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Speaker 1: Zach Netto of the Angels. Could he be a possibility?
Speaker 1: We got an article from Cam Rosenthal. We're gonna dive
Speaker 1: into that. We also got a little something from Mark
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Speaker 1: We got a little something from Kem Rosenthal. The Red
Speaker 1: Sox view Angels shortstop zach Netto as a strong fit.
Speaker 1: And listen, there's been no sea could hear about the
Speaker 1: possibility of zach Netto as a Boston Red Sox. I've
Speaker 1: been on the record multiple times saying I think he's
Speaker 1: a great fit multiple times. Now you go this this started,
Speaker 1: I would say a couple of months ago. Remember when
Speaker 1: we had that time where oh man, the Red Sox
Speaker 1: are looking for a right handed bat even Mike Shrout
Speaker 1: was popping up in the news. Mike freaking Shrout, Well,
Speaker 1: that wasn't gonna happen, but that's what we all started saying. Well, hey,
Speaker 1: right handed bat, you know, have some injuries in the
Speaker 1: middle infield. The Angels, they're at organization that's just never
Speaker 1: really going anywhere. Why not someone like zach Netto, who's
Speaker 1: got a few years of control, not even twenty six
Speaker 1: years old. Yet he's shown some pretty good things in
Speaker 1: the first couple of years of his major league career.
Speaker 1: A guy that has pop, has speed, Yeah, you get Well,
Speaker 1: we'll talk about the deficiencies in just a little bit,
Speaker 1: but there's a lot of talent with zach Netto. Over
Speaker 1: the last couple of years, he's averaged right around like
Speaker 1: a three and a half Fangraft wins above replacement. That's
Speaker 1: a solid player, just for comparison's sake. Last year, Trevor Story,
Speaker 1: who was finally healthy, finally productive, he was a three
Speaker 1: f war player last year. Zach Netto, he's been around
Speaker 1: a three and a half in his early twenties. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: he's just been with a bad Angels organization and uh so, yeah,
Speaker 1: you don't tend to hear a whole lot about him,
Speaker 1: But he is I would say, one of the better
Speaker 1: shortstops in Major League Baseball. Now taking a look at
Speaker 1: the article here. Now also another thing too, I forgot
Speaker 1: to mention as well. The reason he was coming up
Speaker 1: is because he was a guy that popped up last
Speaker 1: offseason as a possibility for the Red Sox, Craig Breslow
Speaker 1: making a couple of phone calls. It never materialized, and
Speaker 1: its said that here. The Red Sox, after expressing interest
Speaker 1: in La Angels shortstop last offseason, continue to view him
Speaker 1: as a strong according to people briefed on their discussions,
Speaker 1: but granted a nomine I can't even say that they're
Speaker 1: anonymous to speak freely, I can never say that word.
Speaker 1: The talks between the Red Sox and Angels regarding Nedo
Speaker 1: last winner did not progress to the point of exchanging names.
Speaker 1: Jehan Mazelak has since taken over as interim general manager
Speaker 1: of the Angels, replacing Perrymanajian. Now, it goes on to
Speaker 1: say here it is not clear how willing the team
Speaker 1: would be to trade Neto, who was earning four point
Speaker 1: one to five million this season and under club control
Speaker 1: for three additional years. So you know, before we get
Speaker 1: into the idea of Netto being a good fit for
Speaker 1: the Red Sox, let's talk about the Angels here for
Speaker 1: a second. With the Angels, obviously, you know we've seen
Speaker 1: everything that's been going on over there. But Perrymanajian just
Speaker 1: let go not too long ago, John Mozzaylok, who was
Speaker 1: the longtime leader of the car Dal's front office, that's
Speaker 1: a guy that he has been within the game of
Speaker 1: baseball for a very long time. If there is a
Speaker 1: guy that can convince Arty Moreno to finally go through
Speaker 1: a rebuild, I would say, out of anyone there right now,
Speaker 1: John moze Lock easily anyone over the last few years
Speaker 1: or so several years, John mose Loc, I would say,
Speaker 1: is the guy that can finally convince Arty Moreno. Hey, listen,
Speaker 1: I know you want to sell the experience. I know
Speaker 1: you want to sell the tickets. I know you want
Speaker 1: to have the family friendly atmosphere. But you know what,
Speaker 1: people are starting to get a little sick and tired here.
Speaker 1: They want to win ball games. Yes, let's still keep
Speaker 1: that experience. We'll keep guys like trout Right, that's the
Speaker 1: guy that's gonna put butts in the seats. He's a
Speaker 1: future Hall of Famer. But we got to start getting
Speaker 1: this organization on the right track because how many times
Speaker 1: over the years, I mean, you need to make one
Speaker 1: postseason with Otani and Shrout Trout, what was it twenty
Speaker 1: fourteen the last time they made the postseason. You've pretty
Speaker 1: much wasted all of these years of Mike Trout. You
Speaker 1: got to start figuring things out within the organization. It's
Speaker 1: gonna take a lot of work there. But right now,
Speaker 1: with the guys that they have, these talented players like Netto,
Speaker 1: like Greed, Deptmers like Jose Soriano, a couple others as well,
Speaker 1: Joe Adell last year thirty eight home runs, thirty seven
Speaker 1: whatever it was. They're not winning games. So it's like, yes,
Speaker 1: you can make this argument to keep Nedo, you can
Speaker 1: make the argument to keep Deptmers in Soriano. Yeah, they're
Speaker 1: good players. If you want to actually win games, keep
Speaker 1: your good players. Well, the problem is is you have
Speaker 1: to be able to build a good team around those guys. Right, Yes,
Speaker 1: you have your top guys, but you have no support.
Speaker 1: The Angels they should go back to the point where
Speaker 1: they got to start building from the ground up. Again,
Speaker 1: they're trying to build from the top down. You can't
Speaker 1: put the roof before the foundation. That's what the Angels
Speaker 1: have been trying to do and it's not working. So
Speaker 1: they got to Everyone knows it, but Artie Moreno, He's like, no,
Speaker 1: I want to have a competitive team on the field,
Speaker 1: and yeah, let's try it. Well, let's figure this out.
Speaker 1: And they've been trying to figure it out and it
Speaker 1: has it worked so in my opinion. And this isn't
Speaker 1: me trying to be like, oh, I just want them
Speaker 1: to trade Neto to the Red Sox. No as someone
Speaker 1: that wants the Angel because listen, I respect the Angels
Speaker 1: from back in the day. We ran into the Angels
Speaker 1: a couple of times in the postseasons, you know, I
Speaker 1: mean just saying I remember those Angels teams. They were
Speaker 1: fun to watch. They were good teams. I mean, goodness,
Speaker 1: what was it two thousand and two thousand and nine,
Speaker 1: they knocked the Red Sox out in the division round,
Speaker 1: if I remember correctly. I want the Angels to get
Speaker 1: back to a good place, right. You know, Angels fans
Speaker 1: are very dedicated. They're good loyal fans. You know, they
Speaker 1: deserve a winning team. I think they need to start
Speaker 1: going in the right direction. And Netto with what he
Speaker 1: can bring back. I think that's a very good start
Speaker 1: for the Angels. And then you look into moving debtvers
Speaker 1: in Soriatto, you'll be able to get a lot back
Speaker 1: for those kind of guys. You look at what these
Speaker 1: teams have done, like look at the White Sox, Look
Speaker 1: at the White Sox over the last few years. Look
Speaker 1: at the moves they've made, and look at where they are.
Speaker 1: That should be the blueprint for the Angels. Start moving
Speaker 1: your top guys and get back good talent to get
Speaker 1: you on the right track. Start hiring people within the
Speaker 1: organization that are gonna help you get there. You know,
Speaker 1: they need to start here though. I've been saying this
Speaker 1: for years, and we might maybe maybe be finally getting
Speaker 1: to that point. So we'll see. Now for the Red
Speaker 1: Sox and Neto, I think it's a great fit. I
Speaker 1: think it's a very good fit. Now, there are some
Speaker 1: deficiencies with Netto. Let me pull up the stack cast page.
