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Red Sox Sign Alex Bregman · The 3-0 Take

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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Three O Take where we talk
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all things Major League Baseball.
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Here's Kyle Corwin and Nate Reyes.
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It all starts right now. Welcome back to the Three O Take
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presented by Sea Geek. This is episode 512.
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We'll be your host, Kyle Corden. I'm here with my Co host Nate
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Reyes. What a what is going on?
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What a crazy. What a crazy 5 minutes we just
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experienced. I don't even know.
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Can you just while I get all while I get a squared away here,
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can you just give the folks a just a very brief run down here?
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Yeah, I mean, we started and then your fancy Apple MacBook
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over there wanted to connect to something, some random network
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that was across the street out of a van or something.
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So now that that network has been forgotten, we're running it
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back. So we just got to, I don't know.
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I don't know if you heard anything that I was saying.
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I missed some stuff you were saying.
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So we're just going to clear the mechanism.
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So we're restarting here and as I hit go Live, I refresh my feed
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and I get the update that Alex Bregman signing with the Red
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Sox. So.
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Which I can't get anything to freaking load to get like an
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updated so. Maybe it was your?
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Internet. It's not mine.
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I checked it, it was 700. Unbelievable.
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OK. BPS or whatever.
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Let's pretend like the let's pretend like the the Bregman
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news hasn't happened. We'll get to it, but let's just
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run through the quick intro here real quick.
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Let's repeat. Wow, Nate, baseball season's
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here. The offseason's over.
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We're going to talk about some of our favorite moves of the
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offseason. I have a feeling that your first
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one is Corbin Burns. And I'm just going to go ahead
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and say that mine's jerks and Profar, but give me give me give
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me a give me a quick recap. Give me a quick recap and then
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we'll we'll pick back up where we where we left off.
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All right, Fair enough. Yeah.
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Love. Corbin Burns getting it done,
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saying I want to be here, gives the spot, says this is what this
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is what I need to make me happy. You know what I mean?
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And it wasn't about money and it was about it was about finding a
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place that he wanted to be at a location.
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Plus I saw a TikTok today that was like him throwing his first
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pen to Gabby Moreno and they got the teal hat going.
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It just, it fired me up, man. That's, that's my number.
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That's my numero Uno. That's probably my favorite,
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favorite move this offseason because it was out of the blue
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Diamondbacks. Just they weren't even in the
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hunt, man. Like they weren't even in the
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race. Next thing you knew, Corbin's
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like, yo, let's make this happen.
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And I think Tori Lavilla said it was like 3 days later and just
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bang, got a deal done, got. It done, as I already alluded
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to, we, we were already live and I, we, we each shared our first
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picks for favorite offseason moves.
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And if you are with us, I mentioned Jericks and Profar and
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again, just a quick recap on my thoughts there.
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I just think this is a great fit because one, because of the fit
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itself and 2:00 because of the need.
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I think with a Cunha rehabbing still trying to get trying to
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get him straight, trying to get him squared away.
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Obviously you want him at at maximum health, you want him to
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be at his very best. SO alleviate some of that
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pressure, bring in pro far, let him do his thing, let him move
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around where he needs to be and let him just be himself.
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I think that I think the personality that he brings to
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Atlanta is just a perfect fit. I made the comp earlier to a guy
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like Jock Peterson. I'm not going to say he's gonna,
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he's gonna fill the role the same way, but he brings a
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similar style. He brings a similar energy to
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that team, to that city, which I think, as I mentioned when the
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signing happened originally, is just a perfect fit.
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So I'm I'm very much looking forward to watching how he
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meshes, assuming it it goes well.
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I'm just, I'm, I'm looking forward to seeing how well he
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meshes in Atlanta with the Braves.
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Yeah, 1000%. I mean, I love I love the role,
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I love the I love the fit. I love the role.
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I love the fact that like the Braves look like I don't think a
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ton of people outside of Braves fans, maybe some Braves fans
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realize that like last year was a fluke, man, Like they don't
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need much. They already got a really good
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roster. They don't really need a ton.
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So this was a need. They got it done.
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A a was like, what do you say? You said something crazy.
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It was like pro far was like top three hitter on the market,
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something like that. So yeah, good, good move.
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Yeah, we're going to just fly through these, huh?
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We got to get to. Well, we were already wanting to
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fly through them because we got a, we got a nice juicy draft
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waiting for us if we do. If we can get a good juicy
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draft, who's your next pick? I mean, I'm going to I'm going
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to say it just because I'm jealous as a Yankees fan.
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But the Cubs getting Kyle Tucker, I think it's a great
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move. I think I don't know if they're
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going to resign him, You know what I mean?
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I don't know if he's going to be a Cub after this year.
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I don't I don't know. But like at least they're doing
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something. The Central's up for grabs.
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Like, you know, I you know, it's seemingly like the Brewers just
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seemingly always at the top and always seem to have like a 5 or
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6 game lead in the division in September.
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But like, overall, I feel like that division is very up for
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grabs. So, you know, the Brewers have
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had some subtractions. The Cardinals are in an
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atrocious downward spiral. I don't know what's going on
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there. So for the Cubs to step in and
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be like, you know what, let's do this.
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Let's fill in some gaps and, and go get a guy that like, is Gold
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Glove contention, MVP contention.
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Like, the guy's a stud. He's a $400 million player all
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day and I like that they went for it.
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I like that they got them. So give me that for numero dos.
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You cool If I call an audible, this is this is already just
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been a wacky episode. I'm going to make it even
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wackier. I'm going to cut us off at 2A
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piece. I'm going to give you my my
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second favorite pick and then we'll get it that we had three
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lined up each. But then this Bregman thing came
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through and I want to make sure we get to that.
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But fittingly enough, my second pick, my second in no particular
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order, but the the fit, or the pick rather, that I have I'll
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stumbled upon here for #2 Garrett Crochet, for the Red Sox
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to be able to go out and get Garrett Crochet and not.
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Early too, like they seem like they snagged it early.
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They snagged it early, which I admit did give, I think, fans a
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little bit of false hope. Thanks, ESPN.
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Thanks for the update. No, they gave us a little bit of
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false hope to think that the the front office was going to go on
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an absolute tear this offseason, which they I'm now that Bregman
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is official, I'm going to go ahead and say that this was a a
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a very successful offseason given.
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I think the lack of hope that many of us fans and and people
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in the organization, the the lack of hope that I think that
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existed there based on the track record of the the previous 3-4
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years of the front office in the way they've handled things.
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But again, to not give up any of your top three guys, you're
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getting you're getting a your opening day starter presumably
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almost exclusively read when it comes to to baseball savant
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analytics. I mean he's 93rd percentile and
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chase and whiff rate 98th percent in 98th percentile in in
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strikeout percentage, 87th and walk percentage and he's
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projected to finish in the top five in all of baseball and
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strikeouts this year. So you're going to get a guy
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that's going to give you 170 ish innings.
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He's going to give you an ERA or probably right around 3 and he's
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going to give you north of 202 hundred 10220 strikeouts.
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I just think for being able to get multiple years of this guy
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and give up as little as you did, considering what you could
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have given up, I think was a great fit.
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Shame on the White Sox. Shame, shame on the White Sox
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player. We're not here to we're not here
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to trash the White Sox on this on this given day.
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With that said, let's switch gears here to what is now the
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headline. The Red Sox news just came in
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minutes ago moment, mere moments.
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The Red Sox have signed Alex Bregman and, and forgive me for,
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for lack of information we've got here, but the deal is being
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reported as being three years for $120 million with two opt
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outs. So, you know, I, I don't know,
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I, I'll be completely honest, I know probably 2 weeks ago I said
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that I'd, I genuinely believed, I, I felt that he was coming to
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Boston. But really the last two weeks it
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just seemed like radio silence. It, it really seemed like the
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Red Sox had made the offer that they wanted to make.
