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Fair Territory: Dylan Cease signs w/Toronto, Orioles land Helsley, Rays shopping Brandon Lowe? · Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to the Monday edition of the Fair Territory Extravaganza.
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Speaker 1: Monday Fair Territory Post Thanksgiving. Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving.
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Speaker 1: I am Ken Rosendahl here with you for the next
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Speaker 1: I don't know, twenty five minutes or so. And this
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Speaker 1: is the week, the week when things generally generally start
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Speaker 1: to ramp up in Major League Baseball's off season. This
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Speaker 1: is the week leading to the Winter Meetings, and you
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Speaker 1: will see certainly increased conversation. Whether it leads to increased
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Speaker 1: results remains to be seen. Over the Thanksgiving holidays, starting
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Speaker 1: Thanksgiving Eve and going right through the weekend, we had
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Speaker 1: two reported signings. We're going to get into both of
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Speaker 1: them today. We're also going to get into kind of
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Speaker 1: a Winter Meetings preview. Biggest storylines that'll be in the
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Speaker 1: inside Dish. But let's start off with what happens over
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Speaker 1: the holiday because we haven't been on the air since then,
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Speaker 1: and start with the most recent signing, and that would
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Speaker 1: be the Orioles two year, twenty eight million dollar deal
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Speaker 1: for Ryan Helsley with an opt out after the first year. Hellsley,
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Speaker 1: of course drew some interest as a starter as well.
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Speaker 1: The Detroit Tigers were among the teams looking at him
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Speaker 1: as a starter, But ultimately he goes back to the
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Speaker 1: role in which he is most familiar, a role in
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Speaker 1: which he took a step back last year, first with
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Speaker 1: the Saint Louis Cardinals and then especially with the New
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Speaker 1: York Mets. But his peripherals, his underlying metrics remained quite strong.
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Speaker 1: He throws hard. He is a guy that teams still
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Speaker 1: believe in. He had a good market quite obviously to
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Speaker 1: get fourteen million a year for two years, that's decent
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Speaker 1: money for a closer. Not what he would have gotten
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Speaker 1: if he had been a free agent after twenty twenty four, perhaps,
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Speaker 1: but still for Hellsley, a good outcome. Now for the Orioles,
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Speaker 1: this is the latest of several moves that they have
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Speaker 1: made this offseason. They have been I would suggest the
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Speaker 1: busiest team at least in terms of results of any
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Speaker 1: thus far. And I'll show you what I'm talking about here,
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Speaker 1: because they've already made four additions, starting off with Andrew Kischen.
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Speaker 1: You remember they traded for him from the Chicago Cubs,
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Speaker 1: then exercised his option. They had traded him to the
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Speaker 1: Cubs and then brought him back Leodi Tavers enters, their
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Speaker 1: center field mixx now with Colton Kowser, Taylor Ward, the
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Speaker 1: big and controversial trade for Grayson Rodriguez, and now Hellsley,
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Speaker 1: the closure that they needed with Felix Bautista out for
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Speaker 1: at least much of the season. They still need to
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Speaker 1: keep going with the bullpen ins particular, they still need
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Speaker 1: to round it out because basically they traded most of
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Speaker 1: their relievers, some of whom are becoming free agents during
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Speaker 1: last season. Now, the biggest thing with the Oriols, the
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Speaker 1: biggest thing that remains the biggest thing that has haunted
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Speaker 1: them since really last off season, is their lack so
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Speaker 1: far of a top of the rotation starting pitcher, and
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Speaker 1: frankly I would like to see them add more than
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Speaker 1: one starter. But they definitely are team that we should
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Speaker 1: watch for the top of the free agent market. I'm
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Speaker 1: talking about from ber Valdez, Rangers Suarez perhaps to am
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Speaker 1: I also they are a team to watch with regard
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Speaker 1: to trades. This is a team that if trades are
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Speaker 1: made for starting pitchers, if some of these guys become available,
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Speaker 1: the Orioles should be in that equation. There's also a
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Speaker 1: guy I wrote about today my notes called Cody Ponce,
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Speaker 1: who is coming back from Korea. I wrote that he's
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Speaker 1: probably going to get three years, thirty to forty million.
