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Fair Territory: Skubal trade talk update, Trade Deadline Buyers & Sellers, Harper's front office beef? · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to the Thursday edition of Fair Territory. I'm
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Speaker 1: Ken Rosenthal here with my friend Alana Rizzo, and it
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Speaker 1: is trade time. It is deadline time. We had a
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Speaker 1: deal last night. Interesting deal for the Texas Rangers. They
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Speaker 1: get the reliever Chase Silseth and the catcher Logan O
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Speaker 1: Hoppy for prospect who was pretty much unknown, Angel Arendondo.
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Speaker 1: Didn't appear on any top list. Doesn't mean he can't play.
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Speaker 1: We'll see. But Alana, we've got a lot to get
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Speaker 1: to today. We've got Trek Scouble, We've got the Phillies mess.
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Speaker 1: We've got a ton of things that we need to discuss.
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Speaker 2: And one of the things Ken, good to be with
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Speaker 2: you is always on this Thursday. Is one of the
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Speaker 2: things to discuss is why the Tigers decided to call
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Speaker 2: up top prospect and outfielder of Max Clark.
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Speaker 3: Tell me more about him.
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Speaker 1: Well, this was really interesting, Alana. He's one of the
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Speaker 1: top prospects in the game. And when I first heard
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Speaker 1: the news, my impression was, Okay, they're gonna cushion the
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Speaker 1: blow here. So when they start trading off guys, at
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Speaker 1: least their fans can get excited about Max Clark coming
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Speaker 1: to the majors. But what seems to me that is
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Speaker 1: going on here is that they've got a potential injury
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Speaker 1: with Matt Verling in center. He might be an il,
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Speaker 1: might not be. They've got Javi or Baiaz they can
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Speaker 1: play in center, but they like to use him in
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Speaker 1: the infield too. So they see Clark as one of
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Speaker 1: the top prospects in the game. They see him as
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Speaker 1: a guy who can help them right now. What's curious
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Speaker 1: is he was not even Rule five eligible. He doesn't
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Speaker 1: have to be added to the forty man roster. But
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Speaker 1: at that same time, it seemed like he was the
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Speaker 1: kind of guy who was inevitably going to be called
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Speaker 1: up at some point. So they're thinking, is why do
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Speaker 1: it now? I'm told it's not related to the deadline.
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Speaker 1: I guess you could make that case. But if you
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Speaker 1: start trading off guys and you start getting controllable pieces
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Speaker 1: back too, which maybe they can do in a schooble trade,
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Speaker 1: the argument would be, look, we're different, we're pretend weaker,
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Speaker 1: but we're still going to try to get a playoff spot.
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Speaker 2: Ken When you think about the Detroit Tigers on top
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Speaker 2: of everyone's mind right now, is Tarek Schouble, no disrespect,
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Speaker 2: it is not Max Clark. But everything going on, the
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Speaker 2: standing ovation, the emotions coming off of the hill yesterday
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Speaker 2: for Trek Schouble and perhaps what is his last start
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Speaker 2: as a Tiger, everything seems to be pointing to a trade.
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Speaker 3: Is that fair?
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Speaker 1: That is entirely fair, And there's always a percentage chance
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Speaker 1: that the Tigers don't get what they want and don't
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Speaker 1: move him. I have a really hard time believing that's
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Speaker 1: going to be the case. And given the way the
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Speaker 1: team is played, you can't count on this club being
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Speaker 1: a World Series type contender. Yesterday was a classic example
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Speaker 1: kind of the season. In summary, bullpenblow is a seven
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Speaker 1: to nothing lead after Schoolble was brilliant again and the
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Speaker 1: Tigers just cannot get out of their way. The team
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Speaker 1: they played, the Oriols in a similar circumstance, often cannot
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Speaker 1: get out of their way. Someone had to win that
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Speaker 1: game yesterday. But with Scooble, what you have are the
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Speaker 1: Milwaukee Brewers, the Tampa Bay Rays, the Los Angeles Dodgers,
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Speaker 1: potentially the New York Yankees, potentially the Chicago Cubs. Actually.
