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Eugenio Suárez trade market, Jays plans, Conflicting Ozuna reports · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: It's ft Top Father, crats myself. Trade season were exactly
• 0:10
  Speaker 1: one week away from the trade deadline. Not much happening yet,
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  Speaker 1: rumors flying everywhere. We're going to get into it, top Father.
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  Speaker 1: When you were playing, did you show guys rumors like
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure you kept track of things if you were
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  Speaker 1: ever involved, but did you look at your phone and
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  Speaker 1: you know, with some of your buddies in the clubhouse
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  Speaker 1: be like, oh they got you in uh San Diego? Now, man, No,
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  Speaker 1: I mean that was more for me.
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  Speaker 2: I wasn't.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: We would talk, but at the same time we knew
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  Speaker 2: it was all rumors, speculations. We would talk about what
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  Speaker 2: you know, would your agent say, what do you got?
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  Speaker 2: Because that's the more sufficient part of it. The rumors
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  Speaker 2: are just rumors. You'd like to see it. It's funny like,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we can always dream about going somewhere else,
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  Speaker 2: or we can always think about, oh, what would it
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  Speaker 2: be like playing in San Diego or Oakland or you
• 1:02
  Speaker 2: know the Yankees, And some of them came true, something didn't,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, you would understand. I'd be like, Yo,
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  Speaker 2: Johnny Gomes when he got trade of Cincinnati, he was
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  Speaker 2: very verbal. He's like all right, guys, I'm leaving soon,
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  Speaker 2: be ready, and we're like where He's like, I go here,
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  Speaker 2: And it's like some guys are more verbal about it,
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  Speaker 2: but you know, most of the time, you know, you're
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  Speaker 2: you're you speak to your agent about the whole thing.
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  Speaker 1: The agents are your insiders. You two craps, that's.
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  Speaker 2: The real insiders.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean my trades. I was never really when
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  Speaker 3: I hear I'm.
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  Speaker 1: Saying just for your teammates, like when you're on a team,
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  Speaker 1: were you looking at stuff being like, uh, oh, my
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  Speaker 1: buddy two lockers down might be out of here.
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  Speaker 3: I never. I never looked at it. I never looked
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  Speaker 3: at it, other than when people would send me stuff.
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  Speaker 3: I'd be like, oh, yeah, you know this person, like
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  Speaker 3: you know my my uncle would be like, hey, it
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  Speaker 3: says they're going to trade Shane Victorino before the end.
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, well, we kind of know that were five
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  Speaker 3: games out, like he's a free agent after this year.
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  Speaker 3: So no, never really, never really anything where guys would
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  Speaker 3: talk too much about it. You're muted, Scott, Yeah we
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  Speaker 3: lost you again.
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  Speaker 1: No you didn't. You guys have bad hearing. You guys
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  Speaker 1: are old. What I want to do Before we get
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  Speaker 1: into the team we're going to touch on for the
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  Speaker 1: going to touch on the team that has suddenly become
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  Speaker 1: very popular. Yet again, let's charge. Let's charge on. These
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  Speaker 1: games matter more. There is more heat during this time
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  Speaker 1: of year if you're a team on the fence. The
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  Speaker 1: Houston Astros, without three of their top four or five hitters,
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  Speaker 1: just swept the Arizona Diamondbacks. The Diamondbacks have a number
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  Speaker 1: of players that are going to be free agents after
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  Speaker 1: this year, Zach Allen, Merril, Kelly, Josh Naylor, au henny
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  Speaker 1: O Suarez, who's having the year of his life. Let's
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  Speaker 1: get to rumors, Krats. There are a ton of teams
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  Speaker 1: that are interested in Gino. He fits with like half
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  Speaker 1: the contenders in the league, because who wouldn't want a
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  Speaker 1: guy available that's on pace for fifty five ish home
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  Speaker 1: runs on this season? He has been insane. So do
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  Speaker 1: you think that this series should tilt the Diamondbacks towards
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  Speaker 1: selling and should that include Geno Suarez?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, one hundred percent, because they're just to me, it's
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  Speaker 3: like fools gold. I have've watched the Red Sox for
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  Speaker 3: the last three games. I know they won last night,
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  Speaker 3: but some teams they're just not able to make the
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  Speaker 3: run that I think they built this team to do.
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  Speaker 3: To me, I think it's like it's one of those
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  Speaker 3: things that the Diamondbacks and it's not a full like
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  Speaker 3: breakdown and you know, start all over kind of thing.
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  Speaker 3: You're just getting rid of expiring contracts, and right now
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  Speaker 3: you have an opportunity to capitalize on the next five
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  Speaker 3: years if you make a decision for the next two months,
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  Speaker 3: in my opinion, and you Hitrez should be the guy,
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  Speaker 3: and you could actually set the bar for the entire
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  Speaker 3: trade deadline because I think somebody wrote about I think
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  Speaker 3: Bob Nightingale wrote about it the other day. Nobody with
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  Speaker 3: thirty five or more home runs has ever been traded
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  Speaker 3: at the trade deadline, Like you have a chance to
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  Speaker 3: add to a team that is still building for the
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  Speaker 3: next three or four or five years of a winning
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  Speaker 3: window for the Diamondbacks with probably big league guys. Are
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  Speaker 3: you Hinney Suarez is gonna give you big league guys back,
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  Speaker 3: So it doesn't need to be like, oh, like three
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  Speaker 3: or four prospects, what are we gonna get. He's He's
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  Speaker 3: to me, he's the Marquis piece.
