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Monster Territory: Red Sox Sign Alex Bregman Emergency Pod! · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: Now we do what ever about it? Hello? Hello, Hello,
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Speaker 1: it is a good day everybody. Well it's nighttime right now?
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Speaker 1: What time is it? Even? It's eleven fifty? I mean
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Speaker 1: I have lost complete dragon time. Hello. The Red Sox
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Speaker 1: have signed Alex Bregman. My goodness, I'm still in shock.
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Speaker 1: I'm still processing this. Still a lot of emotions going on, right.
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Speaker 1: You know, the Red Sox coming into the off season,
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Speaker 1: you knew they were gonna start making some moves, but
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Speaker 1: you just wondered how far were they willing to go.
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Speaker 1: You know, the Wan Soto stuff came out of nowhere,
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Speaker 1: and you're thinking, Okay, this could be realistic. Could we
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Speaker 1: actually land the big dog in Juan Soto ended up
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Speaker 1: falling short. He went to the Mets. But then you
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Speaker 1: make the Garrett Crochet trade. Then you go out there
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Speaker 1: get Walker Bueller. You start making some respectable signings, right,
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Speaker 1: you know, all roll this chatman coming in to beef
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Speaker 1: up the bullpen, justin Wilson. But you felt like they
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Speaker 1: were still lacking something. You knew they needed one more guy,
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Speaker 1: and you knew they needed a right handed bat. Right
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Speaker 1: you know, there were some other right handed bats on
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Speaker 1: the market. You had Taoscar Hernandez out there. Willia Domas
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Speaker 1: was out there as an option at one point, and
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Speaker 1: then the market started dwindling, and you're thinking, Okay, who
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Speaker 1: is this right handed back gonna be? Alex Bregman is
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Speaker 1: still sitting there. Has the Alex Cora connection. Cora was
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Speaker 1: raving about Alex Bregman at the winter meetings. There was
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Speaker 1: a clear connection there. He's always hit well at Famway Park,
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Speaker 1: perfect ballpark for him, and he's still just sitting there.
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Speaker 1: And then you think back to the last five years
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Speaker 1: or so. You lost out to Zach Eflin, you lost
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Speaker 1: out to Seth Lugo, to two small market teams, might
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Speaker 1: I add, and you're starting to think like, okay, are
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Speaker 1: the Red Sox actually gonna pony up the money for
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Speaker 1: mister Alex Bregman. When the Detroit Tigers were involved, and
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Speaker 1: supposedly they made a big offer according to John Hayman,
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Speaker 1: I guess over one hundred and seventy million bucks. That
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Speaker 1: caught me by surprise. I was thinking maybe the Blue
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Speaker 1: Jays were a team that made a pretty good offer.
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Speaker 1: In the end, you have the Tigers there. The Cubs
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Speaker 1: came in late. You know, they were trying to figure
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Speaker 1: out some kind of a creative deal. You know, like
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Speaker 1: I said, the Blue Jays, maybe they return to Houston,
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Speaker 1: But you're still thinking Alex Bregman, he's perfect for Femway Park.
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Speaker 1: If you're gonna do a short deal with opt outs,
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Speaker 1: why not Femway Park because that's a place where he's
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Speaker 1: always hit well in his career. You could juice up
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Speaker 1: his numbers for a whole year and then if you
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Speaker 1: want to go back out into the market again next year.
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Speaker 1: I mean, to me, the Red Sox were the perfect
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Speaker 1: landing spot. But the only question was would they spend
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Speaker 1: the money to get it done. That was the only thing,
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Speaker 1: and go back. Like I said, Zach Efflin, Seth Lugo,
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Speaker 1: you didn't know they were gonna do that, and they did.
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Speaker 1: They got the monkey off their back with this. You know, sure,
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Speaker 1: it's not a long term deal. You know, it's not
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Speaker 1: a Wan Soto deal by any means, but this is
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Speaker 1: a lot of money. We're gonna break this down everyone.
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Speaker 1: But let's dive into this, shall we. There is a
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Speaker 1: lot to talk about here. We're gonna talk about the contract.
