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Ken Rosenthal: Red Sox want Neto, Needs for White Sox, Rangers & M’s + Brewers POBO Matt Arnold joins · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: Here is Let's welcome our senior senior insider, Ken Rosenthal.
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Speaker 1: Let's get right into your latest colum about zach Neetto.
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Speaker 1: What do you have on him from the Red Sox,
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Speaker 1: KENNI is he gonna actually get traded?
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Speaker 2: First of all, Aj, this little fella is happy to
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Speaker 2: be joining you. And as for zach Netto, I don't
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Speaker 2: know if he's getting traded. The story that I wrote
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Speaker 2: with Bill Salmon yesterday was about how the Red Sox
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Speaker 2: had interested in him last offseason, which I was unaware of,
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Speaker 2: and they have renewed interest in him right now at
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Speaker 2: the trade deadline. It's really interesting. They've put together this
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Speaker 2: incredible run twenty and three fifteen straight at one point
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Speaker 2: with basically a patchwork middle infield. They've got two guys
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Speaker 2: playing second base, they've got two guys playing shortstop, and
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Speaker 2: it's working for them. These are basically utility players, and
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Speaker 2: yet it's been pretty good.
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Speaker 3: Now.
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Speaker 2: Trevor story's coming back. At some point, he's going to
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Speaker 2: get in a rehab assignment and then at that point
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Speaker 2: we'll see where they are. But middle infield is a
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Speaker 2: focus for them. Zach Netto is out there. He's a
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Speaker 2: guy they're interested in.
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Speaker 4: We've had these conversations earlier in the program. Talk to
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Speaker 4: us a little about the Angels. They're in a weird
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Speaker 4: little predicament here, could be good, could be get bad.
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Speaker 3: New management.
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Speaker 4: Talk to me about what you think they are going
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Speaker 4: to do with all these guys that you know are
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Speaker 4: pretty much pieces right now.
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Speaker 3: You know they're not making the playoffs.
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Speaker 4: Do you think they're gonna start selling or do you
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Speaker 4: think it's going to be the same old story.
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Speaker 3: Try and keep them in hope for the best.
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Speaker 2: Todd, I think I've said this on the program before,
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Speaker 2: but you're asking me to read the mind of Ardi Moreno,
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Speaker 2: and that is something that is impossible to do. Now.
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Speaker 2: What we're hearing out of that camp is that John Mizzelok,
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Speaker 2: the new interim GM, is going to have more leeway
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Speaker 2: than Perry Manazien did. Heard it all before out of
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Speaker 2: the Angels. So until I see Trariot's happen and things happen,
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Speaker 2: will withhold judgment. Now. I will say this. I did
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Speaker 2: an interview with Mizaelac right after he took over, and
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Speaker 2: he said, this team does not need to rebuild. This
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Speaker 2: team mess resources, we don't have to tear it down,
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Speaker 2: So that would indicate to me that they maybe don't
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Speaker 2: trade zach Netto and Reddebtmeer's and Jose Soriato, even though
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Speaker 2: that probably is what they should do. I just don't
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Speaker 2: know which way they're going to go, and in the end,
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Speaker 2: whether Arti Moreno will indeed let John Mozelac make the
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Speaker 2: moves that Mozella determines are necessary for this team to
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Speaker 2: be better.
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Speaker 1: Ken, that's my question. Is Arty Moreno going to step aside?
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Speaker 1: I mean, I know Perryminesian didn't really have a shot
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Speaker 1: because Artie Moreno controlled everything even before that. Arty Morino,
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Speaker 1: since he's kind of bought this team is controlled who
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Speaker 1: they've signed. They miss on this guy, Let's try and
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Speaker 1: do another crazy signing that doesn't work out, or I
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Speaker 1: don't want to do long term pitching. I don't want
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Speaker 1: to do this. I don't want to do that. John
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Speaker 1: Mozelak has some clout, right, he has some clout coming
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Speaker 1: over from Saint Louis.
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Speaker 5: Will he actually get his.
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Speaker 1: Ear and be able to say, you know what, already,
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Speaker 1: stop talking, let me do my job and then we'll
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Speaker 1: reevaluate at the end of the year.
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Speaker 2: AJ's a big unknown, and again he hired Molly Jolly
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Speaker 2: to be the club president when John Carpino left, and
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Speaker 2: Molly Jolly is the person who hired John Mizzelak. It
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Speaker 2: would appear that when you hire a guy I like
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Speaker 2: John Mizaelic, as you said, AJ, someone who has clout
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Speaker 2: history in the game, that you're hiring him so he
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Speaker 2: can do the job that he has done for a
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Speaker 2: long time. The job in Anaheim, though, is different than
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Speaker 2: it is pretty much anywhere else, or at least it
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Speaker 2: has been under an Asian, under Billy Eppler, you name it.
