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Free Agency Begins · The 3-0 Take

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  Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Three O Tape, 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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  percent by sea kick this episode 485 four 85.
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  I'll be your host, Kyle Corwin. I'm here with my Co host Nate
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  Reyes. Nate.
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  Back on the saddle. How about it didn't take long I.
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  Don't know how I feel. I'm just kind of feeling this
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  out as we go. For more reasons than one.
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  I mean, you're, you're fresh off of a a World Series List
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  hangover. I could still throw this through
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  my TV at any point. That's still on the table.
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  It's still an option, still in the back pocket.
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  You're you're coming off a a World Series let's hangover.
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  You're still feeling the effects of that.
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  And as you and I were talking about, this is sort of uncharted
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  territory for us. Usually this is sort of like our
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  dead period where we just kind of lay low, take a little bit of
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  a break because usually, as you would imagine, post season is
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  pretty hectic time and so we're usually not recording episodes.
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  But I said, you know what, let's try something different.
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  No break. We kept the theme of just
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  rolling right through, like just like we did for the World Series
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  recording after every game. We're like, you know what, let's
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  just keep it right. Let's just keep it rolling right
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  along. And so here we are.
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  Here we be. Tell me how you're really
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  feeling, though. I mean, I know, I know.
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  Honestly, I don't know what to expect from you because.
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  I like that. It's that's what I like.
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  No, that's a dangerous place for me to be.
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  True wild card. Honestly, you really just.
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  Just tell me how you're feeling. I'm avoiding all things
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  baseball. I'm glad we're here to talk
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  welcome. I'm glad we're here to talk some
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  baseball. Hey, that's a good that's a good
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  reminder for me just to thank the folks here who are are are
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  joining us for the maybe the first time or maybe picked up
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  picked up the pod along the way through the postseason.
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  I know we sort of wrapped up last episode with that with that
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  same sentiment, but just to I want to really drive that point
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  home. Thank you to the to the new
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  folks we got in. And as always, thank you to the
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  the OG, the day ones. Thank you guys for following
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  along. We're looking forward to this
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  offseason and and despite Nate's wild card attitude right now,
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  maybe lackadaisical little, you know, carefree, no care Nate.
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  We're looking forward to the soft seasons.
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  It gets weird in the offseason for this show.
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  This show gets real weird, but we're here to talk about moves,
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  transactions. Things.
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  Can we, yeah, can we try to identify what these qualify as
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  opt insurance, opt outs? They're notifications.
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  They're just notifications. They're not well to us, they're
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  notifications, but through the, through the baseball lens, what
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  are what are these things? I don't know.
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  I think it's a transaction technically because like when
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  you look up transactions on like a player's contract page like
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  that, I like using that spot track.
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  I love that's my favorite website for contracts, spot
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  track, spotrac.com and it shows if you go to transactions for
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  that player, it'll show like everything when they got sent
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  down, called up injured list and it's all technically under the
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  transactions category. All right, transaction it is.
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  I'm going to, you know, I'm going to stick with moves, but I
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  guess transaction actions, we're going to talk some action.
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  So let's talk. Let's start right off the top
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  here with the one that actually reached a resolution earlier
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  earlier today, Garrett Cole. I don't know what to feel.
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  Shout out James and chatty, says Nate looks exactly how I feel as
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  a Yankees fan. If you're not, if you're only
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  listening, we we say it all the time.
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  Give YouTube a try and if you do, you'll see exactly what what
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  James is talking about here. Nate.
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  Nate looks about as as as carefree as you possibly could
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  at this point. Did I send you that, that TikTok
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  where it was like, every Yankees fan in the world right now and
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  there was like, they were like, putting their jersey in the back
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  of the closet? Yeah, that's exactly what I did,
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  except all my Yankee shirts are, like, blended in with all my
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  regular shirts. I'm the weirdo that hangs up
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  every shirt. All my shirts are hung up.
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  That's very strange. All shirts.
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  Not a single shirt is folded. That sounds like something
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  Garrett Cole would do. Somebody knows that's a strange,
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  strange individual. No respect.
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  You don't respect that play. All things hung up.
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  No, I don't. Nor do I respect Garrett Cole.
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  Nor do the Yankees. Honestly.
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  Garrett Cole tried to put the ball in their court and they
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  were like, here you go, Garrett Ball right back at you, pal.
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  This was a whole thing. Confused me.
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  This was a yeah, this was a very weird, very weird thing.
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  The deadline for for decisions sort of to be made was Sunday
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  originally. And then they pushed it to
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  Monday. And I'm going.
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  You've had weeks, if not months to figure out what you want to
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  do with Garrett Cole. So why are we now pushing it
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  back another 24 hours? I don't know.
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  I think it was because of that fifth year, that fifth year was
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  starting to change. Which the Yankees understandably
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  didn't want to want to do. So they flipped it right back to
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  Garrett. They called his bluff.
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  And Garrett's like, all right, I'm just kidding.
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  I'm back in. We're, we're back in.
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  And it's as if he never opted out in the first place.
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  He's going to stick with the what is it 4144?
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  Yep, Yep, Yep, Yep. Taking the age 39, 38.
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  Or that the the last year the contract would be his 38 I guess
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  is what you're saying? I don't.
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  Know. Sure, let's take him down.
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  Up to his age, 39 season, Yeah. How are we feeling about this?
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  I know how I feel about it as a Red Sox guy.
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  So I mean, I'm loving this. I'm.
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  I'm glad he's going to stay in the mix because why wouldn't you
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  want Garrett Cole of all people to stay in the mix?
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  So I. Don't understand?
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  Of the dying, the dying rivalry. Tell me how you feel though.
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  I think that I would appreciate another signing, someone who's
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  younger, someone who can gracefully move into the ace
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  role as he ages. I thought you were leading to
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  soda. I was not.
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  We'll get to that later, maybe. We're not even going to.
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  Yeah, maybe, Maybe, maybe. Yeah, yeah, I, I mean, I like
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  it. It it would have been weird if
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  he left. It would have been like just
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  like an unnecessary gut punch when the when the gut has been
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  thoroughly punched enough, you know where you're like, you
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  think you're numb to the pain and then a week later your ace
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  leaves. That wouldn't have been great.
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  That wouldn't have been great. So what does that break break
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  out to like 20? Tall.
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  You're asking me to do math on a Monday.
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  You're saying the remaining AAV is what you're asking?
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  24 year ish. No, four.
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  You're saying the remaining AAV? Yeah, that's 36.
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  I don't know why you're in the 20s.
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  Thirty 6. Glad you weren't the one doing
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  the math there. It's a lot.
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  Maybe he's one of the best pitchers in baseball and and for
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  the Yankees. To.
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  For the Yankees to. Do though, this is what they do.
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  This is what they did with CC and you just kind of like you
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  pay him for what he did, but like at least CC got us a ring.