Speaker 1: So I was all over Twitter here today. I was
Speaker 1: looking around, poking around. I was seeing what people were
Speaker 1: having to say. I was seeing positives I was seeing
Speaker 1: negatives and for me, I'm yeah, listen, no player is
Speaker 1: perfect at the end of the day. Well, I guess
Speaker 1: you know, I guess you could say Otani pretty much.
Speaker 1: But for the most part, ever, guys, even like Otani,
Speaker 1: they are gonna have their flaws. Netto has definitely had
Speaker 1: some flaws. Now, as you can see here, we do
Speaker 1: see quite a lot of blues. He is barreling up
Speaker 1: the ball quite a bit this year. He is walking
Speaker 1: a good amount as well, but there has been a dip.
Speaker 1: The bat of ball profile has dipped since last year.
Speaker 1: You go back to twenty twenty four. Actually he went
Speaker 1: up last year, but then there's been a deficiency this
Speaker 1: year with the bat ball metrics going back down a
Speaker 1: little bit. However, he has still been able to figure out.
Speaker 1: Even with the batted ball going down a little bit,
Speaker 1: he's still got nineteen home runs on the year. That
Speaker 1: ranks near the top when it comes to shortstops in
Speaker 1: Major League Baseball the ops at seven seventy two. That's
Speaker 1: pretty solid for the most part. Now for the Red Sox,
Speaker 1: here's why I think the Red Sox view him as
Speaker 1: a guy that would be a good candidate to a
Speaker 1: good player within their organization, because well, what are the
Speaker 1: Red Sox been good at developing over the years more
Speaker 1: bat at ball, right, so being able to increase that
Speaker 1: exit velo a little bit. Yeah, they've changed the approach
Speaker 1: this year, but they've shown time and time again you
Speaker 1: know they can get more out of these guys, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, you look at Wilson Contreres having the best
Speaker 1: season of his career. That's just one example they probably
Speaker 1: in my opinion, I feel like those guys over there
Speaker 1: feel like, oh, they could make a couple of tweaks
Speaker 1: with Netto and they can get him straightened out a
Speaker 1: little bit, get him more towards that twenty twenty five season,
Speaker 1: and maybe even further than that. Again, he's only twenty five,
Speaker 1: so yeah, there are some things that he's got to
Speaker 1: do to start hitting the ball harder more consistently. But
Speaker 1: then you look at the discipline, this is something he
Speaker 1: could probably work on a little bit. Right. There is
Speaker 1: a lot of strong There is a lot of swing
Speaker 1: and miss here. There are a lot of strikeouts. Over
Speaker 1: thirty percent of the time he's swinging and missing, he's
Speaker 1: chasing out of the zone. He's not squaring up, so yeah,
Speaker 1: those are things that I think you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: get cleaned up a little bit. But with the Red Sox,
Speaker 1: you know, with how they've been able to go about
Speaker 1: things this year offensively, they've gone you know, yeah, they're
Speaker 1: still getting a little bit of well, at least over
Speaker 1: the last month or so, they're getting a bit more
Speaker 1: power from well. Wilson's been good all year, but you know,
Speaker 1: you're starting to see some more a few more home
Speaker 1: runs over the last month or so. But with the
Speaker 1: Red Sox have been very good at over the last
Speaker 1: month or so. Is getting the bat on the ball,
Speaker 1: making more contact, striking out less. So I am confident
Speaker 1: that if they bring netto in find a way to
Speaker 1: do it, that they could get him on a bit
Speaker 1: of a better track. I feel like, I feel strongly
Speaker 1: about that. But also too, he's still young. He's twenty five,
Speaker 1: turning twenty six soon. You know, there's a lot more
Speaker 1: room to grow there. I wouldn't be surprised at all
Speaker 1: if they were able to get him right now. Defensively,
Speaker 1: this is a different conversation as well. He has a
Speaker 1: very good arm, so there's a plus, but the range
Speaker 1: has not been very good. I look at that profile
Speaker 1: and it screams third base to me. But obviously you
Speaker 1: got Caleb Durbin at third base right now, So yeah,
Speaker 1: he's great there. So, yeah, you do worry about that
Speaker 1: defense a little bit over its short I don't know.
Speaker 1: You know, that's a conversation, you know, does he end
Speaker 1: up staying at shortstop in his career? Does he move
Speaker 1: over to third or second base at some point? I
Speaker 1: don't know. When it comes to Neto and his field,
Speaker 1: you know, looking a little deeper. Defensive run saved wise,
Speaker 1: he's been better. He has that athleticism to make up
Speaker 1: for the inconsistencies. As you can see last year he
Speaker 1: had thirteen defensive runs saved. He's got two this year.
Speaker 1: But yeah, the range, it's inconsistent. He's definitely been goofing
Speaker 1: up a little bit. Could you know, the infield coaches
Speaker 1: there with the Red Sox, you know, maybe could they
Speaker 1: find a way to make a couple of tweaks defensively,
Speaker 1: maybe get a little bit better there. I don't know,
Speaker 1: Fielding wise, that is a bit of a concern in
Speaker 1: my opinion, especially at a position like short So yeah,
Speaker 1: that's definitely a conversation, of course, And then you also
Speaker 1: think about too, if you did bring in Netto, you know,
Speaker 1: and stories coming back eventually. I mean, let's say this hypothetically.
Speaker 1: Let's say they figure it out, they can get a
Speaker 1: deal done. How do you make that work? You know?
Speaker 1: So like, would Netto play short? Would story go back
Speaker 1: to short? You know, I got a couple of different
Speaker 1: arguments here. One story is the veteran, so he goes
Speaker 1: back to short. Netto's the new guy in town, so
Speaker 1: he moves over to second base. Okay, that's pretty simple. However,
Speaker 1: with story coming off the hernia, could you make the
Speaker 1: argument maybe it would be better for him to move
Speaker 1: over to second base. You need some range over there too,
Speaker 1: But it's not as demanding of a position as short.
Speaker 1: So because of him coming off the hernia, maybe second
Speaker 1: base would be better. What is going on in the chat? Oh?
Speaker 1: Not a good time to be uh for some breaking news? Well,
Speaker 1: I guess it's always a good time for breaking news.
Speaker 1: Hold on a second. What have we got here? I
Speaker 1: have some breaking news in the chat. Ladies and gente
Speaker 1: noaks trade. But hold on a second. Speaking of shortstops, Oh, they.
Speaker 2: Finally did it. They finally did it. There it is
Speaker 2: Franklinarius is getting to call the Worcester ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1: Franklinarius going up to Worcester. It is about freaking time.
Speaker 1: Oh it's been twenty five minutes. Well all right, well
Speaker 1: it's breaking news for me. Sorry, I'm talking zach netto
Speaker 1: over here. I had a planned show with me. When
Speaker 1: it comes to the live shows, I do try to
Speaker 1: pay attention to the chat as much as possible. When
Speaker 1: I got a planned outline, I tend not to look
Speaker 1: at the chat too much in the beginning. But I'm
Speaker 1: glad you guys got my attention. Thank you for the effort.
Speaker 1: Franklinarius going to the going to the WU socks. Uh
Speaker 1: needed to happen. It was absolutely needed to happen. It
Speaker 1: was a you know, I'm always gonna be the guy,
Speaker 1: you know, don't rush guys right, Let him get their seasoning,
Speaker 1: let them do what they gotta do. But holy cow,
Speaker 1: Arius has been He has been killing it this year.
Speaker 1: Looking at the numbers with Arius, he's hitting three nineteen
Speaker 1: at double A this year over seventy four games, seventy
Speaker 1: four games good amount, hitting three nineteen with the four
Speaker 1: h seven on base five eighty one of the slugging
Speaker 1: eighteen home runs. Arius is projecting to be a very
Speaker 1: good player. And listen, ladies and gentlemen, this is a
Speaker 1: very ear like that. The comparison to Zander Bogart's timeline wise,
Speaker 1: it's it's eerie because I believe Bogart's played around the
Speaker 1: same amount of games before he got to Triple A.
