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Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to the post deadline edition of Fair Territory.
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Speaker 1: I hope everyone has figured out all the deals and
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Speaker 1: is fully cognizant of everything that went on, because I
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Speaker 1: sure aren't. I'm sure not a lot of Rizzo was
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Speaker 1: with me. I hope she is. But we're gonna go
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Speaker 1: through some teams. We're gonna go through as much as
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Speaker 1: we can here in the next twenty five twenty six
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Speaker 1: minutes or so, because a lot happened today. And I
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Speaker 1: say this every year, there will be things that happen
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Speaker 1: at the deadline that will make your head spin. There
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Speaker 1: were a number of things that happened today that made
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Speaker 1: our head spin that way it was. It's why it
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Speaker 1: was such a great day. And again, we're gonna go
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Speaker 1: through it all. We're gonna focus on some teams. For
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Speaker 1: teams to start with. We can't get to everybody on
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Speaker 1: this one day. We're gonna do our best to hit
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Speaker 1: some of the major points. And Alana, let's get into it,
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Speaker 1: and let's start with the biggest buyer of the day,
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Speaker 1: the king of the deadline, San Diego Padres general manager
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Speaker 1: aj preller Ken.
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Speaker 2: First of all, I want to thank you and plaud
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Speaker 2: you for all of the work that you do. For
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Speaker 2: most of us, this is like Christmas morning, Hanukkah, all
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Speaker 2: of the things, But for you, it's one of the
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Speaker 2: busiest days of the year. So let's talk about that
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Speaker 2: Aj Preller whining and dining, wheeling and dealing. Let's talk
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Speaker 2: about the Padres and what they gave up and what
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Speaker 2: they gained.
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Speaker 1: What's really interesting to me, Alana, is that about a
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Speaker 1: week ago, I asked the A's about Mason Miller, and
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Speaker 1: I asked about the Padres being on Mason Miller, because
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Speaker 1: Aj Preller is generally on every good player he can
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Speaker 1: get his hands on or thinks he can get his
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Speaker 1: hands on. And I was told Preller didn't have the
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Speaker 1: farm system. And then he asked the A's, Okay, what
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Speaker 1: prospects can I go get you from other teams to
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Speaker 1: satisfy you? And the A's said, we don't want to
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Speaker 1: play that game. But what happened was Aj Preller did
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Speaker 1: what he always does. He was persistent, he was relentless,
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Speaker 1: he never stopped trying. And yesterday it has been right
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Speaker 1: about this time, it was a story that Dennis Linn
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Speaker 1: and I wrote saying that they were still after the Padres, Durrant,
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Speaker 1: Stephen Kwan, and they were also pushing for Mason Miller.
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Speaker 1: Turns out what happens today. They get Mason Miller, and
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Speaker 1: not only do they get Mason Miller, they get a
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Speaker 1: starting pitcher, Jp Sears, and in addition to that, they
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Speaker 1: get Ryan O'Hearn, Ramon Loriano from the Ools will wagon
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Speaker 1: him from the Blue Jays. Here's the entire list. I've
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Speaker 1: got to read it myself. Oh yes, and freddie for
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Speaker 1: me and the catcher from the Royals, talented guy and
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Speaker 1: Nesta Cortez Junior. Now, the shock of this was beyond
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Speaker 1: the absolute shock of the Padres trading a top one
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Speaker 1: hundred prospect, top ten prospect Derees for Mason Miller. The
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Speaker 1: shock of it was they did all this and they
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Speaker 1: didn't trade off their major league roster except for Brandon Lockridge.
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Speaker 1: They kept Dylan Ceese, they kept Robert Suarez, and now
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Speaker 1: they have a team Alana that is absolutely loaded. They're
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Speaker 1: gonna be fun to watch, and they have I would say,
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Speaker 1: a puncher's chance even better than that of chasing down
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Speaker 1: the Dodgers, the Mets, the Phillies, whoever you want to
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Speaker 1: name in the division. And then of course for the
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Speaker 1: National League title and maybe even the World Series title. Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I couldn't agree with you more. The National League overnight
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Speaker 2: got so much better, with the Mets adding to their bullpen,
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Speaker 2: the Phillies adding to their pullman. Obviously the padre is
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Speaker 2: what they've just done in terms of additions. Ken one
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Speaker 2: thing that made me think, oh my goodness, and my
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Speaker 2: head just blew off my neck is Carlos Correa. Going
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Speaker 2: back to the Houston Astros. The Twins have basically gotten
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Speaker 2: rid of everybody.