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  Speaker 1: And if you're a fan of a team and you
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  Speaker 1: think that you're too good for Gino Suarez, you are nuts.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think you're too good to fit him on
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  Speaker 1: your roster? I don't care which team you are, third base,
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  Speaker 1: dch whatever. There are some people out there that are like,
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  Speaker 1: we don't need him. I'm like, he's the best bad available.
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  Speaker 1: If you're getting this version of Gino Suarez, he's the
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  Speaker 1: best bad available. So let's cue up a rumor. Se
• 6:01
  Speaker 1: Trent Rosekrantz Todd Father, I'm going to you. You know,
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  Speaker 1: spent a long time with the Reds. Apparently there's some
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  Speaker 1: mutual interest with the Reds and the Diamondbacks, according to
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  Speaker 1: Sea Trent. Your thoughts on the Reds interest. Do you
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  Speaker 1: think that the Reds should be pushing Chips in? This
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  Speaker 1: could be a pretty big bidding war, even though you're
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  Speaker 1: only renting half a season of a player. The Reds
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  Speaker 1: might not make the playoffs. Do you think it's worth
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  Speaker 1: them shedding a top end prospect? This could get an
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  Speaker 1: a prospect depending on how you look at prospects, but
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  Speaker 1: this could get a top tier guy. Do you think
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  Speaker 1: the Reds should be in play for him?
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  Speaker 2: I think they shoulder what Kratzy always says, hundred percent.
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  Speaker 2: He's He's a solid dude. He seems to get better
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  Speaker 2: with time, just like a fine wine. He plays good defense,
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  Speaker 2: he's exceptional. Thirty six home runs right now. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: you know, as the older he's getting he's playing better,
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  Speaker 2: and he's at a bigger ballpark, you're still hitting home runs.
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  Speaker 2: If I'm the Reds, you bring him over. He's been
• 7:00
  Speaker 2: there before, he's acclimated, he knows the city. I'm sure
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  Speaker 2: he would love to go over there. But yeah, you're
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  Speaker 2: gonna have to give up one of your prospects, and
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  Speaker 2: you have to be okay with it once you do so,
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  Speaker 2: knowing that you can get him and hopefully finish out
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  Speaker 2: a good year, make the playoffs, and you know, go
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  Speaker 2: out there these last two months or so and get going. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I don't I see any team that needs a third
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  Speaker 2: basement Yankees, Reds, but especially the Reds. I mean, why not?
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  Speaker 2: Why not take a chance on him since he's been
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  Speaker 2: there before, he was a fan favorite too as well,
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  Speaker 2: and he'll pop ten to fifteen more home runs during
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  Speaker 2: the year and help this team win. Crats.
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  Speaker 1: Varies by plan. He has the most home runs in
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  Speaker 1: the National League and he has the most RBIs in
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  Speaker 1: baseball krats, where do you think he's going to end up?
• 8:45
  Speaker 1: And do you have a favorite fit for Gina.
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  Speaker 3: Man? I don't see, I don't see how where their
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  Speaker 3: season is at right now? The Yankees don't get him.
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  Speaker 3: I don't see how they don't get him. And to me,
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  Speaker 3: you don't even have to spend. You don't have to spend,
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  Speaker 3: you know, the untouchables like Lombard, George Lombard Junior. You
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  Speaker 3: don't have to touch Spencer Jones for Heeo. You can
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  Speaker 3: get you can get in there for a guy you
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  Speaker 3: know that is going to step in for the Diamondbacks
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  Speaker 3: the next year. And the Yankees to me, have the
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  Speaker 3: most to lose not going after him.
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  Speaker 2: I get it.
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  Speaker 3: The Reds have an opportunity, but are the Reds? You
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  Speaker 3: know what are the Reds? No matter who he goes to,
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  Speaker 3: his the power that he's going to bring. You don't
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  Speaker 3: just add, like Todd said, fifteen homers for the rest
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  Speaker 3: of the season, two months of fifteen homers. Like, to me,
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  Speaker 3: I think it's got to be the Yankees or you know,
• 9:47
  Speaker 3: the Bronx will burn.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, I'll read you something from Jeff Passen's article that
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  Speaker 1: was out yesterday, which we're going to dive into more tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: It's got the teams that are all and then the
• 10:00
  Speaker 1: teams that are kind of in etc. He's got the
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  Speaker 1: thirty team breakdown. We'll do a segment on it tomorrow,
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  Speaker 1: but he said the good news for the Yankees is
• 10:07
  Speaker 1: that they line up very well with what the Diamondbacks
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  Speaker 1: are seeking as they consider moving Suarez, the most coveted
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  Speaker 1: player on the market. New York's ability to develop starting
• 10:15
  Speaker 1: pitchers with excellent minor league numbers is near unmatched in
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  Speaker 1: the industry. What worries some front offices is the rarity
• 10:23
  Speaker 1: with which those arms have turned into quality big leaguers.