Speaker 1: I might be wrong about that. Hold, let me pull
Speaker 1: that up at double A back in twenty twelve or
Speaker 1: in twenty thirteen. Sorry, okay, he played fifty six games, Okay,
Speaker 1: So Arius was there a little bit longer. I do remember,
Speaker 1: if I recall, there was a I think Arius had
Speaker 1: been taken out of a game at some point. I
Speaker 1: wonder if that came into play a little bit. I
Speaker 1: feel like we never got like a concrete answer with that.
Speaker 1: People were speculating that maybe it was, you know, like
Speaker 1: a like a disciplinary kind of a thing. I don't
Speaker 1: know anyway, I wonder if whatever that was had anything
Speaker 1: to do with it. However, he's been performing. He's been great.
Speaker 1: So Xander, he played fifty six games back in twenty thirteen.
Speaker 1: Arius played about twenty more. So, but uh yeah, Arius
Speaker 1: is absolutely the real deal. He had always been great
Speaker 1: with the contact skills. The bat to ball was off
Speaker 1: the charts, a guy that never really he kept the
Speaker 1: strikeouts down so much, but also showed a good amount
Speaker 1: of a good amount of plate discipline too. This year though,
Speaker 1: he's walking fourteen percent of the time eleven percent of
Speaker 1: the time while also increasing his power. Good bat to ball,
Speaker 1: good plate discipline. But the power was something you wondered
Speaker 1: about with him, and they said, all right, hey, we
Speaker 1: got to get you in the weight room. We got
Speaker 1: to get that power going a little bit more. We
Speaker 1: got to get some pop going a little bit more.
Speaker 1: And he's already up to eighteen home runs. I believe
Speaker 1: he just had a home run today or yesterday. And
Speaker 1: you know what, you know, you could say, oh, you know,
Speaker 1: should he have been called up there sooner? You know,
Speaker 1: a few weeks ago. Listen, I am okay with not
Speaker 1: Russian guys. I'm really okay with it. And in the
Speaker 1: in the long run, that could end up being the
Speaker 1: best thing. We'll see how he does a triple A.
Speaker 1: But you know, all eyes are gonna be on him
Speaker 1: over the next month or so. Remember Peyton Toley. All
Speaker 1: eyes are on Peyton Toley. Last year when is he
Speaker 1: going to get the call? And then eventually he ended
Speaker 1: up helping out the Red Sox over the final month,
Speaker 1: final month and a half or so. Arius, I wonder
Speaker 1: if he's a guy that could end up coming up
Speaker 1: at some point. And you know, I also wonder too,
Speaker 1: you know, since we're talking about netto here, is it possible?
Speaker 1: I mean, I listen, I'm not saying to make Arius
Speaker 1: the starting shortstop by any means, but you know you
Speaker 1: can't but wonder, because you have so much depth within
Speaker 1: this organization, you kind of just wonder if that comes
Speaker 1: into play just a little bit. I will say, I
Speaker 1: wonder if you see a situation hypothet speaking of course,
Speaker 1: we're obviously nothing is concrete by any means, We're not
Speaker 1: even close. But let's say they found a way to
Speaker 1: bring a netto story. What you know, how does he
Speaker 1: look after the hernia? Could netto actually be some some
Speaker 1: good insurance here because you don't know what story's gonna
Speaker 1: look like. Obviously the performance was horrid, and yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: that injury definitely could have been coming into play. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't even say could, probably was most likely coming into play.
Speaker 1: With that he's trying to play through it. But could
Speaker 1: bringing a guy like Netto in be some good insurance
Speaker 1: here in case Story isn't performing. Let's say you bring
Speaker 1: a Netto and you know, Story comes back. Whatever. Let's
Speaker 1: just say, you know, Stories at short, Netto's at second
Speaker 1: however you did it, Story's not hitting. Arius is hitting
Speaker 1: well down at Triple A. Could you see a bit
Speaker 1: of a scenario where if that happens, Arius is hitting,
Speaker 1: you give him a call, kind of like with Bogarts
Speaker 1: in twenty thirteen, and then Bogarts ended up taking, you know,
Speaker 1: the starting job in the postseason by the Horns. You know,
Speaker 1: is there a bit of a similar situation possibly there maybe,
Speaker 1: but you know, I think Neto would be good insurance
Speaker 1: in the end. And let's say it does happen that way,
Speaker 1: Story has another year on his contract, Well, you kind
Speaker 1: of figure that out in the off season, right, you know,
Speaker 1: if Arius ends up coming up and there's a lot
Speaker 1: of i's here, by the way, a lot of ives,
Speaker 1: big ifs, just having fun. Yeah, you know, if that
Speaker 1: situation plays out, then you figure something out with Story
Speaker 1: in the off season, you know, and then who knows,
Speaker 1: you end up having maybe a middle infield of Netto
Speaker 1: and Arius for the next few years. So you figure
Speaker 1: it out. I see you in the chat seven Moonbeam.
Speaker 1: Netto is not good defensively, yeah, I mean there's definitely
Speaker 1: some deficiencies there, has a very good arm and he's
Speaker 1: very athletic out there, so he's able to make up
Speaker 1: for a lot of mistakes. But yeah, you do need
Speaker 1: to see some improvement. But I still think at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, you can nitpick all these little
Speaker 1: thing well, defense isn't a little thing, but you can
Speaker 1: nitpick right, and you can find deficiencies, you can find flaws.
Speaker 1: At the end of the day, though, zach Netto has
Speaker 1: been a three and a half wins above replacement player
Speaker 1: over the last couple of years, even with not so
Speaker 1: great defense. He's on pace this year to be again
Speaker 1: a three wins above replacement player on fangrafts. So at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, yeah, you can say all
Speaker 1: the defense isn't good, he strikes out too much. Well, hey,
Speaker 1: he's still overall, he's still a productive player. So and
Speaker 1: I completely left out one thing. Let's talk about this,
Speaker 1: getting back to the bat of zach Netto. I forgot
Speaker 1: to mention this. I mean, you think about how productive
Speaker 1: he's been with the Angels. Well, imagine how productive he
Speaker 1: could be at Femway Park. Look at that pole air
Speaker 1: percentage this year almost at thirty percent. He's near the
Speaker 1: top when it comes to his poll air percentage twenty
Speaker 1: four percent last year. The Green Monster already sounds like
Speaker 1: his best friend. He would fit great at Famiway Park.
Speaker 1: Imagine the results at Femway Park. Maybe clean up some
Speaker 1: of that defense a little bit, tried to at least,
Speaker 1: but he could be amazing at Family Park. Now, if
Speaker 1: we're to take a look at the expected home runs now,
Speaker 1: they would go down a little bit of Femway, however,
Speaker 1: sounds like a good amount of wallball if you ask me.
Speaker 1: Sounds like a good amount of extra base hits. If
Speaker 1: you ask me, I think you'd be a great fit
Speaker 1: of Family Park. I think Zach Netto. While yes, there
Speaker 1: are flaws, and yeah, you're gonna have people out there
Speaker 1: pointing it out, I'll say it one more time. Wins
Speaker 1: above replacement wise. He has been a productive player a
Speaker 1: three and a half average on fangrafts over the last
Speaker 1: few years. And I'll say this too, that is way
Speaker 1: better than what you've been getting at shortstop this year,
Speaker 1: the Red Sox rank dead last or at least right
Speaker 1: near the bottom when it comes to shortstop. Looking at
Speaker 1: the rankings twenty seventh overall in f war this year
Speaker 1: at shortstop of a zero point six, I would if
Speaker 1: you bring a netto he probably give He probably gives
Speaker 1: you at least a one over the final month or so.
Speaker 1: That's way better the way you mean, that's you've been
Speaker 1: getting half a war over the whole season. So no
Speaker 1: matter how you look at it, it's gonna be an upgrade.
Speaker 1: Get some things straightened out a little bit, put that
Speaker 1: swing at Femway Park, and yeah, you might have to
Speaker 1: put up with some defense a little bit, but he'd
Speaker 1: be a productive player. I think it'd be a great fit.
