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Braves sign back Iglesias & acquire Dubon from Houston, Elly was hurt · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Crats Look who I found.
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  Speaker 2: It's the Todd. The painting was a gift Todd.
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  Speaker 3: I'm keeping it and I'm gonna keep it. What's up, Cratzy.
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  Speaker 3: Good to see a big doggie.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm in the hood for sure. This nice hood.
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  Speaker 4: But vacation a little longer vacation than I wanted to.
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  Speaker 4: But actually no, it was a good, good, long vacation.
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  Speaker 4: I shouldn't say I didn't want to. I wanted to.
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  Speaker 1: You wanted to and you were warm. It was it
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  Speaker 1: was nice, yeah, very nice Florida sunshine.
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  Speaker 4: It was delicious. You've been there a bunch of times.
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  Speaker 4: We had we had one bad day, but that was
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  Speaker 4: the day we went. Uh you know that that tour
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  Speaker 4: you could take, You know, you can hop on all
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  Speaker 4: different parks in one day. You get your private tour,
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  Speaker 4: so you know what, Yeah, so you get behind the
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  Speaker 3: Where do we go to Safari? First we went to the.
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  Speaker 4: Animal Kingdom, right, and that was great. They say, go
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  Speaker 4: in the morning, the animals are just waking up. You'll
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  Speaker 4: see a lot more animals. Then we went to Magic
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  Speaker 4: Kingdom and went on Tron and we're like, you know what,
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  Speaker 4: we want to go on again, So we go right
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  Speaker 4: back to the front of the line. So then we
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  Speaker 4: went to Epcot. At the end, we wanted to go
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  Speaker 4: on Guardians the Galaxy. We went on three times. That
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  Speaker 4: probably my most it's the most famous, most famous ride ever.
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  Speaker 4: You love it, my most favorite ride ever.
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  Speaker 1: Super cool, like.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you get that that flavor where you don't have
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  Speaker 4: to wait on lines. They take you behind the scenes
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  Speaker 4: where the workers park and they they're like, dude, you
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  Speaker 4: can go on this five times in.
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  Speaker 3: A row if you want. We just kept going. That's
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  Speaker 3: the ten of us. It was great.
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  Speaker 1: That's the Bougeye Hyperpass right there.
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  Speaker 2: Cotch, Yeah, they have they have the pass and then
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  Speaker 2: they got the Fraser Pass and the frame.
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  Speaker 3: Anybody can get it though anybody can can six kids.
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  Speaker 3: It was. It was nice.
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  Speaker 2: Anybody can get it. Todd, you gotta hit some diggers.
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  Speaker 2: You gotta hit more diggers than I hit to be
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  Speaker 2: able to afford that. Let's put that way.
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  Speaker 3: Listen.
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  Speaker 4: I talked to the guy, I got his number four.
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  Speaker 4: You I got your little hook up. If you really
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  Speaker 4: want to.
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  Speaker 2: Go the Fraser front of the line pass I'll take.
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  Speaker 1: Beauty. We're gonna have some fun. Todd Father's on with
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  Speaker 1: us tomorrow as well, and we actually are going to
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  Speaker 1: have quite a few moves. It's the non tender deadline tomorrow,
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  Speaker 1: so you'll see some players cut, some names that we know.
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  Speaker 1: You'll see some players traded away, including one that we're
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  Speaker 1: going to get to in a moment. Let's charge charge
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  Speaker 1: multiple Braves moves. I want to start with friisel Iglesias.
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  Speaker 1: The Braves opted to not trade him at the deadline. Instead,
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  Speaker 1: they keep him even though they weren't in contention. He
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  Speaker 1: pitches very well down the stretch, and now he's back
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  Speaker 1: to a team that's contending in twenty twenty six one year,
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  Speaker 1: sixteen million bucks. This is a good barometer of approximately
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  Speaker 1: where the price will go for a closer like this.
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  Speaker 1: There are better ones out there, so they might be
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  Speaker 1: pushing twenty plus a year. But Mark Bowman helping us
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  Speaker 1: out with the final forty five appearances in twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: five for Rice Ilglacia's Todd Father that is pristine one
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  Speaker 1: two five ERA thirty percent K percentage twenty one out
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  Speaker 1: of twenty two saves in those final forty five appearances.
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  Speaker 1: This was him answering a question from a fan wondering
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  Speaker 1: if he would be a setup guy if the Braves
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  Speaker 1: land a legit closer. I think this is their closer
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  Speaker 1: for twenty twenty six, and they're paying him the same
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  Speaker 1: that they paid him in the previous season sixteen million
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  Speaker 1: bucks to bring him back. One other thing to add
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  Speaker 1: before you comment is some think that he was more
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  Speaker 1: prone to signing with Atlanta because they kept him. Do
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  Speaker 1: you think that's the that's a thing of players.
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  Speaker 4: I love this question because I'm sure it's in a
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  Speaker 4: lot of people's minds, fans and you know, other guys
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  Speaker 4: that have played. But listen, I've been a part of
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  Speaker 4: six team crats. He's been a part of a bunch more.
