. I got a chance here to to snag
• 1:10:07
  somebody because Nate was too lazy to keep scrolling.
• 1:10:11
  That's. Right when you see Freddie
• 1:10:13
  Freeman. Holy.
• 1:10:14
  Cow man man, I would have loved to snag for sale.
• 1:10:24
  Can't. Can I?
• 1:10:26
  Can I choose Will Smith the reliever and put him as my
• 1:10:31
  catcher? Did you double check that it I'm
• 1:10:37
  assuming it's the reliever will Oh.
• 1:10:39
  Absolutely. It's the reliever.
• 1:10:45
  All right, Get a little deeper here.
• 1:10:46
  Get a little deeper. Give me.
• 1:10:50
  I hate this. It's crazy that there's I'm
• 1:10:57
  going to take such a drop off. Yeah, I don't.
• 1:11:00
  I don't love this pic, but give me give me Giancarlo Stanton.
• 1:11:05
  I'll defer to you. Where?
• 1:11:07
  Where can I put them outfield? DH has to be DH.
• 1:11:11
  Did he not log out to the innings last year?
• 1:11:18
  I mean, I no, no, I'll I'll go DH, I'll go DH.
• 1:11:22
  I don't want to log up or jam up a outfield spot.
• 1:11:29
  I think he did, but. No, he definitely did.
• 1:11:36
  All right. Oh, shoot, what was that's?
• 1:11:38
  Not a bad. That's not a bad.
• 1:11:40
  I honestly didn't even see him the first time I was scrolling.
• 1:11:42
  Well, it was either that or Springer and I'm like I'll, I'll
• 1:11:45
  get some more votes with Stan than Springer.
• 1:11:48
  What was what was Devers and and Duran's year 96, 1996 and then
• 1:11:56
  this is what, 89? Yeah, we had 84 in between that.
• 1:12:01
  So we have 90939684890. Wait, we rescrolled on 84?
• 1:12:07
  Yeah, we rescrolled. I'm sorry, I was.
• 1:12:08
  Going to say we only got 4 players so we're on.
• 1:12:11
  We're on what year right now? We're on 1989 all.
• 1:12:17
  Right. 89, yeah. Yeah.
• 1:12:19
  All right. Who's got first pick here?
• 1:12:21
  You do. All right, give me 1994 is the
• 1:12:30
  next randomly generated year, and I think I'm going to like
• 1:12:35
  what I find in 1994. Who was born in 1994?
• 1:12:44
  Oh, I'm seeing a lot of active. Seeing a lot of active, as you
• 1:12:48
  would expect. We're not that we're old.
• 1:12:50
  We're not that old. OK, OK, OK.
• 1:12:58
  It was a decent year. I like, I like.
• 1:13:01
  I think I like 94 better than 93.
• 1:13:06
  Think I like 94. I'll tell you what, I'm glad we
• 1:13:10
  both locked up our pictures because I'd hate to be missing
• 1:13:12
  out on these names. Yeah, I know.
• 1:13:15
  Woof, give me. Come on, come on.
• 1:13:23
  Give me Kyle Funkhouser, March 16th.
• 1:13:30
  No, give me feel like I know my answer, unfortunately.
• 1:13:48
  But you know what? I got it.
• 1:13:49
  Oh. Shut up, you suck, dude, Shut
• 1:14:01
  up, you suck. That's a tough, tough draw
• 1:14:09
  there, guy. Oh God, just going.
• 1:14:16
  To go ahead and write your answer down.
• 1:14:20
  What a joke dude. That's so nice.
• 1:14:25
  I hate this. I hate everything about this.
• 1:14:31
  Why even bother now? Dude, why even bother?
• 1:14:36
  Draft is over. The draft is over.
• 1:14:42
  That was so stupid. I don't want to.
• 1:14:44
  I don't want to log up one my own field spots.
• 1:14:48
  Misses out on the best player in the game immediately after.
• 1:14:53
  Unbelievable. All right, Give me golly, man.
• 1:15:01
  Oh boy. Give me freaking God.