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And we're ultimately going to, to leave on the table if he
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wanted it or not. They weren't going to really
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budget. And then literally from the
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clouds, from the clouds, we get the update that he is signing
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with the Red Sox. So it's certainly been a roller
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coaster for for me, for other Red Sox fans where you think
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we're certainly going to get somebody.
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We're going to have a third baseman or who knows he who
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knows if this whole second baseman thing with Bregman's
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actually going to play out. But you think you're going to
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get somebody and then you think that we're getting nobody.
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And then like I said, from from out of nowhere, seemingly you
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get the update. So what are your thoughts on
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Bregman to the to the Red Sox? I'm trying to figure out what
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these, what these opt outs are. Are they?
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You said there's two. Two opt outs, three years, what
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would I say, 120 million? I'm assuming they're player opt
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outs, 2 opt outs. I can't see why the Red Sox
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would. I can't imagine a club option
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there. So yeah, I'm going to say player
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no prep off the cuff. I think it makes sense.
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I think it's AI think it's a very smart deal.
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I think it's a very smart deal, A. 40 million aavi.
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Know it's a lot, it's a lot, but I, I think the commitment it,
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it, it doesn't feel like it's over the top, you know what I
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mean? The, the Red Sox had money to
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spend. You're getting Bregman in my
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mind before the before the slide happens, before the regression
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comes. And if he is willing to play
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second base. I'm, I'm trying to figure that
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out, man. Like I'm trying to imagine him
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playing second base. Does that open up his options,
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if you know what I mean? Like if he does play second base
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and has a great year and then decides to opt out, like does
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that open up the checkbook for more teams, more opportunities?
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I don't know. I mean, like he's obviously
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still athletic enough and capable of of playing up the
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middle, played shortstop in college and and played it well.
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You know, the the third base was most likely just due to Korea
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being Korea in in Houston. So like, I think he can handle
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that. I, I wouldn't be too concerned.
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I like that. I mean, it gives them
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flexibility to, to not fully commit to Rafi Devers being
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plugged at a full time DH quite yet.
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You know what I mean? And that's something to wear.
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Like, I know I've been back and forth on it.
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I'm sure you have as a Sox fan, it's like you wonder, is that a
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smart thing to do? Like is we've talked about like
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is, is Rafi Devers capable of doing that mentally?
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Does he need to be out in the field?
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Does he get too much in his head?
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Because in my mind, watching him from the outside perspective, it
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looks like he does kind of get in his own head a little often.
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So I think this gives some flexibility in that front and it
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gives an already pretty decent lineup more depth.
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So there's not much to not like. It's just it's a perfect fit in
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my mind. It's a team that had money to
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spend and not on. I think a lot of these other
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teams that were in the conversation needed to have the
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length and years to make it make sense.
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But like, did you want to commit to an Alex Brigman that long?
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And they didn't want to, clearly.
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So I think this was screw the 40 million a year of AV like
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whatever. I think this is a great fit.
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We get. We just got an update from Jeff
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Passan. Alex Bregman's three-year, $120
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million deal with Boston includes deferred money.
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The $40 million salary is 10 million plus more per year than
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others were offering Red Sox land the best free agent left on
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the market. Yeah, you know, the whole, the
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whole. Well, before I share my thoughts
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here, Jacob's got a a great question in the chat.
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How big a role did Alex Scorer rekindled relationship come into
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play? I think I think it was made very
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clear. I, I don't think Alex Bread,
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excuse me, Alex Kora hid at all when it came to his opinions,
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his thoughts on wanting Alex Bregman.
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I think he made that very public.
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And I think it was really just a, a hang up in the front office
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and and the front office could not decide what they what they
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wanted to do. They were not as much on board,
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which you have to understand like that's that's Kora's guy,
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but they the guy that those guys in the front office aren't
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emotionally connected, aren't aren't tied to to Bregman really
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in any way. So you you have to think that
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they were, they were butting heads a little bit there on, on
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what needs actually needed to be addressed versus maybe more of a
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once in in Kors eyes. But I think Cora probably made
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the argument like, hey, this is more than just me wanting my
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guy. This is the fact that you you
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meaning the front office promised us a, an impact
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right-handed bat. And this way he we check
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multiple boxes here. We get a we get a, we get a
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leader, we get a, we get an impact right-handed bat, a bat
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that's going to play very, very well at Fenway Park.
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And you get, like you said, you get somebody that can provide
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now a little bit of flexibility. He's not going to serve as
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really a block to anything. That's that's, I would imagine
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the front office is is trying to see play out this year with the
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younger talent. Bregman can either slide in at
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third on a on a day off for Raffy.
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He can play second, which like I said, we'll see if that actually
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pans out. It it, it very well may and then
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he can also slide in as ADH. There's so many ways that you
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can go with this. So I think it provides more
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flexibility than I think people are are giving credit for.
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So it'll be it'll be interesting to see.
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I'm just, I'm just glad that you're able, you're able to cap
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off your offseason with this deal because like I like I was
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just talking about with the crochet signing or trade rather,
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you know, that mixed in with a couple of the other deals they
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made, I was going to have to get to a point where I was going to
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have to convince myself that. This was a good offseason.
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What was the grade before this deal?
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Like AB yeah, yeah, maybe even AB minus and I I say that
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strictly because of what again, was promised going into the
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offseason. They they said, we're going to
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we're going to shore up our defense.
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We're going to, we're going to go get we're going to address
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the rotation. We're going to get a
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right-handed impact back because our line UPS too, too lefty
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heavy. You know, they did bits and
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pieces there, maybe not to the full effect that Red Sox fans
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are hoping for. So I'm like, OK, we'll give you
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like ABB minus, but this just takes it up a notch.
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And so like I said, I'm, I'm really glad that you can sort of
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crown your your offseason with this move.
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I think this will this is going to pan out very well.
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Like I said, that his bats going to play very well at Fenway just
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to a big, big move for the Sox here.
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And and what you could really call like the 11th hour because
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we like we talked about, you don't want to get too deep into
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spring training and and still be without a home if you're a
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player. We saw it, we saw it play out
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last year, right? So really what you, like I said,
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you could call the 11th hour. They got it in.
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And now he's going to be able to to fully relax, fully know where
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he is and just be present. Work on getting better, work on
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getting more comfortable in that clubhouse with those guys and
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just go, you know, full steam ahead once, once, once things
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get going. You want to run me through?
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Run me through your dream lineup.
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Oh boy. Well, I mean, we are talking
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Bregman right now. I don't I don't know how clear
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I've made it, if at all, but I to to what you were saying
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earlier. I'm in the camp of wanting Raffi
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as a as a full time TH I'm. I'm at that point now like I.
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Think it I think it Any Sox fan that's not in that camp is a
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little a little stubborn, you know what I mean?
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Little reluctant to change, but you haven't seen anything
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defensively that is worth the argument of keeping him there.
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It's. It's just very he's it's very
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strange, Like he'll make the most incredible play you've seen
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in a given week or even maybe even month.
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But then just the routine stuff, it's like it's like Devers, we
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got to we got to be better than this buddy.
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But yeah, I mean, you're going to have I would I would think
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they're going to slot him in. I mean, you you lead off with
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with Jaron, we slot him in at 2GO Devers 3 Casas Casas 4.
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I mean stories another right-handed bat there.
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But you don't know what you're going to get health wise.
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So you can't necessarily count on that being a a stagger left
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right. I'd almost rather have a brave 4
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over Casas. That's just me.
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I don't really. I'm not there on Tristan Cassis
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yet. So like, yeah, I could be wrong.
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That's fair. Like I could be very rough.
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He could have a breakout year and make me my words.
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I'm just I'm not quite. I haven't seen enough to be like
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yeah, slaughter minute 4 like I just.
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I mean, he can be I've. Seen more out of William Brayu
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in his rookie year than than I've seen in Cassis over this.
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You know, weird off and on on the field these last few years.