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Speaker 1: That's the kind of guy too, that the Orioles should
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Speaker 1: look at as maybe a secondary piece. So if they
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Speaker 1: signed Valdez, for instance, and Michaelias goes back with Valdez
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Speaker 1: to the Houston Days and then acquired Cody Ponce as well,
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Speaker 1: they could do that just by spending money not making
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Speaker 1: any trades. That would be an interesting combination for them.
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Speaker 1: And of course they also could remain active for a bat,
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Speaker 1: perhaps in centerfield, perhaps Kyle Tucker, another guy Michael Oias
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Speaker 1: knows well from Houston. He drafted Kyle Tucker with the
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Speaker 1: fourth pick of the twenty and fifteen draft. So that's
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Speaker 1: the Orioles now sticking in the Al East. The move
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Speaker 1: that happened Thanksgiving Eve, this one was rather fascinating too,
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Speaker 1: even more fascinating than the Hell's They move. And that's
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Speaker 1: of course Dylan cease to the Blue Jays cease seven
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Speaker 1: years are reported two hundred and ten million. There are
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Speaker 1: deferrals in that deal, as I reported, and then Mitch
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Speaker 1: Badnen of the Athletic followed with this seeing the deferrals
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Speaker 1: are expected to reduce the present value AAV of the
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Speaker 1: deal to around twenty six million per year, still the
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Speaker 1: largest pitching contract in Blue Jay's history. So with the deferrals,
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Speaker 1: we probably should look at it if it's indeed twenty
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Speaker 1: six per year as more of a seven year, one
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Speaker 1: hundred and eighty two million dollar deal for Cease, still
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Speaker 1: really healthy, a really good deal for a guy who
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Speaker 1: always seems to have a lot of interest. People love
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Speaker 1: him in the industry, and yet his results at times
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Speaker 1: have been inconsistent. Top five cy Young finish in twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty two and twenty twenty four, and yet the results,
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Speaker 1: as I just said, haven't always been there, and it's
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Speaker 1: curious to people why that happens. There are some reasons.
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Speaker 1: Keith Law has written about that for the athletic, but
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Speaker 1: Cease for any negatives you might have with him, the
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Speaker 1: positives is or the positives are, he always takes the ball.
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Speaker 1: Here's his bio one hundred and sixty ninth overall pick
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Speaker 1: in twenty fourteen, debut in twenty nineteen, career milestones, five
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Speaker 1: straight seasons, thirty two plus starts. We'll get into that
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Speaker 1: al War leader in twenty twenty two. That's the year
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Speaker 1: he finished second in the cy Young five straight seasons,
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Speaker 1: two hundred strikeouts, that's impressive. And then here he is
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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five. And this is what I'm talking about.
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Speaker 1: Four point five to five era on a team in
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Speaker 1: which Nick Pivetta pitched really well and had a good
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Speaker 1: ra but Cease, for whatever reasons, didn't have that. It
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Speaker 1: wasn't great out of the stretch, just seems to give
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Speaker 1: up hits at inopportune times at points in his career.
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Speaker 1: But I want to show you the durability because this,
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Speaker 1: to me, is the thing that recommends Dylan Cease the
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Speaker 1: most since twenty twenty one, when he really became a
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Speaker 1: regular starter most games started in the last five seasons.
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Speaker 1: And here's what's interesting about this chart. Cees, Burrios and Gosman.
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Speaker 1: What team do they all play for? The Toronto Blue Jays.
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Speaker 1: They're the top three on this list, well, Gosmin tied
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Speaker 1: with Logan Webb and Patrick Corbyn. But the Jays have
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Speaker 1: assembled a group of guys who should pitch, should take
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Speaker 1: the ball. Treya Savage next season likely will be on
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Speaker 1: some kind of innings limit. He'll still be only a rookie.
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Speaker 1: And then you have as well, Shane Bieber first full
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Speaker 1: season off Tommy John I don't know if they can
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Speaker 1: expect him to go two hundred and twenty five innings.
