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FairT: Gerrit Cole TJ news, Key players hurt, HOT seats, Mo Vaughn back in baseball · Foul Territory

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  Speaker 1: Aj Preller is the one GM who will make trades
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  Speaker 1: in March. He will make trades in April, in May
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  Speaker 1: every calendar month. Welcome everyone to the Monday edition of
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  Speaker 1: Fair Territory. Let's call it, for lack of a better term,
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  Speaker 1: the injury addition, because injuries have become quite prominent in
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  Speaker 1: the game over the last several days. And whenever people
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  Speaker 1: ask me for predictions on the season, you've heard me
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  Speaker 1: say this before, perhaps I always say, tell me who's
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  Speaker 1: getting hurt, and tell me who's getting traded, and I'll
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  Speaker 1: have a better idea on who might win each particular division,
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  Speaker 1: who might win the World Series. So we have some
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  Speaker 1: injuries here that are quite significant in some ways and
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  Speaker 1: will be meaningful. Some injuries that are less significant. Let's
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  Speaker 1: start with the biggest name, Derrick Cole, and his loss
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  Speaker 1: would be the most significant of annie. Jim Bowden reporting
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  Speaker 1: that it has been recommended that Cole undergo Tommy John surgery.
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  Speaker 1: The Yankees are awaiting a second opinion, and if that
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  Speaker 1: is indeed the case, we know where this is heading.
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  Speaker 1: And you might have kind of gotten winto this when
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  Speaker 1: Brian Cashman, the general manager of the Yankees, said he
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  Speaker 1: was preparing for the worst. The worst certainly would be
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  Speaker 1: the loss of Coal for the entire season. The Yankees, remember,
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  Speaker 1: are already down Louis Heel. He's going to be out
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  Speaker 1: several months with the shoulder problem. They're already expecting gian
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  Speaker 1: Carlo Stanton to miss most of the season, if not
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  Speaker 1: all of it, with his elbow issues. So the Yankees,
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  Speaker 1: a team that many thought would be the favorite to
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  Speaker 1: win the American League, are now missing or will be missing,
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  Speaker 1: three very significant players. The twenty twenty three American League
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  Speaker 1: Say Young Award winner that would be Cole, the twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty four American League Rookie of the Year that would
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  Speaker 1: be Heel, And a guy who has a three hundred
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  Speaker 1: and twenty five million dollar contract, which at the time
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  Speaker 1: he signed it was the biggest in the game's history.
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  Speaker 1: That would be gian Carlo Stanton. Obviously, it's a terrible
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  Speaker 1: sequence events for the Yankees. We'll have to wait more
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  Speaker 1: on Coal, but right now it sure doesn't sound good.
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  Speaker 1: The Orioles also in a very difficult position with their
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  Speaker 1: pitching staff Grayson Rodriguez. They're waiting to see how he
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  Speaker 1: responds to a corterzone shot he received in his elbow.
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  Speaker 1: Andrew Kittridge has a knee problem. He's going to be
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  Speaker 1: out several months. So here are the Orioles, a team
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  Speaker 1: that had a questionable starting rotation to begin with, a
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  Speaker 1: team that, in my opinion and in the opinion of
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  Speaker 1: many others, didn't do quite enough to replace Corbyn Burns.
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  Speaker 1: Not that you could really do that other than signing
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  Speaker 1: Corbyn Burns back yourself, but without Grayson Rodriguez, who projected
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  Speaker 1: to be an ace and who missed some time last
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  Speaker 1: year with injuries, it's going to be difficult if he
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  Speaker 1: is out for any length of time. And Kittridge, of course,
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  Speaker 1: was signed to be kind of a co closer with
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  Speaker 1: Felix Bautista coming off his own Tommy John So there
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  Speaker 1: are the Orioles. They're in a little bit of a
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  Speaker 1: buying too.
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  Speaker 2: The Mariners.
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  Speaker 1: George Kirby shoulder inflammation, and if you read the quotes
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  Speaker 1: from Mariners GM Justin Hollander, he said, basically, George Kirby
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  Speaker 1: felt he could pitch through this, as the baroner said,
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  Speaker 1: You're not pitching through this. That's not a very bright idea.
