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Fair Territory: Trade Deadline letdown? Phillies sign David Robertson, Jays and Brewers on HEATERS · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Good morning everyone. Ken Rosenthal here, I've been telling you
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  Speaker 1: guys for weeks unfair territory and foul territory. It's too early.
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  Speaker 1: We really can't talk about deadline yet. Forget all that
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  Speaker 1: it's not too early anymore. Ten days remain. The clock
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  Speaker 1: is ticking, the deadline is nearing, and we have plenty
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  Speaker 1: to dive into on this Monday morning. We can start
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  Speaker 1: with yesterday's news, which was quite interesting, the Phillies signing
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  Speaker 1: David Robertson. This is the third time that they are
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  Speaker 1: uniting with Robertson. They sign him as a free agent
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  Speaker 1: one year that was twenty nineteen, I believe, and then
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  Speaker 1: had to well, they didn't have to do anything. He
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  Speaker 1: had Tommy John surgery. He barely pitch for them. Then
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  Speaker 1: they reacquired him from the Cubs in twenty two for
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  Speaker 1: Ben Brown, who is now a pretty good pitcher for
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  Speaker 1: the Cubs, kind of a developing pitcher. And now the
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  Speaker 1: signing yesterday one year, sixteen million dollar contract, but it's
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  Speaker 1: pro rated, so he'll get about five and a half million.
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  Speaker 1: And what was really interesting about the terms were that
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  Speaker 1: here's a guy, Yes he's making five and a half million,
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  Speaker 1: but it's costing the Phillies because they're over the highest
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  Speaker 1: luxury tax threshold, a total of about twelve million that
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  Speaker 1: includes a one hundred ten percent tax. That's a big
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  Speaker 1: chunk of money for a guy who well hasn't pitched
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  Speaker 1: this year, a guy who is forty years old, but
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  Speaker 1: a guy who last year for the Texas Rangers had
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  Speaker 1: a really good season three ERA ninety nine strikeouts in
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  Speaker 1: seventy two innings. That was David Robertson just last year.
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  Speaker 1: He presumably should be fresh. He hasn't pitched yet. He's
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  Speaker 1: going to need a ramp up, and that's fine. The
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  Speaker 1: Phillies can wait a little bit for him to get ready.
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  Speaker 1: He has been throwing, so it shouldn't be too long.
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  Speaker 1: And what this deal shows clearly already is the need
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  Speaker 1: for bullpen help among contenders, and the desperate need for
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  Speaker 1: bullpen help among contenders. It's a lot of money to
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  Speaker 1: pay David Robertson ad middally. He has a great track record,
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  Speaker 1: but with the trademarket being what it is, so muddled.
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  Speaker 1: Even right now with ten days to go, I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: the Phillies thought, you know what, we might not be
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  Speaker 1: able to get a Manuel Clause. We might not be
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  Speaker 1: able to get John durand Griffin Jacks. We might not
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  Speaker 1: be able to get Mason Miller, the reliever that we want. Now,
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  Speaker 1: they're going to still be active, They're gonna look for more,
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  Speaker 1: but this at least gives them a buffer to go
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  Speaker 1: to the next level with their bullpen as they await
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  Speaker 1: the return for Jose Alvarado, who, of course is not
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  Speaker 1: eligible for the postseason. He's completing that eighty game ped suspension.
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  Speaker 1: So Robertson is in the fold for the Phillies. That's
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  Speaker 1: one move for them. It will not be the last one.
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  Speaker 1: Now as we approach the deadline, and again I said
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  Speaker 1: it's ten days away. Now, I've been hearing from executives
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  Speaker 1: really for months now, this could be a disappointing deadline
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  Speaker 1: that ultimately Raphael Devers might be the biggest name traded.