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Speaker 1: Patrick Mooney of The Athletic writing this morning that the
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Speaker 1: Cubs are in on this. You have just so much
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Speaker 1: demand and a great possibility of doing something that will
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Speaker 1: help your team now and in the future. And that
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Speaker 1: is my expectation of what the Tigers will do.
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Speaker 2: And certainly the Detroit Tigers want everybody to be in
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Speaker 2: on Tarrek's school, not just the Cubs. And as you
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Speaker 2: mentioned Patrick Mooney saying that the Cubs are emerging as
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Speaker 2: a candidate. The Dodgers, as we've talked about, how they
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Speaker 2: have the player talent to get it done, but will
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Speaker 2: they need to as Blake Snell and Tyler glasnow are
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Speaker 2: making their ways back from injury. Does Terrek's schooble make
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Speaker 2: sense for la as a rental.
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Speaker 1: I wrote about this yesterday, Alana, and the truthful answer
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Speaker 1: there is only the Dodgers know. We don't know exactly
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Speaker 1: what is going on with show Hey, the knee, the biceps.
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Speaker 1: They say he's going to pitch again. You have to
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Speaker 1: take them at their word until he doesn't. But at
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Speaker 1: the same time, as I wrote, this is what they're
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Speaker 1: going to say if there's even a point oh one
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Speaker 1: chance that he won't pitch again, They're never going to
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Speaker 1: admit it, because of course that would compromise leverage in
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Speaker 1: any trade for a starting pitcher, whether it's Turrek Scubel
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Speaker 1: or even someone like a Clay Holmes. So there's a
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Speaker 1: bit of mystery there. There's always going to be mystery
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Speaker 1: with the health of Snell and Glass now because those
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Speaker 1: guys don't stay healthy. And then with Show, Hey, yes,
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Speaker 1: the anticipation is he will pitch again, But do we
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Speaker 1: know this for sure. We don't know that for sure.
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Speaker 1: So they might be more of a factor for schoolbl
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Speaker 1: than previously thought. And of all the teams, they have
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Speaker 1: not just a deep farm system, because the Brewers have
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Speaker 1: that and the Rays have that, and even the Braves
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Speaker 1: arguably have that. They have the financial wherewithal, and they
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Speaker 1: have an unusual motivation, the idea of a three p
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Speaker 1: Now the Rays and Brewers have never won a World Series.
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Speaker 1: That's motivation. But at the same time, the Dodgers, as
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Speaker 1: we've seen, will flex, will bully the rest of the league,
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Speaker 1: and I anticipate that that is going to be a
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Speaker 1: real possibility.
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Speaker 2: Here. You had mentioned the Brewers, Ken they're in the mix,
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Speaker 2: the Braves there in the mix.
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Speaker 3: Do the Brewers make the most sense?
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Speaker 2: A rotation headed by Trek Scooble, them Is and Jacob Izarowski.
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Speaker 2: A healthy Kyle Harrison that could be tough to beat.
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Speaker 2: The Brewers are the real deal, certainly leading the NL Central,
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Speaker 2: always a perennial contender. They just need to get further
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Speaker 2: into the postseason.
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Speaker 1: They've always made San Salana. Now the question for the
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Speaker 1: Brewers and the question for the Rays. And you can
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Speaker 1: make the same argument with the Rays. Rasmussen, Martinez, McClanahan
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Speaker 1: plus Schooble, that's pretty good. The question for both these
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Speaker 1: teams is for a rental, would they be link to
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Speaker 1: trade big prospects from their system? And in the Brewers case,
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Speaker 1: they have depth in their system beyond most teams. They
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Speaker 1: have the number one prospect in the game, Hazus Monday.