Speaker 1: Now when it comes to a trade, this is another
Speaker 1: reason why I think it makes sense, because the Red
Speaker 1: Sox line up on a trade. It's so obvious, like
Speaker 1: it's this is one of the easier blockbuster trades that
Speaker 1: I've I've seen before that you could put together. It
Speaker 1: just makes so much sense. Vents now Arius, he's not
Speaker 1: going anywhere. He is completely off limits. I've been told
Speaker 1: that behind the scenes, he's not going anywhere. However, you
Speaker 1: have a young another young shortstop in Marcelo Meyer, California
Speaker 1: native as well. Obviously we all know the deal with Meyer.
Speaker 1: It hasn't fully worked out up to this point. That
Speaker 1: I don't think that means he's going to be a
Speaker 1: bad player, but you feel like it just since he's
Speaker 1: come to Boston, just you know, getting drafted, He's had injuries.
Speaker 1: I don't know, just something hasn't clicked fully right. Even
Speaker 1: in the miners. You know, there were some you know,
Speaker 1: hitting against lefties, he was inconsistent with that, had some
Speaker 1: strikeout concerns on breaking pictures. We saw that in the
Speaker 1: at the major league level. So yeah, but he has
Speaker 1: shown you those flashes like great defensively the guys hit
Speaker 1: a couple of bombs like he really does. Has shown
Speaker 1: you that ceiling. It just hasn't fully worked out up
Speaker 1: to this point. He's been hurt too, so you almost wonder.
Speaker 1: I don't mean to say this in a negative way.
Speaker 1: I mean more so the best for him. What a
Speaker 1: change of scenery'd be the best thing for him, you know,
Speaker 1: go back to the West Coast where he grew up.
Speaker 1: I feel like that would be a nice fit for
Speaker 1: him and people might say he has no value. No,
Speaker 1: he has value. He was a top fifteen prospect last year.
Speaker 1: When you're that high in the rankings, like, there's a
Speaker 1: reason you're that high, Like, they're not just gonna put
Speaker 1: you in the top twenty on Baseball America's Top Baseball
Speaker 1: America's Top twenty pipeline. They're not just gonna put you
Speaker 1: up there for giggles. Oh he's smooth out there in
Speaker 1: the field. Oh yeah, he looks like a good ball. No,
Speaker 1: they're looking into everything. People out there think there was
Speaker 1: a lot of upside with him. I've been told that
Speaker 1: as well. Behind the scenes. A lot of a lot
Speaker 1: of people out there think so thinks there is a
Speaker 1: good amount of upside with him. It's just a matter
Speaker 1: of putting it together. So I think for an Angel's team,
Speaker 1: for an Angel's organization, if they could get back a
Speaker 1: future shortstop like Meyer with the ceiling that he has,
Speaker 1: I think that's a great place to start. And you
Speaker 1: could also get more with him. You can get back
Speaker 1: some picting. So this is where it could get a
Speaker 1: little uncomfortable in my opinion, Like Meyer seems like the
Speaker 1: obvious candidate to include, and actually I think there was
Speaker 1: even something in this article. I think Meyer was even
Speaker 1: listed in here. Ah, the Angels almost certainly would want
Speaker 1: multiple young players in return. Marcelo Meyer, who opened the
Speaker 1: season as the Red sox starting second baseman, could be
Speaker 1: one of them. And we've been hearing weird stuff about Meyer.
Speaker 1: I mean, going back how long now. It just popping
Speaker 1: up in a couple of rumors. I think the Diamondbacks
Speaker 1: we had one story like a month ago asking Craig
Speaker 1: got asked if he was t so like there is
Speaker 1: I don't know. There's smoke around that. So I think
Speaker 1: you could start a package with Meyer. Now again, the pitching,
Speaker 1: this is where it could get uncomfortable. I think it
Speaker 1: would either be Anthony Iinsten or Connolly Early. I don't
Speaker 1: think totally's going anywhere. There's just they've been so high
Speaker 1: on him. I don't I don't see it. I think
Speaker 1: for the it would This is how I'd like to
Speaker 1: think about it. It would come down to maybe the
Speaker 1: Angel's preference. I think, I don't know. I know the
Speaker 1: Red Sox love both. That's where I think it gets
Speaker 1: a little uncomfortable. You know, Connolly Early. If the Angels
Speaker 1: wanted a major league arm that could you put in
Speaker 1: the rotation right now? I mean, okay, the power to
Speaker 1: them Anthony if they or if they'd rather go the
Speaker 1: route of a guy that hasn't started his clock yet
Speaker 1: in Anthony Ironston, who's moved up into the top fifty
Speaker 1: on pretty much all of the prospect rankings out there.
Speaker 1: So it's kind of like, would they want a bit
Speaker 1: more ceiling or would they want a bit more floor
Speaker 1: ironsin er Early. So I think that would come down
Speaker 1: what the Angels would want. So I don't know, you
Speaker 1: wonder if they did go to the Connolly Early route.
Speaker 1: I mean, you have Mike Maddox as the pitching coach there.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what the you know, what's the future
Speaker 1: outlook of him staying with the Angels, But I mean
Speaker 1: that'd be a great situation for a guy that's already
Speaker 1: at the major league level to work with a pitching
Speaker 1: coach like that. So I think you go either way.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're both pretty much right around the same whatever,
Speaker 1: We'll just say. I Andsen could go either way, and
Speaker 1: just with those two, you're right there, like you're already there.
Speaker 1: So it's just a matter of like what, you know,
Speaker 1: what else do you need, yeah, like a couple more
Speaker 1: you know, lower level prospects. Do you know, do you
Speaker 1: possibly include Witherspoon, do you include Henry Godbout? Like, could
Speaker 1: you do? You know, a couple of guys a little
Speaker 1: lower there and maybe you got something done. You know,
Speaker 1: you also could maybe think about I've mentioned this as
Speaker 1: an idea too, and I think this comes down to
Speaker 1: what ends up happening with Roman this year. But could
Speaker 1: you have yourself a situation where one guy that we've
Speaker 1: talked about that you maybe could argue could use exchange
Speaker 1: of scenery is Jared Duran, another West Coast guy, So
Speaker 1: you know, if they could I mean, let's say they
Speaker 1: did Meyer early and Duran, I mean they're getting cost
Speaker 1: controlled major league talent back. You know, Duran slow is
Speaker 1: a couple more years left, you know, Like, I wonder
Speaker 1: if you could include someone like him in this kind
Speaker 1: of a deal where he's lost a lot of value,
Speaker 1: You wonder, I don't know, does Craig feel like he
Speaker 1: would have a better shot at getting more for him?
Speaker 1: You know, maybe if they in the off season, if
Speaker 1: they kept him. I don't know that, but that's also
Speaker 1: dependent on what happens with Roman. I think you could
Speaker 1: also argue too, though, if even if Roman doesn't come back,
Speaker 1: Masa's been the he's been the better hitter than Duran.
Speaker 1: Duran's been really good in the outfield. He's been good defensively.
Speaker 1: He's actually been driving in some runs. I'll say that
Speaker 1: he's been doing things. It's just not the most flashy.
Speaker 1: You know, he's getting the sack flies. You know he's
Speaker 1: he's giving you speed, but you know that slash line
Speaker 1: the ops, it's just way down. So I don't know
Speaker 1: you could, I guess do that. You could make Masa
Speaker 1: your everyday left fielder, but then you're risking the defense
Speaker 1: out there, So I don't know that. Duran, I think
Speaker 1: it's possible you could include him in a deal like this,
Speaker 1: but I think a lot of that would ride to
Speaker 1: on what's going on with Roman. If Roman was coming back,
Speaker 1: then like that's easy. You know, Roman goes out to
Speaker 1: left field and you're done. So but yeah, I mean basically,
Speaker 1: my point though, is there's a bunch of different ways
Speaker 1: to do this, and you already have the two building
Speaker 1: blocks to start this. With Marcella Meyer, who was a
Speaker 1: top fifteen prospect last year. Five more years of control.
Speaker 1: You could go either Iron Center Connolly Early. I think
Speaker 1: one of those guys makes sense, and then you just
Speaker 1: figure out the rest. I think this is pretty easy.