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  Speaker 1: And when I hear such talk, I always think, na,
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  Speaker 1: it'll good. It always turns out Okay, I'm not so
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  Speaker 1: sure this time. Now, don't shoot the messenger. What I'm
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  Speaker 1: saying might not even turn out to be true. But
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  Speaker 1: it just seems to me with so many teams still
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  Speaker 1: in the mix, so many teams undecided about their direction,
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  Speaker 1: and still might be undecided in ten days about their direction.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to see, obviously it be a seller's market,
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  Speaker 1: but also a market in which some teams are reluctant
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  Speaker 1: to move. And I'm thinking about the teams in the
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  Speaker 1: al Central, the Guardians, the Twins, the Royals. They're not
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  Speaker 1: really in it, but they're close enough to think they're
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  Speaker 1: in it. And I'm thinking about some other teams as well.
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  Speaker 1: What are the Cardinals going to do? These are questions
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  Speaker 1: that will frame the deadline. Of course, the Diamondbacks are
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  Speaker 1: another team, and I'll get into them in the inside dish.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm just not sure we're going to see the
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  Speaker 1: quality of player trading that we've seen in the past.
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  Speaker 1: For instance, best starting pitcher available, who do you think
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  Speaker 1: it is? I would say right now it's Zach Gallen,
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  Speaker 1: But Zach Gallon has a five point four to ora.
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  Speaker 1: He is not Max Scherzer in twenty twenty one, Zach
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  Speaker 1: Grenki in twenty nineteen, you Darvish in twenty seventeen. Those
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  Speaker 1: were monster pitchers traded future Hall of famers in two
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  Speaker 1: of the three cases, at least huge moves at the
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  Speaker 1: deadline landscape changing moves. I don't know if that Zach
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  Speaker 1: Gallon at this point moves the needle that much, not
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  Speaker 1: when he has been so inconsistent this year. You have
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  Speaker 1: some other starting pitchers who are available, Mitch Keller and
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Heney and Pittsburgh, the Oakland pitchers, Sevarinos, Springs and Sears,
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  Speaker 1: Adrian Hawser and Chicago with the White Sox, and there
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  Speaker 1: should be some other names that pop up as well,
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  Speaker 1: but it is not a terribly sexy group. Let's face it.
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  Speaker 1: Best hit are available. Well, there's one guy who jumps out.
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  Speaker 1: The guy who is on a fifty seven homer pace,
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  Speaker 1: Aohano Suarez, potential free agent. My goodness, two more home
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  Speaker 1: runs yesterday. He is on fire as a potential free agent.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe he's comparable to what a. JD. Martinez was in
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  Speaker 1: twenty seventeen when he went from the Tigers to the Diamondbacks.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe he can have that kind of impact. But behind them,
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  Speaker 1: the bats aren't that great either. And we're not looking
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  Speaker 1: at a Wan Sodo situation by any stretch of the imagination,
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  Speaker 1: where a guy of Soto's caliber is available for two
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  Speaker 1: and a half pennant races. I'm sorry, three Pennant races
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  Speaker 1: two and a half years the way Sodo was in
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty two. So I'm sort of questioning where this
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  Speaker 1: deadline is going to go now. I wrote about Mason
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  Speaker 1: Miller today in my notes column, and he would be
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  Speaker 1: an interesting name for sure, four years of control remaining
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  Speaker 1: beyond this season. The A's aren't talking about him yet,
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  Speaker 1: but they may end up talking about him if they
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  Speaker 1: get pushed. And there are teams the Phillies being one,
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers being another, that may push the A's and
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  Speaker 1: if they get this monster deal, well, if you get
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  Speaker 1: the right offer for any player, you make the deal.