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  Speaker 4: I think you're more susceptible of trying to link back
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  Speaker 4: with that team. And I say this knowing that won
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  Speaker 4: the relationships and too comfort just being comfortable. And I
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  Speaker 4: know when I was a free agent, I was a
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  Speaker 4: guy that basically said, hey, listen, you know we haven't
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  Speaker 4: got much offered these first month, month and a half.
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  Speaker 4: Let's go back to the teams that I was with
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  Speaker 4: and see maybe there's a connection there. You know, maybe
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  Speaker 4: I'll take a little less just to go back to
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  Speaker 4: there because I know the place. Yeah, it's just about
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  Speaker 4: being comfortable about knowing your surroundings and do you like
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  Speaker 4: the people around you, And I think that that was
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  Speaker 4: a major cause of this. I think it's a perfect
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  Speaker 4: place for him. I love Ross Ayo. He's a really
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  Speaker 4: good dude, Scottie. He's fun loving dude. He can pitch.
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  Speaker 4: I know he's had some injuries over the years, but
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  Speaker 4: this is a guy. I mean, shoot, one year, sixteen million.
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  Speaker 4: What happens if he does it again what he did
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  Speaker 4: in the back half, You never know. Then he can
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  Speaker 4: get a bigger deal. But yes, I think this is
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  Speaker 4: a great sign the Braves keep doing this. This is
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  Speaker 4: like you know, you know, day Drave all over again
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  Speaker 4: with with this. Like last year, they were the first ones.
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  Speaker 4: They came out and got the right handed pitcher from
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  Speaker 4: the White Sox. I'm just having a little brain fard
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  Speaker 4: here of who it was, but they came out and
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  Speaker 4: I think it was low Pez right right now, Lopez,
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  Speaker 4: and we're like, man, what a great what a great
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  Speaker 4: deal for them. So they're they're they're firing right now
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  Speaker 4: early and they're gonna be firing offten.
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  Speaker 3: We'll see.
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  Speaker 1: Well, they kept Lopez. They got him a couple of
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  Speaker 1: years ago, right, and then he had a great movie.
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  Speaker 1: They kept him. On The point is Anthopolis likes to
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  Speaker 1: do his business early in the off season.
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  Speaker 3: He wants to go on vacation.
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  Speaker 1: He wants that Phraser pass.
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  Speaker 2: He knows how much he wants to pay. And I
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  Speaker 2: don't know necessarily that Russell has gotten, you know, gave
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  Speaker 2: the team a team discount on this one. I just
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  Speaker 2: think your question, Scott was, do you feel some type
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  Speaker 2: of way because the team didn't trade you? No, Like
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  Speaker 2: I've been traded, cut, rehired, fired again, re signed, like
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  Speaker 2: I've pretty much gone through every type of transaction. Like
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  Speaker 2: I was pissed that the Brewers got rid of me
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  Speaker 2: in nineteen. I was pissed that they went and got
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  Speaker 2: YASMANI Grandal had the Brewers called me like at the
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  Speaker 2: end of nineteen and when I was a minor league
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  Speaker 2: free agent in the middle of the season, I'd going
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  Speaker 2: back there like I had while I was pissed at him,
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  Speaker 2: you still want to be in the big leagues. Rycelle
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  Speaker 2: Iglesias doesn't have that issue. If he was, you know,
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  Speaker 2: maybe he was mad he didn't get traded because he
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  Speaker 2: didn't get to go play in the playoffs. Like sometimes
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  Speaker 2: guys would be cool like I'm fine getting traded, like
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  Speaker 2: we ain't going nowhere this year. Our team is brutes mcgoots.
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  Speaker 2: But so the whole like feeling, ah man, I feel
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  Speaker 2: it's different when a guy's been with an organization for
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  Speaker 2: six years and then they're like, ah, he left in
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  Speaker 2: free agency, no way he comes back, or he gets
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  Speaker 2: traded part way through. You don't want your big time
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  Speaker 2: free agents, which risell is not to go and test
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  Speaker 2: the other waters, to go and see and talk to
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  Speaker 2: a team like hey, what's this clubhouse? Like what's your travel? Like?
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  Speaker 2: How's that different? Especially you know when you have a
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  Speaker 2: guy that has to be resigned for a decent contract.
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  Speaker 2: So I just think this case is it's not the
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  Speaker 2: same case. But I'm sure there are people who would
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  Speaker 2: be like, no, I'm not resigning back there if they
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  Speaker 2: traded me. Screw those guys, which, you know, check your
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  Speaker 2: feelings a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: Check the MYSA.
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  Speaker 1: Do you have a microphone on?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: He does, Yeah, which is great on the screen.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, we're just getting a question, all right, so I'm
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  Speaker 1: in between here. Ready, Ready, If I sell Glaciers gets
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  Speaker 1: offered one year twenty million to a different team, he's
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  Speaker 1: probably gone there. Sure, right, Sure, one year seventeen million. Also,
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  Speaker 1: let's keep in mind taxes are thing, right, So it
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  Speaker 1: depends on the stage where you going.
