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01/22/26 - Hour 1 · The Huddle

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Speaker 1: Good morning, Wisconsin, and welcome to the huddle.
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Speaker 4: in the hour's Let's go.
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Speaker 2: On what you're doing, God yeah, and make it play.
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Speaker 3: Why left Bank three ninety thick bag be inn se
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Speaker 2: Enough watching to be proud of a professional.
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Speaker 4: It's a great professional out Dare and playing this ball
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Speaker 4: game like I know you can play it.
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Speaker 1: With Drew Olson, mythical legendary figure Schmid.
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Speaker 2: Oh my god, this man's been out all night. Armand sorry,
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Speaker 2: don't get skins were ready.
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Speaker 1: Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin is on the air.
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Speaker 2: Got yourself again. So here we sit. It is, by
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Speaker 2: my own math, day three of this new show we
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Speaker 2: call the Huddle here on Fox Sports Radio Wisconsin. Right,
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Speaker 2: I think your math is correct.
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Speaker 3: It's day three, and people think, what are you going
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Speaker 3: to talk about?
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Speaker 2: Now that the floor has been extended and the packers
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Speaker 2: are out of it, and like you know, the Bucks
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Speaker 2: are not going anywhere this year? What are you guys
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Speaker 2: gonna talk about? And then the Brewers say, here I
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Speaker 2: am remember me.
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Speaker 3: Sports says, hold my beer, I got you in Jane Er, Joe, Drew,
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Speaker 3: Billy and arm and bringing it to you.
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Speaker 2: The news began to circulate yesterday in the late afternoon.
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Speaker 2: The Brewers and Mets were cooking something up and oh boy,
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Speaker 2: did they ready Peralta, It's going to be taking the
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Speaker 2: seven train. He's going to be pitching for the New
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Speaker 2: York Metropolitans next year as the Brewers get two top
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Speaker 2: one hundred prospects in return.
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Speaker 3: The day no one wanted to see, but we all expected, right, Yeah,
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Speaker 3: and something that you become far too I also wouldn't
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Speaker 3: say far too familiar with, because that paints it, I
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Speaker 3: think with a negative connotation. And obviously the full backdrop
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Speaker 3: of this situation and the system in pro sports, largely
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Speaker 3: in pro sports opposite of what we.
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Speaker 2: See in baseball.
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Speaker 3: You have to operate under different circumstances and with different agendas.
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Speaker 3: A lot of times, once you reach great players, dudes
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Speaker 3: that have met historic runs of success on your team
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Speaker 3: and in your organization, it's the hard fact of the
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Speaker 3: matter that a lot of times they become more assets
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Speaker 3: in return, and you have to find ways to prolong
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Speaker 3: their tenure here. Without said player and Drew, it's just
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Speaker 3: something that you become numb two again is a little
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Speaker 3: bit different. I'm gonna have to break the news to
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Speaker 3: the little guy here today, but you know his favorite
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Speaker 3: guy was Isaac Collins. He rocked a jersey, said he'll
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Speaker 3: be back. I like that attitude. Maybe Freddy Peralta will
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Speaker 3: be back at some particular point in time, but at
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Speaker 3: this point, the return that the Brewers got back you
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Speaker 3: just start weighing amongst the different returns you've gotten in
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Speaker 3: the last three or four years, when you had a
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Speaker 3: corps that had as much success as the one that
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Speaker 3: came up through twenty seventeen and twenty eighteen, Corbyn Burns,
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Speaker 3: Freddy Peralta. Uh, you know, Willia Thomas gets brought in
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Speaker 3: there and stewarded a bunch of different wins and more
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Speaker 3: and more success for the team. You know these days
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Speaker 3: are gonna come, and this one just happens yesterday in
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Speaker 3: the face of a lot of financial ramifications and questions
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Speaker 3: amongst baseball.
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Speaker 2: We can you can squawk about it, the Brewers cheaping out,
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Speaker 2: but you look at this, people great baseball.
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Speaker 3: People around baseball are like, Okay.
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Speaker 2: Freddy Parolta, there's a pretty good chance that the Mets
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Speaker 2: can afford to sign him beyond this year. But he's
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Speaker 2: making eight million. He is and has been the best
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Speaker 2: bargain in baseball oh the last five absolutely.
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Speaker 3: Last five years.
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Speaker 2: He's put up numbers up there with Scooball and everybody
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Speaker 2: like he had never won a cy young, but he's
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Speaker 2: had numbers. You look at his numbers over the last
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Speaker 2: five years and aggregate the first of which is making
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Speaker 2: every start.
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Speaker 3: Big time, which is the biggest thing, the one that
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Speaker 3: they've needed the most.
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Speaker 2: But then he's right up there and he has a
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Speaker 2: bargain for eight million dollars, and the thinking was the
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Speaker 2: Brewers were not going to be able to afford to
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Speaker 2: extend him beyond this year. So you're gonna get one
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Speaker 2: year of Freddy Peralta, thirty to thirty five starts, opening
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Speaker 2: day start, probably playoff start or two.
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Speaker 3: You're you're giving that up.
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Speaker 2: Oh, they don't want to win, They're not trying to win,
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Speaker 2: and they turn them into two top one hundred prospects.
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Speaker 3: Prospects comes from the Latin hasn't done squat.
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Speaker 2: I love that, yes, yep. But I look at it
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Speaker 2: and I go, okay, look at this. It looks like
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Speaker 2: they could end up getting a better return for Freddy
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Speaker 2: Peralta than they did for Corbyn Burns.
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Speaker 3: And at some point you have to measure it that way.
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Speaker 2: And Corbyn Burns, however, you know the Corbener's well, we
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Speaker 2: get Joey Ortiz, he can't hit and deal all he's
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Speaker 2: done nothing yet. Well they still have ceilings, and Ortiz
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Speaker 2: has played a lot, and Corbyn Burns put up some
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Speaker 2: side young Cyll Young Tech numbers in Baltimore and then
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Speaker 2: blew out in Arizona, and the Brewers would have been
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Speaker 2: on the hook for a big contract of a guy
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Speaker 2: who's rehabbing for it.
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Speaker 3: And it's simply just not not the way you can
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Speaker 3: win in this market. You just it's it's not going
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Speaker 3: to be solvent. It would be to me like a
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Speaker 3: Mac team spending the way Texas Tech and Alabama tried
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Speaker 3: to in Sweet Ohio University could get an influx of
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Speaker 3: fifty mil and you try to funnel it out in
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Speaker 3: one year.
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Speaker 2: Good luck. Let's see how it rolls.
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Speaker 3: But the Brewers have tried the dice roll before, and
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Speaker 3: this one to me off a career year for Peralta.
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Speaker 3: I think that's why the return seems to be drew
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Speaker 3: right on the surface better than the one you got
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Speaker 3: from Baltimore.
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Speaker 2: We're joking around because one of the guys they get
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Speaker 2: Jet Williams, shortstop outfielder, speedster, like a guy who could
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Speaker 2: probably steal seventy bags or he's gonna be the Huddle's
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Speaker 2: favorite player. Yeah, he's well and he fits right in
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Speaker 2: with the short Kings Short King time.
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Speaker 4: Also another Jet, I mean mister Jet Bandy.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's right, urban freelick Jet. Williams. Terrang's not that tall,
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Speaker 3: but he looks he's a giant compared.
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Speaker 2: It looks like a giant compared to those guys. Ortis biggest.