Speaker 1: This is not very complicated. I think the more complicated
Speaker 1: thing is how do you make it all fit? That
Speaker 1: I think is the big question. I think this trade
Speaker 1: just makes too much sense. I think it just lines
Speaker 1: up so perfectly. Not this exactly on the screen, but
Speaker 1: you start here and then you figure it out a
Speaker 1: little bit more. So we'll see how that goes. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be very interesting though. It's gonna be interesting. But
Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, we are going to take a quick break,
Speaker 1: gonna take a quick little breather, and then uh, we're
Speaker 1: gonna talk about the Mark Fine song article. And then
Speaker 1: we'll hang out with the chat a little bit. We'll
Speaker 1: have some fun, but we'll bear back.
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Speaker 1: Alrighty, let's get back to it here. Let's get back
Speaker 1: to it. I actually saw a couple of comments in
Speaker 1: the chat. There's actually a good one here, John and
Speaker 1: the chat Brandon Ward would give you the same production
Speaker 1: as Jared Duran bradon Wards. That's an interesting guy down
Speaker 1: in the minor leagues. You remember he was making some
Speaker 1: noise in spring training, and you're a wonder could this
Speaker 1: guy make the opening day roster. He had a whole
Speaker 1: ton of speed. He was tearing it up. I mean,
Speaker 1: goodness gracious, So he was having a heck of a
Speaker 1: spring and he's a guy with a ton of speed.
Speaker 1: He's got a three seventy three on base extra pla
Speaker 1: right now. I mean, he's not gonna be this power guy,
Speaker 1: but he's a guy that puts the bat on the ball,
Speaker 1: he gets on base, and he's got forty stolen bases
Speaker 1: right now. So you know, you kind of wonder could
Speaker 1: he be involved if there were a trade for Netto,
Speaker 1: could he be involved in some way, shape or form.
Speaker 1: I mean, shoot, could you even maybe include him in
Speaker 1: a trade? I don't know. But or if you if
Speaker 1: you did move Duran, you know, could you call him up?
Speaker 1: I don't know. It's interesting. I tend to kind of
Speaker 1: forget about bradon Ward a little bit because he's just
Speaker 1: been down in the minors. But because of the speed
Speaker 1: that he has, he's a dynamic player, so interesting to
Speaker 1: pay attention to, even whatever ends up happening. I wonder
Speaker 1: if he could end up helping the Red Sox at
Speaker 1: some point just because of the speed, I'll say, I'll
Speaker 1: so this in the chat. I'm seeing people saying TD
Speaker 1: in the shat, I would take Jeremy Pania over Netto.
Speaker 1: Here's the problem with Paynya. The Astros are not gonna
Speaker 1: move Painia. It takes the Here's the number one rule
Speaker 1: of a trade. Number one rule. Please listen to this, everybody.
Speaker 1: It takes two to tango. You gotta have one team
Speaker 1: being willing to trade a guy. You can't go up
Speaker 1: to him, bang on the door, grab him by the
Speaker 1: shirt and say you're gonna give me that guy, and no,
Speaker 1: you're not gonna. And if they say, all right, fine
Speaker 1: give us Arias. Sorry, well you're not doing that. But
Speaker 1: you gotta you gotta be match up as trade partners.
Speaker 1: The Astros never trade their guys. They just don't do it.
Speaker 1: He's an everyday shortstop. They don't have anyone to fill in.
Speaker 1: Jim Crane always wants to compete. Yes, I know, Jeremy Paania,
Speaker 1: New England Native would be a great story. I would
Speaker 1: love that. That's great, It's dandy. I can see the
Speaker 1: story books being written now. But I don't see the
Speaker 1: Astros moving him. I'd be surprised if they did. So. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but TD they might be out of the playoffs, but
Speaker 1: they got next year. They Jim Crane wants to compete
Speaker 1: every year, just saying I don't think they're gonna move him.
Speaker 1: It doesn't matter if they're out of the playoffs. And
Speaker 1: you got to look at how organizations run themselves. It's
Speaker 1: every every organization is different. You look at and you
Speaker 1: just if you want to just go based off of
Speaker 1: the history. The Astros never trade anyone. They've had a
Speaker 1: couple of opportunities where you thought, oh man, maybe they
Speaker 1: could maybe they could move a guy, you know, like Bregman,
Speaker 1: I think Framber they were popping up as possible options
Speaker 1: at one point. Nope, they move those guys. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't think Paynya is gonna get moved.
Speaker 1: That's just listen. I would like it, Hey, I'm all
Speaker 1: about it. Jeremy Payne, that'd be cool. I'd like that,
Speaker 1: and he'd fit fed with work very well, good defensively.
Speaker 1: But another thing about Payna too is he's had some injuries.
Speaker 1: He's he's been on the I l quite a few times.
Speaker 1: Think Netto had an injury at one point last year,
Speaker 1: but Paina, he's been on the I l a little
Speaker 1: bit more often. So that's something also to think about.
Speaker 1: So let me get to a couple of super chats.
Speaker 1: I think we had a couple of those. Let me
Speaker 1: get those pull we had two super chats. What do
Speaker 1: we got here? Let me make that a little smaller.
Speaker 1: Let me do of course it disappeared. Can you see
Speaker 1: the Red Sox doing a multiple prospect for someone like
Speaker 1: Salas or another high prospect. I don't think the Padres
Speaker 1: would move Salas. I haven't even thought about that. I
Speaker 1: mean they've they've shown the willingness to do something like that,
Speaker 1: right with Bennett and peral Us. I think Craig he's
Speaker 1: just he's always looking for opportunities out there. If there's
Speaker 1: something pops up. Sure, I don't think. I don't know,
Speaker 1: have the deadline. You usually don't see stuff like that.
Speaker 1: But maybe we got all the super chat here from Aiden.
Speaker 1: What's going on? Man? I would say A sneaky name
Speaker 1: that hasn't come up yet for the Red Sox is
Speaker 1: Spencer Steer. I believe he'd be able to transition to
Speaker 1: second base if needed. Didn't he play some infield at
Speaker 1: some point? I think he wasn't he playing? Yeah, he's
Speaker 1: he's a utility guy. That's interesting, yas he's mostly he's
Speaker 1: mostly played first this year. I always think of him
Speaker 1: in the outfield. That's just kind of where I always
Speaker 1: picture him, you know. But yeah, I think that's actually
Speaker 1: a pretty sneaky name. I would agree. Let me actually
Speaker 1: pull up the stat cast. He's got the right handed bat,
Speaker 1: He's got some pretty bad at ball data, and then uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's got a good pull air percentage two. Oh man,
Speaker 1: that's interesting. And you kind of wonder maybe with his versatility,
Speaker 1: you know, the Red Sox like guys like that, and
Speaker 1: he's got a little bit of control. Interesting. I never
Speaker 1: really thought of Spencer Steer. That's a good one though,
Speaker 1: and you wonder at Famway Park that might actually be
Speaker 1: a pretty good fit. I mean, I think if you're
Speaker 1: thinking about, like with Netto, he's got a higher ceiling
Speaker 1: right now, Steer would be you know, you give you
Speaker 1: a good floor, but you wonder if maybe you can
Speaker 1: maximize him at Femway a little bit. The home runs
Speaker 1: would come down sixteen this year, that would go down
Speaker 1: to nine at Famway, but you play some wallball, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that's the name to look out for. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I've definitely been thinking about him as a
Speaker 1: candidate for other teams. The one thing with Steer is
Speaker 1: actually he's been raking against left handed pitching. He's hitting
Speaker 1: three forty two against the lefties, only hitting two to
Speaker 1: eleven against righty's. So he's basically like a very versatile
Speaker 1: Rome Gonzalez. So you kind of wonder, I don't know,
Speaker 1: is that like something do they want to add, you know,
Speaker 1: like with Netto, that's a guy that you know, he
Speaker 1: goes up, he goes he plays every day. So I
Speaker 1: don't know, do they want to add another like right
Speaker 1: handed bat. That's the only question I have there. But
Speaker 1: I mean the profile it fits. So yeah, he's hitting
Speaker 1: three forty two against lefties. He's got a one four
Speaker 1: WRC plus against lefties. Holy cow, guy's raking lefties. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I wouldn't count it out completely because he
Speaker 1: has like the pro file and you'd have him until
Speaker 1: for two more seasons. That's interesting. Yeah, I'd say keep
Speaker 1: your eye on him. I don't think that's completely out
Speaker 1: of the question. Moving on here we got let me
Speaker 1: get to this last super chat from Alex. I know
Speaker 1: it's not possible, but Bobby Wig Junior, I saw that
Speaker 1: floating around here today. Where did I see that here today?