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  Speaker 3: This was a team he was a free agent or
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  Speaker 3: was he not free agent? Free agent?
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  Speaker 4: And they went one year sixteen and he said yes, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: And everybody understands that he's thirty five years old.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, this is a free agent who's making this decision? Right?
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  Speaker 1: And I think it depends on where you are, how
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  Speaker 1: much money you've made, how much is the difference between
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  Speaker 1: what you're being offered and what other teams are throwing out?
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  Speaker 1: There are other teams even throwing anything out there. And
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  Speaker 1: the reason I ask that is many teams are kind
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  Speaker 1: of softerly on in the offseason and they just dance.
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  Speaker 1: They call the agents, they tickle, They say, oh, we
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  Speaker 1: like this part about him, we don't like this part
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  Speaker 1: about him. This is the range that we think. We
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  Speaker 1: talked a lot of free agents right over off seasons
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  Speaker 1: and they tell us about the whole little tap dance
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  Speaker 1: that they do, and he gets a call, Hey, here's
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  Speaker 1: a real offer. Maybe you'll get a few mill more.
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  Speaker 1: But if you want to wait and be the last
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  Speaker 1: man standing out of the closer carsel, which there are
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  Speaker 1: many of them, you might not get the number that
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  Speaker 1: looks like this. This is a comfortable spot. They go
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  Speaker 1: for it, so I give them credit on that front.
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  Speaker 1: You have one more pointcraft and then I want to
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  Speaker 1: get to what else the Braves did.
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  Speaker 2: I love sixteen I mean we'd even hit on it.
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  Speaker 2: I love sixteen million for a closer right now at
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  Speaker 2: thirty five years old. Chappie signed an extension for thirteen
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  Speaker 2: a year last year and he's he's the closer of
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  Speaker 2: the year for the American League. Like for him. I
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  Speaker 2: like that Alexanthopolis has always done this. There's certain organizations
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  Speaker 2: that say we'd love to have you back. Some organizations
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  Speaker 2: say we'd love to have you back, but at a
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  Speaker 2: little hometown discount. There's other organizations and I know AA
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  Speaker 2: Alexanthopolis is that type where he's like, here's what I
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  Speaker 2: know you're worth. You go out and pedal that deal,
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  Speaker 2: come back to us, and that's what we'll give you.
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  Speaker 2: As long as everybody's honest and upfront. That's all they're
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  Speaker 2: looking form.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, with Iglesias, I think you made an adjustment too.
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  Speaker 1: You give a lot of homers in the first half
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  Speaker 1: of the season. There were quite a few sliders catching
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  Speaker 1: a little too much of the plate. You didn't see
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  Speaker 1: as much of that in the second half of the year.
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  Speaker 1: You look at some of the pitches that missed for
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  Speaker 1: him in the first half of the season that led
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  Speaker 1: to homers. They had quite a few what Fangrafts calls meltdowns.
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  Speaker 1: That's a new stat that we'll have to get to
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  Speaker 1: at some point. They pegged him at eleven. That's a lot,
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  Speaker 1: but a lot of action on the wrong side came
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  Speaker 1: in the beginning of the season, which happened to be
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  Speaker 1: bad timing for an Atlanta team that played much better
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  Speaker 1: down the stretch. But they kind of lost it early. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: So step two for the Braves is the trade they
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  Speaker 1: make with the Astros two very good defensive players, moving
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  Speaker 1: Nick Allen from the Braves over to Houston right, and
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  Speaker 1: he played really good shortstop defense for them last year
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  Speaker 1: at one of the weakest bats in the Bigs. Mauricio
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  Speaker 1: Dubon goes the other way, super utility guy who can
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  Speaker 1: play a number of different spots and play it well.
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  Speaker 1: And he's a better offensive player than Nick Allen. Some
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  Speaker 1: people online are like, oh see, this is their backup
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  Speaker 1: option for shortstop. I think the Braves are going for
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  Speaker 1: a little more big game hunting on their every day
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  Speaker 1: starting shortstop. But Dubon gives you a ton of insurance.
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  Speaker 1: Todd Father, it's not just at short as the Allbeasts
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  Speaker 1: dealt with a number of injuries over his career and
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  Speaker 1: he's coming off surgery. Austin Riley's dealt with some injuries lately.
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  Speaker 1: So this is the guy you can plug in just
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  Speaker 1: about anywhere for Atlanta and he kind of what some
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  Speaker 1: people will say, ups your floor, right, This is a
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  Speaker 1: better hitter than Nick Allen and a guy who should
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  Speaker 1: play comparable enough defense at a number of different spots
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  Speaker 1: to make you better.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, And I think having that one guy that can
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  Speaker 4: play different spots is key, especially for a Braves team
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  Speaker 4: that has the injuries, that has the guys on the
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  Speaker 4: team where you're like, oh, I hope he hope he's
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  Speaker 4: healthy all the way through the year, so this guy
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  Speaker 4: can step in. He's not afraid to play any position.
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  Speaker 4: I love Nick Allen played with him in the USA
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  Speaker 4: team when we want a silver medal. But you know,
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  Speaker 4: his defense is great. It's got to pick that bat up.
