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Speaker 1: He's ready for the season.
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Speaker 2: Fans side and NFT inside of Robert Murray joining us
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Speaker 2: right now on FT. Happy Opening Day to you, Robert,
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Speaker 2: and let's first continue the conversation on Pete car Armstrong.
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Speaker 2: What do you think of the extension and the lack
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Speaker 2: of options in the extension?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, first of all, happy opening to day.
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Speaker 4: Boys. It's good to be here.
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Speaker 3: It was a long offseason, but we made it one
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Speaker 3: piece somehow. But the Pete car Armstrong deal that did
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Speaker 3: not catch me, I don't think anybody else around the league,
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Speaker 3: by surprise. We saw a ton of buzz about it
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Speaker 3: last year, and I didn't really get the indication that
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Speaker 3: last year like it was a serious possibility. But this
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Speaker 3: offseason it was a real priority for them. They saw
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Speaker 3: the impact that he ended up having in Chicago in
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Speaker 3: that outfield, and they saw the ability with the bat,
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Speaker 3: and they believe he can be even better and it
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Speaker 3: was a big priority for them. And it was very
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Speaker 3: unique deal in the fact that it did not contain
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Speaker 3: any club options. It's super rare, but it just underscores
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Speaker 3: their belief here in Pete Kerr Armstrong and Hiss just
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Speaker 3: his upside because he's he's a high floor guy, but
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Speaker 3: his upside is just tremendous. So I thought it made
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Speaker 3: a ton of sense for Pete Armstrong to do that
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Speaker 3: because it's also it secures him one hundred plus million
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Speaker 3: dollar contract right now, but it also allows him to
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Speaker 3: test free agency when he's thirty or thirty one, which
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Speaker 3: is the same age as as when Aaron Judge was
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Speaker 3: a free agent, when Marcus Sammye was a free agent,
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Speaker 3: some of these other guys. So he's got another bite
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Speaker 3: at the apple when it comes to getting a mega
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Speaker 3: deal in free agency. And if he continues at the
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Speaker 3: arc that he's on now and what the Cubs believe
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Speaker 3: he can be, it's going to be just as a
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Speaker 3: very lucrative contract whenever that eventually comes. But there is
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Speaker 3: a couple of different ways the Cubs could have gone
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Speaker 3: about this thing here. They could have done a deal
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Speaker 3: quite like something like this, something along the lines of
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Speaker 3: like a Corbyn Carroll kind of deal, or even if
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Speaker 3: they wanted to keep him in Chicago for the remainder
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Speaker 3: of his career, and if that was something that they
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Speaker 3: were able to agree to, possibly like a Fernando Tatist
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Speaker 3: junior or something along those lines kind of contract, but
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Speaker 3: they settled on this six years for one hundred and
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Speaker 3: fifteen million. I love the move for both sides, and
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Speaker 3: it also feels good talking about the Cubs here too
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Speaker 3: as a team that's that's spending, because in previous off
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Speaker 3: seasons we've really gotten on them for not spending and
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Speaker 3: the Ricketts family for not investing serious dollars into this
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Speaker 3: Cubs team. But they went out and got out Alex Bregman,
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Speaker 3: they got Edward Cabrera, they get this deal done. They've
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Speaker 3: also gotten a bunch of other deals done.
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Speaker 4: In free agency.
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Speaker 3: It feels good when you're talking about the Chicago Cubs
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Speaker 3: mentioning them as like a serious spender, which.
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Speaker 4: It's how it should be, and it's.
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Speaker 3: Why I think they're the favorite in that division as
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Speaker 3: of this point, because of.
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Speaker 4: The rarity of the fact that there's no options and
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Speaker 4: the fact that that Christopher Sanchez just did kind of
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Speaker 4: like a rare thing too, where they extended some of
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Speaker 4: his contract through the option years that they had. Is
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Speaker 4: this signifying that teams are looking that way because of
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Speaker 4: the fact that the new CBA might X nay some
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Speaker 4: of those option years if something happens with the new CBA,
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Speaker 4: because now two teams have done odd things within the
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Speaker 4: last week, and then we can look ahead to the
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Speaker 4: other extensions that are possible.