Speaker 1: I can't find the right screen hold on where did
Speaker 1: this go? There? It is? Yeah, Bobby Wick Junior. Of course,
Speaker 1: who wouldn't want Bobby Wick Junior to be amazing? My goodness,
Speaker 1: I'd be doing cartwheels if we got someone like him.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing, though, well, the Royals. First off, I
Speaker 1: don't think they're gonna trade him. But actually I don't
Speaker 1: think the Red Sox would be able to afford him
Speaker 1: unless you actually sent back I think you would have.
Speaker 1: This might sound a little odd, but I think you
Speaker 1: would have to send back SETI in that kind of
Speaker 1: a deal, right, young cost control player who's looked really
Speaker 1: good this year. I feel like you would have to
Speaker 1: send him back. You'd have to send back SETI. You
Speaker 1: would have to send back Arius. You'd have to send
Speaker 1: back either totally or early at least, because that's an
Speaker 1: organization that the Royals they want to compete too. They're
Speaker 1: not just gonna get rid of Bobby Wick Junior. That's
Speaker 1: a star player. So yeah, Ben Ashman, we're not trading
Speaker 1: our MVP and Arius. This is Bobby Witck Junior. This
Speaker 1: is Bobby Wick Junior. I don't know if have you
Speaker 1: checked the numbers. I'm Bobby Wick Junior. He is a
Speaker 1: top three player in the game every year. Yeah, you're
Speaker 1: gonna have to send back SETI. You're gonna to send
Speaker 1: back Arius and a lot more. It's gonna take a
Speaker 1: lot more than that. Bobby Wick Jr. I would say
Speaker 1: value wise, trade value wise. Let me just show you again,
Speaker 1: baseball trade values. It's not the end all be all,
Speaker 1: but they're very good at when it you know, the
Speaker 1: fundamentals of a trade for value of a player when
Speaker 1: you consider all things. Looking at the Royals and looking
Speaker 1: at Bobby Wick Jr. H feast your eyes on this value. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're you're you're at a very high point right there.
Speaker 1: So that's gonna be very difficult to acquire. So yeah,
Speaker 1: you want to put them on the red SOX, let's
Speaker 1: try throwing this together again. Yeah, it would take a
Speaker 1: boatload to get this guy. So you need two hundred
Speaker 1: and fifty million dollars a surplus value. All right, We've
Speaker 1: got to start going down the list. So, yeah, Seti,
Speaker 1: he has a very high value, but he's not Bobbywick Junior.
Speaker 1: So you got to start there, Franklin Aarius, There you go,
Speaker 1: top prospect of the game. Still not even close. Bobbywick
Speaker 1: Junior is easily a top three player in the game
Speaker 1: on a pretty good contractor I don't think his uh,
Speaker 1: I don't think his contract. When does that start kicking in?
Speaker 1: Let me go to the Royals payroll. I wish there
Speaker 1: was a way I could look at I can't find it.
Speaker 1: I wish there was a way to look at the
Speaker 1: contract on their page. Yeah, Bobby Wick Junior for the
Speaker 1: next two years, he's making under twenty million dollars and
Speaker 1: he's giving you he's almost at a five war right now,
Speaker 1: and we still got more time. I mean yeah, over
Speaker 1: the last three years, he's easily been one of the
Speaker 1: best players in baseball. So yeah, I know, of course, like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not trading I wouldn't want to trade Seti. He's
Speaker 1: been great, But in this conversation, you would have to
Speaker 1: for Bobby Wit because you you wouldn't be able to
Speaker 1: make up the value. So that is that on that
Speaker 1: Moving on here, we got a few more things to
Speaker 1: talk about, a few more things to talk about. We
Speaker 1: got another super chat aiden. What's going on one ninety nine.
Speaker 1: What are your thoughts on Casey Schmidt? I like Casey Schmid.
Speaker 1: I don't think the Giants are going to move him though.
Speaker 1: The Giant that's another team that wants to compete, so
Speaker 1: he's got a lot of control left. They want to
Speaker 1: have him for the next couple of years, next few
Speaker 1: years because he's turned into a solid player and he's
Speaker 1: cheapanizations like good players that are cheap, so pro Cannon.
Speaker 1: I might be late, but did you hear about the
Speaker 1: Justin Gonzales That was pretty crazy. I'd be scared to
Speaker 1: death if I see the giant hand of Justin Gonzalez
Speaker 1: coming down to to to smack me across the head.
Speaker 1: That catcher that that guy had, That guy had some
Speaker 1: had some had some guts to start parking at Justin Gonzales.
Speaker 1: That's a scary man. Man, oh man. Yeah, he's been
Speaker 1: hitting great. Yeah you can talk about that whole thing
Speaker 1: that happened in that game, but he's been hitting great.
Speaker 1: I wonder if he ends up getting called up at
Speaker 1: some point to double a. So moving on here, we
Speaker 1: got one more thing to talk about, and then we'll
Speaker 1: take a look at the chat for a second. Here
Speaker 1: we go MLB dot Com. So right now, so Mark
Speaker 1: Fine sond Uh. He's talking about deadline plans for all
Speaker 1: the teams, and then he goes on to talk about
Speaker 1: the Red Sox. Of course, he says the primary need
Speaker 1: remains a right handed bat, preferably at catcher, either Middlandfield
Speaker 1: or DH adding a high leverage leaver is also on
Speaker 1: Boston's wish list, while a starting pitcher could also be
Speaker 1: in the cards. The starting picture one is interesting because
Speaker 1: you know, you think of, you know, the Red Sox
Speaker 1: with all the injuries lately. I mean, you might be
Speaker 1: the first thought you might have had was, really, we
Speaker 1: need more starting pitching where DoD you have so much
Speaker 1: starting pitching, but you've just had a lot of injuries.
Speaker 1: So you kind of wonder if, you know, they end
Speaker 1: up going for a guy. I think if they did,
Speaker 1: it would be someone cheap. It would be like some
Speaker 1: kind of a rental guy like I could see Foster
Speaker 1: Griffin on the Nationals, like he would be a rental.
Speaker 1: You have that relationship with Tiboni obviously, so if you
Speaker 1: needed a guy that you know to give you some
Speaker 1: insurance sinnings down the stretch. Yeah, I think that's that
Speaker 1: guy kind of fits that category. He's having a pretty
Speaker 1: solid year. You know. I've seen some opinions like maybe
Speaker 1: go after someone like Waka Bring Bring walk a home
Speaker 1: Red Sox legend right, one of Hein Bloom's better moves
Speaker 1: that he's made. Yeah, I mean, if I were to
Speaker 1: go down this list here, just looking at Jeff Passon's
Speaker 1: top twenty five, I would imagine it's not going to
Speaker 1: be any of these like top Start, you know, Redebtmer's No,
Speaker 1: I don't think, you know, maybe Casey Mice, but what
Speaker 1: do the Tigers do? I could maybe see someone like
Speaker 1: Casey Mice. He's good though, he's talented. It would for
Speaker 1: a rental, it would cost a decent amount. Like Clay Holmes,
Speaker 1: He's definitely getting some interests. So I don't know if
Speaker 1: the Red Sox would want to tap into that market.
Speaker 1: I mean Casey Mice too, he would have a good market.
