Speaker 1: Brewers are not close to extending Miserwski at all. I
Speaker 1: would imagine they would love to do so, but that
Speaker 1: price tag is going to only continue to go up
Speaker 1: and up and up and up.
Speaker 2: Fan sided inside of Robert Murray is back with us.
Speaker 2: It is his season to shine. Robert, good to see you, man.
Speaker 2: And we did have a little trade right after the
Speaker 2: All Star Game that you reported on.
Speaker 1: What do you have for us? Yeah? That one, well,
Speaker 1: first of all, it's going to be back with you boys.
Speaker 1: That one was not on my radar whatsoever. I was
Speaker 1: actually on the train in Atlanta flying home to Scottsdale
Speaker 1: when I found out that trade was happening. So there
Speaker 1: I was with my AirPods on trying to confirm the trade.
Speaker 1: After about fifteen minutes, I got the trade. I was
Speaker 1: able to tweet it out before I hopped in the plane,
Speaker 1: so that was good. But it starts what should be
Speaker 1: a pretty active trade season here. For the Pittsburgh Pirates,
Speaker 1: moving Adam Fraser early on was something it wasn't necessarily
Speaker 1: a priority for them, but when the Royals ended up
Speaker 1: coming to them looking for Fraser, that was a deal in.
Speaker 1: Getting Cam in return was something that they thought was
Speaker 1: a really good return internally. And Fraser returns to the
Speaker 1: Royals now after a stint there, and it's not necessarily
Speaker 1: like the biggest name by any means. He struggled in
Speaker 1: Kansas City when he was there, but he was hitting
Speaker 1: around two fifty five with Pittsburgh, had performed really well
Speaker 1: for them recently especially, and he can also play in
Speaker 1: the infield and the outfield, so it's cheap versatility on
Speaker 1: defense for the Royals. Maybe some added depth there as well,
Speaker 1: So I don't have any issues with it, but it
Speaker 1: marks the beginning of what should be a very active
Speaker 1: traits he's in here for the Pirates.
Speaker 3: Can we also get Fraser back to Baltimore maybe and
Speaker 3: then Padres so he can just keep going back to
Speaker 3: the same teams over and over and over again. I mean,
Speaker 3: it's crazy, right, he started his career in Pittsburgh, went
Speaker 3: to Kansas City. Now he's back. He goes to Pittsburgh,
Speaker 3: they take him back to Kansas City. I guess the
Speaker 3: Pirates and the Royals really love Adam. Fraser's a great dude.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's a really good dude. I've had the chance
Speaker 1: to talk to him a couple of times. He's been
Speaker 1: always very nice to me, but hey, who knows, maybe
Speaker 1: Aj Preller or Michael As can end up making that happen,
Speaker 1: although from from everything that I gather, the Royals kind
Speaker 1: of want to hold on to him for now and
Speaker 1: and maybe even signals that the Royals are going to
Speaker 1: be buying. I know there's been a lot of questions
Speaker 1: about whether or not they could end up selling or buying,
Speaker 1: and I mean, getting Frasier that's not necessarily like a
Speaker 1: big move that's going to dictate that they're gonna end
Speaker 1: up buying just in the next couple of weeks, but
Speaker 1: it's signals that they want to win and that they
Speaker 1: intend to compete at least, so maybe it could have
Speaker 1: some implication for the future of Seth Lugo and some
Speaker 1: of those other guys on that roster there that have
Speaker 1: been mentioned in trade rumors. But the next two weeks
Speaker 1: are going to be very telling for Kansas City. But
Speaker 1: getting Fraser was something that they liked and that they
Speaker 1: wanted to do. He was a guy that's very respected
Speaker 1: in that clubhouse and now he's in Kansas City once again.
Speaker 4: Pick pick from the teams that are kind of in
Speaker 4: that Kansas City Royals on down realm where it's like, Okay,
Speaker 4: maybe you're not like in it, but you still have
Speaker 4: a core of players that you've paid and you're looking
Speaker 4: to win in the next two or three years. That
Speaker 4: would be the most active in adding for this year.
Speaker 4: That would then bolster their team for next year before
Speaker 4: we get to any of the oh, who's going to
Speaker 4: go for the one one year rental guys.
