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Fair Territory: Devers DRAMA, Tigers/D'backs trade plans, O's beat LA · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to the Monday edition of Fair Territory.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: I know the World Cup is going on, but baseball
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  Speaker 1: is sizzling right now. We've got a ton of things
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  Speaker 1: that are really interesting in play, starting with some very
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  Speaker 1: intriguing series this week. Guardians at White Sox. Who would
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  Speaker 1: have thought this one would be intriguing, but it's for
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  Speaker 1: first place in the Ale Central. The Guardians have one
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  Speaker 1: game lead. The Yankees are in Detroit as the Tigers
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  Speaker 1: try to climb out of their mess. Swept the White
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  Speaker 1: Sox over the weekend, Phillies at Nationals, Nationals up at
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  Speaker 1: a hot club. Phillies of course wrecked the Mets this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: And Braves at Padres as the Padres try to get
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  Speaker 1: something going here. They're finally starting to get some of
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  Speaker 1: their star players in a better place. Offensively okay, But
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  Speaker 1: with all of that, I want to start the show
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  Speaker 1: with what was the biggest story yesterday, and we'll be
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  Speaker 1: a big story. The Raphael Devers finger waving get away
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  Speaker 1: from me. I don't want a pinch runner in Miami
• 1:03
  Speaker 1: against the Miami Marlins. Here was the situation. In case
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  Speaker 1: you missed it, I'll lay it all out for you
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  Speaker 1: the Giants were trailing two to one. In the ninth inning,
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  Speaker 1: Devers comes back from two to draw a lead off walk.
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  Speaker 1: All good so far, time run is on base. Manager
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  Speaker 1: Tony Vaitello inserts a pinch runner, Jonah Cox. You can
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  Speaker 1: see right there in the photo. Or Rafael Devers was
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  Speaker 1: having none of it. Now, why was there a pinch runner?
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  Speaker 1: Any baseball fan understands why there was a pinch runner
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  Speaker 1: because Jonah Cox is on the team to run and
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  Speaker 1: has a better chance of scoring from first on a
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  Speaker 1: double than Devers. Even if Jonah Cox doesn't steal second,
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  Speaker 1: doesn't matter. You want the best runner in there. Devers
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  Speaker 1: sprint speed bottom twenty two percent of the league. And
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  Speaker 1: yet Ralphaeld Devers shook his finger at the dugout, tried
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  Speaker 1: to wave off. Cox, gets in the dugout, slips away
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  Speaker 1: from my button app from the bench coach Jays Tangler.
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  Speaker 1: Not a good look, to say the least. Now, you
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  Speaker 1: may remember Ralphield Devers looked selfish in Boston when he
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  Speaker 1: refused to play first base. There were mitigating circumstances with
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  Speaker 1: that last season. Remember they had already moved hto DH.
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  Speaker 1: Communication was terrible and they seemingly had turned what had
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  Speaker 1: seemingly been a sweet kid Ralphield Devers into some kind
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  Speaker 1: of latter day Carl Everett. It was not a good
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  Speaker 1: look for Devers. It was also not a good look
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  Speaker 1: for Red Sox, and it resulted in the big trade
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  Speaker 1: that is still generating a lot of talk and a
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  Speaker 1: lot of controversy. All right, In that case, I didn't
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  Speaker 1: necessarily forgive Devors, but I understood where he was coming from.
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  Speaker 1: This one inexcusable. You cannot do what he did yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: It was basically in subordination. And I know fans will say, well,
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  Speaker 1: what about the manager, Why won't the manager bench him?
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  Speaker 1: Why won't Tony Vitello erupt at Devers? Not so easy
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  Speaker 1: to do when the player is owed more than two
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  Speaker 1: hundred million dollars. The major league manager has only so
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  Speaker 1: much power. So here we are in this situation. The Giants,
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  Speaker 1: of course, are in cell mode. Yeah, they'd love the
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  Speaker 1: trade Ralphael Devers. Ha ha ha, good luck with that.
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  Speaker 1: And I was amused by the MLB dot com headline
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  Speaker 1: on this story today in which it said Giants clear
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  Speaker 1: the air after Devers tries to wave off pinch runner.
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  Speaker 1: There was no clearing of the air. Devers did not
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  Speaker 1: comment after the game, another bad look for him. And
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  Speaker 1: here are the Giants. They are going nowhere, fifteen games
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  Speaker 1: under five hundred, only a game and a half ahead
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  Speaker 1: of the Rockies for the worst team in the National League.