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Speaker 3: So I can't.
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Speaker 2: Predict with any degree of certainty or even confidence what's
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Speaker 2: going to happen there. And as we go forward these
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Speaker 2: next ten days or so, they are clearly one of
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Speaker 2: the most interesting teams because we don't know exactly what's
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: No, I want to jump to the white sox here
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Speaker 4: a little bit. This has been fascinating this whole year.
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Speaker 4: I know, aj M, you might have want to talk
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Speaker 4: about them a little bit, but I want to talk
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Speaker 4: to them about what they're gonna do. Catching wise, there's
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Speaker 4: a couple teams that are looking for catchers. There's opportunities
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Speaker 4: for guys out there. Do you see one do you
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Speaker 4: see this White Sox team still pushing to finally get
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Speaker 4: the chance to win their division, and you see them
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Speaker 4: buyers at the trade deadline. There's there's some there's some
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Speaker 4: opportunities for them to pick up some guys to make
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Speaker 4: this big push, which I hope they do because it's
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Speaker 4: been fun to watch.
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Speaker 2: They're definitely buyers. And the injury to Kyle Teal does
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Speaker 2: create the need for a catcher, and we reported yesterday
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Speaker 2: that they're working hard to find a catcher. But of course,
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Speaker 2: in today's game, and actually throughout the game's history, that's
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Speaker 2: a difficult position to fill. Not many guys can do it,
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Speaker 2: not many do it well. So the other problem they
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Speaker 2: have in the search for a catcher is that a
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Speaker 2: number of other teams are also in the market for one.
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Speaker 2: The Yankees for sure, the Dodgers for a backup, maybe
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Speaker 2: the Red Sox. So those are just some of the
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Speaker 2: teams that could be looking. And there are teams that
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Speaker 2: have in their organization young catching. But with the White
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Speaker 2: Sox need, and with some of these other clubs need
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Speaker 2: is major league catching, and that's going to be not
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Speaker 2: easy to find. Catching for the White Sox has been
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Speaker 2: kind of a Bugaboo. I believe their last in the
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Speaker 2: league in ops at catcher, and Teal, who missed the
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Speaker 2: early part of the season, was likely going to help
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Speaker 2: solve that. But now he's out again for quite some time.
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Speaker 1: Ken, I mean Teal. I read where til it said
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Speaker 1: it's going to be on the shorter side. It wasn't
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Speaker 1: as high as an ankle spring. It's supposed to be
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Speaker 1: six to eight instead of eight to twelve. Well, see,
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Speaker 1: you never know how that goes, because last time he
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Speaker 1: just pulled a hamstring and then he hurt his knee
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Speaker 1: and so he missed like what almost over two months.
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Speaker 1: But the thing is for me is catcher. Catcher is
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Speaker 1: such an interesting position, Hunter Goodman, Stevenson, whoever, the catchers
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Speaker 1: that are supposedly out there. A lot of teams are
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Speaker 1: afraid to make a move for a catcher in the
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Speaker 1: middle of the year because they're worried about their pitchers.
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Speaker 1: Right the Yankees don't usually make a Hunter Goodman type
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Speaker 1: splash in the middle of the season. Stevenson. Christian Vasquez
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Speaker 1: is a Minnesota I know Ryan Jeffers is a bigger name,
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Speaker 1: but Christian Vasquez is a guy that could could. I
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Speaker 1: don't think he's sorry, he's on Minnesota anymore, wherever. I
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Speaker 1: think he's in Houston. Now again he pops up, right,
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Speaker 1: he pops up again, right, as someone that could go
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Speaker 1: from A to B to help a team as a backup,
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Speaker 1: Why are teams so afraid to make that move? Again?
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Speaker 1: I made a move to the Cardinals. I thought it
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Speaker 1: went pretty seamlessly. Maybe they would tell you differently, but
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Speaker 1: I don't understand why teams are so afraid, especially with
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Speaker 1: all the analytics and they pretty much tell them what
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Speaker 1: to call on pitches every day. Anyways, Why are teams
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Speaker 1: so afraid.
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Speaker 2: To jump in a catcher, Ajay is a good question
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Speaker 2: the way you framed it, And my understanding has always
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Speaker 2: been that it's difficult for a catcher to learn a
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Speaker 2: new hitching staff in the middle of a season, and
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Speaker 2: I can understand where that might be the case. Now
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Speaker 2: you mentioned the analytics and all the information that's available
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Speaker 2: to teams to individual players today, you would think that
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Speaker 2: would ease it, and I would expect that would ease
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Speaker 2: the transition, But you're still learning a new staff and
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Speaker 2: that would give some teams pause. Now, the teams we
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Speaker 2: just mentioned, White Sox, Red Sox, Dodgers, Yankees among them.