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Speaker 1: We're gonna talk about you know, the impact he brings
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Speaker 1: to the lineup. You know, where's he gonna play right?
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Speaker 1: You know we've been talking about second base, but could
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Speaker 1: there be another option out there. We're gonna break this down.
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Speaker 1: Let's get to it here. So here we go. Look
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Speaker 1: at that, Look at it, Look at look at this.
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Speaker 1: If you're with us live on YouTube, look at Alex
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Speaker 1: Bregman in that Red Sox jersey. Look at that jersey swap. Ah,
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Speaker 1: it's beautiful. It's beautiful. Oh oh, it's great. But here
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Speaker 1: we go. The one to break it, I believe was
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Speaker 1: Chandler rum. Now, if we were to go here, he
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Speaker 1: said here Alex Bregman's contract with the Red Sox is
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Speaker 1: for three years and one hundred twenty million dollars, sources
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Speaker 1: tell the athletic. That is a pretty hefty penny right there,
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Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen. That is it took me in my head.
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Speaker 1: I think at first I thought I thought I saw
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Speaker 1: four one twenty, so I was thinking thirty million in
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Speaker 1: my head. But then I looked a little closer and
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Speaker 1: I'm like, oh, oh, that's forty million per year, and
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Speaker 1: that made me think, Wow, the Red Sox, they really
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Speaker 1: really stepped up there in the end. They got aggressive
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Speaker 1: in the end. I'm waiting to hear the fallout of this.
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Speaker 1: I'm waiting to hear the fly on the wall stuff here,
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Speaker 1: unless there's already some stuff out there that I've completely missed.
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Speaker 1: But I want to know what this whole process was like.
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Speaker 1: Was this a late charge from the Red Sox, Like
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Speaker 1: did they come in hot at the end and get
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Speaker 1: the deal done? John Henn putting out his wife putting
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Speaker 1: out a picture of that man smoking a cigar. That's amazing,
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Speaker 1: that's amazing. We needed the old John Henry, we needed that.
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Speaker 1: They needed that, and he stepped up and they got
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Speaker 1: it done. But again, I am waiting to see how
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Speaker 1: this ended up coming together. I'm very interested, you know,
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Speaker 1: was this something the Red Sox. You know, were they
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Speaker 1: in this ballpark the entire time or did they just
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Speaker 1: make a phone call and say, all right, you know what,
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Speaker 1: we're done with this. We're done playing the games forty
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Speaker 1: million per year, opt out after each season, take it
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Speaker 1: or leave it, or we're going after Aeronato. Funny thing,
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Speaker 1: I guess if you really think about it, did they
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Speaker 1: use the Aeronato trade talks as leverage this entire time?
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Speaker 1: Kind of seems like it now or was that a
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Speaker 1: realistic possibility, you know, was that something that could have
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Speaker 1: had happened? It felt like it. You were starting to
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Speaker 1: hear Aeronauto all over the place, you know, everywhere. Everyone
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Speaker 1: was talking about it because you're thinking, are the Red
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Speaker 1: Sox going to spend the money? And in the end
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Speaker 1: they did, you know, and you know, Aeronaudo sure would
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Speaker 1: have been nice. I would have liked the defense at
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Speaker 1: third base. I would have liked to see what the
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Speaker 1: bat could do at Fmway Park. I think you would
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Speaker 1: have seen a revitalized Aeronauto at Fmway. But either way,
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Speaker 1: I would have been completely okay with him. I feel
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Speaker 1: a lot better about this one though. This is what
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Speaker 1: I wanted from the start, you know, going back, you know,
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Speaker 1: early on in the off season, I would have been
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Speaker 1: okay with say Oscar Hernandez. I would have been okay
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Speaker 1: with Willia Domas. But you know, one thing to bring
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Speaker 1: up with those guys is while I would have liked
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Speaker 1: those additions, the Red Sox really needed to work on
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Speaker 1: the strikeouts. They were a high strikeout team this past year.