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  Like I don't I don't know. I I don't, I just these guys
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  don't age well, especially like. Come on, you and I can both
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  acknowledge me especially can it's I mean, well, it's a little
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  tougher for me, but I even I can admit that Garrett Cole is going
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  to age presumably rather well. Like like Justin Verlander type
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  you like you. You have to imagine he's
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  pitching into his 40s. If if he can, I would imagine
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  the will is there. That's not you can't you can't
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  say that for all guys. But for Garrett Cole, you, you
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  have to think that he's going to especially for the Yankees, he's
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  going to want to pitch at least in his early 40s and.
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  OK, not the Yankees at that point.
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  Well, I mean, I'll take it. I'll take it.
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  I'm just saying that like I I want someone to bridge that gap.
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  Give me somebody to bridge that gap when he is no longer the
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  ace, you know what I mean? 36 years, a lot though, a lot of
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  money. What we could do with that?
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  I think you're barking up the wrong tree for money.
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  This. This is not the guy.
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  I can't believe I'm the one convincing you that keeping
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  Garrett Cole for the duration that they presumably will keep
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  him around is a good thing. All right, Why am I the?
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  Person just a little bit of like, you know, let me hit free
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  agency, but like not for that long because let me come back
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  and, you know, save you guys some money to do some other
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  stuff with this rock. That, yeah, I mean that I could
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  get on board with. That would be like a, you know,
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  like an ace. I want a monument in in Monument
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  Park kind of move. And that's, you know, I don't
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  know. That I can get on board with.
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  But yeah, I don't know, maybe he looked at the way this this
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  October ended up and is like, if we can't do it this year.
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  Yeah, it's fair. Just like, let me just get my
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  bag at least. Yeah, let's, I have no interest
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  in maybe if we would have pulled it out.
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  He's that's probably what he's saying.
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  If if we would have pulled it out, maybe we're talking about a
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  a legacy here that we can tack on some more.
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  That's what bugs me is that I just feel like not winning.
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  It should trigger some type of selflessness in a way, but
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  whatever. Professional athletes rarely do
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  that. That's why Otani is a Unicorn in
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  more ways than one. Either that or you just didn't
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  like California taxes anyway. It's a fair assumption.
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  What else you got for me? Tired of talking to?
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  Yankees. Well, that's a great, that's a
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  great transition into our next guy, Anthony Rizzo.
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  Yankees have declined his $17 million option, club option for
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  next year. Yeah, this was a no brainer.
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  But I'm seeing some talk about like, is this, is this it for
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  Rizzo? And I'm like, no, no, right,
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  Come on. He's had a long career.
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  It just doesn't. There's not much there.
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  There's not much there. Yeah, but I mean, he's not aging
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  well, but to but to go from, I'm going to use the the the term
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  contributing very loosely here to go from contributing on a
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  World Series team to not having a home the next year.
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  Given his and I know I'll be it a long career given his resume.
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  You don't think he finds a home elsewhere at least for another
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  year or two? You, I mean, you think there's a
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  possibility that this is it for Anthony Rizzo?
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  No, I mean, I would see. I could see like a Cubs reunion.
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  I could see. Yeah, the that.
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  I could see, I don't know, throwing him on like the Reds or
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  something, you know what I mean? Like somewhere that.
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  Yeah, I'm. Yeah.
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  That end of end of career talk is crazy.
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  Come on now. Yeah, I'm just.
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  I, I love Rizzo. I really do.
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  I actually really, really like Rizzo, a guy that's just like,
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  he's such a great baseball guy and he's a great leader.
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  He's a great clubhouse guy. He's great like off the field
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  with helping people, has an amazing foundation.
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  Like he's one of my favourites that's going to fall into like
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  the very, you know, good Hall, the Hall of good, the Hall of
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  solid, Hall of solid. I like that.
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  Let's ride with that. But I think he just kind of ties
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  the Yankees up a little bit, man.
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  And like leadership wise, they get they get in these positions.
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  That's that's what I meant by like the coal thing of like, I
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  get weary about them bringing players back that are deep into
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  their 30s because you're like, they, they get stuck and then
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  they don't know how to move on or bench that guy or, or release
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  that guy or like anything. And then they end up in a weird
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  spot. And I could I could see that
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  happening if Rizzo was to come back.
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  And so thank you for your service.
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  Please go somewhere else. How's that for 9 million
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  dollars, $11 million, something like that?
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  Not ten, just 9 or. 9:00 to 11:00 I don't feel good about
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  10. It's 9 or 11/9.
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  Or 11. Possibly 11.5.
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  Allergic to even numbers is Anthony Rizzo.
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  Yeah, no, I'm I'm with you. But yeah, the the weird and I
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  don't know how much validity there was to the end of the
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  career room. Not rumored, but just like
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  speculation. I'm like no stop.
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  Like we we have to as a not just with baseball, with sports.
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  And I know I've referenced this meme before, but it's that it's
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  that meme where it's like, you know, like a 30 year old walking
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  down the street. It's like, OK, 30 years old
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  walking down the street. A 30 year old athlete, like a
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  baseball player walks up to the plate.
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  And those sportscasters, like, Can you believe it?
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  30 years old. It's a miracle like.
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  How old is he? Well, I'm not saying he's 30
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  years old, but collectively we just got to stop like writing
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  people off so soon. Like if if it isn't fact time.
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  It's just the way they age. Yeah, I suppose he's 30.
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  He. Misses a lot of games.
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  He's 35. But it's like, I mean.
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  If he's just a great, he's a gamer.
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  The gamer saying like, and, and I'm not saying that he falls
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  into the category of like a Gary Sanchez or a Nelson Cruz, who I
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  don't even know how Gary Sanchez is, but like.
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  He'd be surprised. Pretty young.
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  Yeah, we've had this. We've had this conversation
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  before. I'm I'm this is.
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  This is like 28. Yeah, he he plays like he's he's
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  42 sometimes he's 31. I swear he's older than 31.
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  But anyway, like it if guys like that are still finding gigs
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  elsewhere around the league, which I know Nelson Cruz weren't
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  just no longer, but you get my point.
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  Like and you tell me, Anthony Russo, come on, what are we
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  really doing here? Yeah, it's tough, man.
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  Like I I think Yankee Stadium also kind of changes his
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  approach and it hinders a little bit.
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  And when you see him just get pull happy and swinging
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  underneath stuff, you're like, this isn't really your game
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  anymore. Kind of like if a pitcher loses
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  velocity, start figuring out the secondary pitches, learn how to
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  throw a cutter, blah, blah, blah.
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  You get a hitter that, you know, just kind of loses that pop.
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  Like I've watched that guy lace balls over the shortstop and,
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  and to give solid ABS because he's crowding a plate.
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  And like, I think that he can provide some value somewhere
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  else and, and maybe you bring him in and like a young
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  clubhouse and, and, you know, let him be the solid vet.