Speaker 1: It's a it's a really good question by you, and
Speaker 1: I have teams in that tier, but I don't know
Speaker 1: if they're necessarily going to end up buying. And I
Speaker 1: look at the Minnesota Twins. First of all, they obviously
Speaker 1: have a nice core there with Carlos Corea, Byron Buxton
Speaker 1: and some of these pitches that they have, and they're
Speaker 1: gonna get Pablo Lopez back before too long, and they
Speaker 1: have a core that they really like. And as of
Speaker 1: this point right now, they have not had any had
Speaker 1: any conversations about selling, and there's been plenty of Joe
Speaker 1: Ryan trade rumors that have been mentioned and they have
Speaker 1: not had a single conversation about him as of this point.
Speaker 1: That does not mean that they're they're going to buy,
Speaker 1: or that doesn't mean that they're going to sell at
Speaker 1: this point. They intend to compete or try to compete
Speaker 1: for this season, but the next two weeks are going
Speaker 1: to determine a lot. And we can say that about
Speaker 1: so many other teams as well. And Cooper is trying
Speaker 1: to say hi here as well. My Golden Retriever Puppies
Speaker 1: is by my lap as we speak. So if we
Speaker 1: get a Cooper appearance, that could be could be a thing.
Speaker 1: But the other team that I'm I think everyone in
Speaker 1: baseball is watching at this point and they could really
Speaker 1: end up dictating the deadline is the Arizona Diamondbacks. And
Speaker 1: they have pitching, they have hitting, they have bullpen pieces.
Speaker 1: Although that being said, they got a lot of different
Speaker 1: injuries on that team. But they are a team that
Speaker 1: I don't think is going to do like a hard
Speaker 1: sell by any means. But if they do sell, they
Speaker 1: have some of the most intriguing pieces in the market
Speaker 1: and that could just single handily change the deadline if
Speaker 1: they end up selling.
Speaker 4: All right, you talked about the Braves. Adamantly, they are
Speaker 4: not trading anybody from this from this group of you know,
Speaker 4: guys who are signed past twenty twenty five, But fans
Speaker 4: are adamant that this team hasn't done very well in
Speaker 4: the last year and a half two years. This as
Speaker 4: far as this lineup, could that be a team that
Speaker 4: bolsters next year in the following years because they love
Speaker 4: all their extensions. With getting rid of an Albi's, with
Speaker 4: getting rid of a Sean Murphy.
Speaker 1: I would say they're not going to be trading any
Speaker 1: of those guys at this deadline. I will I will
Speaker 1: stake my claim on that one. I have that very
Speaker 1: good authority that the Braves are not going to trade
Speaker 1: anybody at this deadline that has control beyond this, beyond
Speaker 1: this season. So Sean Murphy, Ronald Acuna Junior, I mean,
Speaker 1: there's so many other guys on that roster that are
Speaker 1: that are controllable. They are not going to be moved.
Speaker 1: And I was watching you guys before I end up
Speaker 1: coming on and I totally agree, like Sean Murphy would
Speaker 1: be a great fit for the San Diego Podres and
Speaker 1: and there's not any real options that catcher on the market.
Speaker 1: I thought maybe Gary Sanchez could be a fit for them,
Speaker 1: but he's he's on an extended period of time, and
Speaker 1: my mind crept to Sean Murphy and the Braves are
Speaker 1: just pretty They're not just pretty adamant, They're extremely adamant
Speaker 1: that players of Murphy's caliber who are controlled beyond the
Speaker 1: season are not going anywhere. But we can look at
Speaker 1: for the rest of their team that is going to
Speaker 1: be talked about. You have Marcelo Zun, you have Rysel Iglesias,
Speaker 1: you have some other guys who are on expiring contracts.
Speaker 1: And the thing with Azuna is like he's going to
Speaker 1: get plenty of interests because there's not any There's not
Speaker 1: that many great hitters out in the market. He's he's
Speaker 1: a power eating guy. You can change a lineup with
Speaker 1: just his presence as a DH. But he has ten
Speaker 1: and five rights, which allows him the opportunity to veto
Speaker 1: any trade, and and he's got options that he will consider.
Speaker 1: For sure that he would ultimately consider waving his no
Speaker 1: trade clause or his ten and five rights, but it's
Speaker 1: I don't think it's going to be open to every
Speaker 1: team in the league, so he'll be selective, but he'll
Speaker 1: get plenty of interest.
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Speaker 3: Robert, I just want to know why with the Braves,
Speaker 3: Why wouldn't the Braves think about trading somebody to get
Speaker 3: controllable pitcher, controllable relievers, or a different bat just to
Speaker 3: mix things up, because this has not worked now for
Speaker 3: two years. Yes, they made the playoffs. Last year, they
Speaker 3: got swept out. This year has kind of been a disaster.