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Speaker 2: They need cashers. So it's not like they can play
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Speaker 2: this game where well, we're a little reluctant because we're
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Speaker 2: just not sure he'll adapt to the staff. No, they
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Speaker 2: have a clear need and they're gonna have to address
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Speaker 2: that need.
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Speaker 7: Ken do the Mariners have maybe the best starting pitcher,
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Speaker 7: even though we may not know which starting pitcher could
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Speaker 7: be available on the trade deadline.
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Speaker 2: I don't know about the best Eric, but they certainly
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Speaker 2: have options to offer teams. Now, what we reported yesterday
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Speaker 2: was that with Castilla, it's a little difficult to trade him.
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Speaker 2: He's got big money next year, you've got a vexiting
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Speaker 2: option the year after that. And for that reason, the
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Speaker 2: Mariners have at least been listening on Emerson Hancock, who
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Speaker 2: has had a breakout campaign. He's been really good and
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Speaker 2: he's effectively their sixth starter. With two kids at the
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Speaker 2: double A waiting to come up, and another guy, Logan Evans,
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Speaker 2: who will be back next year from Tobby John surgery.
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Speaker 2: Unlike virtually every other team, they have depth at the
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Speaker 2: starting rotation spot. And you can say the Dodgers have depth, Yeah,
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Speaker 2: but Blake Snell and Glass now are on the al
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Speaker 2: so it's not the same kind of thing. The Mariners
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Speaker 2: are in a great spot here and they need a
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Speaker 2: right handed bat. Could Emerson Hancock bring a controllable right
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Speaker 2: handed bat. I would think that would be the case.
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Speaker 1: Yes, Ken, I know you're in New York on Saturday
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Speaker 1: for the Dodgers' Mets on Fox. You know, mister A team, it's.
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Speaker 5: Okay, the B team.
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Speaker 1: We're going to the Mariners and the Rangers. Okay, so
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Speaker 1: hopefully when you guys get about two hours of rain,
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Speaker 1: when you guys get two hours of rain in New York,
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Speaker 1: we'll have the Dome in Texas on Fox one here
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Speaker 1: where you can just it'll just naturally shift you over
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Speaker 1: on the app. But it's a big series for both teams.
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Speaker 1: Both teams are trying to get over the over the hump, right,
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Speaker 1: They're all kind of stuck hovering around five hundred. It's
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Speaker 1: a huge four game series that are starting her well,
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Speaker 1: the Rangers make a move. Is there a move for
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Speaker 1: the Rangers to make? I know we just hit on
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Speaker 1: the Mariners, but is there a move for the Rangers
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Speaker 1: to make besides getting Corey Seeger back healthy that can
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Speaker 1: help them surprise the Mariners.
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Speaker 2: Actually aj for starters. We've been rained out the A
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Speaker 2: team three times this year, which has resulted in more airtime,
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Speaker 2: more airtime for you, So you're welcome now. As for
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Speaker 2: the Rangers, actually, what happens this weekend in that four
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Speaker 2: game series against the Mariners could be pivotal in determining
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Speaker 2: what they do. They're a team. You look at them
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Speaker 2: right there, they're five hundred and they've got fifty percent
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Speaker 2: playoff odds, so they're right on the bubble. They're right
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Speaker 2: in the middle of this thing. And the last two
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Speaker 2: years I've written about this, they kind of were playing
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Speaker 2: fairly well at the deadline. The first year, Chris Young, well,
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Speaker 2: they're coming off in a World Series title. Of course
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Speaker 2: he's not going to sell. And then the second year
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Speaker 2: they were kind of okay but not great and not terrible.
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Speaker 2: He bought again and it backfired in the sense that
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Speaker 2: they did not make the playoffs. Now are they going
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Speaker 2: to persuade him with their play and their health to
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Speaker 2: buy again, And that remains to be seen, And KNOWLSA
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Speaker 2: remains to be seen what they'd be willing to give up,
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Speaker 2: both prospect wise and whether they be willing to add financially.
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Speaker 2: So I would say that this weekend is big for
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Speaker 2: the Rangers, and even if they decide to buy, I
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Speaker 2: just don't know to what extent they would.