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Speaker 1: He's not going to go in a Schoobal deal, but
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Speaker 1: they have players behind him. They are backed up pretty
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Speaker 1: good with prospects. The Rays maybe not quite as deep,
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Speaker 1: but they've got a good system too. The question is
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Speaker 1: would they do it now. Historically the Rays have played
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Speaker 1: on guys like this. They tried to get Otani back
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Speaker 1: in twenty three. The Brewers don't really like trading for rentals.
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Speaker 1: It's not their thing. You can make the case, and
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Speaker 1: I have made the case that this should be C. C.
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Speaker 1: Sabbatia Part two, where you make that deal and you
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Speaker 1: take your shot. I just don't know if ultimately they
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Speaker 1: will have the stomach for it. Maybe they will, and
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Speaker 1: good for them if they do. Same for the Rays,
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Speaker 1: but it's a little bit of a different equation with
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Speaker 1: those teams, and I just don't know that arding with
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Speaker 1: the premium young talent it's going to take, they're going
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Speaker 1: to have enough of an appetite for it in the end.
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Speaker 2: Ken, looking at our chat right now, Love's eighty six
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Speaker 2: ninety six, seems to think the Braves don't trade for rentals.
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Speaker 2: They don't think they can resign. Not happening, So that
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Speaker 2: being said, to be clear, this will be a rental.
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Speaker 2: I believe he is a Scott Boris client, Trek scooble Is,
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Speaker 2: and Scott Boris will always take his players to free agency.
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Speaker 2: This is just for August, September, October and hopefully longer
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Speaker 2: into the postseason.
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Speaker 1: No question, And the Braves historically have not done that.
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Speaker 1: And you can't assume with Scott Boris as Schoobls agent
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Speaker 1: that you'll have an inside track on resigning him. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: it would help you get him comfortable in your environment.
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Speaker 1: But in the end, it comes down the money, money, money,
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Speaker 1: and that's it. So I understand the argument that person
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Speaker 1: is making. But the Braves are going to be in
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Speaker 1: this mix and they're going to try like these other
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Speaker 1: teams are going to try. Now, maybe they won't have
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Speaker 1: the stomach for it in the end, but certainly when
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Speaker 2: deadline conversation continues. Let's start with the Philadelphia Phillies, Ken,
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Speaker 2: and we'll get into the whole Bryce Harper and Don
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Speaker 2: Manningly thing in a moment. But are the Phillies another
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Speaker 2: team in the mix for the services of Teik Schooble.
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Speaker 1: I am quite certain Dave Dombrowski would love to get
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Speaker 1: his hands on Schooble. I just don't see the Phillies
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Speaker 1: having enough to do it. And they have other needs
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Speaker 1: to particularly in their outfield and bullpen. So this is
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Speaker 1: not a team with a great farm system. I know
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Speaker 1: Dombrowski told me last week. Teams want our players. I'm
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Speaker 1: sure they do, but teams want other clubs players more.
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Speaker 1: I'm talking about prospects. So I don't see them being
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Speaker 1: a serious player for Schooble.
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Speaker 2: All right, Ken, So if there is any team in
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Speaker 2: the National League that gets Schooble, are they automatically the
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Speaker 2: favorite in the NL? Or does that always belong to
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Speaker 2: the Dodgers, just because of the pedigree and their current roster.
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Speaker 1: I would still say the Dodgers would be the favorite.
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Speaker 1: But if the Brewers got him, or the Braves for
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Speaker 1: that matter, or the Cubs, they'd be quite interesting as
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Speaker 1: a threat, and that would be something that would be
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Speaker 1: a potential game changer in the National League. So yeah,
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Speaker 1: that would change the odds considerably. And if the Dodgers
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Speaker 1: get him, obviously their odds go up.
