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Angels ink Kenley Jansen, Boone replies to LA, Cubs talking to Turner? · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: The Dodgers beat them, and then they talked about beating
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  Speaker 1: them and they were like, yeah, we knew we were
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  Speaker 1: gonna win. They suck, basically what they said. So I
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  Speaker 1: love this from Marin Boone. He's basically not only standing
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  Speaker 1: up for his players, his organization, and he's also saying,
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  Speaker 1: if we play y' all again, we're coming to whoop
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  Speaker 1: your ass.
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  Speaker 2: Ooh, that's nice.
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  Speaker 3: The sound of a baseball hitting the inside of a glove.
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  Speaker 3: One loyal FT fan yesterday said, were you guys aware
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  Speaker 3: there's a team in camp as of Sunday? Not one
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  Speaker 3: shot from Arizona? Did you even mention it? One picture
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  Speaker 3: of a random player during a combo about uniforms. What
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  Speaker 3: the heck, boys, it's baseball season. I'm going to take
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  Speaker 3: that in a positive and be like, let's go stealthy Jim.
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  Speaker 2: Here it is.
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  Speaker 3: Little ASMR to start off the show. I do think
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  Speaker 3: we mentioned it yesterday and said bye football, see you never.
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  Speaker 3: But hello everyone, bron Presentski and Krafts. It's a nice sound.
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  Speaker 2: Though.
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  Speaker 1: I'm I'm gonna let Crafts go first, because this guy's
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  Speaker 1: gonna about to get it, get it. Oh.
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  Speaker 4: I love when baseball starts with the crack of the minute.
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  Speaker 4: It's funny that they're doing it on a lined football field.
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  Speaker 4: At the end of football season, you know, it's the
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  Speaker 4: agility fields, but now there's always music playing and everything.
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  Speaker 4: Spring training is so exciting to me.
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  Speaker 1: Spring change sucks, but as a former player, I hate it.
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  Speaker 1: But what was that guy's name? What was his screen name?
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  Speaker 1: I just want to no, no, no clubs Vikes. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: First of all, you're a Cubs fan, clearly, so that's
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  Speaker 1: enough said with that. Second of all, you're from Chicago
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  Speaker 1: and you're a Vikings fan. Another thing, enough said, So
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  Speaker 1: clean it up, Jim, stealthy Jim. And then finally, all
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  Speaker 1: we've talked about for two weeks is we can't wait
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  Speaker 1: until football is over and we could talk baseball and
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  Speaker 1: everyone's getting ready to report, And we had jameson tie
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  Speaker 1: On Live from Cubs camp, and we've had guys every
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  Speaker 1: day talking about when they're leaving to go to spring training.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, I think we've discussed it just a little bit. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: we haven't shown anybody because we are not there, but
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  Speaker 1: we are going to camp soon enough. But we're not
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  Speaker 1: going to go to camps when nobody's there. Jim, So
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  Speaker 1: clean up your fandom, Jim, and clean up your tweets.
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  Speaker 3: And Helbie also tries to block like any highlight that
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  Speaker 3: anyone posts, which is the weirdest thing of all time.
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  Speaker 3: We could do eight hours on the background of that
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  Speaker 3: because other leagues don't do that. But that's for another day.
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  Speaker 3: But Jim, we are with you. We love that noise,
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  Speaker 3: except for AJ because he loves that noise when it's
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  Speaker 3: the regular season. So this is the other thing, and
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  Speaker 3: then we'll start on the signing. We do have a distraction,
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  Speaker 3: and it's called off season trades and signings. They're still happening,
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  Speaker 3: and that's what causes this little mess that we have
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  Speaker 3: right now. I will say it's not the worst thing
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  Speaker 3: in the world because sometimes training in terms of news
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  Speaker 3: can get slow. So we do still have a lot
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  Speaker 3: of activity. We're still going to cover. I would say
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  Speaker 3: at least twenty major league signings. Some of them might
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  Speaker 3: be small, right, like we might just spend a couple
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  Speaker 3: minutes later on in the show, maybe even during commercial
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  Speaker 3: break going over Scott Barlow.
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  Speaker 2: But the headliner here, let's charge the damn mound.
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  Speaker 3: We have a double digit million signings charge about double
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  Speaker 3: digit millions, signing one year ten million dollars. Ken Lee
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  Speaker 3: Jansen to the Angels. Ben Joyce is a stud. Now
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  Speaker 3: he's going to move back a little bit. Let him
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  Speaker 3: kind of simmer and learn in a high leverage role.
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  Speaker 3: Also smashes arbitration number down because he won't get as
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  Speaker 3: many saves. But I want to do the positive first, Yes, exactly.
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  Speaker 3: That's why we bring up everything on this show, the
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  Speaker 3: positive first. Aj The Angels have been more active than
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  Speaker 3: a bleed twenty five other teams this offseason, and even
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  Speaker 3: though it's not a super attractive roster, they're at least trying,
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  Speaker 3: which is what we said about the Royals last year,
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  Speaker 3: not trying to make a comp But the Royals tried
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  Speaker 3: last offseason and how did that go for them?
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  Speaker 1: Well, they made the playoffs. But let me see this,
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  Speaker 1: who'd you mentioned Joyce? Right? Ben Joyce?
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  Speaker 2: And Joyce was a billion, one hundred and thirty two
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  Speaker 2: miles an hour.