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  Let him let him teach somebody how to play first base and just
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  kind of ease him out. Put him on like the Nationals.
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  You know what I mean? Like, that'd be weird.
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  Maybe it's Cubs reunion. Cubs ain't doing anything.
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  Speaking of easing out, Blake Snell did no such thing.
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  He he got out of that contract as fast as he could, has
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  exercised his opt out with the Giants and he will now be a free
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  agent for the second straight year.
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  Most predictable. Why do you keep asking me?
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  His age is 31. Good job.
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  Did you guess that I come prepared?
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  Like just one of the most predictable transactions, if you
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  will, of the the young offseason.
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  Like like Snell is just going to continue.
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  I honestly at the rate he's going now if if he continues to
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  yeah, if he continues to come up on the on the wrong end of these
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  these contract searches it it the markets just or the league,
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  I should say is just going to continue to call his bluff and
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  be like, no, we're not giving you what you're looking for.
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  We're not giving you and guy will talk talk about little
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  later like Cody Belcher. It's kind of the same thing.
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  It's like no, we're you can want something, but that doesn't mean
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  you're going to get it regardless who your agent is.
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  We we saw how that came to came to be last year.
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  Just doesn't matter it seems anymore.
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  And I I just have to think that unless Blake Snell that I don't
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  know, checks his pride at the door or or something, he's not
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  going to get any sort of length in this contract.
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  If he keeps going after the money, the money, the money.
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  He may not find it. But if he wants a little bit of
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  security and not have and not force himself to be put in a
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  position where every single season is a bet on yourself
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  year, I don't know like it. It's just not.
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  What do you think is a fair contract?
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  He's 31. He he was Cy Young then proves
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  himself again. I know it's a rough start and
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  wasn't healthy because of the whole I think I blame the spring
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  training sit out kind of situation.
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  But give me give me like a fair length and number.
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  Yeah, but even we talked about that, remember it.
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  Maybe it's just a thing where Blake Snow, whether he gets a
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  late start or not, because we've obviously seen him in both
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  situations out maybe just doesn't matter.
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  Maybe he's just a second-half guy.
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  Like if it happens, if it happens time and time again, you
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  have to wonder like, OK, is this just his MO?
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  Like as as a guy, I don't know. But the contract back in March
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  was a two year, 62 mil include a $17 million signing bonus.
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  I don't know, for his sake, for his sake, he's 31.
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  Give me like a, I'm kind of playing it safe, but give me
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  like I, I guess like a four year deal.
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  What's the number? I don't know.
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  It's it's just hard to answer that because I don't know what
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  it like what, what mark he's after, because again, it's like
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  if you if you would just maybe be a little bit more OK with the
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  the security of having the years.
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  I don't. Think he's getting the length.
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  I don't think anyone is offering the length I think they were.
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  I think the AAV was fine. I think you're right.
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  I, I think he missed the boat on that.
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  Like I, I think maybe if he would have, if he would have
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  adjusted his expectations a little bit a year or two ago,
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  then maybe he could have gotten the length.
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  But now he's, he's 31 and he's not getting any younger.
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  So I don't know, like do you have a number in mind for Snell?
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  110 or like four years, 110 I think it it pushes you above 25
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  a year I think if you can. You think this is what he should
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  look for? You think this is what he's
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  going to get? I think those.
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  Are a fair number. I don't think he's, I think he's
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  looking for. I think he's probably hoping for
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  a fifth year and AAV wise, I mean, he's probably looking.
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  I would say 5150 is probably their goal, yeah, that's 30 a
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  year. Nice round Number.
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  No, that'd be you know, but I don't think he gets five.
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  No, no, I think it's no because you're pay, you're paying for
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  hat like, I mean, go back and look at the numbers we just
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  talked about. Like you're not exactly paying
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  for. I don't know it, it just worries
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  me with his start sometimes. And not like I'm not talking
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  individual starts. I'm saying like starts to the
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  year where it's like we know what he is in the second-half,
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  but we need a little bit more consistency in that front before
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  we commit $150 million. I don't know.
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  I just, I hope, I hope he finds what he's looking for.
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  I just don't know if he's going to get it.
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  I just don't know if he's going to get it.
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  I think 4 years the AAV stays under 30.
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  If it's three years, the AAV is likely almost 35.
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  I could honestly, I could see him trying to pull another, I
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  mean not not wisely, I'll say I'd I could see him trying to
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  pull like another two year contract with just insane AAV
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  elsewhere and run it back again the same way he did with his
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  contract. Keep doing that.
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  Keep getting older, keep looking for that contract.
• 24:29
  It's not going to happen. Sean Manaya declined his
• 24:34
  thirteen and a half million dollar option for the upcoming
• 24:37
  season and has become a free agent.
• 24:41
  He's this is his third straight year.
• 24:47
  I think this is his best offseason.
• 24:49
  This will be his best offseason based on what he showed.
• 24:54
  I yeah, he found something with the Mets.
• 24:57
  He found something new. It was the arm slot.
• 24:59
  He he lowered his arm slot. I want to say it was like to 22°
• 25:02
  and he was up. But I saw the chart somewhere
• 25:09
  where it showed sort of like the breakdown by year, but I think
• 25:14
  he was like up in the 30s, dropped it down to 22 after
• 25:18
  trying to emulate a little bit more of what Chris Sale does
• 25:20
  from that side. And it just really worked for
• 25:24
  him. And so for that reason, I, I
• 25:26
  think there's a little bit more legitimacy to him declining the
• 25:30
  option and, and seeking something else.
• 25:31
  Because if, if this truly is a, a fix for him, maybe he can tap
• 25:35
  into a little bit of that promise that we saw earlier on
• 25:38
  in his career. We're like, OK, this guy could,
• 25:40
  could be, could be the real deal.
• 25:42
  And then, you know, the arm slot gets a little higher, starts to
• 25:45
  struggle a little bit more and then you're going, OK, well,
• 25:47
  maybe this guy isn't who we thought he was.
• 25:49
  But then, like I said, lowers back down and you go, OK, it's
• 25:53
  still it's still early, still early enough.
• 25:56
  He's 32. So, I mean, you could still
• 25:59
  salvage a little bit of a payday here if you're Banaya and I I
• 26:02
  think this was if, if you were going to do it, now was the
• 26:05
  time. Like, like I said, you're 32,
• 26:09
  you you have a chance here to get a respectable bag and be on
• 26:14
  your merry way. It's just really, I get like, I
• 26:18
  can't help but get this gut feeling that he's going to be a
• 26:20
  Red Sox. Sadly, well, no disrespect to
• 26:27
  Shawn Manaya, but I, I think in terms of Red Sox, sadly, I think
• 26:32
  Shawn Manaya would be a name in a tier that the Red Sox would
• 26:38
  entertain or not you're you're not entertaining the I mean,
• 26:42
  he's, he's back with the Yankees now.