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Speaker 1: That's one benefit Alex Bregman is going to bring to
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Speaker 1: this lineup. And that's just one of many benefits here. Now,
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Speaker 1: if we're going to really break this down, this is
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Speaker 1: a big impact here. This is there's a lot coming
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Speaker 1: to the table here that I think people don't even realize,
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Speaker 1: like how much he is bringing to the table. First off,
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Speaker 1: right handed bat, That's what the Red Sox needed. They
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Speaker 1: needed balance in this lineup, right. You had too many lefties.
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Speaker 1: There's lefties all over the place. You needed an every
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Speaker 1: day right handed bat. No, not Randall Grickschik, No, not
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Speaker 1: Justin Turner. I love my Jinger brother, I missed that man,
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Speaker 1: but that's not the bat you needed, right You needed
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Speaker 1: it an every day right handed bat to balance out
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Speaker 1: this lineup. And Craig, he's been telling us that from
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Speaker 1: the get go. He's been saying that for a while.
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Speaker 1: He was just saying that what yesterday saying yeah, we're
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Speaker 1: engaged trying to find, you know, an impact right handed bat.
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Speaker 1: A lot of people were thinking, this guy's full of bs,
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Speaker 1: this guy's you know, he's just missed word salad, you know.
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Speaker 1: But in the end, Craig was telling you right to
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Speaker 1: your face that they were working on it, and he
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Speaker 1: got it done. So I think there needs to be
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Speaker 1: a little bit more faith with Craig Breslo moving forward.
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Speaker 1: He got the big trade done this offseason, and he
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Speaker 1: got the big signing done. It was a buzzer beater signing,
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Speaker 1: but he got the deal done. So Bregman strikeouts, that's
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Speaker 1: going to help out. But where Bregman is really going
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Speaker 1: to bring the impact is how good that bat plays
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Speaker 1: at Femway Park. If you're looking for a bat that
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Speaker 1: fits perfectly at Fenway Park, it belongs to Alex Bregman.
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Speaker 1: Now I'm not saying he's gonna be Manny Ramirez by
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Speaker 1: any means, but when you look at the batt ball
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Speaker 1: Max Strickx, you know, pretty middle of the road last year, right,
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Speaker 1: you know, in Houston he had the Crawford boxes fitting there.
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Speaker 1: So you know that a lot of people were thinking, well,
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Speaker 1: is Camerica going to be a good fit for him?
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Speaker 1: Will Wrigley Field be a good fit for him? But
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Speaker 1: you look at Femway Park and you go to the
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Speaker 1: park factor for right handed hitters, they were very good
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Speaker 1: when it came to park factor. Right I think they
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Speaker 1: were third overall when it came to right handed bats.
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Speaker 1: You have the Green Monster there. He's a guy that
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Speaker 1: is going to be a pole hitter. He's always been
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Speaker 1: a pole hitter, but he is He's definitely going to
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Speaker 1: use that to his advantage. At Fenway Park, I was
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Speaker 1: getting at least thirty doubles, maybe he even approaches forty.
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Speaker 1: I could see a twenty five home run guy from Bregman.
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Speaker 1: The bat is going to bring a lot of impact.
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Speaker 1: He has always hit well at Fenway Park over a
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Speaker 1: twelve hundred career ops at Fenway Park in his career.
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Speaker 1: There's no question this is a great fit. Now, Like
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Speaker 1: I said, I would have liked to have seen what
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Speaker 1: Aeronado could have done. I was thinking that was going
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Speaker 1: to be the more realistic option because I was thinking
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Speaker 1: in my head the Red Sox didn't wanted to spend
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Speaker 1: the money. They would have gone for the cheaper route
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Speaker 1: with Aeronata. But this is definitely the better option, right,
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Speaker 1: You getting a guy that's a few years younger than Aeronato.