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  Speaker 1: He should be the closer. I love Kenley Jansen, but
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  Speaker 1: why if you're the Angels and you're an Angels fan,
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  Speaker 1: why do you sign this guy? Don't you want Ben
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  Speaker 1: Joyce to learn how to close games? He's going to
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  Speaker 1: be your closer of the future. They pretty much already
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  Speaker 1: said that. By the way, what a beautiful what a
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  Speaker 1: beautiful picture here in star Vegas. But yeah, yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: mean the leaves are not looking like that today. But
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  Speaker 1: I mean, seriously, if you're the Angels fans, why are
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  Speaker 1: you excited about this? I mean nothing, This is not
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  Speaker 1: a knock on Kenley Jansen at all. I love Kenley,
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  Speaker 1: great guy, he's come on the show, He's awesome to
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  Speaker 1: talk to. But why, I just don't understand this. You
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  Speaker 1: if you have Ben Joyce, you're not You're probably not
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  Speaker 1: going to win this year in that division. So why
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  Speaker 1: bring in Kelly? Yes, I know you want him to
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  Speaker 1: teach Ben Joyce how to do it this and that.
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  Speaker 1: Wouldn't you rather have Ben Joyce in safe situations getting
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  Speaker 1: the ball in the ninth inning, trying to learn how
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  Speaker 1: to save games on the field, rather than have Kenley
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  Speaker 1: Jensen say all right, kid, go get go get the
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  Speaker 1: eighth for me so I can clean up the ninth
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  Speaker 1: And yes, it is a way to also hold down
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  Speaker 1: his salary a little bit because he's not going to
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  Speaker 1: rack up the saves that he should and he'll just
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  Speaker 1: get hold instead.
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  Speaker 3: I'm hard against you on this one only because I
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  Speaker 3: would rather have both, and now we do have both.
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  Speaker 3: If it's other positions, I'm.
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  Speaker 1: Kenley's not gonna pitiate. But Kenley's not going to put
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  Speaker 1: a pitch the eight. He wants to close games because
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  Speaker 1: he's thinking about us Hall of Fame resume, right, That's
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  Speaker 1: the thing to me. So he wants to close. But
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  Speaker 1: I'd rather have Ben Joyce as my closer of the future,
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  Speaker 1: which they all said he is. I want him to
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  Speaker 1: close games. I want him to start out closing games
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  Speaker 1: because he needs to learn how to close games. He
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  Speaker 1: needs to learned when he blows one, how to bounce back.
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  Speaker 1: He needs learned how to Oh, I came in with
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  Speaker 1: a one run lead and second to third no outs,
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  Speaker 1: how to get out of it like that? Anyone can
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  Speaker 1: talk about it, but until you've actually done it, it's different.
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  Speaker 3: But the Angels want to make some noise, at least
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  Speaker 3: in the first half crats and then if things turn
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  Speaker 3: out like perfectly, Trout's back thriving. I don't know, Rendon
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  Speaker 3: finds it. Yon Mancata is the next big thing. Everything
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  Speaker 3: works out for them cool, it's a great story. And
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  Speaker 3: then they have a deeper bullpen. If it doesn't, perfect
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  Speaker 3: guy to trade at the deadline.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, definitely, perfect guy to trade. Did you know Kenley's
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  Speaker 4: middle name is Geronimo? Just found that out today. Just
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  Speaker 4: just look that up. That's a that's I think, a
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  Speaker 4: pretty freaking cool fact. But he said on our show,
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  Speaker 4: he said, I want to go back to la Last
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  Speaker 4: year when he was with Boston and everybody freaked out,
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  Speaker 4: Oh he doesn't want to be here, blah blah blah.
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  Speaker 4: He didn't say you wanted to go back to the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 4: He said he wanted to go back to La here
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  Speaker 4: on the show, And to me, the ten million says,
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  Speaker 4: there was other teams that were interested, because you look
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  Speaker 4: at it, you say, man, there's some teams that really
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  Speaker 4: use a closer, back end of the bullpen kind of guy.
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  Speaker 4: But what Aj said building his resume, I can't wait
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  Speaker 4: till he's back on again.
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  Speaker 5: But I would love to know if.
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  Speaker 4: Other teams maybe were better teams, maybe more playoff contending
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  Speaker 4: teams than the Angels. Didn't offer him the guaranteed closer role,
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  Speaker 4: just offered him a back end spot.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm gonna say this weren't the Red Sox. Everyone
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  Speaker 1: in the chat is like, oh, they're gonna trade him
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  Speaker 1: in July. Wasn't that supposed to be the plan for
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  Speaker 1: the Red Sox last year? And he didn't get traded,
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  Speaker 1: So don't always say like a world as chatman with
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  Speaker 1: the Pirates, right. That was another one Rowdy tells. We've
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  Speaker 1: talked about these some of these guys, they don't end
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  Speaker 1: up getting traded and then they end up going down
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  Speaker 1: and getting stuck, you know, in a team that doesn't
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  Speaker 1: end up doing anything. That was the plan for ken
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  Speaker 1: I mean all we heard last year at the trade
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  Speaker 1: ded line Kenley Jensen to this team, Kelly Gens of
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  Speaker 1: this team, Kenley Gents, you're there not necessarily, So don't
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  Speaker 1: get all excited because Angels fans that they're gonna trade
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  Speaker 1: him and get something, because they might end up keeping them.
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  Speaker 1: And listen again, I love Kenley Jensen. I hope he
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  Speaker 1: has a great year, but I just think for the
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  Speaker 1: team in this situation, unless he's gonna mentor him and
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  Speaker 1: not pitch the ninth I think you need Ben Joyce though,
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  Speaker 1: in the ninth inning, even even a.