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Speaker 2: Clearly the Brewers have a type. But if that guy
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Speaker 2: can can play, and then they got a picture. Brandon
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Speaker 2: uh Sprode, who's regarded as a got a great stash.
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Speaker 2: He's and he's regarded as a prospect, and pitching prospects
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Speaker 2: are precious and stuff.
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Speaker 3: He hasn't put up a great numbers and stuff. Got
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Speaker 3: a cup of coffee.
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Speaker 2: But with the Brewers track record of starting pitchers and
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Speaker 2: taking guys, yeah, polishing them up and teaching them the
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Speaker 2: pitch that puts them over the top, I kind of
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Speaker 2: like that. I like that as well.
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Speaker 3: And I think the interesting part Drew comes to the
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Speaker 3: other part of the type is the type that they
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Speaker 3: have down in the minor leagues, which right now, from
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Speaker 3: whatever standard you want to measure, whether it's Baseball America
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Speaker 3: or the MLB pipeline I think you know some have
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Speaker 3: updated it right out of the gates. So Hee McDonald say,
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Speaker 3: it took the Brewers on his rankings from six to
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Speaker 3: one and the Mets from one to six.
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Speaker 2: Whatever that ends up giving you.
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Speaker 3: Most of those guys are up the middle shortstops, and
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Speaker 3: that type also hasn't changed as too. They want to
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Speaker 3: grab guys that play up the middle, and we'll find
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Speaker 3: a spot for you to contribute on the big league squad.
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Speaker 3: And I'll be fascinated to see what kind of pressure
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Speaker 3: Williams could put on Ortiz they're a shortstop, or if that,
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Speaker 3: you know, allows Terrang to make them move over to
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Speaker 3: short that it seemed like he wanted to make until
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Speaker 3: the arm got sore last year, before the arm got
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Speaker 3: sore right before the end of camp.
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Speaker 2: So Matt Arnold David Searn's cut this deal. They know
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Speaker 2: each other, they very well. A lot of times gms
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Speaker 2: who are comfortable with each other can make deals like
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Speaker 2: this and Uh, now the Brewers, you can say, Oh,
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Speaker 2: this is the Brewers is what they do. They dump
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Speaker 2: guys that are star players that they should keep. Josh Hater.
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Speaker 2: Uh that was a mid season deal crippled the team
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Speaker 2: mid season ended up as.
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Speaker 3: The Dominos fell.
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Speaker 2: That ended up in that you know, Josh Hater turned
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Speaker 2: into William Contreras right burns. We mentioned Joey Ortiz and
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Speaker 2: like Devin Williams getting traded, remember who they got back
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Speaker 2: next door and who else came back for the Devin
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Speaker 2: Williams straight and the beautiful Corbyn Caleb Durman who was
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Speaker 2: at the box game yesterday indeed been making the rounds.
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Speaker 2: So uh so you can say, oh, they always trade
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Speaker 2: those guys, but not always, because just last winter when
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Speaker 2: they let a Damas walk, they had they wrote out
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Speaker 2: his last year, right, and so they did. So they
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Speaker 2: do they change it up, right, they don't do it.
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Speaker 2: But with pitching they've been trading a year early. This
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Speaker 2: isn't and you're right, Billy, this is just it's the
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Speaker 2: cost of doing business as a small market team. And
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Speaker 2: from a business standpoint and a baseball standpoint, I think
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Speaker 2: what you're gonna get out of these two guys, Jet
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Speaker 2: Williams and Brandis wrote, whether it's trading them for other
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Speaker 2: pieces or on the field for yourself, is going to
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Speaker 2: be in some ways commeasure it with what would you
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Speaker 2: get for thirty.
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Speaker 3: Five starts of Freddy Peralta. Yeah, and then you also
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Speaker 3: look at it hopefully for the next four to five years,
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Speaker 3: and as difficult as that's what I'm talking about, right,
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Speaker 3: one year and thirty five starts as balanced over four
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Speaker 3: or five years of these two top one hundred prospects production,
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Speaker 3: you are rolling the dice a little bit because they've
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Speaker 3: never done anything and they're unknown. But they might be
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Speaker 3: really good, or they they let your trade for somebody.
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Speaker 3: And I don't know how you guys feel about it,
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Speaker 3: because maybe it doesn't may maybe it actually isn't the
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Speaker 3: kind of pressure on an Ortiz that I think it
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Speaker 3: would potentially put on, but it gives you another option
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Speaker 3: that's closed to the big leagues. I think the majority
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Speaker 3: of Williams's play last year was at Triple A, right,
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Speaker 3: so he should be somewhat knocking on the door. Maybe
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Speaker 3: he's got a little bit of time to wait and
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Speaker 3: mature at this point. But it again emphasizes we saw
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Speaker 3: what the lack was on a team that was four
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Speaker 3: games away from going to the first World Series in
10:19
Speaker 3: forty plus years. Yeah, it wasn't the fact that you
10:21
Speaker 3: didn't have enough pitching. You actually had so much that
10:24
Speaker 3: you were throwing a guy who was in the Rookie
10:27
Speaker 3: of the Year candidacy into triple A because you didn't
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Speaker 3: have enough starts for him at the big league.
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Speaker 2: So is something and from a position of strength is
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Speaker 2: where this feels. Like when you read the tea leads
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Speaker 2: on this, you say to yourself, okay, because it was
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Speaker 2: a little bit upside down, like they're given Brandon Wood
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Speaker 2: if like eighteen million, right, and then Freddy Prout was
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Speaker 2: making eight that's not going to even up, and it's like,
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Speaker 2: oh that's, well, twenty six million for those two guys
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Speaker 2: is still a bargain.
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Speaker 4: And he took that, and Freddy took the deal early
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Speaker 4: when a lot of guys don't, right and Freddy so
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Speaker 4: in some ways, Freddy is the quintessential brewer because they
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Speaker 4: got him nineteen years old, and it was David Stearns
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Speaker 4: that got him like eleven years ago.
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Speaker 2: I remember his first starting Colorado this Mother's day everyone
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Speaker 2: he embracest.
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Speaker 3: So had they identified Freddy, they signed him.
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Speaker 2: They got his best ball out of him, so years
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Speaker 2: until you're twenty eight, twenty nine.
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Speaker 3: They got his absolute at a bargain price.
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Speaker 2: They did everything right with Freddy Peralta, and now people
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Speaker 2: are mad that they're not going to get to say
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Speaker 2: goodbye in this last year.
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Speaker 3: I get it.
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Speaker 2: But from a business standpoint, this is the way the
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Speaker 2: Brewers roll and to turn him into two prospects, like
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Speaker 2: I said, at the cost of thirty five starts. And
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Speaker 2: it tells me that they are one hundred and ten
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Speaker 2: percent confident that Brandon Woodf's going to be the opening
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Speaker 2: day guy and be the bull and the guy that
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Speaker 2: takes two hundred innings and the guy that makes his start.
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Speaker 2: So that tells me that they think he is completely
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Speaker 2: healthy because not only the financial investment, but trading Freddy
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Speaker 2: puts him to the top of the rotation, which now
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Speaker 2: has like Priester and miss such I hope Logan, Patrick
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Speaker 2: Gasser Henderson like now they traded Tobias Myers in with
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Speaker 2: can't forget he went along with Freddy.
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Speaker 3: That was and I apologize for you. I know that
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Speaker 3: one hurt for you.