• 26:44
  So it doesn't really matter. But like for hypothetical sake,
• 26:46
  if Garrett Cole was on the free market, the Red Sox aren't
• 26:49
  entertaining that the Red Sox were never really entertaining
• 26:52
  Yamamoto, despite what you may may have hear, may have heard
• 26:56
  they, they were never, they were never doing that.
• 26:58
  They're never paying that kind of money.
• 27:01
  So Shawn Minaya to your point could be a little bit better of
• 27:04
  a fit for them because apparently we're middle mid
• 27:08
  market team now. It's an affordable inning eater
• 27:13
  that will give you solid back end rotation, an occasional
• 27:20
  front of rotation type start sometimes.
• 27:25
  That's that's my vibe. I like the new arm angle.
• 27:29
  I like too. I like the new Shawn Manaya.
• 27:31
  And I, and that's kind of what I was, what kind of what I was
• 27:34
  alluding to. I'm, I'm just, I'm more
• 27:36
  confident about Manaya moving forward.
• 27:40
  I don't feel like it because there's, there's tangible
• 27:44
  evidence to support the, the uptick in performance.
• 27:49
  This isn't just like a, OK, maybe he just like caught on
• 27:52
  with the vibes that were taking place in New York this year.
• 27:55
  He just, he was able to put together a slew of starts that
• 27:59
  set him up for a good free agency.
• 28:00
  Like, no, he can, he can point to the decision to lower the arm
• 28:04
  slot. And if, if he's able to build
• 28:07
  off of that, then maybe, maybe, like I said, maybe he's going to
• 28:10
  tap back into what he was capable or tap, tap back into
• 28:13
  the promise that he showed early in his career.
• 28:16
  And for that reason I I wouldn't be as hesitant to to view it as
• 28:22
  possibly a fluke this year, and as a result would be more
• 28:27
  inclined to give him. Yeah, this, this gives me like a
• 28:33
  like kind of what you know, like upside wise you could see like
• 28:38
  him being a Seth Lugo for the Royals this year, you know what
• 28:41
  I mean? Like an under the radar type
• 28:43
  signing that somehow becomes way better than you thought he was
• 28:48
  and it's a very budgetary move that can honestly change the
• 28:54
  rotation. Next on our list, Marcelo Zuna
• 29:01
  Braves have exercise this the exercise?
• 29:05
  The $16 million contract option for Ozuna, 33 years old, coming
• 29:12
  off a year in which he hit three O 2 with 39 bombs, 104 ribbies,
• 29:17
  31 double S and a 925 OPS. It's a Goodyear.
• 29:24
  It's a real Goodyear. This is a no brainer for the
• 29:26
  Braves. Now I know I mentioned the.
• 29:29
  Word. The new Nelson Cruz, I think.
• 29:32
  I can get on board with that. OK, Yeah.
• 29:34
  So that kind of negates what I was going to ask, so never mind.
• 29:38
  Ask it anyway, I'm curious. Well, I was just going to say
• 29:41
  like, I, I, I bring up the word, I brought up the word fluke.
• 29:44
  And I'm, I'm just wondering like, you know, like how I mean,
• 29:52
  yeah, coming off, he's coming off the seasons with 40 and 39
• 29:55
  home runs respectively. So I, I, I can understand that,
• 29:59
  but I mean the three O 2 kind of is alarming to me.
• 30:09
  And I and I know that they're not, they're not bringing him
• 30:11
  back to hit for average, certainly not.
• 30:13
  But I just wonder how much of this year he can recapture.
• 30:22
  That's what we said about Nelson Cruz.
• 30:25
  Yeah. But year over year over year
• 30:26
  over year over year over year, you're just solidify yourself in
• 30:30
  the comfort of becoming ADH and like that's all you're going to
• 30:34
  be moving forward. And that's like you really
• 30:37
  settle into that role, you know, comfortable hitting in that
• 30:45
  ballpark. You might as well run it back.
• 30:48
  If you're the Braves, you're like, this season didn't even
• 30:50
  count. Like, just come back.
• 30:52
  Now for sure. Do what you did and we're going
• 30:55
  to have a much better lineup because we're going to be
• 30:56
  healthy so. Yeah, I mean the Braves are
• 31:02
  going to the assuming everything goes well, it's offseason,
• 31:06
  everybody heals up and what not Braves are going to be back to
• 31:10
  their back to their ways in 2025 and the NL E will regain a
• 31:19
  little bit of normalcy if that's what you want to call it.
• 31:23
  But yeah, the no brainer on on behalf of the Braves.
• 31:27
  I mean 16 mil for another chance at 40 home runs that it it's not
• 31:33
  a matter of if he can do it. He's he's proven on more than
• 31:36
  one occasion, more than more than one season.
• 31:38
  He's capable of doing that. It was just a matter of like I
• 31:41
  it I think it caught a lot of people by surprise.
• 31:43
  I really do like he he he put up, he put up, you know, home
• 31:48
  run numbers this year that he's like I said, he's done before,
• 31:51
  but it it was just something about his collective body of
• 31:55
  work offensively this year that just didn't seem very Marcelo
• 31:58
  Zuna esque. Like I said, hitting for
• 32:00
  average. It just, it just seemed like he
• 32:02
  he was able to capture lightning in a bottle a little bit more
• 32:06
  than he maybe has some in years past.
• 32:09
  But he's a 265 hitter. I don't think the homers are
• 32:16
  going anywhere. I think he's a 272 career
• 32:19
  hitter. So, yeah, I mean, that's that's
• 32:20
  like sort of right on. Yeah, right on brand there.
• 32:24
  Yeah. Guess where I pulled out of Yep.
• 32:29
  I just want to that number up. Just want to caution Braves fans
• 32:32
  not get too excited, not get their hopes up about a a repeat
• 32:35
  because like I say, it's 30 four, Yeah, basically oldest
• 32:41
  dirt in in baseball apparently. So just be careful.
• 32:47
  Just be careful. Cody Bellinger, yes.
• 32:53
  Smart man, Smart man. Really didn't see this one
• 32:57
  coming. Now he's staying in Chicago.
• 33:00
  This man. Going back to Chicago.
• 33:06
  What AI don't know? Underwhelming weird.
• 33:14
  Just a weird career arc, you know?
• 33:18
  Yeah. Like Chris Bryant, What happened
• 33:22
  to that? Guy like I had I, I at this
• 33:26
  point the years are starting to run together.
• 33:27
  I had in in my pre season predictions, one of these pre
• 33:32
  seasons. The fact that Bellinger was
• 33:36
  going to have a bounce back here.
• 33:37
  I feel like at this point it was 2 off seasons ago or two pre
• 33:41
  seasons ago. And I think the year in which
• 33:46
  he, he, he sort of recaptured a, a fraction of that MVP season
• 33:53
  back in the day, I think was the, the year immediately
• 33:58
  following that pre season that I made that prediction.