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  Speaker 1: They don't expect him to be out necessarily long. But
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  Speaker 1: what is the strength of the Mariners. The strength of
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  Speaker 1: the Mariners is starting pitching. So if Kirby is down
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  Speaker 1: replaced by Emerson Hancock, who is a guy they've liked
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  Speaker 1: for a while, if he's down for any length of time,
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  Speaker 1: it's going to compromise them, no question about that. So
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  Speaker 1: those are the pitchers we're talking about. And let's not
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  Speaker 1: forget shoe Otani, who is being slow played by the
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  Speaker 1: Dodgers as he continues his rehab from major elbow operation.
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  Speaker 1: I never thought Shohy was necessarily ever going to be
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  Speaker 1: in the opening day rotation because of the importance of
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  Speaker 1: him getting through the entire season and being available for
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  Speaker 1: the playoffs. So this one is a little less alarming
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  Speaker 1: to me. Obviously, at some point he's going to pitch,
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  Speaker 1: and when he does pitch, at that point we'll see
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  Speaker 1: what he is compared to what he was before this
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  Speaker 1: latest surgery. All right, So those are the pitchers, and
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  Speaker 1: that's just the last few days folks on the offensive side.
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  Speaker 1: Outside of Stan, the biggest news, the biggest injury is
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  Speaker 1: Francisco Alvarez, the Mets catcher out for six to eight weeks,
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  Speaker 1: having his handmate bone removed from his hand that is
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  Speaker 1: normally an operation players come back from. Okay, it's not
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  Speaker 1: like a wrist that really hampers you long term, but
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  Speaker 1: it's going to keep him out for a while. He's
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  Speaker 1: a huge part of what the Mets do. They have
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  Speaker 1: Louis Turns. I expect they will add some other backup
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  Speaker 1: catcher type in the coming days. But this for the
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  Speaker 1: Mets is certainly not something they wanted to happen and
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  Speaker 1: have hamper them at the start of the season for
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  Speaker 1: again six to eight weeks. Good news for the Braves
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  Speaker 1: on Jerks and Profar. They've lost Jean Murphy already for
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  Speaker 1: some time. For Jerks and Profar, his wrist there is
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  Speaker 1: only a bone bruise. He's not going to be out
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  Speaker 1: for very long, if long at all. And then we
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  Speaker 1: get back to Stanton and the Yankees. Stanton is a
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  Speaker 1: guy that, of course has had problems over the years.
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  Speaker 1: What's interesting about this latest injury seems to be that
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  Speaker 1: he hurt himself a different kind of bat last year,
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  Speaker 1: at least that's what he has said so far, and
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  Speaker 1: that hurt or damaged both his elbows. Here's a guy
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  Speaker 1: that the Yankees are paying a lot of money to
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  Speaker 1: they're relying on, especially now that they've lost Juan Soto
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  Speaker 1: to be a big part of their offense, and the
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  Speaker 1: fact he's not going to be available to them for
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  Speaker 1: length of time that is troubling, to say the least.
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  Speaker 1: They need stand they need him, especially this year. I
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  Speaker 1: know they've added gold Schmidt and they've add a Bellinger,
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  Speaker 1: but they don't have Sodo, So their offense, which was
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  Speaker 1: already questionable, becomes even more questionable. Without gian Carlos Stanton,
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  Speaker 1: they still have the question at third base. The Yankees
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  Speaker 1: are looking like right now a team that's kind of
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  Speaker 1: fraying at the edges here, and we'll see again how
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  Speaker 1: they come out of it. We'll be back after a
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about some better news, at least
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  Speaker 1: for one team in recent days, and that would be
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  Speaker 1: the A's signing of Lawrence Butler to a seven year,
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  Speaker 1: sixty five point five million dollar extension. Is an exciting guy,
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  Speaker 1: an outfielder with great promise. Did some good things last year.
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  Speaker 1: This extension on top of the Rooker extension, which of course,
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  Speaker 1: was five years sixty million. That gives the A's two
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  Speaker 1: pieces to build around as they continue their time or
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  Speaker 1: start their time in Sacramento and then move to Las Vegas.
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  Speaker 1: Both these guys will be entering the new ballpark in
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  Speaker 1: Vegas when that day comes. Because they are signed long term.
