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Speaker 1: Let's begin with big news over the weekend, Kazuma Okamoto

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Speaker 1: and the Toronto Blue Jays hook up on a four year,

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Speaker 1: sixty million dollar contract. Kratz surprised that the Blue Jays

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Speaker 1: come up with Okamoto, the questions about his defense regard

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Speaker 1: the outfield and even third base to an extent, it

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Speaker 1: sounded like many teams were interested in him as a

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Speaker 1: first baseman. The Blue Jays have a first baseman named

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Speaker 1: Bladdie Junior. So what do you think of the move?

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Speaker 2: Very surprised.

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Speaker 3: I mean we talked about a different you know, could

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Speaker 3: they go Tucker, could they go but Shet? What does

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Speaker 3: that do to Barger? Well, obviously, now this pushes Barger

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Speaker 3: out to right field. Barjar was a good third baseman.

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Speaker 3: Is this new signing going to be just more added

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Speaker 3: just more added offense, I mean, a similar offense. He

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Speaker 3: struck out about ten percent of the clip. He dropped

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Speaker 3: his strikeout percentage last year to from the previous season

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Speaker 3: five percent, So that's huge. He still has slug I

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Speaker 3: mean his ops in Japan last year in for the

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Speaker 3: Yori Giants was over a thousand. Like this is a

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Speaker 3: huge pickup. It just was very unexpected for me. I

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Speaker 3: thought if they were going to go somewhere it would

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Speaker 3: be Bashett or Tucker.

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Speaker 1: They still can. Yeah, most Sadders are saying irrelevant. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so this is truly icing on the cake before they

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Speaker 1: actually figure out if it's Tucker, Boschette or someone else.

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Speaker 1: It does sound like Bregman is out of the picture. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: because they do.

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Speaker 4: Because they have Barger and they have any Clement they

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Speaker 4: can kind of bounce around a little bit.

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Speaker 1: And Okamoto for third. So that's too many third basement.

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Speaker 4: I think it's Bashett to play second, maybe Short or

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Speaker 4: Tucker in the off because they also var show in

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Speaker 4: uh Springer free agents at the end of the year,

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Speaker 4: so that would kind of lessen if one if those

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Speaker 4: guys leave, So I don't think it excludes him from doing.

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Speaker 1: Anything neither, and they needn't let any more than a

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Speaker 1: righty bat.

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Speaker 2: Yes, and they're feeling it.

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Speaker 4: You know why they're feeling it because they just went

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Speaker 4: to the World Series and they were this far from

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Speaker 4: winning it.

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Speaker 2: I mean, excuse me, they were this far from winning

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Speaker 2: the World Series.

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Speaker 1: We say this a couple of times, but yeah, a

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Speaker 1: couple of times. Their payroll was the highest it ever

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Speaker 1: was last year and it doesn't always work out. Ask

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Speaker 1: the Mets. But they made it five seconds away from

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Speaker 1: winning a World Series and then they have reinvested it.

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Speaker 1: I heard they made stupid amounts.

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Speaker 4: I can only imagine because you saw how excited Toronto was. Yes,

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Speaker 4: so of course they reinvested, which is huge. Yeah, they

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Speaker 4: have the whole country. They don't have just a city.

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Speaker 4: To have a country mind them.

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Speaker 1: I love Okamodo the bat by the way.

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Speaker 2: Don't worry about his defense.

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Speaker 1: Yes.

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Speaker 4: And one thing about the Blue Jays, they were really

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Speaker 4: good defensively, yes, right, Well that's the other part.

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Speaker 3: That's the other part that surprises me because their base

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Speaker 3: is such a huge position. Defensively, yes, I get a

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Speaker 3: shortstop is yes, Catchers, yes, center field is. And they

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Speaker 3: have some of the best right now, even with Andre

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Speaker 3: Semenez playing shortstop. You just think about, you know, when

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Speaker 3: they had Matt Chapman and their and their starters had

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Speaker 3: the lowest dra in baseball. If it's a question, which

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Speaker 3: obviously they're like, hey, we're totally fine with it. If

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Speaker 3: we're really good defensively everywhere else, does it come back

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Speaker 3: to bite them because you're not gonna you're not paying

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Speaker 3: a guy fifteen million a year. You're not have a

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Speaker 3: four year contract to like bring a defensive third baseman in,

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Speaker 3: And I don't know that there was necessarily one out

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Speaker 3: on the market. It's not like Bargers won a Gold

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Speaker 3: Glove this year. It's you know, he played right field

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Speaker 3: and third base. It's not like Ernie Clement is gonna

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Speaker 3: win a Silver Slugger or won a Silver Slugger this

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Speaker 3: past year. He had a ridiculous World Series. But this

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Speaker 3: is just an example of what we think most teams

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Speaker 3: should do. You see a window, you don't just like

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Speaker 3: go through the window. You smash through it, and you

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Speaker 3: make sure you have enough offense, enough defense, enough pitching,

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Speaker 3: everything to get back there and win and then win

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Speaker 3: again and again.

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Speaker 1: What's the thing that the swat team us is to

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Speaker 1: open doors a battering ram? Yeah, they're using a battering

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Speaker 2: No one's complaining that the Blue Jays are going to

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Speaker 1: Sport. Dodgers fans are. There's so many that government over

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Speaker 1: that weekend, they're like, blue Jays are ruining baseball. I

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Speaker 1: mean they're being sarcastic, tongue in cheek. They're like Blue

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Speaker 1: Jay's ruining baseball with them actually trying this offseason. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: I love it. I mean it adds significant versatility. If

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Speaker 1: you do get an injury, you're in great shape with

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Speaker 1: the configuration as long as they're not planning to trade anyone,

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Speaker 1: and they theoretically will add someone like Bo, Kyle Tucker

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Speaker 1: mention there is a posting fee, so it's four year

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Speaker 1: sixty plus about eleven mil. So it's really four years

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Speaker 1: seventy one mil in terms of money that they're giving out.