Speaker 1: I could see the Red Sox not wanting to get
Speaker 1: involved for an expensive starting picture. So like Kevin Gosman,
Speaker 1: if you can't beat him, trade for him, he's but
Speaker 1: he's gonna get a lot of interest, so yeah, Like
Speaker 1: I don't know, I could see them going after like
Speaker 1: a low key kind of a guy. So like Foster Griffin,
Speaker 1: they have him here at number twenty six. I don't
Speaker 1: see prool to. I could see even though he's had
Speaker 1: a down year, I could see a bit of a
Speaker 1: market there, like Waka. I mean, he's a really good
Speaker 1: veteran on a good contract, so I feel like he
Speaker 1: would get a good amount of interest. I don't know
Speaker 1: if the Red Sox would want to entertain that, like
Speaker 1: Robbie Ray two, Like these are guys that can start
Speaker 1: postseason games, right, I think the Red Sox would rather
Speaker 1: go after innings. Bring Let's bring Dustin May home, Ladies
Speaker 1: and gentlemen, Let's bring him home, Jack Flaherty, let's do that.
Speaker 5: I don't know, Like I'm looking here, like I don't
Speaker 5: know Brady Singer, Like I feel like that could be
Speaker 5: a move, Like I'm not sure what kind of a
Speaker 5: market he's gonna get.
Speaker 1: He's had a bad year, so like that kind of
Speaker 1: fits the bill to me. Someone cheap, someone that maybe
Speaker 1: you can help turn around a little bit, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe tap into some possible ceiling or go for floor
Speaker 1: like Griffin if I'm looking elsewhere here, Bubick, he's always
Speaker 1: got injury problems. Yeah, like kind of one of those guys,
Speaker 1: you know, like someone cheap, someone that's not gonna take
Speaker 1: a lot of prospects to get someone to just give
Speaker 1: you winnings. I know I've said that like a million times.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean, let me listen. We've already talked
Speaker 1: about trade candidates. Obviously Netto is the star of the
Speaker 1: show here today, but yeah, right handed, Batt, I'll touch
Speaker 1: on the Cattre part before I do, though, now I'll
Speaker 1: get to that in a second. But Catcher, Like, here's
Speaker 1: the thing I've talked about this. Yeah, I would love
Speaker 1: to have someone like Shay Langliers or Hunter Goodman. Right.
Speaker 1: I just it's hard to see catchers getting traded in season.
Speaker 1: Yeah we had Victor Martinez, but you just don't see
Speaker 1: it very often. And uh, I think the A's would
Speaker 1: still like to try and work towards a possible extension.
Speaker 1: I know you got Boris, but I feel like they
Speaker 1: would still like to try and get that figured out
Speaker 1: because that'd be a great player to have signed up
Speaker 1: for the long haul. When you go to Vegas. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel like it ends up being someone for the
Speaker 1: middle infield. You know, I did make a tweet today
Speaker 1: about Luis a Rise. I don't know the more I
Speaker 1: think about it. With a Rise, I know he says
Speaker 1: right handed bat here, But if you didn't, you know,
Speaker 1: want to lean so much into looking for a righty,
Speaker 1: then yeah, like a Rise put him at the time
Speaker 1: of the order. He solves the leadoff spot. He kind
Speaker 1: of mixes into what the Red Sox have been doing.
Speaker 1: More back to ball. You know, he's having a great year.
Speaker 1: He's he's always hit well at Feblely Park and he's
Speaker 1: a good defender at second base. So a Rise minus
Speaker 1: you know, if you if you are preferring a righty,
Speaker 1: me checks off kind of all the boxes that you need.
Speaker 1: Minus that solves the leadoff spot, gives you a consistent
Speaker 1: option at second base two. So yeah, and then you
Speaker 1: know with Romy him and Romy that they share second
Speaker 1: base in DH. So everybody, we're going to take one
Speaker 1: more quick break and then we'll hang out with the chat.
Speaker 1: I'll be right back.
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Speaker 1: All right, back to the chat. Hang out here for
Speaker 1: a second. J L. Robbie, what do you think of
Speaker 1: the deadline? If we got a rise, Langleiers, Freddy Pearlt.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, it'd be a few solid moves right there.
Speaker 1: In my opinion, I will say this like a rise,
Speaker 1: I do see the fit there. Minus you know again,
Speaker 1: if you are looking for a righty, he'd be a lefty.
Speaker 1: But you know, I see the fib But he's not
Speaker 1: my top choice for me. I think you know we've
Speaker 1: already talked about it with Neto. You already know he's
Speaker 1: gonna bring you at least, you know, right around a
Speaker 1: three war. So so that's already good, that's already gonna
Speaker 1: be an upgrade over what you have now. But then
Speaker 1: you could possibly tap into more ceiling with him. So
Speaker 1: that's kind of where I would prefer Neto personally, and
Speaker 1: you'd have him for the next few years. So yeah, again,
Speaker 1: the more I think about it, you know, with Arius
Speaker 1: going up to triple A, Neto I think would be
Speaker 1: some good insurance, you know, to just in case of
Speaker 1: story like doesn't come back and he's able to produce.
Speaker 1: That's already gonna be a lot to ask, you know,
Speaker 1: the fact that he hasn't played major league games in
Speaker 1: a little bit, it could be tough when he comes back,
Speaker 1: you know, So yeah, go with the uh. I see
Speaker 1: people say zach Netto is the younger Trevor story. Well
Speaker 1: all right, well put in the younger Trevor story for
Speaker 1: Trevor stories. But yeah, I do see the similarities with
Speaker 1: him and the story obviously the strikeouts, but I don't know.
Speaker 1: And the you know, defense has been weird. That's I
Speaker 1: think that's the best way to say it. At short.
Speaker 1: It's just weird defense because he makes good plays, but
Speaker 1: he's just not very consistent. So but h Ben Robbie
Speaker 1: a couple of names. I'm floating for the Red Sox
Speaker 1: that nobody's talking about. Elliott Ramos, Luke Weaver, Daniel Lynch.
Speaker 1: I love Luke Weaver. I think he just brings good
Speaker 1: vibes like I love Bullpen guys like that. You know,
Speaker 1: I'd love I'd always love Luke Weaver. Daniel Lynch is interesting.
Speaker 1: I wonder if the Royals could possibly pair him with
Speaker 1: Lane Thomas as a package, you know, to kind of
Speaker 1: you know, you could probably you could probably get something decent.
Speaker 1: But if a team needed a right handed bat, you know, Thomas,
Speaker 1: he's a platoon player. Se'm not gonna get a ton
Speaker 1: for him. But if you put those two guys together,
Speaker 1: that's I think pretty good. So maybe the Red Sox
Speaker 1: could I don't know, well, no, you wouldn't get Lane Thomas,
Speaker 1: but you know, Lanch could be a could be an option,
Speaker 1: and then Elliott Ramos. Maybe the Giants are interesting. I
Speaker 1: actually wonder, you know, how motivated are they going to
Speaker 1: be to try and move some of those contracts. I
Speaker 1: wonder if maybe they could attach some prospects to some
Speaker 1: of those contracts possibly, you know, I was thinking about
Speaker 1: this the other day, like the Cardinals got heim Bloom.
Speaker 1: We remember with Heim Bloom. One example, Jackie Bradley Junior.
Speaker 1: They brought him and his contract from the Brewers with
Speaker 1: a couple of prospects, David Hamilton and ah the other
Speaker 1: prospect is it was a third baseman? Well, who is
Speaker 1: that other prospect? He was a lefty bat third baseman?
Speaker 1: Who was that? Does anyone in the chat have it?
Speaker 1: Who is the other prospect that got attached to Jackie
Speaker 1: Bradley Jr. With David Hamilton? Thank you, Alex Binalis. I
Speaker 1: could not think of that name. But yeah, Like I
Speaker 1: wonder if Heim maybe does something like that where instead
Speaker 1: of giving up prospects where they've been really rebuilding that farm,
Speaker 1: instead of giving up prospects at this point, why not
Speaker 1: just take on a contract like Matt Chapman and even
Speaker 1: and possibly even get some prospects. You know, I wonder,
Speaker 1: I wonder if Heim could do something like that with
Speaker 1: the Cardinals Austin. Is it worth calling Arizona for Katl?