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  Speaker 1: Mackenzie Gorenationals would fit into that description as well. The
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  Speaker 1: Nationals interim GM Mike de Bartos said this weekend. I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to trade any of my young guys. No,
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't want to, but if some team comes at
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  Speaker 1: him with some huge offer, then he might. So we'll
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  Speaker 1: see how this all plays out. And I'm not trying
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  Speaker 1: to be Debbie Downer here, don't get me wrong. They'll
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  Speaker 1: be action. I just don't know that the quality of
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  Speaker 1: player traded is going to be what we've seen in
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  Speaker 1: the past. And while saying that I leave open the possibility,
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  Speaker 1: as you always have to do, that something will happen
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  Speaker 1: that we just cannot foresee. The Ralfield Devers trade was
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  Speaker 1: that kind of trade, So who knows where this all goes? Okay,
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  Speaker 1: as we continue on here, I want to talk about
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  Speaker 1: two hot teams, two of the most surprising teams in baseball,
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  Speaker 1: and two teams that frankly I love talking about because
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  Speaker 1: they're playing at such a high level. The first would
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  Speaker 1: be the Blue Jays, and I've already apologized the Blue
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  Speaker 1: Jays fans for calling them the paper Tigers last year,
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  Speaker 1: for criticizing their front offense, for all thees that I
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  Speaker 1: committed with regard to Toronto Blue Jays. The reason I
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  Speaker 1: wrote those things is because they were true. At the time.
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  Speaker 1: The James weren't underachieving team. They were a team with
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  Speaker 1: a front office that seemed to be flyling. Well. All
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  Speaker 1: things are going pretty well right now. They swept the
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  Speaker 1: Giants this weekend. They beat Justin Verlander, Logan Webb, and
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  Speaker 1: Robbie Ray tenth straight home. When you see that right there,
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  Speaker 1: it ties the franchise record set in nineteen eighty five.
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  Speaker 1: They have a three game lead in the ale least.
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  Speaker 1: They're one and a half games behind the Tigers for
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  Speaker 1: the best record in the American League, and they're fifteen
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  Speaker 1: to five in their last twenty games, that includes three sweeps.
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  Speaker 1: They've had just an amazing run here. And what is
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  Speaker 1: kind of driving them, it seems, is that their offense
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  Speaker 1: has the lowest strikeout rate in the majors. Now. I've
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  Speaker 1: talked about how they're getting unexpected contributions from some of
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  Speaker 1: the players at the bottom of their roster. Tyler Heineman,
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  Speaker 1: Addison Barge are all these guys, and then yesterday Guerrero
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  Speaker 1: with the big home run. But they've been really an
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  Speaker 1: outstanding example of a team coming together. We all thought
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  Speaker 1: they were talented, We've thought they were talented for a
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  Speaker 1: few years now, but this is an actual team. This
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  Speaker 1: is a team playing at a high level, a team
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  Speaker 1: picking up one another on a nightly basis, and a
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  Speaker 1: team that, yes, will be active at the deadline. They've
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  Speaker 1: got some bullpen needs now due to some injuries, my
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  Speaker 1: Garcia being one of them. They also could use a
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  Speaker 1: controllable starter with Bassett insures are eligible for eligible for
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  Speaker 1: free agency, and heck, they might look for an impact
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  Speaker 1: bat someone that can put anywhere on the diamond. What
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  Speaker 1: they want to do clearly is enhance what they've got.
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  Speaker 1: And when you're doing that, when you're trying to do that,
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  Speaker 1: as we've seen with the Dodgers for so many years,
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  Speaker 1: you're looking for impact. So the J's on a roll.
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  Speaker 1: Good for them. They are taking control of the AL
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  Speaker 1: East and in the NL Central. The pesky Brewers, the Brewers,
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  Speaker 1: the team that you can never count out, the team
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  Speaker 1: that you seem to see every year lose major pieces.
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  Speaker 1: And it happened to the Brewers again this offseason. And
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  Speaker 1: here they are again, right there in the thick of
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  Speaker 1: this thing. They swept the Dodgers over the weekend. They
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  Speaker 1: go six and zero against the Dodgers this season. They
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  Speaker 1: are now tied with the Cubs for the best record
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  Speaker 1: in the National League. It's right, the Brewers and Cubs
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  Speaker 1: tied for the NL Central lead and the best record
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  Speaker 1: in the NL. And those two teams are only a
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  Speaker 1: half game behind the Tigers for the best record in baseball. Now.