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Speaker 1: They'd give eleven million to his team, the Giants over

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Speaker 1: in the MPB. But I mean again, I haven't watched

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Speaker 1: a ton of games. I haven't watched any full games

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Speaker 1: with him, but I've watched plenty of AB's. Actually I

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Speaker 1: watched World Baseball Classic he was in last year. He

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Speaker 1: homeered off or not last year, last time in twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty three homered off Kyle Freeland. But it's a simple swing.

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Speaker 1: There's contact, takes, walks, has pop how much pop? Is

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Speaker 1: it fifteen omer pop? Is it thirty homer pop? There's

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Speaker 1: pop though, So this fits exactly what the Blue Jays

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Speaker 1: like as a hitter. It's really what everyone in baseball

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Speaker 1: should like as a hitter. But you know how, we

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Speaker 1: talked a lot about the Blue Jays in contact, and

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Speaker 1: then you get the analytics crid being like, well you

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Speaker 1: need slug too, and it's like, yeah, they had both.

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Speaker 1: They had contact and slug. Who fits that O Komodo.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, here's a good signing for him. I like this signing.

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Speaker 4: I like this signing a lot, and it gets them

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Speaker 4: into the Japanese market, which listen, say what you want,

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Speaker 4: but that is a big deal because they love baseball

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Speaker 4: and they follow their players, and it brings more money

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Speaker 4: into the organization.

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Speaker 2: I mean, show hey, show hey.

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Speaker 4: Didn't start this because each row was kind of the

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Speaker 4: first big Nomo was like the first one, right, he

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Speaker 4: came over with the tornado wind up and all that

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Speaker 4: with the Dodgers. But then there was a little lull

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Speaker 4: and then Eachiro hit right, and then the Mariners went

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Speaker 4: for with Sazaki. They tried to catcher jo Jima, and

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Speaker 4: then some other teams have tried it. The Yankees tried

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Speaker 4: but when nim Matsui ta Deki, Godzilla came over and

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Speaker 4: next thing, you know, and Yankee steed him. There was

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Speaker 4: signs in Japanese which you've never seen before, right, and

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Speaker 4: the teams that have done this and done this right,

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Speaker 4: and then Shohey just took it to another level. Yeah right,

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Speaker 4: he just he wiped everybody off the board. But the

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Speaker 4: teams are now starting to learn from the Dodgers. Man,

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Speaker 4: if we can get a Japanese star, we can make money.

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Speaker 4: Like he signed for four to sixty that's fifteen a year, okay,

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Speaker 4: which is a lot of money. But if you think

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Speaker 4: you get some of the Japanese sponsors behind him, and

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Speaker 4: he does well on the Blue Jays are off the charts,

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Speaker 4: playing well, and every Japanese TV is turned in, guess

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Speaker 4: what that money is.

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Speaker 2: That's nothing.

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Speaker 1: Those contracts pay for himself. If the guy is a

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Speaker 1: star there, and he's been a star in MPB, he's

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Speaker 1: a name. He's probably been the most consistent hitter in

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Speaker 1: Japan in the NPB from twenty eighteen to twenty twenty five,

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Speaker 1: don't remember what it's called, but like the Baseball Smount

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Speaker 1: they have out in MPB. He's like near ninety nine

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Speaker 1: want to bring in Jim Boden right now to comment

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Speaker 1: on this hue, So let's get right to our resident

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Speaker 1: GM because JB, I heard that you like the player,

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Speaker 1: but you have some thoughts on this signing, so would

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Speaker 1: you like to share them with us? Yeah?

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Speaker 5: I like the player. I don't like the fit for Toronto.

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Speaker 5: I don't like that they signed him. I don't like

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Speaker 5: that they invested seventy million dollars in them. I would

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Speaker 5: rather see this seventy million go towards Kyle Tucker or Bobaschett,

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Speaker 5: or both.

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Speaker 1: For that matter.

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Speaker 2: Now, I like the player a lot.

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Speaker 1: Why.

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Speaker 5: I think he can hit and I think he's got

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Speaker 5: more power than people think. So I really like the bat.

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Speaker 5: And I think the bat fits in their blueprint, you know,

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Speaker 5: the exact blueprint that got them to.

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Speaker 1: The World Series.

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Speaker 5: This guy can hit with power, and he puts the

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Speaker 5: ball in play, he'll draw a walk. So I really

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Speaker 5: like the player. He can't play third base, okay, he's

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Speaker 5: a blue arts defender at third and I think one

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Speaker 5: of the things I loved about this Toronto Blue Jay

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Speaker 5: team last year is it was the best defensive team

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Speaker 5: they could hit for average, they could hit for power,

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Speaker 5: I think that was their calling card last year and

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Speaker 5: I loved it. Now you have a blow average defender

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Speaker 5: at third base. I don't I don't like that at all.

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Speaker 5: His best position's first base. I think he's a plus

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Speaker 5: defender at first, but Guerrero owns first base. He lives there,

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Speaker 5: and he's only going to get to play first if

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Speaker 5: Guerrero wants a day off or if he gets injured,

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Speaker 5: which hopefully won't happen. And you can't dach him because

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Speaker 5: that's George Springer has that spot and Anthony Santandera is

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Speaker 5: waiting for that spot, and you really can't put him

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Speaker 5: him in right with santander and left. That doesn't work

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Speaker 5: for me defensively. So I just don't like the fit.