• 34:00
  So I was like, I was feeling pretty good about it.
• 34:02
  But then I, I'm going, I'd, I, I don't know, maybe that was more
• 34:08
  of a fluke than anything because I just because then he got
• 34:13
  contract happy and, and started asking for too much.
• 34:16
  And obviously now we're in the situation that we're in now with
• 34:19
  him and. Notice he's like 2820. 9/29/29
• 34:27
  Yeah, but I just, I don't really know what to expect to Cody
• 34:32
  Bellinger. I I, I don't want to write the
• 34:35
  guy off, but I'm I'm wondering if these down seasons we've seen
• 34:40
  of him recently really is becoming the new normal for him,
• 34:46
  or maybe always was. I, I, I mean, I'm not, I don't
• 34:49
  want to, I don't want to disrespect an MVP by any
• 34:52
  stretch, but it's like what, what Cody Bellinger, are we
• 34:55
  going to get long term here? If this man, we've seen that
• 35:01
  he's willing to make mechanical changes in the box, like we've
• 35:05
  seen a couple adjustments over the years and I think he's open
• 35:09
  to change when things don't work.
• 35:10
  And I love that. And I have respect for that
• 35:13
  because there's a lot of pro ball players that don't they
• 35:15
  just kind of sit in their ways and say this is how I got here
• 35:19
  and I'm not changing. So if he gets the right hitting
• 35:23
  coach, I, if I'm running the Cubs, if I'm Craig counsel, I'm
• 35:29
  riding him into the same spot in the lineup.
• 35:33
  Stop with the flip flopping of center field in first base.
• 35:36
  Let him just sit in a position and not have to put.
• 35:41
  I wonder how much pregame work he's having to do of of getting
• 35:46
  ready as an outfielder, getting ready as an infielder, like.
• 35:49
  Well, he bumped over to right when when Pico Armstrong came
• 35:54
  out, so it was really more about and then and then you have the
• 35:56
  Michael Bush thing at first base and he was.
• 35:58
  Starting to so if right fields his thing, but like say Suzuki,
• 36:01
  what's going on there? I think the plan is to just kind
• 36:05
  of make him your your everyday DH at this point.
• 36:09
  Then you're going to need to really settle in and figure out
• 36:12
  how to hit. But I, I think that's a mistake.
• 36:15
  I think, I think you ride him into a spot and let him just
• 36:20
  play there every day. He's too young to be in my he's
• 36:24
  too young and not a good enough hitter to be a full time DH.
• 36:28
  And he's too good athletically. Like defensively, he's solid.
• 36:32
  We talking Bellinger? Yeah, yeah.
• 36:35
  Give me a chance to play, even if it's, I mean it's going on in
• 36:41
  left for them. Am I crazy?
• 36:43
  We're talking just. Going to be a cub forever.
• 36:47
  I'm not crazy, right? Gold Glove winner.
• 36:50
  Yeah. Or am I crazy?
• 36:54
  Is he not? Yeah.
• 36:55
  Gold Glove winner for sure. Yeah.
• 36:57
  Yep. Yep, Yep.
• 36:58
  Yeah, I think he's. I think he'll figure it out, but
• 37:07
  be willing to change. Just keep keep trying new stuff.
• 37:10
  Seeing what? See what works out.
• 37:11
  Get a new hitting coach. Try to find it.
• 37:16
  I want to see it again. Devin Williams Brewers have
• 37:27
  declined the 10 1/2 million Dollar Club option on their
• 37:31
  closer. It's going to receive a $250,000
• 37:35
  buyout but will remain under team control for 2025.
• 37:40
  Likely trade candidates. Just yet another move from the
• 37:47
  Brewers that I got to buy. The I'm trying.
• 37:50
  I can't wrap my head around. I'm really trying like I'm I
• 37:54
  want to like them. Credit to you.
• 37:59
  I'm putting in an effort. It's a two way St.
• 38:02
  Brewers come on Milwaukee, it's a two way St.
• 38:10
  Show me something. Show me something worth loving.
• 38:18
  Just want to love you. They will.
• 38:20
  I mean by doing so they will save money in the long run.
• 38:26
  But. Enough.
• 38:28
  It's like. Enough trying to do that.
• 38:30
  How many years, How many corners, executive years do you
• 38:32
  need to do that? Yes, over and over.
• 38:34
  This is a core you can start to build around dude.
• 38:38
  Stop trying to cut corners, take care of your guys.
• 38:41
  Yeah, build off of this and a. Build off of this.
• 38:45
  You did have a good year. Run it back.
• 38:48
  William Thomas is going to be gone soon.
• 38:51
  Gordon Burns is already gone. I mean, the this this wax
• 38:58
  figurine of a of a team is, is just melting by the minutes and
• 39:04
  you're just sitting there trying to like hold it up and and put
• 39:08
  it back together. And it's just not, it's not
• 39:11
  happening. And it's a shame because you got
• 39:15
  some good fan, you got some good fans out there.
• 39:17
  That's a good baseball city. But the, the way you're going
• 39:19
  about, it's very questionable. Yeah.
• 39:22
  Always trying to cut corners. It's this weird like never want
• 39:28
  to buy in too much in case we're not that good so we can sell.
• 39:33
  There's too much of that in baseball man too.
• 39:35
  I know I don't want to pin that just on the Brewers, although
• 39:37
  they they take that approach a lot Yeah, but we don't need to
• 39:42
  pull it this thread. But it goes back to the the
• 39:44
  expanded postseason and I know this isn't the first year of the
• 39:47
  expanded postseason. We've we've had a, a little bit
• 39:51
  of a sample size built up now to where you can kind of see the
• 39:54
  the ripple effects of how the expanded post season impacts
• 39:59
  roster construction, trade deadlines, offseason, so on and
• 40:03
  so forth. But that's just a that's a
• 40:06
  ripple effect. And the Brewers just seemingly
• 40:10
  do this a lot more than other teams.
• 40:11
  I don't know. I don't know where is.
• 40:16
  The Brewers gets me kind of fired up.
• 40:18
  That'd be wild. I like it.
• 40:20
  I like it. I like it.
• 40:24
  You know what gets me fired up? Say it.
• 40:26
  Nathan Ievaldi coming home back to Boston.
• 40:31
  I didn't read that. We will soon enough has declined
• 40:37
  his $20 million option with the Texas, the Tejas Rangers, which
• 40:43
  happened today and is now free agent.
• 40:47
  Rangers are very, I was reading that they're very interested in
• 40:51
  bringing him back, which, you know, isn't necessarily always
• 40:54
  the case when when an option is declined.
• 40:56
  Sometimes you're just like, OK, this is a natural, natural point
• 41:00
  to part ways. But the Rangers like, no, no,
• 41:02
  no, hold on. Let's see if we can work
• 41:04
  something out here. Yeah.