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Sure, but I mean, if he can stay on the field, he can he can give
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you a 30. He can give you a 3000 easy.
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So yeah, yeah. So I mean I've seen some
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projections, some predictions rather that have them even close
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to 40. I see it in the chat actually
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put Bregman it to Bridge of October podcast says put Bregman
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it to Casas could hit 40, though.
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You know, it's it's it's a good problem to have.
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I'll say that now, like I said, now that you added your you got
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your right-handed bat that you wanted.
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It's these things will figure themselves out.
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You'll you'll figure this out in spring training.
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And even if you don't by the end of of spring training, maybe it
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takes a few weeks. That's how the how these games
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and seasons always go. Sometimes it just takes a little
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bit time to figure it out. Once you find your stride, once
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you find your lineup or line UPS plural that work, then you can
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then you just go full speed ahead and you you plug in the
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gaps and, and address the needs as you go.
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But to, to go into the season with, with neat, with having
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more than you need is always a better problem than not having
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enough. And I think with the addition of
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Bregman, they're in a much better position offensively and
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again, based on where he ends up defensively over the course of
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the year, in a better spot defensively as well.
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Duran Bregman, Rafi Cassis Story Warrior Brayu 79 Just do
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whatever you want, right? Just do whatever you want.
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Rafael is somewhere in there. Yeah, I I would slot, I mean I'd
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slot Rafaela probably 9 roll the line up over.
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Double, double, have that lead off.
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Yeah, have that athleticism there at the bottom.
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Yoshida's hitting seven in that line up.
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That's that's depth. That's some depth.
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If if Yoshida's still even on the line up or in the line up by
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opening day, I'd I'd. I don't get the treatment, I
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don't get the mistreatment personally.
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Hey, don't. I don't get it.
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I think he's pretty Dang good. I mean, I'll be honest there,
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there were games that I was watching this last year where I,
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or maybe it was the year before where I just got extremely
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frustrated where I was like, does this guy do anything else
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but roll over baseballs? Anything else?
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You could have had Alex for Dugo in your lineup, yeah.
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Yeah, that could have I. Think he broke a record for
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ground outs to second base last year.
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Not kidding. I think it's actually a record
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now. Many of us.
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Yeah, we'll see. Good deal.
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We'll see the bottom half, but. Thank you Alex Bregman and Camp
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for for getting it done right as we were going live.
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Yeah, the, I mean, the biggest remaining free agent on the
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board and we were due for a win. I feel like the last couple sign
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insurance, we had to maybe do a little bit of little bonus pod
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treatment. But Bregman, well, actually low
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key shout out to my Internet for connecting to the wrong, the
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wrong network. So forcing us to restart and
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we're able to get the news in and, and get things going that
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way. Any other thoughts on the the
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Bregman deal? Again, this just broke minutes
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before we restarted. We don't have trying to see
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here. I think I'm, I'm curious to see
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what just ripple effects if if anybody starts getting more
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aggressive towards Arenado and if Justin Turner gets locked
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down that fairly quickly, you know?
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Dude, I don't know. It sounded like Arnato wanted to
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come to Boston and nowhere else. So now that this is taken care
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of, yeah, you know, you could be looking at a.
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Really. Awkward situation in and out,
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which is strange there. I keep seeing reports come and
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go that like they're out, they're in.
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And yeah, I do feel like that was probably another spot that
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that Arnato was willing to, to wave the no trade clause for,
25:14
but I don't know, man, it's, it's odd.
25:18
So I, I do think there's going to be a little bit of an effect
25:21
on that. And then again, Justin Turner,
25:24
not that Justin Turner's playing third base every day, but you're
25:27
still looking for an impact. right-handed, right-handed
25:29
batter. It's, I don't know, feel like he
25:34
needs to, he needs to have a place to hit, man.
25:37
He's still got some juice in them.
25:39
If Jock is still getting jobs, Justin Turner and he's still be
25:43
getting jobs. I mean, Turner's got the age on
25:47
him. But but I get your point.
25:50
I get your point. Can still play.
25:53
Still swinging? Speaking of still playing, Nope.
25:56
Actually, we're going to wait to get to Kershaw.
25:57
I got a note here about Kershaw. We got to talk that, but that
26:01
was originally. That was Next up on my list.
26:04
But then right before we hopped on the first time to record,
26:09
before the Internet went out, Nick Pavetta, the Nick Pavetta
26:13
news broke. And then we restarted the
26:15
recording and then the Bregman news broke.
26:17
So we've covered, we've covered Bregman.
26:19
Now we need to cover this. Nick Pavetta signing four years,
26:24
$55 million with the San Diego Padres.
26:31
So Red Sox officially get the pick.
26:33
Kind of putting a bow on on the Red Sox offseason there.
26:37
Red Sox get the pick. Padres are on the hook for, as I
26:41
mentioned, $55 million for with the San Diego Padres.
26:50
This, this is, I'm going to lean towards saying this is good for
26:56
the Padres. I, you know, I've, I've already
26:58
seen this news broke probably like what, an hour ago?
27:02
I've already seen people complaining about the money.
27:06
They say, oh, it's too much for a guy like Nick Pavetta.
27:08
It's structured, yeah. It's.
27:11
Very it's very back loaded. Very back loaded $3,000,000
27:16
signing bonus and only a $1 million salary in 2025 and then
27:21
he gets from 2026 to 2028 respectively.
27:26
He gets 19,000,014 million and 18,000,000 with opt outs.
27:30
There's opt outs in here as well.
27:33
After 26. And 27 with opt outs.
27:36
And the way that it's structured helps keep.
27:40
Their. Payroll on the lower end,
27:42
because if you remember that was the whole that was the big issue
27:46
or that was the the. Sort of the.
27:50
Theme with the cease and king conversation where it's like
27:56
they're just trying to stay away from any any more potential
27:59
deals that they're going to have to make.
28:01
That's why they're trying to look for options to or or
28:04
locations, destination destinations to ship those guys,
28:08
because I just don't you you know, they're going to get their
28:10
paydays. They don't want to be on the
28:12
hook for that. So this the way they structured
28:15
it is a way to get around that while also bringing in a
28:18
competitive pitcher and to what I was where I was going with
28:21
that is is I I think this is I'm going to lean towards this being
28:26
a a good move for the Padres. I'm I'm.
28:30
I'm a fan of Nick. Pavetta when?
28:34
I take into. Account and I remind myself who
28:37
Nick Pavetta is. You know.
28:40
Elaborate. Well, you just.
28:42
You just. Know what you're going to get,
28:43
you're going to get a higher end ERA.
28:50
You're going to, I mean, he last year he, he posted a 414.
28:59
And posted it. With his time with the socks, he
29:02
posted a 433. So you're going to get a, an ERA
29:04
north of four. We know that.
29:06
But he's going to, he's going to give you innings when he's
29:08
healthy and he's going to give you, how can I put this
29:16
diplomatically? He's going to help give you a
29:20
competitive edge when you need it.
29:22
This is a guy that's going to he's he's going to bark.
29:25
Sometimes it it's received rather poorly, but when it is
29:30
received well, it's it serves as somewhat of a, a, a spark,
29:35
somewhat of a motivating factor for the guys night clubhouse.
29:38
So I I think a team that for the most part was pretty quiet this
29:44
offseason for a team. That's.
29:48
Going to need a boost in morale, I think.
29:51
I think Nick Pavetta can immediately be a guy that comes
29:54
in there and sort of help set the tone as as more of a veteran
29:58
arm as a guy who, like I said, Brent can't is capable of
30:02
bringing the energy and when when on he's on there.
30:09
I mean with the socks. There were stretches where it
30:11
was great start, horrible start, great start, horrible start.
30:15
So I'm anxious to see if that translate to San Diego.
30:18
If so, buckle up for the roller coaster ride because that's what
30:21
that's what's headed your way. But maybe he goes out there,
30:24
tinkers with some things and and is able to provide you a little
30:28
bit more consistency, which would at that rate would be even
30:31
better for this deal. So yeah.