• 10:27
  Speaker 1: And then he brought up backup options for the Yanks.
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  Speaker 1: Remember we've had Jim Boden on multiple times mentioning how
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  Speaker 1: the Yankees of course have interest in Gino, but they
• 10:37
  Speaker 1: highly value defense. They have a problem on defense. They
• 10:41
  Speaker 1: looked awful against the Blue Jays in that eight to
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  Speaker 1: four loss yesterday. They've looked terrible in the two series
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  Speaker 1: against the Blue Jays defensively. So maybe they go for
• 10:51
  Speaker 1: a guy who's more d heavy at the third base
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  Speaker 1: side and costs less. So some of the backup options
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  Speaker 1: he mentioned were Key Brian Hayes, who's an excellent defender,
• 11:00
  Speaker 1: Ryan McMahon, who's getting talked about a lot, who I
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  Speaker 1: actually appears that the Rockies will finally move at this point,
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  Speaker 1: and then he listed a number of other guys who
• 11:08
  Speaker 1: could play third base for the Yanks, Willie Castro. All
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  Speaker 1: of those Mets, I think at least one of them
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  Speaker 1: will be moved, but maybe for a pitcher, Mark Bientos,
• 11:16
  Speaker 1: Brett Baty, Ronnie Mauricio, Luis Sanjalocunya, Jonathan India, Jon Mancatta
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  Speaker 1: from the Angels, and Luis Arius. So a long list
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  Speaker 1: of names. It sounds like they'll get one of them, Kratz.
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  Speaker 4: But pumping prospects sometimes can take a turn on you
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  Speaker 4: if players are not delivering the returns on the other end, right,
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  Speaker 4: or you don't think that matters.
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  Speaker 1: It's case by case you evaluate the player.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, Passon's looking at it the way, the same way
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  Speaker 3: that we've looked at it and talked about it. Like,
• 11:48
  Speaker 3: wait a minute, they got rid of this. Wait a minute.
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  Speaker 3: You're pumping these prospects up. They're creating what I would
• 11:55
  Speaker 3: call stat cast darlings in the minor leagues, guys that
• 12:00
  Speaker 3: throw a billion top of the zone heat. Even look
• 12:04
  Speaker 3: at a guy like Drew Thorpe, he got traded. He
• 12:07
  Speaker 3: was more of like a command guy. And obviously his
• 12:11
  Speaker 3: injury that sucks. But they pumped him up. How's he
• 12:14
  Speaker 3: going to do in the big leagues? To me, I
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  Speaker 3: think he might have a better chance because he's not
• 12:18
  Speaker 3: a big VLO guy. He's more of a command guy.
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  Speaker 3: But everybody likes what they have in their minor league system.
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  Speaker 3: The Yankees create what the industry wants. It's not the Yankees'
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  Speaker 3: job to say, hey, we traded you this guy. Maybe
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  Speaker 3: you should continue to do this with him so he
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  Speaker 3: has success in the big leagues once you this is
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  Speaker 3: why you trade a prospect. You trade the prospect and
• 12:41
  Speaker 3: then the other organization has to figure out how to
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  Speaker 3: make him a big leaguer. They have big league stuff,
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  Speaker 3: but maybe not necessarily a big leaguer.
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  Speaker 1: So I'll finish up here, Todd Father by looking at
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  Speaker 1: some other teams that could be in the mix aside
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  Speaker 1: from the Yankees, From the Reds, what about the Houston Astros.
• 13:04
  Speaker 1: Bear with me, But it does appear, at least according
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  Speaker 1: to some people that are thrown reports out there, that
• 13:10
  Speaker 1: essak Prades is going to miss a lot of time.
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  Speaker 1: It's a significant hamstring stream. And then even if he
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  Speaker 1: does come back, you can figure out bouncing him around.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think that the Astros could be in play
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  Speaker 1: for Gino Suarez.
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  Speaker 2: I do, I do. I think. You know, you think
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  Speaker 2: about the Astros, you know, they're not afraid to make change,
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  Speaker 2: They're not afraid to go after somebody. They are a
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  Speaker 2: team that always seems to find a way to be
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  Speaker 2: involved in one of the top teams in MLB, and
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  Speaker 2: I think doing so, they're going to have to get
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  Speaker 2: a couple of chips and get rid of a couple guys.
• 13:45
  Speaker 2: So in an injury just happened again, we're talking about
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  Speaker 2: an excellent third basement, top one of the top third
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  Speaker 2: basements in baseball. You know, Nolan Arnato's definitely up there,
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  Speaker 2: you know, per defense and other metrics and whatever. But
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  Speaker 2: you're looking at one of the top third basement in
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  Speaker 2: baseball right now that any team would love. And if
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  Speaker 2: the Houston Astros got him, man, that's another step in
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  Speaker 2: the right direction for them of you know, taking even
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  Speaker 2: more control of that division and maybe even you know,
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  Speaker 2: winning more games to get them one of the top
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  Speaker 2: teams in baseball. So this will definitely be a piece
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  Speaker 2: that the Astros would definitely love and definitely help them
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  Speaker 2: along the way.
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  Speaker 3: I think the numbers like four million dollars. I think
• 14:29
  Speaker 3: that or five million dollars that a Henny was still owed.