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Speaker 7: First two part question, do you know if ce why
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Speaker 7: has a restriction on trade deadline acquisitions in the sense
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Speaker 7: of like money wise. And the second part of that
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Speaker 7: is you said gms are not emotional or they don't
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Speaker 7: make you said the other day they don't make like
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Speaker 7: emotional moves or hot seat type of moves. But see why.
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Speaker 7: I when I played with him, he was a player,
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Speaker 7: and he said, if you're one game out, you could
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Speaker 7: have made a move that could make that one game
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Speaker 7: out be one game in. So can't we say, Okay,
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Speaker 7: maybe he is a little emotional because he was a player.
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Speaker 2: I was speaking generally Eric on that question, and I
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Speaker 2: would say, see why is something of an exception. Yes,
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Speaker 2: he does have much more of a player's mentality than
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Speaker 2: some of the other heads of baseball operations that we're
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Speaker 2: seeing now. As for his financial leeway kind of remains
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Speaker 2: to be seen. And somebody was telling me just the
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Speaker 2: other day how at deadline times sometimes an owner walks
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Speaker 2: into the room the day of the deadline and says,
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Speaker 2: what do you got. GM says, well, we could do this,
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Speaker 2: but we're gonna need this amount of money, And depending
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Speaker 2: on the owner's emotions that day, depending on how he's
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Speaker 2: feeling about the club, he might say, Okay, go ahead.
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Speaker 2: So it's kind of unclear, and no one's going to
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Speaker 2: broadcast to guys like me what their financial position might be.
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Speaker 2: But my general sense on the Rangers is that they
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Speaker 2: don't have much payroll flexibility and that their owner Ray
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Speaker 2: Davis is not necessarily inclined to take on a lot
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Speaker 2: of money at the deadline. I would not expect that
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Speaker 2: they would.
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Speaker 1: Actually, you're in New York, you get the Dodgers and
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Speaker 1: the Mets on Fox on Saturday. What are you looking
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Speaker 1: forward to? And by the way, start your free trout
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Speaker 1: today at foxwe dot com. You can see Ken every
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Speaker 1: Saturday on MLB on Fox.
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Speaker 2: I'll tell you what I'm looking forward to. AJ it's
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Speaker 2: a great matchup Nolan McClain against Yoshinobu Yamamoto. That says
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Speaker 2: it all. Those two guys are basically their team's best
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Speaker 2: and McLain is a guy who had a little bit
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Speaker 2: of a bump earlier in this season, but seems to
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Speaker 2: have found it again, and Yamamoto is obviously one of
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Speaker 2: the most consistent pitchers in baseball. So that's what I'm
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Speaker 2: looking forward to most, just seeing those two guys in action.
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Speaker 1: All right, According to Ethan, you know who Ethan is
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Speaker 1: with the Mets. He said that mcclin's gonna win Rookie
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Speaker 1: of the Year. He told me that on July fourth,
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Speaker 1: So let's see what happens, Ken, wh Yeah, I know,
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Speaker 1: big statement, big statement, Andy Green and Andy Green's office.
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Speaker 1: On July fourth, he said he's expecting Nol McClean to win.
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Speaker 1: He's gonna get hot and he's gonna finish the year
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Speaker 1: strong and win Rookie of the Year. So I don't know.
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Speaker 1: We'll find out on Saturday.
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Speaker 5: Ken.
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Speaker 1: I can't wait to hear your reports, even though I
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Speaker 1: won't be listening because I'll be too busy working.
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Speaker 5: So I can't wait to hear your reports anyways, a j.
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Speaker 2: You wouldn't be listening even if you weren't working.
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Speaker 1: That's not true, Kennon, and I take that personal because
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Speaker 1: I actually do listen to what you say sometimes.
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Speaker 5: So he doesn't read what you say. He watches.
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Speaker 2: That's where he draws the line. This reading thing is not.
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Speaker 5: All right.
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Speaker 1: Well, thank you, Ken, good luck this weekend. I hope
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Speaker 1: you stay dry. Okay, we'll all be watching.
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Speaker 7: Matt Arnold, are you GM where you're president of baseball race?
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Speaker 7: It doesn't matter, but the number three best pickleball player
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Speaker 7: of the entire coaching staff, even though you're not a coach.
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Speaker 7: So do you allow Matt because we have McGill on
15:49
Speaker 7: and he said, one of the things you guys do
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Speaker 7: is team building exercises, which we talk all about the
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Speaker 7: Brewers culture all the time. I witnessed it an eighteen,
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Speaker 7: I've witnessed it since. And you know from afar, are
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Speaker 7: you a top five in the staff.
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Speaker 5: Pickle ball player?