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Speaker 3: What do you make of it?
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Speaker 1: This was the other head spinner of the day and
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Speaker 1: Alana a couple of days ago. I can't remember the
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Speaker 1: time right now, because you know, it's all running together,
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Speaker 1: but I was talking to the Twins people and they
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Speaker 1: were saying, because the team was for sale, they might
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Speaker 1: not want to trade controllable pieces because you know what,
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Speaker 1: the new owner might come in, allow them to spend
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Speaker 1: money and they can do some better things with what
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Speaker 1: they have. Turns out they traded everybody, and with Carlos Correa,
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Speaker 1: it was astonishing because he's been injured quite a bit.
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Speaker 1: He's been a guy who of course has a huge
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Speaker 1: contract and in this deal. The Twins are kicking in
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Speaker 1: about thirty million of the ninety million or so owed
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Speaker 1: him over the course of his contract. He's going to
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Speaker 1: play third base for the Astros. But this was just
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Speaker 1: the start for the Twins. They ended up trading the
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Speaker 1: guys on expiring contracts that we anticipated, Willie Castro and
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Speaker 1: some others. The two relievers that are under control for
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Speaker 1: two additional years each, Joan Duran he went to the Phillies,
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Speaker 1: and Griffin Jackson, who went to the Rays. That was
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Speaker 1: something that I didn't necessarily expect. But the Twins will
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Speaker 1: tell you. We held on to Pablo Lopez, we held
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Speaker 1: on to Joe Ryan. We've still got Royce Lewis and
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Speaker 1: Byron Buxton and a bunch of people to build around.
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Speaker 1: But you see what they lost. That's ten players off
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Speaker 1: their major league roster. It's astonishing what they did. Bader
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Speaker 1: expiring contract, Castro the same day, Coolohm, Ty France, Chris Paddock,
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Speaker 1: all of those guys. Brock Stewart was under club control
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Speaker 1: for a few years. He went to the Dodgers. Louis
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Speaker 1: Varland another guy that was under control. So they did
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Speaker 1: this and they brought back a couple of really interesting pieces.
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Speaker 1: The catcher that they acquired from the Phillies, a top
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Speaker 1: one hundred prospect, Nick Abel from the Phillies who is
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Speaker 1: a top one hundred type guy as well, right handed pitcher.
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Speaker 1: And I'm forgetting who they got and the other trade
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Speaker 1: it was, well, I'll get back to it, but they
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Speaker 1: did pretty well. Oh, Todge Bradley in the Griffin Jacks trade,
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Speaker 1: they did okay, But the shot of it was that
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Speaker 1: they burned the house down. Now they will tell you
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Speaker 1: they didn't do that. Here are the players they acquired,
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Speaker 1: mc gabel, Edward O Tait, Todge Bradley, and Alan Road
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Speaker 1: and he's another major leaguer came from the Blue Jays
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Speaker 1: in the Varland and ty Franz trade. They will say,
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Speaker 1: we didn't burn it all down. We kept a number
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Speaker 1: of guys. But my goodness, no one expected the Minnesota
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Speaker 1: Twins to pull the plug like they did, and they
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Speaker 1: pulled it in a big way.
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Speaker 3: They massively pulled it in a big way.
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Speaker 2: I'm not certain ken if I'm more surprised at what
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Speaker 2: they did or the fact that Johann Duran got traded.
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Speaker 3: We can get into that in a moment. But what
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Speaker 3: about the Yankees.
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Speaker 2: Obviously, this is a team always with expectations to go
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Speaker 2: into the postseason, get deep into the postseason.
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Speaker 3: Did the Yankees do enough?
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Speaker 1: They did quite a bit, and Alana hats off to
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Speaker 1: them because they were one of the big winners of
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Speaker 1: the day in my opinion. Now, granted, with all of
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Speaker 1: these things, we can say one team is a winner,
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Speaker 1: another team is a loser, and we can make our
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Speaker 1: list as we all will after the deadline. We actually
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Speaker 1: don't know who is going to end up winners and losers.
