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Fair Territory: Red Sox lineup questions, Arte Moreno's "survey", Orioles new development building · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to the Monday edition of Fair Territory. I'm
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  Speaker 1: Ken Rosenthal, and I'm coming to you this morning live
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  Speaker 1: from Pirates Camp. You can't really tell looking at where
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  Speaker 1: I am, but this is the office of Pirates Media
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  Speaker 1: relations director Dan Hart. I appreciate Dan lending me his
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  Speaker 1: office for this next half hour. We've got a ton
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  Speaker 1: to get through as we meander through spring training in
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  Speaker 1: Florida and Arizona. First news this morning from John Hayman,
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  Speaker 1: John reporting that Michael Conforto, the outfielder, has signed a
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  Speaker 1: minor league deal with the Cubs. Not clear what his
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  Speaker 1: role might be yet. If he makes the team, the
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  Speaker 1: Cubs obviously have a set outfield. Confordo at one time
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  Speaker 1: was considered a really pop prospect and a really good player.
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  Speaker 1: And yet it's the time of year now when we
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  Speaker 1: see legitimate major league players like Michael Conforto, like Reese Hoskins,
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  Speaker 1: signed minor league deals. Ree Hoskins yesterday agreeing on Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: I should say to a deal with the Cleveland Guardians,
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  Speaker 1: a minor league deal in his case as well, for
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  Speaker 1: the Guardians, who had not signed any hitter, not one hitter,
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  Speaker 1: to a major league contract. This offseason. This is actually
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  Speaker 1: something of a big addition. This is a team that
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  Speaker 1: won the Al Central last season in kind of miraculous fashion, right,
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  Speaker 1: remember that run down the stretch, and they did it
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  Speaker 1: while finishing twenty eighth in the major leagues in run score.
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  Speaker 1: They made the playoffs with the third worst offense in
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  Speaker 1: the entire league. Hard to do. And then this offseason,
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  Speaker 1: as I said, they didn't do anything to upgrade their
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  Speaker 1: offense because in part they have a lot of young
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  Speaker 1: players coming that they're excited about. Okay, fine, well here's
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  Speaker 1: Rhys Hoskins. He steps in. They badly need right handed hitting.
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  Speaker 1: He should help in that regard. Even last season he's
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  Speaker 1: not what he once was in the Philadelphia Phillies uniform,
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  Speaker 1: but last season eight percent above league average in ops plus.
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  Speaker 1: That is an above average major league player. So we
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  Speaker 1: still have some other free agents out there as well,
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  Speaker 1: Lucas Giolito, Zach Lettel, both right handed starting pitchers with
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  Speaker 1: teams now incurring injuries like the Atlanta Braves. And you
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  Speaker 1: also have Max Schurzer still out there. I wrote with
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  Speaker 1: Mitch Bannon of The Athletic over the weekend how he
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  Speaker 1: ultimately could end up back with the Toronto Blue Jays,
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  Speaker 1: so Confordo to the Cubs, Hoskins to the Guardians, and
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  Speaker 1: much more going on in the states of Florida and Arizona.
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  Speaker 1: I hope everybody up north is surviving the snow today,
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  Speaker 1: but obviously it's been a bad winter. Hopefully the baseball
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  Speaker 1: news can kind of warm you up and cheer you
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  Speaker 1: up now. I wrote about the Red Sox this morning,
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  Speaker 1: the Boston Red Sox, that was my first visit here
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  Speaker 1: in Florida the other day. And the question with the
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  Speaker 1: Red Sox, and this is the question that I think
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  Speaker 1: will define their season is how good can their offense be?
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  Speaker 1: We know what has happened with the Red Sox in
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  Speaker 1: the last twelve months or so. Traded Ralphael Devers, they
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  Speaker 1: failed to re sign his replacement, Alex Bregman, and they're
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  Speaker 1: left with a different kind of team, almost like the
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  Speaker 1: Mets in that they reshaped their team somewhat for different reasons,
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  Speaker 1: different ways, different motivations. But the Red Sox they have
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  Speaker 1: a strong rotation. They should have a good back of
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  Speaker 1: the bullpen. The offense is what is in question. They've
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  Speaker 1: added Wilson Contreras, They've added Chad Durbin to I'm sorry,
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  Speaker 1: Caleb Durbin. Two guys who should hit well in Fenry Park.