Speaker 3: You can blame the injuries or whatever, but they haven't
Speaker 3: hit the way that everyone expected them to hit.
Speaker 4: Now.
Speaker 3: Is it fair because two years ago in twenty three,
Speaker 3: they were so great and everyone just expected them to
Speaker 3: keep being that great or I just don't understand why
Speaker 3: they wouldn't try to maybe trade one of their guys
Speaker 3: that yes isn't on an expiring contract and get someone
Speaker 3: different in there, just to break it up a little bit.
Speaker 1: No, I totally hear you their aja, and it's something
Speaker 1: I've thought about too, and I think it's something that
Speaker 1: they should consider. But internally, they they view this team,
Speaker 1: especially their core that they have, like the pitching staff
Speaker 1: is in a good place. They're hitting is there's there's
Speaker 1: some question marks there, and they've dealt with a lot
Speaker 1: of injuries this season, and they believe that once they
Speaker 1: can get healthy and they have the court to do
Speaker 1: so in order to compete next year, so they're not
Speaker 1: going to do anything that kind of deteriorates their chances
Speaker 1: of winning next year. They really they think that this
Speaker 1: roster can compete. But that being said, I would expect
Speaker 1: them to try to be pretty aggressive next offseason and
Speaker 1: trying to fill some of those holes, and it's adding
Speaker 1: to the offense or adding some bullpen pieces, because you
Speaker 1: don't know what that bullpen is going to look like
Speaker 1: next year, even in two weeks with the deadline coming up,
Speaker 1: so I'd expect a soft sell by the Braves, and
Speaker 1: I again I agree with you. I think they absolutely
Speaker 1: should consider something bigger, but as of this point, I
Speaker 1: don't see that coming and I would be really surprised
Speaker 1: if that ended up changing.
Speaker 4: We talk about value. Ryan O'Hearn just finished the All
Speaker 4: Star Game and obviously he could be somebody that could
Speaker 4: be traded, most likely will be traded. His value though
Speaker 4: he has one hundred and I just looked it up,
Speaker 4: one hundred and forty at bats against lefties in the
Speaker 4: last four years. He's a essentially going to hit only
Speaker 4: right handed pitching. Or is there a team out there
Speaker 4: that could say, you know what, we like what you
Speaker 4: can do, We're Okay, giving you that shot, and give
Speaker 4: them a shot to face lefties and righties and find
Speaker 4: extra value for maybe just trading for a platoon guy.
Speaker 1: No, that's a really good point by you, and we
Speaker 1: could absolutely see some teams doing that because there's we've
Speaker 1: talked about how many teams need pitching, but there are
Speaker 1: a lot of teams, especially that are in contention, who
Speaker 1: need offense. And you can look at the Milwaukee Brewers.
Speaker 1: Maybe they can put him at first base, although we
Speaker 1: don't know what res Hoskins situation looks like there. Maybe
Speaker 1: they could put him in the outfield. The Houston Astros,
Speaker 1: to me, are a team that makes plenty of sense
Speaker 1: here as well, and they could put him in the
Speaker 1: outfield as well. Even the Boston Red Sox like they
Speaker 1: need a first baseman, and if they can end up
Speaker 1: adding O'Hearn, I don't know if the Oorls would do
Speaker 1: an indivision trade like that. All of that being said,
Speaker 1: they just traded Brian Baker to the Tampa Bay so
Speaker 1: clearly they're going to be at least open to the idea.
Speaker 1: But that was just a very good return and good
Speaker 1: value for them to really pass up. But it's a
Speaker 1: good point by you. Any team that acquires him is
Speaker 1: obviously gonna have to pay a very hefty price considering
Speaker 1: just how few sellers there actually are. And if you're
Speaker 1: getting to paying that price, you would expect that guy
Speaker 1: to not just be hitting against right handed pitching. You
Speaker 1: would expect him to be hitting against right handers and
Speaker 1: left handers and trying to provide the most value that
Speaker 1: he possibly can, especially compostseason time. Because that's why all
Speaker 1: these contending teams go out and get these guys, is
Speaker 1: they want to get the most value in return, but
Speaker 1: they also want to have the best chance of winning
Speaker 1: a World Series and getting more at bast for a
Speaker 1: gully Ronaldhearn. Honestly, it can only be can only be
Speaker 1: a good thing for any team. All Right.