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Speaker 5: I was fine with Barger and Clement at third base.

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Speaker 5: Bring back Bashett sign Tucker. I just like that pathway better.

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Speaker 5: But don't get me wrong, you never have enough good players.

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Speaker 5: And if you have that extra money in Canada and

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Speaker 5: you can be throwing seventy million dollars at a guy,

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Speaker 5: that's best role now to me is part time first third,

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Speaker 5: I personally don't like the.

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Speaker 3: Fit even if they sign a Tucker. Would you feel

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Speaker 3: the same even if they sign a Tucker? And also

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Speaker 3: from a GM standpoint, how much do you say, yeah,

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Speaker 3: we are totally defense, We're really good at defense. It's

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Speaker 3: okay if we have a little bit below average at third,

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Speaker 3: or do you say no chance. I'm never being an

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Speaker 3: elite defensive team. Taking one position where I'm a little

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Speaker 3: bit below average.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I'll take left field below average and I can

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Speaker 5: live with that. And I've already got that with Santander.

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Speaker 5: If I'm the Dodgers, I have or with too I'm

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Speaker 5: okay with that one corner outfield spot being below I

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Speaker 1: A little bit of coaching news today. Let's start with

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Speaker 3: I mean, does this mean that the Phillies have no

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Speaker 3: Like there was no tougher image than Bobashett patting Donnie

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Speaker 4: Nelson, who's the GM fairly well in Phillybi.

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Speaker 2: No, his son isn't his son the GM?

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Speaker 2: It's weird, Scott. They're trying this new thing where they

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Speaker 1: That's good?

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Speaker 4: But I thought he was retiring, didn't you say he

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Speaker 2: Did I miss something with Shill?

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Speaker 4: Schwarber's He has Kevin Long and his dog out every day.

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Speaker 4: He's one of the best in the world, and he's

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Speaker 4: got his own guy.

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Speaker 2: They were taking.

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Speaker 4: They did an article about how Kyle Schwarber calls this

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Speaker 4: guy that tells him was about his batsy.

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Speaker 2: What about Kevin Long? He's pretty good.

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Speaker 1: Schwarber has been working with that guy since twenty seventeen.

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Speaker 1: I think, so that's his private guy, his team guy.

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Speaker 4: The whitting coach job now is to meld what the

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Speaker 4: private guy says and what the hitting coach of your

446
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Speaker 4: team actually thinks their job is way harder than what

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Speaker 4: he's you know what they're saying about a hitting coaches

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Speaker 4: to v You know, when hitting coaches do their best

449
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Speaker 4: work at the hotel bar after the game. That was

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Speaker 4: when the hitting coach made his money because everyone's sitting

451
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Speaker 4: there and oh, I'm over twelve. Hitting coach like, let's

452
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Speaker 4: have another beer, and you're not that bad. No, nobody

453
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Speaker 4: goes to the hotel bar to have a beer, so

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Speaker 4: you can't even have that anymore.

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Speaker 2: You got to just sit there in the cage all day.

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Speaker 4: And I remember having conversation with Bret Boone about it, and

457
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Speaker 4: he's like, we're facing the guy that has a six CRA.

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Speaker 4: We're in August. He's like, how about we go treat

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Speaker 4: this guy like he has a six cra in August

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Speaker 4: instead of worrying about his fastball ride and his vertical

461
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Speaker 4: break and his horizontal this and that.

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Speaker 2: He's like, it's August. This guy has a six cr

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Speaker 2: Let's go pound this guy.

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Speaker 1: Well, do you want to hear what the coaching staff

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Speaker 1: lay at is now? For the Brewers, Jason Lane was

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Speaker 1: the third base coach. Now he's been promoted to offense

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Speaker 1: and strategy coordinator who works with Eric Theesen, who is

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Speaker 1: now the lead hitting coach. And then there are the

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Speaker 1: co hitting coaches below him, Gama Martinez and Daniel Vogelback,

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Speaker 1: who's the third base coason someone else. I guess, wellme

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Speaker 1: to Ricky Week. He's still there. He's the bench Couddy. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Ricky is the bench coach, but they call him the association.

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Speaker 2: No he did, No, I think he left.

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Speaker 1: Oh he left? Man, I can't he did.

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Speaker 2: I think I remember seeing something like that.

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Speaker 1: Hey, it's January, so I think it's time to start

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Speaker 1: telling people about this. Remember last year when we did

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Speaker 1: the BBWAA Awards Scalat it's back. It's back every year

479
00:21:29,240 --> 00:21:31,679
Speaker 1: for over one hundred years. But FT is back as well.

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Speaker 1: Live on the FT YouTube channel, you can see Skeens, Scooble, Otani,

481
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Speaker 1: Judge and many more baseball VIPs speaking accepting their awards.

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Speaker 1: There's great presenters, the whole deal, So make sure you

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Speaker 1: check that out. Saturday, January twenty fourth. Just wanted to

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Speaker 1: let you know about it. You can also get tickets

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Speaker 1: if you want to go in person. But we'll be

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Speaker 1: there and we'll talk about it. Let's hit hot corner. Okay,

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Speaker 1: let's start with the Chicago White Sox and their moves

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Speaker 1: that we covered already, but not with this guy. Yes,

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Speaker 1: more comedy.

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Speaker 2: Signed h Mooney Muni, Mooney Muni.

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Speaker 1: Now you get to watch the greatest power slugger in

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Speaker 1: the twenty first century for the White Sox or for

493
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Speaker 1: obviously in NPB, but now coming over to the White

494
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Speaker 1: Sox every day since you watch White Sox games every day,

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Speaker 1: I can't wait.