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  Speaker 4: Guy like Kimberl came up to the big leagues, Like
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  Speaker 4: he was one of the only guys in my time
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  Speaker 4: playing that I saw in Triple A as a closer,
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  Speaker 4: went to the big leagues as a closer and obviously
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  Speaker 4: had a Hall of Fame type of career.
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  Speaker 5: His first twenty innings he wasn't closing. So maybe that's
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  Speaker 5: kind of the thought process.
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  Speaker 4: But I'm more on the on the camp of like,
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  Speaker 4: look like this is this is completely holding his salary down.
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  Speaker 4: They're able to have another back end reliever, and they
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  Speaker 4: don't really care if Benjys doesn't get the doesn't get
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  Speaker 4: the saves, because that's value in their pocket. Oh and
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  Speaker 4: then second year, second full season in the big leagues,
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  Speaker 4: then he gets his Then he gets his saves and
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  Speaker 4: starts racking him up.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I think he could get dealt if
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  Speaker 3: they have a really bad first half pretty easily. And
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  Speaker 3: if he's good, if he looks like he does the
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  Speaker 3: last two years, he's got value.
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  Speaker 2: I see what you're saying about Chapman for example.
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  Speaker 3: AJ But the pirates thought they were in it even
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  Speaker 3: if we didn't and no one else did. They did
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  Speaker 3: acquire help, right, They got Brian de la Cruz, who
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  Speaker 3: was mostly terrible for them, and they picked up by
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  Speaker 3: Kif who was some depth.
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  Speaker 2: For the pirates.
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  Speaker 3: That is what they call pushing their chips in. So
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  Speaker 3: that's why they weren't going to trade someone like that away.
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  Speaker 1: What about the ript What about the Red Sox and
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  Speaker 1: Ken Lee last year?
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  Speaker 3: The Red Sox have been weird for trade deadlines for
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  Speaker 3: years and I don't know what's going on with them
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  Speaker 3: right This has been like three or four years in
• 10:42
  Speaker 3: a row now and people were blaming Bloom in the past.
• 10:45
  Speaker 3: I start to think that maybe there are just too
• 10:47
  Speaker 3: many cooks in the kitchen on decisions like that. But
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  Speaker 3: maybe it'll change now. Also, I don't think they were
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  Speaker 3: completely out. Did they sell? Did the Red Sox sell?
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  Speaker 5: No?
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  Speaker 3: So that's really what it comes down to. If you're
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  Speaker 3: a clear cut seller at the deadline, this is an
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  Speaker 3: easy conversation. You're at July whatever, and of July, he's
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  Speaker 3: got four ish mill left on the deal, and if
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  Speaker 3: he looks like he usually does, that's an easy trade
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  Speaker 3: away for the Angels and pick up a prospect for
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  Speaker 3: a team that Baseball America just ranked as the thirtieth
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  Speaker 3: best farm system. There's thirty teams in Major League Baseball.
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  Speaker 3: That's not good. So I give him credit because I
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  Speaker 3: want them to at least give the fans a reason
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  Speaker 3: to come to the ballpark. Their owner, Arty Moreno likes names.
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  Speaker 3: Ken Lee is a name. I bet you there's just
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  Speaker 3: like a little Actually, there's probably a lot inside him
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  Speaker 3: that says, I'm gonna get that Dodger guy. I'm going
• 11:43
  Speaker 3: to bring him over here. I mean, look at the
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  Speaker 3: Dodgers twelve years ago in the Angels and now where
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  Speaker 3: those two franchises are. The Dodgers have been a powerhouse.
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  Speaker 3: Now they just want a World Series. They've got star power.
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  Speaker 3: The Angels are in a big market. I mean, they
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  Speaker 3: could do more. And they are your team.
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  Speaker 1: And they're in LA. They're in Los Angeles somehow, some
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  Speaker 1: weird way.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're the LA.
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  Speaker 1: Listen. I'll say this, which is still one of the
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  Speaker 1: craziest things of all the time, but I want to
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  Speaker 1: say this. Ron Washington wants to win. He wants to win.
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  Speaker 1: He's I think he only signed about a two or
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  Speaker 1: a three year deal. They didn't do so good last year.
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  Speaker 1: He needs to win. He needs to win and figure
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  Speaker 1: it out. So yeah, Ron Washington's like, give me Kenley Jansen,
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  Speaker 1: Give me Tim Mantererson, I can fix them. Give me
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  Speaker 1: yo want, give me yo on? Wait, sorry, give me
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  Speaker 1: Anthony rend and Health.
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  Speaker 5: Give me no.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm just I mean, somebody said it's a game
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  Speaker 1: five million dollars, so I don't know, but it's crazy
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  Speaker 1: to me. It's crazy. I mean, listen, Washington wants to win,
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  Speaker 1: so he's like, bring veterans. I don't want to deal
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  Speaker 1: with young guyser, you got to teach him, which Ron
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  Speaker 1: Washington's great at. But you have a usually have a
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  Speaker 1: better chance of winning if you have veteran guys that
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  Speaker 1: have been there and done that.
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  Speaker 2: Could we agree on this?
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  Speaker 3: Here's how I want to finish the point because I
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  Speaker 3: think that the way we look at off seasons has changed.