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  Speaker 4: I think he will. You know, he's not the home
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  Speaker 4: run hitter. He's not the guy who's going to drive
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  Speaker 4: in you know, eighty runs a game or a season.
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  Speaker 4: Excuse me, but again, you know, I don't know, you
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  Speaker 4: know what Houston was kind of thinking around this part.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, we never know. We never know what
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  Speaker 4: a team's thinking. They're trying to set up room for
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  Speaker 4: somebody else. But again, Dubam is a really good athlete.
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  Speaker 4: He's a good player. Is he going to wow you
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  Speaker 4: with the bat? No, but he is a pretty decent
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  Speaker 4: offensive player.
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  Speaker 1: I know what they were thinking, let's save a good
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  Speaker 1: chunk of money so we can spend it elsewhere. Because
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  Speaker 1: Houston is actually one of those team sprats that dances
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  Speaker 1: around the soft salary cap number. So those that don't
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  Speaker 1: think it works, it doesn't work on everyone, right unless
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  Speaker 1: you have a super hard cap, which the NBA doesn't
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  Speaker 1: even have if you keep your own guys, Houston dances
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  Speaker 1: around what is the luxury tax number. Jim Crean does
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  Speaker 1: that sometimes over, sometimes under, but that's the game that
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  Speaker 1: they play, and he really treats it like a salary cap.
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  Speaker 2: He does. And I think this move was precipitated by
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  Speaker 2: the fact that they got Carlos Korea. They got him earlier,
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  Speaker 2: and it's like, well, you know what, if we take
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  Speaker 2: this on, we got to dump a little bit salary later.
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  Speaker 2: So moving around the cap, or moving around the CBT
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  Speaker 2: tax threshold as they want to call it. I hope
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't come back to Burnham because Houston's Houston's been there,
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  Speaker 2: They've been around that area the whole time, but they're
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  Speaker 2: paying some of their stars a little bit more. And
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  Speaker 2: when you have injuries and you're not willing to go
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  Speaker 2: over that cap, not willing to go over that threshold,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes you don't have the backup plans and du Bond's
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  Speaker 2: not going to light the world on fire at the plate,
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  Speaker 2: but he gives you gold Glove utility defense, which for
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  Speaker 2: the Astros it kind of mitigated some of those injuries
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  Speaker 2: and able to him to step in and sit through
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  Speaker 2: there till their starter came back. But the Braves now
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  Speaker 2: have been a team that have dudes that play one
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  Speaker 2: fifty five to one sixty two all year maybe they're seeing, Hey,
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  Speaker 2: you know what if we bring a guy like this in. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: we're still going to go after a shortstop, but now
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  Speaker 2: we have a guy who can step in and do
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  Speaker 2: bond and give everybody a day off. So instead of
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  Speaker 2: our one to fifty five's, we're playing one forty one
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  Speaker 2: forty five and we're staying healthy the whole time.
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  Speaker 1: The one other thing here is Ken wrote about how
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  Speaker 1: war wins Abo replacement strength for this position doesn't necessarily
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  Speaker 1: have to be super high for you to be a
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  Speaker 1: successful team. He pointed to the Mariners, the Yankees, Milwaukee, Cleveland,
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  Speaker 1: and Detroit as ranking in the bottom ten in Fangraft's
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  Speaker 1: war at the shortstop position, and he added the Toronto
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  Speaker 1: Blue Jays, who in September turned to Andre Semenez over
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  Speaker 1: at shortstop, who was one of the worst offensive players
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  Speaker 1: in the sport this season. I see all of that,
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  Speaker 1: but I would still rather have a shortstop that can thump.
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  Speaker 1: I think you could say that about almost any position, right,
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  Speaker 1: Like you could be a team that's a World Series
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  Speaker 1: team and doesn't have a great player offensively at one
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  Speaker 1: particular position, but like you'd rather have a dude that
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  Speaker 1: can mash and handle the position defensively, so I don't
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  Speaker 1: want that to be used as a cop out. I
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  Speaker 1: think the Braves are looking for shortstop. I just think
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  Speaker 1: that they want Kim. He might want to go somewhere else.
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  Speaker 1: There aren't a ton of great options out there this year.
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  Speaker 1: Trademarket pending. I mean, Ken mentioned Corey Seger in his
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  Speaker 1: in his article, I don't know if that's a feasible spot,
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  Speaker 1: and he also mentioned how they're actually on Seegers no
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  Speaker 1: trade list. That doesn't mean he wouldn't wave it, but
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  Speaker 1: we also don't know if he's necessarily available. That's a
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  Speaker 1: whole other world. But can we just agree that if
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  Speaker 1: you have the option of a shortstop kit that can match,
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  Speaker 1: you rather have that.
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  Speaker 3: Why wouldn't you?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it makes you a better contending team, there's no
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  Speaker 1: doubt about that. And there are guys who can play ond.