• 41:07
  And why not? I mean, Eve ALDI is just a dog
• 41:11
  man. He's going to he's going to take
• 41:13
  the ball and he's going to give you starts.
• 41:16
  He's been giving you fairly good starts as of late.
• 41:19
  One of the better, one of the better, maybe not one of the
• 41:24
  better slash semi reliable arms in baseball over the last
• 41:31
  handful of years. So you know why not?
• 41:35
  But it it's all for not because he's coming back to Boston.
• 41:39
  That's crazy they can't afford them.
• 41:42
  They can afford Evaldi. Wow.
• 41:47
  They can afford Soto, but they won't pay him.
• 41:49
  What do you think I'm trying to look at?
• 41:53
  Please hold. I'm trying to look at the free
• 41:59
  agent list. There we blow.
• 42:10
  Yeah, dude, I mean, I feel like there's a pretty decent drop off
• 42:18
  under that name. You got burns, you got snow, you
• 42:21
  got what seems to be somewhat of a of a resurgence out of
• 42:26
  Kikuchi. Max freed a lot of question
• 42:30
  marks. I know we have all these 35 but.
• 42:39
  34, I think they'll I think they'll have to pay.
• 42:43
  I think they will have to pay. I think there's going to be
• 42:45
  quite a few teams that would go after that.
• 42:47
  That's a solid, it's a solid 2. That's a solid 2 starter
• 42:53
  depending on the rotation. I'd be interested to see.
• 43:02
  He's nine and three in the postseason.
• 43:04
  He's a three O 5 ERA. Why would you not want that?
• 43:10
  Yeah, I'm, I'm just saying there's a big drop off like
• 43:12
  Flaherty is the is the name under that.
• 43:16
  Then you got like Nick Martinez, Kyle Gibson, Pavetta Manaya, as
• 43:21
  we mentioned earlier, Heaney, like.
• 43:22
  Call me crazy, call me crazy. Hold on.
• 43:26
  I need to. I need to pull something up here
• 43:28
  because like you want to talk about a guy that I've I'm just
• 43:34
  not sold on and I may be contradicting myself based on
• 43:39
  some clarity that I shared during the World Series that I
• 43:43
  just can't remember or the post season as a whole.
• 43:46
  But wash didn't happen. Dude, I I just don't get it with
• 43:54
  Flaherty, man. I really don't.
• 43:58
  And I mean, not to like, not to cherry pick here, but I'm going
• 44:04
  to cherry pick. You go back to the 2020 season,
• 44:08
  A-491-A322A-425-A499. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
• 44:17
  There's a big drop off after. 358 this year, which, you know,
• 44:22
  whatever or no, I'm sorry, this year was a 317, but it was a 358
• 44:27
  with the Dodgers. And then obviously the
• 44:29
  postseason was the postseason. But I don't know.
• 44:32
  I'm I'm it, it's not a, it's not a hot take to put Ivaldi over
• 44:41
  Flaherty, is it or is it? I don't think it's a hot take.
• 44:44
  I'm taking. One's proven.
• 44:46
  I mean, let the let the bias be what the bias is going to be.
• 44:51
  But I'm taking Ivaldi over Flaherty and I, I don't know if
• 44:58
  people are going to laugh at that or.
• 45:01
  What? But yeah, the Rangers are going
• 45:03
  to have to pay, dude. Rangers are going to have to
• 45:05
  fork over some moolah because Burns Snell.
• 45:11
  I think there's a limited amount of teams.
• 45:14
  I think there's a decent amount of teams, but there's a limited
• 45:18
  amount of teams that are willing to pay what I think they're
• 45:21
  going to get. And then there's not so many in
• 45:25
  this like Tier 2 level with names.
• 45:30
  I think there's a lot of teams they can afford.
• 45:33
  What was this? What was it?
• 45:37
  What was his option? 20 option?
• 45:39
  Yeah, 20 or player option. Yeah, he's 3435.
• 45:52
  Had a vesting option in his contract for the 2025 season
• 45:56
  that depended on whether he threw a combined 300 innings in
• 45:59
  his first two seasons with Texas.
• 46:02
  The previous two seasons threw 314 and 2/3 innings over that
• 46:08
  span. Yeah, I think he's worth.
• 46:18
  I'd give him three years. And further, yeah, I mean, just
• 46:25
  to clarify, I'm not, I'm not sitting here speculating on like
• 46:28
  whether I think Flaherty's going to get pulled more or Vivaldi,
• 46:31
  whatever. I'm just telling you about age.
• 46:34
  If I, yeah, I mean, the age is the ultimate factor there.
• 46:37
  But like if if if I had to pull the trigger on on a middle of
• 46:42
  the rotation guy for just call it two to three years.
• 46:47
  I'm taking the Vivaldi Flaherty's too much of A wild
• 46:51
  card for me. I agree I.
• 46:56
  Don't know. I do concur.
• 46:59
  And lastly here there, I mean, there's obviously a lot of
• 47:02
  things going on, a lot of opt insurance, a lot of opt outs.
• 47:04
  Can't get to every single one of them.
• 47:06
  But want to round out the list here with Michael Walker
• 47:09
  agreeing to a three-year, $51 million contract with the Royals
• 47:14
  and a fourth year club option that could total 72 million.
• 47:24
  Good for one. Bravo to Kansas City, bravo to
• 47:30
  the Royals. Smart move, good move.
• 47:35
  We already talked about how I don't think you're going to
• 47:38
  outbid some of these other teams with these free agent names.
• 47:43
  Like I like this move. Just keep just keep bringing in
• 47:48
  some some inning eaters. That whole rotation just eats
• 47:53
  innings. Oh, I get.
• 47:57
  He's not. He's not just an innings eater.
• 47:59
  He put up 29 starts this year, went 13 and eight with a 335.
• 48:08
  Well, he put up 166 and 2/3 innings, but you know, Indians
• 48:16
  expectations have evolved so. 160 innings is the new 180.
• 48:23
  Yeah, so do that what you will, but he's I mean, let's let's
• 48:30
  just look at his numbers here, Waka.
• 48:35
  He's been one of like the the more low key underrated arms
• 48:42
  over the last, what, three years?
• 48:48
  Yeah, go back to 2022 with Boston.
• 48:51
  He had a yeah, that was a that was a fun year to watch.
• 48:54
  I will say 332 or specific specifically for Waka's sake,
• 49:00
  332 and 2022 at 3322 with the Padres last year and then A335
• 49:08
  with the Royals this year. But obviously hitting that
• 49:13
  almost career high and and see if he put up 181 back in 2015
• 49:18
  when he was an All Star with the Cardinals.
• 49:21
  But yeah, man. Sort of around 10 years, almost
• 49:25
  recaptured, yeah. Dude, do you remember back when
• 49:30
  I made his debut back in what, 17 or No, Sorry, I'm looking at
• 49:34
  Flaherty back in 13. Yeah, with the Cardinals, he
• 49:38
  was. 11 years. He was he was the talk of the
• 49:44
  town when he came up with the Cardinals like that was right
• 49:47
  around the I want to say he was in that World Series in in 13.