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Speaker 1: So the Jays are in really good shape here with
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Speaker 1: their rotation, and the question then becomes, what are they
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Speaker 1: going to do next, because this is a team that
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Speaker 1: really has a variety of ways they can go. Is
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Speaker 1: it going to be Boba Schet, Is it going to
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Speaker 1: be Kyle Tucker? Most likely we will see them get
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Speaker 1: a reliever of some ilk, whether it's Edwin Diaz or
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Speaker 1: Pete Fairbanks, someone along those lines. Devin Williams. We'll talk
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Speaker 1: more about the relievers as we go on here, but
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Speaker 1: the Blue Jays obviously quite eager to defend their American
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Speaker 1: League championship and quite eager to get where they did
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Speaker 1: not get this season, even though they were just two
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Speaker 1: outs away their first World Series title since nineteen ninety three.
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Speaker 1: One of the things sticking with the al least I
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Speaker 1: mentioned this in my notes column today, it's about the
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Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Rays. Now, the Rays are not going to
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Speaker 1: be as active as the Blue Jays and the Orioles
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Speaker 1: and the Yankees and the Red Sox. But the Rays
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Speaker 1: are a team that will make moves. We know that
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Speaker 1: they always seem to make moves, and Brandon Lao coming
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Speaker 1: up on the last year of his contract at eleven
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Speaker 1: point five million. They've talked about trading him for several
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Speaker 1: years now, and this maybe will be the year they
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Speaker 1: do it, given the need that some teams have for
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Speaker 1: a left handed hitting middle infielder. That's what Lao is
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Speaker 1: and one of the better ones in the game when healthy.
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Speaker 1: Brandon Lao is number three on the Rays all time
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Speaker 1: home runless But let's not get too sentimental when we're
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Speaker 1: talking about raised players. They're willing to trade them at
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Speaker 1: any point. So Brandon lau could go. The Rays then
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Speaker 1: would be left with a whole second base that they
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Speaker 1: don't really have an internal solution for. But here's a
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Speaker 1: guy that would fit for Pittsburgh, a team that's more
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Speaker 1: likely in my opinion, to get their left handed bats
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Speaker 1: making trades then signing free agents. San Francisco needs a
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Speaker 1: second base and there are other teams that could be
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Speaker 1: in this mix as well. The Athletics are also looking
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Speaker 1: for second base and third base potentially, so there are
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Speaker 1: three teams in the Al East, and we haven't even
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Speaker 1: talked about the Yankees and the Red Sox. We're going
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Speaker 1: to get more into them as we go along here.
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Speaker 1: The Red Sox already have made a big move for
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Speaker 1: Sonny Gray, seemingly solving their biggest rotation need. I would
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Speaker 1: still like to see them get one more and then
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Speaker 1: we have to see what they're going to do with
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Speaker 1: their bats. Are they going to trade them? Are I'm
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Speaker 1: talking about some of their outfielders. Are they going to
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Speaker 1: go resign Alex Gregman? Are they going to be other
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Speaker 1: bats in their mix? Sean mccatton of mass Live dot
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Speaker 1: com reporting over the weekend, they may have some payroll restrictions.
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Speaker 1: Every team talks about payroll restrictions this time of year.
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Speaker 1: They're building in the excuses. But anyway, we will be
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Speaker 1: back with more on the Yankees in particular, and a
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Speaker 1: All right, time now for the inside Dish, and as promised,
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Speaker 1: leading to the Winter Meetings. This will apply, of course
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Speaker 1: to the Winter Meetings, but this is the stuff to watch.
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Speaker 1: And we'll start at the top of the free agent market,
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Speaker 1: Kyle Tucker and even Cody Bellinger. Let's talk about the
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Speaker 1: biggest bats available. Tucker is a guy we haven't heard
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Speaker 1: much about so far. Doesn't mean there's not a lot
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Speaker 1: happening with him, and you're going to see teams jump
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Speaker 1: out for him, and they're going to team be teams
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Speaker 1: that jump out for And there are other bats in
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Speaker 1: this market as well, Schwarber and Bashett and Bregman. But
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Speaker 1: Tucker and Bellinger both left handed hitters, both outfielders for
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Speaker 1: the most part. Bellinger, of course, can play first base
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Speaker 1: as well. These are perhaps the two most interesting guys,
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Speaker 1: and the New York Yankees should be in the middle
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Speaker 1: of both of them, at least, talking about Bellinger at
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Speaker 1: the very very least. Now here's Tucker. He is a
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Speaker 1: guy who is just twenty eight years old as of
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Speaker 1: right now. He'll be twenty nine in January. Four time
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Speaker 1: all start, two times silver slugger. We know who Kyle
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Speaker 1: Tucker is a five tool player, and there's been debate
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Speaker 1: among certain segments of the Yankee fan base and the athletics.