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  Speaker 2: And you don't necessarily have to get that offense from
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  Speaker 2: another position. Catching position is tough. Well, the Blue Jays
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  Speaker 2: had Alejandra Kirk down the stretch there who was giving
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  Speaker 2: you offense from the catching position? And the reason the
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  Speaker 2: Blue Jays got to where they were was because Boba
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: Schett was driving in tons of rounds, So I get it.
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: Andre Sementez helped them win throughout that stretch without Bo
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: playing short. But I don't know, not a big fan
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: of that stat there, Ken, but it's a great defensive position.
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: Braves have really struggled there in the last well since
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: they got rid of Dansby.
• 16:06
  Speaker 1: That's right, that's right. Yeah, Orlando Rcio was in that spot,
• 16:09
  Speaker 1: and I mean was one of the worst shortstops for
• 16:12
  Speaker 1: the year that you played. Yeah, I mean it all
• 16:15
  Speaker 1: starts him the next year he wasn't good. But yeah,
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: I got it. So we can debate it with Ken
• 16:19
  Speaker 1: on Friday. He'll join us. Hey, there were a number
• 16:22
  Speaker 1: of rice agreements announced yesterday for MLB, so adjust your
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: screens accordingly. Twenty twenty six through twenty twenty eight, ESPN
• 16:31
  Speaker 1: has the MLB Dot TV package. They also have thirty
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: games which I believe are all exclusive and can be flexed.
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: They have the Little League Classic, a Todd Father Special
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: NBC and Peacock at Sunday Night Baseball, the Draft, the
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: Futures Game in the Wildcard round, Netflix gets the home
• 16:45
  Speaker 1: Run Derby Opening Night in the Field of Dreams game,
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: which returns Fox and FS one get the All Star Game,
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: the World Baseball Classic, and a number of playoff rounds
• 16:53
  Speaker 1: including of course the World Series, TBS getting the LDS
• 16:56
  Speaker 1: and LCS on the other side of what Fox gets,
• 16:58
  Speaker 1: and then Apple Fridays. So there's a lot there. If
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: you want to sort through it with us, we will
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: do that tomorrow with someone who does this for a living,
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: and that's Andrew Marshand, who covers sports media for the
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: Athletic Nice.
• 17:11
  Speaker 3: That's a lot we.
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: Still get taught. Missed the Little League, I.
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: Know, and I know the Little League is a whole
• 17:18
  Speaker 4: nother entity, which is great. So that'll be on ESPN
• 17:20
  Speaker 4: at least till twenty thirty. So nice World Series. But
• 17:23
  Speaker 4: it's good to have the Classic paired with. Yes, literally,
• 17:26
  Speaker 4: you're always out there for that. And how cool is
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: it when all the big boys show up. It's great.
• 17:30
  Speaker 4: It's a great event, and it's thrilling for the kids.
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: You know, whoever wins the game, it really it matters,
• 17:36
  Speaker 4: of course, but at the same time, for the kids
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: to have that experience, it's truly incredible.
• 17:41
  Speaker 3: But yeah, this is a whole big ordeal.
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: I know we're going to get more into it tomorrow,
• 17:45
  Speaker 4: but yeah, there's a lot of changes going on, and
• 17:50
  Speaker 4: better get them apps out voice.
• 17:51
  Speaker 1: Yeah, maybe there's a lot to look at, a lot
• 17:54
  Speaker 1: to pay attention to.
• 17:59
  Speaker 2: There's a lot a lot of different channels. Hi, why's
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: the Valies game on it? Why isn't it on? Why
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: isn't it on an NBC Sports Philadelphia? What's the deal?
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: I hate it when it's on this I hate it
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: when it's on like, get with the program. It's okay,
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: I'll never watch it when it's on that one. Really well,
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: then you're just not going to watch the game.
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, I mean that's just the state of sports
• 18:21
  Speaker 1: right now. The only part I always laugh at is
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: at one point I'm paraphrasing, Manford was almost acting like
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: he's like testing out all these spots. It's like, you're
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: not testing out this pot, You're just getting the best deal,
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: and that's okay. I mean he sometimes talks about rev
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: I'm like, just tell it like it is. You don't
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: want it to be on ninety different places, but you're
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: going to sell it to the places that make sense,
• 18:39
  Speaker 1: and that's fine. I'm fine with that, and I think
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: people know that. But acting like it's like, oh, we
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: just want you know, one appetizer on the menu, like
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: we want all ten on the menu from each spot
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: because that'll please our palette. Come on, all right, we're
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: back on the non tender list. There was one article
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: that had Alec bohms him as possibility. Are resident Philly
• 19:02
  Speaker 1: guy or krats? No way. I mean, even if the
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: Phillies don't want to keep him, that's that's a big
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: league ballplayer. Team's not going to take that on. For
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: what is he going to make in his final season?
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: I mean I don't even know if he I don't
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: know if he eclipses the ten million mark. To me, yeah,
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: I don't see why they would non tender the people.
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: I think people just looked at it and they go, oh,
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: you know, his ops plus his only you know, league
• 19:30
  Speaker 2: average and stuff. But before this year, and I spent
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: some time on IL this year, he's back to back
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: ninety seven RBI seasons. Like you don't you don't need
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: all superstars in every facet of your lineup. You need
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: dudes that can do some other things. And like his
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: defense is continually improving, Like I'm giving Todd's third basement
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: love here, Like keep that man around.