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Speaker 2: Well, Tobias was funny.
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Speaker 4: It was funny because obviously he wasn't part of anything
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Speaker 4: last year except the time I went to Nashville to
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Speaker 4: watch him pitch and he got lit up in Nashville,
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Speaker 4: and uh, you know, he was such a big part
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Speaker 4: of the rotation two years ago, but seemingly was gonna
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Speaker 4: be box.
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Speaker 2: I don't think he would have made the rotation next year.
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Speaker 4: Obviously he's the guy that might have something left, but
12:22
Speaker 4: clearly he wasn't gonna be with us.
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Speaker 2: So that was an you know, it was sort.
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Speaker 4: Of notable that they were able to throw him into
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Speaker 4: give some value to it, because I didn't think I
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Speaker 4: really didn't think he was gonna be part of the
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Speaker 4: picture next year with the Brewers unless you know, unless
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Speaker 4: you know, he was on the outside. Great watching this
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Speaker 4: team on Instagram, it was fun.
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Speaker 3: It was fun to watch these boys on there on
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Speaker 3: their playoff run and a lot of the guys that
12:41
Speaker 3: did factor in on the pitching side. We are still
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Speaker 3: going to be there from the playoff run. And you
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Speaker 3: mentioned miss most importantly. But I love your assumption or
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Speaker 3: how you think this lines up for Woody, because if
12:55
Speaker 3: indeed that is the case, and you're gonna get a
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Speaker 3: healthy Woodroff on the lead up, that's as big as
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Speaker 3: you could because Freddy Perolty put up side young numbers
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Speaker 3: and then you finished top five at definitely this year,
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Speaker 3: I think in the last two years. Each of the
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Speaker 3: last two years top five or top seven in say
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Speaker 3: Young balloting. There's no reason in my mind to not
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Speaker 3: think a healthy Brandon Woodruff is in the exact same
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Speaker 3: ballpark coming up a year ago.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and then you put up ninety seven wins with
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Speaker 2: Freddy Peralta and no Brandon wood If. If Brandon wod
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Speaker 2: If is good, you're replacing him at the top of
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Speaker 2: a young rotation emerging. So I that to me tells
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Speaker 2: me that, Okay, Woody's good to go, because you would
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Speaker 2: you don't make this move if Woodroff's like having pain
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Speaker 2: every other throwing session and he's like, you know, oh,
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Speaker 2: I'm not sure, Like they think they know what they
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Speaker 2: have with Woody, and if he slides into the ace
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Speaker 2: rope like yeah, and our fantasies would have been nice.
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Speaker 2: Of those guys one and two a lot would have
13:47
Speaker 2: been nice, you know, those first two games of a
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Speaker 2: playoff series. But again miss like what Miss showed in
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Speaker 2: the playoffs last year, and that's the way they're rolling.
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Speaker 2: And again I'm I'm my take is it is what
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Speaker 2: it is. You can be mad about it if you want,
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Speaker 2: because like why I get we will always what Are
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Speaker 2: we a farm system for other big market teams in
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Speaker 2: a way?
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Speaker 3: Yeah? But is it working? Would wo? The Mets have
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Speaker 3: like to have won ninety seven games last year? Yeah?
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Speaker 3: The Mets beat the Brewers a couple of years ago. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Now you got Tobias Meyers it almost got in and
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Speaker 3: Devin Williams in the same pitching staff. Yeah, and he's
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Speaker 3: trying to build up the twenty nineteen Brewers there in
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Speaker 3: New York.
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Speaker 2: Now for the folks who say a lot more cash,
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Speaker 2: what are they doing? Freddie Parlton was such an important
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Speaker 2: guy in the clubhouse, such an important mentor to the
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Speaker 2: young PA players, a link to the young Latin players
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Speaker 2: and taking him under his wings. He was, that's for sure.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely yes. Couldn't you say the same thing about a
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Speaker 2: damis We say the same thing about Willie being the
14:46
Speaker 2: hub of the clubhouse, And it's different with a position
14:48
Speaker 2: player as opposed to a starter who's every five days time.
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Speaker 3: But he was a leader of the clubhouse.
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Speaker 2: They let him go and the clubhouse deteriorated to the
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Speaker 2: point where they won a franchise record.
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Speaker 3: Ninety seven games this season.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, he left, so somebody will step up if wood
15:02
Speaker 2: he's still there. I think, you know, I think mister
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Speaker 2: Ashby and MSRASKI considered his locker and learn a thing
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Speaker 2: or two about it for sure, in big games and
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Speaker 2: keeping yourself ready coming back from injury, leading with the
15:13
Speaker 2: roller coaster of life in the major leagues. Yeah, so
15:18
Speaker 2: here's the thing. Oh, you guys just blindly trust whatever
15:21
Speaker 2: the Brewer's doing. They're a pretty good organization, right and okay,
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Speaker 2: excited about Jet Williams. Were excited when you heard Caleb
15:28
Speaker 2: Durbin was coming back? No, no, no.
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Speaker 3: Actually I should I should counter that I was because
15:33
Speaker 3: I saw he was a D three guy. So you
15:35
Speaker 3: knew that he was a grinder, and you knew that
15:36
Speaker 3: he had the kind of stuff in him that was
15:38
Speaker 3: going to help you out saying oh, but Drew, I
15:41
Speaker 3: also think they've for the first time in our lifetimes,
15:45
Speaker 3: they've deserved the benefit of the doubt because of how
15:48
Speaker 3: they've been able to operate through and maneuver so many of.
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Speaker 2: These different moves.
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Speaker 3: Right, like, not necessarily blind faith in it, But you
15:56
Speaker 3: gotta think of the talent evaluation and whatever Chris took
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Speaker 3: ads to this this equation and however much you got
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Speaker 3: out of Freddy Peralta. I'm interested to see if he's
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Speaker 3: able to produce the same way once he.
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Speaker 2: Gets to New York.
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Speaker 3: What does Jet Williams spring like?
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Speaker 2: Okay, they have a type Murphy likes the short Kings
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Speaker 2: now are fast, athletic and have what the two words
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Speaker 2: we love in Milwaukee. If you're a Matt Arnold positional versatility. Dang.
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Speaker 2: If he can play short, he can play the outfield.
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Speaker 2: People forget and I know Hunter's favorite. I always tease
16:25
Speaker 2: Hunter because his favorite player was Garrett Mitchell. The untapped
16:29
Speaker 2: potential of Garrett Mitchell is the Christian Watson of the Brewers.
16:32
Speaker 2: He still exists.
16:35
Speaker 3: The little one just got a Garrett Mitchell jersey yesterday
16:37
Speaker 3: for his birth.
16:37
Speaker 2: But when he if he does put it together, you've
16:39
Speaker 2: seen enough of that guy to think, oh wow, if
16:41
Speaker 2: he can do any But you got Churio back, you
16:43
Speaker 2: got Mitchell back, you got Blake Perkins, you got a
16:45
Speaker 2: pretty good outfield, you can slide guys in. You got well,
16:48
Speaker 2: that doesn't even count. Where's Freelick? You know, like they
16:51
Speaker 2: have pretty good depth.
16:52
Speaker 3: They have.
16:53
Speaker 2: It's still a pretty good core now to me, the
16:56
Speaker 2: pivot point is Brandon Woodruff.
16:58
Speaker 3: If he's your opening day starter.