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Speaker 1: Chris Kershner has wrote about this as well. Is he
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Speaker 1: a better fit for the Yankees than Cody Bellinger. It
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Speaker 1: seems to me the Yankees are more inclined to sign Bellinger.
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Speaker 1: And you look at his vitals right there. Here's a
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Speaker 1: guy that has had an up and down career, but
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Speaker 1: lately back on the upswing seat, twenty seventeen Rookie of
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Speaker 1: the Year, twenty eighteen NLCSMVTY nineteen NLMVP, twenty twenty World
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Speaker 1: Series Champion, and in the last two seasons has re
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Speaker 1: established himself after you remember getting non tendered by the Dodgers.
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Speaker 1: Cody Bellinger is in many ways a perfect fit for
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Speaker 1: the Yankees. Now, he is not the better player. Kyle
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Speaker 1: Tucker is the better player. And yes, Tucker has had
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Speaker 1: some injuries the past two seasons and it's raised some
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Speaker 1: doubts about him, but they've been kind of flukish and
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Speaker 1: he is an all around type of guy, as is
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Speaker 1: Cody Bellinger. So I expect Tucker to do better, and
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Speaker 1: I expect the Yankees, if they don't end up with Bellinger,
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Speaker 1: to be scrambling a little bit because I don't know
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Speaker 1: that they want to pay Tucker. The ideal situation for
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Speaker 1: the Yankees my opinion here is sign Bellinger, sign am I,
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Speaker 1: the Japanese right handed pitcher who is just twenty eight
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Speaker 1: years old, and then sign maybe a closer. I don't
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Speaker 1: know which one it would be. But if they do
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Speaker 1: all that, they're having a pretty good offseason. So Tucker
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Speaker 1: and Bellinger, it's going to be interesting to see how
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Speaker 1: these guys land. For sure, will Tucker get the four
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Speaker 1: hundred million, I don't know. We're gonna have to see
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Speaker 1: how that all plays out. All right. Now, the NL East,
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Speaker 1: that's another interesting storyline here because of all the action
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Speaker 1: taking place with the top contenders. I'm talking about the Mets,
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Speaker 1: the Braves, and the Phillies. Let's start with the Mets
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Speaker 1: because they are maybe the most interesting team going right
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Speaker 1: now due to the uncertainty of their roster. Now they've
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Speaker 1: made the trade Brandon Neimo from Marcus Simion, Pete Alonzo
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Speaker 1: and Edwin Diaz still free agents. They supposedly want to
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Speaker 1: retain them, but as we've seen, and as Will Simon
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Speaker 1: has written about in The Athletic, their level of sentiment
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Speaker 1: goes only so far. They were willing to trade Nemo,
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Speaker 1: who was a career met, a guy that was really
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Speaker 1: beloved by the fan base in many ways. If they
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Speaker 1: don't resign Alonzo, if they don't resign Diaz, at this point,
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Speaker 1: I don't know that it can be considered a surprise.
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Speaker 1: But then the question becomes, then, what what are the
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Speaker 1: Mets going to do? They need starting pitching. We all
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Speaker 1: know that even if they don't trade code I Single,
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Speaker 1: which I expect they will, they're going to need to
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Speaker 1: sign a big starter for sure, maybe get another one
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Speaker 1: in some other way, and that's where they really need
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Speaker 1: to put their focus. They lose Diaz, they need a
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Speaker 1: closer as well. Maybe it's Devin Williams, maybe it's someone else.
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Speaker 1: But they're a team that you would expect is going
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Speaker 1: to be quite active now. The Phillies are also a
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Speaker 1: fascinating team because, like the Mets, they do not want
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Speaker 1: to keep the same mix. It hasn't worked, or at
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Speaker 1: least it hasn't resulted in a World Series title. Kyle Schwarber,
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Speaker 1: JT Real Muto their biggest free agents. If they resign them, okay,
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Speaker 1: but that's the same group, and maybe you feel like
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Speaker 1: you want to shake it up a little bit. Trading
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Speaker 1: Alec Bohm would be one way to do it. But
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Speaker 1: Schwarber is a guy that is so valuable to them.