Speaker 3: You mentioned the Brewers, and we saw Jacob Mazarowski pitch
Speaker 3: in the All Star Game. Controversial pick, not the kid's fault,
Speaker 3: but it's an exhibition game, so why not?
Speaker 4: Right?
Speaker 3: But will they extend him or are the Brewers scared
Speaker 3: because of some of the other guys that are gotten
Speaker 3: hurt on extending him.
Speaker 1: I think the Brewers would absolutely love to extend Jacob Mizowski.
Speaker 1: I mean, you look at him, and I mean, he's
Speaker 1: he's like six seven, he's he's a string beat he's
Speaker 1: I mean, you wouldn't expect this guy to be able
Speaker 1: to throw one hundred and two miles an hour, but
Speaker 1: yet he does. He does it pretty effortlessly, and he
Speaker 1: has been just the talk of baseball. And obviously his
Speaker 1: pick to be in the All Star Game was controversial.
Speaker 1: Not everyone agreed about it, and even saw the Philadelphia
Speaker 1: Phillies players really just speak out about it. But that
Speaker 1: being said, despite some reports, there have been very very
Speaker 1: very brief conversations. I don't even know if I call
Speaker 1: it a conversation, and no offer has been made at
Speaker 1: this point. So the Brewers are not close to extending
Speaker 1: Misrowski at all. I would imagine they would love to
Speaker 1: do so, but that price tag is going to only
Speaker 1: continue to go up and up and up and up.
Speaker 1: And we've seen the Brewers do early extensions before with
Speaker 1: Freddie Peralta. We've seen him do it with some other
Speaker 1: players as well. But that is going to be a guy.
Speaker 1: His value is going to be just so high that
Speaker 1: it could be tough for them to extend him. But
Speaker 1: I don't want to get ahead of it. I want
Speaker 1: the Brewers fans and the Brewers organization to enjoy just
Speaker 1: like that a player that they have, because he's just
Speaker 1: a superstar in every bit of the imagination, and he should,
Speaker 1: honestly only continue to get better.
Speaker 2: All Right, Robert, I'm going to bring in one or
Speaker 2: two fan questions here as we've been chatting. Actually, this
Speaker 2: one brought up by a couple of fans in the
Speaker 2: chat related to our conversation earlier. Any center fielders that
Speaker 2: were missing that you think could be available and impactful
Speaker 2: for contenders besides Cedric Mullins and Luis Robert.
Speaker 1: Honestly, those are the only two that I've really heard
Speaker 1: the most about from rival executives. And Mullins obviously he's
Speaker 1: had the better production. He's a guy who obviously he
Speaker 1: would love to stay with Baltimore, but as Ken Rosenthal
Speaker 1: wrote earlier in the season, there had just been no
Speaker 1: discussions there whatsoever, and considering his contract status, I would
Speaker 1: expect him to get moved. But Luis Robert Junior is
Speaker 1: the one on that I just can't I can't get
Speaker 1: a good feel on that one. It's the last year
Speaker 1: the White Sox were adamant that they're ready to hold
Speaker 1: on to him to try to extract the best value
Speaker 1: and hope that he would end up bouncing back. But
Speaker 1: it has not been the case. At always battled some
Speaker 1: different injuries this year, and if you trade him now,
Speaker 1: you're not going to get much at all in return,
Speaker 1: So it'd be the definition of selling low. I think
Speaker 1: there's a fair chance that he is ultimately moved. But
Speaker 1: as far as centerfielders go, I'm sorry to disappoint, but
Speaker 1: those are the only two names that I've heard. That
Speaker 1: doesn't mean that there are only two being talked about.
Speaker 1: I want to make that clear, but those are the
Speaker 1: two most prominent ones for sure.
Speaker 2: I've actually got one other that I just came up
Speaker 2: with who can play center fields.
Speaker 1: Harrison Vader is.
Speaker 2: Actually having I think the best offensive season he's had
Speaker 2: in a long time. Looking at ops plus, at least
Speaker 2: he is above average, and usually for several years he's
Speaker 2: been below that mark. Is that one oh nine he's
Speaker 2: seen a little extra thump from him. He's got eleven
Speaker 2: homers in the first half, his career high sixteen last
Speaker 2: year at twelve. A year before that or many years
Speaker 2: before that, was more in the single digits. So that
Speaker 2: could be a valuable center fielder for a team if
Speaker 2: that bad stays the way it is and the Twins
Speaker 2: decide to sell. So I'll throw that one out there
Speaker 2: if that's cool with you.