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Speaker 3: No, it's it's totally possible that could end up being
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Speaker 3: the case here. And although that being said, like the
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Speaker 3: Phillies doing that with Christopher Sanchez, that was a very
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Speaker 3: unique case in the fact that they had a player
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Speaker 3: signed to a super team friendly deal and they end
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Speaker 3: up ripping up that contract and giving him one hundred
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Speaker 3: plus million bucks like that was extremely rare. And between
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Speaker 3: the Phillies doing that and also getting Hazelsizarto, I think
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Speaker 3: they deserve a ton of credit there. The Cubs doing
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Speaker 3: this with Pee car Armstrong, Like, yeah, it definitely sets
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Speaker 3: a different precedent here for sure, And I do wonder
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Speaker 3: in talking to people around the league if that could
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Speaker 3: end up becoming a new trend, because even before the
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Speaker 3: terms ended up leaking yesterday, I had somebody mentioned that
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Speaker 3: he would be bet the house that it would end
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Speaker 3: up including a club option, which I hope he didn't
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Speaker 3: end up betting the house because then he'd be out
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Speaker 3: of a house, which I mean that would not be
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Speaker 3: very good. But yeah, no, it could definitely be a
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Speaker 3: new trend. But again, I love the deal here for
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Speaker 3: the Cubs. I think it makes a ton of sense.
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Speaker 3: And plus another part of this too is they really
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Speaker 3: didn't have They don't have a ton of players at
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Speaker 3: least position players signed long term on that roster. So
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Speaker 3: now you have Alex Bregman, you have Pete kro Armstrong, yeah,
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Speaker 3: Matt Shaw, you have some others in there. So that
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Speaker 3: also gives them some long term certainty as as far
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Speaker 3: as offense goes.
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Speaker 2: Robert anything else that you would expect to potentially break
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Speaker 2: in the next twenty four to forty eight hours on
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Speaker 2: the extension front, and if not, I still wanted to
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Speaker 2: get your take on Connor Griffin getting an extension offer
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Speaker 2: over one hundred million dollars. I think the burning question
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Speaker 2: is if he took it, is he in the major leagues.
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Speaker 2: I've never heard of something like that going down in
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Speaker 2: a player not getting a big league opportunity. Some fans
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Speaker 2: pointed out Christian Campbell, Yet he got a chance in
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Speaker 2: the bigs and then he wasn't hitting, so they sent
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Speaker 2: him down. So if you get big money, they're not like,
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Speaker 2: oh cool, you're making millions of dollars.
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Speaker 1: We'll see in the minor leagues.
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Speaker 3: No, for sure, and it's always possible we could have
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Speaker 3: something break here between now and in first pitch either
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Speaker 3: I mean tomorrow. I mean, I don't think anything's gonna
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Speaker 3: be coming today as far as the Giants or the
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Speaker 3: Yankees go. I could be wrong, but I do remember
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Speaker 3: a few years ago it was Opening Day and I
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Speaker 3: knew Key Brian Hayes was getting extended.
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Speaker 4: It was.
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Speaker 3: It was one of the most crazy things ever. It
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Speaker 3: was like an hour before first pitch, and I dropped
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Speaker 3: his story and Hayes ends up going to bat, and
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Speaker 3: I believe he ends up getting hit by a pitch
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Speaker 3: and he leaves the game with an injury, and he
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Speaker 3: hadn't completed his physically yet. I believe it was. It
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Speaker 3: was one of the craziest things I've ever encountered. So
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Speaker 3: it's always possible we have something coming here as far
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Speaker 3: as extension goes, and I do think a Connor Griffin
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Speaker 3: extension remains possible. I don't think it's gonna en up
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Speaker 3: happening between now and first pitch tomorrow, but it's something
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Speaker 3: that the Pirates and Griffin have had a lot of
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Speaker 3: conversations about.