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  Speaker 3: It might be it might be five I forget I
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  Speaker 3: Rick Ken's article the Brewers, the Brewers, why would that?
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  Speaker 2: Like?
• 14:42
  Speaker 3: Back in twenty eighteen, the talk was, hey, should we
• 14:46
  Speaker 3: get Jacob de Grom for Brandon Woodriff and Corbyn Burns
• 14:52
  Speaker 3: both guys that essentially made their debuts that year? Burns
• 14:55
  Speaker 3: he made his debut. Would he made it you know,
• 14:57
  Speaker 3: earlier in the the season before, but for a little
• 15:00
  Speaker 3: bit like two rookies that ended up being elite number
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  Speaker 3: ones in their rotation, But for de Gram? Would we
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  Speaker 3: have won? Would we have won the NLCS had we
• 15:12
  Speaker 3: gotten to Gram that year, had he stayed healthy. That's
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  Speaker 3: another that's another starter that could have gone out there
• 15:18
  Speaker 3: and won us the one game that we needed. We
• 15:21
  Speaker 3: didn't have a big time rotation, but we got to
• 15:24
  Speaker 3: game seven. Would that have pushed us over? To me?
• 15:27
  Speaker 3: The Brewers need to look at it and say, how
• 15:29
  Speaker 3: have we gotten bounced the last few seasons from the playoffs?
• 15:35
  Speaker 3: Is it? Do we need more offense? Holy crap? The
• 15:38
  Speaker 3: Diamondbacks came in the one year and beat up on
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  Speaker 3: Big Wu Freddy Corbyn burns like they had. They have
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  Speaker 3: exactly what they have this year in a great rotation
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  Speaker 3: going in to me, an extra four or five million
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  Speaker 3: dollars for Aujenio Suarez could push this team over the top.
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  Speaker 3: Let's put it this way. He knows how to hit
• 16:00
  Speaker 3: in the division, he knows how to hit in the
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  Speaker 3: central and there's some places that he has had career
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  Speaker 3: years as a road player. And you don't want the
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  Speaker 3: Reds to get this guy. Not saying the Reds are
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  Speaker 3: going to catch them in the division, but just to me,
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  Speaker 3: this is their chance for Mark Antanasio to dig into
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  Speaker 3: his wallet and spend the extra five million on a
• 16:21
  Speaker 3: player that will change this lineup.
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  Speaker 1: It's a great call. Ken Rosenthal wrote about it this
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  Speaker 1: morning in his Notes column. Also, you want to prevent
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: him from potentially going to the Chicago Cubs. I think
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: the Cubs and the Tigers are the two other teams
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  Speaker 1: that we didn't talk about for them, and both they're possible.
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  Speaker 1: The Tigers have so much flexibility with their lineup that
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: they would be able to pull that off. And remember
• 16:44
  Speaker 1: they were going hard for Bregnant in the offseason. This
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  Speaker 1: would be a nice little replacement months later. And for
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: the Cubs, I think they want more offense than what
• 16:51
  Speaker 1: they've gotten from Matt Shaw so far this season, So
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  Speaker 1: that's two more. But here's my thing, this could be
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  Speaker 1: the c c Sabathia type impact. This could light up
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  Speaker 1: Milwai if they're able to do this. And lastly, to
• 17:02
  Speaker 1: play to Kratz's point, Inosaurus wrote about what it takes
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: in the playoffs and how you do need more slug
• 17:08
  Speaker 1: in the playoffs and that could have been holding Milwaukee
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: back for a long time now, he said, even with
• 17:12
  Speaker 1: improvement in July, the Brewers entered Wednesday twenty third and
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: slugging twenty fifth and hard hit rate and thirtieth in
• 17:19
  Speaker 1: barrel percentage. Remember, you're facing better pitching in the playoffs.
• 17:24
  Speaker 1: How do you match up against better pitching? And how
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: often can you string rallies together? It is harder to
• 17:28
  Speaker 1: do that. That's why you need Pop in that lineup.
• 17:31
  Speaker 1: They do not have enough slug in my mind, and
• 17:34
  Speaker 1: this would be the perfect answer. I'm with you. If
• 17:36
  Speaker 1: there's one team that needs to go after him more
• 17:37
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• 17:39
  Speaker 1: the prospect capital to pull it off. If we're missing anyone.
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• 17:56
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• 18:01
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• 18:04
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• 18:09
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• 18:12
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• 18:15
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• 18:25
  Speaker 1: we have another retirement announcement. Nick Ahmed just announced that
• 18:29
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• 18:32
  Speaker 1: play the Gains? Yeah for a while, right, Yeah.
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: I got to know him a little bit outside of
• 18:40
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• 18:45
  Speaker 3: like everybody talks about how good of a guy he is,
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: he is, he actually exceeds what everybody's saying. He's that
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: guy stuff is like just so nice, so happy all
• 18:55
  Speaker 3: the time.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: Twelve seasons, ten of them with the Diamondbacks. He was
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: a staple over there at shortstop, a very sure glove
• 19:03
  Speaker 1: for a long time with that team. So tip of
• 19:05
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• 19:11
  Speaker 1: swept the Angels. Let's have a look at strike three.