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Speaker 4: Yeah about this Adam Done, No, that didn't work out

497
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Speaker 4: so well. I was there for that first year he

498
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Speaker 4: had a good career that he had the worst average.

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Speaker 4: We can't I love Adam Done. I can't even talk

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Speaker 4: about bad about Adam. He's one of my all time

501
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Speaker 4: favorite teammates I ever had in my life. But I mean,

502
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Speaker 4: the quote I'll never get is when he goes done.

503
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Speaker 4: The reporter goes done, why'd you strike out with a gun?

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Speaker 2: First and one? Or third and first and third and one?

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Speaker 4: He goes I thought I might hit into a double play,

506
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Speaker 4: so I figured if I only make one out, it's better, right,

507
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Speaker 4: Like just things like that that he would say, or

508
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Speaker 4: I'll never forget, And man, he had the worst.

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Speaker 2: His first year there.

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Speaker 4: He had the worst average of all time, right, and

511
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Speaker 4: he needed like five more plate appearances with like three

512
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Speaker 4: games ago, and they just didn't play him because they

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Speaker 4: didn't want him to have that official record.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 4: It was so bad, And the next year you actually

516
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Speaker 4: had a pretty good year. Dunner was one of the

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Speaker 4: best teammates. Well, so let's not even put him in

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Speaker 4: the same category. But I tweeted about this, by the way,

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Speaker 4: Burcott when they signed him, because finally they did something

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Speaker 4: to make people notice them. This is what I've been

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Speaker 4: clamoring about. I did Chuck Garfine at the winter meetings,

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Speaker 4: I did his podcast, and I talked about this, and

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Speaker 4: I got bashed on online for saying that they needed

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Speaker 4: to go try and sign Kylee Skerber, go get some

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Speaker 4: guys and know how to hit homers and show these

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Speaker 4: other kids how to do it. I know they had

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Speaker 4: a nice second half and all this and that, but

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Speaker 4: if you're getting to be serious, then it's time to

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Speaker 4: get serious. And this was a nice first step. Now

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Speaker 4: they need to go out and do a lot of

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Speaker 4: other things, but this was a nice first step. You

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Speaker 4: cannot count on every one of your prospects to be

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Speaker 4: a star. I saw it happened. Listen, col To Montgomery

534
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Speaker 4: had a nice second ALP. He hit a lot of homers,

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Speaker 4: but he struck out a lot and he hit barely

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Speaker 4: two hundred. Right Chio their catcher, pretty good, kiro their

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Speaker 4: other catcher, pretty good.

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Speaker 2: My draft had in the six is ops. No offense

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Speaker 2: to him, Luis Robert. They're paying twenty million.

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Speaker 3: I mean, come on, we've discussed this ad nause and

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Speaker 3: where we don't even need to talk about it anymore, right,

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Speaker 3: but this is a nice first step.

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Speaker 4: Now go finish it off, Go sign some real starting pitchers,

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Speaker 4: trade for some real starting pitchers, and continue this. But

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Speaker 4: the thing that got me was what Chris gets said

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Speaker 4: that Jerry Reinsdorf had to be talked into this.

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Speaker 2: I don't like.

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Speaker 4: Yes, we talked about this on the show all the time,

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Speaker 4: and I love Jerry Reinsworf. I've known him forever and

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Speaker 4: been to my house whatever. I had a lot of

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Speaker 4: time with Jerry REINSERP. You had to be told that

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Speaker 4: signing an international superstar from Japan would help your ticket

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Speaker 4: sales and your ad sales Like this again is the show?

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Speaker 4: Hey Tani effect in baseball. If you go get the

555
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Speaker 4: Japanese guy, the Japanese people will follow, they'll watch, they'll

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Speaker 4: come to the game, they'll buy jerseys, they'll buy sign

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Speaker 4: it like, yes, if you buy get better players.

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Speaker 2: Guess what more people come to the games.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna make this back. I mean, this is not

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Speaker 1: the Otani contract. This isn't four hundred fifty two years

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Speaker 1: present value. This is two years thirty four mils. So

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Speaker 1: I think they were like, hey, we like this guy.

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Speaker 1: We think we should sin him. And I don't even

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Speaker 1: think it'll cost you anything. We might actually prop it off.

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Speaker 1: A signing like this, that's what's been happening lately with

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Speaker 1: Japanese players. And he's like, hmm okay, And we could

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Speaker 1: show the tweet too that plays this out. Sam Falin, yeah,

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Speaker 1: who covers them, said in three days since the Socks

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Speaker 1: signed Murakami, this was a couple of weeks ago, season

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Speaker 1: ticket sales skyrocketing, team getting national attention, social media pages

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Speaker 1: popping off, international fans getting familiar with the White Sox brand.

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Speaker 1: Spend money, make money. And I'll just add this, spend money,

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Speaker 1: make money internationally right now, especially in Japan.

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Speaker 2: And then you see the last line. Hopefully Jerry learns

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Speaker 2: a lesson from this.

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Speaker 4: But I can't figure out Jerry is very smart still,

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Speaker 4: he's eighty eight, is eighty nine, He's still mentally very sharp.

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Speaker 2: I saw him at the Winter meetings. He's very sharp.

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Speaker 2: He's still there.

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Speaker 4: Okay, but he should have known that he's owned this

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Speaker 4: team for forty years plus years now, like they took

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Speaker 4: this to figure out, like if you've got internationally especially right,

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Speaker 4: Like I don't know that that. That was to me

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Speaker 4: the biggest thing, Like I love the signing personally, I

585
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Speaker 4: really do love the signing. I think it's a great signing.