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Speaker 4: We saw Ben.
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Speaker 3: Cherrington say the other day that he wants to be
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Speaker 3: in Pittsburgh and that the organization would like to keep
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Speaker 3: him in Pittsburgh, but they don't need to extend him
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Speaker 3: like right this very second, because by all indications he's
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Speaker 3: not going to be on the opening day roster. He
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Speaker 3: didn't necessarily like blow everyone away with his numbers in
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Speaker 3: spring training. But that being said, they are very confident
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Speaker 3: he's going end up being a long term asset for
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Speaker 3: that team. You talk to people around the team, they
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Speaker 3: talk about his poise, how even when he struggles, he's
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Speaker 3: still the same guy every day, and you talk about
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Speaker 3: the tools in his body is he's unbelievable. Only nineteen,
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Speaker 3: he's barely played above double A. They can be patient here.
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Speaker 3: They send him down to the minors, they can allow
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Speaker 3: him to get that development. But I do think an
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Speaker 3: extension remains a possibility, And if they end up getting
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Speaker 3: that done, that would just be the chair on top
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Speaker 3: of the like the last twelve months for the Pirates.
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Speaker 3: You get Griffin extended. If that does get done, you
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Speaker 3: bring in Brandon Lao, Ryan o'heur and Marcelo Zuna. You
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Speaker 3: have that pitching staff there too. We've We've joked about
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Speaker 3: it on the show before. They're my Pittsburgh Pirates for
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Speaker 3: my belief in them. Yeah, I got ahead of it,
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Speaker 3: so you didn't have to mention as NBAJ, But it's
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Speaker 3: I really like the direction of that team, and if
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Speaker 3: they get that deal done, then that the upside for
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Speaker 3: that team long term just goes even higher.
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Speaker 4: How about Freddy Peralta, because they traded some significant pieces
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Speaker 4: for Freddy p to come in and be the number
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Speaker 4: one that they thought they would have in some short
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Speaker 4: term deals and they haven't been able to do it.
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Speaker 4: contract or is it Freddie Pea's betting on bet ability
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Speaker 4: to bet on himself because it's his free agent year. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I do like they've had conversations. My impression is that
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Speaker 3: it's probably unlikely as of this point, and I think
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Speaker 3: that's what exactly you just said. There is spot on
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Speaker 3: is he's he told I believe John Hayman of The
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Speaker 3: New York Post that he wanted something around like seven
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Speaker 3: or eight years, and Paralta is around thirty. I can't
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Speaker 3: remember his exact age, but it's somewhere around thirty. And
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Speaker 3: I don't see David Stearns or being in a hurry
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Speaker 3: to give him like that seven or eight year contract.
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Speaker 3: I'd imagine he'd prefers something more shorter term, and that
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Speaker 3: to me would be a big obstacle if I'm Paralta,
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Speaker 3: if I'm his camp, So I don't expect to Freddy
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Speaker 3: Pearolta's extension to be done between now and opening day.
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Speaker 3: I do think he'd be really smart to end up
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Speaker 3: playing this thing out as long as he possibly can,
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Speaker 3: because if he can end up using this season as
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Speaker 3: a platform here in New York, and if he puts
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Speaker 3: up similar numbers to what he did Milwaukee, or is
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Speaker 3: somehow even better, he is going to be a very
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Speaker 3: very rich man when it comes to free agency. Does
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Speaker 3: he get two hundred million, I don't know, but he
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Speaker 3: is set up to be the number two starting pitcher
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Speaker 3: available at free agency next year, not name Derek Scoogle.
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Speaker 3: So he's got everything in front of him right now.
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Speaker 3: And if you can end up doing that in New
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Speaker 3: York and also do that in the postseason as well. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: the sky's the limit for his future earnings.
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Speaker 2: All right, Robert, let's hit the season preview portion of
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Speaker 2: the conversation. So there's two topics we want to hit.