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  Speaker 3: So many teams do nothing in an embarrassing fashion that
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to smash a team for trying and
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  Speaker 3: doing things now. In the past, when more teams were
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  Speaker 3: involved in off seasons, you could be more critical and
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  Speaker 3: be like, I like the way they spent, I don't
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  Speaker 3: like the way they spent. But nowadays it's like half
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  Speaker 3: the teams do nothing. So I'm going to say the half.
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  Speaker 3: The teams that do nothing are down here. The teams
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  Speaker 3: that do something that I like are here. And I'm
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  Speaker 3: going to say, there's the teams in the middle where
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, at least they improve their roster. Is it
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  Speaker 3: how I would have spent their money? Not necessarily, but
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  Speaker 3: that's my point. It's a top ten offseason. They have
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  Speaker 3: had a top ten off season, maybe the top five.
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  Speaker 2: It's a big close.
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  Speaker 5: I give them a B. They have a closer.
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  Speaker 4: They have a bonafide power threat justin Jorge Solaire and
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  Speaker 4: Kenley Jansen, whatever you think of them as players, those
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  Speaker 4: are two bonafide positions in the game on the field.
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  Speaker 4: Whatever you want to say, That wills to really effected
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  Speaker 4: the team. And they made those moves.
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  Speaker 3: Do you guys want to see how it affects their
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  Speaker 3: Pakoda projections. We're gonna go over that next with real gold. Well,
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  Speaker 3: we'll let you guys have fun together.
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  Speaker 4: Well.
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  Speaker 3: Signing the other major league signing today, Scott Barlow to
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  Speaker 3: the Cincinnati Reds. I like the way they're stacking pitching depth.
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  Speaker 3: You need it in Cincinnati. Sixty three appearances last year
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  Speaker 3: for Cleveland. Jesse Rodgers broke the story one year, two
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  Speaker 3: and a half million bucks. Barlow last season at a
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  Speaker 3: four two five ERA, the ra plus was just under
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  Speaker 3: league average at ninety six. He's been eating innings for
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  Speaker 3: a good chunk of his career fifty five. I mean
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  Speaker 3: out of the bullpen. I should say he's been durable
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  Speaker 3: out of the bullpen for several years. And if you
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  Speaker 3: type in Scott Barlow stat cast, you can see why
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  Speaker 3: he gets several million dollars for technically giving you a
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  Speaker 3: bit below league average production. There is still some serious
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  Speaker 3: promise when it comes to we contact, high width percentage,
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  Speaker 3: good strikeout numbers, those kind of metrics that teams are
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  Speaker 3: looking for. Sixty eight k's and fifty five innings, low
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  Speaker 3: hard hit, high ground ball, high extension. It's all the
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  Speaker 3: sexy stuff for the front offices. It is so good
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  Speaker 3: for Cincinnati to add none. Too many walks.
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  Speaker 5: That's a problem. Okay, walked.
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  Speaker 2: And you're thinking that.
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  Speaker 3: To be a league Yeah, he's thirty two. Can you
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  Speaker 3: figure that out.
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  Speaker 1: He's got a great arm. My question is is we
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  Speaker 1: didn't even get to this with Craig because we had
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  Speaker 1: to go. But he's got Cincinnati at seventy four wins,
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  Speaker 1: seventy three point nine wins. That's it, seventy three point nine.
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: We're all hyping them up?
• 15:46
  Speaker 5: Man?
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: Are we all way off? Are they right? Scott Barby
• 15:50
  Speaker 1: moved the needle to seventy five.
• 15:52
  Speaker 5: I don't know how.
• 15:53
  Speaker 4: Many of those guys, how many of those guys stay
• 15:56
  Speaker 4: on the field. You talked about the things that give
• 15:58
  Speaker 4: give you, like how many guys played one hundred and
• 16:00
  Speaker 4: sixty games last year? One hundred and fifty games. So
• 16:04
  Speaker 4: that's probably where the projections are buying low. And I'm
• 16:07
  Speaker 4: getting seasick AJ's camera.
• 16:12
  Speaker 5: Camera.
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: It's like Scott's what.
• 16:15
  Speaker 3: When I was on a boat. My camera's been behaving lately.
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: It's so good that we might get you won for
• 16:23
  Speaker 3: the road, But anyway, I like that.
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: Would cost money. We're like the Marlins.
• 16:30
  Speaker 3: I would say we're more like the Mariners. We've at least,
• 16:33
  Speaker 3: you know, spent on our core, but as far as
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: new acquisitions, it can be difficult. Sometimes Leo Rodriguez got paid,
• 16:41
  Speaker 3: JP Crawford got paid. That we're going year to year
• 16:44
  Speaker 3: with our pitching staff. So I would say more like
• 16:46
  Speaker 3: the Mariners, which is not frustrating at all. But anyway,
• 16:49
  Speaker 3: I'm with you ad I think the Reds should be
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: good in the Weeds, Believe it or not. The Cubs
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: have discussed other options if Alex Bregman elsewhere. Justin Turner's
• 17:01
  Speaker 3: name popped up. Apparently there's some interest from Boston and
• 17:04
  Speaker 3: Detroit and Turner two. This one came out last night
• 17:07
  Speaker 3: from Kenny Ballgame. Rosenthal and Patrick Mooney part of Northside Territory.
• 17:13
  Speaker 3: Both part of the Athletic Kenny Ballgame. Of course, Rosenthal
• 17:16
  Speaker 3: on Fair Territory. Other notes from this one. Justin Turner
• 17:21
  Speaker 3: and fam are intrigued about the Chicago summers and he's
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: been in a lot of fun big markets. This would
• 17:26
  Speaker 3: kind of complete the tour New York, LA, Boston, Toronto, Seattle.