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  Speaker 1: Good luck figuring out how to fix that particular mess. Now,
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  Speaker 1: on the bright side of this equation, we have the Marlins.
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  Speaker 1: The Miami Marlins, who you guys might recall. I don't
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  Speaker 1: say this often because I'm usually wrong, but I like
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  Speaker 1: them going into the season, and now I'm gonna pat
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  Speaker 1: myself on the back just a little bit. The Marlins
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  Speaker 1: are fourteen and four in June, and they're doing this
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  Speaker 1: at a time when it looked like they were going
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  Speaker 1: to claps. They lost three starting pitchers to injuries, Ury Perez,
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  Speaker 1: Jansen Junk and Robbie Snelling. And yet now they're only
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  Speaker 1: a half game out in the wild card race. They're
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  Speaker 1: tied with the Padres. They've got four players that I
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  Speaker 1: wrote about last week who are legitimate All Star candidates.
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  Speaker 1: They won't all make the team, of course, but Oto
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  Speaker 1: Lopez up among the league leaders in the National League
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  Speaker 1: in war Max Meyer having a terrific breakout season for
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  Speaker 1: the Fish. Liam Hicks went on the IL yesterday, so
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  Speaker 1: he probably won't be heading to the All Star Game.
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  Speaker 1: And Xavier Edwards, who's a second basement at a very
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  Speaker 1: difficult position, competitive one in the NL. Okay, they're not
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  Speaker 1: all going to make the All Star team, but good
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  Speaker 1: for the Marlins and it's going to be really interesting
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  Speaker 1: to see if they can keep this up because Kyle Stowers,
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  Speaker 1: who now is coming on, was quoted as saying, Hey,
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  Speaker 1: we're starting to play to our capabilities. Our best baseball
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  Speaker 1: Another team that feels its best baseball might be ahead
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  Speaker 1: of them the Baltimore Orioles. Now, the Oriols over the
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  Speaker 1: weekend took two of three at Dodger Stadium. Not easy
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  Speaker 1: to do, and really it should have been a sweep.
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  Speaker 1: They blew the Friday night game with some defensive misplays
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  Speaker 1: in the ninth inning behind Ryan Helsley, and really that
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  Speaker 1: game was one that they should have won. As well.
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  Speaker 1: Yesterday twelve to one victory, four home runs in that game.
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  Speaker 1: And suddenly the Orioles are feeling better about themselves. Their manager,
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  Speaker 1: Craig Alban has said, we can show that we can
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  Speaker 1: play with anyone. Okay, maybe the Orioles have yet to
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  Speaker 1: win more than three games in a row this season,
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  Speaker 1: and I wrote with Fritch Gieroli last week about their
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  Speaker 1: fun mental lapses, which we saw again on Friday night.
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  Speaker 1: Even Saturday, they tried to blow that game, and they're
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  Speaker 1: going to need to play a cleaner brand of baseball.
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  Speaker 1: But they're in pretty good shape here, pretty good shape
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  Speaker 1: in the wildcard race. Pretty good shape overall, considering that
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  Speaker 1: they haven't played all that well in the aggregate this season.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll see what the Orioles do now. Keeping it
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  Speaker 1: going here. The Tigers, I mentioned them at the top
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  Speaker 1: of the show. The Tigers swept the White Sox this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: The Tiger's right now seven and a half back in
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  Speaker 1: the AL Central five, back in the Wildcard. They've got
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  Speaker 1: the Guardians coming up this I'm sorry that they have
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  Speaker 1: the Yankees coming up this week. And they are finally
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  Speaker 1: starting to play better now. You might recall I wrote
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  Speaker 1: when they were sixteen games under five hundred that they
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  Speaker 1: were going to trade Trek Scooble. Things have changed a
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  Speaker 1: little bit since then. They're now eleven under. The Guardians
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  Speaker 1: are dealing with a number of injuries. Jose Ramirez on
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  Speaker 1: hel Martinez Chase the Laughter and the White Sox are
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  Speaker 1: a team that definitely has competed at extremely high level
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  Speaker 1: this season, but a team that most people believe eventually
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  Speaker 1: will come back to earth somewhat. So no, it's not
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  Speaker 1: over for the Tigers. But the problem they have is
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  Speaker 1: when you're eleven games under five hundred, you cannot afford
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  Speaker 1: another losing spell. And maybe they won't have one Schooble's back.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe they can avoid that, and maybe they can keep
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  Speaker 1: this going okay, And then if that is the case
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  Speaker 1: at the end of July, going into the August third
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  Speaker 1: trade deadline, at that point they'll have a decision. But
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  Speaker 1: the decision might not be can we make the playoffs
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  Speaker 1: with Trek Scooble. It might be Okay, how far can
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  Speaker 1: we go? Because they've got to be realistic about this thing.