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  Speaker 1: Pat Murphy, their manager, has had some great quotes all along,
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  Speaker 1: and we're going to refer to a couple of them
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  Speaker 1: here that he said after yesterday's game. Murphy seems to
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  Speaker 1: revel in the Brewers underdog spirit, and here he is
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  Speaker 1: yesterday on this team, it's a bunch of guys that
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  Speaker 1: nobody has ever heard of. Like I said, no disrespect
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  Speaker 1: to the great fans of Japanese baseball, but they can't
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  Speaker 1: name five players in our lineup. Murph might be right
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  Speaker 1: about that. Let's go to another quote. This one's pretty
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  Speaker 1: good too. Here's Murphy again saying this is from Kurt
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  Speaker 1: Hog and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Pat Murphy's club walked
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  Speaker 1: into Dodger Stadium and swept the season series against the
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  Speaker 1: reigning champs, with their top contributors being Isaac Collins, Caleb Durbin,
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  Speaker 1: Quinn Priester, and Joey Ortiz. It felt fitting the manager
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  Speaker 1: thought he called them a bunch of average joes. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what it is about the Brewers, what
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  Speaker 1: it is about their culture why they are able to
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  Speaker 1: do this year after year. Remember Devin Williams traded Willia Damas,
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  Speaker 1: lost a free agency. They do nothing, virtually nothing in
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  Speaker 1: the offseason. They ultimately signed Tintona late. They did trade
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  Speaker 1: for Quinn Priester, but man, they come up with these players.
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  Speaker 1: These players fit into their roster so well, they make
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  Speaker 1: contributions so mightily, it seems. And here they are again
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  Speaker 1: now the deadline. There written about this for months. They're
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  Speaker 1: a fascinating team because during the latter stages of spring training,
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  Speaker 1: when all their pictures were getting hurt, they're starting pitchers.
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  Speaker 1: That's when they added Priester and Quintana. And ultimately, now
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  Speaker 1: that those pictures have come back or are coming back,
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  Speaker 1: they have they are the one team with seemingly a
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  Speaker 1: surplus of starting pitching. They can do some things with
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  Speaker 1: that pitching. And because they swept the Dodgers, go six
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  Speaker 1: and zero against the Dodgers, and because their owner, Mark
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  Speaker 1: Antenasio lives in La and I'm sure was loving every
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  Speaker 1: minute of this. I am intrigued to see how he
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  Speaker 1: reacts here, whether he as an owner, says, you know what,
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  Speaker 1: let's spend some money, let's go for it, let's do
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  Speaker 1: some things. That's not the Brewers' way. We all know
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  Speaker 1: that that's kind of why they're the Brewers, but I
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  Speaker 1: would imagine Antennasio is rather excited by what he's seeing.
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  Speaker 1: So there it is. David robertson the deadline, the Blue Jays,
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  Speaker 1: the Brewers. Stay with this. We've got the inside dish
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  Speaker 1: Now for the inside ditch, the part of the show
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  Speaker 1: a trend in the game, or maybe as we are
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  Speaker 1: ten days out one particular division with regard to the
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  Speaker 1: trade deadline, and today I want to talk about the
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  Speaker 1: NL West. Not that the NL West is that competitive
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  Speaker 1: a division. The Dodgers still lead it, but the way
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  Speaker 1: the Dodgers are playing it could become competitive and really
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  Speaker 1: each team, each of the contenders, the four contenders in
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  Speaker 1: this division are rather interesting. Let's start with the Dodgers.