• 19:54
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he might get traded. But I mean, I think
• 19:57
  Speaker 1: he's going to be okay on on keeping his job.
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: Eight.
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: We'll see that headline tomorrow bless you, but not beyond
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: tomorrow because I might be sick, bless you.
• 20:09
  Speaker 4: I don't know what is it the weather changes and
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: I become this time unnatural human being.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: Side you're sick all of that. You have a cough,
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: a sneeze, or your face just looks sweat. But Boom,
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: all the stuff about Boone getting traded, like last off season,
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: it wasn't people. It wasn't the Phillies trading him. It
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: was teams calling for him, like and everyone's like, oh
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: they hate Bomb. He had that temper tantrum, he got
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: sad at the end of the year. Other teams were
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: calling for him. So they're not just they're not just
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: getting rid of them. They're not just giving me away
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: for free.
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: I know a good show that has more on this.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: It's called The Philly Show bottom left corner of your screen.
• 20:48
  Speaker 1: One other quick question I didn't get to for Mike
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: g was a little in the weeds, he said, ref
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: Snyder seems like the perfect left handed mashing fit to
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: platoon with Owen Casey and right field in Chicago keeps
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: saying the h any rumblings of this. Yeah, I could
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: see the Cubs dancing like that. We gotta wake up crats.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: Oh they playing every day? Can we can we let
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: every day you know, play every day?
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: Yes. His his ability is to take the ball to
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: the opposite field. I don't care if it's left or
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: left right. All right, whatever your whatever your issue is,
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: Like platoon, Cubs shouldn't build a platoon. They should build
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: a team that will mash the entire NL Central So cool, awesome.
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: I hope they get Rob because Rob is a good player,
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: but Jacob.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: Days injury suck.
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: We had some news that broke from Nick Krawl, the
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: president baseball operations for the Reds. He informed people that
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: Elliot de la Cruz was dealing with a partially torn
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: quad and that sounds pretty significant given that his production
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: dipped off significantly in the second half of the season.
• 22:06
  Speaker 1: He had a long power draft, his defense wasn't as
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: sharp eggs of Vila numbers not as good. Right, Almost
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: everything was down across the board, not to mention stolen
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: bases sixty seven, which led baseball in twenty twenty four.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: Todd Father he totaled thirty seven stolen bags and he
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: played a full season. He didn't look the same, and
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: this does help to explain what the problem was.
• 22:29
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, you think about a couple of different scenarios,
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: like why not just come out and say it so
• 22:35
  Speaker 4: you know understandably, it's like, all right, well, knowing he
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: doesn't beat out that ground bowl or he's not stealing anymore.
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: Instead of having all this speculation two you get say, hey, man,
• 22:45
  Speaker 4: you know gritty hard Nos, I love it. Everybody loves
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: us about him.
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: He's great.
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: He fights through paying this and that I mean I
• 22:53
  Speaker 4: hear partially torn or torn. To me, it's not that
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: big of a difference because it's not fully healthy. So yeah, yeah,
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: he played through it. I give him credit for him kudos.
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: I think that's awesome. But you know, maybe there was
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: a time you could have, you know, understandable if everybody
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: kind of knew about it. You give him a day
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: or two off. All right, yeah, and we understand what's
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: going on. But for him to go out there and
• 23:14
  Speaker 4: keep battling through it, even though the numbers were ticked down,
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: goes to show to side of a person he is.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: Man.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: I give him respect for that.
• 23:20
  Speaker 1: So I do want to mention this before Kratz comments.
• 23:24
  Speaker 1: He said the comments on Wednesday or radio show, right,
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: he said, I think a lot of people don't know this.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: At the end of the year, like towards the end
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: of July, he was dealing with a partial torn quad.
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: He's been rehabbing at the ballpark basically every day in
• 23:36
  Speaker 1: the offseason, and then on Thursday he said it was
• 23:39
  Speaker 1: a left quad strain, which is a partial tear. And
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: he didn't want to make it sound like the injury
• 23:45
  Speaker 1: was too serious. I mean, I'm not a doctor here.
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: We just play that little ding at the top of
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: the segment. But Kratz it does sound like it impacted
• 23:53
  Speaker 1: him definitely.
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: And a player will always put let's put it this way,
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: a player that you want the field or on your
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: team will always play through injuries. Todd knows there's dudes
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: that don't play through Jack. They're like, ooh no, no, no,
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: not gonna make it through this one. You know, they
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: look on the mound and it's probably Trek Scubele or
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: Chris Sale. But there's dudes that play through everything. So
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: that's awesome that he wants to play through this that
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: he wanted to be out there and felt like his
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: eighty percent was better than anything else that they were
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: going to put out there. This is where the training staff,
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: the manager, the front office, the coaches need to be
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: able to step in and say, we get it. You
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: could be a franchise player for us. We have other
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: people like Noel Vie Marte used to play shortstop. I
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: don't think he's a shortstop anymore. They pushed him the
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: right field. So a half a eighty percent Ellida Cruz,
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: it's short is probably better than a lot of guys.