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  Speaker 1: If he leaves the free agent, which he's going to do,
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  Speaker 1: they're only going to get a draft pick in return.
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  Speaker 1: So do you bank on that and try to do
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  Speaker 1: it one more time with Trek Scooble that was the
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  Speaker 1: original premise this season for the Tigers, or you cut
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  Speaker 1: bait and say, you know what, let's regroup here, let's
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  Speaker 1: get what we can for a guy who can be
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  Speaker 1: an elite starting pitcher in the postseason, which of course
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  Speaker 1: is the reason you keep Schooble as well. So the
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  Speaker 1: Tigers saga continues to unfold. One more team I want
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  Speaker 1: to mention in this first segment of the show, the
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  Speaker 1: Arizona Diamondbacks. Last week, their GM Mike Hayson goes on
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  Speaker 1: a local radio show in Phoenix and says, we're planning
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  Speaker 1: on buying good intention. The right intention, of course, but
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  Speaker 1: Hazen might have spoken too soon in a four day span.
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  Speaker 1: Listen to what happened to the Diamondbacks. It's awful. Corbyn
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  Speaker 1: Burns and aj Puck both coming back from Tommy John surgeries.
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  Speaker 1: The Diamondbacks were expecting them around the All Star break,
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  Speaker 1: maybe even a little sooner in Puck's case, and they
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  Speaker 1: both suffered new injuries that amounted to setbacks. They're out
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  Speaker 1: until late in the season. Ryan Nelson, one of them
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  Speaker 1: assistant starters, he gets hurt. Michael Soroka, another one of
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  Speaker 1: their consistent starters, gets hurt. Outfielder Jordan Lawler also goes
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  Speaker 1: on the il and Zach Gallon another poor start. He's
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  Speaker 1: having a miserable season, and the Diamondbacks. Yeah, they planned
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  Speaker 1: on buying, and maybe Mike Haysen still plans on buying.
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  Speaker 1: And my goodness, the deadline is still six weeks away.
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  Speaker 1: But they've got a long way to go here, and
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  Speaker 1: a long way to go just to get healthy again.
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  Speaker 1: So this all happened once more in a four day span,
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  Speaker 1: four days, all these injuries, and it just shows how
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  Speaker 1: quickly things can change at this time of year, and
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  Speaker 1: how for anyone to draw sweeping conclusions about anything going
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  Speaker 1: on and to say, Oh, this guy's getting traded, that
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  Speaker 1: guy's getting traded. This team's a seller, this team's a buyer.
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  Speaker 1: Hold on, got a long way to go before the deadline.
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  Speaker 1: All right, We will be right back after this with
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  Speaker 1: the Inside Dish, and I'm going to talk about the
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  Speaker 1: New York Mets. Time now for the Inside Dish, the
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  Speaker 1: part of the show where I talk about a trend
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  Speaker 1: in the game, something I've written, something I've seen, And
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  Speaker 1: as I warned you at the end of the first segment,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to talk about the New York Mets. Now,
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  Speaker 1: we had the Mets on Fox Saturday night. It was
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  Speaker 1: the game they lost fifteen to three to the Phillies.
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  Speaker 1: But I want to go back to the days before,
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  Speaker 1: as I was prepping for the broadcast, particularly after they
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  Speaker 1: won the first game of the series in Philadelphia on Thursday.
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  Speaker 1: Then they had an off day Friday going into the
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  Speaker 1: Saturday game. So I'm preparing my notes for the broadcast,
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  Speaker 1: getting ready, and I'm starting to picture in my head
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  Speaker 1: the possibility of the Mets bouncing back. I can kind
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  Speaker 1: of see it, putting things together again. They had won
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  Speaker 1: the first game of the series. They were twenty four
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  Speaker 1: and twenty at that moment since May first. Also since
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  Speaker 1: May first, they were twelve in the majors and runs
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  Speaker 1: per game. They finally were performing at a higher level Offensively,
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  Speaker 1: they had Francisco Lindoor coming back. That will happen this week.