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: Edwin Diaz actually was just working that outside outside Greg Maddox,
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: Tom Glavin corner boom. But then the Angels weren't getting
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: the same call on their side, so there was barking,
• 19:30
  Speaker 1: Is that a strike, guys, No.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: It's a guess, that's what it is. Yeah, I would
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: have gotten tossed to listen. Even the way he caught it,
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: it didn't look like it was strike.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: But they're not even framing it. Well.
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: He's had these conversations numerous times. The umpire's head is
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: on the inner half of the plate. Anywhere in front
• 19:53
  Speaker 2: of him. It's an angle. It's an angle to look
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: if he catches it. Here you're guessing if it's a
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: ball or strike the catchers and here you're guessing it's
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: an estimated guess. It's your professional guest, I don't care
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: what you call it. They are guessing whether it's a
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• 20:09
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• 20:11
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• 20:14
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• 20:19
  Speaker 3: Just get it right right here, two of them right
• 20:21
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• 20:24
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  Speaker 1: then I believe we'll have Ken back on our show tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Let's start with the Blue Jays. He says they might
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  Speaker 1: need another starter both Chris Bassett and Max Scherzer are
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: not young, and they are potential free agents. Chris Bassett's
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: thirty six mad Max is forty. He said they could
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: wait until the offseason to address the possibility of them leaving.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, for me, guys watching the Blue Jays more
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: frequently lately because they are very much in the thick
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: of things, I think high leverage reliever would be number
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: one on the list. Kratz, I think they could get
• 22:42
  Speaker 1: away with the starting staff that they have right now.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: But convince me otherwise if you feel that way.
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I feel that way too. I read Ken's article
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: and I'm like, a high leverage reliever essentially takes the
• 22:57
  Speaker 3: value that you have in those What Ken was saying,
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: older guys that may or may not like they may
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: get tired part way through the postseason, whatever it is,
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: they might falter down the stretch. It shortens some of
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: these games. And when you don't have that high leverage
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: reliever and I get it, we can say relief pitching
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: for every team. So they're going to be in a
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: bidding war, but they have a commanding lead right now
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: in the in the American League East, so you have
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: an opportunity to make a splash. To me, the splash
• 23:29
  Speaker 3: will affect your team more, their team more at closer
• 23:33
  Speaker 3: because their their staff is going to be held up
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: also by that by that defense that is going to
• 23:38
  Speaker 3: help them make, you know, make plays that you know what,
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: maybe an ace doesn't need you to make because they're punching,
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: punching more tickets. So to me, it's a high leverage reliever.
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: I completely agree, Scott, And.
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: If you want to do both Thodfather, that's okay too,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: But just trying to prioritize because it's difficult to get
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: a lot of your work done around this time of
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: year if there aren't many sellers. Are you on the
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: same page. Got to get a high leverage bullpen guy
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: that'll help you down the stretch. And you really need
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: to be stacked with that circle of trust heading in
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: to October.
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, if you have a one or two
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: starters that are in trouble, I mean, that's gonna be
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: your priority. But we talked about this numerous times about
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: how in the playoffs, for some reason they don't trust
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: their starters. They only have four or five innings, So
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: you're gonna need four or five innings of relief, and
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: it's not always gonna be your closer. So you're gonna
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: need a long guy. You're gonna need that guy that
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: can come in and face three batters. So you gotta
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: be very precise and really think about who exactly you want.
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: And it doesn't have to be the biggest names. That's
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: to be a guy that's reliable. Like we say relievers
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: are reliable. Just a guy that comes in, throws strikes
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: and can manipulate some batters. And I think that's the
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: biggest key, yes, for sure.
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: Now to be faracrats. If you read the piece from
• 24:55
  Speaker 1: Ken a couple paragraphs, he multiple times mentions how reliever
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: is a high priority. But he's just offering that maybe
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: they do multiple things, and I'm certainly okay with that.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: The other thing to keep in mind is that after
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: July thirty first, you can't really get anyone else. Max
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: Schurzer has had a lot of Aylestons in the past
• 25:16
  Speaker 1: few years. Eric lower looks really good. That could change.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Doesn't have the track record of looking the way he
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: does right now. I mean it could last or could not.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: Right Eric Fetti last year was one of the better
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: pitchers in baseball. If you go off war He just
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: got cut yesterday by the Cardinals. So do you think
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: that adding a little depth it doesn't have to be
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: a top end guy. I mean, sure, if they can
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: go out and get a Mitch Keller to be in
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: the middle of a rotation, that's awesome. But does it
• 25:44
  Speaker 1: help for them to look into give me someone who's
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: more of a depth piece, just to make sure that
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: maybe he could be a swingman. And if a starter
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: does go down, they're not doing the bullpen day crap.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: They've got a good five the rest of the way
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: to prevent any injury risk.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: I mean, Eric Fetty just got DFA. Do they do
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: they go pick up Eric Fetti just to like, like,
• 26:05
  Speaker 3: are you looking for innings or are you looking to
• 26:08
  Speaker 3: solidify the American League East? They don't score a lot
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: of runs. To me, you have to be able to
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: put a guy out there that's gonna be dominant. I
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: don't think you need innings Zeters because part way through
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: August alec Mano is going to be coming back, so
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: they have guys that are coming back. I don't know
• 26:25
  Speaker 3: where Yami Garcia is at. Obviously you don't want to
• 26:28
  Speaker 3: like ooh, I hope I hope, I hope, yes, they
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: need to add If you're asking me, what do they
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: need more, it is that high leverage bullpen piece. It
• 26:39
  Speaker 3: is that Emmanuel Classe, It is that Ryan Hellsley, which
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: we're gonna be saying for so many teams right now,
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: if you have a chance at Mitch Keller, and then
• 26:50
  Speaker 3: it kind of hits on what Ken was saying, Hey,
• 26:54
  Speaker 3: you know what, these guys are expiring contracts, they're getting older.