30:35
Yeah, as far as the money structure goes, I think it is
30:40
beneficial to what the Padres are going through right now.
30:43
Just with the weird, you know, ownership issue of, you know,
30:47
the owner passing away and, and, you know, there's lawsuits going
30:51
back and forth. And unfortunately, like, in my
30:56
mind, I think it's I struggle seeing the Padres be repeating
31:00
their success that they had last year with all that happening.
31:05
So I think it allows them to almost, almost hedge in a way.
31:15
They're hedging what their roster is capable of.
31:18
Like, I still think it's a very talented roster and the fact
31:21
that Pavetta is going to slot in it, you know, the 4th spot in
31:25
the rotation, you know, behind behind cease and and and Darvish
31:31
and and King. I don't think that that's.
31:36
That bad? I think that's a a fairly decent
31:38
rotation. But yeah, I just I'm.
31:43
Struggling to see this whole ownership thing not being a
31:48
distraction and and seeing the team having success Despite that
31:53
so. Up to this point, it was a.
31:56
Horrible offseason. Curious to see what this does.
31:59
I mean like because of the deal. That's what I'm saying.
32:02
Is that like? Is this still a?
32:05
Piece that you can move. Throughout the.
32:10
Year. At at some point, if you're
32:12
struggling, if if you're not having a good year, because up
32:16
to this point, again in the offseason, all we've heard is
32:18
like trying to find suitors for Dylan Cease, potentially someone
32:22
for for Michael King as well. So it's like.
32:26
I don't know if you can. Have those conversations and
32:29
have those rumors out there, and then it's suddenly wiped away
32:34
with a Nick Pavetta signing, you know what I mean?
32:36
So it feels like a hedge, hey, if we come out hot and we
32:41
surprise some teams and we play well earlier in the year, now we
32:46
have somebody in the rotation that can, you know, really chew
32:49
up some innings for us and give us a chance or a, you know, it's
32:55
time to find some landing spots for some of these other guys.
32:58
And this is a movable contract. It's it's going to be
33:01
interesting to see how it plays out.
33:04
I'd be curious to. See.
33:08
How much? Interest there's going to be
33:10
even if he pitches well. If they're looking to.
33:15
Move him at any point if they do decide that they want to get off
33:18
this sort of back loaded contract because if this market
33:23
was in, I mean, I know he didn't like I said, he didn't have the
33:26
greatest year. He wasn't coming off the
33:27
greatest year, I should say. But I feel like the league at
33:32
this point, this is a guy that's been around long enough to where
33:34
the league, like I was saying, you kind of know what you know
33:38
what you're getting when it comes to Vivetta.
33:39
So I think this offseason, if it was any indication of the
33:44
interest or lack thereof for a guy like Pavetta, I just wonder
33:47
if maybe this is, I don't want to say his final, his final
33:51
destination of his career, but I just I would wonder how, how
33:58
eager other teams would be looking to add, add Pavetta.
34:01
It's understandable not going to the easiest division to to play
34:07
against, however you're going to have some tough lineups to deal
34:10
with. Now.
34:12
Well, I will qualify. I will qualify what I said with
34:16
the with the fact that I think this if you're, if you, if you
34:19
know you're going to be in October making a deep push, this
34:21
would be a guy that you would certainly like to have in your
34:26
in your rotation when it comes at.
34:28
Oh yeah. It's like a you could see him
34:32
being like a short leash opener in a post season series.
34:35
You could see him being a mop up.
34:38
You could see him being a we're going to be, we're going to punt
34:42
this game and I don't want to use anybody.
34:45
So I'm going to throw Nick Pavetta out there for my, you
34:48
know, 4 through 8 innings because we're down 5-6 runs,
34:53
whatever it may be, right? So like, yeah, I could
34:56
absolutely see him being that. Moving along here, Clayton
35:02
Kershaw back, I know, believe it or not, back with the Dodgers,
35:08
old man Kirsch back on a one year deal, 18th season.
35:19
How many more of these are we going to see?
35:21
I'm genuinely curious. Really even 18?
35:25
Crazy, isn't it? 18 seasons.
35:27
How many more one year deals for Clayton Kershaw and the Dodgers
35:31
are we going to see? All charity at this.
35:34
Point, yeah. How many more?
35:37
I don't know. It's all charity.
35:40
Also I think if. Kershaw's back this year, I
35:43
think we can go ahead and put to put to bed, put to rest the the
35:48
belief that he ends up anywhere else in his career.
35:51
Like you just have to assume, I mean, if the Dodgers are willing
35:55
to extend these one year contracts year after year,
35:59
they're very. Much.
36:00
Clearly OK with the idea of Kershaw sticking around as long
36:03
as he desires. So the whole coming out,
36:08
Kershaw's from Texas, maybe he's going to end up with the
36:10
Rangers. No, it's it.
36:12
This is it. That's dead.
36:13
You you want to talk final? Destinations.
36:15
This is it for Clayton Kershaw. Any.
36:23
This is the most ridiculous offseason.
36:27
This is insane. The offseason they've had, this
36:32
does. Nothing for me like you just
36:33
assumed. I'm, I'm just saying in like
36:35
sheer volume like this is enough moves for three or four teams.
36:46
Yeah, go on. But in in a way, this move
36:49
doesn't even feel like a move. I just, I mean, I, I no, no, no,
36:54
I just like, I understand that yes, a, a signing takes place
36:57
year after year with Kirchhoff, one year contract, one year
37:00
contract. But it's kind of just like a,
37:03
hey, you're with us for life If, if you want to stick around.
37:06
So we'll just see you next year. It so.
37:11
It you in my head, I just assumed that while prior to
37:16
this, prior to this week, he wasn't with the team, but you
37:19
know, he's going to be on the team come opening day.
37:22
So it yeah, it just doesn't really feel like a what do you
37:25
want to do? For an over under, do you want
37:27
to put it on starts or innings? You you call it.
37:31
All set, the line starts, starts, intrigues me.
37:40
Six and a Half, 6 1/2. That's wrong.
37:44
Now are we talk? We're talking regular season
37:46
starts, correct? All right, well.
37:49
That's a great, that's a great line because he made seven last
37:53
year. I didn't.
37:54
Even look it. Up boy that rotation this do
38:08
they I I should know this. No, I shouldn't.
38:11
I'm I'm lying. Somebody tell me, did the
38:14
Dodgers operate with the six man rotation last year?
38:18
I think it's so many. Injuries that I don't think
38:19
there is ever like a that's true, just a point of having
38:22
everyone fair, fair. So I mean like I think with
38:27
three Japanese pitchers in that rotation that are very much used
38:32
to a six man rotation with a Shohei who is coming back from
38:37
injury, I I think it's a no brainer.
38:39
I just. No offense to Kershaw.
38:42
He's a future Hall of Famer, but like, I would have expected
38:46
someone else to fill that, that sick spot, you know?
38:54
You know. What?
38:54
I'm a Kershaw guy. I'm going to be optimistic
38:57
coming into 2025. I'm going to take the over.
39:01
It's not by much, but I'm going to take the over.
39:04
All right. Fair enough.
39:08
I'll sit with the under. If you want to make a note of it
39:10
and we'll just track that. We'll come back to this, yeah.
39:14
We'll come back to this. Yeah, staying in LA or Anaheim,
39:19
I guess you can say. Kenley Jansen signs a one year
39:23
deal with the Angels worth $10 million, he said.
39:29
Look, he. Said.
39:30
If I can't pitch for the Dodgers, I'm going to watch him
39:34
from my backyard. I mean this man.
39:39
Wanted nothing more than a pitch for the Dodgers in 2025.
39:42
Dodgers said no thanks. And here we are watching Kenley
39:48
Jansen go to the Angels in an offseason for the team that I
39:52
think was they're just grabbing lottery.
39:55
Tickets, man, I yeah, but like we.