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Speaker 1: But let's look at who the Yankees acquired over the
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Speaker 1: course of this deadline period, and a climax today with
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Speaker 1: the acquisitions of three relievers. Astonishing acquisitions actually, because all
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Speaker 1: of them are under club control beyond this season. And remember,
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Speaker 1: the Yankees face the losses of Devin Williams and Luke
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Speaker 1: Weaver at the end of the season into free agency.
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Speaker 1: But they get David Bednar from the Pirates one year
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Speaker 1: extra control, Jake Bird from the Rockies, he's got additional control,
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Speaker 1: Camillo Daval that's a bullpen. When you put those two
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Speaker 1: with Weaver and Williams and some of the injured relievers
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Speaker 1: they have coming back, it's going to be quite a group.
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Speaker 1: And of course the Yankees had previously addressed their position
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Speaker 1: needs with McMahon and Slater and Rosario, and today they
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Speaker 1: add Jose Cabalero as well. They are a better team today,
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Speaker 1: a significantly better team than they were yesterday. And they
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Speaker 1: did this at a time when the Red Sox will
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Speaker 1: get to them at some point. Did not have an
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Speaker 1: impressive deadline, and the Blue Jays did some things, but
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Speaker 1: I don't know that they improved themselves as much as
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Speaker 1: the Yankees did. Maybe they didn't need to. But the Yankees,
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Speaker 1: what they did with Brian Cashman orchestrated at this deadline,
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Speaker 1: it was a tour de force along the lines of
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Speaker 1: what Aj Prelller did. Maybe not quite as dramatic, but
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Speaker 1: pretty darn close.
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Speaker 2: The fact that the Yankees got David Bednar and I
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Speaker 2: was like, oh wowow, that is quite the get. The
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Speaker 2: Yankees bullpen just became that much better. But that also
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Speaker 2: means that the Pirates were willing to let David Bednar go.
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Speaker 2: What do you make of what the Buckoes did in
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Speaker 2: terms of this deadline?
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Speaker 1: Huge disappointment And I'll tell you why, Alana. They had
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Speaker 1: a chance here to bring back some impact offensive talent.
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Speaker 1: With Mitch Keller, they did not trade him. They did
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Speaker 1: not even trade the guys that they have on expiring contracts,
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Speaker 1: Tommy fam and Andrew Heaney and Isaiah Kiner Fileffa. Now
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Speaker 1: maybe they wouldn't have brought much back, and they did
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Speaker 1: make some deals, but when you compare what they did
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Speaker 1: to what the Baltimore Orioles did, the Baltimore Orioles had
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Speaker 1: a ton of players to trade, and they traded nearly
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Speaker 1: all of them. They restock their system. They believe they
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Speaker 1: will compete in twenty twenty six as well, even though
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Speaker 1: they traded some controllable assets. In addition to the ones
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Speaker 1: unexpiring contracts, they could have retained Kittridge, They could have
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Speaker 1: retained Loreano ramoni Odius. They had a number of players
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Speaker 1: that they just said, you know what, we're going to
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Speaker 1: start over. We're going to take advantage of this opportunity.
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Speaker 1: And they did in a way that the Pirates did not.
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Speaker 1: And I want to show you what the Pirates did
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Speaker 1: before we go any further here, because it is telling
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Speaker 1: and it is revealing, and we'll see what this means
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Speaker 1: for their general manager, Ben Sherrington, who has been under scrutiny. Okay,
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Speaker 1: they trade Bednor, they trade Falter, Adam Frasier, Caleb Erkuson,
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Speaker 1: and they did move Cabrian Hayes. It's good money that
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Speaker 1: they're getting off their books there. But look at the
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Speaker 1: guys that they kept, Mitch Keller, Dennis Santana, Andrew Heiney,
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Speaker 1: Isaiah kine Filefa and Tommy fam the expiring contract guys. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: they'll help them the rest of the season. That's all
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Speaker 1: well and good, and maybe they feel with Keller he's
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Speaker 1: under control for several more years. It's a good contract
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Speaker 1: they won him leading that young rotation. But where their
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Speaker 1: depth is is starting pitching. That is where they could
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Speaker 1: have afforded to trade a Keller, have schemes lead their
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Speaker 1: staff for the next few years and go from there.
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Speaker 1: They didn't do that. They didn't trade Dennis Santana, who
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Speaker 1: I'm sure I had value in a hot relief market.
