WEBVTT - D-backs Trade Deadline Countdown: Will Hazen Actually Make a Move? 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:12.639 Hello, and welcome to another episode of Snake's Territory, part 0:00:12.680 --> 0:00:15.320 of the Foul Territory Network. Be sure to like this video, 0:00:15.400 --> 0:00:18.560 subscribe to our YouTube channel, maybe leave us a five 0:00:18.640 --> 0:00:21.680 star review wherever you get your podcast. I am Jesse 0:00:21.800 --> 0:00:27.880 Friedman alongside Jack Summers and Jack. The trade deadline is 0:00:27.920 --> 0:00:31.040 now less than twenty four hours away. I think it's 0:00:31.040 --> 0:00:34.560 about nineteen hours fifty nine minutes, give or take, as 0:00:34.600 --> 0:00:38.319 we get This show started on Sunday evening. Nothing has 0:00:38.360 --> 0:00:41.280 happened as of yet for the Diamondbacks, Jack, and Frankly 0:00:41.360 --> 0:00:44.360 around the league, not a whole lot has happened either. 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:46.760 It feels like it's going to be a really busy 0:00:46.920 --> 0:00:48.120 rush to the finish line. 0:00:48.880 --> 0:00:51.440 Well, I mean, actions definitely started picking up today. I 0:00:51.520 --> 0:00:53.720 actually had somebody text me, I don't know if this 0:00:53.880 --> 0:00:56.960 is true, said fun fact, only Reds, Marlins and d 0:00:57.040 --> 0:01:00.280 Becks have yet to make a move. Is that true? 0:01:00.080 --> 0:01:01.000 It could be. 0:01:02.560 --> 0:01:05.800 I don't mean moves and a few big ones that 0:01:05.920 --> 0:01:08.880 came through tonight, obviously after the Trek School deal. 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:10.720 So I'm starting Pitcher moves. 0:01:11.600 --> 0:01:14.600 Padres haven't done anything yet, right, I think there's I 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:18.479 think there's other teams on that list as well, but yeah, 0:01:18.560 --> 0:01:22.640 the Diamondbacks are certainly one of them. And granted this 0:01:22.760 --> 0:01:25.960 is it's really hard to predict when these moves are 0:01:26.000 --> 0:01:29.119 going to happen. Like, just because the Diamondbacks haven't done 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:31.880 anything now, I don't think at all means that this 0:01:32.000 --> 0:01:34.760 is going to be a disappointing trade deadline for them. 0:01:35.120 --> 0:01:37.400 At the same time, we have seen a few names 0:01:37.600 --> 0:01:40.440 that we've talked about on the show come off the board, 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:44.040 and I guess we'll start our conversation there. Earlier today, 0:01:44.440 --> 0:01:47.960 the New York Yankees acquired Luis Garcia Junior from the 0:01:48.080 --> 0:01:52.800 Washington Nationals in exchange for four pitching prospects. Garcia, of course, 0:01:53.040 --> 0:01:57.880 a really good left handed hitter, place first base roster wise, 0:01:58.040 --> 0:02:00.760 made a whole lot of sense for the Diamondbacks. There 0:02:00.920 --> 0:02:04.480 was reporting that said the Diamondbacks were interested. It's not 0:02:04.600 --> 0:02:07.080 like they didn't have any interest at all in pulling 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:11.000 this off. But ultimately, I guess the Nationals chose the 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:13.520 Yankees pitching prospects over the Diamondbacks. 0:02:14.200 --> 0:02:16.320 Yeah, I mean, they got four pitchers. One of them 0:02:16.400 --> 0:02:20.040 was Bird He's thirty years old. But I think that 0:02:20.639 --> 0:02:24.240 at this point, you know, the Dbacks pitching development isn't 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:27.000 held in high regard in the industry. That's a fairly 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:28.000 universal thought. 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:31.640 So it's not surprising that an organization like the Yankees, 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:35.079 who just keep churning out some pretty good pitchers their 0:02:35.120 --> 0:02:37.760 prospects would be held in higher esteem by a team 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:40.680 like the Nationals. You know, I think that the price 0:02:40.720 --> 0:02:44.360 tag for Garcia because of the year of control in 0:02:44.400 --> 0:02:47.240 twenty twenty seven, if they play that year and if 0:02:47.240 --> 0:02:50.440 the you know where his free agency lands. 