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Speaker 8: I'm gonna my answer is gonna be firmly no, because
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Speaker 8: I know if they they heard me say otherwise, it
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Speaker 8: would be probably. So I'm gonna I'm gonna put myself
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Speaker 8: at the bottom and just just the underdog, just like
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Speaker 8: the Brewers every time. Sometimes you surprise people. But I'm
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Speaker 8: definitely in the in the in the underdog category.
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Speaker 5: No, no, no, no, no, no.
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Speaker 7: The Brewers are not surprising anybody. Maybe the Brewers are
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Speaker 7: surprising like the protagonists and the like people who are
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Speaker 7: picking quote unpicking. You're not surprising anybody. And again, you're
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Speaker 7: leading the league in wins. How is this something that
16:39
Speaker 7: has been one continually swept under the rub that you
16:43
Speaker 7: because because every year you guys are chosen not to
16:45
Speaker 7: win and then Murph has to go to New York
16:47
Speaker 7: to win Manager of the Year.
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Speaker 5: So how is this possible? And you're the one at
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Speaker 5: the helm of them?
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Speaker 8: I appreciate, Yeah, I mean we it starts with good
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Speaker 8: people like yourself and you know, like guys like this weekend.
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Speaker 8: I mean, I'll tell you what, like celebrate in the
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Speaker 8: alumni and the people that have been here and part
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Speaker 8: of the culture is is a huge part of why
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Speaker 8: we've we've had success, and I'm thrilled we're having the
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Speaker 8: alumni here this weekend and you know, celebrate you guys,
17:10
Speaker 8: and obviously that the we're we're writing the coat tails
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Speaker 8: of the people that were here before us. We want
17:14
Speaker 8: to honor those people. We actually just did a really
17:16
Speaker 8: cool event for Doug Melvin. We named our boardroom after
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Speaker 8: Doug Melvin, which is just everything that that he's done
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Speaker 8: for this franchise. And and you know when he came
17:25
Speaker 8: here that the organization that had I think lost one
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Speaker 8: hundred and six games that season before he got here,
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Speaker 8: and he was able to build a foundation that we
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Speaker 8: have on the field today. So yeah, huge credit to him,
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Speaker 8: and frankly all the people that are that have been
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Speaker 8: here a long time.
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Speaker 4: Hey, Matt, Todd Frazier here, how you doing, man, I'm great,
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Speaker 4: Todd good good.
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Speaker 3: So my question is gonna be short and simple.
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Speaker 8: Here.
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Speaker 4: You're walking down the hallways nowadays during this time, are
17:49
Speaker 4: some people trying to avoid you when they see you
17:52
Speaker 4: see anybody making quick laps or quick rights, like, oh no,
17:55
Speaker 4: there's that guy. So talk to me about how hectic
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Speaker 4: it is during this time and anybody trying to avoid
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Speaker 4: you as you're moving through these hallways.
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Speaker 8: I think at Cratzy will tell you everyone's trying to
18:06
Speaker 8: avoid me for a while, so I'm kind of used
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Speaker 8: to that. But you know, it's it's no, it's uh.
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Speaker 8: We got to create crew Man and I love being
18:14
Speaker 8: around it. And I think, you know, one of the
18:16
Speaker 8: big things we have here is just that, you know,
18:18
Speaker 8: the the all hands on deck mentality that the people
18:21
Speaker 8: are in it not just for themselves but for the team,
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Speaker 8: you know, And it's a real thing, Honestly, Murph talks
18:26
Speaker 8: about it all the time. With the culture and putting
18:28
Speaker 8: the team first and having team at bats, team offense,
18:31
Speaker 8: like those are real things that we talk about here
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Speaker 8: a lot. And so I love being around the guys
18:35
Speaker 8: and just being a small part of it is a
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Speaker 8: ton of fun for me.
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Speaker 5: How do you.
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Speaker 7: Approach that at the trade deadline? Because you guys have
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Speaker 7: a special culture, how do you do enough due diligence.
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Speaker 7: Everybody can be like, oh, well, this guy he has
18:48
Speaker 7: these numbers, this guy has those nut that's not what
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Speaker 7: you're saying. You're not saying we need three MVP candidates
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Speaker 7: come in and fill.
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Speaker 5: X, Y and Z. How do you do that? Due
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Speaker 5: dili is to be able to get the right people
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Speaker 5: into your culture.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 8: We we have a lot of scouts that do a
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Speaker 8: lot of work on the road, and our coaches know people.
