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Fair Territory: Trade Deadline latest, Seth Lugo extension, Surging Rangers, Reliever market dilemma · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to the Monday edition of Fair Territory. Any
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Speaker 1: other week we'd probably be talking still about Nick Kurtz's
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Speaker 1: incredible six for six, four homer performance on Friday night.
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Speaker 1: Any other week we'd be talking about the Hall of
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Speaker 1: Fame induction ceremonies, the wonderful speeches that we heard yesterday.
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Speaker 1: But of course this is not any other week. This
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Speaker 1: is deadline week, and here we go. Last night, interesting
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Speaker 1: news developing Seth Lugo. Kansas City Royals reached terms on
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Speaker 1: an extension two years, forty six million that will take
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Speaker 1: Lugo into his ages thirty six and thirty seven season.
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Speaker 1: A lot of people thought Lugo might be a trade candidate,
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Speaker 1: but the Royals have signaled all along that they are
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Speaker 1: not interested in going the other way in selling. Now.
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Speaker 1: They haven't played all that great. Their offense is a
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Speaker 1: bottom five offense. They're four and a half or so
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Speaker 1: out in the wildcard race. But they've acquired ad On Frasier,
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Speaker 1: They've acquired Randall Critchick, and now they've solidified their relationship
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Speaker 1: with Lugo beyond this season for two years and possibly
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Speaker 1: three depending on how the options work out. Their situation
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Speaker 1: right now is kind of perilous. Reagan's Cole Reagan's is
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Speaker 1: still on the injured list, as is Michael Lorenzen. They
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Speaker 1: need Lugo obviously if they're going to continue to contend,
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Speaker 1: So their thoughts on trading him were always lukewarm. They
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Speaker 1: never wanted to do it, and the extension obviously sets
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Speaker 1: them up well starting in twenty twenty six. All Right,
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Speaker 1: A lot else going on, obviously in the trade market.
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Speaker 1: A focal point Arizona and the Arizona Diamondbacks situation. So
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Speaker 1: early on when they were talking about possibly being a seller,
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Speaker 1: the Diamondbacks were indicating to other teams that they weren't
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Speaker 1: going to trade both Merrill Kelly and Zach Gallan. It
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Speaker 1: would be one or the other. But as I reported Saturday,
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Speaker 1: their thinking is changing. And now because of the intense
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Speaker 1: demand for starting pitching, both rental starting pitching and controllable
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Speaker 1: starting pitching, they feel that if teams meet their price point,
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Speaker 1: give them what they want, then they would trade both.
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Speaker 1: Now what they want to do, obviously is clear the
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Speaker 1: compensation that they would get back if they lost these
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Speaker 1: guys as free agents after giving them qualifying offers. That's
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Speaker 1: sort of a high bar, but not really for a
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Speaker 1: starting pitcher, So Merrill, Kelly and Zach Gallon both could go.
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Speaker 1: It will be interesting to see in the next few
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Speaker 1: days if the Diamondbacks try to reach an extension with
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Speaker 1: Kelly the same way the Royals did with Lugo. Kelly
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Speaker 1: is a guy who will be thirty seven next season.
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Speaker 1: He's not going to crush it on the free agent market,
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Speaker 1: so that's a guy who maybe would be open to
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Speaker 1: such an idea. Lugo, it's interesting. Could he have done
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Speaker 1: better on the open market than two times twenty three? Maybe,
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Speaker 1: but again, at this age, it's a pretty good deal
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Speaker 1: for a guy like him, So that's something to watch.
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Speaker 1: And obviously with Arizona as well, Aohanno Suarez is going
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Speaker 1: to go, you know that, the only question is where.
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Speaker 1: So that's Arizona and they're going to be a team
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Speaker 1: like Baltimore that will be very active in the coming days.
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Speaker 1: And then we have a team in Texas, a team
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Speaker 1: that has struggled the entire season. I'm not talking about
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Speaker 1: the Astros, I'm talking about the other Texas team, The
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Speaker 1: Texas Rangers have been an immense disappointment to this point.