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  Speaker 1: They've lost ten of twelve. They look horrible. Mookie Betts
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  Speaker 1: got benched over the weekend. He's not hitting, hasn't hit
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  Speaker 1: all season. They did survive a scare with Freddie Freeman yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: But overall, the Dodgers are not at all where they
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  Speaker 1: want to be at the deadline. I've written about this.
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  Speaker 1: They're going to be active looking for bullpen help this
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  Speaker 1: signing Tanner Scott and Kirby Yates and re signing Blake
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  Speaker 1: Trin in the offseason, spending more than one hundred million
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  Speaker 1: on the bullpen. It's amazing they end up in this
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  Speaker 1: situation every single year. Now, I mentioned in the lead
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  Speaker 1: they could be a team for Mason Miller, and they
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  Speaker 1: could be a team also that looks for a bat,
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  Speaker 1: looks for a bat maybe in left field. They are
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  Speaker 1: offensively perhaps one bat short. And it's just interesting to
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  Speaker 1: see how this is all plan out for them, you know,
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  Speaker 1: as division champions for so many years and as defending
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  Speaker 1: World Series champions. I'm sure the regular season for them
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  Speaker 1: is a bit of a yawn. They know that they're
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  Speaker 1: going to be in the playoffs. The question is can
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  Speaker 1: they come together at the right time. Now, I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: they think so. But this is the one thing I've
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  Speaker 1: been wondering about all year. They're kind of sluggish. They've
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  Speaker 1: got things going wrong here and there. Real Blake Snell
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  Speaker 1: and Tyler Glass now and Otani. Will that rotation be
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  Speaker 1: their rotation with Yamamoto of course too at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the season. Will the bullpen swored out, Will the
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  Speaker 1: offense be clicking? Will Mookie find it again? They're counting
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  Speaker 1: on all of these things that happen to be the
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  Speaker 1: team they want to be. I'm not sure it's all
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  Speaker 1: going to happen for them. It's theoretically possible, but right now,
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  Speaker 1: the way they're playing, you look at it, it looks
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  Speaker 1: a little bit troublesome, to say the least. All Right,
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  Speaker 1: as we moved down in this division, the Padres another
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  Speaker 1: fascinating team. The Padres currently hold a third wildcard spot.
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  Speaker 1: They haven't been quite as hot as they were earlier
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  Speaker 1: in the season when they started off so well. They've
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  Speaker 1: been kind of a five hundred team since. But they're
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  Speaker 1: winning enough, they're playing well enough. They've survived some injuries,
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  Speaker 1: and certainly without Michael King and you Darvish for a
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  Speaker 1: long time, their rotation held it together rather well. Their
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  Speaker 1: bullpen is amazing. It's perhaps the best bullpen in baseball.
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  Speaker 1: Three of their relievers went to the All Star Game.
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  Speaker 1: What Aj Preller, their general manager, has said is we're
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  Speaker 1: looking for a bat or two, not just one, but two.
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  Speaker 1: Left Field is the obvious area of need. Catcher is
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  Speaker 1: also an area of need. It's difficult to incorporate a
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  Speaker 1: catcher in the middle of the season. But while the
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  Speaker 1: Padres are getting good defensive work out of their two catchers,
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  Speaker 1: or at least good handling of the pitching staff, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not sure a good defensive work would cover it. But
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  Speaker 1: there are catchers Maldonado and Diaz. They handle the pitching
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  Speaker 1: staff well, but they need more offense out of that position.
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  Speaker 1: So left field is going to be a focus. There's
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  Speaker 1: been talk about Jaron Durant, There's been talk about Luis Robert.