39:58
Said they're they're doing something.
40:00
They're they're doing things which I think they're all.
40:06
I won't say a majority, but many teams, many fan bases, yeah.
40:10
Who would love? To have the offseason that the
40:13
Angels are having, the Mariners haven't.
40:15
Done squat you go get what? Was it like the pirates haven't
40:18
done anything? What felt like.
40:20
Day one of the offseason, they go out and get Solaire, Yeah.
40:25
Forgot about that. That was like 6 hours into the
40:28
offseason, 6 hours in the. Offseason you bring in Jansen.
40:31
There were some other names sprinkled in there.
40:33
Yamancada was. Last week, I believe, yeah, two
40:36
weeks ago, yeah. They're just Flyers, bro.
40:39
They're just, they're like, why not?
40:40
Let's give it a shot. There was another.
40:43
Bat. Trying to remember.
40:49
I'm trying to remember who we missing here.
40:53
We're missing here, Darnell. I think it was Darnell.
41:01
I'm trying to I'm trying to figure out the day.
41:05
That they got Solaire. Was it Darnell?
41:12
I think it was they got Carter Kibo, which I know that means
41:19
like nothing to most people, but I always, I always liked Carter
41:22
Kibo. I wish he would have panned out.
41:25
Never know. Oh.
41:27
Yeah, they got you. Say, Kikuchi, I completely
41:29
forgot about that. That was at the end of November.
41:32
Thank you. And they got Travis.
41:33
Darnaud the 12th of November and they got Kyle Hendricks.
41:41
They're doing stuff. There's plenty of.
41:44
Plenty of fan bases out there that would be thrilled with that
41:46
that offseason. It's movement.
41:49
It's something you're alive. Just show me your breathing, you
41:54
know? When did they get?
41:56
So lair dude. Why can I not find?
41:59
Them on here. Get the beer.
42:04
Of Taco burps, my bad. Yeah, we don't need that.
42:08
Thanks. Sorry.
42:11
But anyway, yeah. You you'd love to have that.
42:13
You'd love to have that offseason if if you're a fan of,
42:16
yeah, a lot of other teams. Staying with the Angels.
42:20
Though this Rendon news I don't want to spend.
42:23
Any necessary? Well, we're going to.
42:31
Can't even say it with a straight.
42:32
Face Anthony Rendon has elected to receive hip surgery and will
42:37
be out for quotes a significant amount of time.
42:44
Just disappear, just fall off the face of the earth bro I put
42:51
out that tik. T.O.K the other day. 36.
42:56
Percent of games played. Coming into 20. 2536% of games
43:04
played. Just go away.
43:06
During his tenure with. The Angels just go away.
43:10
I mean, if you're the angels, how?
43:11
Do you just not eat this? I know it's a lot of money, but
43:14
how do you just not eat this? Like it's a, it's a he's a he's
43:19
the butt end of a joke at this point.
43:22
What? What?
43:23
Value. Is he providing you none when
43:26
he's in, You're getting. You're getting what, a 240
43:29
hitter? You're telling me you can't find
43:30
that elsewhere? And again, I know there's money
43:31
attached to it, but at least you wouldn't have the baggage
43:34
attached to another guy that's hitting 240 for you.
43:36
Yeah. He's not providing you.
43:39
Any pop what's left in? This deal, what's left?
43:45
So he's 34. What is it?
43:50
Three years left? Hasn't played in more than 58
43:54
games in any season. Do what?
44:00
What the Yankees did to Ellisbury just refuse to pay
44:05
him. Well, that that would.
44:08
Mean that he would just have to disappear.
44:10
So then it would be justified like, hey, we can't find the
44:13
guy. So we like, we don't even know
44:15
where to send the checks to. So we're just going to say, you
44:18
know, just go. Fair is fair.
44:20
It's the worst contract of all time he's got.
44:25
No two years. He's a free agent in 2027.
44:30
Worst. Contract of all time?
44:32
Not even close. Insane.
44:34
Dude in sane. Just painful.
44:39
I don't. Hey, that's it.
44:41
That's an interesting thought. You think Nolan?
44:45
Nolan Aronado would go. Go out, play some.
44:49
Ball with the Angels. He is a.
44:53
He's a. California kid, right?
44:55
Yeah. Newport Beach.
45:00
I guess. I don't know.
45:03
I don't like that. Why not?
45:06
Yeah, I. Mean, if you're Nolan Coronado,
45:07
it's better than staying where you're at, where you're clearly
45:10
not wanted. Yeah, I don't know if it's that
45:15
much better. I feel like I would take.
45:20
You do get to go home. You do get to go.
45:21
Home. I would take going home, yeah.
45:25
Playing in Anaheim. Over staying put in Saint Louis
45:29
where they don't want you. I I don't.
45:32
I don't think it makes any sense for the angels to give up what
45:37
they would need to give up to get that done you.
45:39
Don't have to give up very much at all.
45:41
They're trying to. They're trying to get off of
45:43
this contract. They're going to have to give up
45:45
prospects. Not.
45:47
Very much something. But not I I really, especially
45:51
at this rate, because you know that the Cardinals are
45:53
desperate, that you have whatever team is knocking on the
45:56
door of the Saint Louis Cardinals.
45:58
You have all the leverage. You've got all the leverage.
46:03
They've made it abundantly clear that they do not want Nolan
46:06
Aronado on their team come opening day.
46:11
Whatever. Not a bad idea.
46:15
Not a bad idea. OK, we've reached we've.
46:20
Reached a fork. In the road.
46:23
The best? Point of the podcast Let's do
46:28
it. Let's go.
46:28
Don't even think about it. Send it.
46:30
Let's do what? Something either.
46:33
The draft or or or hit that button Dog or.
46:46
I realize you're setting me up. I got just steam it up do it.
46:50
Again, do it again or. Whose quote was this?
46:56
Whose quote was this? Whose said it?
47:00
Whether it is like milk, whether it is like wine, we have to find
47:04
out Who said it? Was it Cow our name?
47:09
Was it Cow our name? Was it Cow our name?
47:14
Was it Cow our name? Whose quote was this?
47:21
Whose quote? Was this?
47:24
Do you want the quote or do? You want the episode and date
47:28
first. I want episode.
47:30
And date first. Oh, I'm mixing it up all right.
47:32
This is from the Three O Take episode 330, the Offseason Wish
47:38
List episode from December 19th, 2022.
47:43
Wow, OK. Fire away.
47:47
Quote. It's just odd for.
47:49
The Orioles to have that type of end to their season and not want
47:53
to build on that one move, two moves and it would have got the
47:57
fan base on board. It would have built the hype up.
48:02
Wow, not a whole lot to go. Off of there.
48:11
There were some more, but I. Trimmed it back a little bit
48:13
because I I feel like we've been getting in the habit of of
48:15
making it too easy. I'm going to go with.
48:20
Daddy. Me.
48:27
Yeah, well done. Well done.
48:28
Yeah, I, I think I, I'd have to go back and check, but I want to
48:32
say that was probably the start of us.
48:36
Really getting. On the case of the Orioles being
48:39
like, do more, do more like. Supplement what?
48:44
You have with your youth. Make a.
48:48
Signing have. These guys for rookie deals for
48:52
very long go make. A move and they've outside of
48:57
Burns Who? They inevitably just let.
49:02
Walk out the door after a season they haven't done anything to
49:07
really write home about. So I think that theme continues
49:11
really into this season and beyond.
49:14
Sure does, and beyond. And beyond.
49:18
All right, it is. Time.
49:21
Do you really want to do this? Heck yeah, let's.
49:23
All right, let's do it. I look, for the record, I was I
49:27
was on board with being like, hey, this Bregman thing popped
49:29
up. Let's punt the draft to next
49:30
episode, Nate. Nate said no, let's.
49:34
Let's let's keep the streak. Let's keep the streak rolling.
49:39
All right, today's draft is division draft.
49:51
So what we're going to do? What?