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Speaker 2: Decision makers under the most pressure heading into the season,
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Speaker 2: and then some of your surprise teams. Let's start with
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Speaker 2: the decision makers. Give us a name or two, and
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Speaker 2: then we'll follow up.
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Speaker 3: All right, sounds good to me. So let's start with
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Speaker 3: Brian Cashman here. He is running back majority of the
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Speaker 3: same team that he ended up having last year. I
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Speaker 3: mean there's some differences there. Obviously they lost some relievers,
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Speaker 3: but offensively, they retained Trent Grisham, which I think that
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Speaker 3: was kind of a head scratcher, giving him the qualifying offer,
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Speaker 3: and I kind of felt like it was a no
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Speaker 3: brainer for him to accept it. And then they obviously
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Speaker 3: brought back Cody Bellinger, which I thought was vital. I
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Speaker 3: don't like they won, like we're on ninety plus games,
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Speaker 3: I think ninety four games last year, so they gets
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Speaker 3: still a very talented team here for sure, But how
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Speaker 3: much better it is or how much better it can
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Speaker 3: be this year, I don't necessarily know. So I think
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Speaker 3: the pressure is gonna be on him to get this
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Speaker 3: thing right. I also think that falls on Aaron Boone
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Speaker 3: here as well, because some of the guys that they
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Speaker 3: ended up acquiring last year at the deadline, a guy
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Speaker 3: like Ryan McMahon, they're betting on him and some of
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Speaker 3: these other guys to be more comfortable in New York
11:20
Speaker 3: to end up having that experience from playing last year
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Speaker 3: allow them to hit their ground running this season. So
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Speaker 3: I think both of those guys are going to be
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Speaker 3: under the microscopt I feel like you always are if
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Speaker 3: you're in New York. That just comes with the territory.
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Speaker 3: And another one, I'll give you two more here. Craig
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Speaker 3: Breslo is another one. And like me saying that does
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Speaker 3: not mean that I think he's on the hot seat
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Speaker 3: by any means. I think he's done a good job there.
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Speaker 3: I think there's some things I don't agree with, but
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Speaker 3: the way that he's built around the pitching staff. I
11:49
Speaker 3: struggle to find many pitching staffs better than what they
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Speaker 3: have in Boston. But they were they were very serious
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Speaker 3: about retaining Alex Bregman watched him go to the Cubs
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Speaker 3: despite seeing his impact on the field, in the clubhouse.
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Speaker 3: They were interested in Bobachett. They had very strong interest
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Speaker 3: in bobashett I can confidently say that did not get him.
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Speaker 3: They had interest in Kyle Schwarber, but they were nowhere
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Speaker 3: close to anywhere close or they were nowhere close in
12:17
Speaker 3: the bidding for Shwarber there, and they end up getting
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Speaker 3: Wilson Contreras. They got Isaiah Kiner Filefa, they got Caleb
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Speaker 3: Durbin from the Brewers. So we'll see exactly how those
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Speaker 3: guys end up covering for the loss of Bregman and
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Speaker 3: not getting one of those big bombers by any means.
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Speaker 3: But I think that's gonna be something that a lot
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Speaker 3: of people are watching there in Boston. But again, their
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Speaker 3: pitching staff is gonna be able to cover up a bunch.
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Speaker 3: And the last one here is Ben Charrington. Because the
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Speaker 3: way they've spent this offseason, They've went out and got
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Speaker 3: Brandon Lowe, they got Ryan o her Marcelo Zuna addressed
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Speaker 3: the bullpen there as well, added some other guys. Playoffs
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Speaker 3: are now they should be the expectation here in Pittsburgh,
12:58
Speaker 3: considering just the overall state of that team. If they
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Speaker 3: don't make the postseason, I think there might end up
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Speaker 3: being some criticism there of Charrington, But that being said,
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Speaker 3: I'm still a huge believer in what they've done this offseason.