• 1:15:09
  I'm just loading up on guys I just cannot stand.
• 1:15:14
  Give me freaking Pete Alonso, I guess.
• 1:15:20
  Unbelievable. You've lucked into that, man.
• 1:15:25
  For those who couldn't do the math there, Shohei Otani was
• 1:15:28
  born in 1994. Oh yeah, was he?
• 1:15:31
  He'll be slotting in my DH. You didn't want to go Matt Olson
• 1:15:34
  over Pete Alonso, huh? Didn't even see him.
• 1:15:38
  Yeah, I think whatever. And I get to go first.
• 1:15:45
  Give me a Goodyear guy. Next year up is 1992.
• 1:15:59
  I hate this. Let's figure it out here.
• 1:16:01
  Hey, it's. A long It's a long draft.
• 1:16:07
  Shut up. Well, it feels good, but I'm
• 1:16:12
  just going to double check, make sure, yeah.
• 1:16:14
  All you're good. He seems to be the the key to
• 1:16:19
  victory. That's what I'm saying.
• 1:16:21
  This guy just turns the he's the, he's the, the, the stir
• 1:16:26
  that straws the drink with these drafts.
• 1:16:28
  Yeah, just pick it. Pick your guy, dude.
• 1:16:32
  Come on. Oh.
• 1:16:33
  There's I can't. What are you talking about?
• 1:16:39
  Because I'm taking Aaron Judge. OK, I'll you know what?
• 1:16:44
  I'm glad. I think that's fine.
• 1:16:47
  I think I think that's fine. That's a win right there.
• 1:16:49
  You're right, I I would have been forced to pick Aaron Judge
• 1:16:54
  and that would have crushed my soul to have Giancarlo Stanton,
• 1:16:57
  Pete Alonso and Aaron Judge on the same team.
• 1:17:00
  So thank you for choosing Aaron Judge.
• 1:17:02
  I will gladly take. Well, OK, what does this mean?
• 1:17:08
  I mean, I guess infield Vermookie Betts, correct?
• 1:17:12
  Wherever you want, I'll I'll let that, I'll let that slide.
• 1:17:15
  I'll go infield. OK, I'm going to move them then.
• 1:17:22
  So thank you, Aaron Judge. Wow.
• 1:17:25
  Mookie over Bryce Harper, huh? Yeah, I, I had a moment.
• 1:17:31
  It was almost like we're drafting a fantasy team and I
• 1:17:33
  had a moment of panic, like I was up against the clock or
• 1:17:35
  something. So I just saw Mookie Betts and
• 1:17:37
  just immediately jump to it. I mean, it's probably the right
• 1:17:42
  pick, right? I feel like it's the right pick,
• 1:17:44
  but I for you. I love me, don't get me wrong.
• 1:17:47
  Don't get me wrong, I love me some Bryce.
• 1:17:49
  For sure I think it's the right pick, but for I just wasn't
• 1:17:52
  sure. Trying to win a draft here.
• 1:17:54
  Trying to win a draft. I feel good.
• 1:18:01
  Do you feel good? Oh yeah, I bet.
• 1:18:06
  You're up first. Am I up first all right?
• 1:18:19
  The next sorry spaced out there for a SEC next year is 2001, uh.
• 1:18:30
  Oh. This is interesting.
• 1:18:32
  This this could be interesting this.
• 1:18:34
  Is going to make me feel really old.
• 1:18:39
  Stop. Am I up?
• 1:18:40
  I'm up first. Yeah.
• 1:18:42
  Love that. Really, really love that.
• 1:18:45
  You might not. I love that for me.
• 1:18:57
  Yep. No, I definitely hate it.
• 1:18:59
  Yeah, it's tough luck buddy. I even gave you the option with.
• 1:19:03
  This draft, this draft really, really blows.
• 1:19:08
  Really, really blows. Wow.
• 1:19:17
  All right. Well, I guess I can go ahead and
• 1:19:19
  write yours down. This sucks, man.
• 1:19:28
  You're telling me there's nobody else?
• 1:19:32
  You're telling me there's no. What do I need?