49:54
Heck of a drum roll. Thank you.
49:56
What we're going to do for this? Is we've got a random division
50:02
generator. You're obviously going to have
50:05
repeats in this, but we're going to have to fill out a line up.
50:07
And this time we're not doing 3 outfielders, 4 infielders.
50:10
We're actually filling out positions and we're we've added
50:15
a relief pitcher. So you're going to have a
50:16
starting pitcher and a relief pitcher you have to make.
50:19
You can fill out your line up in any order or fill out your
50:22
roster, I should say, in any particular order that you want,
50:24
but you have to choose somebody from the division selected.
50:27
That's fair. That's right there.
50:31
I'll just go ahead and say this in terms of who's going first,
50:35
there is an insane a lawsuit's going to need to be filed.
50:40
There's an insane amount. There's it's I'll just call it
50:43
what it is. It's a conspiracy.
50:45
There's an insane amount of bias and insane amount of hate being
50:50
thrown around right now because after last draft, I mean, I
50:54
wiped the floor with you and people were still go, oh, Nate
50:59
clears Nate this Nate. I mean, Kyle, why did you even
51:03
show up? Like I it doesn't make any
51:06
sense. And there's people that are
51:08
throwing out the idea of the possibility and I'm starting to
51:10
think it's more reality that you're paying people.
51:13
It's possible. You never know to.
51:15
I'll never say to take. The take the cake every time
51:19
these votes come around. So I don't know I don't know
51:21
what's going on there. But you know, with.
51:25
With that said, I guess you can go first.
51:28
I'm trying to find the. The randomizer, the results.
51:34
But I can't seem to find it, so I'm just going to go with what
51:36
was what I last remember and you had the lead.
51:39
So go ahead and and vote and we'll stick with the snake
51:42
draft. Lovely.
51:46
That's great. All right.
51:48
Out here. Just out here speaking from the
51:52
heart, you know, And I think that's what the people see.
51:54
I don't. I really don't think that's it
51:56
at all. Let's see, where is it?
52:03
Here's the randomizer and your first pick is going to have to
52:10
come out of the National League. West well.
52:29
A lot to. Pick from here.
52:30
So let's just go show Hey Otani in the DH spot.
52:34
Sick love that. Wow, OK.
52:40
We're going to go show. Hey on the D in the DH spot.
52:46
Oh boy. All right, I'm going to go.
52:49
This is going to be. This is going to be very a very
52:53
narrow margin between the two teams, I would think.
52:57
I would think there's a lot to pick from here.
53:01
I'm not going to. Overthink this.
53:12
I'm going to go. I'm going to go.
53:20
What's the deal with? Position eligibility here.
53:28
Why is it? Mookie.
53:33
Yeah, I want to go Mookie. Where can I slot him?
53:35
Where am I allowed to slot him? Based on what?
53:41
The Dodgers. Have listed at the.
53:44
Moment Haysong Kim is like their second baseman.
53:51
Yeah. So I was just.
53:54
Thinking less about second, more right and short.
54:02
I don't care because. 2nd to short to.
54:04
Me doesn't mean as doesn't make as much of a difference, but as
54:07
short and put here in the outfield, I don't care you.
54:10
Know I'll just play it. Clean.
54:12
I'm going to. If I'm going to win this, I'm
54:13
going to do it the right way. I'm going to put Mookie at
54:15
short. All right, Snake draft.
54:21
I'm taking the next pick. This wheel takes forever.
54:27
Five ever. It is the American League West.
54:37
Boy, the American League West. Well this sucks.
54:55
Give me I've missed him once. Before I'm not missing him
55:05
again, give me Jordan Alvarez as my DH.
55:11
That's good. Oh.
55:30
American League West. I'm going to go, Marcus.
55:50
Simeon A. 2nd that's. You know, that's that's
56:00
strategic. I like that.
56:01
It's not a. It's not.
56:02
A super deep position. I wasn't ready to burn short yet
56:06
because Corey Seeger was rattling around in my noggin.
56:10
That's fair. But.
56:13
I don't know if that's an indirect slam at me, but if
56:16
Mookie's available, Mookie's. Available.
56:18
I'm going to take Mookie. Nothing wrong with that.
56:20
All right, you're next. You've got first pick.
56:23
Here, per the Snake draft, your pick is coming out of the
56:31
American League Central. Well, glad I didn't burn it
56:37
Give. Me, Bobby Wood, junior and
56:38
short. Really wanted Bobby.
56:42
Really wanted Bobby. Oh boy.
56:48
All right. Give me.
56:58
Yeah, I see. Him in the chat, see him in the
57:01
chat. I was already, I was already
57:03
thinking it. I'm not going to overthink it.
57:05
I, I, I, I overthink too much in these drafts.
57:08
I'm just, I'm just going to go with the right pick.
57:11
Jose Ramirez at third. Very good God, I really wanted.
57:16
Now I'm not even going to say it.
57:21
Come on, Oh baby, Gimme. Gimme Gimme 1st pick for me is
57:30
coming out of. By the way, I appreciate that.
57:34
You trust me on these random, random generators, Yeah.
57:39
I've known you too long. What?
57:42
Are you going to do? You know what am I going to?
57:45
Do American League West again, tough to visit that.
57:50
That town again, Yeah, that sucks.
57:54
So. So we went.
57:55
National League West, American League West, American League
57:58
Central. And now we're back to AL West
58:00
Got. To keep track, here the.
58:02
Picks all. Right.
58:07
I American League West, I I mean, that's.
58:27
That's a risky pick. I'm not.
58:30
I'm not doing that. I'm not doing that.
58:34
Oh boy. OK.
58:36
I guess I'm just going to. This one may come back to.
58:41
Bite me. It's not a bad.
58:44
Pick. It's just not my I'll just go
58:46
ahead and say it's not my favorite pick.
58:47
I'm give me. I already got in the chat.
58:54
I already got your Don. He's my, he's my DH.
58:59
Give me where'd he go? Oh, give me.
59:10
Give me Julio in Center American League West.
59:28
And remember, we have we have to pick.
59:32
This is different. This time around we got to pick
59:34
a starter and a reliever. Just keep that in mind.
59:39
By the way, I liked your idea of adding a head coach for the last
59:42
draft. We don't have to do it this
59:43
time, but something to just keep in mind for moving forward.
59:46
That was a football thing, but. Yeah, if it fits.
59:50
Or. Yes, sorry.
59:51
Manager, What am I saying? Well, I was the head coach for
59:53
the last draft because it was football, Yeah.
1:00:01
What's chat looking? Like you got any suggestions?
1:00:04
Chat. Get out of the chat.
1:00:05
I'm you've been in the chat, I'm monitoring the chat because I
1:00:08
have to, I have to. You've been hanging out.
1:00:10
I have to run production here ah.
1:00:13
Man. American League.
1:00:20
West. I don't want to burn my.
1:00:24
Starter, you know. I'm not ready.
1:00:28
I'm not. Ready to play that card yet?
1:00:32
Yeah, do what you got to do. Give me.
1:00:39
Josh Hader, I had a feeling you were going.
1:00:41
There, that's that's a good pick.
1:00:51
All right. Your first pick is the American
1:01:02
League Central again. Dude, what is happening?
1:01:06
The east does exist randomizer I.
1:01:09
It's it's what the it's what the generator's coming up with.
1:01:12
That's not me. The American League West.
1:01:24
Is like, it's not that deep guys.
1:01:28
It's not as super deep. You mean the?
1:01:30
Central. Oh, we're back in the Central.
1:01:32
I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I got stuck in the West.
1:01:34
I got stuck in the West. No, we've alternated.
1:01:37
We went wet. AO W AO central.
1:01:39
AO WL Central, Yeah. Dang, should I save that?
1:01:44
Really. Respond Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
1:01:51
yeah. Go no research.
1:02:02
Here guy I got no phone, I got nothing just raw dog in this I.