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: But is there a chance that they could have gotten
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: him off his feet, that they could have gotten him
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: when he's in the middle of a slump of two
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: hundred and one at bats where he had one home
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: run like that, they could have said, hey, you know
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: what this thing's really We can tell it's really bugging
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: you and you're not one hundred percent, and we'll slot
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: Noel v Marte in for a week. You'll come back,
• 25:15
  Speaker 2: you'll be banger ring. He might fight you, he might
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: say no, I want to play because I play. That's
• 25:19
  Speaker 2: what I do. But you got to be able to
• 25:22
  Speaker 2: make that decision. What's best for the team because the
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: Reds clearly needed every single game to get to where
• 25:27
  Speaker 2: they got to.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he played a full one sixty two. It's the
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: whole balance of who would play instead of Ellie for
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: that time period and would that be enough versus Ellie
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: getting the rest and then maybe being more of a
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: version of himself previously. We don't know the answer. What
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: we do know is he was not close to one
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: hundred percent. So yeah, all right, let's get two yes,
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: last word.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: No, no, no, you just you had a guy that
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: could step in. We're not talking the whole season, just
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: to step in.
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: That's it, right, right, all right, so we'll see the
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: real version of Ellie again. In spring training, Texas native
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: and now angel Grayson Rodriguez was asked if he'll be
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: ready to pitch a full season. His response, absolutely. I
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: had some bone spurs removed back in August this year.
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: That was something that's kind of lingered with me for
• 26:18
  Speaker 1: about three or four years now. I've held I've had
• 26:21
  Speaker 1: them for a while, and I kind of just got
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: to the point where I couldn't really pitch through it.
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: Pretty sure. That's kind of what was causing some of
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: the lat injuries. So just being able to get those
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: out of there. My arm feels great right now throwing.
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: There's really no question for me to be ready for
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: spring training. Gratz, have you seen the guest list for
• 26:37
  Speaker 1: tomorrow Friday show.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: I have, and I'm so glad that Grayson's coming on.
• 26:42
  Speaker 2: I mean that was ironic. He was going to be
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: coming on anyway, and he's still coming on. And I'm
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: so glad that I have gotten eviscerated on Twitter for
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: the comments I said about the fact that Grayson Rodriguez
• 26:56
  Speaker 2: is still a good pitcher and the fact that the
• 26:59
  Speaker 2: Orioles should not have gotten rid of him. I mean,
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: everybody's very much. You know, what have you done for
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: me lately? And you know what, he hasn't been on
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: the field. I'm gonna double down and I'm gonna say
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: careful what you wish for their people, just saying Grayson
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: Rodriguez can pitch a baseball pretty well.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: Kratz is describing my Thursday morning at like eight am,
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: going through YouTube comments, going back and forth with people.
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: I'm going to save most of it the Baltimore side.
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: We'll talk about. Since Ken Rosenthal put out a notes
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: column that included some aggressiveness coming up for Baltimore. We
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: will get to that. I just want to go back
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: to the Grayson side for one more minute while we
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: have it before we return here for the Angels. Come on,
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: you gotta take a flyer, oh player like this. This
• 27:50
  Speaker 1: is a no brainer, no brainer stuff. We've seen it
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: play in the big leagues. He's gone through injuries. It's
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: nothing out of the ordinary that we have seen from
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: other young pitchers in the sport. There is a very
• 28:04
  Speaker 1: good chance that Grayson Rodriguez figures out his health and
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: then is a very effective picture for the Angels.
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: Nope, no chance, Twitter says, no, there's no way. You're wrong.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: Scott is wrong. You're wrong. You're an idiot.
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: What else idiot?
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: Cooked? Favorite word cooked? Army is cooked? Oh really, twenty
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: six year old arm with what how many innings in
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: the big leagues is cooked already?
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: Okay, six foot four two and thirty pound specimen. I've
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: seen guys be hurt. I've seen it. I've also seen
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: him figure it out. I've seen him figure it out,
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: and I mean, I can't wait to ask Grayson. I
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: can't wait. But the Orioles just keep saying, eh, pitching's
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: not that big a deal. We'll get We'll get Chicano.
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: Pitching's not that big a deal. We won't give the
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: extra year to Corbyn Burns, who really liked it in Baltimore.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: So come on, Twitter, bring it on.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: An Angels fan should be excited. I texted with some
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: and some people in the media world that were really
• 29:04
  Speaker 1: excited for the Angels to pick up a guy like
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: this who's not gonna cost much. You would think he's
• 29:08
  Speaker 1: He's never gone more than like five to seven starts
• 29:10
  Speaker 1: in the big leagues. I mean, you know, is two
• 29:13
  Speaker 1: seasons here before missing twenty twenty five, twenty three starts,
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: twenty starts, well over a hondo innings. It's not like
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: he hasn't pitched.
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: The Dodgers call that a complete season for there guys.
• 29:25
  Speaker 1: True, just time, four crats hats.