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  Speaker 1: But at the same time, there is a question of
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  Speaker 1: whether they will have enough power. And there's a question
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  Speaker 1: as well, And this is the one I raised in
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  Speaker 1: the column, probably most prominently, are they going to ask
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  Speaker 1: too much of Roman Anthony? Now, Roman Anthony is, of
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  Speaker 1: course the game's top prospect. Last year, came up, made
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  Speaker 1: an extremely impressive debut with Boston before his season ended
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  Speaker 1: an injury. But Roman Anthony is twenty one years old,
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  Speaker 1: and you're asking him to be the centerpiece of a
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  Speaker 1: team that in the past has had great offensive players,
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  Speaker 1: a team that should in Fenway Park always be something
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  Speaker 1: of an offensive juggernaut. Is Anthony capable of that? Absolutely?
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  Speaker 1: He is capable of that. But the major leagues are
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  Speaker 1: much different than the miners now. In the miners, as
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  Speaker 1: I wrote, they play six games series, stay in one
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  Speaker 1: site all week, then they have an off day on Monday.
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  Speaker 1: And also most minor league players get a scheduled off
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  Speaker 1: day during the week. They are not necessarily prepared for
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  Speaker 1: the rigors of major league travel and the major league schedule.
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  Speaker 1: So to ask Roman Anthony this year to play one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and fifty games. That might be a stretch. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: moving on to the other team in Fort Myers, Florida,
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  Speaker 1: that would be the Minnesota Twins. Twins had some rough
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  Speaker 1: news in the past week, learning that Pablo Lopez will
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  Speaker 1: undergo Tommy John surgery, and they had a scare just
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  Speaker 1: a couple of days ago when Joe Ryan was scratched
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  Speaker 1: from a start. Turns out that he has only inflammation
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  Speaker 1: in that or back. He might be questionable for the
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  Speaker 1: WBC now, but he is healthy, should be fine for
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  Speaker 1: Opening Day. But this raises the point of teams that
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  Speaker 1: wait too long to trade their players, and we see
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  Speaker 1: this happen all the time in baseball. The Twins are
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  Speaker 1: a team that, of course deconstructed in a major way
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  Speaker 1: last July at the deadline. You remember all the players
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  Speaker 1: that they moved, Carea being the headline, a number of
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  Speaker 1: others as well, including really their entire bullpen. At that time,
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  Speaker 1: they chose not to trade Joe Ryan, not to trade
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  Speaker 1: Pablo Lopez, and I think Pablo might have been heard
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  Speaker 1: at that time, but Joe Ryan they kept. And the
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  Speaker 1: danger when you do that is you're risking a player
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  Speaker 1: or pitcher getting injured or not performing to his previous norms.
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  Speaker 1: The Twins in this case with Pablo Lopez, they were
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  Speaker 1: probably going to trade him at the deadline if he
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  Speaker 1: was healthy this year. Joe Ryan might have been a
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  Speaker 1: trade cannon and still might be a trade candidate for
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  Speaker 1: them at the deadline. They talk about them competing. The
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  Speaker 1: Twins keeps saying we want to compete, we want to
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  Speaker 1: be back in the al Central mix and all that. Well,
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  Speaker 1: they haven't spent enough money to do that, and now
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  Speaker 1: they have this question of their rotation without one of
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  Speaker 1: their big premier starters. This team essentially built its rotation
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  Speaker 1: around Lopez and Ryan and then his physician group around
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  Speaker 1: Byron Buxton and some others as well. So we'll see
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  Speaker 1: what happens with the Twins. If you remember, the Miami
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  Speaker 1: Marlins kind of did the same thing last year, kept
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  Speaker 1: all their starters, ultimately traded this offseason, Edward Cabrera and
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Weathers kept Sandy Alcantra, and they're running the same
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  Speaker 1: risk with al Contra that certainly the Twins ran with
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  Speaker 1: Pablo Lopez. Now Sandy's coming off as Tommy John. He
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  Speaker 1: should be fine, but as you hold guys, you again
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  Speaker 1: run the risk of injury or poor performance. I don't
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  Speaker 1: expect that to happen with Santa ALCNTRA, and I expect
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  Speaker 1: him to be a guy who is a trade candidate.