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Speaker 1: What we've seen in the last I don't know a
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Speaker 1: few weeks. Is a team that finally is playing to
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Speaker 1: its potential. Six straight wins. They swept the Braves over
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Speaker 1: the weekend. In eight and one home stand against Detroit,
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Speaker 1: the Athletics and the Braves. This is a team that
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Speaker 1: finally is finding itself. And don't look now, but here
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Speaker 1: come the Rangers in the Al West and in the
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Speaker 1: wildcard races. So right now, the Rangers and the Mariners
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Speaker 1: are tied for the third wildcard spot, and both teams
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Speaker 1: also are just four games behind the Houston Astros. The
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Speaker 1: Houston Astros, with eight team players currently on the injured list,
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Speaker 1: Texas is going to be active, and as I reported
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Speaker 1: the other night, they're going to be looking for a
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Speaker 1: right handed hitter and perhaps more important, high leverage relievers.
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Speaker 1: They're gonna be one of many teams in the market
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Speaker 1: for high leverage relievers. We're gonna talk more about that
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Speaker 1: situation in the inside Dish. So the Rangers, yeah, they're
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Speaker 1: starting to see what they thought they were going to be,
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Speaker 1: finally coming to fruition. The Astros, with all of these
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Speaker 1: crazy injuries, are a team that also figures to be active,
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Speaker 1: and as we know their owner, Jim Crane likes big names.
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Speaker 1: Who knows what that might mean. Aohano Suarez would be
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Speaker 1: a possibility for them, and the Cubs and all these
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Speaker 1: other teams as well. So this is a division to
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Speaker 1: watch in the coming days. It's going to be quite
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Speaker 1: interesting to see what each of these teams does. The
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Speaker 1: Mariners have made their move already, one move Josh Naylor.
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Speaker 1: Jerry Depoto, their president of baseball operations, has also said
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Speaker 1: that the I want to add a high leverage reliever
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Speaker 1: as well. Pause if you don't want me to keep
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Speaker 1: repeating this, and the Mariners, I'm sorry. I also could
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Speaker 1: add a third basement. They could be a team for
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Speaker 1: Suarez and have said or indicated at least that they
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Speaker 1: want to be a team for Suarez. So that is
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Speaker 1: the AL West. Another interesting scenario there. And finally, I
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Speaker 1: want to talk about the National League wildcard race because
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Speaker 1: I heard something really interesting on Saturday morning, and it
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Speaker 1: was an executive from another team, a team that's not
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Speaker 1: involved in the race, saying, hey, why aren't the Reds
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Speaker 1: and Giants pushing San Diego in that third wildcard spot
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Speaker 1: is vulnerable? And let's look at the standings and I'll
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Speaker 1: show you what I mean here. The Padres have been
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Speaker 1: a really good team for quite some time now, but
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Speaker 1: this year, after that fourteen and three start, there's sub
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Speaker 1: five hundred club. They're forty three and forty six. Here
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Speaker 1: are the standings in the NL wildcard race, all right,
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Speaker 1: Chicago and Milwaukee tied for the top spot, and tied
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Speaker 1: of course for the National League Central lead. Then Philadelphia,
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Speaker 1: so it's one of those two Chicago or Milwaukee. Philadelphia
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Speaker 1: in the second spot pretty comfortably, and then San Diego.
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Speaker 1: San Diego's lead over the Reds is one game over
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Speaker 1: the Giants. It's three games now. When I wrote this
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Speaker 1: a couple of days ago, that lead over the Giants
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Speaker 1: was one, but they just got swept by the New
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Speaker 1: York Mets. They have lost nine of eleven. They are
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Speaker 1: a team that with rap Faield Devers is only thirteen
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Speaker 1: and twenty one. So who knows what they do, but
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Speaker 1: the expectation is that they're going to buy left handed reliever,
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Speaker 1: left handed hitting second basement or a second basement period,
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Speaker 1: something along those lines. And they are still waiting to
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Speaker 1: play better ball than they have at least with Devers.
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Speaker 1: And then the Reds. The Reds are right there. And
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Speaker 1: this is another team that a lot of people at
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Speaker 1: the start of the season, including myself, thought was going
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Speaker 1: to be quite competitive, and they've won four straight. They've
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Speaker 1: won ten of fourteen. Day two kind of like Texas
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Speaker 1: are kind of playing the way we thought they were
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Speaker 1: going to play, So I expect them to be active.
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Speaker 1: They are one of the teams also on Aohano Suarez.