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  Speaker 1: It's just going to be interesting to see how Aj
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  Speaker 1: Preller maneuvers in this market. He also has the potential
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the season for Dylan Cees and
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  Speaker 1: Michael King to be free agents. So with those two
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  Speaker 1: potentially gone, with Robert Suarez the closes are potentially gone,
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  Speaker 1: He too is a potential free agent. There is some
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  Speaker 1: urgency with the Padres, and I always seem to think, ah,
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  Speaker 1: this is it. They've got to figure it out, or
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  Speaker 1: the team's coming apart. Well, it doesn't seem to be
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  Speaker 1: that way. AJ Peller always seems to put it together
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  Speaker 1: in some fashion. This, though, is a unique challenge because
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  Speaker 1: when you lose those kinds of pitchers. If they do
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  Speaker 1: lose them, then obviously it's a different kind of team
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  Speaker 1: going forward. So the Padres as always at the deadline
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  Speaker 1: a team to watch because with Preller, you never know
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  Speaker 1: what might happen. Then there are the Giants. The Giants
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  Speaker 1: eleven and six seventeen since the Ralphae Old Devers trade.
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  Speaker 1: Eleven and seventeen since this transformative trade that was supposed
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  Speaker 1: to elevate their offense and make them into a different
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  Speaker 1: kind of team hasn't happened. Get swept by the Blue
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  Speaker 1: Jays over the weekend. As I mentioned, they're now two
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: and a half back in the wild card race. They
• 17:45
  Speaker 1: fallen behind the Reds and they just don't look like
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  Speaker 1: a kind of team that you expect to make the postseason,
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: do they? They need a lefty reliever, that's something pretty
• 17:56
  Speaker 1: clear right now. They lost Derek Miller and they are
• 18:00
  Speaker 1: team also that needs another bat. Put that bat in
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  Speaker 1: the outfield perhaps I don't know where you put it exactly,
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  Speaker 1: but at some point they're gonna have to get more
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  Speaker 1: offense too. Maybe it's second base. That's where Casey Schmid
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: is right now. Casey Schmidt naturally a third baseman. He
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: has not shown yet he can really hit in the
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  Speaker 1: major leagues. Has shown flashes, but this team offensively is disappointing.
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  Speaker 1: Willia Domas has come on now, but it's been a
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: while since he did come on, it took him a
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: while to get going. So the Giants are a team
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  Speaker 1: to watch too, because after making the Devors trade, you
• 18:35
  Speaker 1: can't imagine that they're done. They're obviously going for it.
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  Speaker 1: They obviously want to be in the playoffs again in
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  Speaker 1: their first year under President of Baseball Operations Buster Posey.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: But right now they look like they're short. And then
• 18:47
  Speaker 1: there are the Diamondbacks. And I wrote the Diamondbacks, or
• 18:49
  Speaker 1: wrote about them today in the lead of my Notes column.
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: The Diamondbacks are perhaps the most interesting team in baseball
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  Speaker 1: relative to the deadline right now. And what I wrote
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  Speaker 1: about is how this is not just about twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: five for them, it's also about twenty twenty six. And
• 19:05
  Speaker 1: what I mean by that is this Corbyn Burns, aj Puck,
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: Justin Martinez, those three pitchers pivotal to the Diamondbacks. Chances
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  Speaker 1: are all out for at least the first half of
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  Speaker 1: twenty six after undergoing major elbow surgeries. Now the Diamondbacks
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  Speaker 1: have all these potential free agents who are attractive. They
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: could make qualifying offers to each of them. I'm talking
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: about Zach Gallen Merrill, Kelly, Jack Naylor and talking of
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: course about ue Aohano Suarez as well. You can make
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  Speaker 1: qualifying offers to all of them, but as I wrote,
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  Speaker 1: they probably would all reject them. And if they all
• 19:41
  Speaker 1: reject the qualifying offers, if you're keeping the team together,
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: then you're looking at seven players that you're without at
• 19:48
  Speaker 1: the start of next season, the three who are injured,
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: the three pitchers, and then those four free agents. So
• 19:53
  Speaker 1: that is why, as I wrote, they need to trade
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: several veterans. They don't need to trade them all because
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: they just swept the Cardinals and they suddenly look like
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: they could be making a push, even though their bullpen
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: is absolutely depleted. They're waiting for guys to come off
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: the injured list, Jalen Beaks and Ryan Thompson and Shelby Miller.