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Speaker 1: So the pirates, for me, I empathized with them because
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Speaker 1: of their market size, and I understand the challenges that
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Speaker 1: they face, but they had an opportunity to hear and
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Speaker 1: with Keller, opposing teams never got the sense that they
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Speaker 1: were really that interested in trading him.
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Speaker 2: Can let me ask you this, because I thought, I
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Speaker 2: don't know what the heck, guy, I know nothing, that
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Speaker 2: this was going to be a very quiet deadline. You
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Speaker 2: had thought perhaps that maybe it wasn't going to be
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Speaker 2: as active as it was. I am blown away with
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Speaker 2: the amount of trades and some of the pieces that
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Speaker 2: have gone and moved around. Would you say that this
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Speaker 2: trade deadline met your expectations in terms of quietness, if
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Speaker 2: that's even a word. What do you think about how
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Speaker 2: this whole thing went down, if you had to like
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Speaker 2: kind of paint it with the broad brush allow.
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Speaker 1: I'm glad you asked this. And first of all, when
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Speaker 1: you say you don't know anything, I don't know anything either.
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Speaker 1: Because I felt a number of executives felt a number
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Speaker 1: of other people felt that because of the lack of
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Speaker 1: quality players available compared to other years, this wasn't going
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Speaker 1: to be as exciting a deadline. I would estimate, or
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Speaker 1: can kind of say that this was one of the
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Speaker 1: more exciting deadlines we've ever had. Now, there was no
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Speaker 1: Wan Soto traded, no Max Suers are traded, nothing like that.
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Speaker 1: But the Mason Miller deal was a big deal. The
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Speaker 1: Carlos corea deal was a big deal. We go back
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Speaker 1: to ralphae Old Devers. That was a big deal. So
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Speaker 1: it definitely exceeded my expectations. And I remember again a
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Speaker 1: couple of weeks ago or so, an executive telling me,
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Speaker 1: you guys, reporters are going to be disappointed because this
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Speaker 1: is not going to be good. But what happens is
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Speaker 1: this is one of the few times of the year,
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Speaker 1: Alana where transactions are made, right the winter meetings. The
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Speaker 1: winter in general is another time. But if you don't
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Speaker 1: make trades here, you don't have an opportunity to do
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Speaker 1: that in the final two months. So you have to go.
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Speaker 1: And most of these teams realize that the Padres certainly did,
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Speaker 1: the Yankees certainly did any number of other teams as well. No,
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Speaker 1: I'm not getting to everyone here, but I would say
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Speaker 1: the deadline was far busier, far more active, far more
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Speaker 1: exciting than I thought it would be. And again it
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Speaker 1: goes to show you that for all our supposed expertise, me, you,
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Speaker 1: everyone else in the media, everyone else in front offices,
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Speaker 1: we never know what's going to happen. And that's the
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Speaker 1: beauty of the deadline. That's why we love it so much.
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Speaker 2: No question about that. A lot of questions still coming
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Speaker 2: up in Grill and Ken. That's next in terms of
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Speaker 2: our segment here on Fair Territory with Ken Rosenthal will
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Speaker 2: be right back.
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Speaker 2: As I look at their chat here right now on
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Speaker 2: this trade deadline fair territory with Ken Rosenthal, it seems
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Speaker 2: like the Cubs and the Red Sox fans are pretty
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Speaker 2: pretty pretty perturbed. Mike g wants to know Alta please
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Speaker 2: press Ken on the Cubs at some point and tell
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Speaker 2: him Cubs fans do not want him to hold back.
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Speaker 2: Do not hold back, and Rosenthal stand up for the
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Speaker 2: Cubby fans.
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Speaker 3: What do you make about what the Cubs did or
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Speaker 3: did not do well?
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Speaker 1: When I wrote my biggest storylines piece going into the
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Speaker 1: deadline day, the Cubs were one of a topics and
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Speaker 1: the Red Sox were another. Now, let's start with the Cubs.
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Speaker 1: What did they add? Mike Soroka, Andrew Kittridge for the bullpen,
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Speaker 1: Taylor Rogers for the bullpen, and Willie Castro. What's missing there?
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Speaker 1: A big time starting pitcher. Now, the only defense I
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Speaker 1: will give the Cubs here on this particular issue is
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Speaker 1: that a lot of big time starting pitchers were not traded.