0:02:50.520 --> 0:02:52.200 Is he going to be a free agent in twenty eight. 0:02:52.400 --> 0:02:56.000 We'll talk about all that a little later, but I 0:02:56.040 --> 0:02:59.200 think that that year of control probably would have made the. 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:02.320 Price tag quite stiff for the Diamondbacks. You know, what 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:04.840 little pitching they have at the top end of their 0:03:05.320 --> 0:03:07.919 organization probably would have had to cough up for him. 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:11.360 So that's my guest there, but hard to say. You know, 0:03:11.520 --> 0:03:13.480 we don't even know if they ever help deep they 0:03:13.520 --> 0:03:16.320 got into the conversation. Bottom line, he's off the board. 0:03:17.680 --> 0:03:20.920 We've seen some starting pitchers go off the board as well. 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:24.280 Tyler Mallley just going to the Atlanta Braves here. In 0:03:24.320 --> 0:03:27.600 the last hour or so, we saw Kevin Gosman go 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:32.040 to the Chicago Cubs earlier today as well, Freddie Peralta 0:03:32.440 --> 0:03:35.680 goes to the Tampa Bay Rays. I don't think this 0:03:36.080 --> 0:03:37.800 means the d Backs are not going to get a 0:03:37.800 --> 0:03:40.840 starting pitcher. Jack. In fact, I still I still do 0:03:41.080 --> 0:03:43.240 kind of think that's going to happen. There's still a 0:03:43.320 --> 0:03:46.680 number of starting pitchers on the market, including rental starters. 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:49.200 Brady Singer of the Reds is still out there, Foster 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:52.680 Griffin of the Nats, Robbie Ray of the Giants, Shane 0:03:52.680 --> 0:03:55.840 Bieber with the Blue Jays, Dustin May of the Cardinals 0:03:55.960 --> 0:03:59.840 is still out there. And a name that is particularly 0:03:59.840 --> 0:04:04.600 interesting from the Diamondbacks perspective is Casey Mice of the 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:07.520 Detroit Tigers, a name that they've been linked to in 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:11.040 the past couple of days. Gambo came out on his 0:04:11.240 --> 0:04:14.760 radio show the other day and said this. He said, 0:04:14.880 --> 0:04:17.640 keep your eye on Casey Mice. I think that's a 0:04:17.680 --> 0:04:20.520 player that they like. Speaking of the Diamondbacks, keep your 0:04:20.600 --> 0:04:24.359 eye on Casey Mize. And we've been around the Arizona 0:04:24.400 --> 0:04:26.919 sports scene long enough Jack to know that when Gambo 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:31.599 says something like that, it probably means that the Diamondbacks 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:34.920 are you making some sort of progress. Or at least 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:36.640 that's a name that they feel like they have a 0:04:36.720 --> 0:04:39.880 legitimate shot of landing by three pm tomorrow. 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:45.000 Yeah, I mean, Gambo would make that up right, you know, 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:47.680 obviously somebody dropped that name to him, whether or not 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:50.520 that's actually who they are willing to go all in 0:04:50.560 --> 0:04:52.359 for or whether they're going to have the package. So 0:04:52.480 --> 0:04:54.599 he's not saying that they're definitely going to get them, 0:04:55.040 --> 0:04:56.599 but he's saying, keep an eye on this guy. It's 0:04:56.680 --> 0:04:59.520 clearly a name that they have interested in. And we 0:04:59.640 --> 0:05:03.960 know all so of course that the Dbacks scouted Clay Holmes, 0:05:03.960 --> 0:05:06.120 so you know, those are the two guys that I'm 0:05:06.200 --> 0:05:09.599 mostly paying attention to. You know, they both kind of 0:05:09.600 --> 0:05:13.880 fit in financially. We've talked about before with Robbie Ray. 