16:59
Speaker 2: He and he pitches approaching as good as Freddy Peralta
17:04
Speaker 2: did last year. What did they really lose? They actually
17:06
Speaker 2: gained two young guys that might be with him for five.
17:08
Speaker 3: Or six year.
17:09
Speaker 2: That'd be incredible if he did.
17:10
Speaker 4: I mean, Freddy had a great year last year, I
17:12
Speaker 4: can you know, he had a really good career and
17:13
Speaker 4: he had two peak years. So Freddie did almost as
17:16
Speaker 4: much as you can ask of any player. He almost
17:18
Speaker 4: never missed the start. He was always there. He was
17:20
Speaker 4: a great clubhouse guy. He battled, you know, homegrown guy
17:23
Speaker 4: that battled through early struggles. In nineteen when they tried
17:26
Speaker 4: to make him a closer, he kind of had a
17:27
Speaker 4: rough year. He figured himself out, he figured his control out.
17:31
Speaker 4: I was yellow all the time to be a closer, right,
17:33
Speaker 4: that was like that was the thing for a while.
17:35
Speaker 4: He was able to harness it. Had had that great
17:37
Speaker 4: twenty one last year, won seventeen games. You know, win
17:40
Speaker 4: loss is not an amazing Stafford pitcher, but it still
17:42
Speaker 4: means something. He was really really good and yeah, you
17:45
Speaker 4: know he had some shortcomings. You know, maybe he didn't
17:47
Speaker 4: go past five innings all the time. But besides that,
17:50
Speaker 4: he was everything he'd want in a player, didn't cost
17:52
Speaker 4: you a lot, he never complained, he was always a
17:54
Speaker 4: team guy. He came up with you, he was a
17:56
Speaker 4: big part of the clubhouse, and he was always there
17:58
Speaker 4: for we needed him, especially last year. That's the way
18:01
Speaker 4: I felt about Freddy Peralta. So even in the playoffs,
18:03
Speaker 4: they didn't really the games he lost weren't through a
18:05
Speaker 4: fault of his own, didn't get much run support. So
18:08
Speaker 4: just thanks. Freddy had a great tenure. It's hard to
18:10
Speaker 4: believe it's been eight years since we can see you
18:12
Speaker 4: come up with those braces in Colorado. You were pretty
18:15
Speaker 4: awesome man, and wish you well and yeah, everything you'd
18:18
Speaker 4: want to be. The Brewers are kind of in a situation, guys,
18:21
Speaker 4: I hate to say it. It's like Dave Ramsey saying,
18:23
Speaker 4: I'm sorry, you're too broke to afford that car. You
18:25
Speaker 4: got to sell it. Like that's just the situation the
18:27
Speaker 4: Brews are in. And it seems like these were overtures
18:29
Speaker 4: they couldn't afford to turn down at this point. The
18:32
Speaker 4: market was so hot for him right now, and they
18:34
Speaker 4: got I think, pretty good return.
18:35
Speaker 3: When it seems like you had to not necessarily fully
18:38
Speaker 3: drum up the market for one of these guys before
18:42
Speaker 3: this one was telling you, hey, everybody wants this guy,
18:46
Speaker 3: and you're gonna be able to not necessarily fully name
18:49
Speaker 3: your price. It sounds like they were shooting even higher
18:51
Speaker 3: in New York and at some point they had a limit.
18:53
Speaker 3: But I think Freddy Pearolta also this does end one
18:57
Speaker 3: of a sports radio sports talk radio show hosts, favorite player,
19:02
Speaker 3: favorite guy to have on a team, because Freddy Perlta
19:03
Speaker 3: gave you endless content. What Arman said is so factual.
19:07
Speaker 3: The amount of conversation we had of is Freddy Peralta
19:10
Speaker 3: in ace?
19:11
Speaker 2: Oh, I can't wait to not have a Can.
19:13
Speaker 3: You really say he's an ace if he goes five
19:16
Speaker 3: and two thirds every week and not six and a
19:19
Speaker 3: third of two run ball every week? We litigated that
19:22
Speaker 3: what actually seems like, I don't know about you, guys.
19:25
Speaker 3: This seems like the most consensus Brewers fans have ever
19:27
Speaker 3: had on Freddy Peralta.
19:28
Speaker 2: Yea like this was the right time to move.
19:31
Speaker 3: If there was a guy to move at the time
19:34
Speaker 3: in which their free agency came.
19:35
Speaker 2: Up, Peralta would be it.
19:37
Speaker 3: Off of a career year, You're going to get the
19:39
Speaker 3: most here, and and I am glad that he also
19:42
Speaker 3: got a chance to pitch in a Brewer uniform again.
19:45
Speaker 3: After the game in Chicago, right where he gives up
19:49
Speaker 3: the first inning shot, they're chanting Freddy.
19:51
Speaker 2: The whole time.
19:53
Speaker 3: Uh it's it seems to be getting to him and
19:55
Speaker 3: rattling a little bit. I was glad he got another
19:57
Speaker 3: opportunity to be on the mound after that.
19:59
Speaker 4: And right that's where there are some people. Freddy could
20:02
Speaker 4: have a great, you know, rest of his career. He
20:04
Speaker 4: could live the great rest of his life, and they'd
20:06
Speaker 4: be walking up at his funeral in eighty years saying,
20:08
Speaker 4: but he didn't go state?
20:10
Speaker 2: But is he a real age? Your number one?
20:13
Speaker 4: He was a guy that was great, but can only
20:15
Speaker 4: go six innings.
20:16
Speaker 2: He couldn't go six. Like I can say is google
20:18
Speaker 2: him and put his numbers up against the top guys
20:20
Speaker 2: last five years, and he's right in the mix of
20:23
Speaker 2: a top five, top ten. Every player should be a
20:25
Speaker 2: Freddy Peralta. But he but he didn't make the forty
20:28
Speaker 2: million dollars that he could have either. Oh he will,
20:31
Speaker 2: and I will tell you he's gonna make it up.
20:34
Speaker 4: He's scotty, he's the Scottie Pippen deal. It's time MS.
20:36
Speaker 4: I'm excited for him to cash in. Like there are
20:38
Speaker 4: certain guys that you.
20:40
Speaker 3: Do get and back when college sports were what John
20:43
Speaker 3: Calipari opined for the other day where he said, you get.
20:46
Speaker 2: Five years to play four.
20:49
Speaker 3: At some point you know there were limits to this
20:52
Speaker 3: and and guys aged out of college sports. The Brewers
20:55
Speaker 3: do operate similarly to a old school university in that span,
21:00
Speaker 3: at some point you're gonna graduate onto As Murph said,
21:03
Speaker 3: you know a lot of beachfront property probably.
21:05
Speaker 2: In your future.
21:06
Speaker 3: For Breddy Feralta, this is the time when you ended
21:09
Speaker 3: up starting feeling good for the seniors.
21:11
Speaker 2: And as you.
21:12
Speaker 3: Mentioned the clubhouse leaders drew, that means it's time for
21:16
Speaker 3: the guys who have been on back to back division
21:19
Speaker 3: title winning teams need to step up as the clubhouse leader.
21:22
Speaker 3: This is the kind of natural progression and maturation that
21:25
Speaker 3: this organization demands. And now you have to see if
21:28
Speaker 3: you have the right guys in there. Absolutely eight seven
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Speaker 2: Here's my second thing. You ready, No one listens to me.