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: Seemed like the Mariners might have happened. They certainly talked
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: that way towards the end of last season, but the
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: Mariners are broke. They instead got Dona Vislano. The redsbur
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: in contact with Turner. The Cubs, of course have Matt
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: Shaw and Craig Counsel did say yesterday Shaw gets the
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: first shot, at least that's what he said for now,
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: and there are other options in camp like John Birdie,
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: who we spoke to on the show the other day.
• 17:54
  Speaker 3: All right, take all of that and tell me what
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: you got, krats. Who are the Cubs going to bring in?
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: And also, of course Turner's not playing third really much anymore,
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: if at all.
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: I don't see the Turner thing other than the fact
• 18:09
  Speaker 4: that the dude, it has always been kind of in
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: the limelight. He's played the big markets. Now the White
• 18:16
  Speaker 4: Sox will be a bigger market than the Cubs, but
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: that won't That's not where he's gonna sign. I don't
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: see the Cubs going. I don't see the Cubs getting
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: either of these guys. And this isn't me cub hating.
• 18:25
  Speaker 4: This is me Matt Shall loving. We heard Craig talk
• 18:29
  Speaker 4: about when they were doing their Pakoda projections. I watched
• 18:34
  Speaker 4: this guy play for Team USA, not when I was
• 18:36
  Speaker 4: with him, just recently in this last tournament they played in.
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: It's got a really really nice swing. I think this
• 18:43
  Speaker 4: is something that they don't see. The extra added value
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: for delaying his delaying what he can do, bring him up,
• 18:52
  Speaker 4: show what he can do, and I think that's I
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: think that's the route that the Cubs go, and maybe
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: this is where the value for Craig council is they
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: saw all the young guys, all the minor league guys
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: get called up to the Brewers and have success. Maybe
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: the Cubs are like, hey, we have a really good
• 19:08
  Speaker 4: prospect here. This is why we're paying Craig eight million
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: a year. Get the value out of this kid.
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: You know what I loved about that whole thing. He's
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: got a really nice swing.
• 19:21
  Speaker 5: What I mean, how how can I mean.
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: A lot of people have nice wings. That doesn't mean
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: they can hit. I mean I played with a lot of
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: guys with nice wings. I played Hunter pen said the
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: worst swing of all the time. He got a lot
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: of hits in the big league. So I don't know.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: I just thought that was funny. Uh yeah, I think.
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean, I think Shaw is the
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: answer for the Cubs to start the season. Craig Councils
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: came out and basically said that yesterday. So I don't know,
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: unless they get bragmant, which I'm not sure that's going
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: to happen at this point. But justin Turner's a nice fit.
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: He's a good clubhouse guy. He still can swing in
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: certain situations we need him to. I think he fits
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: on a lot of teams. But the real question to
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: me is why hasn't he signed yet? Why has the
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: team not offered him, especially a team looking to win,
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: because again, come off the bench, play multiple positions. He
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: can hit, he can teach some of your younger guys
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: how to hit. And I think he'd be okay at
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: this point of coming off the bench and showing guys
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: how it's done.
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: Clubhouse guy, a clubhouse guy, that's what the Cubs need.
• 20:19
  Speaker 5: Who wants a clubhouse guy. He's forty years old, he's old.
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: Like there's there is definitely value for Turner on this team,
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: not as a starting third baseman.
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: I just I didn't say that. I said as a
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: clubhouse guy and coming off the bench. But you're too big.
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: He's a good fella. He won the Roberto Clemente Award.
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: I saw him.
• 20:42
  Speaker 5: He's definitely a good fellaw Right.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: That definitely makes you a good fellow. It's like winning
• 20:47
  Speaker 1: the Walter Payton Award just automatically makes you a nice guy.
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: Just you're in and year out. It's not you don't
• 20:53
  Speaker 5: ever slump in the good guy awards.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: Nope, nope, not if you win one of those.
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: Hey, let's show the tie on quote last thing here,
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: because you got a tiptoe. Jed Hoyard didn't really do
• 21:05
  Speaker 3: much with it a couple days ago when the media
• 21:07
  Speaker 3: was asking him about Bregman. You know, he kind of
• 21:11
  Speaker 3: brushed it off for the most part. I don't think
• 21:13
  Speaker 3: there was much to it. But Tyon took a long pause. Well,
• 21:16
  Speaker 3: here's Jesse Rodgers with the tweet while looking into the
• 21:19
  Speaker 3: cameras after being asked about teammates like Tucker and Presley
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: recruiting Bregman. Quote, those guys speak very highly of him,
• 21:28
  Speaker 3: and I've definitely heard them communicate that out loud.
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, they'd love to see him run through
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: that door.
• 21:35
  Speaker 3: But I'm still confused about the offer situation, Like do
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: the Cubs have a six year offer or are we
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: just getting wrong reports right? Like we got the report
• 21:45
  Speaker 3: the other day that he wants six or seven years.
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: So if he wants six or seven years, it sounds
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: like he's got that from the Astros for a while now.
• 21:54
  Speaker 3: And I think Toronto is what people keep guessing. So
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: pick one. We think the Cubs or the Red Sox,
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: or I guess the Tigers. I don't know where they're at.
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: Are going to suddenly up their offer once they see
• 22:08
  Speaker 3: people in camp and go, I.