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Speaker 1: Dylan Cease was not traded, Zach Gallen was not traded,
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Speaker 1: Sandy al Contrado was not traded, Edward Cabrera was not traded.
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Speaker 1: Mitch Keller. We went through that the prices were excessive,
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Speaker 1: and evidently the Cubs did not feel it was worth
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Speaker 1: meaning the price. Now here's the problem. There are times
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Speaker 1: in a franchise's evolution when a team has to overpay.
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Speaker 1: The Cubs did this in twenty sixteen when they went
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Speaker 1: out and got a roll as Chapman. What happened. They
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Speaker 1: won the World Series. This might be the Cub's only
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Speaker 1: year with Kyle Tucker, only year he's eligible for free agency.
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Speaker 1: I don't know that many of us expect the Cubs
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Speaker 1: to re sign him. In my view, this was a
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Speaker 1: year in which they had to overpay. Their rotation is vulnerable,
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Speaker 1: was vulnerable, and will be vulnerable. I don't see them
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Speaker 1: quite in the harshest light as I do with the
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Speaker 1: Red Sox. I see them in the harshest light. But
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Speaker 1: this was a disappointment in terms of not getting the
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Speaker 1: starting picture that so many of us thought they needed
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Speaker 1: to get. And again there's the caveat where not many
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Speaker 1: of the group's starting pitchers were even moved.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you brought up the Red Socks.
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Speaker 2: Let's bring it up because the fans are clamoring they
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Speaker 2: did nothing. They got Steven Mattz, they got Dustin May.
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Speaker 2: That is not enough, Ken Rosenthal, especially when the Yankees
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Speaker 2: doing what they're doing. Ken, don't tell me Red Sox
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Speaker 2: only got his says justin May. But it is Dustin May.
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Speaker 2: We're right handed hitter tvd as. I mean, they did nothing.
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Speaker 2: This is a massive disappointment for the Red Sox and
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Speaker 2: their fan base.
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Speaker 1: Epic fail comes off an epic fail last year's deadline
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Speaker 1: with Craig Breslow, and this was an epic fail as well.
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Speaker 1: Now again they met the same problem that the Cubs
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Speaker 1: ran into. Joe Ryan is another starting pitcher who wasn't traded.
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Speaker 1: But my understanding is any talks that they had with
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Speaker 1: the Twins were feeble at best. They didn't come at
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Speaker 1: them hard. The Red Sox are one of many teams
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Speaker 1: that uses modeling and tries to figure out what the
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Speaker 1: best values are, and it's all about efficiency and getting
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Speaker 1: the best deal and this and that and the other thing.
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Speaker 1: At some point you've got a fire. It's the same
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Speaker 1: thing we're saying with the Cubs. And they did not
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Speaker 1: even address first base, which I know they've gotten decent
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Speaker 1: work out of Rome Gonzalez and Abraham Toro, but my goodness,
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Speaker 1: that was a position where they had to act. They
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Speaker 1: tried for Suarez, Ajohano Suarez, and they tried with the
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Speaker 1: idea of playing him at first base. Didn't get him.
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Speaker 1: Didn't get a starter other than Dustin May who has
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Speaker 1: not been a very successful starter for the Dodgers, and
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Speaker 1: in their bullpen with Steven Mattz, he's a swing guy.
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Speaker 1: Be effective. But my goodness, they needed more. This is
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Speaker 1: a team that is on the rise. And again they
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Speaker 1: may say, oh, we're going to be better next year.
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Speaker 1: Our young guys will be that much better. Yeah, that's
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Speaker 1: what the Orioles were saying a year ago. There is
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Speaker 1: no guarantee in this sport or any other. So the
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Speaker 1: Red Sox, I don't get it. I don't understand it.
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Speaker 1: And there's going to be some people in Boston, a
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Speaker 1: lot of people in Boston questioning what the heck they did?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, they did nothing, And I can tell you living
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Speaker 2: in this area that it is. You should listen to
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Speaker 2: the sports talk radio right now in the Boston area
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Speaker 2: about what they did not do. As far as the
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Speaker 2: trade deadline is concerned. Let's talk about the Nlcentral Again,
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Speaker 2: we mentioned that the Cubs didn't do much, but what
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Speaker 2: about the Brewers. Did the Brewers even discuss a trade
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Speaker 2: for a bat? Shelby Miller is a nice, low key
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Speaker 2: bullpen edition, but feel they needed a bat. This is
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Speaker 2: from d trained riot Maker. What is your take on
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Speaker 2: what the brew crew did or did not do?