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Speaker 2: To no question, he makes any team better, regardless of
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Speaker 2: what league he ends up being in. Let's talk again
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Speaker 2: about the Bryce Harper and Don Mattingly situation. There was
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Speaker 2: a quote in part of Bryce Harper saying, I think
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Speaker 2: we need some help. Maddingly then responded, when you say
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Speaker 2: something about our team, then you're saying something about one
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Speaker 2: of our players that you don't like. Ken, What should
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Speaker 2: we make of this?
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Speaker 1: All right? A lota? First of all, this goes back
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Speaker 1: to the end of last season when Dave Dombrowski kind
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Speaker 1: of called out Bryce Harper challenged said he's still a
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Speaker 1: really good player, but he did not have an elite season,
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Speaker 1: and we'll see if he can become a lead again.
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Speaker 1: I'm paraphrasing. Harper of course heard that was not happy
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Speaker 1: about it. And when he said the other day we
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Speaker 1: need help. To me that was revenge. Might be a
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Speaker 1: strong word, but that was his pushback. And that's where
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Speaker 1: this whole thing kind of started. That's the genesis of
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Speaker 1: it now. Maddingly calling out Bryce Harper for what he said.
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Speaker 1: That was interesting too. One of the things Mattingly said
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Speaker 1: is players always think they can spend the team's money
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Speaker 1: something to that effect. Well, who is the general manager
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Speaker 1: of the Phillies under Dave Debrowski. Maddingly's done, Preston Mattingly.
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Speaker 1: So this whole saga with the Phillies, it has turned
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Speaker 1: into something of a soap opera. They're not playing well
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Speaker 1: right now, and I expect Dave Dombrowski is going to
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Speaker 1: go out and get them help. But this simmering thing
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Speaker 1: between Dombrowski and Harper, as Matt gil wrote today in
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Speaker 1: The Athletic, at some point they've got to work it out.
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Speaker 1: It's not a healthy thing for the franchise.
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Speaker 2: So let me ask you this, then, Ken, what do
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Speaker 2: the Phillies need to do to improve? Because the one
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Speaker 2: thing out of all of this that I take away
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Speaker 2: is what do they need to do to solidify a
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Speaker 2: postseason spot and get deeper into the postseason.
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Speaker 1: Well, the outfield is the principal area that they would
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Speaker 1: need to address. Their outfield is performing basically a historically
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Speaker 1: low level for their franchise, and that's not good. So
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Speaker 1: the bat in the outfield would be number one, probably
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Speaker 1: right handed. Beyond that, the loss of Brad Keller certainly
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Speaker 1: hurt their bullpen. They could use another reliever and maybe
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Speaker 1: even a back end starter because they don't know what
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Speaker 1: Andrew Painter might be giving them if they bring him
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Speaker 1: back from Triple A. They have had an issue with
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Speaker 1: the number five spot all season. To me, that's not
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Speaker 1: as big a priority because in the postseason you're not
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Speaker 1: going to use a number five starter. But you could
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Speaker 1: look at it this way too. Let's say you go
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Speaker 1: out and get a quality starter better than a number five,
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Speaker 1: then in the postseason you can put one of your starters,
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Speaker 1: probably Lozardo, in the bullpen and address the bullpen that way.
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Speaker 1: So that is an avenue that the Phillies could pursue
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Speaker 1: beyond simply kind of the paint by number. We need
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Speaker 1: a nowfielder, we need a bullpen gue they could get
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Speaker 1: creative and look for that quality starting pitcher as well.
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Speaker 2: All right, switching from the Phillies to a team in
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Speaker 2: the American League and the Boston Red Sox, unlucky for
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Speaker 2: Curtis Mead just got over there. They traded Connolly early away.
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Speaker 2: Curtis Mead injured after just one game, fractured rez stepper
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Speaker 2: he was hit by a pitch. So once again the
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Speaker 2: Red Sox need to fill the shortstop void. Now, Trevor
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Speaker 2: Story is due to come back, but that may not
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Speaker 2: be enough. You don't know what you're going to get
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Speaker 2: coming off of the il, and he hasn't been that
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Speaker 2: productive this season.