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: Feel like we're one bat short. I don't feel like
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: teams do that anymore.
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: I do think they do that if someone gets hurt,
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: but relying on a pitcher to get hurt versus a
• 22:19
  Speaker 3: position player is a much different game. Not a ton
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: of position players get hurt. With long term injuries, your
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: percentage chance in spring training is much lower. Arms drop
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: like crazy. Position players.
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: Are Presley and Tucker telling Bregman, Hey, you gotta come here.
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: I know we're both only going to be here for
• 22:39
  Speaker 4: one year, but dude, you got to come here for
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: five years. Let's say the Cubs offer is five years
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: he wants six, he doesn't get it, or six years
• 22:46
  Speaker 4: he wants seven, doesn't get it. Bregman's going to be
• 22:49
  Speaker 4: there and be like, wait, you guys. You guys aren't
• 22:52
  Speaker 4: here anymore.
• 22:52
  Speaker 5: Like I don't.
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: As much as they might be boys, I don't know
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: what their relationship is. I don't know that that should
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: move the new for Bregman.
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: It's it's contract, it's money.
• 23:05
  Speaker 5: He did this.
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: Here's my thing about Brenan ready the first time around.
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: Here's my thing about Bregman. I've said this, If he
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: has this magical six year deal out there, why hasn't
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: he taken it? Apparently, no team's going to go to seven,
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: No team's gonna move at this point. If he's been
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: sitting on this six one fifty six that we've heard
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: about for I don't know, months and weeks and whatever October,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: nobody's nobody has. Nobody obviously has taken it to the
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: next level. So why has he not taken it? That's
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: my question. If it's really on the table at this point,
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: nobody's gonna beat that, right, I mean, let's Scott Boris
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: pulls something out of his hat, a rap it out
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: of his hat, So that seems to be the team
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: you got to go to if that's there. Alex, I
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: love you. You're a great guy, You're a good fella. You've
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: had a great career in Houston. But whoever has the
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: six one fifty six, I don't understand why he hasn't
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: taken it yet.
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: It sounds like that even got pushed up a little
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: bit closer to the one sixty range. So again, where
• 24:01
  Speaker 3: are we at? So we'll see, we'll see that sounds
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: like an attractive offer, especially if he wants to stay there,
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: you gotta bump up a little bit of money for
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: the state income tax two because you're in Texas, so
• 24:12
  Speaker 3: that helps. So if there's an offer that's better than it,
• 24:15
  Speaker 3: and it's coming from say Toronto, it's got to be
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: x percent better, right, ten percent something like that.
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: To be fair to AJ's point there, Let's say he
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: can get the exact same whatever, whatever the tax diff is,
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: fourteen percent from Toronto, Texas. If he can get that
• 24:35
  Speaker 4: fourteen percent offer from Toronto on paper, like, hey, this
• 24:40
  Speaker 4: is what we're gonna give you. Whatever fourteen percent of
• 24:42
  Speaker 4: one hundred and sixty million.
• 24:44
  Speaker 5: Is, let's seventy sixteen.
• 24:47
  Speaker 4: Another twenty million, I think he would want to take
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: that back to the Astros and say, give me half
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: of the extra what they're giving, give me the extra
• 24:56
  Speaker 4: ten million, put it on and I'll sign it today.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: I think the as ago we're making the same offer.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: If if you get to the finish line of what
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: this money is, it's the same offer. They do that.
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: So it's a good little battle going on right now.
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: It's no exactly, I think that's what's gonna happen. They're
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: gonna be like, yo, we've got the same offer. We're
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: not gonna outbid ourselves. This one's for age. A. Jesse
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: Rodgers is at all the camps and he spoke to
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: Chris Getz today or at least got a quote quote,
• 25:24
  Speaker 3: I think we'll win more games this year.
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: What do you think about the no stradamus call out?
• 25:30
  Speaker 1: I mean, I hope so, because if you don't win
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: more games, you're setting another record. I mean you can't possibly.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: I mean it was Garret Crochet's fault. We all learned
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: that from Chuck Carfind. You know, we ruined the bullpen.
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: So let's not forget that, okay before we take into this,
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: but they better win more games.
• 25:45
  Speaker 5: If they win.
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: Think about this. If they win, if they only lose
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: one hundred and ten games a year, that's an eleven
• 25:49
  Speaker 1: game improvement. People are most teams that prove eleven games?
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: You're like, man, they had a great offseason. Look at them.
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: They're really on the rise now. They imagine if they
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: win twenty more games they only lose one hundred and
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: one games. Think how much of an improvement that is?
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: Will Venable Manager of the Year, Why?
• 26:06
  Speaker 5: Why? Why are they gonna win more games?
• 26:09
  Speaker 4: What besides like blank out, blackout last year, blank out
• 26:14
  Speaker 4: all of history that has nothing to do Andrew Bennettende's
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: not like, we are not gonna do this. I know
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: history and I know baseball. We are not gonna what
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: on this roster is gonna convince me? Mike Tuckman the
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: sock man, he's not throwing any late innings. Like because
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: the bullpen improved at the end of the year last year,
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: they have less started pitching. Why are they gonna win
• 26:40
  Speaker 4: more games just because nobody's done it before, nobody's lost
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: more than that.
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: Yes, exactly, they can't. As check our find said, they're
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: incredibly unlucky. And I always believe everything Chuck says because
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: he's on TV.
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: But yes, that's.