21:46
Speaker 2: I told you my wife. I talked to her. She's
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21:52
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Speaker 2: Huddle Up Back Thursday edition of The Huddle Drew, Billy
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Speaker 2: Brewers trade of Freddie Peralta for Jet Williams and Brandon Sprote,
22:33
Speaker 2: two top one hundred prospects from the New York Metropolitans. Now,
22:38
Speaker 2: if you're a Buris fan, you're probably processing this in
22:41
Speaker 2: one of several ways, like, oh, this sucks, well, we'reless
22:44
Speaker 2: of minor league team. Ad Nausio should just sell because
22:47
Speaker 2: we can't even afford to keep the best bargain in
22:49
Speaker 2: baseball at eight million dollars. They had to trade him
22:51
Speaker 2: for money, And yeah, okay, that's a take. Yeah it
22:56
Speaker 2: sucks that, and.
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Speaker 3: What sucks is that?
22:58
Speaker 2: And you want to bitch about the existent christ is
23:00
Speaker 2: facing baseball like now and into the next CBA, which
23:03
Speaker 2: expires after this year. It sucks that the Dodgers are
23:06
Speaker 2: getting everybody, the Mets are getting everybody, and Brewers are
23:09
Speaker 2: the Saint Louis Brown's sure, basically right. So that's like
23:13
Speaker 2: the fact that the Brewers can't afford to keep homegrown,
23:15
Speaker 2: home developed, polished up guys like Freddy Peralta is heartbreaking
23:19
Speaker 2: and terrible and it needs to be addressed.
23:20
Speaker 3: Okay, that's that's a take.
23:22
Speaker 2: You can also say that, well, the Brewers have a
23:24
Speaker 2: track record of getting good young players and uh, the
23:29
Speaker 2: hater Burns Devin Williams, that Adamas wasn't traded but he
23:35
Speaker 2: was allowed to leave, and then this Freddy thing, it's
23:37
Speaker 2: just you know, death by paper cut. I'm done, I'm
23:40
Speaker 2: done watching this. They can't keep their best players. Or
23:43
Speaker 2: you could say, well, again, they moved on from hater Burns,
23:46
Speaker 2: Devin Williams and Willie Adamas and then they won ninety
23:50
Speaker 2: seven games and we're within four games of the World
23:52
Speaker 2: Series against so at a certain point it's like, Okay,
23:55
Speaker 2: maybe they know what they're doing right. And David Stearns
23:58
Speaker 2: did not draft Jet william but the guys, as we said,
24:01
Speaker 2: totally a Brewer fits the profile with five seven, five
24:04
Speaker 2: eight short King can play out field.
24:06
Speaker 3: Infield, he hits for more power.
24:08
Speaker 2: Now, if you like the Caleb Durbin we were talking
24:10
Speaker 2: about him, Caleb Durbin right, because he came unseen. He's
24:15
Speaker 2: local kid D three, Ye wash you of Saint Louis.
24:18
Speaker 2: Everybody loves him.
24:19
Speaker 3: Family's all there with all the jerseys when he makes
24:21
Speaker 3: his debut.
24:22
Speaker 2: Also Jet Williams, though I mean Caleb durban was a
24:25
Speaker 2: mid round pick from a D three school and Jet
24:28
Speaker 2: Williams was a number one pick, first round pick by
24:31
Speaker 2: the Mets.
24:32
Speaker 3: Ranted it wasn't Stearn Senate was the other guy.
24:35
Speaker 2: I think it was Billy Eppler that drafted him, But
24:37
Speaker 2: they drafted he's and he's got more raw power and
24:40
Speaker 2: he's regarded as more of a sure thing than Caleb
24:43
Speaker 2: Durbin was. Caleb Durbin's a pretty good player, and if
24:45
Speaker 2: this guy is like even better. Having a lot of
24:48
Speaker 2: good players is not a bad thing. And turning Freddy
24:51
Speaker 2: Pelta into two guys that you're rolling the dice again
24:53
Speaker 2: on prospects. But that's to me, it's like that's how
24:56
Speaker 2: the Brewers, That's how the Brewers have to survive. And
24:58
Speaker 2: that's what makes them a good organization that they make
25:00
Speaker 2: moves like this that suck in the short term, but
25:03
Speaker 2: long term you say, oh, yeah, good thing they did that.
25:05
Speaker 3: Yeah and drew the having a type I actually appreciate
25:09
Speaker 3: in this sense. They feel like it seems like they
25:11
Speaker 3: feel like they've identified the type of player that gives
25:14
Speaker 3: them the best advantage at home where they're going to
25:16
Speaker 3: play in a small ballpark, where as long as you
25:19
Speaker 3: put the ball into the outfield, you're gonna have the
25:20
Speaker 3: chance to swipe an extra bag, whether or not it's
25:23
Speaker 3: just extending a single into a double and making you know,
25:25
Speaker 3: the official scorer's life hellish up top the figuring out
25:28
Speaker 3: if it was an extension on the throw or not.
25:30
Speaker 3: But they're going to play in aggressive style, and I
25:32
Speaker 3: think Williams fits into it. He also seems to be
25:36
Speaker 3: a higher end potential guy that also fits into this. Right.
25:40
Speaker 3: This seems to be more of you could take a
25:42
Speaker 3: swing with a Bryce terrang with somebody like this, a
25:45
Speaker 3: former first round pick. Where the Brewers had not been
25:47
Speaker 3: good in the first round for the majority of my lifetime.
25:51
Speaker 3: Right outside of Prince or a Ryan Braun, they had
25:54
Speaker 3: really struggled in the first round and now, yeah, it's
25:58
Speaker 3: not as looking at ol free lick at castin Hira. Sorry,
26:02
Speaker 3: but like you see guys that now are all littered
26:06
Speaker 3: as first round picks on your on your roster and
26:09
Speaker 3: a part of your core that it gives you more confidence.
26:13
Speaker 3: This is as confident I think you can feel in
26:15
Speaker 3: an organization that has not brought home a trophy in
26:19
Speaker 3: the sport. Yeah, I think right, and I think they've
26:22
Speaker 3: earned that for what they've done. They just won the
26:24
Speaker 3: most games in the league and have the best farm
26:27
Speaker 3: system now rated amongst baseball. Do they do it a
26:31
Speaker 3: way that is different than the LA Dodgers, Absolutely, but
26:35
Speaker 3: we've we've seen them be able to now as close
26:39
Speaker 3: to perfectly execute their plan. Now, you just got to
26:43
Speaker 3: be able to find a way to win four games
26:45
Speaker 3: into the postseason, and hopefully Jet Williams is one of
26:48
Speaker 3: those guys that our boy the franchise would say, a
26:50
Speaker 3: playoff player. You got to find guys that are dudes
26:53
Speaker 3: that are able to elevate in some of those moments,
26:56
Speaker 3: and I think Caleb Durban showed that.
26:57
Speaker 2: He seemed to be a little bit at one of
26:58
Speaker 2: those guys I'm excited.
27:00
Speaker 3: This dude is going to have a lot of fans
27:03
Speaker 3: and potentially a lot of the young female fans from
27:05
Speaker 3: a man Jet Williams, I would say, yeah, I'm pretty
27:07
Speaker 3: confident saying that's a that's a handsome young man right there.
27:11
Speaker 3: About naming your kid Jet is going to be a
27:13
Speaker 3: handsome athlete.