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  Speaker 1: I don't presume the A's are going to be trading them.
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  Speaker 1: They're trying to build something here. So for the A's,
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  Speaker 1: their payroll now is up to about seventy six million.
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  Speaker 1: More importantly, in some respects, their luxury tax payroll is
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  Speaker 1: at about one hundred and fifteen million, And that's where
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  Speaker 1: they had to be. If you remember that story I
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  Speaker 1: wrote with Evandrelik earlier this winter about how they needed
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  Speaker 1: to get to a certain level to avoid essentially a
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  Speaker 1: grievance or the grounds for a grievance. The Miami Marlins
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  Speaker 1: are not anywhere near one point fifteen in their luxury
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  Speaker 1: tax payroll. And they two are a team that in
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  Speaker 1: theory needs to add to avoid scrutiny from the players union.
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  Speaker 1: And what are we hearing about the Marlins. We're only
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  Speaker 1: hearing about them perhaps subtracting Sandy al Contra at some
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  Speaker 1: point before the deadline. So that's a team I'm watching closely,
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  Speaker 1: a team that I've talked about quite a bit. They
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  Speaker 1: are taking the revenue sharing money and at least not
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  Speaker 1: reinvesting in their major league payroll the way they are
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  Speaker 1: supposed to. I guess things can change before opening day,
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  Speaker 1: and they've got to get to that luxury tax number
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  Speaker 1: by the end of the season. It doesn't have to
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  Speaker 1: happen tomorrow, but I don't see how they get there
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  Speaker 1: by the end of the season, especially if they trade
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  Speaker 1: al Contrara. So here are the A's at least doing
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  Speaker 1: what they're supposed to do from a spending standpoint, and
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  Speaker 1: there are the Marlins not doing what they're supposed to do,
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  Speaker 1: which is essentially old news. Time Now for the Inside Dish,
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  Speaker 1: the part of the show where I go inside a
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  Speaker 1: stick or I've written, talk about a trend in the game,
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  Speaker 1: or maybe discuss something else entirely. And today I'd like
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  Speaker 1: to discuss a story I published this morning, and it's
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  Speaker 1: about Mauvaughn. Now, before I get into the nitty gritty
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  Speaker 1: of the story what it's really about, I want to
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  Speaker 1: address one thing in the story. Movaughn confirms his use
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  Speaker 1: of human growth hormone back, I don't know. In two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and one. This first came to light in the
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  Speaker 1: Mitchell Report, which was published in two thousand and seven.
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  Speaker 1: That was a report about players who used different kinds
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  Speaker 1: of performances, announcing drugs and what was going on in
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  Speaker 1: the game at the time. The former commissioner Bud Selig
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  Speaker 1: summoned that report from former main Senator George Mitchell, and
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  Speaker 1: it was something that caused a big stir at the
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  Speaker 1: time because a lot of players were named, and Movaugh
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  Speaker 1: was one of those players named. So he told me
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  Speaker 1: for this story that, yeah, I used HGH. I shot
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  Speaker 1: it into my knee. I had a degenerative knee. It
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  Speaker 1: was a real problem. But that's not really what this
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  Speaker 1: story is about. It's part of it, and it's part
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  Speaker 1: of what I discussed in here, because here was a
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  Speaker 1: guy who once loved the game so much he was
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  Speaker 1: willing to do that to try to extend his career.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever you might think about the wisdom of that decision
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  Speaker 1: or not, at the time, HGH was not banned by
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  Speaker 1: Major League Baseball. It was another two years before that happened.
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  Speaker 1: It was more than a decade before HGH testing was
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  Speaker 1: instituted by the league and players Union. But the story
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  Speaker 1: from my perspective, what I originally sought out to write about,
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  Speaker 1: and what is the heart of this thing, is Moe's
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  Speaker 1: relationship with his son Lee, who is twelve turning thirteen
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  Speaker 1: in June, and how that relationship brought back his love
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  Speaker 1: for baseball. This was a guy who, toward the end
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  Speaker 1: of his career, had one injury after another nineteen ninety five.