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  Speaker 1: If the Marlins are not in contention, very well might be.
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  Speaker 1: But again, this just whole, this whole scenario this weekend
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  Speaker 1: just posed the question again about waiting too long for
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  Speaker 1: certain players to be traded. You can hold them too far,
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  Speaker 1: you can keep them too much, and that point, sometimes
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  Speaker 1: you get stuck and sometimes you end up in a
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  Speaker 1: bad place. All right, last point before I get to
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  Speaker 1: the inside dish. You might have noticed comments from Angels
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  Speaker 1: owner Arty Moreno recently about how the Angels took a
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  Speaker 1: survey of their fans, and Arti Moreno said that winning
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  Speaker 1: for fans was not in their top five things that
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  Speaker 1: they really wanted. Affordability was number one. Winning wasn't even
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  Speaker 1: in the top five. Now, one, I'd like to see
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  Speaker 1: this survey. No one has seemed to have surfaced it
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  Speaker 1: just yet. And number two, that is an absurd premise.
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  Speaker 1: And I seriously doubt any sampling of Angels fans or
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  Speaker 1: at fans in any city would say and winning's not
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  Speaker 1: a big deal, not in my top five. I want
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  Speaker 1: good concessions, I want cheap parking, I want affordability. I
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  Speaker 1: want a good entertainment. No, no, no, no, no, fans want
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  Speaker 1: to win. Arnie Moreno should know fans want to win.
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  Speaker 1: You see the Samblum tweet there, and he wrote about
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  Speaker 1: this as well. And I will just say this about
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  Speaker 1: Artie Moreno. Dork of the Week is coming up on Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: and I mentioned last week the Red Sox owners were
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  Speaker 1: going to be tough to beat, and Tony Clark beat them.
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  Speaker 1: Artie Moreno is going to be tough to beat this
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  Speaker 1: week unless we see that survey. Let's see it. Let's
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  Speaker 1: see the survey says, as they used to say on
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  Speaker 1: a certain game show, Let's see exactly what the Angels
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  Speaker 1: were talking about here, because I'm not buying that fans
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  Speaker 1: don't care about winning Angels. Fans do not care about
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  Speaker 1: winning Angels. Fans I am quite sure would love to win.
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  Speaker 1: All right, we'll be back with the Inside Dish right after.
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  Speaker 1: Well, all right, time now for the inside dish, the
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  Speaker 1: part of the show where I talk about maybe a
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  Speaker 1: story I've written, maybe a trend in the game or
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  Speaker 1: maybe I take a stroll back in time. Now. I
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  Speaker 1: don't like to do that. I like to talk about
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  Speaker 1: the present and not the past. But I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: kind of blend the two this morning on the inside Dish,
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  Speaker 1: because I experienced something over the weekend at Orioles camp
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  Speaker 1: that just jogged my memory about what it was like
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  Speaker 1: when I first started covering the Orioles back in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: eighty seven. That's right. This is actually my fortieth spring training,
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  Speaker 1: number forty, and my first spring training. I was hired
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  Speaker 1: at the age of twenty four in the middle of
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  Speaker 1: spring training and went down to Miami to cover the
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  Speaker 1: Baltimore Oriols. That was the job I was hired for,
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  Speaker 1: to compete against Tim Kirkton now with the ESPN and
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  Speaker 1: Richard Justice then with the Washington Post. These were two
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  Speaker 1: of the giants in baseball writing at the time and
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  Speaker 1: even now, and let's just say that was overmatched. But
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  Speaker 1: we digress. What stood out that first spring training was
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  Speaker 1: the facility where the Orioles played. It was Miami Stadium,
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  Speaker 1: actually Bobby Maduro Stadium it was called. It was in
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  Speaker 1: downtown Miami. It was not in a great neighborhood, and
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  Speaker 1: it was kind of a rundown facility. The stadium was
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  Speaker 1: what it was, and off to the side of the
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  Speaker 1: stadium there was what they called the Little Field, and
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  Speaker 1: it was basically an infield where they could practice in
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  Speaker 1: field in addition to having, of course the major league
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  Speaker 1: portion the major League stadium for spring training games. That
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  Speaker 1: was the extent of the Oriel spring training facilities. That
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  Speaker 1: was it. They're minor leaguers trained up the road at
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  Speaker 1: Saint Thomas University that was about thirty miles north, so