19:06
Speaker 8: They have a network of guys that they have either
19:09
Speaker 8: been around or coached, or have a teammate that has
19:12
Speaker 8: been a part of you know, somebody else's life. And
19:15
Speaker 8: so anyway, but any way that we can try to
19:16
Speaker 8: gain that type of information, not just on the talent,
19:19
Speaker 8: but on the person is super important anytime we're thinking
19:22
Speaker 8: about adding somebody to the to the room.
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Speaker 5: And does this.
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Speaker 7: Run that you guys have been on in the sense that, yes,
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Speaker 7: you were leading the division. Yes, you know the central
19:32
Speaker 7: has been up and down here and there, but now
19:34
Speaker 7: you're leading, you're leading the league and wins you're looking
19:38
Speaker 7: for that buy Does it make you approach the trade
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Speaker 7: deadline differently other than yes, you always want your team
19:44
Speaker 7: to get better, but you guys are also always looking
19:47
Speaker 7: for the future.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, I think you're I think that's a good way
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Speaker 8: to put it. We have to have one eye on
19:52
Speaker 8: the present, one eye in the future at all times,
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Speaker 8: you know, and so certainly with where we are in
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Speaker 8: the standings, I'd love to do what we can to
19:59
Speaker 8: help the team, and we just have to think about
20:01
Speaker 8: those things responsibly. And you know, we work really hard.
20:04
Speaker 8: Our scouts, our coaches put a ton of work in
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Speaker 8: there and dedicate their lives frankly to developing the players
20:10
Speaker 8: and that you have on the field. And I will
20:12
Speaker 8: say that we've had many chances to trade the guys
20:15
Speaker 8: we have on the field. Now that are you know,
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Speaker 8: one of the best teams in you know, in baseball
20:19
Speaker 8: and at the moment, and you know we've we've stayed
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Speaker 8: disciplined and and you know, I think that's that's something
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Speaker 8: that's really important. But at the same time, you know,
20:26
Speaker 8: we you don't get these chances all the time, and
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Speaker 8: so I would love to do what we can to
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Speaker 8: help the team responsibility.
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Speaker 7: I don't think this is tampering to talk about something
21:35
Speaker 7: that happen in twenty eighteen.
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Speaker 5: Oh boy, is it? I don't think.
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Speaker 7: Okay, Because I was standing at we're here at the
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Speaker 7: stadium now. We're here at the stadium now, and a
21:44
Speaker 7: few of few people approached me from the front office
21:48
Speaker 7: and pitching coaches and bullpen coaches and asked me would
21:53
Speaker 7: I trade Corbyn Burns and Brandon Woodriff for Jacob de
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Speaker 7: grom wo tampering, can I I don't.
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Speaker 8: I mean, we've had, buddy, there's so many conversations.
22:05
Speaker 7: Discussions happen, Those discussions happen. How fearful You know what
22:09
Speaker 7: Brent big Wu's done, You know what Corbyn byrns has done.
22:13
Speaker 7: How are you saying, oh, man, we don't want to
22:17
Speaker 7: do this, but man, we would love to bring a
22:20
Speaker 7: world series, not a playoff. Sure, you guys have built
22:23
Speaker 7: something that is playoff. Wait, nothing's guaranteed in the game
22:27
Speaker 7: playoff guaranteed you won a world series for this city
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Speaker 7: that's gonna come and show out for the Legends game
22:33
Speaker 7: and have forty thousand people here on a Friday night.
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Speaker 5: How do you.
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Speaker 8: Make a little bit of a different change this year
22:41
Speaker 8: to make this the world series too? I think, look,
22:43
Speaker 8: we understand where we are and in fact, like honoring people.
22:46
Speaker 8: We did the Bobyucher documentary. We all went as a
22:49
Speaker 8: team the other the other night and that was awesome,
22:51
Speaker 8: you know, and just honoring and doing the things that
22:53
Speaker 8: you're talking about. For the for the state of Wisconsin
22:56
Speaker 8: would mean the world and the Uker family and everything
22:59
Speaker 8: like that. So I recognize the gravity of that. And
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Speaker 8: what that means to the people here. And I take
23:04
Speaker 8: that very seriously, and like you said, I certainly want
23:07
Speaker 8: to do everything I can to help. And again it's
23:09
Speaker 8: just you know, you have the opportunity to help the team,
23:12
Speaker 8: and you just got to think about what that looks
23:13
Speaker 8: like tomorrow as well.
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Speaker 1: Matt, how do you know when to go all in?
23:18
Speaker 1: Twenty eighteen you mentioned it CC Sabathia, right was traded
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Speaker 1: over there or two thousand and eight, sorry, two thousand
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Speaker 1: and eight CCS Mathia. The Brewers went all in ron
23:26
Speaker 1: Sabathia and they thought they had a chance. This year again,
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Speaker 1: you guys are right there, you're winning your division, you're
23:32
Speaker 1: right there for the best record, you have a chance.