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  Speaker 1: Al MVP goes to the Angels in ninety nine with
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  Speaker 1: a record free agent contract at that time six years
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  Speaker 1: eighty million, and then in his first game with the Angels,
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  Speaker 1: bad into his first game, he falls down some dugout steps,
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  Speaker 1: messes up his ankle and knee, and in his mind,
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  Speaker 1: even though he did some big things after that, he
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  Speaker 1: was never the same, and by two thousand and three,
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  Speaker 1: early two thousand and three, he was done. What happened
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  Speaker 1: in his mind was he got angry. He was angry
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  Speaker 1: because his career was never quite what he envisioned it
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  Speaker 1: to be. It ended prematurely. He wanted to accomplish other
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  Speaker 1: things and he felt, why me, how could God have
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  Speaker 1: let this happen to me? That was his exact quote.
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  Speaker 1: And for years he did other things. He became a
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  Speaker 1: very successful person in business, owned the truck and company,
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  Speaker 1: founded a company that developed affordable housing that became rather successful,
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  Speaker 1: and he was good with that. Wasn't really involved with
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  Speaker 1: baseball at all, didn't really want to be involved with
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  Speaker 1: baseball at all. And then his son, who as a
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  Speaker 1: young boy, started playing t ball, kind of rekindles his interest,
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  Speaker 1: not kind of did recto his interest. And it started
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  Speaker 1: when he was playing t ball and his team was
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  Speaker 1: really good, and Moe was kind of dragged into coaching
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  Speaker 1: by some of the coaches there. They were saying, hey,
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  Speaker 1: help us out. And Moe's original reaction was, Man, these
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  Speaker 1: kids are too little and there's nothing I could do
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  Speaker 1: with them. But then he learned there was something he
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  Speaker 1: could do. And then that team, that first T ball team,
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  Speaker 1: dealt with rain in Florida twenty nine out of thirty
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  Speaker 1: one days, according to Mo, and he said, I'm never
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  Speaker 1: gonna have this happened to one of my teams again,
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  Speaker 1: and he started the Vaughn Sports Academy. The Vaughn Sports
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  Speaker 1: Academy in Boca Ratone is a twenty thousand square foot
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  Speaker 1: facility it's got all the things you would expect. Five
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  Speaker 1: batting tunnels, hot tub, cold tub, sauna, weightlifting equipment, nets
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  Speaker 1: that come up from the tunnels to kind of created
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  Speaker 1: playing field in which you can do defensive base running drills.
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  Speaker 1: It's got all that. It's a cool place. It's your typical,
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  Speaker 1: state of the art baseball facility. And there he coaches
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  Speaker 1: kids with a number of other coaches that he has hired.
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  Speaker 1: Mike Eastler is one, you remember him, Omar Moreno, another
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  Speaker 1: former major leaguer, and he is loving life being back
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  Speaker 1: in baseball, being in the mix with these kids, instructing
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  Speaker 1: them on all the finer points of the game. He
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  Speaker 1: loves it. And he is a guy that it's interesting,
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  Speaker 1: wasn't really a fundamentally sound player. For many of us
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  Speaker 1: watching him look at him that way, struck out a lot.
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  Speaker 1: Wasn't a great fielder, but he stresses fundamentals with these kids.
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  Speaker 1: He is adamant about it. And they've got two thousand
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  Speaker 1: active members in this facility, this v sports academy, and
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  Speaker 1: he's basically saying, I don't really want to hear from parents,
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  Speaker 1: I don't really want to be on social media. We're
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  Speaker 1: not dealing with any of that. It's a decidedly old
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  Speaker 1: school approach, and his thinking is, I'm going to tell
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  Speaker 1: the truth. I'm going to tell the truth to these kids,
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  Speaker 1: and if they want to get better, they listen to
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  Speaker 1: what I'm saying, and hopefully by getting better, they'll see
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  Speaker 1: the value of what we're doing here at this academy.
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  Speaker 1: So that's the story, and it's a story really about
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  Speaker 1: a father and son and how his son again rekindled
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  Speaker 1: this kind of dormant passion that Movaughn had for baseball.