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Speaker 3: I think they've had one of the better off seasons
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Speaker 3: of any team in baseball, and they're going to be
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Speaker 3: better and I expect them to compete in that division
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Speaker 3: and compete for a wildcard spot. So those are the
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Speaker 3: three guys that I'm really watching here the most, and
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Speaker 3: for varying reasons.
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Speaker 5: Of course, Oh, Robert Bryan Cashmans never getting fired, so
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Speaker 5: you don't have to worry unless still he resigns. You
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Speaker 5: can take him off of this nothing's changing there. Craig
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Speaker 5: Breslo is a pitching guy. He brought in great pitching.
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Speaker 5: Their offense will be with their offenses, but I think
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Speaker 5: they still make the postseason.
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Speaker 4: That'll be enough to save him.
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Speaker 5: Ben Cherrington, for me, is the only one on this
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Speaker 5: list that you know, he's been there, what almost ten
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Speaker 5: years now, and they haven't even come close to making
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Speaker 5: the postseason. He was finally given some leeway to spend
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Speaker 5: money and so maybe he gets a little more post
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Speaker 5: you know, a little more heat if they don't make
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Speaker 5: the postseason. But still he wasn't given enough to that
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Speaker 5: in the National League to cover up the deficiencies they're
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Speaker 5: still going to have no matter how you know. Ryan Hurt,
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Speaker 5: nice player, Brandon Lowe, nice player.
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Speaker 4: Right.
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Speaker 5: Paul's scheme's great, obviously, but they still don't have enough
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Speaker 5: in my opinion, to compete in a tough National league.
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Speaker 5: The one that caught my eyes was John Schneider. John
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Speaker 5: Sneder went to the World Series last year. Why would
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Speaker 5: John Schneider be under pressure? He just got a contract
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Speaker 5: extension and he went to the World Series last year,
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Speaker 5: and this team is supposed predicted to be good if
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Speaker 5: they make the postseason and don't make a run to
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Speaker 5: the World Series. He shouldn't be under pressure. He's done
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Speaker 5: a nice job.
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Speaker 3: I feel like, no, he's totally done a nice job.
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Speaker 3: And I hope him or anyone who read that piece
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Speaker 3: didn't interpret that as him being in the hot seat,
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Speaker 3: especially after him getting an extension. But they were so
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Speaker 3: close last season, like they were inches away from winning
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Speaker 3: the World Series, and they're coming back this off or
14:49
Speaker 3: they're coming back this season. They obviously lost Bobaschet. They
14:53
Speaker 3: had some pretty key performances last year, especially from a
14:56
Speaker 3: guy like Ernie Clement, who really stepped up. They had
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Speaker 3: a nice off season, getting some pitching, getting Dylan Cees
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Speaker 3: as a headliner there. But when I say pressure, it's
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Speaker 3: trying to extract as much as much as they did
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Speaker 3: last year out of those guys and doing that again
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Speaker 3: this year. So, like, I think he's very capable of
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Speaker 3: doing that. I think he's going to do that. But
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Speaker 3: I think a lot of eyeballs are going to be
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Speaker 3: on the Blue Jays for doing that, because they are
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Speaker 3: set up better than most teams to get back to
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Speaker 3: the World Series, and I do believe they absolutely can.
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Speaker 3: I absolutely love the Blue Jays. But yeah, and obviously
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Speaker 3: the Blue Jays are very high on Schneider after extending him,
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Speaker 3: extending Ross Atkins too. So again, it's not me putting
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Speaker 3: pressure and saying that he's on the hot seat by
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Speaker 3: any means. I just yeah, I think it's going to
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Speaker 3: be a lot of people watching him and seeing if
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Speaker 3: you can get the most out of the team. Once again, all.
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Speaker 4: Right, I'm going to set an over under for you
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Speaker 4: for the season. One and a half managers fired by
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Speaker 4: September thirtieth, just because of how many Matt new managers
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Speaker 4: came in and the teams that you know, expectation blah
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Speaker 4: blah blah. One and a half managers fired over or
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Speaker 4: under by the end of this.