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Speaker 1: This is just so much better across the board is
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Speaker 1: so much better now. Where Bregman is also going to
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Speaker 1: impact the Red Sox is the defense. Defensively, he has
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Speaker 1: always been very good right third base. You got to
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Speaker 1: remember with Bregman coming up, coming up with the Astros,
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Speaker 1: Cora was the one, you know, he talked about this
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Speaker 1: when he came on the show and he said, Hey, Bregman,
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Speaker 1: this is a guy that we needed at third base
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Speaker 1: at the time, right, because you already had kra you
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Speaker 1: had two v They had to move Bregman out of necessity.
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Speaker 1: You gotta remember, Bregman was a short stop coming up
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Speaker 1: at LSU. God's a great shortstop. He is gonna be
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Speaker 1: perfectly fine if second base is his home moving forward.
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Speaker 1: U Core has even talked about this. He says he
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Speaker 1: sees Bregman as a guy that's a perfect middle infielder, right,
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Speaker 1: perfect guy for second base. Right. So let's see if
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Speaker 1: this is the route they end up going we'll talk
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Speaker 1: about third basing just a second, but if he ends
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Speaker 1: up playing second base, he's gonna be some good defense
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Speaker 1: over there. The Red Sox really needed improvement with that,
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Speaker 1: especially if Trevor's story is back for a full year.
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Speaker 1: I mean, my good. If you factor that in as well,
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Speaker 1: the defense is going to improve so much in the
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Speaker 1: middle infield. I can't tell you enough how important middle
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Speaker 1: infield defense is. You need to have that spine of
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Speaker 1: the field strong. You need good defense in the middle,
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Speaker 1: end field, catchure, you need to be good there, center field,
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Speaker 1: you need to be good there. They're doing pretty good
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Speaker 1: overall when it comes to the spine of the field.
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Speaker 1: Now it's gonna be interesting with Raffael Devers. Now, the
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Speaker 1: big talking point with Aeronato was RAFFI would move off,
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Speaker 1: probably go to DH. If they ended up moving Cossas,
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Speaker 1: who was hot on the trade block at one point,
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Speaker 1: maybe they could have him play first base. Obviously that's
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Speaker 1: not gonna happen now. But when it comes to Raffia third,
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Speaker 1: could you still see a scenario where Bregman ends up
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Speaker 1: playing third base. I think it's possible now. I thought
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Speaker 1: about it because I'm seeing people talk about it, and
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Speaker 1: I think in the end what's gonna end up happening
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Speaker 1: is he ends up playing a little bit of third
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Speaker 1: base here and there, right to give Raffia a day
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Speaker 1: off or whatever, you know, whatever they do there, right,
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Speaker 1: however they shuffle the lineup, I think Bregman will play
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Speaker 1: a little third base here and there. I could see
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Speaker 1: him playing like, I don't know, ten twenty games, you know,
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Speaker 1: maybe thirty. I could see something like that. However, another
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Speaker 1: wrinkle in this is what's gonna happen with Christian Campbell.
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Speaker 1: If Christian Campbell checks off all the boxes in spring right,
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Speaker 1: it's not just about the numbers, It's about the It's
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Speaker 1: about the little things, right. It's the swing decisions, the
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Speaker 1: quality of contact, right, the plate discipline. You know, there's
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Speaker 1: a lot of factors that they're gonna be looking at
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Speaker 1: when it comes to Christian Campbell because they are not
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Speaker 1: going to rush this guy. I'm gonna tell you that
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Speaker 1: right now. They are not gonna rush Christian Campbell, especially
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Speaker 1: now that they have Bregman in the fold. However, if
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Speaker 1: Campbell balls out in spring training and this guy is
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Speaker 1: just checking off all the boxes and he's looking great,
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Speaker 1: there could be a conversation where Christian Campbell could be
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Speaker 1: at second base, Raffi moves off a third, Bregman goes
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Speaker 1: the third, and then what happens with the Yoshida That
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Speaker 1: is something to consider right now. I'd say, the way
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Speaker 1: you see the lineup here with Bregman at second, Raffia third,
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Speaker 1: I think that's what it's gonna be right now. But
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Speaker 1: look out, look out for a possible conversation. If Campbell's ready,
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Speaker 1: there could be something there. We'll just have to wait
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Speaker 1: and see as spring training unfolds. Full squad workouts haven't
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Speaker 1: even happened yet, so let's wait and see another impact.