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: Mitch Keller can solidify that for the next few years.
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: I like when teams make those moves. But to me,
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: what helps this team the best? I don't think they
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: pride Mitch Keller away. I don't think the Blue Jays
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: are playing in that in that realm. It's this closer
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: role that they have an opportunity to solidify because there's
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: a couple options out there.
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: Hold up offense wise. I mean, they are ninth in
• 27:23
  Speaker 1: run scored this season. They're nineteenth in homers, but they're
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: ninth in run scored. I mean, that's part of why
• 27:27
  Speaker 1: they've played a different brand of baseball. I'm with you, though,
• 27:30
  Speaker 1: I mean I'm not opposed to an impact bat as well.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: I don't think that's going to be the priority.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: What did you just say? What did you just say
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: earlier when we were talking about Hennel Suarez. What plays
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: in the playoffs. You don't have slug, you don't win.
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: The reason you don't win without slug is because game one,
• 27:47
  Speaker 3: you're facing a team's number one, and then they're three
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: highest relievers, they're three best relievers. You ain't getting the
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: number four through seven in the bullpen. You ain't facing
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: the third, fourth, and fifth starters. So game two you're
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: then going again to the second best pitcher on that staff.
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: And those dudes just don't give up slub. They don't
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: let you manufacture things during the season. You can manufacture
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: those things. I'm not gonna throw anybody's name under the bus,
• 28:17
  Speaker 3: but if you if you go to every roster, there's
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: pictures that you sit there and you go, we're gonna
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: feast on this guy. We're gonna feast because he matches
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: up well in this way. That is not what wins
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: in the playoffs. You have to drive the baseball. The
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: Blue Jays can drive the baseball, but you add another
• 28:34
  Speaker 3: aircraft carrier to that, and that could be Anthony Santander.
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: I don't know, but if you have a chance, you
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: need to add slug and a shut down closer. And
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: I'm saying closer. Hoffmail pribably still be a closer, but
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: a shut down arm in the bullpen eliminates slug. That's
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: what they do. That's why they're closing games.
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: Out last part here. For me, I'm actually comfortable with
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: what they have have one, two, three in a playoff series,
• 29:02
  Speaker 1: are you guys? I mean a mix of Brio, Scossman
• 29:05
  Speaker 1: and Chris Bassett.
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, if they stick with him, If they stick with
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: them and the front office doesn't, the front office doesn't
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: tell it's not too soon. Blue Jay fans should never
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: forget that. They should never forget that somebody was forced
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: to take a starting pitcher out who was dealing and
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: making on field decisions, because hey, you know what it
• 29:28
  Speaker 3: says that we should bring Kokuchi in here, We should
• 29:31
  Speaker 3: bring it was Kokuchi, right, It wasn't ryu.
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: Uh Kikuchi? Yeah it was. And Barrios was taken out
• 29:39
  Speaker 1: and they lost. Yep.
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: So yes, I love that. Top three.
• 29:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I like that top three too. I'm good with that. Yeah.
• 29:48
  Speaker 1: But for me, priority high end, high leverage reliever number two. Yeah,
• 29:53
  Speaker 1: you want to get a controllable starter. I don't even
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: know if you need a ConTroll bull start, just a
• 29:56
  Speaker 1: starter in general, even if it's an Endings eater. And
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: he's not in the five right now, some Blue Jays
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: fans are probably gonna watch this and go alec Banoa. Okay,
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: but let's see how he comes back. Let us know
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: your thoughts if you're checking this out, I mean, Alex's
• 30:09
  Speaker 1: been out for a while to rely on him as
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: the sixth starter, the depth piece that could be dicey
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: as well. But feeling good about this team. This team
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: looks really good. They look different this year than they
• 30:18
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  Speaker 1: homers in five straight games. He pitches too.
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  Speaker 3: I don't I don't understand. We're not evenna talk about
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  Speaker 3: I think it was last year, maybe it was his
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  Speaker 3: last year with the Angels, whatever it is. Watch where
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  Speaker 3: he went. He went a rocket to left like a
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• 32:12
  Speaker 3: the baseball. He goes through stretches like this, and the
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  Speaker 3: you know what, there's a little bit of a drop
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• 32:24
  Speaker 3: affect you? Well, I'll eat my crow.
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: And a long story short, with his swing, he is
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: seeing the ball deep. How do you teach the little
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• 32:45
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• 32:59
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  Speaker 1: The Padres are very interested in landing marcel A Zuna.