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Speaker 3: Season, I'll say, I'll say it over. There's always there's
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Speaker 3: always different change that happens during the or after the season.
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Speaker 3: I don't necessarily know what it could be like that
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Speaker 3: being set like, okay, this is I'm not saying that
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Speaker 3: he's going to get fired by any means, but I
16:23
Speaker 3: think a lot of people are gonna be watching a
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Speaker 3: guy like Tony Battello there in San Francisco. He is
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Speaker 3: obviously a first time manager here in San Francisco, well,
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Speaker 3: a first time major league manager. I should say. He's
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Speaker 3: got a very experienced coaching staff there in San Francisco.
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Speaker 3: But going from the collegiate game to the to the
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Speaker 3: major leagues is gonna be a huge adjustment for him.
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Speaker 3: I think a lot of people are watching to see
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Speaker 3: exactly how he does there. I think I think we'll
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Speaker 3: end up being fine. Especially having a guy like Ron Washington.
16:50
Speaker 3: I think that makes that transition a whole lot easier
16:53
Speaker 3: for him. But Buster Posey was betting big on Tony
16:56
Speaker 3: Battello there and a lot of eyeballs are gonna be
16:58
Speaker 3: on that one for sure.
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Speaker 2: Okay, Robert, let's go to surprise teams drop some for us.
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Speaker 4: What do you have give me?
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Speaker 3: I'm going with the A's. I'm not gonna go with
17:10
Speaker 3: the pirates here, but I'm going I'm going with the A's.
17:12
Speaker 3: I love what they've done offensively and building around that team,
17:17
Speaker 3: and they obviously were very aggressive and trying to extend
17:20
Speaker 3: different guys this offseason, Tyler sodor Strum, Jacob Wilson. They
17:23
Speaker 3: got those two deals done. They have been trying with
17:26
Speaker 3: some others obviously have not gotten them across the finish
17:30
Speaker 3: line here, Nick, Nick Kurtz would be if they could
17:33
Speaker 3: get that deal done, I think that'd be something they
17:35
Speaker 3: would be super excited about. I don't expect that to
17:39
Speaker 3: end up happening as of this point, And I've talked
17:43
Speaker 3: to people around the league, other agents who are not
17:45
Speaker 3: associated with this entire situation here, who said, if he
17:48
Speaker 3: waited on year to year and if you hit free
17:50
Speaker 3: agency at the trajectory that he's on right now, he
17:53
Speaker 3: could be looking at it like a Wan Soto type contract.
17:56
Speaker 3: Like That's how high people were across baseball are on
17:58
Speaker 3: Nick Kurtz. So I think between having him having or
18:02
Speaker 3: headlining your team and having some of these other young
18:05
Speaker 3: players there. Having Clark in the outfield patrolling the oftfield
18:09
Speaker 3: and catching basically everything out there is big. But do
18:11
Speaker 3: they have enough pitching to get through this entire season.
18:14
Speaker 3: I don't know, but I've been proven wrong before, but
18:17
Speaker 3: I think the A's finally have a really strong direction
18:21
Speaker 3: of the fact that they've committed to it and giving
18:23
Speaker 3: meaningful dollars to a lot of these players is a
18:25
Speaker 3: really good thing for them and also for baseball as well.
18:29
Speaker 4: Are the Reds considered a surprise team since they did
18:31
Speaker 4: make the playoffs next year? If somebody thinks they're going
18:35
Speaker 4: to make the playoffs even with Hunter Green out.
18:38
Speaker 3: I mean, I feel like a lot of people are
18:40
Speaker 3: underestimating them. So I would say maybe I would say,
18:43
Speaker 3: you know what, I'll go with.
18:43
Speaker 4: Yeah, I will.