• 26:53
  Speaker 1: Why, because they can't be as bad and as unlike Tannis.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: Travis Janikowski's not gonna jump over the leftfield wall Rob
• 26:59
  Speaker 1: Andrew on of a potentially game winning homer in the
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: ninth inning. Okay, it's not. There's just so many things
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: they can't go. Oh, what they think they finally won
• 27:08
  Speaker 1: a game like in September trailing after seven innings, Right,
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: there's just so there's so many things that were impossible
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: to have into the White Sox. They have to get
• 27:17
  Speaker 1: even if they just get a smidge better crowds, just
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: a smidge, if they win two games after the seventh inning,
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: they'll win more games than they did last year.
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah, but they don't have fetti to win games. They
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: don't have crochet to win games. They lost all those games.
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: Didn't you listen to Chuck?
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: Chuck is wrong wrong.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: I just hope they get did the doctor evil?
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: We will win more games this year, more games games.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: They're gonna have one hundred.
• 27:48
  Speaker 1: That's four win improvements. That's the four win improvement. The
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: CODA only hasn't losing ninety.
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: Nine BEMGM futures stolen bases Lawrence Butler nineteen and a
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: half over under for law Dog, who came on real
• 28:12
  Speaker 3: strong in the second half last year. Good dude made
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: the adjustments that he needed, ended up with wait for it,
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: eighteen stolen bags last season in four hundred twelve abs.
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: How many played appearances four hundred and fifty one played appearances.
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: I do not know where he's going to be hitting
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: in the lineup. One thirty one ops plus. Just to
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: help tell the story of a guy who had a
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: ridiculously good year at the plate. If you think he's
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: going to be healthy, is he not going to get
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: to that shiny twenty number. Guys that are at that
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: eighteen nineteen, right, don't they want to hit the twenty?
• 28:48
  Speaker 5: Yeah?
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: Over, for sure, this dude's looking to step up to
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: be an All Star. He's not looking to like hit milestones.
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: He's gonna and his plate discipline improved as the season
• 28:58
  Speaker 4: went on, creating harder contact, creating more times that they
• 29:04
  Speaker 4: had to. You know that they're going to pitch around
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: him where he's gonna you know, obviously, if Roper's hitting
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: behind him, you know you might not get walked as much.
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: But this is a dude that improved as a season
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: went on. Easy over, I'm locking it in today.
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: Agreed. Agreed.
• 29:21
  Speaker 5: He's young.
• 29:22
  Speaker 1: Although the A's didn't really want to steal bases, he's
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: a guy that can steal bases. I think I think
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: he's a I think he's a twenty five to twenty
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: five guy.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: Right.
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: That's what holds you back a little is the team approach.
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: And also he's actually about mid range. On stat cast
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: metrics for his sprint speed, he's fifty eight percentile from
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: last year.
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: I don't know.
• 29:41
  Speaker 3: I feel like he's faster than that, so I'm giving
• 29:44
  Speaker 3: it to him.
• 29:45
  Speaker 5: Zero caught stealing.
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: That's the other reason the a's will let you run
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: if you're I think it's eighty two or eighty seven percent,
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: I forget what it is high, but zero caught stealing.
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: There you go.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's what he said.
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: That's what he said.
• 30:30
  Speaker 5: That's what he said.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: That's what he said. That's what he said again.
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: Aaron Boone talking today about the Dodgers quote, hopefully we're
• 30:39
  Speaker 3: in that position next year and handle things with a
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: little more class.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: Woe.
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: Eric Kratz, you know Boonie, well, you played for him
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: your thoughts.
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: He said it with his chest. They didn't appreciate didn't
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: appreciate it. Like Alex Rdugo is probably not like upset
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: about it, Anthony Rizzo is probably not upset about it.
• 31:03
  Speaker 4: But Boonie is still with the Yankees, Aaron Judge is
• 31:07
  Speaker 4: still with the Yankees. Dudes that feel like they were disrespected,
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: they should feel disrespected by what the Dodgers said. And
• 31:15
  Speaker 4: I think Boonie I gave a lot of credit for
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: Boonie for being honest in this situation.
• 31:22
  Speaker 5: I love it.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: I freaking love it, you know I love it. We
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: need more trash talk and let's go, let's get rivalries
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: going again. Like yeah, you know what, they beat you,
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: and then they talked about it, and they talked about
• 31:33
  Speaker 1: how they were gonna beat you, and they knew they
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: were gonna beat you, and they weren't afraid of it.
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: I mean, who do we have on here? Someone from
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: the Yankees the other day and they were talking about
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: Kinley somebody and they were like, yeah, we didn't really
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: appreciate that very much, you know, right, Like the Dodgers
• 31:46
  Speaker 1: beat him, and then they talked about beating them and
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: they were like, yeah, we knew we were gonna win.
• 31:51
  Speaker 1: They suck, basically is what they said. So I love
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: this from Aaron Booney. He's basically not only standing up
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: for his players, his organization, and he's also saying, if
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: we play all again, coming to whoop your ass.
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: And the Yankees like to use that word, you know,
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: we're gonna hand it with a little more class. We'll
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: see if they end up obviously taking them down. I mean,
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: the one thing the Dodgers can reply with is, yeah,
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: but we're not going to be as sloppy as that
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: fit thing, So you're not going to be able to
• 32:18
  Speaker 3: trash us the same way. That was part of it.
• 32:20
  Speaker 3: They were like, yo, they weren't playing good baseball. It
• 32:24
  Speaker 3: was part of it. That part was true. I also
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: just appreciate the transparency from them from the Dodgers.