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:16.120 I mean, even if you're just taking on thirty percent 0:05:16.200 --> 0:05:19.280 of his payroll, of his salary, that's going to eat 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:23.200 up basically all of the available payroll that you can 0:05:23.240 --> 0:05:26.320 absorb before you go over the luxury tax, which the 0:05:26.360 --> 0:05:30.120 Diamondbacks are adamant they will not do. So I don't 0:05:30.160 --> 0:05:33.479 really think Robbie Ray is a realistic option there to consider, 0:05:34.240 --> 0:05:36.680 unless the Giants were to eat a portion of that, 0:05:37.080 --> 0:05:41.080 and again, if you're gonna get the Giants to eat 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:42.480 a portion of that, what do you have to give 0:05:42.560 --> 0:05:45.560 up in terms of prospects to a division rival. So 0:05:45.680 --> 0:05:47.120 I just don't think the match is there. 0:05:49.160 --> 0:05:53.039 Yeah, it seems like, especially with the luxury tax situation, 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:55.520 the Diamondbacks, they're right, they're not going to take on 0:05:55.600 --> 0:05:58.960 more than about sixty seven million dollars for the remainder 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:02.200 of the season. It is prorated, So you're talking about 0:06:02.279 --> 0:06:04.640 just what is on the books for the remainder of 0:06:04.640 --> 0:06:06.280 the year for these guys. We only have about a 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:09.600 third of the season to go. But if a team 0:06:09.680 --> 0:06:12.160 like the Giants were to cover a couple million dollars 0:06:12.160 --> 0:06:15.480 of Robbie Ray's salary, that doesn't help the Diamondbacks from 0:06:15.520 --> 0:06:19.599 a luxury tax perspective. So it is important to keep 0:06:19.600 --> 0:06:21.839 that in mind. Probably going to make it difficult for 0:06:21.880 --> 0:06:24.880 the d Backs to acquire anyone here in the next 0:06:25.320 --> 0:06:29.280 nineteen hours and fifty three minutes that is making, you know, 0:06:29.680 --> 0:06:32.280 any kind of meaningful money. It's just going to be 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:35.640 tricky to pull that off. With regard to Clay Holmes, 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:38.040 I found this tweet from earlier today. This is from 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:41.960 Joel Sherman. He said, Clay Holmes in his rehab start 0:06:42.000 --> 0:06:44.719 at High A, Brooklyn, which I believe happened today, five 0:06:44.760 --> 0:06:47.280 and a third inning, seven hits, three runs to earned, 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:50.440 no walks, three strikeouts, seventy three pitches. Word from the 0:06:50.480 --> 0:06:53.239 stadium was his main pitch. Sinker was good at ninety 0:06:53.279 --> 0:06:56.480 one miles per hour topped at ninety three. Secondary stuff 0:06:56.480 --> 0:06:59.719 if you're looked like a healthy pitcher. Of course, Holmes 0:06:59.720 --> 0:07:02.599 working his way back from that fibula injury. And we 0:07:02.680 --> 0:07:05.440 also did hear that the Diamondbacks are one of the 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:08.560 teams that had had a scout in attendance for this 0:07:08.720 --> 0:07:12.040 rehab outing. So Clay Holmes jack is one of the 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:16.120 more desirable starters, one of the more desirable rentals remaining 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:19.000 on the market. And it sounds like the interest is 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:20.360 very much still there. 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:23.840 Yeah, And I think when we talked about him before, 0:07:23.880 --> 0:07:25.840 one of the things that we liked about him was 0:07:25.920 --> 0:07:29.160 that there is some I guess flexibility there, you know, 0:07:29.200 --> 0:07:31.120 I mean, he spent most of his career as a reliever. 0:07:32.160 --> 0:07:34.640 You know, on the off chance that the Diamondbacks got 0:07:34.680 --> 0:07:37.560 all their starters back healthy and pitching well and they 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:40.080 needed more help in the bullpen. Maybe he could be 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:42.760 an option there as well. So I like that flexibility 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:45.680 or swing man, especially when you get to the postseason 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:48.040 where you know you may want to have a guy 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:50.480 like you may have who knows they may get to 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:53.520 the postseason and have too many starters. I mean, that's 0:07:53.680 --> 0:07:58.200 not out of the realm of possibility. So we'll see 0:07:58.200 --> 0:08:00.760 where they go with this. But you know, Clay Holmes 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:03.680 and Myes, of course, of the two most attractive options. 