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Speaker 1: So all of these machinations are going on right now
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Speaker 1: as we look at the n A wildcard race and
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Speaker 1: the Padres in August thirteen games against both the Giants
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Speaker 1: and Dodgers. They play seven against the Giants and six
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Speaker 1: against the Dodgers. So this is going to come to
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Speaker 1: a head at the deadline because, as I wrote the
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Speaker 1: other day, the Padres general manager Aj Preller, we know
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Speaker 1: who he is, we know what he wants to do
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Speaker 1: with the deadline. He wants to be active, he wants
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Speaker 1: to do some things. And the problem he faces, according
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Speaker 1: to this rival executive, and something that we've actually seen
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Speaker 1: develop over the last year or so, is that financially
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Speaker 1: he might not be in the same comfortable position he's
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Speaker 1: been in in recent years, and from a farm system standpoint,
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Speaker 1: he's not quite as deep as he was either, though
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Speaker 1: he does have prospects, more prospects than perhaps he gets
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Speaker 1: credit for it. And he always seems to come up
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Speaker 1: with guys to trade the deadline, So that is going
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Speaker 1: to be something to watch how the wild card race
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Speaker 1: shapes up, What Preller does, what the Giants do, what
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Speaker 1: the Reds do? Hey, what all thirty teams do. That's
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Speaker 1: of the show where I talk about a story I've
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Speaker 1: written about a trend in the game, about the trade deadline,
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Speaker 1: about maybe all of the above, and I guess today
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Speaker 1: qualifies as an all of the above day. Now, I've
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Speaker 1: been writing a lot, as you guys have followed along.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure, while I hope and I calum, today is
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Speaker 1: about the bullpen market, and it's about this interesting conundrum
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Speaker 1: that teams face when assessing what they want to do
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Speaker 1: with relievers. Now, as we know, relievers are always in
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Speaker 1: demand at the deadline. Teams are always trying to fortify
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Speaker 1: their bullpens, and we know also that the prices for
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Speaker 1: relievers can be rather high. Now, relievers are valuable, there's
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Speaker 1: no question about it. But relievers also are volatile. And
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Speaker 1: this is kind of where this column comes into play here.
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Speaker 1: So teams essentially that are in the market, the contenders
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Speaker 1: that want bullpen help, they're facing a choice. And the
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Speaker 1: choice is this, do you go and overpay for one
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Speaker 1: of the controllable late inning weapons, guys like Mason Miller,
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Speaker 1: Emmanuel Classe, John Duran, Griffin, Jacks they're all under control.
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Speaker 1: David Bednar is another one, or do you prefer to
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Speaker 1: pay less for a rental a guy such as as
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Speaker 1: Ryan Helsley. Robert Suarez would also qualify because the expectation
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Speaker 1: is that he will decline his two million His two
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Speaker 1: eight million dollar club options at the end of the season,
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Speaker 1: actually their player options. So Suarez has the ability at
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Speaker 1: the end of the season to exercise two eight million
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Speaker 1: dollar player options, one for twenty six and one for
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Speaker 1: twenty seven. The expectation is he will not do that.
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Speaker 1: He leads the major leagues and saves. So do you
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Speaker 1: pay the bigger price or do you pay the smaller price. Now,
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Speaker 1: the problem here is that with control club control over relievers,
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Speaker 1: it's kind of a mixed bag. Because, yes, teams always
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Speaker 1: crave club control, we hear it constantly, right, But relievers
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Speaker 1: are so volatile, so prone to fluctuate year to year,
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Speaker 1: even month to month, that maybe additional years of club
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Speaker 1: control is not as desirable. Maybe it matters less than
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Speaker 1: it does. Then, with more stable performers, the starting pitcher
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Speaker 1: that you know well hope will take the ball every
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Speaker 1: fifth day, and position players whose performances are much less
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Speaker 1: subject to fluctuation. Yes, they go up and down, but
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Speaker 1: generally the back of the baseball card does speak volumes
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Speaker 1: with position players. So that's the choice. And if you're
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Speaker 1: a team that wants to pay less for reliever that
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Speaker 1: you don't want to get involved with something really where
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Speaker 1: you're giving up multiple prospects and top prospects for a
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Speaker 1: controllable type. Well, yeah, that's great, but there's a shortage
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Speaker 1: of the available rentals that are on the market. And
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Speaker 1: I want to show you here just what I mean
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Speaker 1: by that. Let's take a look at the rental relievers
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Speaker 1: who are potentially available. I'm talking mostly here about late
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Speaker 1: inning guys, guys that will close out games Hellsley. I
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Speaker 1: mentioned Suarez, I mentioned Kyle Finnegan, he's in decline somewhat,
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Speaker 1: wasn't even traded last year, and then ken Lee Jansen.