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Speaker 3: Where do the Red Sox go from here?
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Speaker 1: They do need another infielder, and it is a shame
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Speaker 1: what happened with me awful really first game with his
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Speaker 1: new team and he gets injured. I'm not sure exactly
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Speaker 1: how the Red Sox are going to come out of this,
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Speaker 1: what they're going to come out of it with, but
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Speaker 1: it seems like they're going to do something for sure,
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Speaker 1: and there are infielders out there. Miami's got a few
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Speaker 1: for starters. Zach Netto with the Angels, CJ Abrams with
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Speaker 1: the Nationals. All these guys could be in play now
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Speaker 1: if they got a shortstop, If that was what they
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Speaker 1: settled on. It becomes a bit of a question with story.
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Speaker 1: Who has another year left after this year? But I'm
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Speaker 1: not sure they can worry about that right now. Offensively,
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Speaker 1: they're struggling a bit and they need a little bit
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Speaker 1: of a boost the books that Mead was intended to
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Speaker 1: give them, So I expect them to still be active
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Speaker 1: and maybe quite interesting with what they do, no question
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Speaker 1: about that.
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Speaker 2: What a weird couple of weeks or three weeks that
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Speaker 2: has been for the Boston Red Sox. Okay, a team
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Speaker 2: not named you know, the Tigers. What are the teams
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Speaker 2: to watch or who should we be paying attention to
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Speaker 2: between now and the six pm deadline the trade deadline
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Speaker 2: on Monday.
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Speaker 1: Honestly a lot. I could list all thirty, but let's
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Speaker 1: start with the Padres. The Padres are always a team
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Speaker 1: to watch and is quite interesting what is going on
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Speaker 1: with them. They've won five straight now, granted is over
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Speaker 1: a struggling Miami team in Colorado, but suddenly after jumping
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Speaker 1: four teams, they're only a game and a half out
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Speaker 1: in the wildcard race. So all this talk of Mason
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Speaker 1: Miller and Adrian Morroyhan getting traded could happen, particularly Moray
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Speaker 1: Hone's case because he's a potential free agent. But aj
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Speaker 1: Preller what governs him always is an intense desire to win.
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Speaker 1: He's not going backwards. So under these circumstances, while they
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Speaker 1: are entertaining everything, as all teams do at this time
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Speaker 1: of year, it's becoming increasingly difficult to see them trading
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Speaker 1: the best closer in the game when they are finally
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Speaker 1: playing like the team that they envisioned from the start
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Speaker 1: of the season. So aj Preller always someone to watch
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Speaker 1: in these circumstances. We see this every single deadline. Seattle
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Speaker 1: Mariners another team that is quite interesting. Now I've written
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Speaker 1: about the possibility of them trading a starting pitcher. It
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Speaker 1: could be Emerson Hancock, could be Louis Castillo. They want
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Speaker 1: to get a right handed bat, they want to get
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Speaker 1: a leverage reliever, and they have not played well at all.
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Speaker 1: It's almost as if they don't justify much further investment.
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Speaker 1: But they're not going to give up. At a time
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Speaker 1: when they fall into third place in the NL West,
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Speaker 1: behind both the Rangers and Astros, They're still in the mix,
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Speaker 1: still two and a half out in both the division
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Speaker 1: and wildcard races. And they've put a lot into this team.
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Speaker 1: But that is a GM right now, a president base
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Speaker 1: co Operations Jerry Depoto, who is under some pressure to
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Speaker 1: kind of fix this thing. They fired their third hitting coach,
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Speaker 1: the number three hitting coach that didn't get it done.
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Speaker 1: So that's going to be an interesting team to watch,
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Speaker 1: and of course the Dodgers are always a fascinating club
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Speaker 1: to observe. Will they do something big or will they
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Speaker 1: settle for smaller moves? Eric Lower really well again last night.