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:06.160 We'll see if they get them. Just responding to a 0:08:06.240 --> 0:08:11.480 question here in the chat about ktel Marte, He's never 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:13.840 done any work at first base that I've ever seen. 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:19.400 And if you think that Luisa Rise is going to 0:08:19.480 --> 0:08:22.320 be resistant to moving off second base, boy have I 0:08:22.320 --> 0:08:24.760 got news for you about how coateel Marte might feel 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:28.440 about that. He doesn't mind dhing to get off his feet, 0:08:28.520 --> 0:08:31.720 but katel Marte is the second basement and he's not 0:08:31.800 --> 0:08:34.080 going to move over to first base this year. For 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:35.400 Luisa Rise, that's just. 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:39.440 Not going to happen now, especially given that Luisa Rise 0:08:39.520 --> 0:08:42.280 does have experience at first base. I don't think you 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:44.520 like the idea in general of trying to teach a 0:08:44.520 --> 0:08:46.880 guy a new position with two months to go in 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:50.480 the season. So if the Dbacs were to acquire Luisa Rise, 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:53.240 I think it would totally be a Rise playing first 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:55.920 base for the most part, filling in for Katel at 0:08:55.960 --> 0:09:00.880 second occasionally if Katl is dhing or whatnot. But I 0:09:00.960 --> 0:09:02.840 don't I don't know if the Diamondbacks are going to 0:09:02.840 --> 0:09:06.880 get Luis Rays. Seems like there's the market there, certainly 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:09.000 seems like a lot of a lot of interest around 0:09:09.000 --> 0:09:11.640 the league. Not a whole lot of bats are available. 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:14.280 I do want to circle back to Casey Myz here 0:09:15.000 --> 0:09:17.640 because of the Gambo tweet, the fact we know the 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:20.720 Diamondbacks have real interest here. I thought this tweet was 0:09:20.720 --> 0:09:24.600 interesting from Nick Pollock at pitcher List on Twitter. Casey 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:28.480 Myce was scratched from his from his scheduled start believe 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:32.319 that was either Friday or or yesterday, and Nick made 0:09:32.360 --> 0:09:34.880 an interesting point here he said, here's the real reason 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:38.559 Casey Miz is in pitching tonight. Casey Miz sat ninety 0:09:38.559 --> 0:09:41.360 four point one miles per hour with his slowest four seamer, 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:44.840 hitting ninety three point three two starts ago. He sat 0:09:44.960 --> 0:09:48.520 ninety one point nine in his most recent outing and 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:51.240 fell to under ninety miles an hour in every inning 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:55.640 of his most recent outing. Now some context, Miz dealt 0:09:55.640 --> 0:09:59.360 with some cramping in his start before this most recent one, 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:02.040 so there is a bit of a story here, and 0:10:02.440 --> 0:10:05.800 maybe that explains why his velocity was down in his 0:10:05.840 --> 0:10:08.079 first game back from that. Maybe he was being a 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:12.319 little bit careful there. But you don't necessarily love seeing 0:10:12.320 --> 0:10:15.880 a guy's VLO tick down a couple miles per hour 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:18.760 right before you acquire him via trade. 