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: According to the source, the Braves would receive even gave
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  Speaker 1: the two names uh Francis Pana and Ryan Berger two
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  Speaker 1: of their prospects. The Padres do need some thump. Their
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  Speaker 1: offense has not been good for a while and they
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  Speaker 1: need more pop to keep this thing going. Michael King,
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  Speaker 1: I would hope is back in August for them, which
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  Speaker 1: would be a huge addition to the starting staff. But wait,
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  Speaker 1: there's more. Mark Bowman, who works for MLB, gives us
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  Speaker 1: this on his beat. According to my sources. The Braves
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  Speaker 1: and Padres haven't had any discussions of any kind about
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: Marcela's tail of the tape. What do you got for us?
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  Speaker 2: We got conflicting reports to this. This is a battle here.
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  Speaker 2: I want them to start going back and forth so
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  Speaker 2: we could figure out who's in the right, who's in
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  Speaker 2: the wrong. Yeah, I mean they do need a little thump.
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  Speaker 2: Of course. They're a really good team this. I want
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: to see this Padre team in the playoffs. Cratzy. I
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  Speaker 2: really enjoy the way they play. I think King is
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: a big piece of this. If they could get a
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  Speaker 2: guy like Ozona for their eighteenth and twenty first prospect,
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  Speaker 2: I would take that in a heartbeat. You know, eighteen
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  Speaker 2: twenty first, I don't go out. The numbers are ridiculous,
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  Speaker 2: So you're gonna play or not? So for me, unreliable sources,
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: what do we got rat that's a big problem. So
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  Speaker 2: we'll see.
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  Speaker 3: I think the source is probably reliable, which one I
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  Speaker 3: would say. It's more of they're just going back to
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  Speaker 3: double check it. They're going back to see if the
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  Speaker 3: guy that they talk to is the guy that's really
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  Speaker 3: in the know, or if he's not in the know.
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  Speaker 3: So to me, though, Marcella Zuni's kind of had a
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  Speaker 3: down year. Will he be a monster pickup for the
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  Speaker 3: last two months of the year. I don't know. To me,
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  Speaker 3: kind of a crapshoot eighteenth and twentieth pick I mean
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  Speaker 3: twentieth prospect, sorry to those guys, but that's not really
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  Speaker 3: that big a haul. So other teams might just be
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  Speaker 3: somebody just might have fished that out there to see
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  Speaker 3: if other teams are willing to give up their eighteenth
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  Speaker 3: and twenty first prospect. So some of this is like,
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  Speaker 3: is gamesmanship. Hey, I'll leak this to Todd Fraser because
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: Todd Fraser's got diarrhea of the mouth and he'll tell
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  Speaker 3: anybody anything. And it's not really something.
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  Speaker 1: Never, Padres have some work to do. Potentially a catcher,
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  Speaker 1: a left fielder, maybe a DH We.
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  Speaker 3: Got to stop. That's part of the Padres we got.
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  Speaker 3: We gotta stop talking about that.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we gotta go in a secon.
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  Speaker 3: It's so hard. It's so hard to get a starting
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  Speaker 3: catcher to plug in. Name the last team that went
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  Speaker 3: to the playoffs and plugged in a starting catcher At
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  Speaker 3: this point in the year. Backups big difference.
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  Speaker 1: I have to do this on the fly. What I
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: did this morning. I don't even know what I had
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  Speaker 1: for breakfast. Well that ends the segment. Then krats stump me.
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  Speaker 1: But I'll do some homework on it, or someone smarter
• 36:34
  Speaker 1: than me will help me. In the comments section, we'll
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: find somebody in the past ten years that joined a
• 36:38
  Speaker 1: team and thrived as a starting catcher.
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  Speaker 3: But until then, Vasquez, they're gonna say, Christian Vasquez is
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: going to be their.
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  Speaker 1: Number one, and would they be wrong?
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  Speaker 3: Just look it up. Just look it up and Benji
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  Speaker 3: Molina all the way back in two thousand and ten.
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  Speaker 1: Mm, yeah, that's way back. Okay, I know it's not common,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't even know who you're trading for. Who
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: are you trading for?
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  Speaker 3: Sean Murphy is the only one in the Brave said no,
• 37:04
  Speaker 3: we're not getting rid of Sean Murphy. We love the
• 37:06
  Speaker 3: fact that we have two bosses behind a dish.
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  Speaker 1: You may hit from different sides of the plate too,
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  Speaker 1: And if they trade a Zuna, they have a DH
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  Speaker 1: spot that they can utilize. So yeah, I'm with you.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it's happening. I was just listing the needs,
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  Speaker 1: just listing the needs for you.
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  Speaker 3: No.
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  Speaker 1: Looking back at yesterday's games, one more that we didn't
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  Speaker 1: get to you guys, the uh Nick Lodolo shutout nine
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  Speaker 1: innings of glory. And I know it's a struggling Nationals
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  Speaker 1: team here, but Todd Father, we've all watched enough Nick
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  Speaker 1: Lodolo to know that he's got that in him. And
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: that's probably why the Reds are like, hey, we're on
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: the outside looking in from a playoff position, but if
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: Hunter Green comes back and looks like the cy young
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  Speaker 1: contender that he's been in the past couple of years,
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  Speaker 1: Lodolo's doing this and that rotation's got a lot of
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  Speaker 1: upside down the stretch. Obviously, Nick Martinez solid as hell.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot there to think that, you know, this
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  Speaker 1: team might make a real run and could win a
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  Speaker 1: bunch of games in a rows. Are only as good
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  Speaker 1: as the next day starting pitcher, and they've got a
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  Speaker 1: lot of really talented ones.