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  Speaker 1: They had Tyrone Taylor close to coming back, Ronnie Maurisio,
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  Speaker 1: all these guys making progress, and you're thinking, Okay, maybe
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  Speaker 1: there's a chance here, maybe there is a ray of light.
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  Speaker 1: But the problem, as I said on the broadcast early
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  Speaker 1: in the broadcast, after Freddy Peralta started getting lit up,
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  Speaker 1: is that they entered the game Saturday still seven games
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  Speaker 1: under five hundred, and now of course it's nine. After
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  Speaker 1: they get shellacked the last two games in Philadelphia, So
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  Speaker 1: to get to eighty five wins, and that's probably the
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  Speaker 1: bottom range for a wild card. The Reds got in
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  Speaker 1: with eighty three last year, but let's look at eighty
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  Speaker 1: five as a potential target. To get to eighty five,
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  Speaker 1: they're going to need to go fifty one and thirty
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  Speaker 1: four the rest of the way. Fifty one and thirty four. Now,
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  Speaker 1: how do you do that? The way to get back
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  Speaker 1: to five hundred. The first obstacle for the Mets is
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  Speaker 1: to get strong starting pitching, and you have to kind
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  Speaker 1: of do that night after night. That's how the Phillies
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  Speaker 1: got back into contention under Don Maddingly, Wheeler came back,
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  Speaker 1: they had Sanchez, Lozardo's been good. They put some things
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  Speaker 1: together with their rotation, even with Nola inconsistent and Painter
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  Speaker 1: not good, they were able to mount this surge. The Mets.
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  Speaker 1: It's difficult to see how they're going to do that.
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  Speaker 1: Peralta was acquired to be, if not the ace, a
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  Speaker 1: top of the rotation starter. Awful and his season by
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  Speaker 1: and large has been disappointing. He was awful Saturday night,
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  Speaker 1: disappointing overall. Sean and Iyah, he came on of late
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  Speaker 1: and has had two good starts in a row, but
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  Speaker 1: still a question. The guy who is the presumptive ace now,
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  Speaker 1: Nola McLain had a little bit of a rocky period,
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  Speaker 1: understandable in his second season, but he's coming off a
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  Speaker 1: strong start in Cincinnati, so you could see okay going
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  Speaker 1: into the Peralta game. Paralta McLean. Maniah, that's not bad,
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  Speaker 1: but again Paralta hugely disappointing on Saturday, overall disappointing as well.
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  Speaker 1: Maniah Okay, perhaps he'll be okay, but again there's just
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  Speaker 1: not enough there. David Peterson, a guy who was an
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  Speaker 1: All Star last year, has lost it. He's been bad
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  Speaker 1: all season, bad again Sunday night. Who knows what they'll
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  Speaker 1: get from Senga. He's still in the rotation. Christian Scott
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  Speaker 1: coming back from the injured list relatively soon. That should help.
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  Speaker 1: But you're piecing this together and you're seeing the Mets
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  Speaker 1: and you're recalling that the Clayholmes injury, the fracture of tibula,
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  Speaker 1: that was absolutely crushing for them because if they had
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  Speaker 1: a chance to really mount something here, it was going
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  Speaker 1: to be with their pitching healthy and Clay Holmes had
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  Speaker 1: to be healthy. He was arguably their top starter, accepting MacLean,
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  Speaker 1: who is in his second year. So I don't see
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  Speaker 1: it with this rotation. So then you ask the question, Okay, then,
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  Speaker 1: and what's next? Lindor is back this week, but the
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  Speaker 1: Mets need to get hot in a hurry to avoid
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  Speaker 1: becoming a seller. And yes, they are trending toward becoming
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  Speaker 1: a seller. And yet you ask, what is there to sell?