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Speaker 1: He could be traded. Alex call could be traded. They
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Speaker 1: have some excess on the major league roster with TK
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Speaker 1: coming back and with the pitching that they have. So
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Speaker 1: those are just three teams. We could talk, of course,
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Speaker 1: all night and all day about each of these clubs
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Speaker 1: because at the deadline it's the last transactional period until
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Speaker 1: the offseason, and that's why it is so hectic.
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Speaker 2: What's crazy too, if you look at the al Wes
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Speaker 2: that you were just talking about, Ken, only the Seattle
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Speaker 2: Mariners have a positive run differential at plus seven.
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Speaker 3: That's it, just plus seven.
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Speaker 2: Everybody else is negative in terms of runs scored versus
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Speaker 2: runs given up. All Right, as we stand here just
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Speaker 2: a few days away from the trade deadline, what is
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Speaker 2: the most up to date unofficial, of course, list of
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Speaker 2: deadline sellers that have the talent to move. These are
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Speaker 2: definitive sellers of guys that you know are going to
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Speaker 2: certainly not be there after August third.
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Speaker 1: All right, the Angels are top of the list. They've
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Speaker 1: got They've got Soriano, they've got Netto. They made a
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Speaker 1: trade last night. As I wrote today, how far will
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Speaker 1: John Mosela go as interim GM. It's one of the
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Speaker 1: fascinating questions of this deadline. San Francisco Giants, we know
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Speaker 1: they're selling, Luisa Ryes, Robbie Ray, the Mets. I've set
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Speaker 1: the over under it's six trades for them. It could
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Speaker 1: be more. They've got a number of expiring contracts. Freddy Peralta,
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Speaker 1: Clay Holmes, aj Minter Brooks, Raley, Tyrone Taylor, on and
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Speaker 1: on and on, Luise Robert Jr. The Blue Jays. Someone
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Speaker 1: mentioned to me this morning, if they have a good
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Speaker 1: weekend against the Cardinals, would they really sell? I guess
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Speaker 1: that remains to be seen. Five and a half games
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Speaker 1: back in the wildcard race the Royals, but they seem
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Speaker 1: mostly intent on trading guys on expiring contracts, not Michael
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Speaker 1: waka the Rockies. I've written about Hunter Goodman quite a bit,
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Speaker 1: and the Cincinnati Reds wrote about them today as well.
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Speaker 1: They're getting hit on Hunter green quite a bit. Now
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Speaker 1: They've got a number of potential free agents that they
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Speaker 1: are going to move. Those guys will bring much of
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Speaker 1: an impact back Hunter green Wood.
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Speaker 3: That's a funny conversation.
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Speaker 2: As I look in our chat too, somebody was asking
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Speaker 2: if they should hold off on the Hunter Goodman Rockies jersey.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think you should.
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Speaker 2: I don't know that that Hunter Goodman is going to
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Speaker 2: be in a Rockies uniform come August fourth. All right,
20:16
Speaker 2: much more to come here on Fair Territory with Ken Rosenthal,
20:20
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Speaker 2: baseball the way it should be covered. Okay, Grill and
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Speaker 2: Ken is coming up, but let's preview Ken's Saturday game
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Speaker 2: on Fox with it is streaming now. Now, Ken, you
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Speaker 2: are going to be doing Yankees at Cubs on Saturday
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Speaker 2: on Fox. This is interesting though, because you are so
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Speaker 2: locked in on the trade deadline, as you have been
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Speaker 2: for quite some time, but you still are responsible for
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Speaker 2: doing the game on Saturday. How do you prepare for both?
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Speaker 2: What takes your interest?