• 1:19:38
  I need a catcher and three outfielders.
• 1:19:41
  Holy cow, man. This guy comes back to me almost
• 1:20:06
  every draft it seems, where I have an opportunity to choose
• 1:20:09
  him and I'm going to have to choose him.
• 1:20:11
  He's the kiss of death for these drafts.
• 1:20:13
  Give me Francisco Alvarez behind the dish.
• 1:20:22
  Can't stand this guy. I'm going to have such.
• 1:20:25
  As for those that don't have the list in front of them.
• 1:20:27
  Yeah, I bet. Your boys going Gunner
• 1:20:29
  Henderson. Yeah, I bet, no doubt.
• 1:20:31
  But unfortunately, Kyle filled up his infield a little too
• 1:20:36
  quickly. So dumb next time we do this
• 1:20:41
  stupid infield outfield thing, note to self don't log up one
• 1:20:46
  side of the field or or or one level of the field too soon what
• 1:20:50
  a stupid move by me what a stupid move and you get to
• 1:20:55
  choose first love that for us we've done 89 we've.
• 1:21:03
  Wait, that was 96? No, that was.
• 1:21:07
  No, that was. Doesn't want you like.
• 1:21:08
  Sorry. We've done 89 just to 2001.
• 1:21:15
  Yeah, 2003. Yo, whoa, whoa.
• 1:21:24
  I feel like this bodes well for me, although may not matter.
• 1:21:33
  2003 Who? What young bucks were born in
• 1:21:36
  2003? It's a good list.
• 1:21:39
  Give me Jackson Merrill on the outfield.
• 1:21:50
  I mean what? Can I?
• 1:21:52
  You have to do, Jason. This, this, this sucks, dude.
• 1:21:57
  I, I forfeit the draft, I forfeit the.
• 1:22:02
  I mean, you talk about just things falling into your lap.
• 1:22:05
  This is crazy. This is crazy.
• 1:22:12
  I need a freaking catcher ASAP. I don't want to get screwed
• 1:22:16
  here. If you can't properly fill out
• 1:22:19
  your lineup. If you can't properly fill out
• 1:22:22
  your lineup, you're forced to forfeit.
• 1:22:24
  So if you can't. Get a catcher if you can't get
• 1:22:27
  your catcher in the last pick, Yeah, I win by default.
• 1:22:31
  I'm going to put that in the note.
• 1:22:34
  I'm going to leave your catcher spot blank the next year and I
• 1:22:38
  am up. I'm so mad at myself.
• 1:22:42
  Did we do 86? No.
• 1:22:47
  No. No chance.
• 1:22:49
  There's going to be an active outfielder from 90, from 86, no
• 1:22:54
  chance. Yikes.
• 1:22:59
  Yeah, that's a good, that's a good way to start this year.
• 1:23:04
  Yikes dude. Oh boy.
• 1:23:14
  What do I do? I can't.
• 1:23:16
  There's nothing, dude. There's nothing I can do.
• 1:23:18
  I can't put you Darvish in my outfield.
• 1:23:20
  Might have to bro. There's nobody.
• 1:23:33
  OK, I guess by default. So, so bad.
• 1:23:42
  I don't even know why I'm bother looking.
• 1:23:44
  He's the only guy that fits the bill for me here.
• 1:23:46
  Shout out. Hey, shout out.
• 1:23:48
  Brandon Snyder, friend of the pod meme meme legend Mark
• 1:23:57
  Trumbo. Mark Trumbo is not active.
• 1:24:01
  Come on, Baseball Almanac. What are we doing?
• 1:24:05
  Matt Weeders. You can put Matt Weeders behind
• 1:24:09
  the dish. No, you can't, because he's not
• 1:24:12
  active. Oh bro Wallace, friend of the
• 1:24:16
  pod. Friend of the pod?
• 1:24:19
  Well, go ahead and give me Andrew McCutcheon in the
• 1:24:23
  outfield. Well, only because I'm not
• 1:24:31
  really stressing anymore. I'm going to go ahead and put
• 1:24:38
  Martine Maldonado behind the dish.