• 32:31
  Speaker 4: The Dodgers didn't only just say, oh, it was a
• 32:34
  Speaker 4: bad fifth inning. They said the whole time. Well, yeah,
• 32:37
  Speaker 4: they were drinking too, you're right, AJ, But they said
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: they said, we talked about it in our meetings. So
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: that's like a I mean, that's like a full team
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: diss a full team like hey, Saturn report said, just
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: put the ball in play. And they're not going to
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: make the play I think is what is what one
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: of the Dodgers said. I'm not sure who said that,
• 32:58
  Speaker 4: Chris Taylor maybe, but they drinking. They were sitting on
• 33:01
  Speaker 4: the couch. Microphones are always hot.
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I like it all right.
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: I'm trying to get to a few questions here because
• 33:08
  Speaker 3: once the show is done today we are done at
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: two fifty seven Eastern time. Armand who had a better
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: off season? The Angels or the Cubs? AJ first, Cubs.
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: I just want to say it, Oh, the Cubs.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: The coach, they got Tucker, they got a bat they needed.
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: They also with Presley, and then if they get Breman.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: I mean, I said it the other day, is an
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: a plus offseason for the.
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: Cubs Without Bregman, they still had a better offseason. I
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: mean anytime you had Tucker. The reason the astro has
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: got rid of Tucker's because he's gonna be way too costly.
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: After they see what won Soto got, you add that
• 33:50
  Speaker 4: to your lineup.
• 33:52
  Speaker 5: That is big. Definitely the Cubs. I love here and
• 33:54
  Speaker 5: AJ say it's so easily too.
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: Willard said, Scott, can you explain I the guest on
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: foul Territory said, only pure hitters in baseball are Soto
• 34:04
  Speaker 3: and Tani and Judge and you guys being professionals at
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: it got cut off.
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: But I don't remember this part.
• 34:13
  Speaker 5: No, I asked.
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: I asked Craig about where they had who who the
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: top hitter was besides Otani, or who the top player
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: was value wise, and he said Judge and Soto is
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: a top projected value player players.
• 34:29
  Speaker 5: I don't remember them talking about your hitters.
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm with you there. Good glad we cleared that up.
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: And lastly, one more prediction Carlos asking where does Bragman
• 34:41
  Speaker 3: sign updated predictions Houston A J Houston.
• 34:49
  Speaker 1: With a baseball team. I don't know, with a baseball
• 34:53
  Speaker 1: you know what he's getting. You know what I love
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: Alex Bregman. I've said this, We're getting to the one
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: SODO point where I'm just like, just sign already. I'm
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: tired day.
• 35:02
  Speaker 5: I actually think.
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: There might be a fight over they opt out.
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: Maybe he wants an opt out and the Asters are like, nah,
• 35:07
  Speaker 3: it's six one sixty, say they got to now, but
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: no opt out, so we'll see.
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: Okay, you don't know where he's gonna go.
• 35:19
  Speaker 5: Also knew I.
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: Mean, but predictions, predictions, because then people hold you to them.
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: We all said Houston, but man, I would love to
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: see Detroit get him. I just think that would really
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: put them over the top in a division that is
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: up for grabs. I feel like they could be a
• 35:37
  Speaker 3: little bit short. They have such a hole at third
• 35:39
  Speaker 3: base two. Whatever, it's just money.
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: Let's slap.
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: Least surprising news ever, Kershaw's at Dodgers facility playing catch this.
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: According to Alding and Zalees, he and the Dodgers have
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: agreed to terms on a contract. Per source, he still
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: has to finish going through his physical. So Kershaw's back.
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: We'll see when he returns to the team, maybe mid
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: season ish. What are you confused about krats that they
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: already agreed.
• 36:21
  Speaker 4: Can't they just say we're waiting till the time when
• 36:24
  Speaker 4: we can put them on the sixty day I L.
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: And we don't have any forty man roster spot. Don't
• 36:29
  Speaker 4: say we're waiting on a physical.
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: Do you think they're gonna flunk Clayton Kershaw's physical, got.
• 36:37
  Speaker 4: A chance or put him right on the sixty day
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: I L. So they don't have to use a forty
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: man spot. That's why they haven't announced it. You'll just
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: get to show up and play catch at the Dodgers facility.
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: All right, he might, mister.
• 36:50
  Speaker 5: Might, he might, he might actually Okay, Okay, he might
• 36:53
  Speaker 5: he might. You're right, he might be the legend.
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: He can do it regular people. Turn your hat around exactly,
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: kratz hats.
• 37:01
  Speaker 3: Turn it around while I tell everyone Ken Rosenthal on
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: tomorrow Rocky Storylines with Patrick Saunders and Jack Flaherty and
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: Logan A Hopy already booked for Thursday.
• 37:09
  Speaker 4: What do you got, Jeremy Docker Gerry Meyers show in
• 37:15
  Speaker 4: the Boston Hat.
• 37:16
  Speaker 5: I can never get a one shot now.
• 37:18
  Speaker 4: I can't get away from a one shot with a
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: red Sox had on Monster Territory.
• 37:23
  Speaker 5: Don't be afraid to watch it.
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Monster Territory, great news show.
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: Check it out. Do I see?
• 37:28
  Speaker 3: Is that Fort Myers on the side for you krats?
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: I know it's on the side of the Gators hat America?
• 37:35
  Speaker 5: No, no got.
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: I thought there might have been an FT, which would
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: have been no