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Speaker 1: Alex Bregman brings to the fold with the Red Sox,
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Speaker 1: and honestly, you know, yeah, I love the bat. Sure
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Speaker 1: he's gonna improve the defense. I love all that, but
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Speaker 1: I would actually argue what I love the most is
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Speaker 1: what he brings to the team as a competitor, as
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Speaker 1: a person, and what he's gonna bring in terms of
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Speaker 1: competitive attitude. Right, Alex Bregman coming up, This is a
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Speaker 1: guy where you know his parents I believe we're in
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Speaker 1: the uh you know, I believe they were attorneys or whatever.
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Speaker 1: You know, He's always been in a competitive environment, right,
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Speaker 1: you know, growing up as a kid. Then he goes
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Speaker 1: to LSU obviously a big program there in college. Guy
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Speaker 1: that was just built to win, right, comes up with
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Speaker 1: the Astros. Guys just winning left and right. You know whatever,
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Speaker 1: Say what you will about the trash cans. I don't
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Speaker 1: want to talk about it. That's a whole different conversation. Whatever.
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Speaker 1: But still the Astros, they won a lot of games,
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Speaker 1: you know, one another World Series in twenty twenty two.
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Speaker 1: This guy's a winner. And that's what the Red Sox needed.
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Speaker 1: They needed a guy like this. They didn't need someone loud,
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Speaker 1: they didn't need someone boys Terriss, but they needed a
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Speaker 1: guy that has swagger and they needed a guy that
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Speaker 1: knows how to win. They needed, in my opinion, something
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Speaker 1: close to Dustin Badroya. And that's the closest thing you're
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Speaker 1: going to get to Bedrooya. I will always love Patroya
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Speaker 1: obviously for what he did on the field, but what
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Speaker 1: he just brought to the team in terms of his
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Speaker 1: competitive nature, his leadership, the fire that he brought to
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Speaker 1: the team. Bregman is gonna give you a lot of that.
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Speaker 1: He's gonna give you that chip on his shoulder. This
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Speaker 1: is a guy that wants to win. He's gonna be
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Speaker 1: great for this clubhouse. I can't even say it enough.
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Speaker 1: And they need that. You know, the Red Sox, You know, Suirre,
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Speaker 1: they got some veterans here, but you got a lot
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Speaker 1: of young guys as well. You know sure Trevor's story.
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Speaker 1: He's a veteran as well, but you know story over
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Speaker 1: the last couple of years, he's been trying to figure
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Speaker 1: himself out when it comes to the injuries. Right, Bregman,
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Speaker 1: I think this is a guy that you can count
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Speaker 1: on when it comes to being on the field, and
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Speaker 1: he's gonna bring that competitive edge to him. Right, He's
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Speaker 1: gonna keep guys in line. He's gonna want the best
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Speaker 1: out of these guys. Right, had a lot of success
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Speaker 1: in Houston. He's gonna bring that over here to Boston.
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Speaker 1: Right obviously has a good relationship with Alex Corr already.
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Speaker 1: He brings so much, not just as a player, but
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Speaker 1: as a person. And I think that's exactly what the
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Speaker 1: Red Sox need. They needed someone like this in the clubhouse.
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Speaker 1: They needed a voice in the clubhouse, a guy that
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Speaker 1: will also not just have a voice, but lead by
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Speaker 1: example as well. This is what they need now. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: RAFFI obviously this guy. The guy's phenomenal. Right, Trevor Story
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Speaker 1: love Trevor story Right. I think he brings a lot
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Speaker 1: of good things as a guy in the clubhouse. But
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Speaker 1: you needed a guy like Bregman who's been there, done
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Speaker 1: that knows how to wing championships, knows you know, talk
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Speaker 1: with these guys in the clubhouse, even just a conversation
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Speaker 1: about just hitting right philosophy, right strategy. You know, Bregman
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Speaker 1: is a dude, and he's gonna be awesome for this team.