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  Speaker 1: Peralta not only is hurting the team, he's hurting his
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  Speaker 1: trade value. You've got Peterson, another potential free agent. Perhaps
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  Speaker 1: a team will take a shot on him, but they're
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  Speaker 1: not going to give you much in return. You've got
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  Speaker 1: some bullpen pieces, some lefties AJ Minter and Brooks rally
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  Speaker 1: potential free agents. They'll bring B level prospects, probably back
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  Speaker 1: to you. And you've got Clay Holmes, who if a
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  Speaker 1: team is willing to take a chance the way that
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  Speaker 1: Blue Jays did with Shane Bieber last season and trade
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  Speaker 1: for a guy in the injured list, they may think, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: in the final six weeks or so, we can get
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  Speaker 1: something out of Clay Holmes. But again, none of these
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  Speaker 1: deals is going to be a blockbuster. For the Mets.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe a trade, Luke Weaver. I don't know you can
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  Speaker 1: do that. The one strength they've had this season has
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  Speaker 1: been bullpen management and their bullpen overall. And when I
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  Speaker 1: say bullpen management, I had this stat ready to go
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  Speaker 1: Saturday night. We never got to it because the Mets
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  Speaker 1: got crushed. Carlos Mendoza, for all his difficulties this year,
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  Speaker 1: for whatever concerns the Mets might have about him, or
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  Speaker 1: the Mets fans I should say might have about him,
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  Speaker 1: they've obviously stuck with him. They have the fewest back
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  Speaker 1: to backs this year. What I mean by that is
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  Speaker 1: the fewest times a reliever has pitched on consecutive days
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  Speaker 1: this season. That shows you that Mendoza has run the
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  Speaker 1: bullpen pretty well because they've had, of course, all of
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  Speaker 1: these short starts, and he has still managed to run
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  Speaker 1: the bullpen in a way where he hasn't crushed any reliever.
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  Speaker 1: So okay, good on that end, but a good bullpen
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  Speaker 1: doesn't do you much good when you've got a team
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  Speaker 1: that is falling behind all the time, and that is
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  Speaker 1: a frequent occurrence with the Mets. Now. Stearns is going
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  Speaker 1: to be the question here, and that's The biggest issue
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  Speaker 1: with the Mets. The question that's going to be going forward,
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  Speaker 1: what do you do with David Stearns if your owner
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  Speaker 1: Steve Cohen. Now, a lot of fans want Stearns gone,
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  Speaker 1: and understandably so. This season has been a mess coming
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  Speaker 1: off last season, which for the final four months was
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  Speaker 1: a mess. What Sterens did was he reacted to that disappointment,
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  Speaker 1: the disappointment of twenty twenty five, by orchestrating a dramatic makeover,
• 17:23
  Speaker 1: and the makeover in the eyes of many fans, and
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people seem to have forgotten they thought this.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people wanted Pete a Lonzo gone and
• 17:33
  Speaker 1: Brandon nimogone and Jeff McNeil gone, and the idea of
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  Speaker 1: starting over understandable. They had not one with that group.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: And if you want to start over, okay, the problem
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: with that is you've got to have good answers. And
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  Speaker 1: I questioned in January whether they had chosen the right players,
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  Speaker 1: and it turns out in many cases they have not.
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  Speaker 1: And the problem I had I mentioned this on the
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  Speaker 1: broadcast as well, was that you brought in a series
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  Speaker 1: of guys who have lent the injury histories and also
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  Speaker 1: a guy Marcus Simeon in decline, Robert Junior injury history,
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  Speaker 1: Polanco injury history, Bobaschet for that matter. He's been healthy,
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  Speaker 1: He's had leg problems in the past too. They've been
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: lucky with him. So you did all that. It hasn't worked.
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  Speaker 1: At least it hasn't worked to this point. You can say, well,
• 18:20
  Speaker 1: the injury to Holmes was crushing. No no, no, no no.
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  Speaker 1: When you've got the game's second highest payroll, the loss
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: of one picture shouldn't hit you so or hurt you
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  Speaker 1: that much. So people are going to want David Stearns gone,
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: and people are gonna think, well, Carlos Mendoza has to go. Maybe,
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: so you have to change your manager in this circumstance.
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  Speaker 1: I get it, But David Stearns, be careful what you
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  Speaker 1: wish for, because the Mets have had a lot of
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: turnover in that position. The head of baseball operations under
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  Speaker 1: Cohen and Stearns has done some good things. Rebuilt the
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: processes in the farm system, created an environment where aj
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: Ewing and Carson benj in particular could come up. There
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: were spots available to them. Ewing's case because of Robert's injury,
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: but they created an opportunity for benj and they're doing
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: that for other young players as well. Now has it
• 19:12
  Speaker 1: all worked out? No, it has not all worked out.