18:44
Speaker 3: And I do like what the Reds have because they
18:46
Speaker 3: have that young Corey that they have. They brought back
18:49
Speaker 3: Gino Suarez, which I thought that was one of the
18:52
Speaker 3: best deals of the entire offseason. It came down to
18:54
Speaker 3: them and the Pirates got it for one year for
18:56
Speaker 3: fifteen million. I thought that was a super savvy move
18:58
Speaker 3: by that entire front office there and getting him back,
19:02
Speaker 3: and he wanted to be back in Cincinnati. It's a
19:04
Speaker 3: place is very comfortable in and they made a splash
19:07
Speaker 3: last year, and or they made a really nice run
19:11
Speaker 3: last year getting to the postseason. Having Frank ConA there managing,
19:15
Speaker 3: I think that really ends up raising the floor for them,
19:18
Speaker 3: and also just having another year under him is going
19:20
Speaker 3: to be a very good thing for them overall. So
19:22
Speaker 3: I am absolutely buying stock in the Reds. Despite Hunter
19:25
Speaker 3: Green being on the injured list. I think they are
19:27
Speaker 3: set up to be a pain in the butt for
19:31
Speaker 3: the NL Central but also just the National League. I
19:33
Speaker 3: think they have I think they're going to be one
19:37
Speaker 3: of the more fun teams this year to follow.
19:40
Speaker 2: You know what constitute surprise team AJ they made the playoffs.
19:44
Speaker 1: We did power rankings.
19:46
Speaker 2: Talking about another publication that put them at twenty two yesterday.
19:51
Speaker 2: So if you think they are the twenty second best team, Robert,
19:55
Speaker 2: you can watch it back later. If you missed it yesterday,
19:58
Speaker 2: it's a different spot. I wasn't fansided. You guys have
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Speaker 2: it in better shape over there.
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Speaker 5: Twenty two missing Green and Lodolo because Lodolo is hurt
20:07
Speaker 5: too now, so that's been a problem for him a
20:09
Speaker 5: lot in his career, So that hurts their chances a lot.
20:12
Speaker 5: And I know playoff chase is going to be close,
20:15
Speaker 5: so every game they miss is another chance to not
20:18
Speaker 5: make the postseason.
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Speaker 1: They made it by what one game?
20:21
Speaker 5: They made it basically a tiebreaker last year with the
20:23
Speaker 5: rights and the Mets collapsed.
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Speaker 2: Yep, okay, we shall see Robert good stuff. I We're
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Speaker 1: We love looking at wind totals, bet on jam futures.
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Speaker 2: Can we do it? Can we do all of them?
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Speaker 2: Can I run through it in like six minutes? Are
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Speaker 2: it NL West Dodgers one oh three and a half
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Speaker 2: and it'll be aj go, he says, under and then
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Speaker 2: crafts by him, and then I'll sighteen under Yankees over. Wait, wait,
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Speaker 2: we're just bouncing around here. Okay, fine, we're bouncing around
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Speaker 2: Yankees ninety point five. We're going from top Wins all
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Speaker 6: Yankees ninety point five over over Mets ninety point five
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Speaker 6: under under Mariners eighty nine point five over over Philly's
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Speaker 6: eighty nine and a half.
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Speaker 4: Over ninety over ninety two Cubs eighty eight and a
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Speaker 4: half over bad division.
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Speaker 2: Over Blue Jays eighty eight and a half over over
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Speaker 2: Blue Jay Sorry, Red Sox eighty seven and.
22:38
Speaker 4: A half over eighty eight under five hundred team.
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Speaker 2: I like when you say over eight like over hook
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Speaker 2: Astros eighty six and a half under under and then
22:52
Speaker 2: they have the braids at eighty six under Orioles eighty
22:56
Speaker 2: five and a half.
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Speaker 4: Five hundred team under under over five hundred but two
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Speaker 4: games eighty.
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Speaker 7: Four Tigers eighty five and a half over bad division
23:07
Speaker 7: over good picture was eighty four and a half over under.
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Speaker 2: Rangers eighty three and a half over over Padres eighty
23:20
Speaker 2: three and a half over under Royals eighty two and
23:25
Speaker 2: a half under over Giants eighty point five.