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  Speaker 1: It was a passion that never left him, but in
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  Speaker 1: his game, the sport broke his heart, never left his soul,
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  Speaker 1: but broke his heart and his son, Lee, who is
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  Speaker 1: much unlike Moe at least right now. In his bill,
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  Speaker 1: he's a tall, lanky kid, five five, one hundred and
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  Speaker 1: fifteen pounds. He thanks his son frequently for bringing him
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  Speaker 1: back into the game, and Lee in turn says yeah.
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  Speaker 1: He tells me, I'm the reason he is again coaching
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  Speaker 1: renew Mo as the hit dog when he was playing.
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  Speaker 1: And the story, the last line, I just put it
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  Speaker 1: like this, the hit Dog is home. Dodgers manager Dave
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  Speaker 1: Roberts joins Alano Rizzo and Clympesius for a Dodger's Territory
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  Speaker 1: special tonight at eight pm Eastern. Roberts reflects on his
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  Speaker 1: key decisions during last year's championship run. Joined the conversation
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  Speaker 1: tonight at eight pm Eastern on the Dodgers Territory YouTube channel.
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  Speaker 1: This should be really great. Smash that subscribe button to
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  Speaker 1: the entire Foul Territory Network. Time now for Grill and Ken,
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  Speaker 1: the part of the show where you guys get to
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  Speaker 1: ask me questions. Let's kick it off. First question comes
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  Speaker 1: from Dave Toles, who asks, with all the Yankees' injury concerns,
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  Speaker 1: do you see the Red Sox having a path to
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  Speaker 1: the division? Not just the Yankees, the Orioles concerns too
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  Speaker 1: are quite prominent. So yes, I do see the Red
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  Speaker 1: Sox having a path to the division. What I've heard
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  Speaker 1: in recent days from a number of people is the
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  Speaker 1: Red Sox are kind of not a boom or bus team,
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  Speaker 1: but a team with outcomes that could go either way.
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  Speaker 1: They could be really good, or they could be a
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  Speaker 1: team that kind of is where they've been the last
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  Speaker 1: few years. Not really in contention, I expect them to
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  Speaker 1: be good. Now it's all going to revolve around how
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  Speaker 1: their starting pitching performs, how Gary Crochet is playing with
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  Speaker 1: a team that has expectations, how Walker Buehler is is
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  Speaker 1: and is really first full season since coming off the
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  Speaker 1: injuries that he's had, How Brian Beao returns from what
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  Speaker 1: he's dealing with right now. All of these things come
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  Speaker 1: into play, as well as the bullpen. Of course, what
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  Speaker 1: I like is their position player group, especially with the
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  Speaker 1: young kids coming now. I don't know whether Roman Anthony,
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  Speaker 1: Christian Campbell or Marcello Meyer will make a big impact
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  Speaker 1: this season, or any impact for that matter, but there's
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  Speaker 1: certainly a chance of it happening. And there's that possibility
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  Speaker 1: that they're going to get an injection of these players
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  Speaker 1: to assist what they already have. And they already have
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  Speaker 1: a pretty interesting position player group, of course, reinforced by
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  Speaker 1: Alex Bregman. So my feeling is the Red Sox are
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  Speaker 1: going to be in the wildcard race at the very least,
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  Speaker 1: and now with the injuries to the Yankees and Orioles,
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  Speaker 1: the division might open up for them as well. Next
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  Speaker 1: question comes from East Coast Jays. I know where he's going.
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  Speaker 1: Which manager's front offices have the shortest leashes if the
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  Speaker 1: season gets off to a bad start. East Coach Jays.
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  Speaker 1: We've seen in recent years teams are reluctant to make
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  Speaker 1: moves with their managers and certainly their gms in the
• 17:07
  Speaker 1: middle of a season. It's pretty rare, but there are
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  Speaker 1: some situations that are worth looking at, and certainly situations
• 17:14
  Speaker 1: that by the end of the year could result in changes.
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  Speaker 1: The Blue Jays are one of these teams, not so
• 17:20
  Speaker 1: much the manager but the front office. We've talked about
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  Speaker 1: this quite a bit. Mark Shapiro their team president, final
• 17:26
  Speaker 1: years contract. General manager Ross Atkins two years left on
• 17:29
  Speaker 1: his contract. They have kind of gone all in this season.
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  Speaker 1: They did not trade Vlatguerrero Junior, they did not trade Bobushet.