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  Speaker 1: their minor leaguers were nowhere near there. They couldn't be
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  Speaker 1: because there was simply not enough room for everyone to
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  Speaker 1: train at once. There was really not enough room for
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  Speaker 1: major leaguers to train. All the advanced things you see today. No,
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  Speaker 1: none of that existed, and the Oriols for a time
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  Speaker 1: were kind of a nomadic team in the spring. At
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  Speaker 1: one point they had their minor leaguers in Sarasota across
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  Speaker 1: the state on the western side of the state, while
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  Speaker 1: the team was either in Miami or Fort Lauderdale, so
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  Speaker 1: the minor leaguers and major leaguers were totally separated. And
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  Speaker 1: then you also had a situation one year where they
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  Speaker 1: played no home games because the entire operation moved to Sarasota,
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  Speaker 1: but they didn't have a stadium yet there. So why
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  Speaker 1: do I mention all this? I mention all this because
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  Speaker 1: the Oriols this spring opened up a twenty three million dollar,
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  Speaker 1: forty seven thousand square foot player development facility right at
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  Speaker 1: their complex at ed Smith Stadium in Sarasota. Now, their
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  Speaker 1: minor leaguers are still in a different part of Sarasota,
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  Speaker 1: so it's not all unified as that. Some teams have
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  Speaker 1: that situation in their own spring complexes. But here you
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  Speaker 1: look at that facility. This is some video that the
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  Speaker 1: Oriols supplied of it, and there are some amazing things
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  Speaker 1: going on in there.
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  Speaker 3: Now.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of teams have these kinds of setups now
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  Speaker 1: at their spring training complexes, but with the Orioles, this
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  Speaker 1: wasn't even possible until the new ownership led by David
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  Speaker 1: Rubinstein took over. Michae Elias President Baseball Operations. He wanted
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  Speaker 1: something like this for years but couldn't get the approval.
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  Speaker 1: Rubinstein came in improved it right away. And what they
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  Speaker 1: have here and I'll try to go through it. You
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  Speaker 1: can see it right there. There are four batting cages,
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  Speaker 1: and these are the big time batting cages with all
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  Speaker 1: the accouterments going on, the high speed stuff, the biomechanics
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  Speaker 1: pitching lab. They have that as well, with thirty plus
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  Speaker 1: cameras in there. And in the part where the cages
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  Speaker 1: are the batting cages, there are four different cages, but
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  Speaker 1: if you lift the nets up that separate them, then
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  Speaker 1: you have an entire full infield. And this is all indoors,
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  Speaker 1: so the Orioles when it rains in Florida, which it
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  Speaker 1: does on occasion, they don't have to worry about not
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  Speaker 1: getting their working. They get all their working. There were
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  Speaker 1: also eight bullpen mountains in this facility, so it's all there.
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  Speaker 1: It's all there for them. And during the winter time
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  Speaker 1: and also even during the season, players can rehab at
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  Speaker 1: this complex in the same way and they can use
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  Speaker 1: it for their Florida Complex League affiliate as well. So
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  Speaker 1: it's weather protected obviously, and it just gives the Orioles
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  Speaker 1: all of the state of the art things that you
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  Speaker 1: would need most teams have now, but all under one roof.
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  Speaker 1: It's an amazing thing to see this, and it's amazing
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  Speaker 1: really how far the game has come in all these
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  Speaker 1: years that I've covered it. None of this technology existed
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  Speaker 1: when I was first starting out as a baseball writer. Heck,
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  Speaker 1: analytics didn't even exist. We're going way back. I know
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  Speaker 1: I'm dating myself and all that, but the point of
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  Speaker 1: it is the game has come so far analytically technologically,
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  Speaker 1: all these different areas, and now the way teams can
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  Speaker 1: care for players and treat players and develop players. That's
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  Speaker 1: the point of this all. It's just at a totally
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  Speaker 1: different level than it once was. In that facility as well,
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  Speaker 1: there are conference rooms and there's even a player's lounge,
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  Speaker 1: and in that conference center. The conference rooms, I should say,
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  Speaker 1: there is one for pitchers, there is one for hitters.