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Speaker 1: I can't see them losing the hymn and going forward
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Speaker 1: in the same way unless they feel, Okay, we lose Schwarber,
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Speaker 1: we get Kyle Tucker, and maybe they are a dark
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Speaker 1: horse for Kyle Tucker in that regard. Then there are
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Speaker 1: the Atlanta Braves. Now, the Atlanta Braves already have re
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Speaker 1: signed Racil Iglesias, They've traded for Mauricio Duban, but we
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Speaker 1: are waiting for bigger things from them, and Iglesias fills
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Speaker 1: a need for sure the closer role. But they've been
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Speaker 1: a team that has been interested in adding not only
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Speaker 1: a shortstop but also a starting pitcher. They're also a
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Speaker 1: team with a chairman, Terry McGirk, who has said we
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Speaker 1: anticipate being a top five pay roll team. He's not
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Speaker 1: crying poor like the Yankees even the Red Sox to
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Speaker 1: an extent, He's saying, hey, we should be top five.
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Speaker 1: If that's the case, they should be spending and spending big.
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Speaker 1: We'll see what the Atlanta Braves do. And then the
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Speaker 1: Miami Marlins. The Marlins are a team that has been active,
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Speaker 1: at least in talking about free agents. Let's see what
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Speaker 1: the action results in. All right, Now, a couple of
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Speaker 1: other things to get to here, best remaining free agent closures.
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Speaker 1: We touched on this a little bit. Edwin Diaz is
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Speaker 1: the top guy in the market, is saddled with theying offer,
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Speaker 1: and I wonder how much that is going to affect
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Speaker 1: things for him. Let's say the Mets go in another direction.
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Speaker 1: Let's say the Blue Jays go in another direction. Well,
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Speaker 1: then what is it for Edwin Diaz? Where is his team?
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Speaker 1: I'm always hesitant to talk like that because there are
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Speaker 1: always teams in the mix. But will he get what
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Speaker 1: he is seeking, which is essentially the same deal he
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Speaker 1: had been on five years, one hundred and two million
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Speaker 1: before opting out? Other closers we've talked about then Devin Williams,
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Speaker 1: Robert Suarez, Pete Fairbanks, and then there was a whole
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Speaker 1: nother tier talking about guys like Luke Weaver, Emilio Pagan,
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Speaker 1: even Tyler Rogers not a closer. But these are quality
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Speaker 1: late inning relievers, guys that teams will want and I
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Speaker 1: would expect get paid fairly well. So the relief market
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Speaker 1: is one to watch for sure, as is. As we
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Speaker 1: move on here, the starting pitching market. Now we touched
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Speaker 1: on this as well from Bravaldez thirty two years old.
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Speaker 1: That's the only thing against him, well not maybe not
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Speaker 1: the only thing. He's had some questions about his clubhouse
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Speaker 1: presence as well well the kind of teammate he is.
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Speaker 1: But he is a guy that's been remarkably consistent. He's
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Speaker 1: a sinker baller. He's the kind of pitcher you would
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Speaker 1: want to have. He's fairly durable as well. So Valdez
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Speaker 1: I expect will be up around cease territory, whether you
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Speaker 1: consider it one hundred and eighty two million in present
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Speaker 1: value or to ten with the deferrals whatever, he's going
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Speaker 1: to do well. Maybe he doesn't get the years, but
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Speaker 1: in terms of aav that's what I'm talking about with
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Speaker 1: regard to cease am. I his posting is up on
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Speaker 1: January tewod so I don't expect we'll see him sign
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Speaker 1: the winter meetings probably will be Christmas week for him.
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Speaker 1: But he's a guy that is a little bit bigger
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Speaker 1: than Yamamoto, but not much, and he's had success over
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Speaker 1: in Japan. Of course, you see his twenty twenty five
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Speaker 1: stats there one point nine to two ERA one hundred
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Speaker 1: and seventy eight strikeouts and one hundred and sixty three
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Speaker 1: and two thirds innings. He's a guy the teams want,
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Speaker 1: and it's going to be interesting to see where he goes.