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Speaker 1: Well, the deadline takes priority now, and the reason for that,
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Speaker 1: obviously is that's what everyone wants to talk about, what
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Speaker 1: everyone wants to know about. That said, we are broadcasting
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Speaker 1: a game now. Usually when I am part of a broadcast,
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Speaker 1: I'll prepare beforehand, maybe fifteen to twenty topics solely related
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Speaker 1: to those two teams, and we'll pick some of them
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Speaker 1: during the broadcast. Maybe we'll pick none of them and
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Speaker 1: talk about entirely other things. But that's my prep for
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Speaker 1: this game. I'm not going to do that much, or
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Speaker 1: at least to that extent, maybe something on each of
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Speaker 1: the starting pitchers. I'll have already something like that. We'll
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Speaker 1: be deadline focused. We'll be deadline focused on the Yankees
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Speaker 1: and Cubs and everything else going on in the sport.
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Speaker 1: I imagine it's quite possible a trade or two will
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Speaker 1: happen during the broadcast, and hopefully I'll be ready to
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Speaker 1: talk about that. So it's different for sure, doing a
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Speaker 1: broadcast with the deadline two days away. Not the most
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Speaker 1: comfortable feeling for me.
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Speaker 3: But we're going to do it all right.
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Speaker 2: And as I said in our production meeting, just keep
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Speaker 2: your head on a swivel, because I don't want you just,
22:22
Speaker 2: you know, looking into your phone and then getting getting
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23:03
Speaker 2: for Ken Rosenthal on this episode of Grill and Ken.
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Speaker 2: I have seen a lot of great questions already in
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Speaker 2: the chat marvisl ten Ken, do you agree with Jim
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Speaker 2: Bowden that the Red Sox should stay on the phone
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Speaker 2: with moseay Lock until they get zach Netto.
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Speaker 1: I don't agree with that, and certainly there are other
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Speaker 1: options as well. Zach Nanto is an interesting player, but
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Speaker 1: it's not like he's Troy Tilowitzky and his prime To
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Speaker 1: give one example of a deadline shortstop deal, zach Netto,
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Speaker 1: I'm not even sure he will be moved. And the
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Speaker 1: Red Sox, I know, I see this among their fans
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Speaker 1: and their bloggers. Oh my gosh, we can't trade Franklin Aarius.
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Speaker 1: He's our number one prospect. Well, I will say this
23:47
Speaker 1: about the Red Sox and their prospects. Kristin Campbell couldn't
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Speaker 1: trade him, heaven forbid. Ryan Bao couldn't trade him heaven forbid.
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Speaker 1: And I can give you other examples as well. Tristan
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Speaker 1: Cassis slow down. Now, Harrius is really highly regarded of
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Speaker 1: course and looks to be another good major league player.
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Speaker 1: But again Marcelo Mayer another one. Has he panned out yet? No,
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Speaker 1: So for the right player, I would have Franklin Arius
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Speaker 1: in play. That's my point here.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, no doubt about that.
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Speaker 2: Wicked Better fifty four question for you, Ken, who is
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Speaker 2: one player that you could see being traded that nobody
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Speaker 2: saw coming O'Neil Cruz, Vinny P, Tyler or Vivp obviously
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Speaker 2: past Quentino, Tyler, Soderstrom just to name a few, or
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Speaker 2: somebody else altogether.
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Speaker 3: No putting you on the spot there, right, no big deal.
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Speaker 1: Wicked Better is asking the right question. But if I
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Speaker 1: had an idea of who this player might be, then
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Speaker 1: we would see it coming. So I don't know who
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Speaker 1: that might be. Now. What I want to mention here, though,
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Speaker 1: is what that person wicked Better is suggesting is a
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Speaker 1: very good point. Something is going to hap And I
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Speaker 1: say this every year. You guys probably get tired of
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Speaker 1: me saying it. Something is going to happen. It's going
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Speaker 1: to make our head spin. Some player we don't anticipate
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Speaker 1: getting moved is going to get moved. And I'm not
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Speaker 1: going to make any predictions. My job is to report,
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Speaker 1: not make predictions. But that is a safe thing to
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Speaker 1: say something's going to happen, that's going.