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Speaker 1: I can't stress enough how important that's gonna be. This
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Speaker 1: is such a great signing. It's so good. Now, if
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Speaker 1: you want to, you know, let's talk about the contract, right,
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Speaker 1: three years, one twenty. Yeah, that's pricey, that's pricey. You know.
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Speaker 1: I was talking about it saying, hey, I'm glad the
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Speaker 1: Red Sox they just stepped up and got it done.
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Speaker 1: I yes, I see the forty million dollars per year.
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Speaker 1: That's a lot of money. However, this is what you
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Speaker 1: need to do to get the deal done. This is
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Speaker 1: what the Red Sox have been lacking. You had, Like
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Speaker 1: I said earlier, you had all these teams involved, you
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Speaker 1: needed to make a move like this. You needed to
17:28
Speaker 1: slap down an offer that this man could not refuse.
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Speaker 1: Great move from a front office point of view, because
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Speaker 1: you have to. You have to get aggressive if you
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Speaker 1: want your guy just like the dog. You know. Here's
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Speaker 1: another thing too. I want to point this out because
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Speaker 1: I'm seeing people say, oh, this is this is too
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Speaker 1: much money. Forty million dollars per year. This is the
17:47
Speaker 1: same amount of money that Aaron Judge is making per year.
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Speaker 1: Well that's completely different. But those same people are the
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Speaker 1: ones that are, you know, looking at what the Dodgers
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Speaker 1: are doing this offseason, and they're praising the Dodgers. You know,
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Speaker 1: all this money they're shelling out for Blake Snell, you
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Speaker 1: know taoscar you know all these guys. They're praising these guys.
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Speaker 1: They're praising what the Dodgers are doing. But then I
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Speaker 1: see these same people that they're hating on this. It's like, well,
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Speaker 1: what can we are we just never gonna be happy?
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Speaker 1: Is that just? Is that just a thing? I don't know.
18:23
Speaker 1: I'm glad they did this. Yeah, that's a lot of money,
18:25
Speaker 1: but it's a three year deal. Opt outs after twenty
18:31
Speaker 1: twenty five and twenty twenty six. But it's a three
18:33
Speaker 1: year deal. This is great. This is such a win
18:37
Speaker 1: in every single way possible. I can't even stress how
18:42
Speaker 1: amazing this entire situation is. And there's gonna be money
18:46
Speaker 1: deferred according to reports, so you know like it. It's
18:51
Speaker 1: it's such a win. I can't even say it enough.
18:55
Speaker 1: How much of a win this is. Now, let's talk
18:57
Speaker 1: about the red Size in league. Things just got interesting.
19:05
Speaker 1: Things got interesting all of a sudden, the Red Sox
19:10
Speaker 1: in the major leagues. They now have the seventh best
19:17
Speaker 1: projected record on fangrafts, where they are usually pretty conservative.
19:23
Speaker 1: They got them at eighty five and seventy seven. They
19:25
Speaker 1: got the Yankees at eighty seven and seventy five. All
19:29
Speaker 1: of a sudden, ladies and gentlemen, the American League East
19:34
Speaker 1: just got interesting. I think the Red Sox are absolutely
19:38
Speaker 1: gonna be contenders for this division. Absolutely. You know, they
19:42
Speaker 1: were a team that you were looking at before Bregman.
19:45
Speaker 1: You're thinking, Okay, they have a good shot at a
19:48
Speaker 1: wild card, right, they could probably get the third, maybe
19:51
Speaker 1: they could get the second, could they get the first? Well,
19:53
Speaker 1: I don't know. You got teams like Baltimore there. You know,
19:57
Speaker 1: whatever happens with the Yankees and Baltimore with the East,
20:00
Speaker 1: the other one, you know, is probably gonna get that
20:01
Speaker 1: first wildcard right of some other strong contenders in the
20:05
Speaker 1: American League as well. All Right, so you're thinking, okay,
20:08
Speaker 1: the Red Sox, they have a shot at one of
20:09
Speaker 1: the wildcard spots, probably two or three. But now, all
20:13
Speaker 1: of a sudden, you had a guy like Bregman who
20:15
Speaker 1: is a four win player, wins four wins a bu
20:18
Speaker 1: replacement on fangrafts over the last few years, and I
20:22
Speaker 1: expect him to keep doing that for the next couple
20:24
Speaker 1: of years. He just brings so much in terms of
20:27
Speaker 1: just a balanced profile offensively and defensively. He just made
20:33
Speaker 1: your team that much better. And all of a sudden,
20:35
Speaker 1: I think the Red Sox are a bona fide division contender.