23:35
Speaker 1: How do you make that decision to say, you know what,
23:37
Speaker 1: we're going to go all in and go for all
23:40
Speaker 1: the pieces that we think can help us not only
23:42
Speaker 1: get to the postseason, but get to the World Series
23:45
Speaker 1: and possibly win the World Series.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, it's a good question, Ada. Honestly, I think it's
23:50
Speaker 8: it has to do with the type of person I think.
23:52
Speaker 8: Just talking to Doug I think would be a great
23:54
Speaker 8: one for the Doug Melboyne would be the right person
23:56
Speaker 8: to talk to about the c C. Sabathia trade and
23:58
Speaker 8: what went into that. And you know, I've been a
24:01
Speaker 8: part of a handful of those big trades as well
24:03
Speaker 8: in my career. And look, it's it's it's a big deal,
24:06
Speaker 8: and it's something I think would be great for the
24:08
Speaker 8: city if we can, if we're able to pull it off.
24:10
Speaker 8: And sometimes again it takes two to tangle on these things,
24:12
Speaker 8: and sometimes you just don't line up. You know, you
24:14
Speaker 8: can work your tail off to try to access something
24:16
Speaker 8: and somebody just wants to do a different deal the
24:18
Speaker 8: other team does, or they just see it a different way,
24:20
Speaker 8: and you know, we'll just try to do what we can.
24:22
Speaker 8: But I certainly am of the mind where we want
24:24
Speaker 8: to do what we can to help here.
24:25
Speaker 7: You're taking fifteen minutes on a busy legends weekend in
24:30
Speaker 7: the trade deadline for our show. We appreciate that. It
24:33
Speaker 7: shows what kind of person you are. How many miscalls
24:36
Speaker 7: and texts are you going to have during this because
24:40
Speaker 7: you took this time, you can feel the most Yeah
24:43
Speaker 7: right now, but I actually do. Yeah, that's all right,
24:45
Speaker 7: that's all right. So how I mean, how active is it?
24:49
Speaker 7: We don't know, Like we love given as a player's
24:51
Speaker 7: point of view. That's why we love, you know, being
24:53
Speaker 7: able to give a player's point of view for the show.
24:56
Speaker 7: What is your day right now looking like? And how
24:58
Speaker 7: much does that change two three days out from the trade?
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Speaker 8: Denner, Yeah, it's it's certainly. I think people are playing
25:04
Speaker 8: a lot of seeds. I think at the moment right now,
25:06
Speaker 8: as teams are still reading where they're at in the standings.
25:08
Speaker 8: You know, I don't think anybody's totally all in on
25:11
Speaker 8: where they're going. Yeah, they're maybe a handful of teams,
25:13
Speaker 8: but for the for the most part, I think a
25:15
Speaker 8: lot of teams will try to drag this down to
25:17
Speaker 8: seventy two to forty eight hours before the deadline, and
25:20
Speaker 8: so you know, we'll see what happens. But I think
25:23
Speaker 8: at least sort of doing that work early because I think,
25:25
Speaker 8: you know, when you have those reps in conversations with
25:28
Speaker 8: other teams, you have a better sense of like, if
25:30
Speaker 8: this happens, if we decide to sell or buy, like
25:33
Speaker 8: you just have a better sense of what the other
25:35
Speaker 8: team is trying to do and hopefully you can line
25:36
Speaker 8: up sooner than later.
25:37
Speaker 7: Brian Cashman said, I think last week he said, I
25:41
Speaker 7: think some of these records are giving people false hope
25:44
Speaker 7: or false whatever. Do you get different conversations from National
25:50
Speaker 7: League teams and American League teams?
25:52
Speaker 5: American League?
25:52
Speaker 7: I mean Boston, they went on an incredible run, but
25:55
Speaker 7: they were completely out and now they're back in the mix. Like,
25:58
Speaker 7: do you get different calls from the different leagues that
26:01
Speaker 7: are conversating differently?
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Speaker 3: Yeah?
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Speaker 8: Absolutely, I think there there are. I've talked to a
26:07
Speaker 8: handful of American League teams that have have mentioned like,
26:09
Speaker 8: we're not that good. They're saying, like, but but we
26:13
Speaker 8: still have a shot, you know. And so I think
26:14
Speaker 8: that that's a real thing for for for several teams,
26:17
Speaker 8: and they just have to decide whether it's, you know,
26:19
Speaker 8: whether they're gonna buy or sell or hedge or however
26:21
Speaker 8: that looks for them. But yeah, I do get a
26:23
Speaker 8: little bit of a different tone from the different leagues
26:26
Speaker 8: at the moment.