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Speaker 1: Because over the weekend there was a report by Buster
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Speaker 1: Only a ESPN saying the Giants, a team that had
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Speaker 1: been link to am I, are really looking at lower
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Speaker 1: cost options. Yankee fans immediately jumped on this thing. He's
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Speaker 1: there for us. Again, I caution you ever against saying well,
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Speaker 1: it's only one team involved. I'm sure there are other
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Speaker 1: teams looking at am I as well. So that's the
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Speaker 1: starting pitching market. And finally, the other part of the
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Speaker 1: starting pitching market, which is trades. Now, we've talked a
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Speaker 1: lot about Trek Scoubel and Freddie Peralta and Joe Ryan
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Speaker 1: and Sandy al Cantra and Edward Cabrera, all these guys
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Speaker 1: that could repeat could be traded. But the way it
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Speaker 1: was described to me by an executive over the weekend
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Speaker 1: is that in the cases of Schooble and Peralta and
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Speaker 1: maybe even Ryan, but Schooble and Peralta, for sure, they're
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Speaker 1: not going to be traded unless their teams get really
18:49
Speaker 1: pushed their teams are not motivated to trade them. Now.
18:53
Speaker 1: Could that change once the free agents are off the
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Speaker 1: board and certain teams are more desperate. Yes, and I
18:59
Speaker 1: expect that at the winter meetings, if not before. You're
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Speaker 1: going to see reports of teams trying to push on
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Speaker 1: schooble In Peralta and Joe Ryan as well. But that
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Speaker 1: doesn't mean they're going to get traded. We hear this
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Speaker 1: all the time. We see this all the time. Teams
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Speaker 1: take interest in players, they entertain offers, but they don't
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Speaker 1: necessarily trade them. The Tigers are trying to win with
19:21
Speaker 1: Trek Scoobel, The Brewers are trying to win with Freddy Peralta.
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Speaker 1: The Twins are a separate case because I don't know
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Speaker 1: what the heck they're doing. I'm not sure they know
19:30
Speaker 1: what the heck they're doing, as they are just coming
19:33
Speaker 1: off this situation where they sold part of the team
19:35
Speaker 1: to investors to basically pay down their debt. What that
19:39
Speaker 1: means for the payroll we don't know yet. We don't
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Speaker 1: know if they will want to trade Joe Ryan or
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Speaker 1: if at the other end of the spectrum they'll want
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Speaker 1: to maybe build up a little bit and put a
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Speaker 1: better product on the field since they've already alienated their
19:53
Speaker 1: fan base to a great extent. So all of this
19:57
Speaker 1: with regard to the starting pitching market in which pictures
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Speaker 1: get traded, should be clearer after the free agent sign
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Speaker 1: but maybe it starts and the talk starts even before that.
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Speaker 1: I do not expect that pitchers like Trek Schooble and
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Speaker 1: Freddie Peralta will be out of the headlines just because
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Speaker 1: their teams are presently saying we're not really going to
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Speaker 1: trade them. All right, That is it for the inside Dish.
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Speaker 1: FAM Time Now for Grill and Ken. Let's get to
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Speaker 1: your questions. First. One comes from Tyler Max Smith, who
21:59
Speaker 1: asks does the braves landing an extra draft pick from
22:02
Speaker 1: Baldwin's Rookie of the Year Award make them more or
22:05
Speaker 1: less likely to sign a qualifying off for free agent.