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Speaker 4: And if he becomes anything, they're gonna make money hand

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Speaker 4: over fist for this signing. Okay, So I just that

588
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Speaker 4: was the surprise when get said brook Me and Brooks Boyer,

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Speaker 4: who's the basically the number two in command of the

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Speaker 4: White Sox behind Jerry for marketing and for everything else

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Speaker 4: that he needs done, had to go to him and say, hey, Jerry,

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Speaker 4: if we do this, we can get money from the

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Speaker 4: international meet you know, media, international sponsors. And he's like okay, wow,

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Speaker 4: Like yeah, like that was the thing to me, like

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Speaker 4: let's go White Sox finally.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I couldn't. I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I'm I'm glad they signed him. It's not the White

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Speaker 3: Sox winning window. How does this affect the young guys?

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Speaker 3: I just think it puts another guy out there that, hey,

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Speaker 3: you know what, we're not afraid to sign some money.

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Speaker 2: You know you want the.

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Speaker 3: White Sox to I don't think they're at the point

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Speaker 3: where they would do the Jason Wirth type of contract

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Speaker 3: and go out and get somebody that's like, Okay, now

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Speaker 3: we're going to bring in free agents. So this isn't

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Speaker 3: that type of contract. But at seventeen a year, I'm

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Speaker 3: good with it, especially if he can hit some dingers,

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Speaker 3: like everybody loves dingers.

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Speaker 4: It's two years, Cratzy, that's not a big commitment. It's

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Speaker 4: not a ten year, it's two years. It's literally two years.

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Speaker 4: Like this is fine. You try it out and see

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Speaker 4: if it works, and you know what, he might hit

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Speaker 4: forty homers for you the next two years, and guess what,

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Speaker 4: then you can resign him again and then you might

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Speaker 4: hit forty more for you for the next five years.

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Speaker 4: And by the way, justin I love you in the chat.

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Speaker 4: But Shawn Newcomb and Jared Kelnick signings. They don't move

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Speaker 4: the needle.

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Speaker 2: I'm sorry.

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Speaker 4: I played with Shawn Newcomb. Jared Kelnick has not panned

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Speaker 4: out the way people.

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Speaker 2: That's there.

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Speaker 1: You go.

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Speaker 4: You want to talk about prospects that don't become superstars.

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00:28:05,119 --> 00:28:08,640
Speaker 4: Remember he was supposed to be the future Seattle, New York.

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Speaker 4: He got traded. They were like, oh my gosh.

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Speaker 2: We traded kel Nick.

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Speaker 1: Remember Brody van Wagoning got destroyed for that. When he

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Speaker 1: was running the Mets front office. They were like, oh,

630
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Speaker 1: how could you trade their top prospect for Edwin Diaz?

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Speaker 2: Worked out? All right?

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Speaker 1: Done for the Mets.

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Speaker 4: I mean, I'm sorry, Like that's the perfect example. And listen,

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Speaker 4: I mean listen, Anthony k I like the signing new guy, right,

635
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Speaker 4: Sewan Nucomb foign a half million not a bad signing.

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Speaker 2: I mean, he's not going to move the needle though

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Speaker 2: for anybody you know, he's lot though.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, trually he's going to get a chance and then

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Speaker 1: he'll go back to But yeah, but.

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Speaker 4: I mean, those don't Those aren't the types of moves

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Speaker 4: that really push you to the next level. They're nice there,

642
00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:51,680
Speaker 4: little pieces, but at some point, again, you got to

643
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Speaker 4: go for the big the big names. The teams that

644
00:28:54,280 --> 00:28:58,080
Speaker 4: win get the big names. People bars shine in October.

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Speaker 1: People were excited to get your thoughts, and I think

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Speaker 1: your thoughts are very positive.

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Speaker 2: I love this signing. I absolutely love, love, love love

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Speaker 2: lou signing.

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Speaker 1: And he signed for way less than people think, because well, there's.

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Speaker 4: Some people that aren't sold on him because he doesn't

651
00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:14,240
Speaker 4: have a high batting average against high velocity. You know

652
00:29:14,280 --> 00:29:16,680
Speaker 4: what he's in there for. Hey, listen, dude, go hit

653
00:29:16,720 --> 00:29:19,360
Speaker 4: me thirty five to forty homers, Like that's the game now.

654
00:29:19,360 --> 00:29:21,320
Speaker 4: I don't care if you strike out two hundred times,

655
00:29:22,640 --> 00:29:24,480
Speaker 4: Go hit'eventy five to forty.

656
00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:26,959
Speaker 3: How many did How many does it take for him

657
00:29:27,000 --> 00:29:28,440
Speaker 3: to win Rookie of the Year. We talked about it

658
00:29:28,480 --> 00:29:30,120
Speaker 3: one of the days you were gone, one of the

659
00:29:30,120 --> 00:29:33,280
Speaker 3: one hundred days you were gone. But like, if he

660
00:29:33,360 --> 00:29:37,160
Speaker 3: hits thirty five, is he slam dunk Rookie of the Year.

661
00:29:37,240 --> 00:29:39,200
Speaker 3: If he hits two tens, I mean not if there's

662
00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:41,400
Speaker 3: a Nick Kertz out there that goes out and becomes

663
00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:43,520
Speaker 3: as one of the greatest rookie years of all time.

664
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Speaker 4: I mean, I don't know who else. I mean, I

665
00:29:45,440 --> 00:29:47,360
Speaker 4: don't know who else. You never know there could be

666
00:29:47,400 --> 00:29:50,920
Speaker 4: somebody from an organization that just blows up. If he

667
00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:53,960
Speaker 4: hits forty homers, he's probably gonna be Rookie of the year.

668
00:29:54,400 --> 00:29:54,600
Speaker 1: Right.