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  Speaker 1: They're still playing it as if they're going all in
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: and trying to win. I commend that. But what happens
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: after this year that's been the question, and at some
• 17:47
  Speaker 1: point their failure to sign Vladimir Guerrero Junior, if they
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: do not get this done, is going to be something
• 17:52
  Speaker 1: that maybe ownership looks at it and says it's the
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: kid who grew up in Canada who says he wants
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  Speaker 1: to stay with the Jays and we couldn't get it done.
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  Speaker 1: What happened. So those two guys are yes, definitely under
• 18:03
  Speaker 1: the microscope. I'm not sure how much the Rogers ownership
• 18:07
  Speaker 1: is paying that close attention to the Jays and all
• 18:09
  Speaker 1: that's going on, but obviously they need to win. I
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: would say they need to win this year at the
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  Speaker 1: very least for the current management team to remain in place.
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  Speaker 1: Other situations at Bear Watching, I would say Pittsburgh for
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: Ben Sherrington, the GM and for Derek Shelton, the manager.
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  Speaker 1: This is their sixth year now. The Pirates problems, I
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: would argue, begin and maybe even end with their owner
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  Speaker 1: Bob Nutting, and Sherrington and Shelton can only do and
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: only operate with the material that they have. At the
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: same time, it's year six, they've got this amazing starting rotation.
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  Speaker 1: Potentially with Paul Skeen's and Bubba Chandler coming on this
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  Speaker 1: year to join Jared Jones and Mitch Keller, They've got
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  Speaker 1: a chance to be pretty good or at least good
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  Speaker 1: on the mound. We'll see if it translates into a
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: competitive contending type team in that division. All so, the
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: NL Central Oli Marble Saint Louis Cardinals. Ali Marble is
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  Speaker 1: back and he's under John Mozelac, the president of Baseball Operations,
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  Speaker 1: who is only employed for one more season in that role.
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  Speaker 1: Heim Bloom takes over next year, So that alone could
• 19:16
  Speaker 1: lead to a change. Usually a new GM likes to
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: bring in a new manager, and then you have two
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: prominent ex Cardinals, likely Hall of famers, who both want
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: to manage. Albert Pools is one, Yadi Molina is another.
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: This is definitely a situation that Bear's watching. And I'll
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: throw one more name out there, just because this team
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: was disappointing last year. They were disappointing mainly because of injuries.
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: But rock all Baldelli, I would expect the Twins need
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: to have a good year this year for him to
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: be totally secure. I'm not saying he's on the hot
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: seat or anything like that, but if they go south again,
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: then there might be some tough questions asked. All right,
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: final question, this one comes from Gilbert Pins who asks,
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: is it they'll cease trade more likely now since the
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: pitching injuries have increased around the league. It's a really
• 20:05
  Speaker 1: good question because certainly the demand is higher and I
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: wrote about with Patrick Mooney on Sunday how this could
• 20:12
  Speaker 1: affect trade talks and certainly could affect free agent pitchers
• 20:16
  Speaker 1: such as Lance Lynn and Kyle Gibson, who might have
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: a bit more leverage now with seats. It's been my
• 20:22
  Speaker 1: impression from the beginning and the way he has operated
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: all off season that padres gmaj Preller wants to keep
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: this team as strong as possible. He doesn't want to
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: trade anybody, and he really hasn't traded anybody for all
• 20:35
  Speaker 1: the talk. Instead, he's added edit Nick Pavetta and Jason
• 20:39
  Speaker 1: Hayward and some other players as well. Nothing major in
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: terms of salary for this year, even Paveta. But he
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: is trying to build the strongest team possible. So, while yes,
• 20:50
  Speaker 1: the demand for seats seemingly could be higher, should be
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: higher given all the injuries, I don't necessarily expect a
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: trade to happen. I will say this, aj Preller is
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: one GM who will make trades in March. He will
• 21:03
  Speaker 1: make trades in April, in May, every calendar month that
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: you can think of, he will make a trade at
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: that time. He's not afraid to do it, he doesn't care.
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: He's not restricted by the calendar, So from that perspective,
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: sure it's possible, but I don't see it happening. Thanks
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: everyone for your questions, Thanks everyone for watching, for listening.
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• 21:27
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• 21:30
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