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Speaker 1: Ken Lee might be traded, but who knows what the
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Speaker 1: Angels are going to do. Ardie Morana, their owner is unpredictable.
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Speaker 1: Time of year, we see it every season. So those
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Speaker 1: are really only the rental options. And I forgot one
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Speaker 1: on that list. Racil Iglesias of the Atlanta Braves, who
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Speaker 1: is a guy that has some underlying numbers that are okay,
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Speaker 1: but his performance has been wildly inconsistent. So rysl Iglesias,
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Speaker 1: maybe you want them, but that's a risk. Then again,
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Speaker 1: the controllable relievers may be less risky in your mind
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Speaker 1: because of their performances, but again you're going to pay
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Speaker 1: a higher price. Now let's look at the list of
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Speaker 1: the top controllable relievers, and I might be missing one
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Speaker 1: or two. Just relax. Mason Miller, the Athletics mentioned him,
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Speaker 1: Class Durant, Jacks, and Bednar. These guys are all really good.
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Speaker 1: Dennis Santana of the Pirates is another one. And the
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Speaker 1: Rockies have a trio of guys that they're actually listening
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Speaker 1: on and may even trade. Yes, the Rockies, they're awakening
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Speaker 1: from their I don't know, decade long slumber when it
13:54
Speaker 1: comes to trade time. So those guys are going to
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Speaker 1: be rather costly. Mason Miller four additional years of club control,
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Speaker 1: Emmanuel Classe I believe is three, and those are at
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Speaker 1: below market rates, so Cleveland can certainly afford him, and
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Speaker 1: then Jackson Durant each have two additional years, and Bednar
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Speaker 1: and Santana one. So you're paying for yes, that club control,
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Speaker 1: the additional time that you will have with those players.
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Speaker 1: So the game of Chicken is on, and the staring
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Speaker 1: matches that take place every year at the deadline are
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Speaker 1: fully commenced. Because with a three day period now in
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Speaker 1: which this will all take place three or four days,
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Speaker 1: I should say, you're going to see things happen or
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Speaker 1: not happen. One of the issues here is that Cleveland,
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Speaker 1: the team that holds class and Stephen Kwan, another player
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Speaker 1: in demand, is notoriously disciplined at the deadline. Some teams
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Speaker 1: would say notoriously difficult. Andy McCullough has a great story
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Speaker 1: in The Athletic Today about the personalities of the gms
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Speaker 1: involved at the dead line, and how other teams. Some
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Speaker 1: other teams refer to Cleveland as the Cleveland grind Machine
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Speaker 1: because they grind you down in trade talks. So Manuel Clause, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: maybe you can have them, but Cleveland's not going to
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Speaker 1: waiver from its price. Minnesota and Pittsburgh also not know
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Speaker 1: if we're being wheeler dealer type teams, so that too
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Speaker 1: is a factor here. How available these pictures are actually
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Speaker 1: going to be. Minnesota also has Joe Ryan, a starter
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Speaker 1: with two more years of control. So this is all
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Speaker 1: coming to a head now, And let's look at some
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Speaker 1: of the teams involved too, because this is interesting as well.
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Speaker 1: All Right, the Dodgers perhaps the most interesting team. Here's
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Speaker 1: a club that spent more than one hundred million on
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Speaker 1: free agent relievers last offseason, Blake Trinon Tanner, Scott Kirby, Yates,
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Speaker 1: and yet they're still looking for bullpen help. Amazing. Now
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Speaker 1: they have some guys coming back from injuries. Tryning is one,
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Speaker 1: Scott will be back as well, Michael Kopek. But the
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Speaker 1: Dodgers are a team that is looking for bullpen help.
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Speaker 1: Will they pay the price for one of these guys? Well,
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Speaker 1: they've got the farm system to do it. They've also
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Speaker 1: got the oldest position player roster in the game. So
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Speaker 1: maybe they're starting to feel like the window's not closing
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Speaker 1: just yet, of course, but it's shrinking a little bit.