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  Speaker 1: When I was there taking a tour of that facility,
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  Speaker 1: they were having the catchers all in one room meeting
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  Speaker 1: and going over some things through video and other aspects
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  Speaker 1: as well. Again, the advances are incredible. They are exemplified
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  Speaker 1: by this facility, and good for the Oriols in getting
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  Speaker 1: this done. Now. Again, I don't want to just single
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  Speaker 1: out the Oriols and have fans come at me.
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  Speaker 4: My team is doing Yes, all teams are kind of
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  Speaker 4: doing this, but this.
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  Speaker 1: Particular facility it's the newest one and it's a major
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  Speaker 1: step forward for the Orioles and Michael Olias, their president
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  Speaker 1: Baseball Operations, believe the indoor hitting facility might be the
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  Speaker 1: best in the world. I don't know. I don't visit
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  Speaker 1: all these different facilities, but again, they've got it all
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  Speaker 1: going in there, and it's really impressive to see. Now,
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  Speaker 1: how will this translate to helping the team? It certainly
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  Speaker 1: helps players get their work in during the spring, and
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  Speaker 1: the day I was there, a number of their hitters
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  Speaker 1: were taking batting practice inside instead of outside. This is
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  Speaker 1: something that happens in major league clubhouses as well during
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  Speaker 1: the year because inside you still get the ball flight
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  Speaker 1: simulation that you want, you still get the data analysis
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  Speaker 1: that you want, and guys, some of them were just
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  Speaker 1: more comfortable doing it that way. And I'm sure they'll
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  Speaker 1: hit outside as well. But you have these different things
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  Speaker 1: you can do, and if it's really hot, you go
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  Speaker 1: in there. It's climate controlled. It's just a better way
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  Speaker 1: to make players the best that they can be, and
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  Speaker 1: that's the goal of all of these advances that we've
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  Speaker 1: had in the game in recent years. I know fans
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  Speaker 1: sometimes get upset with analytics and they feel it's gone
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  Speaker 1: too far. But the point of them all is simply
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  Speaker 1: to help players improve. And that's the beauty of analytics too,
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  Speaker 1: and that's what it is brought to the game of baseball.
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  Speaker 1: And then when you see these facilities pop up with
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  Speaker 1: their different avenues of technology and all of that, it
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  Speaker 1: just is one other way to make players that much better.
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  Speaker 1: So the game is at an extremely high level in
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  Speaker 1: every way. Other sports have done the same with their
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  Speaker 1: own training methods and nutrition, all of this. It's just
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  Speaker 1: all in a different place than it was back in I.
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  Speaker 4: Don't even want to say it back in nineteen eighty seven,
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  Speaker 4: when I got to the Baltimore Sun age of twenty
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  Speaker 4: four and started covering baseball at Bobby Maduro Stadium with
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  Speaker 4: the little field on the side and not.
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  Speaker 1: A whole lot else going on. All right, we'll be
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  Speaker 1: back with Grill and Can right after this.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, sometimes we do a little game on foul territory
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  Speaker 1: All right back now with grill and can time for
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  Speaker 1: your questions. Let's get right to them. And the update
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: on Giolito and Lttel's markets. Okay, we're talking, of course
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: about Lucas Giolito and Zach Lttel, and it's interesting the
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: way this spring is progressing. Of course, we're going to
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: have the usual share of injuries, and the one team
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: now that has injuries is Atlanta. They lost Spencer showing
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: Back swelling Back, and they lost as well Hurston Waldrop,
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: two guys who might have been part of their opening
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: day rotation. Swelling Back certainly would have been Waldrop as well.