Speaker 1: No, I think that's totally cool. That's a good shot
Speaker 1: by you. I like the name, and he's also really
Speaker 1: good defensively as well. Obviously it's been a calling card
Speaker 1: for Ages and you know how much these teams, especially
Speaker 1: the analytic heavy teams, love guys who can just play
Speaker 1: an elite defense, and he's the definition of that in
Speaker 1: the fact that he stayed healthy. It's not something he's
Speaker 1: been able to do for the early part of his career.
Speaker 1: So I think that's a worthy name of the Twins.
Speaker 1: Dude decided to sell one.
Speaker 2: More fan question and then we'll have Aja finish up
Speaker 2: with his Eric wants to know what you think the
Speaker 2: Angels will do or they're going to ride this out
Speaker 2: for the next couple weeks and see what happens. He said,
Speaker 2: should they listen to opers for Kikuchi in addition to
Speaker 2: players like Taylor Ward since there aren't too many quality
Speaker 2: pitchers on the market and obviously some of these guys
Speaker 2: are getting close to free agent status for them. Nakikuci
Speaker 2: I think he signed up for three years. Tyler Anderson
Speaker 2: I think is the free agent after this year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like this is an easy call for
Speaker 1: the Angels that they should sell. But with Arti Marino,
Speaker 1: you just never really know what they're going to do,
Speaker 1: and it's it's probably the most difficult team in baseball
Speaker 1: to try to pinpoint. But to me, it should be
Speaker 1: clear that they that they should sell. But my guess
Speaker 1: is they're going to wait this out for at least
Speaker 1: the next ten ish days to try to figure out
Speaker 1: if they if they actually should buy they want to,
Speaker 1: because we've seen them do it in years past where
Speaker 1: they end up getting Lucas gi Lito, Ronaldo Lopez and
Speaker 1: some other players and all just gave them up about
Speaker 1: two weeks after they ended up acquiring them on waivers
Speaker 1: for nothing. So it's an organization that's extremely difficult to pinpoint.
Speaker 1: But my guess is they come to their senses they sell.
Speaker 1: But I am hardly confident in that answer just because
Speaker 1: of Arti Morino's presence, because he honestly it can depend
Speaker 1: on how he wakes up a certain morning for that
Speaker 1: could end up deciding that direction that they go at
Speaker 1: the deadline. That's they are that unpredictable.
Speaker 3: GOT love that if you're an Angels fan, all right,
Speaker 3: I got I'm gonna ask you a strange question and
Speaker 3: crowds and Scott are gonna be like, what are you
Speaker 3: talking about? Foster Griffin is over in Japan. He's absolutely dominating.
Speaker 3: I know Foster because he pitched at First Academy where
Speaker 3: my son just graduated from. So I've heard about him
Speaker 3: for a long time. Struggled when he came over to
Speaker 3: the big leagues. When he was in the big leagues
Speaker 3: here got hurt went over to the Japan. Is this
Speaker 3: someone we could see come over next year and have
Speaker 3: one of those impacts that some of the guys that
Speaker 3: have gone overseas and came back over have had in
Speaker 3: the past.
Speaker 1: AJ you read my column. I appreciate you. You. I've
Speaker 1: always have always loved you. That's my guy right there.
Speaker 1: He is. He is somebody who is on the radar
Speaker 1: of teams for sure. He's pitched very well over in Japan.
Speaker 1: He's got an dra below one. He's tweaked some different
Speaker 1: things with his arsenal. I'm not ultimately familiar exactly what
Speaker 1: he's all done, but he is someone who has really
Speaker 1: turning things around. And I had I'm not kidding when
Speaker 1: I say this. I've had three different people around baseball
Speaker 1: reach out to me and ask me for a different
Speaker 1: intel on him and just say that he's on their radar.
Speaker 1: And I even had one of those people say he's
Speaker 1: the most under the radar guy entering the offseason. So well,
Speaker 1: I think we'll be hearing about his name plenty. And yeah,
Speaker 1: he's definitely named the Keep in the back of your
Speaker 1: mind for sure, Robert.
Speaker 2: Great to talk to you. Trade season is on, Let's
Speaker 2: get it going and we'll talk to you maybe next week,
Speaker 2: if not the week after.
Speaker 1: Man, stay fresh. I'm trying my best over here. I
Speaker 1: appreciate you boys, and I'll talk to you soon