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: They don't look like a playoff team, but they have
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: one of the most dynamic offenses in baseball top five offense,
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: and maybe they carry that offense carries the Diamondbacks to
• 20:24
  Speaker 1: a playoff spot, the way Detroit's pitching staff carried the
• 20:26
  Speaker 1: Tigers to a surprising playoff spot even after they sold
• 20:30
  Speaker 1: last year. Not saying it's going to happen, not saying
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: it's particularly likely to happen. But the Diamondbacks have this talent,
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: this amazing offensive talent, and if you trade Suarez and
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: the Brewers could be a team for Suarez. The Yankees
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: could be a team, of course, the Cubs. We've talked
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: about all these teams relative to Suarez. Then you could
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: have something with Jordan Lawler replacing him at third base.
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: You could put Pevin Smith in at first base, if
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: you trade Josh Naylor. There are things you can do.
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: But can they get the controllable pitching that they need.
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: I'm not sure they can do that. So they're in
• 21:05
  Speaker 1: an interesting spot, a bit of a tight spot and
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: a bit of a curious spot because they're sort of
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: in it in their minds. They have this offense that's
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: so good, and yet they need to acquire talent for
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: twenty six because they're already short with those three pitchers
• 21:21
  Speaker 1: that I talked about undergoing surgeries. So the NL West
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: is going to be a fascinating division to watch in
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: the next eleven days or so next ten days as
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: we approach the deadline, and I'm really intrigued to see
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: what all of these teams do. All Right, that's it
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• 23:18
  Speaker 1: Who will be busier at the deadline? Baltimore or Arizona.
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: I would say Baltimore. Baltimore has all these players on
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: expiring contracts to trade, and they will be busy. I'm
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: talking about Ryan O'Hearn, Cedric Mullens, Ramo Loreanos, Sar Anthony Dominguez,
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: on and on. It goes Zach Eflin if he's healthy.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: They're gonna be active. They're gonna be active, and it's
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: going to be multiple trades. I would expect the Diamondbacks
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: could be active and will make trades. As I just outline,
• 23:47
  Speaker 1: they need to make trades, but I don't know that
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: they'll have as many trades as the Baltimore Orioles. All right,
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: next question, let's see this one comes from Sean Donovan,
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: who asks could the Red Sox be in contention for
• 23:59
  Speaker 1: Zach Gower or Merrill Kelly. Well, the Red Sox certainly
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: need another starting pitcher, and ideally it would be a
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: number two to slop behind Crochet and put ahead of
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: Brian Beao. They've got Giolito as well and Walker Bueller.
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: Can they get one of those two? Well, it's going
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: to be awfully competitive for those two guys. Now, I
• 24:18
  Speaker 1: don't expect the Diamondbacks to trade both. They have to
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: get through the season. They don't want to concede totally.
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: They will trade perhaps one of them, not both, and
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: I would expect that Gallan would be the more attractive guy.
• 24:32
  Speaker 1: Kelly is one of the most consistent pitchers in baseball.
• 24:35
  Speaker 1: He is remarkably underrated. He's also thirty six thirty seven
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: years old. Team see that they see the low V low.
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: They're not as intrigued they should be because he's really good.
• 24:46
  Speaker 1: But I don't see him attracting the same kind of
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: attention as Gowan, another potential free agent who of course
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: has been a cy Young finalist in the past. So
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: that is where I see that going. But the Red Sox, yes,
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: they need to be acted. They need to go another starter.
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: They need another bat too. First base would be the
• 25:04
  Speaker 1: spot to do it, and maybe it's Josh Naylor or
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: Ryan O'Hearn who they would prefer, of course, or right
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: handed bat. So the Red Sox another team to watch
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: as we get toward the deadline. All right, I want
• 25:16
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