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Speaker 4: Eighty one over YEP five hundred.
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Speaker 1: Over Red's eighty.
23:37
Speaker 4: And a half too beat up under over.
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Speaker 1: Diamondbacks seventy nine point five even over crats.
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Speaker 4: Okay, under I didn't hear it, sorry.
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Speaker 1: Guardian seventy nine and a half.
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Speaker 5: I'm gonna say under just because I don't think I
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Speaker 5: think they finally catches up to them.
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Speaker 4: Okay, YEP division is too good under.
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Speaker 1: Pirates seventy eight point five under over.
24:11
Speaker 4: Not a pirates, Not a pirates guy. I'm not going
24:13
Speaker 4: to get to five hundred. You think t Bubba Chandler
24:17
Speaker 4: is an opportunity when the rookie of the year, if
24:19
Speaker 4: McLean falters it all?
24:21
Speaker 1: What about the Rays at seventy six point.
24:23
Speaker 4: Five under over seventy seven?
24:31
Speaker 1: I know what agent is gonna say for this one,
24:33
Speaker 1: seventy five over five.
24:35
Speaker 4: Yes, I'll just take the over on runs the whole year,
24:38
Speaker 4: but yeah, I'm gonna go over.
24:40
Speaker 1: They're not going to go over. May Minnesota seventy two
24:43
Speaker 1: and a half under.
24:45
Speaker 4: Maybe one of the easiest unders.
24:49
Speaker 1: Marlin's seventy two point five.
24:50
Speaker 4: Over seventy five to seventy eight yep, because they get
24:54
Speaker 4: to play in the Nationals over.
24:56
Speaker 2: Okay, last run here the big boys, the Angels seventy
25:00
Speaker 2: point five.
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Speaker 4: Over seventy two under sixty seven. Just wanted to say it.
25:10
Speaker 2: The Cardinals sixty nine point five, Giggody crats, he went.
25:15
Speaker 4: Under under big Giggoity.
25:18
Speaker 2: White Sox sixty seven and a half over. I think
25:21
Speaker 2: that's an easy over.
25:21
Speaker 4: That's an easy over, right. I really like that over.
25:24
Speaker 4: I like that over Carlson Montgomery is gonna hit thirty Dingers.
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Speaker 1: Nationals at sixty five point five.
25:31
Speaker 4: Under to lose one hundred So far under. I want
25:34
Speaker 4: to buy that down. It's so far under.
25:37
Speaker 3: M M.
25:38
Speaker 4: Yeah.
25:38
Speaker 2: Some of these are the fun ones in terms of
25:40
Speaker 2: where you should actually be placing the Rockies at fifty
25:44
Speaker 2: five point five.
25:46
Speaker 5: I'm gonna say over, just because I never want to
25:48
Speaker 5: see a team lose one hundred and seven games.
25:50
Speaker 1: I also believe the over on that one.
25:53
Speaker 4: It's so hard to lose one hundred and seven games. Yeah,
25:59
Speaker 4: And I'm gonna say they lose one hundred and six games,
26:03
Speaker 4: so I guess I'll go over.
26:05
Speaker 1: They signed some veteran pitchers that should help fill some innings.
26:09
Speaker 4: No, they have a new front office. They have it's
26:12
Speaker 4: just so hard. Seven games.
26:14
Speaker 1: My point is the extra so hard, Like especially.
26:17
Speaker 5: They play eighty one at Corps, they'll mixing some wins
26:19
Speaker 5: they shouldn't have gotten.
26:21
Speaker 1: They've picked at the top of the draft forever. There's
26:24
Speaker 1: going to be some.
26:25
Speaker 4: That hit Tobar is a good player, by the way.
26:29
Speaker 1: To bar Is, and I think that he got to
26:31
Speaker 1: play in some meaningful games.
26:32
Speaker 4: And you're like, Cat is a good player.
26:35
Speaker 1: Yes he is too, so all right, we did it.
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