27:14
Speaker 4: Well, Jet to get and one day, hopefully Jet the
27:16
Speaker 4: Vet will be a long term brewer, but one thing
27:20
Speaker 4: in decent speed. Imagine if a guy named Jet didn't
27:22
Speaker 4: have it, Like, wouldn't that be ironic?
27:23
Speaker 2: If a guy named Jet.
27:27
Speaker 3: Tiny?
27:28
Speaker 4: Exactly? That's exactly what I was thinking of. Wh you
27:30
Speaker 4: name your kid named Jet, he better be fast or
27:32
Speaker 4: else you kind of like Billy walks out of there.
27:34
Speaker 4: You're like, Son, yeah, maybe we maybe we messed up.
27:37
Speaker 4: Let's just call him BA, like naming your son Jeeves.
27:39
Speaker 2: He's got to be able to say, like, Scooter Jeanette
27:41
Speaker 2: could only be a scrappy little second basement. Can't be
27:44
Speaker 2: a divorce attorney or no right or a dentist. Not
27:48
Speaker 2: a Scooter Jeanett.
27:50
Speaker 3: Now a coach of a U thirteen team or whatever
27:52
Speaker 3: it is. And you're like, I'm sending him to Scooters Academy.
27:54
Speaker 3: They're gonna make sure that he's gonna turn into the project.
27:56
Speaker 4: I think there's an emotional part of this where people
27:58
Speaker 4: don't want to believe the Brewers have to kind of
28:00
Speaker 4: this way, But in a lot of ways, that's just
28:02
Speaker 4: the way they have to operate, and that's the way
28:04
Speaker 4: they will operate, whether or not you like it, because
28:06
Speaker 4: it works and it's been the most consistent way for
28:09
Speaker 4: them to continue to put winning teams, competitive teams on
28:12
Speaker 4: the field without totally having you know, ten year rebuilds
28:15
Speaker 4: and things like that.
28:16
Speaker 3: Well, and that's where I guess I haven't seen as
28:19
Speaker 3: much pessimism about the move from Brewers fans. It seemed
28:22
Speaker 3: to be more nationally. Like our friend Mike and Merrill
28:24
Speaker 3: hit us up right away this morning, good morning boys,
28:26
Speaker 3: to everyone crying about Freddy's departure. It was inevitable just
28:29
Speaker 3: how the team has to conduct themselves in this market.
28:32
Speaker 3: Game two against the Dodgers last year, his start five
28:34
Speaker 3: and two thirds, five hits, three runs, one walk, four
28:37
Speaker 3: case they lost five to one, and his era on
28:40
Speaker 3: the game's biggest stage is a plus four seventy.
28:43
Speaker 2: Of course, this has to be.
28:45
Speaker 3: Is magnified by an inept offensive performance throughout the series.
28:48
Speaker 2: But the twenty twenty five.
28:50
Speaker 3: Season, he has a league leading seventeen wins and six losses,
28:55
Speaker 3: puts up a massive year butt in the postseason so
29:00
Speaker 3: so par, he has miles on his arm, would have
29:02
Speaker 3: been gone in ten months anyway, and consistently taxes the
29:06
Speaker 3: bullpen with his short starts. The great trade by Arnold
29:09
Speaker 3: and the Milwaukee's long term success plan. The only thing
29:11
Speaker 3: better is if we could have gotten Jonah Tong and
29:15
Speaker 3: probably should have gotten one more prospect or draft pick,
29:18
Speaker 3: because we threw Intobias Mike.
29:20
Speaker 2: They wanted him right and then Met said no untouchable.
29:23
Speaker 2: That's like, you know, it's like saying other teams sarews
29:26
Speaker 2: that would have been or so okay.
29:29
Speaker 3: Because I immediately went to and I don't know if anybody,
29:32
Speaker 3: I just went to Dave Gasper and I just wanted
29:33
Speaker 3: to see what everybody said.
29:34
Speaker 2: And all the prospect hoarders love these guys. Did they
29:37
Speaker 2: like him or not?
29:38
Speaker 3: That's again I do struggle with, like, when you trade
29:42
Speaker 3: off who was our boy last.
29:43
Speaker 2: Year, You'll ferry Rodriguez.
29:45
Speaker 3: You'll ferry Rodriguez for Quinn Priester, nineteen year old at
29:48
Speaker 3: single A Drew and I I appreciate our friend Justin
29:52
Speaker 3: in North Carolina, who it's is up on the talking
29:54
Speaker 3: text line all the time. He goes to Mudcats games.
29:56
Speaker 3: I know they're gonna rebrand. I don't care at all
30:00
Speaker 3: if the Carolina Mudcats win any games, like I hope
30:03
Speaker 3: the Biloxi Shuckers and.
30:04
Speaker 2: The Wilson war Birds. Aren't they changing?
30:06
Speaker 3: I knew they were changing. I knew they were changing.
30:07
Speaker 3: Moved to a new city, new new motif, the Biloxi
30:10
Speaker 3: Shuckers that seems like an awesome place to go in
30:12
Speaker 3: the summer actually should be a bachelor party destination.
30:15
Speaker 2: Nice little casinos.
30:16
Speaker 3: They're pretty hot there, pretty muggy. I struggled to say
30:19
Speaker 3: that they should win. I don't care if they win
30:20
Speaker 3: any games. I care more about how these guys are
30:23
Speaker 3: able to impact this squad. And it feels like a
30:25
Speaker 3: lot more of these guys are major League ready than
30:28
Speaker 3: nineteen year old that we're gonna have to wait three
30:30
Speaker 3: years for.
30:30
Speaker 4: Yeah.
30:30
Speaker 2: Always, when I think of those guys, there are always
30:33
Speaker 2: some prospects. And now in Mets circles, most Mets fans
30:37
Speaker 2: are giddy because after sitting around bitching is what they
30:41
Speaker 2: love to do.
30:42
Speaker 3: Yes, when they did go.
30:44
Speaker 2: Get Kyle Tucker, and when they didn't go get this
30:46
Speaker 2: guy or that guy, they sat and bitched and bitched
30:48
Speaker 2: and bitched, and then within the span of like five
30:50
Speaker 2: or six days they get Bob Baschett for Luis Robert
30:53
Speaker 2: and then they get Now they get Freddy Perotza. Now
30:55
Speaker 2: they're giddy. It's like, oh, this is awesome. We just
30:57
Speaker 2: bought order the rings playing the parade their back. Yes,
31:00
Speaker 2: but in the corner of the Mets universe, they're like,
31:02
Speaker 2: how could we give up to top one hundred projects
31:04
Speaker 2: for one year of a guy who's twenty nine are
31:06
Speaker 2: probably gonna break down and blah blah blah.
31:08
Speaker 3: So they're they're squawking about that.
31:10
Speaker 4: Else it needs something to go back at. This guy
31:12
Speaker 4: with the Yankees hat on the train going to Queens
31:14
Speaker 4: because they just got you know, uh.
31:18
Speaker 2: The prospects. There are some people who are wired to
31:21
Speaker 2: love guys until they hit the big leagues, right, and
31:23
Speaker 2: then they kind of like, you know, it's like it's like, oh,
31:26
Speaker 2: we like it, you know, you love you pine for
31:29
Speaker 2: those prospects and you know, the backup quarterback who who
31:33
Speaker 2: was anybody remember Lewis Brinson? Oh? God's a great example
31:38
Speaker 2: the Yellings trade.