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: And you say, well, okay, why don't the Braves sign
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: one of these guys. It's a valid question. The Braves
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: are in kind of a funny spot because they're sort
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: of jammed up with their roster as far as their
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: pitching is concerned. And in their case, they've got two guys,
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: Bryce Elder and Joey Wentz who are out of options,
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: and the Braves evidently they do not feel that the
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: investment in Gilito or Lttel would be worth what it
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: would take to displace those other two guys. They don't
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: feel Gioledo and Lttel are enough of an upgrade. I
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: guess over Whence and Bryce Elder. That's a debatable point
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: for sure. Giledo really finished the year strong last year
• 20:21
  Speaker 1: and Lttel has been a very consistent starter was for
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: the Tampa Bay Rays. But that's where this is right now.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: And those guys probably are asking, I don't know, ten
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: million north of ten million each, and you can understand
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: their accomplished major league pitchers. They deserve that starting pitchers
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: get paid. But teams like the Braves, other teams that
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: are facing some losses with pitching starting pitching injuries, they
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: just don't seem, at least right now, to be as
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: intrigued by Giorledo and Lttel as you might expect. So
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: that's where it stands with those guys. Again, as I
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: mentioned in the first block, Schresier is also out there,
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: but Scherzer it looks like looks like he might be
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: headed back to Toronto or Toronto should say, all right,
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: next question, do you feel like the Braves don't have
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: enough power to be a serious contender? Enough firepower? No,
• 21:10
  Speaker 1: that's not the problem with the Braves. I expect that
• 21:13
  Speaker 1: their offense is going to revive this season, and for
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: two years now they've been kind of stalled offensively. But
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: Acuna is healthy. I can't imagine Michael Harris June a
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: second and Ozzi Albi's being as bad as they were
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: in the first half of last year. I expect Austin
• 21:30
  Speaker 1: Riley to finally get it together again. Matt Olsen is
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: almost always good. They've got Drake Baldwin, they have a
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: good offense, Mikeystremsky, Jerks and Profar. It's a lot there,
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: so they should be Okay. That's not the question I
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: have with the Braves. The question I have is if
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: they get one more starting pitching injury, then they're really
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: in trouble, and then the choice for Gilito and Lttel
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: might not be a choice at all. They might have
• 21:56
  Speaker 1: to sign one of them if those two pitchers are
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: still available. Next question, see we're waiting for one right here.
• 22:03
  Speaker 1: Here comes Derek Frasier asked. I asked if the Braves
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: could trade for Buston Lopez Ryan with the Pablo Lopez injury,
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: does this change the Twins tune on trading Ryan and
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: or Buxton. That's a fair question because certainly, with losing
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: Pablo Lopez, the team is not as competitive as it
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: might have expected. But under their new ownership, or I
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: should say, they're shifting control people to a different poll
• 22:28
  Speaker 1: lad he's talking like they want to compete, and he
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: keeps saying that, and he keeps coming out saying we
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: intend to be competitive in the Al Central. So I
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: don't expect a trade of either of those players. Ryan
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: or Buxton to happen this spring. Could it happen down
• 22:46
  Speaker 1: the line by the deadline. Certainly could happen if the
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: Twins don't contend, and I'm still having a hard time
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: seeing how they will contend. Now they're in the forgiving
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: Ale Central that will help. But the Tigers should be
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: really good. The Guardians always seem to figure it out.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: The White Sox are improving, and the Royals they see
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: themselves as a contender as well. So I would expect
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: are going to be sellers, but not just yet. All right,
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: maybe we've got time for one more or so it's
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: one comes from the wicked better who asks? Are there
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: any names to watch on the trade market over these
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: next few weeks. There have been a few teams that
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: have said they feel they might make another move or
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: two before opening Day. I would say the big name
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: to watch is Ezac Parades. The Houston Astros have a
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: logjam in their infield. There's simply not enough positions to
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: play both Parades and Christian Walker every day. You've got
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: one of those guys at first base, Altuve at second,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: Paya at short, Correa at third. Okay, there is a
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: DH position, but that belongs to Rodan Alvarez, so Paradis
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: really needs to go. They might not do it by
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: opening day, but he is the big name, of course.
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: And then they're the Red Sox who have a seeming
• 24:02
  Speaker 1: surplus still of starting pitching, and that's after doing some
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: things and trading some pieces during the off season. But
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: they could trade of Patrick Sandoval, even a Brian Beayo.
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: I don't know that I expect it to happen, but
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: it's certainly possible. And then they have again kind of
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: an outfield surplus as well. We've talked about this all
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: winter long. Duran and real you and Rafaela and Yoshita
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: and Anthony. Of course too many guys, so Anthony he's
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: not going anywhere, but Duran, possibly Yeshidah in a salary
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: dump maybe like the Jordan Hicks thing, that could happen.
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: Who knows, but those are some of the names that
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: could get moved, and certainly I would expect there to
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: be a few trades during spring. All right, with that,
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: we're gonna close it out. I want to thank everyone
• 24:54
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