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Speaker 1: First of all, Shelby Miller is I believe still in
17:58
Speaker 1: the injured list. He's coming back, but who knows what
18:01
Speaker 1: he'll be so as far as that being their big
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Speaker 1: bullpen addition, when other teams were loading up on relievers
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Speaker 1: left and right, not impressed. Also not impressed that they
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Speaker 1: didn't get another bat. Listen, it's hard to criticize them.
18:14
Speaker 1: They make the most of what they have. They do
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Speaker 1: a wonderful job, and my goodness, the team that they've
18:18
Speaker 1: put out there this year. It's fun, it's exciting, and
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Speaker 1: it's successful. But it seems to me that more effort
18:27
Speaker 1: was needed. And this is another team you look at
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Speaker 1: and you wonder if there was an opportunity lost. And
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Speaker 1: the good news for the Cubs is that the Brewers
18:34
Speaker 1: didn't go crazy, not that they were ever going to
18:36
Speaker 1: go crazy, but these two teams when compared now to
18:40
Speaker 1: the Padres, to the Mets who got Hellsley and Tyler
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Speaker 1: Rodgers and Cedric Mullins, to the Phillies who got John
18:47
Speaker 1: Durant and Harrison Bader. To the Padres, of course we've
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Speaker 1: discussed them, and of course the Dodgers, the Mighty Dodgers
18:54
Speaker 1: not looking so good, not looking good at all.
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Speaker 3: And the Dodgers didn't do much either.
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Speaker 2: Now, is that because they felt going into the season
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Speaker 2: they were going to do everything in the off season
19:03
Speaker 2: going into twenty twenty five, and they're just hoping that
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Speaker 2: their biggest addition at this trade deadline is Blake Snell
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Speaker 2: coming back and their guys getting healthy. What do you
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Speaker 2: make of the lack of movement? I mean, Brock Stewart, okay,
19:16
Speaker 2: whatever they trade James Outman, but what do you make
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Speaker 2: of it?
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Speaker 1: This was the plan and they were not going to
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Speaker 1: go crazy at the deadline. They never wanted to go
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Speaker 1: crazy at the deadline. That's why they spent all that money.
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Speaker 1: The question I have with the Dodgers is they're expecting
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Speaker 1: all of this to come together, for Snell to be healthy,
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Speaker 1: for show Hate to stay healthy, for maybe Sasaki to
19:39
Speaker 1: come back, for their bullpen to get healed and hole,
19:43
Speaker 1: and then for their hitters who are struggling or at
19:45
Speaker 1: least not performing to the where they have in the past,
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Speaker 1: Freddie Freeman, Mookie Betts and others. They expect it all
19:51
Speaker 1: to come together. There's no guarantee of that. That's my
19:54
Speaker 1: concern with them and Alana. I want to go back
19:57
Speaker 1: to not just the Dodgers here, because the Dodgers, clearly
20:00
Speaker 1: you're trying to win the World Series. We know that,
20:03
Speaker 1: but the goal of every team should be to win
20:06
Speaker 1: the World Series. And the teams that didn't go all out,
20:11
Speaker 1: that's the question I have for them, the contenders, are
20:14
Speaker 1: you trying to win the World Series? Even the Tigers,
20:17
Speaker 1: now I didn't love their bullpen moves. Kyle Finigan was one,
20:21
Speaker 1: Paul Sewall was another. I felt they needed more swing
20:23
Speaker 1: and miss. But they also acquired Chris Paddock and then
20:26
Speaker 1: Charlie Morton for their rotation. Okay, it's modest relatively speaking,
20:31
Speaker 1: but it's not bad and it reinforces what has been
20:34
Speaker 1: their strength to pitching. Are they going all out? No,
20:38
Speaker 1: but at least they're making moves to try to win
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Speaker 1: the World Series. Some of these other teams are not
20:44
Speaker 1: looking at it like that, and that's the problem. I know,
20:47
Speaker 1: the playoffs are random. I know with an expanded postseason
20:49
Speaker 1: they're even more random. But the goal of this sport
20:53
Speaker 1: should be to be the last team standing. I don't
20:57
Speaker 1: know that enough teams look at it that way.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I agree with you.