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Speaker 2: To shock us, all right, Daniel Doctor, nineteen nineteen with
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Speaker 2: the super chat, we appreciate that very much. What are
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Speaker 2: the biggest differences that you notice a difference in covering
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Speaker 2: teams daily as a beat reporter versus now covering them nationally.
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Speaker 1: Well, it's been a long time since I was a
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Speaker 1: beat as a beat reporter from nineteen eighty seven to
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Speaker 1: ninety covering the Baltimore Orioles for a paper that no
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Speaker 1: longer exists, the Baltimore Evening Sun. But generally speaking, I
25:47
Speaker 1: can answer this. When you're a beat reporter, you're focused
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Speaker 1: on your team and everything surrounding your team, from the
25:54
Speaker 1: major league club to the farm system, anything and everything
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Speaker 1: that revolves around your team, and that is your one
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Speaker 1: thousand percent attention. It's on that. As a national reporter,
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Speaker 1: I'm responsible for all thirty and kind of knowing what
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Speaker 1: is going on with all thirty. Now, some teams I'm
26:13
Speaker 1: a stronger on than others. You're not going to write
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Speaker 1: about certain teams as much as others either, But that's
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Speaker 1: the biggest difference it's this broader perspective that you have
26:22
Speaker 1: to have as opposed to the narrow. Hey man, I'm
26:26
Speaker 1: locked in on every single detail of what's going on
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Speaker 1: with this club.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, very different muscles that you are flexing and exercising,
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Speaker 2: depending upon if you are regional versus national. Final question
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Speaker 2: here on Grill and Ken Dan Breen eighty two ninety nine.
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Speaker 2: Does school will have to be the first domino to
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Speaker 2: fall before other small deals get done? Scott Harris seems
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Speaker 2: to always wait until the last second to deal.
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Speaker 1: Well, it's a good question because a lot of times
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Speaker 1: you will hear both in free agency and at trade
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Speaker 1: time at the deadline, Oh, this guy's holding up the
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Speaker 1: whole market. We can't have other trades until this guy
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Speaker 1: gets moved. And to some extent, I am sure that
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Speaker 1: dynamic will be in play with Scooble. But Scott Harris
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Speaker 1: has every right to wait. As long as he wants
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Speaker 1: to make this trade. He can make it at three
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Speaker 1: point fifty nine whatever. The deadline is five point fifty
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Speaker 1: nine Eastern on Monday, and it's just too bad that
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Speaker 1: he's got to do what's best for his team and
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Speaker 1: the other teams at some point the team's trading other
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Speaker 1: starting pitchers, the Peraltas, the Robbie Rays, all of the
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Speaker 1: guys you've heard in the mix. They've got to act.
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Speaker 1: And yeah, certainly Scooba will complicate it because the team's
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Speaker 1: pursuing him, will be focused on him. But at some time,
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Speaker 1: and the beauty of the deadline is that at some
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Speaker 1: point everyone's got to make a decision and all the
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Speaker 1: posturing and all the bs has to stop.
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Speaker 3: Well, just make sure your fax machines are working. People.
27:52
Speaker 3: If you're old enough like us, you understand that joke.
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Speaker 3: All right, that's it for us.
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Speaker 2: Fair Territory with Ken Rosenthal. We appreciate you guys being here.
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Speaker 2: Foul Territories coming up next. A. J. Pierzinski, Eric Kratz,
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Speaker 2: and Scott Brown, of course, Hodey Castillo, Jim Duquette, Scott Spiezio.
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Speaker 3: Joining the show.
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Speaker 2: Ken is back on Tuesday, remember, guys, Tuesday, with all
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Speaker 2: the trade deadline reactions, we appreciate you being here.
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Speaker 1: Ken.
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Speaker 3: Good luck, We'll see you next time.
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Speaker 1: Thanks A Lota