31:39
Speaker 3: How can we trade an athletic outfielder like that for
31:41
Speaker 3: a guy who's I'm just glad we held on them
31:44
Speaker 3: at Matt Gamble because you finally were able to totally
31:46
Speaker 3: see the fruits of the cross.
31:47
Speaker 4: I was so mad when I wasn't mad, but I
31:50
Speaker 4: was so nervous when the Brewis trade Laporta for cz.
31:52
Speaker 2: How can we laporta our old future. There's the Baseball
31:57
Speaker 2: Amateur Baseball Bible of Draft picks and College Baseball is
32:01
Speaker 2: Baseball America the magazine newspaper monthly and now this is
32:05
Speaker 2: probably a website. They probably don't even have a hard
32:06
Speaker 2: copy anymore, but for years that's how you kept track
32:09
Speaker 2: of if you were a draft nick, if you were
32:11
Speaker 2: an amateur guy for.
32:13
Speaker 3: The Huntington News. I think they still got a hard copy.
32:16
Speaker 3: I think they're an airport still. But Doug Melvin used
32:18
Speaker 3: to always say, it's like they're there. Doug Melvin's like
32:20
Speaker 3: would say, we need a pharmacistem we need a pipeline
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Speaker 3: of talent, and it's like, it's great having people say
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Speaker 3: that your farm system is good, but he said, damn it.
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Speaker 3: I would rather have guys that are on the cover
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Speaker 3: of Sports Illustrated than the cover of Baseball America.
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Speaker 2: That's perfect. And it's like, that's the difference, is like
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Speaker 2: when they get here and you start winning World Series
32:37
Speaker 2: and you start winning you know, MVPs and All Stars,
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Speaker 2: then they get to that level rather than the prospects
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Speaker 2: that you get excited about, many of whom don't pan out.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, just it's a fact. It's the fact of the matter.
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Speaker 3: There's only so there's only twenty six spots on a
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Speaker 3: big league roster. The amount of guys that aren't going
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Speaker 3: to pan out is way too high. But I do
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Speaker 3: also wonder drew it with this amount and the glutton
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Speaker 3: of shortstops and and the top end town, it feels like,
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Speaker 3: does it mean that they're done right or now do
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Speaker 3: you have a little bit of ammunition to move around
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Speaker 3: and try to grab guys that might be a little
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Speaker 3: bit more establishing. They got plenty of that, and that's that.
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Speaker 2: Again, that's the sign of a good organization that keeps
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Speaker 2: the pipeline flowing and none has options, right, So hey,
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Speaker 2: stay tuned. We will discuss this further detail. As we're
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Speaker 2: about to enter the coldest stretch in like five years,
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Speaker 2: we're gathered around the hot stove talking about your.
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Speaker 3: Sure would be nice if we had a Brewers Brewers
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Speaker 3: on deck to.
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Speaker 2: Be able to discuss.
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Speaker 4: Ah.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well Murph was just doing a soft seat theaters
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Speaker 2: well and men.
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Speaker 3: Murph finished it off at Fizer Forum last night. That's true.
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Speaker 2: seven seven seven nine seven three Folks reacting, Billy, what
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Speaker 2: are the people saying about the Freddy peralta trade.
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Speaker 3: All right away on the talking text on Tommy and Stallus,
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Speaker 3: but bub Bernie and the jet, we don't know if
35:50
Speaker 3: this is a good trade yet. I like that deal
35:52
Speaker 3: by our friend Tommy. Uh, but I'm in with Matt
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Speaker 3: Arnold and I'm in the in Arnold. I trust Camp.
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Speaker 3: I will enjoy every amateur scout prophesizing all day long.
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Speaker 3: What did our boy Dave Gasper say? Somebody needs to
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Speaker 3: Witch jumped out because you got to get a Cups
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Speaker 3: fan perspective in on it, and that's always more fun.
36:32
Speaker 3: Because ultimately Brewiser also couldn't be able to dunk on
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Speaker 3: this one. I don't know that a whole lot of
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Speaker 3: people outside of like some random Toronto Blue Jays folks
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Speaker 3: online last night that were chirping saying this is embarrassing
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Speaker 3: for a poverty organization. And I'm like, hey, Bob, your flag,
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Speaker 3: your flag has a leaf on it. You don't matter here,
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Speaker 3: all right. You are the furthest thing from anybody's mind.
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Speaker 3: You also don't because you had the worst possible loss
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Speaker 3: to a World Series and just lost one of your
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Speaker 3: core players because you didn't want to spend the money
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Speaker 3: on Boba Schett and they couldn't wait to get out
37:09
Speaker 3: of Canada. Sorry, that sucks to suck. But for this one,
37:13
Speaker 3: for the Brewers, I think there's a lot more people
37:15
Speaker 3: that are like Janny and Appleton, so sad to see
37:17
Speaker 3: Freddy go. But I do guess it was inevitable. I
37:19
Speaker 3: thought it was going to be at the trade deadline.
37:22
Speaker 3: He's gonna get a big payday and he deserves it.
37:24
Speaker 3: Now we just wait to see how it turns out.
37:26
Speaker 3: Love my Brewers. I'm glad from a Brewers fan perspective,
37:31
Speaker 3: Drew that it happened now because.
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Speaker 2: This is optimism season. Yeah, it happens in July.
37:38
Speaker 3: Whatever the situation is, it's bad, right if your team
37:41
Speaker 3: is out of contention, that stinks. You don't trade a
37:44
Speaker 3: guy like that Freddy at the if you're in contention, Yeah,
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Speaker 3: or you do the Josh Ader thing and potentially tanks
37:51
Speaker 3: the back half of your season and it becomes the
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Speaker 3: biggest l that you've taken in the last decade, which
37:57
Speaker 3: has been the most prolonged success for the organization that
37:59
Speaker 3: I've a So this one for me only made sense
38:04
Speaker 3: in the offseason. And I think when you talk about
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Speaker 3: somebody that's been such a clubhouse guy, such a leader,
38:08
Speaker 3: you've been in so many of these day to day clubhouses,
38:10
Speaker 3: this grind is so much different than any other sport
38:13
Speaker 3: we watch that I almost think it's like a game
38:17
Speaker 3: plan for a football team going into a week.
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Speaker 2: You lose Micah.
38:21
Speaker 3: Parsons in the game, it's gonna affect you a lot
38:23
Speaker 3: more than the next week when you know you're gonna
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Speaker 3: play without him, when you can game plan to try
38:27
Speaker 3: to be able to be the best version of yourself
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Speaker 3: without that.
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Speaker 2: Keep keycock. Now they're gonna start pitchers and catchers canna
38:35
Speaker 2: be reporting pretty soon. We're a couple of weeks away
38:37
Speaker 2: from that, and every ways start, I think it's like
38:40
Speaker 2: yesterday was like one month until the Brewers first catching game. Yep.
38:45
Speaker 2: And the way I'm gonna looking at this now is
38:48
Speaker 2: any concerns I had about Brandon Woodruff's health have now
38:51
Speaker 2: been alleviated because they must they know that he is
38:55
Speaker 2: gonna be good to go and take the ball and
38:57
Speaker 2: no delays and not oh well, he'd be rid to
39:00
Speaker 2: pitch in June. Now, anything can happen between now and then. Inact, yeah,
39:03
Speaker 2: strain and oblique in a spring training game or something.