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Speaker 1: Maybe they want to play in that market. Detroit Tigers. Now,
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Speaker 1: their problem is with regard to some of the available
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Speaker 1: controllable types. These guys are in the same division, the
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Speaker 1: ones with Cleveland, the ones with Minnesota. Detroit, though, is
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Speaker 1: something like twenty eighth in bullpen strikeout rate. They need
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Speaker 1: swing and missing their bullpen. The Yankees, they would want
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Speaker 1: a controllable reliever because they're looking at Devin Williams and
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Speaker 1: Luke Weaver possibly leaving in free agency. And as we
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Speaker 1: continue on here, you can look at other teams as well,
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Speaker 1: the Mets, the Phillies. We know the Phillies are not
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Speaker 1: going to stop with David Robertson and the Blue Jays.
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Speaker 1: A team that is in the midst of a very
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Speaker 1: special season, a team with a team pres cident Mark
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Speaker 1: Shapiro who is in the final year of his contract,
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Speaker 1: A team that has not won the World Series since
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Speaker 1: nineteen ninety three and is desperate to do something big again.
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Speaker 1: The Blue Jays need bullpen help as well. So all
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Speaker 1: of these teams are going to be in the mix
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Speaker 1: for all of these players, and we're going to see
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Speaker 1: which ones are willing to take the risk of perhaps
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Speaker 1: overpaying for a controllable reliever, and which teams will take
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Speaker 1: a risk the other way and not do that and
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Speaker 1: maybe do what the Boston Red Sox did last year
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Speaker 1: acquiring Luis Garcia and Lucas Simms, two moves that clearly
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Speaker 1: were not enough. They went on the chief, they checked
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Speaker 1: the boxes, they got the relievers, but they didn't get
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Speaker 1: to where they wanted to go. So it all comes
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Speaker 1: And it's not just these infield types, it's some pitching
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Speaker 1: as well, and some others in their farm system. Now,
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Speaker 1: these players that you mentioned all are in the majors
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Speaker 1: or have been in the majors at some point in
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Speaker 1: recent times. It seems that Beatty and Mauricio are the
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Speaker 1: choices at third base currently. I would say Acuna is
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Speaker 1: perhaps the most likely to go Do's. Yes, the Mets
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Speaker 1: could trade him his values down. I saw the report
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Speaker 1: about the White Sox wanting Mark Vento's for Luis Robert Jr.
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Speaker 1: I would not do Thatlise Robert Jr. You're not going
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Speaker 1: to pick up his twenty million dollar option. Most likely
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Speaker 1: Mark Vento's too high a price to pay. But it
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Speaker 1: is going to be interesting to see the Mets over
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Speaker 1: the next few days with needs in center field, starting pitcher,
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Speaker 1: bullpen for sure, how they kind of sort through what
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Speaker 1: they have. The good news is they've got quite a bit,
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Speaker 1: and they've got some things they can deal with. All right,
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Speaker 1: let's go to the next question. This one comes from
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Speaker 1: g G twoh six, who says, raise go light sale,
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Speaker 1: light sell, fire sale or Stan pat you mean and
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Speaker 1: hope they get hot again in August September. The Rays
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Speaker 1: have not played well. They just got swept by the
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Speaker 1: Reds in Cincinnati, and they are a team that has
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Speaker 1: really struggled. I believe it's six and sixteen in the
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Speaker 1: last twenty two. They're going to sell, I believe now
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Speaker 1: a light cell. Yeah, it could be a light cell certainly,
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Speaker 1: But I have heard in recent days and reported this
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Speaker 1: that they are softening on the idea of possibly trading
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Speaker 1: Brandon la who still is on the injured list, and
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Speaker 1: even Yondi Diaz, a first baseman that would be in demand,
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Speaker 1: certainly in Boston and in other places as well. They
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Speaker 1: could trade Pete Fairbanks, they could trade Zach Lettel, they
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Speaker 1: could trade a bunch of different people. And once they
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Speaker 1: do that, once they say that they're going to sell
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Speaker 1: or decide that's the direction they're going in, I would
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Speaker 1: expect it would be a heavier cell than light. They
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Speaker 1: are very decisive. We saw that at last year's deadline.
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Speaker 1: They went nuts. They sold pretty much everyone. I don't
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Speaker 1: know that they do that. I don't know that they
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Speaker 1: want to do that, but the way the team is trending,
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Speaker 1: I don't know that they have much choice, but at
21:47
Speaker 1: least to entertain all of those possibilities, all right. Next question.