• 1:24:40
  Yeah, I. Bet you are.
• 1:24:42
  I bet you are. Now watch to round it out for
• 1:24:48
  your for your outfield or for your infield.
• 1:24:51
  You're going to get like 97 or. Something give me like late 90s,
• 1:24:56
  give me late 90s Ninety 899 would be real nice.
• 1:25:04
  So I need an outfielder and you need an infielder, correct This.
• 1:25:14
  I talked too much noise before we started.
• 1:25:17
  I mean, they you wouldn't. This is going to be a bloodbath.
• 1:25:19
  This is going to be rough I think.
• 1:25:21
  But, but hear me out on this. This is going to this is going
• 1:25:26
  to put my theory to the test about who's.
• 1:25:29
  I mean, obviously this last draft was wasn't exception
• 1:25:34
  because I end up winning and I chose second.
• 1:25:36
  But I'm going to be curious to see if they see who's first, if
• 1:25:39
  who's listed first, if that's going to play any sort of
• 1:25:42
  impact. The only sure and Mookie.
• 1:25:44
  Sure. And Mookie, The X Factor,
• 1:25:47
  apparently I'm not going to win the draft, but it's going to,
• 1:25:50
  it's going to be very telling if it's a very close poll result.
• 1:25:55
  And in that it will tell me that whoever chooses first and is on
• 1:25:59
  the left, that's a that's a key factor apparently for the days
• 1:26:04
  so that that'll tell me all I need to know.
• 1:26:05
  But the final. Year win this, I don't know.
• 1:26:10
  I don't know if we can continue to do drafts, to be honest.
• 1:26:12
  Look, I'll go ahead and I'll go ahead and forfeit right now.
• 1:26:15
  I'm not even going to present like I'll I'll make the graphic,
• 1:26:18
  I'll put the poll out. But if for whatever reason the
• 1:26:21
  voters are idiots and choose me to.
• 1:26:23
  Win. I think we got to take it out of
• 1:26:25
  their hands. I yeah, I I forfeit.
• 1:26:27
  I forfeit the the draft. All right, 91.
• 1:26:34
  OK, OK, I need whoa, Oh no, I read that wrong.
• 1:26:45
  Daddy needs an infielder from 9:00 to 1:00.
• 1:26:52
  And I need an outfielder. Is there any?
• 1:26:58
  Chance to salvage this draft with the last minute Hail Mary
• 1:27:04
  from the outfield. It's hard to say, bud.
• 1:27:07
  You never know what it's hard. If I would have, man, if I would
• 1:27:13
  have thought, if I would have used some sense, I would have
• 1:27:17
  drafted my outfielders with the younger years.
• 1:27:21
  I don't know what I was thinking.
• 1:27:22
  I should have you. You saved.
• 1:27:24
  You saved the youth, or I'm sorry, you saved the older years
• 1:27:28
  for your infield slash dhi. Could have waited it out on
• 1:27:32
  catcher. Dang it.
• 1:27:34
  Real muto. Oh, I mean that would have just
• 1:27:38
  the draft is already over, but I mean that.
• 1:27:41
  I do concur. Whoa.
• 1:27:42
  Marcus Stroman available. Hello.
• 1:27:47
  Oh dude, you might be able to salvage this thing.
• 1:27:50
  No, I know what you're looking at.
• 1:27:52
  That's not enough. It's not enough to move the
• 1:27:54
  needle. You don't think?
• 1:27:56
  Nah. It's a good get.
• 1:27:59
  I mean, it's an OK yet, but it's not going to win.
• 1:28:02
  It's not going to salvage the draft.
• 1:28:04
  Fair enough. Give me Nolan Arenado.
• 1:28:09
  Why even bother? All right, Rounding it out 1991,
• 1:28:20
  I need an outfielder. Your outfield was in shambles
• 1:28:25
  before this. Dude, I have Jason Dominguez,
• 1:28:36
  who's barely had a cup of coffee at the big leagues, and Andrew
• 1:28:40
  McCutcheon, who I think probably single handedly broke the coffee
• 1:28:44
  machine in the big leagues for my outfield.