• 49:52
  I want to say he made he made, yeah, some appearance.
• 49:58
  Yeah, sure did 22 starts in in that 13 World Series.
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  And yeah, he was. I mean, I, I'm sure if you asked
• 50:07
  him, maybe his career trajectory didn't go the way he necessarily
• 50:10
  thought, but has seem seemingly recaptured a little bit of his
• 50:14
  his old self these last few years.
• 50:17
  So good. For him, absolutely there.
• 50:20
  I agree. I agree.
• 50:22
  It's a good fit. I like that fit.
• 50:24
  Shout out Royals Gold Glove winners.
• 50:29
  Really not much to. Need anything anymore?
• 50:33
  No, that and that's what I was going to say.
• 50:34
  I really don't want you to break down here because the I, I think
• 50:38
  the meaning of the Gold Glove has has dwindled and I even it
• 50:42
  even felt weird coming off the tongue earlier when we're
• 50:44
  talking Cody Bellinger. I'm like, OK, yeah, he won one
• 50:46
  Gold Glove, but like what? What does that really mean?
• 50:49
  But you know one guy that I am thrilled about any And then
• 50:55
  that's the reason I'm wearing what I'm wearing.
• 50:58
  Friend of the friend of the pod, friend of the program, Bobby
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  Witch Junior, one of the 14 first time winners of the Gold
• 51:10
  Glove. This was the.
• 51:15
  Thank you to the banning of the shift.
• 51:19
  Told you guys, athleticism is back.
• 51:23
  This was a tie for the most first time players, or first
• 51:30
  time winners I should say, going back to 2022.
• 51:37
  This is this is a guy where you're like, he's going to have
• 51:44
  I'd say at least five in his career and that like that.
• 51:48
  I think that's the new threshold for me for glove Gold Gloves to
• 51:52
  win like to mean anything. It's got to be like 5 plus the
• 51:56
  the the one offs 2 in your career and they were spread out
• 52:00
  through seven years. Like I it's fluky to me.
• 52:06
  Nolan going whatever length he did.
• 52:09
  Was it 10 straight? 11 straight like?
• 52:13
  That's the Platinum Glove. Like that's that's when you
• 52:16
  know. There's that's legitimate, yeah.
• 52:19
  You're, you're talking about an elite defender there.
• 52:21
  But yeah, the one I mean, the example you use like 1 / 7
• 52:25
  Bellinger is 1 / 8. Yeah, see, then I'm over it.
• 52:29
  I'm over it don't mean much. It's the I need, I need
• 52:33
  multiple. And I think if you finish your
• 52:36
  career with over 5, I can then call you a Gold Glover.
• 52:41
  I think we can safely classify Bobby Witt as a as a multiple
• 52:47
  Gold Club winner. Bro Bro will be back for a
• 52:51
  platinum winner I I I'd guess. He's going to age very well on
• 52:55
  the left side, dude, he's going to, he's going to take that
• 52:58
  Machado track, I would imagine. I mean, he's, I'm not, I'm not
• 53:02
  putting. Speed, dude, that speed plays.
• 53:04
  That, well, that's what I was going to say.
• 53:05
  I'm not, I'm not, I'm not lumping them together
• 53:08
  necessarily, but it's going to be a situation where, you know,
• 53:10
  eventually the speed, you know, as with everybody, it's going
• 53:14
  to, it's going to fall off. But he's he's going to that's
• 53:17
  going to be a a solid third base opportunity for him later down
• 53:25
  the line. But we're not even we don't need
• 53:27
  to look that far ahead. We he's just not started just
• 53:30
  getting started. We we sort of are.
• 53:34
  I think we already talked about the snubs back, you know, like
• 53:37
  with the whole Lindor thing. And so we don't necessarily need
• 53:39
  to take take that route. But one thing I did want to
• 53:43
  mention though is the Chris Sale Gold Glove, which I don't think
• 53:48
  I had realized, but this was his first career Gold Glove.
• 53:52
  And it's going to be, I mean, he's going to be your Cy Young
• 53:54
  winner as well. So like just another piece of
• 53:56
  hardware for your old Chris Sale this year?
• 54:01
  All right, same thing. As far as pictures of the Gold
• 54:07
  Gloves, it's Maddox and then everyone else.
• 54:14
  That's fair. Shout out to Carlos Santana, the
• 54:17
  oldest position player to win his first Gold Glove.
• 54:23
  Sort of adding to the theme here.
• 54:25
  That's actually pretty, pretty wild, but yeah.
• 54:32
  Man's got some age to him. Yeah, good.
• 54:34
  You know what? Go get your.
• 54:36
  Go get your. Hardware Man, feel like that man
• 54:38
  has just absolutely gotten all things covered in the centrals.
• 54:45
  I feel like he's just had a stop at every.
• 54:48
  I feel like he's been in the league for 25 years.
• 54:53
  Give me, give me your actual guess how long you think Carlos
• 54:55
  Santana has been a league. No, not the guitarist. 14 years.
• 55:07
  15 years. Wow, Cleveland for 10, Royals
• 55:13
  for two, Philly for one, Minnesota for one, Pittsburgh
• 55:17
  for one, Seattle for one, and Milwaukee for one.
• 55:25
  Also, shout out to my boy. Shout out to my boy.
• 55:27
  Will your brave holding it down out there and right.
• 55:31
  Oh, very, very, very, very deserving.
• 55:35
  Thanks very. Deserving.
• 55:36
  Thank you. Hey, you know what?
• 55:37
  That means a lot. That means a lot.
• 55:39
  Thank you. Very deserving that guy is.
• 55:42
  He's going to continue to do that, too, like that, that
• 55:45
  place. And he may not even be here next
• 55:47
  year. We'll see.
• 55:48
  I don't know. By the way, Carlos Antenna Hall
• 55:51
  of Hall of Very Solid, Hall of Solid I.
• 55:54
  Was going to say there's. All of solid not.
• 55:56
  Solid all of all of Great Hall of Fame Olive Garden.
• 56:03
  No, not no. Can we talk?
• 56:08
  Well, we don't even have to talk about it, but just one closing
• 56:11
  thought on the Gold Glove. I mean there there are few
• 56:15
  awards better looking than the Gold Glove award.
• 56:20
  That's a great looking. I would love to have a goal and
• 56:24
  honestly like this, I don't know what like what do you get?
• 56:28
  Well, I it's like the silver when you it's when you get the
• 56:31
  platinum glove. It's like I I don't, which
• 56:33
  somehow doesn't hit the same. That's what I'm saying dude.
• 56:37
  I this might be a weird take, but like.
• 56:40
  Don't hit the same. Optically, if I've got a Gold
• 56:44
  Glove on my on my mantle as opposed and and I know the the
• 56:47
  platinum, that's what you strive for is a defender.