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Speaker 1: This one comes from Rally Squirrel, who asked, what are
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Speaker 1: the odds the Cardinals also sell controllable players like Jojo
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Speaker 1: Romero or Brendan Donovan. Now, Jojo Romero is getting quite
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Speaker 1: a bit of interest and should be getting quite a
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Speaker 1: bit of interest left handed option in a market very
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Speaker 1: thin on those types. Danny Koolong from The Twins is
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Speaker 1: another one. Brendan Donovan is a guy that they're also
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Speaker 1: getting pushed on, and teams would love to have. Brendan Donovan,
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Speaker 1: a guy can play all over the place, good offensive player,
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Speaker 1: really a quality guy, almost this year's Tommy Edmund in
22:24
Speaker 1: some respects. I don't know that the Cardinals will trade
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Speaker 1: him Romero. I think they might get pushed to the
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Speaker 1: point where, yes, the threshold for trading him is met.
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Speaker 1: Donovan in John mozelax last year president as president Baseball Operations,
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Speaker 1: I just don't know that they're going to do that.
22:42
Speaker 1: Heim Bloom's taking over, and I don't know that he's
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Speaker 1: going to want them to trade a guy who really
22:46
Speaker 1: can be a centerpiece for them going forward in Brendan Donovan.
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Speaker 1: All right, one more question, let's go to I can't
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Speaker 1: even read this handle not to wail. I guess as
22:55
Speaker 1: it is ken, will Gino Suarez thrive with the crew?
22:59
Speaker 1: The last couple of mine? He's coming to Milwaukee for sure.
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Speaker 1: I like your confidence. Of course, I wrote last week
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Speaker 1: that this is something the Brewers should entertain. Do I
23:08
Speaker 1: expect them to get serious for Aohanno Suarez. We see
23:12
Speaker 1: how the brew crew operates, and as I kind of wrote,
23:16
Speaker 1: who am I to questioned them? Because every year I
23:19
Speaker 1: say they should do this, that and the other thing,
23:21
Speaker 1: they trade this, that and the other guy, and yet
23:24
Speaker 1: they come out and still contend every single season. That's it.
23:28
Speaker 1: In seriousness, Yes, they should trade for Aohana Suarez. They
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Speaker 1: need pop in that lineup, and the left side of
23:35
Speaker 1: the infield is where they are weakest. De Durbin has
23:37
Speaker 1: done a great job, no question about it. Do you
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Speaker 1: expect him to be I don't know Scott Rowland for
23:42
Speaker 1: the final two months. No, you don't expect that. So
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Speaker 1: I would think the Brewers would be in the mix.
23:48
Speaker 1: They certainly need bullpen help as well. Their guys have
23:50
Speaker 1: been used very frequently and at some point they could
23:54
Speaker 1: wear down. But at the same time, the way they
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Speaker 1: have operated in the past is very restrained. At the deadline,
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Speaker 1: They're not a team that makes big moves. We've seen
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Speaker 1: them make big moves the other way. The Josh hater
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Speaker 1: trade foremost among them. But as I wrote, Mark Attanasio,
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Speaker 1: their owner, it's his choice and it's his choice how
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Speaker 1: much he wants to spend. Their attendance is down a
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Speaker 1: little bit. Does he want to increase payroll or does
24:20
Speaker 1: he want to just kind of as I said, check
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Speaker 1: some boxes, acquire some players, but not high end players.
24:26
Speaker 1: They're in a position where they should be looking for
24:28
Speaker 1: high end players, but I just don't know that the
24:31
Speaker 1: Brewers are going to do that. All right, That is
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Speaker 1: it for today's show. We will be back Thursday. Now
24:37
Speaker 1: it will be a little bit different this week. The
24:39
Speaker 1: show we're going to do Thursday is not going to
24:41
Speaker 1: be a twelve thirty Eastern the one I do with
24:43
Speaker 1: a lot of Rizzo. This one will be post deadline.
24:46
Speaker 1: I can't give you a time yet because it's going
24:48
Speaker 1: to be so crazy and I'm gonna be picking myself
24:50
Speaker 1: up off the floor and trying to be coherent. But
24:53
Speaker 1: it will be after the deadline myself and Alama Rizzo.
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Speaker 1: I have a great week. Everyone enjoy the deadline. It's
24:58
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of fun.
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