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  Speaker 2: Not to put you down here, but there's a lot
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: of ifs. I mean, we've been talking about the Reds
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  Speaker 2: for a lot of years now and the teams they
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: have and the players they have, but there's frustrations you
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: would have an injury here. They don't put it together,
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  Speaker 2: and you see Lodolo what he can do. He shows
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: these spurts. But it's just inconsistencies, you know. And I'm
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: not here to knock the Reds because I love them
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  Speaker 2: and I want them to win. It's just as a
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  Speaker 2: Red fan, there is a lot of inconsistencies. And some
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: of it deals with injuries. Well, that's part of the game.
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  Speaker 2: And others are the you know, the pitching will be
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  Speaker 2: there and the hitting won't be there. They have to
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: put everything together and play like a team, and you know,
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: there's just a lot of ifs, and that's the that's
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: the problem with Cincinnati Land. Go get a guy that's dominant,
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: Go get two or three guys that can help this
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  Speaker 2: team out, and then we could talk more.
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Abbit, Brady Singer, Burns. I mean, I like it
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: got to score some runs too. Let's slap and say
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: happy birthday to AJ's favorite player that he played with
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: in terms of talent and awe, no shock here. Barry
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: Bonds is sixty one years old. We saw him a
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: few months ago in person. We had a great sit
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: down interview with him. If you want to catch it
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  Speaker 1: on our Potter YouTube channel sixty one and scrats. He
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: looked forty two.
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  Speaker 3: I mean he looked tremendous. Like to meet Barry Bonds
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  Speaker 3: in person is there's very few people where you're like
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: kind of all inspired by it. This dude is definitely
• 39:55
  Speaker 3: one of them. Had to hear him talk so eloquently
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: about hitting and like you just have have to listen
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: when he talks. But happy birthday, man. I hope Todd
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: looks like that when he's fifty two, let alone sixty two.
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  Speaker 2: Probably not. Yeah, that's okay, I need to I need
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: to get my mind right, kid.
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  Speaker 1: With Bonds done. What what was your rookie year, Todd father?
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: I was two thousand aloud?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, seven was his last year.
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  Speaker 1: That's okay, So you missed him.
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  Speaker 2: He coached against me, though, how about you coached against you?
• 40:30
  Speaker 2: He's with the Marlins, he was, yeah, oh yeah, he's
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: a hitting coach for a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yelly.
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  Speaker 1: He would hit VP sometimes and then make everyone look stupid.
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  Speaker 2: Right, yeah, incredible.
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  Speaker 3: He can probably still he looks like he can still hit.
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: I mean there are no there are no plane on that.
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: Hey, one more rumor. With about a minute and a
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: half to go, Dylan sees his name is getting thrown
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: out there by a couple of different insiders. I don't
• 40:57
  Speaker 1: think that's a name that moves because they are going
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: to get King back, and they are going to lose
• 41:04
  Speaker 1: a number of guys to free agency after this year. Yeah, Kratzel,
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: his name's getting brought up pretty frequently. He's had an
• 41:09
  Speaker 1: up and down year. He's going to be free agent.
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: King's going to be a free agent. Luis rise is
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: going to be a free agent. There's one major long
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: shot from John Haymon. But I've seen in a couple
• 41:19
  Speaker 1: other articles too from the insiders that we we trust
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: and that we like, the name is at least getting floated.
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: And remember it's a j preller. Also, it could be
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: a major League Baseball le trade, not just a prospect dump.
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: Who's pitching Game two for the for the Padres. If
• 41:36
  Speaker 3: Michael King throws Game one, Paveta's throwing Game two and
• 41:42
  Speaker 3: you're hoping, that means you're you're hoping Michael King comes back.
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: Like to me, I don't hey, if they ever rid
• 41:49
  Speaker 3: of Dylan Cease, I'm.
• 41:51
  Speaker 2: Like, they're just talking, we're just talking, man.
• 41:55
  Speaker 1: I don't know, I don't know, I don't know his
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: name got brought up before the season starts and nothing happened.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, they also thought they were getting you Darvish back
• 42:05
  Speaker 3: for more more of the year than they have. Like man,
• 42:09
  Speaker 3: I don't know. I love I love Paveta in a
• 42:11
  Speaker 3: playoff series. I don't love leaning on a guy like
• 42:14
  Speaker 3: King who's hurt right now, but he's awesome when he's healthy.
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: I get it.
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: Yeah, when he's got the good stuff, that's a guy
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: that wins you playoff games. I'm with you. I'm just
• 42:25
  Speaker 1: saying the Padres might have to get creative. They hover
• 42:27
  Speaker 1: around that CBT tax. I think they're over it this year,
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: but they have a lot of hosts to fill. They
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: got to patch up the offense pretty quick, and that
• 42:36
  Speaker 1: was a rough series for them, and against the Marlins
• 42:38
  Speaker 1: just now, I believe dropping two out of three. Anyway,
• 42:40
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