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:21.960 Right, you know, you just have to hope that that 0:10:22.040 --> 0:10:26.880 cramping issue I'm cramping where in his forum, yeah, or 0:10:26.960 --> 0:10:29.480 with it in his legs or did he have a 0:10:29.480 --> 0:10:31.760 tummy egg? I mean, I don't know what that cramping was. 0:10:32.280 --> 0:10:35.040 I didn't I didn't research that, so that would be 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:40.040 useful information to have. I think that, you know, if 0:10:40.040 --> 0:10:42.319 the Dbacks were serious about it, they would have been 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:44.240 in tune with that. They would have asked the team 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:46.760 about it. Their scouts would know it, you know. So 0:10:46.800 --> 0:10:49.200 I don't think that they would consider that too big 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:52.719 of a problem. Our good friend Jeff says spending a 0:10:52.760 --> 0:10:55.679 lot of energy on rental starters. However, I still think 0:10:55.720 --> 0:10:59.280 this team's biggest need is a left handed Slugger, don't disagree. 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:01.400 We just touched on Garcia. I mean, he was on 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:04.920 the list of players that not rentals. But we've talked 0:11:04.920 --> 0:11:10.240 about him before. We've talked forever about Nathaniel Lowe. He's 0:11:10.280 --> 0:11:13.040 still out there. His WRC plus is up to like 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:16.400 one hundred and twenty now, by the way, so you know, 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:18.680 I'd still like to see them drill in on him. 0:11:18.720 --> 0:11:22.320 I mean, I can only imagine that the d Backs 0:11:22.320 --> 0:11:24.840 would have already reached out there and they don't match up, 0:11:24.960 --> 0:11:27.480 or the Reds aren't ready to sell. They won again today, 0:11:28.280 --> 0:11:30.280 so you know, we're not really sure. There was a 0:11:30.320 --> 0:11:33.280 report that they have three hitters that they're willing to trade. 0:11:33.320 --> 0:11:36.560 One of would seem that, you know, between him and 0:11:37.480 --> 0:11:41.680 JJ Blade and Spencer Steer, So I think it's got 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:46.000 to be low that they're gonna trade. I think that 0:11:46.040 --> 0:11:47.840 if the Dbacks matched up with the Reds and the 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:49.440 Reds were ready to move him, he had already be 0:11:49.440 --> 0:11:52.040 a Dback. That's what I think. I think that they 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:54.640 got rebuffed. You know, Mike said something really important the 0:11:54.679 --> 0:11:57.240 other day. He said, when you have the players that 0:11:57.400 --> 0:12:01.760 you're selling, you determined that time of the trade, when 0:12:01.800 --> 0:12:04.280 you don't have the players and you're trying to pursue them. 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:08.120 The other team determines the time of the trade, and 0:12:08.440 --> 0:12:11.520 I think that there's just a really difficult reality that, 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:13.880 you know, some of the trades that they may want 0:12:13.920 --> 0:12:17.160 to make, they either don't have the prospect capital or 0:12:17.200 --> 0:12:21.000 they don't have the budget room. With their self imposed 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:26.000 staying under the luxury text goal, they only got six 0:12:26.080 --> 0:12:29.840 or seven million dollars to spend, and maybe some of 0:12:29.880 --> 0:12:32.760 the other team's prospects are deemed to be better prospects. 0:12:33.080 --> 0:12:34.720 It may not be easy to get the guys that 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:38.160 they're going for, you know, and at a certain point, 0:12:38.280 --> 0:12:40.600 like you know, do you have the appetite to really 0:12:41.080 --> 0:12:44.320 up your offer to the point where it may not 0:12:44.400 --> 0:12:44.920 be worth it. 0:12:47.040 --> 0:12:49.480 Yeah, I mean, certainly when it comes to bats, it 0:12:49.520 --> 0:12:52.319 feels like they're just or not all that many available. 