669
00:29:54,680 --> 00:29:57,720
Speaker 4: If he hits thirty five to forty homers, probably gonna

670
00:29:57,720 --> 00:29:59,920
Speaker 4: be Rookie of the year. It's hard to It's hard

671
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Speaker 4: to I find a rookie. I mean unless peet Alonso.

672
00:30:02,440 --> 00:30:04,760
Speaker 4: Remember pet Alonzo hit what fifty seven is rookie year?

673
00:30:04,840 --> 00:30:07,920
Speaker 4: Whatever that crazy number was, was it? Whatever he hit

674
00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:09,400
Speaker 4: that year, he broke Judges record.

675
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Speaker 1: Remember he and Judge his rookie year too, right, Because's

676
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Speaker 1: what I'm saying.

677
00:30:12,440 --> 00:30:14,640
Speaker 4: Yeah, like, unless you have someone that kind of does

678
00:30:14,720 --> 00:30:16,920
Speaker 4: that trout, yeah, trout.

679
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Speaker 2: Someone like that. I don't know. I just think that

680
00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:21,720
Speaker 2: I think thirty gets it done.

681
00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:24,440
Speaker 3: My thing with the whole like can't hit fastballs and

682
00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:28,479
Speaker 3: all that stuff. I played in twenty nineteen with Cody

683
00:30:28,520 --> 00:30:30,760
Speaker 3: Ponce and I'm trying to think who else was there,

684
00:30:30,840 --> 00:30:35,320
Speaker 3: Joe Adell, Like for Team USA, we played against the

685
00:30:36,120 --> 00:30:39,440
Speaker 3: Team Samurai, the Japanese All star team that goes to

686
00:30:39,480 --> 00:30:42,080
Speaker 3: all the WBC, went to the Olympics, all that stuff.

687
00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:45,440
Speaker 3: We played against them in Japan. It was the exact

688
00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:49,400
Speaker 3: same thing like a lot of these guys couldn't hit fastballs,

689
00:30:50,960 --> 00:30:54,200
Speaker 3: but you could see they were making adjustments. Seya Suzuki

690
00:30:54,280 --> 00:30:58,560
Speaker 3: was on that team. He's done pretty decent and made adjustments.

691
00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:04,240
Speaker 3: Akka Akamodo Okamoto was on that team. You know a

692
00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:07,080
Speaker 3: lot of these guys were on those teams that I

693
00:31:07,160 --> 00:31:11,320
Speaker 3: played against, And yes, they don't do well. But as

694
00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:14,320
Speaker 3: AJ would say, like a lot of good hitters, a

695
00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:17,160
Speaker 3: lot of big league hitters are okay with having a

696
00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:22,240
Speaker 3: deficiency if they never miss the ones that they're looking for.

697
00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:23,040
Speaker 2: You know what I mean.

698
00:31:23,200 --> 00:31:25,360
Speaker 3: I'm not saying more comedy's that guy. I'm just saying

699
00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:28,640
Speaker 3: I think people are too. They're too like, oh, man,

700
00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:31,040
Speaker 3: he can't hit over ninety three or ninety four miles

701
00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:34,160
Speaker 3: an hour, whatever that stat was. Well, they're not just

702
00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:36,600
Speaker 3: gonna keep pumping him with ten straight fastballs.

703
00:31:36,600 --> 00:31:39,760
Speaker 2: And if they do, I have a feeling a.

704
00:31:39,680 --> 00:31:43,560
Speaker 3: Big league hitter from another country is gonna make the adjustment.

705
00:31:43,640 --> 00:31:46,440
Speaker 3: And on a team like the White Sox, they're gonna

706
00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:49,560
Speaker 3: be playing from behind. Teams aren't just gonna be like, oh,

707
00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:52,160
Speaker 3: I'm super scared of this guy. I'm gonna pitch around him.

708
00:31:52,280 --> 00:31:53,760
Speaker 3: I think they're gonna go after him, and that's why

709
00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:56,440
Speaker 3: I think he's going to get his thirty to thirty

710
00:31:56,480 --> 00:31:58,120
Speaker 3: five homers.

711
00:32:00,080 --> 00:32:00,880
Speaker 2: All love it, ye know.

712
00:32:01,920 --> 00:32:03,760
Speaker 1: There's just not There's not a lot of downside here.

713
00:32:03,800 --> 00:32:07,520
Speaker 1: The downside is, Okay, he's not a super productive long

714
00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:11,360
Speaker 1: term player and not worth locking in for whatever five

715
00:32:11,480 --> 00:32:14,200
Speaker 1: seven plus contract. And that's fine. Then you got two

716
00:32:14,240 --> 00:32:15,600
Speaker 1: years out of him. You got a lot of pop

717
00:32:15,680 --> 00:32:17,880
Speaker 1: on a team that's not making the playoffs right now. Anyway,

718
00:32:17,880 --> 00:32:21,040
Speaker 1: it's a rebuilding teams, a great science, butts and seeds.

719
00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:24,800
Speaker 2: Here's the upside high I'll say this. Listen, it's in credits.

720
00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:25,160
Speaker 2: Knows this.