• 56:50
  Like if you care, if you care about your defensive game, you
• 56:53
  want to be a platinum defender. I get that, but we're talking
• 56:57
  about one of the better looking awards in in baseball 100%
• 57:02
  sports, the Golf Club award. How about it?
• 57:06
  Arguably the best looking trophy.
• 57:09
  Lastly here and then we'll get out of here this Padres prospect
• 57:14
  age thing. Fill me in guy, I don't know
• 57:19
  what you're talking about all. Right, so Major League Baseball
• 57:23
  ran an investigation, found that it's one of the higher up
• 57:29
  prospects coming out of the Dr. who had verbally committed.
• 57:37
  Agreed what however you want to say?
• 57:39
  Agreed to sign with the Padres. Turned out that he was actually
• 57:43
  five years older and he actually was.
• 57:47
  So he was playing 12 U ball as a 17 year old, which it's kind of
• 57:52
  wild because if you take like you like.
• 57:56
  What? If you take acting.
• 57:58
  Like this is new. No, but I'm saying it, it's just
• 58:01
  funny 'cause like if you take you and I's state championship
• 58:05
  run team like that team back in God, what is that?
• 58:08
  O 6 If you stick A17A great year, you stick A you stick AA17
• 58:15
  year old in the mix. Maybe we did face one.
• 58:19
  Maybe that's why we got eliminated.
• 58:22
  People had asked, I mean, to be fair, I mean not to like put
• 58:25
  myself on the back here, but people had asked to see like my
• 58:28
  birth certificate, 'cause if you remember, like I, oh, you're
• 58:31
  huge you. I was a man.
• 58:33
  You were 511 and shaving. Yeah, I was so I I kind of get
• 58:39
  it, but I I still didn't look like a 17 year old.
• 58:42
  I can't imagine playing 12 U ball at 17.
• 58:44
  But just to your point, this is not new.
• 58:48
  This is not. New.
• 58:50
  This feels so much like the like the Eppler getting the
• 58:55
  suspension for fraudulent IL stints of players.
• 59:00
  Like everyone knows. We all know.
• 59:04
  We all know Albert Pujols is really 60.
• 59:09
  Nelson Cruz is is 75. Like they're all old. 75.
• 59:16
  They're all old. We all know this.
• 59:17
  You're not wrong. You're not wrong.
• 59:18
  They're all, they all have grandkids.
• 59:21
  This is not new. Good for The Who?
• 59:27
  Who? So there's had to have been a
• 59:29
  whistleblower here playing 12 you ball.
• 59:35
  That's crazy. He, well, he's now, he's now 19.
• 59:41
  He was documented as 14 at the time.
• 59:44
  I guess that they ran this investigation.
• 59:46
  He had represented, yeah, had represented the Dr. at EU
• 59:52
  12/20/22 World Cup and the U15 Pan Am Championships.
• 59:58
  Tough. Yeah, it's just not.
• 1:00:05
  It doesn't really do anything, you know, like I'm.
• 1:00:08
  Surprised, I think he tried to slip a 20 in there and said I am
• 1:00:12
  12 but they weren't having it. Wasn't enough.
• 1:00:18
  They said this. When was that movie made?
• 1:00:20
  You got to up your price, buddy. Like we're not taking, we're not
• 1:00:23
  taking 20s. If that was the price back then,
• 1:00:26
  when did Benchwarmers come out? Let me come out, Let me see, let
• 1:00:29
  me see, let me see. I, I, I I'm going to guess 07.
• 1:00:37
  I'm going to say. I've got the number.
• 1:00:39
  No, that's, that's going back too far.
• 1:00:41
  It's actually O 6. Shoot good movie.
• 1:00:49
  I feel like it still holds up. I'm not sure though, it's been a
• 1:00:51
  while. I don't think that movie would
• 1:00:55
  fly today, but. That's why it's good.
• 1:00:58
  That's why. It's good.
• 1:01:00
  And on that note. That's 18 years ago.
• 1:01:03
  That's insane. How old are we?
• 1:01:06
  I'm 75. That was 18 years ago.
• 1:01:09
  O6. Is that what I said?
• 1:01:12
  Oh, I guess O seven. Yeah.
• 1:01:16
  And it was O 618 years ago. Is that 18 years?
• 1:01:19
  Math. Math.
• 1:01:20
  No, what are you talking about? That's that.
• 1:01:22
  That's 16 years. No, no, you're right.
• 1:01:26
  No 18. 2006. 2618, Oh, my goodness.
• 1:01:32
  Oh, right. Yeah, duh.
• 1:01:32
  Because we were twelve. Yeah.
• 1:01:34
  And I'm 31 now. What's going on?
• 1:01:37
  What's going on? Oh, my goodness.
• 1:01:41
  Speaking of which, I guess I got to get to bed this.
• 1:01:45
  Stop asleepy. I eat dinner at like 330 now and
• 1:01:49
  I get to bed around 5:00 so it's.
• 1:01:51
  Fair. I get up for that sunrise.
• 1:01:53
  I'm a I'm hours fresh cup of. Joe, I'm my, I'm my first poop.
• 1:01:59
  Before people even roll over, hit the alarm, they need to know
• 1:02:05
  that. With that being said, we all
• 1:02:10
  done, Yeah. Let's get out of here.
• 1:02:13
  What great, great start to the offseason, my friend, Do you you
• 1:02:17
  were coming into this. You were a little bit of a wild
• 1:02:19
  card. I didn't really know what to
• 1:02:20
  expect of you, but you really half asleep.
• 1:02:23
  You really you really brought it tonight.
• 1:02:25
  So I I appreciate you and I appreciate you folks that have
• 1:02:29
  chosen to watch or listen along. This is just the start of what's
• 1:02:35
  what what we hope to be is an exciting offseason.
• 1:02:39
  Some things are going to start falling into place with moves
• 1:02:41
  and and rosters and all that. And then we obviously got more
• 1:02:45
  awards coming, so we'll be breaking those down.
• 1:02:48
  So yeah, if, if you're still needing that baseball fix this,
• 1:02:54
  you're going to get it here. I know like I talked about, we
• 1:02:57
  did it ourselves, but I know a lot of I know a lot of other, I
• 1:03:01
  won't name names, but I know a lot of other a lot of a lot of
• 1:03:05
  other shows, a lot of other entities maybe kind of lay low
• 1:03:08
  this time of year we're. Not us trying.
• 1:03:10
  Something a little different this year, so stick with us and
• 1:03:14
  we'll be we'll be covering all things baseball moving forward.
• 1:03:17
  So that's all I got. I'm Ron Burgundy.
• 1:03:22
  Don't go chasing curveballs. We love you all and as always,
• 1:03:25
  looking forward to talking more baseball with you guys soon.
• 1:03:27
  Until next time, stay filthy.