26:27
Speaker 5: Yeah.
26:27
Speaker 7: And is there any numbers that you say, I do
26:30
Speaker 7: not want to talk to this person again because the
26:32
Speaker 7: stuffs that're not not because you don't respect them or
26:34
Speaker 7: anything like that, but the stuff that they're putting out there,
26:36
Speaker 7: You're like, this doesn't even.
26:37
Speaker 5: Why why are you calling me? No? No, a spam caller.
26:44
Speaker 8: They probably think that about me, to be honest with you,
26:46
Speaker 8: but no, I I you try to have great relationships
26:49
Speaker 8: with the guys around the league, and I'm I'm yeah,
26:51
Speaker 8: you're up front.
26:52
Speaker 5: Just the annoying you.
26:53
Speaker 7: Call like agent if you get a call from AJ
26:55
Speaker 7: says unknown call, Oh hey, hey, I thought you you
27:01
Speaker 7: wanted to move on this guy.
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Speaker 8: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I can definitely be that guy.
27:06
Speaker 5: You know that. But you know, it's it's it's great.
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Speaker 8: You know, I have good relationships with the guys around
27:11
Speaker 8: the league, and our staff honesty is making calls too.
27:14
Speaker 8: So just we're trying to get as much information as
27:16
Speaker 8: we can to be ricky.
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Speaker 1: Matt, will you scout the Legends game today, the Alumni game?
27:22
Speaker 1: Will you scout it? And if there's someone that you
27:24
Speaker 1: think to do something, will you sign them to a
27:27
Speaker 1: minor league deal?
27:28
Speaker 5: Possibly open to it? You know he's only doing big
27:31
Speaker 5: league deal.
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Speaker 1: Okay, I mean there's a lot of catchers. Teams need catchers, Matt.
27:36
Speaker 1: You could trade you know, you can trade William Cantreras
27:39
Speaker 1: and insert craps.
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Speaker 7: The reason teams need catchers is because they're all hitting
27:43
Speaker 7: what I hit When I played, So that's fine. They
27:47
Speaker 7: they got me, They traded for me because they thought
27:50
Speaker 7: I was this elite receiver. And then I taught Manny
27:53
Speaker 7: Penia how to receive and many pee led the league
27:57
Speaker 7: the last month. And then they said, you know what
28:00
Speaker 7: we gonna do. There's something that we've never done and
28:03
Speaker 7: haven't done since, and go spend millions of dollars on
28:06
Speaker 7: a catcher and they fired me. So no, he's not
28:09
Speaker 7: scouting the game. He's gonna I just want I want
28:12
Speaker 7: to know if I win the MVP of the Legends game,
28:16
Speaker 7: do I get a do I get a job as
28:18
Speaker 7: the special assistant to the whatever your actual title is? Sure?
28:23
Speaker 8: Yeah, well well I'm happy to talk about that.
28:25
Speaker 3: Yeah.
28:25
Speaker 8: We senior it probably like a junior, not a maybe
28:29
Speaker 8: not a senior assistant, but like a junior assistant for sure.
28:32
Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: Absolutely, Wow, you're gonna win that. He did it.
28:36
Speaker 8: By the way, I will say, like this guy doesn't
28:37
Speaker 8: give himself enough credit. Like we're playing the Rockies to day.
28:40
Speaker 8: This guy had some huge, huge hits in the playoffs
28:42
Speaker 8: courts against the against the Rockies. Man, appreciate you.
28:45
Speaker 5: That was awesome. I was there.
28:47
Speaker 1: Matt buzzlow I was there for that series. You could
28:49
Speaker 1: have had a blind guy playing eighty year positions. You
28:52
Speaker 1: would have beat the Rockies that year. They were that bad.
28:54
Speaker 1: I promise you I did that series.
28:56
Speaker 5: They were awful. They were not good that year. I'm
28:59
Speaker 5: sure they just scored one run. That's all good. It
29:03
Speaker 5: is to bring their.
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Speaker 3: Thank you, Matt.
29:09
Speaker 5: Thank you to Vasalo.
29:10
Speaker 1: Is nice to him to take a break from Game Changer,
29:12
Speaker 1: to to let you walk up there with him. So
29:14
Speaker 1: thank you, and to quit texting me. We really appreciate it.
29:17
Speaker 1: We'll be watching you at the trade deadline and we
29:19
Speaker 1: will probably not critique you very hard.
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Speaker 7: So thank you.
29:22
Speaker 1: We hope everything goes everything goes well.