39:05
Speaker 2: But this tells me that the Birds have done their
39:07
Speaker 2: due diligence, not only with the eighteen million they invested
39:10
Speaker 2: in Brandon Woodard front of one year deal, but they
39:12
Speaker 2: have been monitoring him this offseason and know that he's
39:15
Speaker 2: going to be the opening day guy and the ace
39:18
Speaker 2: of the staff. That to me, it's like, you don't
39:20
Speaker 2: make this move if Woodruff's telling you that every other
39:23
Speaker 2: time he throws his shoulders barking at him, yeah, the
39:27
Speaker 2: day after his time.
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Speaker 3: I also wonder if it gives you any uh confidence
39:31
Speaker 3: true in like the Gassers and guys that I mean.
39:34
Speaker 3: We saw Gasser at the back end of last year
39:37
Speaker 3: for a couple of appearances, but those are key cogs
39:41
Speaker 3: that you would think would be pieces going forward for
39:44
Speaker 3: a long time, that you get him into the rotation
39:46
Speaker 3: and a dude that I did not anticipate being a
39:48
Speaker 3: piece of it. And Chad Patrick, I want to see
39:50
Speaker 3: more of him at the big great point.
39:52
Speaker 2: So Brandon sproute is slides into kind of like the
39:55
Speaker 2: Jordan Morgan like, we don't need you yet, but lets
39:57
Speaker 2: you develop on your own pace. But we got like
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Speaker 2: six or seven maybe even you can make case six, seven,
40:02
Speaker 2: eight guys ahead of yeah, yeah, yeah, and then okay,
40:06
Speaker 2: like you know, start at triple A if you if
40:08
Speaker 2: if he blows your socks off and his you know,
40:10
Speaker 2: looks good, then he's in the mix for the rotation. Yeah,
40:13
Speaker 2: Or is he also a guy that they turn into
40:16
Speaker 2: that apprentice where he's pitching out of the pen like
40:18
Speaker 2: three innings instead of you know, trying to pitch five
40:21
Speaker 2: or six.
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Speaker 3: We'll see.
40:22
Speaker 2: But I trust Chris Hook in the pitching lab to
40:25
Speaker 2: get a fair amount out of a guy like this
40:28
Speaker 2: with his pedigree. And again the Jet Williams thing Caleb Durban,
40:32
Speaker 2: but with a higher ceiling. Maybe yeah again first round pick,
40:36
Speaker 2: he's got more power, hit seventeen homers and stole thirty
40:38
Speaker 2: five bags at Triple A.
40:40
Speaker 3: Could could it be a Brce terrain potential in a
40:43
Speaker 3: Caleb Durban body? And that's what you hope for, right
40:46
Speaker 3: like because there was with the with the power in
40:49
Speaker 3: the boat.
40:49
Speaker 2: The guys they both pull the ball and lift the ball,
40:53
Speaker 2: so it's like they're both you know, and yeah they're little,
40:56
Speaker 2: but that doesn't mean little guys can't hit home run. Exactly,
40:58
Speaker 2: this exactly, He's going to be a book that you
41:01
Speaker 2: should have. Pouts. The athleticism speed is something that you know. Again,
41:06
Speaker 2: Brewers do have a type. They love positional versatility and
41:09
Speaker 2: athletic guys.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think in terms of starting pitching, you see
41:13
Speaker 4: how important depth is. I mean, you can count of
41:15
Speaker 4: all the guys ahead and say, you know what, the
41:17
Speaker 4: next thing, you know that there's injuries and you need
41:20
Speaker 4: those guys and and we'll see how that goes. But
41:23
Speaker 4: when you trade from a position of depth, I think
41:25
Speaker 4: it's always good. I also think this tells me and
41:27
Speaker 4: you mentioned Woodruff, Jacob Azerowski, your table is ready, come on,
41:31
Speaker 4: your stage is set. You perform really well in the
41:33
Speaker 4: playoffs last year after kind of guiding through the rough
41:36
Speaker 4: waters after the great debut, a few starts, rough waters,
41:40
Speaker 4: great moments in the playoffs.
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Speaker 2: Your table is set now to take the next step.
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Speaker 4: And you know, I don't know about the centerpiece of
41:47
Speaker 4: the rotation, but he's basically you know, the planets might
41:50
Speaker 4: revolve around him at some point when you talk about
41:52
Speaker 4: setting up a rotation, I think that's what the Brewers
41:54
Speaker 4: are hoping for now. So it's your time is well
41:57
Speaker 4: in Sproat has been a starter. It pretty much his
41:59
Speaker 4: entire career.
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Speaker 3: You're thought in inkling drew on them trying to bring
42:04
Speaker 3: him along in that you know, three inning role. I've
42:06
Speaker 3: always thought was beneficial from learning how to get big
42:10
Speaker 3: league hitters out. I mean, you talk about it in
42:12
Speaker 3: the Jordan Morgan role and how the Packers bring up
42:15
Speaker 3: offensive linemen.
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Speaker 2: I think it does equate.
42:18
Speaker 3: Where to put somebody in and start drinking from a
42:21
Speaker 3: fire hose and playing fifty snaps at left tackle.
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Speaker 2: That's a tough thing to ask.
42:25
Speaker 3: But if you're able to start out playing you know,
42:27
Speaker 3: half the game of guard, being able to rotate him
42:29
Speaker 3: and learn yourself in learn how you're getting big league
42:31
Speaker 3: hitters out. And also, I guess I'm not too intelligent
42:36
Speaker 3: on the innings limit and restriction deal.
42:39
Speaker 2: If you believe, and I think this is.
42:43
Speaker 3: Been clearly shown by the Milwaukee Brewers, they would build
42:47
Speaker 3: their calendars out to be playing into October. So finding
42:50
Speaker 3: a way to make sure that if Sprote is the
42:53
Speaker 3: kind of player that you hope and fantasize and dream
42:55
Speaker 3: that he would be when you make the deal, that
42:58
Speaker 3: he can be like Miserouse he was last year, a
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Speaker 3: weapon in the postseason instead of well, we got to
43:03
Speaker 3: shut this guy down in September because he's already hit
43:06
Speaker 3: his one hundred and forty innings and we can't go
43:07
Speaker 3: too far over what he was projected to go up
43:10
Speaker 3: because I don't want to load up the arm too
43:12
Speaker 3: much in the regular season.
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Speaker 2: Last year in the Big League's miss pitched sixty six innings.
43:17
Speaker 2: Can we see one hundred?
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Speaker 3: Yeah?
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Speaker 4: Is that fair?
43:19
Speaker 3: Yeah?
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Speaker 2: Because you put the miles on that he had and
43:22
Speaker 2: that he logged on triple A and yeah, not to
43:24
Speaker 2: reach at all. And you know, will they baby him
43:27
Speaker 2: and protect him from Yes, for sure. Do they want
43:30
Speaker 2: him to go two hundred ins? Probably not, but they'll
43:33
Speaker 2: pick their spots with him and again built for October. Right, Yeah,
43:36
Speaker 2: you're right, have they calibrated so that he's ready to go.
43:38
Speaker 2: You want him all season, but they will miss they'll
43:40
Speaker 2: skip him at times.
43:41
Speaker 3: They'll do what they have to do. It's a summer
43:43
Speaker 3: of entertainment, but it's also want to hope and we
43:45
Speaker 3: got to be able to build ourselves in for the postseason. Wrong, absolutely, absolutely,
43:49
Speaker 3: all right.
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