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  Speaker 1: But you change your head at baseball operations and you're
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: kind of starting all over again. Maybe that's the appropriate
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  Speaker 1: decision here, but I'm not sure it is. I'm not
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: sure that's the way to go when again, you've had
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: all that turnover, you've had some good things happen under
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: Stearn's he just needs to make better decisions now. If
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: he proves incapable of that, if for instance, they have
• 19:38
  Speaker 1: another bad offseason and they don't improve next year, then
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: I think you're talking about something else. But Steve Cohen
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: has invested a lot in David Sterns, signed him to
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: a huge contract. That was the guy they wanted all along.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: So we'll see how this all plays out going forward.
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: Sterns clearly is going to have to make better decis
• 20:00
  Speaker 1: choose better players for lack of a better term, And
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: then the question becomes how much confidence does Steve Cohen
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: still have in him to do that? All Right, we'll
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: be back with grilling Ken right after this. When my
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  Speaker 1: All right, here we go with grilling Ken. Time for
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: your questions. Let's get to them. First. One comes from
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: John C Underscore ninety, who asks, the Dodgers are flushing
• 21:31
  Speaker 1: way too many games right now, but is that the
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: October plan? Again, John, I would suggest the answer to
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: that question is yes. And the Dodgers are a funny
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: team to follow during the regular season because we all
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: know they're going to get to October and they are
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: playing essentially for October. No Snell right now, no Glass now.
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: They're on the injured list. They have River Ryan stashed
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: a triple A, another starting pitcher. They like him. He
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: can come up and can tribute, and Taoscar Hernandez is
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: on the il. They've got all these things going on,
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: none of them terribly awful, but they at various points
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: in the regular season. This has happened over the last
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: couple of years. Look like the motivation isn't totally there.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: It's not that they're not trying, it's just that they
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: don't play with the same urgency that they will play
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: with in October. So yeah, I would say they're flushing
• 22:25
  Speaker 1: too many games right now. At the same time, I
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: would say it's just not that great a concern. They
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: don't have their whole team for one thing, and they
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: don't have that carrot in front of them, and they're
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: human beings. They need that carrot. It's one hundred and
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: sixty two games. They're not going to play with an
• 22:41
  Speaker 1: urgency the entire year when they know the whole thing
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: comes down to what they do in the postseason. All right,
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: Next question, This one comes from Tyler Max Smith, who
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: says nearly every player that signed late Gallan Giolito, Littel, etc.
• 22:56
  Speaker 1: Or Misspring Training Haisan Kim are having terrible seasons. Do
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: you think that trend will impact when players sign going forward?
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: Got Kim's name wrong, it's hash On Kim. That's a
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: great question, And we've seen this year after year where
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: the guys who sign late often have trouble getting into
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: a rhythm. Now lettell Us pitch better of late Giolito
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: is still rounding into form. Gown. I don't know what's
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: wrong there. This is a guy who was top three
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: cy Young voting only a couple of years ago, and
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: he seems to have just declined. But you're right, the
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: guys who sign late, generally speaking, have a harder time succeeding.
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: And sure those players ones who get caught like that
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: are going to want to sign earlier in the future.
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: The problem is they're not getting offers they like and
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: they're sitting out there. Maybe they need to settle. That's
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: fair point, and we'll see that, I'm sure play out
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: this offseason as well. All right, let's go to one
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: more question video Game Nation twenty six, who asks, what
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: have you heard about Wilson Contreras t trade market? What
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: could the Red Sox get in return? Here's my question,
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: Why would the Red Sox want to trade Wilson Contreras.
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: He's the one guy in the lineup who from the
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: right side gives them power. Now he's signed for I
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: believe at least one more year after this. I don't
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: know exactly what his contract is. I don't think they
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: should be trading him if they want to compete next year.
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: If they don't, fine, But the Red Sox never take
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: a full step back. They're not going to North should they.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: So you need Wilson Contreras on your team, you don't
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: need to be trading him now. There are other things
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: they can do. Sonny Gray, a oldest Chapman one of
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: the outfielders. All of that for sure, and probably more,
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: but I wouldn't be trading Wilson Contreras. All right with that,
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: I want to thank everyone for watching, for listening. Foul
• 24:47
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• 24:58
  Speaker 1: thirty Eastern. Have a great way, everyone, I should say. Also,
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