1:02:18
Don't want to do that. Jay Ramos is a good.
1:02:26
Pick guy. Thank you.
1:02:27
Thank you. Oh, I'm is the only pick I could
1:02:29
make, Yeah. I you throwing a ticker on.
1:02:39
Me. I don't want it.
1:03:04
That's messing with me. That's a little better.
1:03:11
That sound I'm used to. My brother guy.
1:03:18
It's getting snug. All right, let me just.
1:03:21
My brother, we still got like half.
1:03:22
The team to go. More than half the team.
1:03:41
I don't. Like doing this.
1:03:43
Give me Royce Lewis at third. Well done.
1:03:47
Sir, I will gladly go ahead and take Tarek Scubal as my starting
1:03:52
pitcher. That's a good one.
1:03:57
I wasn't ready to burn it, but that's a good one to burn it on.
1:04:01
I mean I. Was surprised you didn't go
1:04:02
Class A. I'm.
1:04:05
I'm going to. I'm going to take, you know, No,
1:04:09
I'm not. I'm not.
1:04:10
I'm not. I'm not going to explain myself.
1:04:12
You went Royce Lewis. I swear, if you win this draft,
1:04:17
I am never doing another draft again.
1:04:20
Yeah, you're putting Royce wear again.
1:04:24
Third. Right.
1:04:25
Right, third. So OK, so that's Royce at third
1:04:30
Scubble it on the bump. K can't believe I.
1:04:35
That didn't come to mind. Yeah, it's tough guy.
1:04:38
That's real tough. Who's got first pick here?
1:04:43
You do. I do.
1:04:45
All right, watch. It's gonna be the it's gonna be
1:04:47
the National League Central. I hope not.
1:04:50
It's gonna be the National League Central.
1:04:52
It is the National League West. We've only we've.
1:04:59
Only picked out of three divisions thus far.
1:05:01
Stupid. I hate it.
1:05:05
National League West. Oh boy, give me.
1:05:19
I mean, I don't know why you're. Not doing any research.
1:05:23
Nobody said you couldn't. That rule wasn't established.
1:05:27
Give me. National League West, did you
1:05:45
see my light change? Color, Yeah.
1:05:47
What's up with? That that.
1:05:49
Was weird, creepy, Don't love that.
1:06:00
Not a fan of that. What did I say?
1:06:02
We're in Oh. We're the National League West.
1:06:04
What am I doing? Give me.
1:06:15
You know I'm. Going to I'm I'm going to come
1:06:21
back to this. Give me Tatis and Wright.
1:06:29
Nice. Give me Corbin Carroll.
1:06:33
In center. All right.
1:06:42
Next division is. Nate's pick will be.
1:06:50
From the American League Central, this is.
1:06:55
Ridiculous I. I don't know what to I don't
1:07:00
know what to say. So dumb.
1:07:03
Come on, they're all in in. Here dude, all all six divisions
1:07:08
are in here. I don't know why it's only.
1:07:12
Choosing these. And you know what's beautiful?
1:07:20
About this. I can't get class.
1:07:26
AI know. I love this.
1:07:28
I love this for me. I think I'm toast.
1:07:35
No, you'll. You'll you'll get the votes.
1:07:38
You'll get the votes somehow. They'll be like, well, you know,
1:07:41
Royce Lewis is a is a sneaky pick and he could have a better
1:07:45
year than Jose Ramirez. Stupid man sometimes.
1:07:52
I I mean, I love our listeners, but sometimes I just hate our
1:07:55
listeners. Like how I mean.
1:07:57
Do you all know Ball or do you know ball?
1:07:59
Because there's no way that Nate should be under.
1:08:03
Well, I think you only lost one draft so far, but I'm like,
1:08:06
there's no way that Nate should have this many dubs under his
1:08:08
belt. There's just no way.
1:08:26
Just double checking. I made a mistake.
1:08:27
I made a big mistake with Terex Google.
1:08:29
That's on me. If I lose, it's it's that's a
1:08:32
big that's a big reason. That part's on me.
1:08:38
Give me Stephen Kwan and left. All right, you going Class A?
1:08:48
I'm going. Class A.
1:08:50
All right, my friend, the next pick is.
1:08:55
Congrats you got. 1st pick on this one, right?
1:08:59
Yeah, National League East. No, you do.
1:09:03
You went. All right, I just knew.
1:09:05
Who I wanted first. That's right.
1:09:07
All right. National League East.
1:09:11
Love this for me. I'm going to go ahead and put, I
1:09:18
don't know. Maybe Juan?
1:09:22
Soto and left no. He's not a left fielder.
1:09:27
Come on. He's literally listed.
1:09:30
As a left fielder on MLB.com, what are what are?
1:09:32
That's ridiculous. He ain't playing left field.
1:09:37
The Mets are putting him in. Left.
1:09:39
Why have we not heard anything about that?
1:09:44
Let me I'm just going off of what's on the screen.
1:09:49
I'm leaving. Right field open on purpose for
1:09:51
this. Stupid.
1:10:01
You can have it. If it's listed, it's listed.
1:10:04
I don't care. I'm toast anyway.
1:10:09
Royce Lewis over Terek's Google really did me in.
1:10:12
Yeah. Yeah, oh boy.
1:10:15
You know E well, I mean. I, I don't know man, like you
1:10:23
know, he's listed as left field, right field on here, but.
1:10:28
You know. It I don't, I don't want to, I
1:10:31
don't want to earn this win unfairly.
1:10:34
So, you know, if, if there's criticism here of of putting
1:10:40
Soto on left, I can rescind the pick.
1:10:45
You're not going to like it because.
1:10:46
I would take Soto and Rey. I mean, that's fine.
1:10:50
You need. All the help you can get,
1:10:52
truthfully. I mean me, me.
1:10:56
Putting Soto in in left. That's.
1:11:01
The nail in the coffin and we still have more picks to go.
1:11:05
Go ahead and take them and you put hardware 1st.
1:11:10
Just double check here. We're picking out of the East.
1:11:13
It's a lot to pick from. Yeah, give me Bryce.
1:11:18
At first. Oh boy, Barista Bryce.
1:11:28
So you're putting Soto on, right?
1:11:29
That's fine. Run it back to the NL.
1:11:33
East give me more E love. Give me an American.
1:11:37
League East pick one time, just one time, one time.
1:11:41
One time. The National League Central,
1:11:48
which we have not had. National League.
1:11:51
Central. I'm just, I don't want to.
1:12:02
Fire, fire too quickly here. I feel pretty confident about
1:12:05
it, but. I did misfire.
1:12:07
Earlier and don't want to repeat that.
1:12:13
No. There is.
1:12:15
No way I my blood. 'S.
1:12:16
Boiling just thinking about people trying to justify Nate's
1:12:19
roster over mine. I I can just see it.
1:12:22
Paul Skins. There you go.
1:12:26
Good, good. Good salvage there.
1:12:32
That's who I was going. That's who I was going to shoot
1:12:34
for had scuba not come up. And honestly, it's probably a
1:12:39
good thing I didn't because, well, no, because if you would
1:12:43
have been actually thinking you would have gone Scoople over
1:12:46
Roy. So I would have gotten skiing.
1:12:47
Oh, we were getting one or two of those guys either way.
1:12:51
OK, you got. Catchers second and left field
1:12:56
open. Catcher second.
1:13:00
And left, all right, give me. There's no way I win this.
1:13:20
Give me give me I guess JT behind the dish What who real
1:13:45
muto we're in the. Central Pal.
1:13:49
Oh, shoot, I'm sitting here scanning and you made the same
1:13:53
mistake over the American League.
1:13:54
Sure did. Oh boy, Central.
1:13:59
That makes things interesting. OK.
1:14:07
I need second. Catcher and left Central really
1:14:19
sucks, man. Oh oh, oh, hold on.
1:14:25
Trying to see if it. Comes up as a left fielder.