Speaker 1: Probably not? At this point they're in contention. Uh, Josea Bray,
Speaker 1: you what do you think of a rise for second base,
Speaker 1: a power bat and a lefty for the bullpen? I mean, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a lot of good moves, right there, A lot
Speaker 1: of good moves at the end of the day. Though,
Speaker 1: remember we got a temper expectations with Craig Breslo. The
Speaker 1: last two deadlines have not been great. You know. Well,
Speaker 1: I will say the first deadline, at least he made
Speaker 1: a lot of moves. At least he was productive. I'll
Speaker 1: give him that. They just didn't really work out. And
Speaker 1: Danny Jansen, you know, I remember that you're looking for
Speaker 1: the right handed bat, and I'm like, Danny Janssen, like
Speaker 1: I felt like that was a little too cute, you know,
Speaker 1: like I felt like they could have really shot for
Speaker 1: more there. So I don't know, hopefully he's learned his
Speaker 1: lesson from that. And then like Dustin May, I think
Speaker 1: they were trying to shoot big and and then obviously
Speaker 1: that didn't work out, so they pivoted to Dustin May.
Speaker 1: And Yeah, so hopefully a couple of bad deadlines is
Speaker 1: good for Craig here and hopefully he can come up
Speaker 1: with something good. We'll see extra. Will THEO be handling
Speaker 1: the deadline behind the scenes? All right? Who knows? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, THEO is he's always gonna be there. He's
Speaker 1: always going to be involved somehow bear how much of
Speaker 1: the payroll of the Padres trying to shed? I don't know.
Speaker 1: The Padres are interesting. I don't know what's going on
Speaker 1: with them. I do wonder because aj Preller always wants
Speaker 1: to compete. If you moved Mason Miller, you'd get back
Speaker 1: a big package, and they still have good bullpen arms there,
Speaker 1: so like that's interesting. They have Morahan as well. That
Speaker 1: could be a good trade candidate. He wouldn't get you
Speaker 1: nearly as much as Miller would, but he get you
Speaker 1: by something. So yeah, John Breslow, he was too focused
Speaker 1: on Joe Ryan. But you know, hey, hopefully these experiences
Speaker 1: and these lessons end up being good for him and
Speaker 1: hopefully he can come up big. But again, you gotta
Speaker 1: temper the expectations with Breslo. But I'd rather at least
Speaker 1: feel that way now and then have a happy surprise.
Speaker 1: So that's kind of how I'm thinking about it right now.
Speaker 1: So that's where I don't know, is neddo Is that?
Speaker 1: Is that shooting too high? So like in the chat,
Speaker 1: I'll get back to the super chat with Spencer Steer,
Speaker 1: Like you know, we're all thinking Neto, right now is
Speaker 1: this year's Joe Ryan, Like he has become the Joe
Speaker 1: Ryan of the Red Sox trade deadline from last year.
Speaker 1: So but like you kind of wonder if Nedo is
Speaker 1: the ceiling, do you end up getting a guy like
Speaker 1: Steer who is a right handed bat. He can place
Speaker 1: some infield, you know. So that's where like if they
Speaker 1: got someone like Steer, I wouldn't be surprised about that anyway. Uh,
Speaker 1: Anthony thought on thoughts on the deadline, Brady Singer, Jonah Him,
Speaker 1: and Zach Netto interesting. I mean Jonah Heim's interesting too.
Speaker 1: I feel like they wouldn't go with him because if
Speaker 1: you're gonna go get a catcher, you go get Langleyer's
Speaker 1: a good one. I mean, you are getting by with
Speaker 1: Netto or not ned with Wong and Bias. That's getting
Speaker 1: the job done, especially defensively and with the pitching staff.
Speaker 1: If you're gonna go for a guy, you go get
Speaker 1: a guy that's gonna be a big improvement with the bat.
Speaker 1: My vote would be Langleyar's because he gives you something
Speaker 1: both sides of the ball. So I don't see Jonah Him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Brady Singer, I could see like a depth guy and
Speaker 1: then uh yeah, ned O, Yeah, Nedo. To me, is
Speaker 1: is a very obvious choice. John Bresla needs to throw
Speaker 1: a wide net. Yeah yeah, I mean he always does.
Speaker 1: He's always gonna put a lot out there. Ryan might
Speaker 1: be a shocker, but give me a little. Alejandro kirk
Speaker 1: ooh man, the Blue Jays I had like I was
Speaker 1: worried about, like after that the Blue Jays made that
Speaker 1: run last year, I'm thinking, oh no, we got to
Speaker 1: deal with this Blue Jays team for the next like
Speaker 1: good two to three years now, and they just wow,
Speaker 1: they just fell apart. I thought, man, you're bringing Dylan Cees.
Speaker 1: You bring in Kazuma Okamoto. Man, remember when we were
Speaker 1: all like hoping for Okamoto. Remember guys would come off
Speaker 1: the board and we're like, all right, next Backstoption, all
Speaker 1: right Okamoto. But Okamoto was a guy that you're like,
Speaker 1: all right, yeah, his his his profile that would fit
Speaker 1: fem way. He's he's having a good year. But I'm good.
Speaker 1: I'm good with mister uh, mister Caleb Durbin Ben. His
Speaker 1: story should be back in a few weeks, and I
Speaker 1: think he's gonna play well. I hope. So. I love
Speaker 1: Trevor's story the guys. He's a great guy. He's a
Speaker 1: hard player, so like I hate when he's hurt. That
Speaker 1: would be great if he comes back and he's hitting
Speaker 1: all right, awesome, awesome. So again, though, I still wonder
Speaker 1: if they look for insurance. You just never know. You
Speaker 1: never know, and it's such a tough ask man when
Speaker 1: you know. That's why I don't even want to say
Speaker 1: he's gonna play well. I'm not saying he's gonna play bad,
Speaker 1: but I don't even want to have those expectations because
Speaker 1: that is sexually a tough ask. The guy had a
Speaker 1: hernia surgery out for a while. I mean, just you know,
Speaker 1: I don't even want to put those expectations on him.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's fair, you know, because that's a
Speaker 1: lot to ask. Major League baseball is really hard. I
Speaker 1: don't know from experience, but obviously it is. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I hope he comes back and plays well,
Speaker 1: but I'm not gonna expect it. So we'll see. But everybody,
Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna wrap it up right there. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna wrap it up right there. I went way longer
Speaker 1: than I wanted to here tonight. I was hoping maybe
Speaker 1: like thirty minutes and this turned into an hour. So
Speaker 1: I am done. This was supposed to be an off day.
Speaker 1: I'm supposed to be relaxing, and all of a sudden
Speaker 1: we had this story here today. I'm like, all right,
Speaker 1: I gotta go live. So Christopher in the chat, it's
Speaker 1: bold to assume Ardie Moreno will trade netto You're right, I,
Speaker 1: like I said at the start of the show, though,
Speaker 1: the one difference. One difference is John Moze. Look, that
Speaker 1: guy has a lot of run, he has a lot
Speaker 1: of poll. He's been in Major League Baseball a long time.
Speaker 1: So if Moreno, if there's a guy in that organization
Speaker 1: that he will listen to, well, I mean, obviously you
Speaker 1: just brought him in, but a guy that's had a
Speaker 1: lot of experience in Major League baseball. If John Moze
Speaker 1: Loock is telling him we need to do this, like
Speaker 1: we gotta stop trying to do what we've been doing.
Speaker 1: And I actually wonder if that, if that is the
Speaker 1: route the Angels end up going. You kind of wonder,
Speaker 1: like when they had the initial conversation, like is that
Speaker 1: something that mozay Lock brought up to him, Like listen,
Speaker 1: I don't want to I don't want to come there
Speaker 1: and like just do the same old like we gotta
Speaker 1: you gotta do it differently, you know. So I don't know,
Speaker 1: it's it'll be. It's very interesting to see what the
Speaker 1: angels are gonna do. I hope they do, not just
Speaker 1: I don't want to see them bad. I want to
Speaker 1: see them get back on the right track. But I'm
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