0:12:52.800 --> 0:12:55.640 We saw Lane Thomas go in a trade to the 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:58.920 Atlanta Braves. He's now off the market. Luisa Rise, we 0:12:58.920 --> 0:13:02.720 were just discussing just to frame this conversation for us. 0:13:02.760 --> 0:13:05.760 I do want to bring in this clip here from 0:13:06.000 --> 0:13:08.400 Nick Bikoro's story at the Aarzon Our Republic a couple 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:11.360 of days ago. And he has a quote in here 0:13:11.400 --> 0:13:15.440 from Mike Hazen where Hazen is talking about the Diamondbacks 0:13:15.520 --> 0:13:18.559 top two priorities at the trade deadline, those being a 0:13:18.600 --> 0:13:22.120 starting pitcher and a hitter, likely a left handed one. 0:13:22.440 --> 0:13:25.800 These are Hazen's words, They're one and one A. Those 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:29.360 are things we're focused on. Nick continues here he did 0:13:29.360 --> 0:13:32.080 not rule out the idea of adding a reliever as well, 0:13:32.320 --> 0:13:35.160 whether it be a high leverage arm or another lefty 0:13:35.240 --> 0:13:38.760 to pair with Brandon Garcia. So I think if you're 0:13:38.800 --> 0:13:41.000 looking for the d Backs to check all three of 0:13:41.040 --> 0:13:44.679 these boxes, starting pitcher, a left handed hitter, and bullpen arm, 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:48.080 I'm not sure you're gonna get that. It seems like 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:51.080 it would be tricky to pull that off. But starting 0:13:51.120 --> 0:13:54.280 pitching and finding that left handed bat, those seem to 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:57.760 be the two top priorities, and it's hard to distinguish whether, 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:01.439 you know, I don't think the dbacs are viewing one 0:14:01.480 --> 0:14:03.160 of those as a must and the other one is 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:05.120 just kind of an optional. It seems like those are 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:06.880 kind of in the same camp right now. 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:11.000 Yeah, and you know, I joked about it. I mean, 0:14:11.280 --> 0:14:13.480 the day of the week or whatever game they just 0:14:13.520 --> 0:14:16.280 happen to complete or whatever series they happen to complete, 0:14:16.880 --> 0:14:19.160 that will tell us what their priority is. Right So, 0:14:19.600 --> 0:14:22.160 you know, for the longest time, the number one priority 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:25.120 was get a bat, and then the offense really started 0:14:25.120 --> 0:14:29.640 scoring a lot of runs until today. You know then, oh, well, 0:14:29.760 --> 0:14:32.320 Mitch Bratt and you know Cole Drake had a couple 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:34.360 of bad outings. Oh we need a starter right away. 0:14:34.520 --> 0:14:38.320 That's got to be number one. Then Paul Sewald and 0:14:38.560 --> 0:14:41.320 Ryan Thompson implode. Oh man, we got to shore up 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:45.760 the bullpen. Quite frankly, it really is all of the above. 0:14:45.840 --> 0:14:47.920 I mean, they need a good starter, they need at 0:14:47.960 --> 0:14:50.480 least one good reliever, and they need a left handed bat. 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:53.600 Those are the team weaknesses. Those are the areas that 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:57.400 they need to improve to plug the holes in this roster. 0:14:58.400 --> 0:15:01.800 And we can see very easily that it's not gonna happen. 0:15:01.840 --> 0:15:05.720 I mean, they're not going to get all three. 0:15:06.720 --> 0:15:10.280 I mean maybe they could, I don't know, uh maybe. 0:15:10.160 --> 0:15:11.960 I mean all three to a level that we think 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:14.760 it's gonna really plug the hole. I'm not saying they 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:17.440 won't get a left handed better or a reliever or 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:20.880 a starter, but I don't think they're gonna get difference 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:22.560 makers at all three of those slots. 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:27.320 They're not going to get mis Nathaniel Lowe and. 0:15:27.400 --> 0:15:29.600 Uh, you know Brooks Rally or something. 