• 1:28:50
  That's fun. Give me Rob Reschneider, come on
• 1:29:01
  down now. Give me, I'm in.
• 1:29:08
  Whatever. Fine, give me that's that's
• 1:29:15
  really the only option here. It's really the only option.
• 1:29:21
  Hey, shut up. Kevin Gosman, 91, Gimme.
• 1:29:27
  Come on, guy. I'm just doing my due diligence
• 1:29:30
  here. I mean, it's too little, too
• 1:29:31
  late. Gimme Rich Nelich, Who did I
• 1:29:41
  miss? I'll just erase that and write
• 1:29:44
  in Yelich. Who did I miss?
• 1:29:48
  Hold on, let me figure this out myself.
• 1:29:49
  Mike Trout. Oh, but Christian Yelich has
• 1:30:01
  been written in permanent markers, So what are you doing?
• 1:30:10
  Oh, oh, that's so good. You are stacked in the outfield,
• 1:30:23
  my man Stacked. Oh.
• 1:30:31
  I'm sitting here going, I mean, it's an OK game.
• 1:30:34
  Like, really? You think like, yeah, no.
• 1:30:36
  Christian Yelich for sure. I hate.
• 1:30:41
  I don't. I didn't care for this draft.
• 1:30:45
  I did not care for this draft. This if if I am not winning this
• 1:30:53
  with at least 70% of the vote, I'm going to be disappointed.
• 1:31:00
  That's an embarrassment to I got to.
• 1:31:05
  Can you can you wrap us up here? I got to I threw my pad.
• 1:31:09
  No, I threw my pen in pad. I got to pick it up.
• 1:31:14
  Well ladies and gents, you saw what true talent looks like.
• 1:31:19
  I honestly might start adding these to my resume.
• 1:31:23
  I think being AGM in this league is feasible and as our man is
• 1:31:32
  absolutely falling apart and throwing a temper tantrum, you
• 1:31:40
  guys are incredible. Thanks for sticking it out if
• 1:31:42
  you're still here. Real big cheers to you, but
• 1:31:46
  don't go chasing curveballs. Can I no stop?
• 1:31:49
  We're not done yet. Can I?
• 1:31:55
  That's me wrapping it up. Can I?
• 1:31:57
  Is there anything I can do to to make the trout thing happen?
• 1:32:02
  No, absolutely not. I mean, we, we can have a trade
• 1:32:04
  conversation if you'd like. True.
• 1:32:06
  Oh, true. Yeah, we didn't even entertain
• 1:32:08
  that. I'll give you Christian Yelich.
• 1:32:10
  I mean, I'll, I'll take. I'll take Jackson Merrill.
• 1:32:17
  I guess I'm just trying to do you a favor.
• 1:32:20
  You give me Christian Yelich or I'll give you Christian Yelich.
• 1:32:24
  We can swap catchers and I'm down.
• 1:32:28
  Oh yeah, no, definitely want Martine.
• 1:32:30
  Maldonado for sure. I don't really round out my
• 1:32:32
  team. Is that pun intended?
• 1:32:36
  Because that dudes round, I'll give you, I'll tell you what,
• 1:32:44
  I'll, I'll, I'll roll out. I won't even roll out a complete
• 1:32:50
  line up. If you want to, if you want to
• 1:32:53
  make a tray, I'll, I'll go like a three for one.
• 1:32:58
  What am I going to do with that? Put them on your bench.
• 1:33:02
  I don't need that. There's no rule saying you
• 1:33:04
  can't. Have a bench I don't need.
• 1:33:06
  That. We can get weird with.
• 1:33:09
  It I just got it. I mean I got.
• 1:33:10
  It I'm I'm throwing a Hail Mary here and it's been batted down
• 1:33:16
  incomplete. All right, well, don't go.
• 1:33:20
  Chasing curve balls, folks. Yeah, I bet we love you all.
• 1:33:23
  And as always. Looking forward to talking more
• 1:33:25
  baseball with you guys. Soon.
• 1:33:26
  Until next time, draft Mike Trout.