20:39
Speaker 1: This is what Sam Kennedy talked about. This is what
20:44
Speaker 1: he was saying. They did it, Sam Kennedy told you.
20:49
Speaker 1: And that's another thing, you know, I said, we got
20:51
Speaker 1: to have a bit more faith in Craig now moving forward.
20:54
Speaker 1: But now let's start having a little bit more faith
20:56
Speaker 1: in Sam Kennedy. Because those words just got back to
21:00
Speaker 1: what he said at the beginning of the offseason. He said,
21:04
Speaker 1: we will go. If it takes going over the CBT,
21:08
Speaker 1: then so be it to go after the division. They
21:11
Speaker 1: just did that. The Red Sox just went over the CBT,
21:16
Speaker 1: which sounds kind of mind boggling the way they've been
21:19
Speaker 1: going about the payroll over the last few years. The
21:22
Speaker 1: Red Sox now have a payroll on Fangrafts. It's at
21:26
Speaker 1: two forty nine point seven million, probably on the Red
21:31
Speaker 1: Sox payroll account on Twitter, he probably has it. It's
21:34
Speaker 1: probably a little higher than this, probably around twos and
21:36
Speaker 1: fifty five million. They just backed up their words, and
21:44
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the feelings are so good with
21:47
Speaker 1: the Red Sox, and I think the Yankees they just
21:51
Speaker 1: got a they saw this, and I think the Yankees
21:54
Speaker 1: all of a sudden think, okay, all right, here we go,
21:59
Speaker 1: Red Soize, Yankees, We're back. Baby. It's gonna get juicy
22:03
Speaker 1: this season. This is a great move, you know, And
22:06
Speaker 1: I'm not just saying, you know, trying to sound like
22:08
Speaker 1: a biased Red Sox fan. I think it's as a
22:10
Speaker 1: baseball fan, this is a great move should be widely praised.
22:17
Speaker 1: I can't say enough how great this is. There's so
22:20
Speaker 1: many good things. I'm very excited about the Red Sox
22:23
Speaker 1: moving forward here. I was excited about them before this,
22:28
Speaker 1: you know, I was waiting to see, you know, kind
22:31
Speaker 1: of how this team could go. But I saw some
22:33
Speaker 1: good things, a lot of good things. But now that
22:36
Speaker 1: you do this, all of a sudden, my excitement went
22:39
Speaker 1: from like a seven, I'd say a seven out of ten,
22:43
Speaker 1: eight out of ten, ten out of ten, Like, this
22:48
Speaker 1: is what we've been waiting for. A well rounded team,
22:51
Speaker 1: good veterans, lots of potential with the young guys. We've
22:56
Speaker 1: got some pitching. Now, we have an ace in Garrett Crochet,
23:01
Speaker 1: a bullpen that's been beefed up. I do wonder if
23:04
Speaker 1: there could be another move for the bullpen. I know
23:07
Speaker 1: that might be asking for a lot right now, considering
23:10
Speaker 1: obviously just spent the big money here, but I do
23:12
Speaker 1: wonder if a bullpen move could be on the horizon.
23:16
Speaker 1: Maybe that could be a deadline kind of a thing.
23:19
Speaker 1: That's another interesting thing to think about now, because the
23:22
Speaker 1: Red Sox, they have put themselves into a position to
23:25
Speaker 1: compete for this division. What are things going to look
23:28
Speaker 1: like at the trade deadline. They're gonna. I would imagine
23:33
Speaker 1: they're gonna be right in the thick of things for
23:35
Speaker 1: the division. I could see the Red Sox maybe going
23:38
Speaker 1: after you know, a pretty solid name out there. Now
23:42
Speaker 1: they've beefed up this farm system a bit over the
23:44
Speaker 1: or not a bit a lot over the last few years.