0:15:29.720 --> 0:15:32.200 Yeah, Luke Weaver or something like that. Yeah, I mean, 0:15:32.240 --> 0:15:34.000 I think I think that's fair. That would feel a 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:37.400 little bit unrealistic at this point. One other name I 0:15:37.400 --> 0:15:39.640 want to throw into the mix here on the starting 0:15:39.680 --> 0:15:42.440 pitching front, to name that we haven't discussed yet is 0:15:42.560 --> 0:15:46.160 Dustin May of the Saint Louis Cardinals. He's a rental 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:49.800 starting pitcher who is expected to get dealt. The Cardinals 0:15:49.840 --> 0:15:52.000 have dropped out of the race enough that I think 0:15:52.040 --> 0:15:55.040 trading their rentals certainly makes sense for them. May is 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:57.480 going to make twelve point five million dollars for this 0:15:57.560 --> 0:16:00.280 season as a whole, means about four million or so 0:16:00.800 --> 0:16:04.000 the rest of the way, within range for the Diamondbacks 0:16:04.000 --> 0:16:06.920 on the higher end, but still still within range where 0:16:06.920 --> 0:16:09.800 they could stay under the luxury tax and acquire him. 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:13.960 He's an interesting He's an interesting arm. His numbers for 0:16:14.040 --> 0:16:17.880 the season don't necessarily jump off the page. His ra 0:16:18.520 --> 0:16:21.960 does start with with a four. Certainly not in the 0:16:22.000 --> 0:16:26.880 same category as Clay Holmes or as Clay Holmes or 0:16:26.960 --> 0:16:29.320 Casey miz in that regard, but a four point three 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:32.840 eight ERA for the season and pretty decent underlying numbers. 0:16:32.840 --> 0:16:35.160 He has a three point one four FIP, one hundred 0:16:35.200 --> 0:16:38.760 and six strikeouts compared to thirty five walks, and he 0:16:38.800 --> 0:16:41.360 throws ninety seven miles an hour. That's his average four 0:16:41.400 --> 0:16:45.000 seam fastball. Certainly that would bring a different look to 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:47.680 this Diamondbacks rotation. They don't really have anyone like that. 0:16:48.920 --> 0:16:51.400 Yeah, I mean, Dustin May is a tough one for me. 0:16:51.480 --> 0:16:53.720 I don't really trust him. He's a five and dive guy. 0:16:55.160 --> 0:16:57.800 You know, he very seldom goes more than five whatever. 0:16:58.280 --> 0:17:00.840 You know, I don't think he goes even six innings 0:17:00.920 --> 0:17:05.399 very often, little in seven or eight. And you know, 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:09.080 I don't trust his health. He's very injury prone. So, 0:17:09.800 --> 0:17:13.919 I mean, he's always had that tantalizing stuff. He's another 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:16.320 guy like I think, you know, if they would just 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:19.080 get off to snide and convert this guy to a reliever, 0:17:19.200 --> 0:17:21.159 I think he would just be just like a lights 0:17:21.200 --> 0:17:25.920 out postseason dude, you know, So I don't know. I 0:17:25.960 --> 0:17:28.560 Mean the other thing too, is we hadn't really looked 0:17:28.640 --> 0:17:32.040 very closely at almost anybody on the Cardinals roster because 0:17:32.119 --> 0:17:35.720 as until July twenty fourth, when the Dbacks had the 0:17:35.760 --> 0:17:37.800 trapes back there, they were still very much right in 0:17:37.920 --> 0:17:41.560 the race. Maybe they've kind of leaked over towards sales side. 0:17:43.000 --> 0:17:46.199 It appears that they have. It appears that that Dustin 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:49.560 May is pretty likely to get moved. The guys who 0:17:49.600 --> 0:17:52.840 have some control left harder to say, I guess sticking 0:17:52.880 --> 0:17:56.280 with the Cardinals. Lars Newtbar is another name that certainly 0:17:56.280 --> 0:17:59.320 could make sense for the Diamondbacks. Not quite as ideal 0:17:59.400 --> 0:18:02.359 of a roster fit, because he is an outfielder instead 0:18:02.359 --> 0:18:05.320 of a first baseman, but you know, you could use 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:07.400 the you could use the DH slot. You could move 0:18:07.440 --> 0:18:10.640 some guys around and make that work. The other name 0:18:10.800 --> 0:18:13.639 that stands out who is a first baseman is Alec Burlison, 0:18:13.960 --> 0:18:16.800 who I think would be a fantastic fit for the Diamondbacks. 