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Speaker 2: I mean that should be the goal of every single
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Speaker 2: team going into spring training. It's like our goal is
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Speaker 2: to win the World Series. It seems like some of
21:05
Speaker 2: these teams just kind of well, if we're competitive grade.
21:08
Speaker 2: If we're not, that's okay too, you know. But we
21:11
Speaker 2: didn't even talk about the Mariners, and they made some
21:13
Speaker 2: nice additions too. You knew it was going to be,
21:15
Speaker 2: you know, Jerry Depoto and Aj Preller like bing bing
21:17
Speaker 2: being trying to go after one another in in terms.
21:20
Speaker 3: Of the amount of moves.
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Speaker 2: All right, we're going to come back after this quick
21:24
Speaker 2: break with dude and dork of the deadline, We'll be
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Speaker 2: All right, Time now for dude and dork of the
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Speaker 2: Deadline Ken Who is your dude?
22:34
Speaker 1: We've talked about Brian Cashman, We've talked about aj Preller,
22:37
Speaker 1: but I'm actually going to go with an owner Jim
22:40
Speaker 1: Crane and the Houston Astros. Now, the Astros don't necessarily
22:44
Speaker 1: operate in ways that some of us think they should
22:48
Speaker 1: at times. But even while they've lost all their players
22:51
Speaker 1: in recent years, not all of them, but Bregman and
22:54
Speaker 1: Tucker and Correa, Crane has always tried to put the
22:57
Speaker 1: most competitive team on the field he can usually some
23:01
Speaker 1: salary restrictions. By getting Correa back, I don't know if
23:04
Speaker 1: it's a great move, but it's a cool move. It
23:07
Speaker 1: makes his team interesting, and certainly Correa is going to
23:10
Speaker 1: be welcomed back like a hero to Houston. Remember, they
23:13
Speaker 1: didn't sign him, they didn't they make him that competitive
23:16
Speaker 1: an offer in free agency, and now they bring him back. So,
23:19
Speaker 1: Jim Crane, I know I've been critical of you in
23:21
Speaker 1: the past, and at times for very good reasons, but
23:24
Speaker 1: today you're the dude of the week.
23:26
Speaker 2: It's funny too, because Julia morells Clark does a tremendous
23:29
Speaker 2: job as a sideline reporter for the Astros, and we
23:31
Speaker 2: have a text thread of like six or seven sideline
23:33
Speaker 2: reporters that just like talk back and forth, and she's like,
23:37
Speaker 2: we're going to Boston and New York this week.
23:38
Speaker 3: I have a feeling.
23:39
Speaker 2: We're going to get booed with Carlos Carea back on
23:43
Speaker 2: the team. But I love that for them and good
23:44
Speaker 2: for him. All Right, you is your dork of the deadline,
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Speaker 2: Ken Rosenthal.
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Speaker 1: It has to be Craig Breslow. And I know it's
23:53
Speaker 1: a hard job, and I have a great deal of
23:56
Speaker 1: respect for all the people who do these jobs, all
23:59
Speaker 1: the people who do every job in baseball. It's more
24:01
Speaker 1: difficult than all of us on the outside think. But
24:04
Speaker 1: he had a clear mission here. He knew what was
24:07
Speaker 1: at stake. He has a team that a lot of
24:09
Speaker 1: us think is capable of doing big things, and he
24:12
Speaker 1: did not deliver. Craig Breslow has got to be my
24:14
Speaker 1: dork of the week.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I can't.
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Speaker 2: I can't disagree with you one thousand percent. They did nothing.
24:19
Speaker 2: This is a team that rattled off ten straight wins
24:21
Speaker 2: going into the deadline. They're fighting, they're scratching, their clawing.
24:25
Speaker 2: They got rid of devers and dumped that salary. They
24:28
Speaker 2: could have done a lot of things and they chose
24:30
Speaker 2: not to do so. All right, So Ken is live
24:32
Speaker 2: for Major League Baseball Speedway Classic on Fox. Don't forget
24:35
Speaker 2: Dodger's Territory follows this show. Ken is back with a
24:39
Speaker 2: brand new episode, A Fair Territory with Ken Rosenthal on Monday.
24:43
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24:52
Speaker 2: a breather, have a glass of wine. Thank you for
24:55
Speaker 2: all that you do. We appreciate you very much, my friend.
24:57
Speaker 2: We'll see you on Monday.
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