22:08
Speaker 1: That's a good question, and I would say the answer
22:11
Speaker 1: is more likely because if you sign a qualifying off
22:14
Speaker 1: for free agent, you lose a draft pick, but at
22:17
Speaker 1: the same time, at the same time, you gain one
22:21
Speaker 1: from the compensation that results from the Rookie of the
22:25
Speaker 1: Year awards. So I would expect that, Yes, the Braves
22:28
Speaker 1: would be more likely to do that. Yes they want
22:31
Speaker 1: to keep their picks. All teams do, but that to
22:34
Speaker 1: me would seem to be the way to go. So
22:36
Speaker 1: let's see what happens there now. Next question. This one
22:40
Speaker 1: comes from Harold Garb on Instagram, who says who pays
22:44
Speaker 1: for a free agent that undergoes a surgical procedure his
22:48
Speaker 1: former team or himself. A free agent undergoing a surgical
22:54
Speaker 1: procedure would obviously have to do it himself. I would
22:58
Speaker 1: think his former team is not responded at that point,
23:01
Speaker 1: he is not under contract to that team. But it's
23:03
Speaker 1: pretty rare when we see free agents undergo surgeries while
23:07
Speaker 1: they are on the open market. I can't even remember
23:10
Speaker 1: the last time that happened, so I wouldn't think that
23:13
Speaker 1: that is a thing. It's a good question, and it's
23:16
Speaker 1: a legitimate question because of course players would want to
23:20
Speaker 1: get that taken care of before they are, in theory unemployed,
23:24
Speaker 1: but it just doesn't happen all that often. All right,
23:27
Speaker 1: next question, let's see what this one is. This one
23:29
Speaker 1: comes from Peter Ross nineteen oh seven, who asks Yankees
23:34
Speaker 1: are interested in a new second basement and what relievers
23:37
Speaker 1: are they in on. I don't expect the Yankees aren't
23:40
Speaker 1: necessarily interested in his second basement. They've got jass Chisholm
23:43
Speaker 1: Junior to play that position. That's his preferred position. Third
23:47
Speaker 1: base is a different story to some extent, but they've
23:49
Speaker 1: got Ryan McMahon there, so I don't know why the
23:52
Speaker 1: Yankees would be looking at second or third base. Shortstop
23:56
Speaker 1: is the question with them, with volt becoming off surgery
23:59
Speaker 1: and whose Caballero being more of a utility player. I
24:02
Speaker 1: would expect they'll start the season with Caballero and then
24:05
Speaker 1: go to Volpi once he is healthy. There just aren't
24:08
Speaker 1: a lot of good shortstops available at the present time,
24:12
Speaker 1: so that is where the Yankees are with their infield relievers.
24:16
Speaker 1: I don't know exactly where they're going to go there,
24:19
Speaker 1: and they're I'm sure looking at all the top closers
24:23
Speaker 1: out there and talking to all of them, from Devin
24:25
Speaker 1: Williams to Edwin Diaz, all of them. But price is
24:29
Speaker 1: going to be a question, and it's going to be
24:30
Speaker 1: a question of just how they want to do it,
24:32
Speaker 1: because they've got David bednoin now, they acquired him in
24:35
Speaker 1: the trade, so they don't need necessarily a ninth inning guy.
24:38
Speaker 1: Maybe one of those lesser relievers that I talked about,
24:41
Speaker 1: lesser in terms of name valued, Milio Pagan, one of
24:45
Speaker 1: those guys Tyler Rodgers that is more appealing to them.
24:48
Speaker 1: Samuel Rotiz three four to three nine, ask, good morning,
24:52
Speaker 1: what's up with the Dodgers? What are they up to?
24:54
Speaker 1: Good question? As always, The Dodgers are a team that,
24:58
Speaker 1: in the terms of one executive, like to hang around
25:02
Speaker 1: the backboard. And what I mean by that is they
25:04
Speaker 1: like to see the market develop and then they kind
25:07
Speaker 1: of say, Okay, if we can get this kind of
25:09
Speaker 1: short term deal, we'll take him. If not, we'll pass.
25:12
Speaker 1: They are looking at relievers along those lines. One year
25:15
Speaker 1: guy I can see making sense for them, even though
25:17
Speaker 1: they've got Tanner Scott under contract still and let's see
25:22
Speaker 1: if they become a player for Kyle Tucker or someone
25:24
Speaker 1: else whose market might not develop to the extent that
25:27
Speaker 1: that player wants. I don't think it's going to happen
25:29
Speaker 1: that way with Tucker, but they could use Kyle Tucker
25:32
Speaker 1: for sure. And they're a team that I expect is
25:35
Speaker 1: going to do something. I don't know exactly what it is,
25:38
Speaker 1: but it's very difficult to bring the same team back,
25:41
Speaker 1: especially when you've got so many older players. It doesn't
25:45
Speaker 1: always work the way you want it. You want to
25:46
Speaker 1: change up the mix a little bit. I do expect
25:49
Speaker 1: that they're going to do that. All right. With that,
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