0:18:16.880 --> 0:18:20.520 Left handed hitter just destroys right handed pitching, pretty similar 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:24.160 to a Luis Garcia junior. The tricky thing with Burlison 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:26.639 is he has two more years of control, so the 0:18:26.720 --> 0:18:29.679 price tag is going to be higher, and I'm not 0:18:29.720 --> 0:18:31.920 sure the Cardinals really want to go down that road 0:18:31.960 --> 0:18:32.800 at this point. 0:18:33.800 --> 0:18:36.240 Yeah, and you know, I know I sound like a 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:41.119 broken record. I'm just so hesitant to give up the 0:18:41.119 --> 0:18:44.080 prospect cost that it's going to take for control guys 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:46.560 because I just don't have a lot of confidence that 0:18:46.800 --> 0:18:49.359 you're going to actually get all of that control because 0:18:49.400 --> 0:18:53.520 of the looming lockout and time and games lost in 0:18:53.560 --> 0:18:57.600 twenty twenty seven. So that that just I'm not able 0:18:57.640 --> 0:18:59.919 to square that one because I just don't believe that 0:19:00.040 --> 0:19:02.679 any player the players Union is going to agree to 0:19:02.760 --> 0:19:07.560 forego a year of service time and let everybody's uh 0:19:07.880 --> 0:19:10.040 free agency get pushed out a year. I mean, they 0:19:10.119 --> 0:19:12.320 really think of the repercussion of that. So they're just 0:19:12.359 --> 0:19:14.040 going to all of a sudden agree, Okay, everyone's going 0:19:14.080 --> 0:19:16.160 to go move out one year. All those pre free 0:19:16.200 --> 0:19:19.320 agency guys the players wanted to move any other direction. 0:19:19.400 --> 0:19:22.280 They're trying to negotiate a shortening of the time to 0:19:22.359 --> 0:19:27.600 free agency. So you know, I just see, I just 0:19:27.680 --> 0:19:30.280 see that the control guys, as much as you want them, 0:19:30.640 --> 0:19:33.480 and as much as the organ the dbacks organization insists 0:19:33.480 --> 0:19:38.880 that they're not worried about that. You know, I call 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:41.719 a BS on that. Sorry, they're talking about it. They 0:19:41.760 --> 0:19:44.720 have to be. They can't not be talking about that internally, 0:19:44.960 --> 0:19:47.040 they just can't say anything about it publicly. 0:19:48.920 --> 0:19:53.600 Yeah, that's fair. Certainly, if the Diamondbacks were concerned about 0:19:53.720 --> 0:19:56.639 a lockout and a workstopage and whatnot, like, that's not 0:19:56.840 --> 0:19:59.880 something that the Dare Call or anyone in the organization 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:02.320 is going to come out on a local radio program 0:20:02.359 --> 0:20:05.000 and you know, speak openly about Certainly, you wouldn't you 0:20:05.040 --> 0:20:08.080 wouldn't expect that. We have a whole lot more to 0:20:08.160 --> 0:20:11.040 get to in this episode. We're going to talk about 0:20:11.080 --> 0:20:16.040 the Trek Scoogle trade that yes, it did happen. He's 0:20:16.080 --> 0:20:19.440 a Dodger, big surprise. We will we will talk about 0:20:19.440 --> 0:20:21.840 that and the ramifications of that. We'll talk about the 0:20:21.840 --> 0:20:25.640 Guardians series as well. Diamondbacks get a series win even 0:20:25.680 --> 0:20:29.639 though this Sunday game was not great and there was 0:20:29.720 --> 0:20:33.120 a weird benches clearing incident that we'll get into as well. 0:20:33.600 --> 0:20:35.560 And we've got a whole lot more trade stuff to 0:20:35.600 --> 0:20:37.919 talk about as well, So don't go anywhere. We'll be 0:20:38.000 --> 0:20:41.080 back right after this. Note from foul Territory, which you 0:20:41.119 --> 0:20:42.960 should be watching tomorrow. 0:20:43.800 --> 0:20:46.760 There is one place to be on trade deadline day 0:20:47.480 --> 0:20:50.840 watching foul Territory of course A J. Perdinski, Eric Kratz, 0:20:50.840 --> 0:20:54.760 and Scott Brown will be live all afternoon speaking with insiders, 0:20:54.800 --> 0:20:58.880 reading tea leaves, and reacting to unfolding deadline drama. 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