23:47
Speaker 1: Could they make a big splash of the deadline, you know,
23:50
Speaker 1: if the bullpen, if they're having maybe you know, I
23:54
Speaker 1: could see the bullpen being a slight question mark here
23:57
Speaker 1: because you don't know how Hansricks is going to be Chatman.
24:00
Speaker 1: I don't really see as a closer Slayton. Can he
24:03
Speaker 1: replicate replicate what he did this past year. I don't know,
24:07
Speaker 1: right Whitlock's coming back or you got Folmer coming back.
24:11
Speaker 1: You got some guys, you know. But I wonder if
24:14
Speaker 1: this bullpen could end up being an area that they
24:17
Speaker 1: take a look at at the deadline. If Ryan Helsley's
24:20
Speaker 1: still out there, could that be a possibility. Maybe who knows,
24:25
Speaker 1: Maybe they have some injuries in the rotation, you know, Yeah,
24:28
Speaker 1: the rotation is looking a lot better, but maybe some
24:30
Speaker 1: guys go down. You never know how things are gonna unfold.
24:33
Speaker 1: Could they go after a guy maybe like Sandy All Kintara,
24:36
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. We'll see. But the Red
24:40
Speaker 1: Sox all of a sudden, just like that, got that
24:44
Speaker 1: much more exciting. There's so many things to think about
24:47
Speaker 1: right now. I'm still processing this in my head. Let's
24:51
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25:19
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25:23
Speaker 1: What else we got? I think we had another one.
25:25
Speaker 1: I love the name here, stressed out Red Sox fan
25:28
Speaker 1: two dollars. If Laddie doesn't get extended, is Boston going
25:33
Speaker 1: after him? That is a good question. I think that's
25:37
Speaker 1: pretty interesting. I wasn't even thinking about that. I don't know.
25:44
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'd have to think about it now
25:47
Speaker 1: They got the opt out. You know, that's another thing.
25:49
Speaker 1: You know, who knows that? I don't know. Man for Bregman,
25:53
Speaker 1: I mean, the only way I could see him opting
25:56
Speaker 1: out because maybe he wants to get a bit more
25:59
Speaker 1: long term set here. Forty million bucks. I mean, that's
26:02
Speaker 1: a lot of mullah that you'd be leaving on the
26:04
Speaker 1: table if you opt out. But I could see the
26:08
Speaker 1: opt out for wanting that longer deal, you know, kind
26:11
Speaker 1: of like what Matt Chapman did. I could see it.
26:14
Speaker 1: So who knows if he ends up opting out, you know,
26:18
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, you got forty million
26:20
Speaker 1: dollars coming off the books. Maybe we'll see. But uh,
26:26
Speaker 1: you know, Vlad, I mean, Vlad's bad at Famway Park.
26:29
Speaker 1: I mean, crying out loud if you're looking for the
26:32
Speaker 1: next Manny at Famway Park, and we'll look no further
26:35
Speaker 1: than Vland Junior. I think it's I mean, I I'm
26:38
Speaker 1: gonna give you the boring answer, but I wait and see.
26:42
Speaker 1: I mean, you got to see how this plays out.
26:44
Speaker 1: But right now, I'm gonna process what we got right now.
26:47
Speaker 1: You know, hey, Vlad Junior, if that ends up happening
26:50
Speaker 1: down the road, then Okay, Well we'll cross that bridge
26:53
Speaker 1: when the time is right. Right now, I'm too excited
26:56
Speaker 1: about this. This is great, so many emotions right now.
27:01
Speaker 1: I'm going to be falling asleep a happy man, and
27:03
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be waking up saying to myself we have
27:07
Speaker 1: Alex Bregman and we could actually make some noise in
27:11
Speaker 1: this division this year. I can't wait. Everyone. Thank you.
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