721
00:32:25,320 --> 00:32:27,720
Speaker 4: How many guys have you seen over suit Spencer Jones,

722
00:32:27,760 --> 00:32:29,720
Speaker 4: Jason Deming goes. I go back to my time with

723
00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:31,920
Speaker 4: the White Sox. Gordon Beckham. Okay, it was like the

724
00:32:32,040 --> 00:32:35,560
Speaker 4: ninth overall pick and I love Gordon Beckham, right, great guy,

725
00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:38,480
Speaker 4: good friend of mine still to this day. He went

726
00:32:38,520 --> 00:32:40,840
Speaker 4: out his first year and had a great, unbelievable first

727
00:32:40,920 --> 00:32:44,080
Speaker 4: half of his career, right, and the White Sox over

728
00:32:44,160 --> 00:32:47,000
Speaker 4: hyped him in the offseason. He was doing a million

729
00:32:47,080 --> 00:32:50,280
Speaker 4: things and then he never had that same success again. Now,

730
00:32:50,360 --> 00:32:53,120
Speaker 4: whatever the cost for that was I don't know. Okay,

731
00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:56,360
Speaker 4: he had a nice career, but he never became the star. Right,

732
00:32:56,840 --> 00:32:59,640
Speaker 4: that's what you worry about when you see guys and

733
00:32:59,680 --> 00:33:01,480
Speaker 4: I hope and I hope and pray it doesn't happen

734
00:33:01,520 --> 00:33:04,360
Speaker 4: to Montgomery and Teal and Kiro and Mydrath and all

735
00:33:04,360 --> 00:33:07,200
Speaker 4: these guys. Right, But now they have been attendee, they

736
00:33:07,240 --> 00:33:09,720
Speaker 4: have more Kami, they have some at least a couple

737
00:33:09,840 --> 00:33:12,440
Speaker 4: guys around that, you know. I know Murakami hasn't played

738
00:33:12,440 --> 00:33:14,440
Speaker 4: in the big leagues, but at least he's played in

739
00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:16,800
Speaker 4: big games and he's hit home runs, and he could

740
00:33:16,800 --> 00:33:18,880
Speaker 4: show some of these younger guys how to do it.

741
00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:20,000
Speaker 2: And that's what you need.

742
00:33:20,080 --> 00:33:22,640
Speaker 4: You need guys around that can keep guys on their

743
00:33:22,680 --> 00:33:24,920
Speaker 4: toes and ready and teach them how to be major

744
00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:26,120
Speaker 4: league baseball players.

745
00:33:26,320 --> 00:33:27,960
Speaker 1: Right. You can't just have a team full of kids.

746
00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:30,000
Speaker 1: That doesn't it doesn't work. Now. You need the blend.

747
00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:33,960
Speaker 1: Every good team has a blend. That's always what happens. Okay,

748
00:33:34,080 --> 00:33:37,080
Speaker 1: let's get to a baby signing from the weekend. Paul

749
00:33:37,120 --> 00:33:40,960
Speaker 1: DeYoung still going strong, a minor league contract with the

750
00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:43,960
Speaker 1: Yankees with the major league invite to camp if he

751
00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:45,920
Speaker 1: makes the team, he gets a million bucks. Last year

752
00:33:45,960 --> 00:33:48,720
Speaker 1: he signed for a one year deal for a million bucks,

753
00:33:48,760 --> 00:33:52,800
Speaker 1: So this is insurance to have more options for Anthony Volpi.

754
00:33:52,960 --> 00:33:56,120
Speaker 1: Last year it was the deal with the Nationals for

755
00:33:56,240 --> 00:33:59,000
Speaker 1: a million bucks. This year it's with the Yankees. Remember,

756
00:33:59,080 --> 00:34:02,120
Speaker 1: Volpi is going to start late to his season, and

757
00:34:03,120 --> 00:34:08,520
Speaker 1: to me, this is just another statement from the Yankees

758
00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:11,279
Speaker 1: that they believe Volpi is going to be their shortstop.

759
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:14,680
Speaker 1: So they're just yeah, they've got cabi Ero, They've got

760
00:34:15,040 --> 00:34:19,040
Speaker 1: Deyong if he makes the team, I get can Rosario

761
00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:22,799
Speaker 1: play some short maybe he has? Yeah, So you've got

762
00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:25,000
Speaker 1: those guys to fill in for a month and change,

763
00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:27,000
Speaker 1: and then Volpi comes back and they hand the keys

764
00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:29,480
Speaker 1: back to him. For fans that desperately want them to

765
00:34:29,480 --> 00:34:32,439
Speaker 1: go find a shortstop, it does not appear to be

766
00:34:32,480 --> 00:34:35,520
Speaker 1: in the cards. They do. They love him. Why are

767
00:34:35,520 --> 00:34:36,040
Speaker 1: you smirking?

768
00:34:37,040 --> 00:34:41,840
Speaker 3: Because Twitter, Well, AJ was in Africa Twitter Yankees. Twitter

769
00:34:42,000 --> 00:34:46,040
Speaker 3: was eviscerating me and comparing my baseball reference page to

770
00:34:46,080 --> 00:34:50,200
Speaker 3: a Rod's baseball reference page about my comments that you

771
00:34:50,239 --> 00:34:54,160
Speaker 3: know what, Velpi has been more productive than Dansby Swanson

772
00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:57,799
Speaker 3: at this point in his career, so maybe let it

773
00:34:57,840 --> 00:35:00,399
Speaker 3: play out. We'll see, we'll see. I mean it could

774
00:35:00,400 --> 00:35:02,959
Speaker 3: be worse to me. I like the signing you have Kaby.

775
00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:06,319
Speaker 3: I think Kabierra will play more than we'll play more than.

776
00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:07,600
Speaker 2: Paul de Young.

777
00:35:07,920 --> 00:35:11,680
Speaker 3: Paul de Young, he came off last year, He came

778
00:35:11,719 --> 00:35:14,120
Speaker 3: off of hitting a twenty twenty four home run season,

779
00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:17,320
Speaker 3: and he only got a million dollars from the Nats

780
00:35:17,800 --> 00:35:20,840
Speaker 3: to do what maybe be there in cases C J

781
00:35:21,000 --> 00:35:24,839
Speaker 3: Abrams kind of thing, like I really like this. He's

782
00:35:24,880 --> 00:35:27,960
Speaker 3: a professional player. You never heard anything bad about him.