1:14:29
You don't even. Know you don't know what I'm
1:14:33
doing, You don't know what I'm doing.
1:14:35
Has his name been mentioned today?
1:14:39
I don't know has it been mentioned?
1:14:40
Today. Has it been mentioned?
1:14:44
Today. Ah, you're lucky.
1:14:53
You're lucky. Give me Contreras.
1:15:03
Wait, it'd be it'd. Be William, right?
1:15:05
No, you want. Wilson William's a Brewer.
1:15:12
We good they're both in the. Central, Yeah.
1:15:19
Which one did you? Say.
1:15:21
I don't know which one did. I say, which one do you want?
1:15:24
I don't know which one do I want.
1:15:29
No, I said. William Contreras And then
1:15:32
you're like, no. You just no, no, I know.
1:15:34
And then I. Said William.
1:15:35
And then you're like, no, he's a Brewer.
1:15:37
Why did you? Yeah, I know what you're.
1:15:39
That's what I'm saying I'm saying.
1:15:40
Like I'm, I thought you were struggling with William, like
1:15:43
which Wilson or William was with who?
1:15:46
So I'm saying like William. Oh, no, no, no.
1:15:48
No, no, I knew he was with the Brewers, but I'm I'm, I thought
1:15:51
you were like making me second guess on what division.
1:15:54
I was like, he's definitely in the central.
1:15:55
No, I was saying like. What?
1:15:57
What William or Wilson was with who?
1:16:02
No, no. All right, here's my catcher.
1:16:06
All right, who's got do? I got first pick here?
1:16:10
Yeah, yeah, You went skeins. Give me in the chat.
1:16:18
Pass and reported Bregman will play second base.
1:16:21
Don't love that. OK.
1:16:25
National League East. Back to the east.
1:16:32
Wow, we haven't got we. Haven't had the AL East once.
1:16:35
I feel like I'm going to get burned.
1:16:37
With catcher? Yep, probably.
1:16:40
You got left field and 2nd. Left and 2nd this.
1:16:43
Is where it gets tricky. Left.
1:16:52
And 2nd the East. Give.
1:17:02
Me. Hold on, I need to confirm.
1:17:08
If he's playing a second. Come on now, give.
1:17:19
Me, I don't want him, I guess. Give me no.
1:17:29
There's got to be a better left fielder in the East.
1:17:46
Who is definitely not dude. I don't.
1:17:58
Know I guess give me I'm I'm looking in Atlanta.
1:18:13
To to save me. Here.
1:18:19
Oh, you know what? Give me.
1:18:23
No, now I'm overthinking this. I.
1:18:28
Said I'm not going to overthink it.
1:18:30
Give me. Give me Ozzy Alby's.
1:18:33
At second I thought. That was the safe bet.
1:18:38
Give me Matt Olson at first. So I need a left.
1:18:46
Fielder and you need a catcher. Smart move waiting.
1:18:52
To pull the trigger last on a catcher.
1:18:55
Not smart. No, because nobody cares.
1:19:03
I mean, unless you're getting like a top catch, you either get
1:19:05
like one of the top three catchers or you literally get
1:19:07
anybody else, nobody's going to care.
1:19:09
Not that I'm trying to build your case here.
1:19:11
It is the National League East again.
1:19:13
That's fun. I.
1:19:20
Feel like JT is. Kind of washed.
1:19:31
Don't overthink this. Don't overthink this.
1:19:41
I'm just. Comparing my catchers because
1:19:45
like overall, I think they're all like.
1:19:51
What? What are we doing?
1:19:53
Dude what? Make your pick.
1:19:58
Don't overthink this, this is crazy.
1:20:02
I don't. Are you like that much into JT
1:20:05
Ryomuto over Alvarez and Sean Murphy?
1:20:09
Like that far? Above, I don't think it's that
1:20:12
like obviously above I mean, I feel like if you're going for
1:20:16
just. Line up sex appeal.
1:20:19
I mean, I feel like, you know, don't listen to me.
1:20:22
What do I know? I have.
1:20:23
I don't win any drafts, so clearly I don't know what I'm
1:20:25
talking about. Whatever.
1:20:27
We do have a lot of Braves fans that listen, so Sean Murphy
1:20:31
might save me a little bit. Yeah, that's fine.
1:20:35
I'll go JT. Hubert Ruiz, that was.
1:20:40
A good that would have been a good pick.
1:20:42
Still some upside. There.
1:20:45
All right, you're going JT Catcher, I guess in the left.
1:20:50
Give me. Guess give me Profar.
1:21:07
You don't remember how much. Weight Shohei is going to carry
1:21:10
on this thing, whatever. Just.
1:21:13
Remember that. Just remember how much you're
1:21:16
going to. You're going to win a lot of.
1:21:17
Water, you're going to win the freaking.
1:21:18
Draft even though my team is just clearly why you're hating
1:21:21
on Stephen. Kwan, by the way, Stephen I'd.
1:21:25
Rather have Stephen Kwan over the fact No, no, no, no.
1:21:28
The fact I'll take Quan of a profile, I'll take Corbin
1:21:30
Carroll over Julio Rodriguez. No, the fact that you no, that
1:21:35
was that was 100%. On me, I was.
1:21:38
I'm going to put a bullet point at the.
1:21:39
Bottom of the graphic I'm going to put a bullet point that says
1:21:42
Nate Nate chose Royce Lewis when Tarik Scuba was available and
1:21:46
see if that swings the vote at all.
1:21:49
This is why I. Get votes, by the way, is 'cause
1:21:52
you you have these shenanigans that come out of your come out
1:21:56
of your mouth all. Right, recapping.
1:21:58
Nate's got, let's just go. I'll try to go around the
1:22:02
diamond here so it's more consistent.
1:22:05
So he's got Paul Skeens as his starter.
1:22:09
Josh Hader as his. Reliever.
1:22:14
Matt Ols or excuse? Me, JT Romito behind the dish,
1:22:17
Matt Olsen at first, Marcus Simeon at second, Royce Lewis at
1:22:22
third, Bobby Witt at short, Stephen Kwan and left at Corbin.
1:22:28
Carolyn center. Juan Soto and Wright show his DH
1:22:32
for me. I have Terek School as my
1:22:36
starting pitcher. Emmanuel Klaasse is my reliever.
1:22:39
William Contreras is my catcher. Bryce Harper's my first.
1:22:44
Baseman. Ozzy Albies as my. 2nd baseman
1:22:48
Jose Ramirez as my third baseman, Mookie Betts as my
1:22:52
shortstop, Jerks and Profar as my left fielder.
1:22:56
J Rod is my center fielder, Skip J Ram.
1:22:59
J Ram at third. No, I didn't.
1:23:01
I said Jose Amir. Is the third.
1:23:03
Oh, you did? Yeah.
1:23:04
How's the owner now? J Rod in center.
1:23:07
And Fernando Tatis and Wright, I mean, what are we doing?
1:23:10
What are we doing here? I.
1:23:13
Don't know guy. But I I know.
1:23:16
I'm just waiting for like the 68 TH and my outfielders.
1:23:20
Are better than yours. It's going to be the. 68 to 32
1:23:24
discrepancy in the votes and like where are these votes?
1:23:28
Where are you putting them? Where are you?
1:23:30
Where are you putting the polls on the story?
1:23:32
All right. Good to know IG.
1:23:34
Story and. Facebook I I sort of combined
1:23:37
the two. It's it's not an exact science,
1:23:39
but I can usually get a feel for who wins and people just clearly
1:23:42
don't know ball. Anyway, other than that, that's
1:23:47
all I got. Oh.
1:23:49
Awesome. Let's have a good weekend.
1:23:51
Everybody. Buckle up, and if you're in the
1:23:55
area, let me know if you're hitting some spring training
1:23:57
games. But while you're living, don't
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go. Jason Curveballs, we.
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Love you all as always, looking forward.
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To talking more baseball with you guys soon.
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Until next time, stay filthy.