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: What's he wearing? It's like a I think Tigers. It's
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: like a lightish orange, probably Phillies.
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: Oh I was right, Burn, Absolutely.
• 29:54
  Speaker 4: You can go with that. What college team can you
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: go with that one? Come on, let's se Come on,
• 30:00
  Speaker 4: it's orange. Come on, baby, come on, last chance? What'd
• 30:04
  Speaker 4: you say?
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: Cles? No?
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: Come on, come on, thank you not Orange Princeton.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: Come on, oh Princeton. Oh man, I didn't even think
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: about them, I know, come on, such a Ruckers guy.
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: I just can't get my mind off the Scarlet Knights.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: All right, here we are, we're back. We got a
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: few extra minutes. Then we'll throw you to Dodger's territory,
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: firing up with that show at three o'clock. Okay, we're
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: looking at the non tender candidates for the deadline, which
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: happens to be tomorrow night. Maybe we'll get some moves
• 30:41
  Speaker 1: as the day continues during the show tomorrow and we
• 30:44
  Speaker 1: can talk about either trades or players that get cut loose.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: One name that could be cut loose Jonah him So
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: MLB trade rumors hasn't met about six million bucks, and
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: you know his defense and offense has declined in the
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: last couple of years. It's not big money, but it's
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: been talked about.
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: I have no idea why.
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: I don't know where his decline came from. You're talking
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: about an all star gold glover and they brought Higgy
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: in and Kyle Goshioka ended up getting a lot more
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: time than him, I mean, and it's really I feel
• 31:26
  Speaker 2: like it's like the Eli Manning theory, Like Eli looks
• 31:29
  Speaker 2: like he's like, oh, he's not even into it, and
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: then he wins two World Series. Jonah, Him's like body
• 31:34
  Speaker 2: language has always been the same, very calm, very controlled,
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: and when he was swinging it from both sides of
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: the plate, that was a guy. And there's been kind
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: of a steep decline really the last like season and
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: a half season three quarters for him. So six million,
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: they feel like it's too much, but he's a big
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: league catcher. He'll he'll latch you on somewhere.
• 31:56
  Speaker 1: I'll give you a couple other names. I think it's
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: almost a lock that the Royals won't hold on to
• 32:01
  Speaker 1: Jonathan India just because he's probably going to make seven
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: eight million dollars. So now we can say that trade
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: was a win for the Reds to get yourself a starter,
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: you know, a mid to mid range to back end
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: starter in Brady Singer. Toy eat up innings and pitched
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: decently in Cincinnati, India just didn't work out for the team.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: Was sub one hundred, was at eighty nine ops plus
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: this year. You know, the defense and base running is
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: not stand out there, so you just had a pretty
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: rough year. And Kansas City is not going to keep
• 32:32
  Speaker 1: a player at that number.
• 32:34
  Speaker 3: And I see these guys, these older guys. Man, it
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: gets harder and harder as you're getting older.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: Crazy, Yeah, how old do you think he is? Twenty
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: twenty nine? In a couple of weeks, I'd.
• 32:45
  Speaker 3: Say older guys. I mean, I guess now it's older.
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: But happens fast, man, it happens fast.
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: Another one. You get from Sinceni to KC two, that's
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: a tough stadium. And India is about grinding it out.
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: As soon as he didn't do well and the team
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: was kind of not as good, and you know he
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: started losing some playing time and consistent at bats.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: One more name and this place to what you guys
• 33:09
  Speaker 1: were talking about with holding on to everybody. But Ryan
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: Mountcastle will probably get cut loose on the Orioles. He
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: was a point one wins above replacement player this year,
• 33:20
  Speaker 1: eighty three ops plus two eighty six on base. I mean,
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: I don't think they're paying him seven eight million bucks,
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: which is his approximate number. So he'll get cut. He'll
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: get picked up by another team for a few million bucks.
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: And then remember the one year he had to deal
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: with what they call it Mount Baltimore and then they
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: addressed it a little bit. Still. Yeah, Mountcastle didn't turn
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: into what they thought he would be.
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: I remember, I have much time. Yeah, the guy there
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: was a card show going on. The guy flipped over,
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: he had the orioles flipped over like a one on
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: one signed Mountcastle, and somebody told him I'd bought it
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: off you for twenty thousand right now, and the guy said, no,
• 33:57
  Speaker 4: so what Hopefully I'm not I'm not going down that road.
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: But yeah, we'll see. Hey, listen, it's his for his collection.
• 34:04
  Speaker 4: But that was when he was he was mashing right,
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: and he was a young buck coming up.
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: There was probably a Bowman chrome or something like that.
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: It was a nasty looking car, meaning good it was
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: a really good looking car.
• 34:15
  Speaker 1: Damn. Hey, things change quickly. So we'll go over some
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: of that stuff tomorrow. Good show tomorrow. By the way,
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: for a Friday, we got Ken Rosenthal, Grayson Rodriguez just
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: traded over to the Angels and Andrew Marshand, who will
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: join us to talk about all of the MLB content
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: deals that were just signed and sealed. See you then,