783
00:35:29,040 --> 00:35:29,799
Speaker 2: Did you play with him?

784
00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:32,280
Speaker 3: Aj or was he not there quite yet? He's probably

785
00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:34,719
Speaker 3: no Young? No, de Young was younger, but he played

786
00:35:34,760 --> 00:35:36,480
Speaker 3: third base with the Nats last year. So I forget

787
00:35:36,840 --> 00:35:39,000
Speaker 3: and did okay. But by the way I want to

788
00:35:39,040 --> 00:35:40,520
Speaker 3: I just want to mention this. I didn't see all

789
00:35:40,560 --> 00:35:42,800
Speaker 3: this on Twitter because I was just in a country,

790
00:35:42,880 --> 00:35:46,319
Speaker 3: Tanzania that doesn't allow Twitter, so you can't you can't

791
00:35:46,360 --> 00:35:47,960
Speaker 3: even go on x Twitter.

792
00:35:48,480 --> 00:35:50,479
Speaker 4: It doesn't do anything. So as soon as you land

793
00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:54,960
Speaker 4: in Tanzania, it's nothing that's weird.

794
00:35:55,239 --> 00:35:58,920
Speaker 3: It's none for Tanzania. You can't even it doesn't do anything.

795
00:35:58,960 --> 00:36:00,400
Speaker 3: My son was like, oh my good to Get my

796
00:36:00,480 --> 00:36:01,200
Speaker 3: Bears News.

797
00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:04,600
Speaker 1: No Twitter trolls in Tanzania.

798
00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:08,759
Speaker 4: There are definitely no Twitter trolls. It's Twitter. And there's

799
00:36:08,800 --> 00:36:10,439
Speaker 4: another one that there's two of them that are banned,

800
00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:20,600
Speaker 4: TikTok because no, it wasn't TikTok, because TikTok, Instagram, WhatsApp.

801
00:36:21,400 --> 00:36:25,480
Speaker 4: There's like five of them that agreed to whatever the

802
00:36:25,640 --> 00:36:28,880
Speaker 4: terms were that Tanzania needed them to so they would

803
00:36:28,880 --> 00:36:31,440
Speaker 4: still allow them. But I guess because it said Twitter

804
00:36:31,600 --> 00:36:35,839
Speaker 4: uses allows nudity on their app x, so they said

805
00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:38,720
Speaker 4: that's why. And also because they said there was people

806
00:36:39,160 --> 00:36:43,280
Speaker 4: protesting against the leaders of Tanzania, I don't know whatever,

807
00:36:43,320 --> 00:36:45,600
Speaker 4: and they wanted to make sure that they were censored.

808
00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:46,239
Speaker 2: I don't know.

809
00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:48,360
Speaker 4: It was a long whole thing. But when I landed,

810
00:36:48,400 --> 00:36:49,799
Speaker 4: I was like, oh, let me check my Twitter and

811
00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:52,120
Speaker 4: see what's happening. And it didn't do anything, and I

812
00:36:52,200 --> 00:36:55,000
Speaker 4: was like, wait, what the hell's happening here? This is

813
00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:57,960
Speaker 4: really strange, crazy, And so people were wishing me happy

814
00:36:57,960 --> 00:37:01,200
Speaker 4: birthday on Twitter and I was like, oh, sorry, I

815
00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:03,120
Speaker 4: didn't see these until I got back to the country

816
00:37:03,120 --> 00:37:04,000
Speaker 4: that allowed Twitter.

817
00:37:04,920 --> 00:37:12,000
Speaker 2: Cancer don't get Twitter, nos do not. Yeah, that's what

818
00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:12,480
Speaker 2: he said.

819
00:37:12,560 --> 00:37:13,520
Speaker 1: That's what he said.

820
00:37:14,880 --> 00:37:15,800
Speaker 2: That's what he said.

821
00:37:16,080 --> 00:37:16,960
Speaker 1: That's what he said.

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Speaker 6: Paralta is attractive not only to teams like the Yankees

823
00:37:24,400 --> 00:37:27,799
Speaker 6: and the Mets and the Braves and others who would

824
00:37:27,840 --> 00:37:31,320
Speaker 6: be classified as big market, but even small market teams

825
00:37:31,320 --> 00:37:33,760
Speaker 6: can afford him, and they're in the mix as well.

826
00:37:34,239 --> 00:37:37,319
Speaker 6: Do I expect Paralta to get traded? I would say yes,

827
00:37:37,440 --> 00:37:40,280
Speaker 6: I do expect that to happen. I expect the Brewers

828
00:37:40,280 --> 00:37:42,960
Speaker 6: to get pushed to the point where they feel like

829
00:37:43,040 --> 00:37:45,359
Speaker 6: they're comfortable doing it, and if they get a major

830
00:37:45,440 --> 00:37:49,000
Speaker 6: League ready starting pitcher in return, they would have some

831
00:37:49,160 --> 00:37:53,200
Speaker 6: depth in that rotation. They actually already have depth. It's Woodriff,

832
00:37:53,200 --> 00:37:56,600
Speaker 6: it's Miserowski, and it's Priester to start that rotation, and

833
00:37:56,640 --> 00:37:59,560
Speaker 6: then they have a bunch of other candidates that they

834
00:37:59,560 --> 00:38:02,640
Speaker 6: feel good about. If they got one more, they feel

835
00:38:02,640 --> 00:38:06,319
Speaker 6: even better. Even without Freddy Peralta, who of course has

836
00:38:06,360 --> 00:38:09,120
Speaker 6: been immensely important to that team over the years and

837
00:38:09,239 --> 00:38:11,680
Speaker 6: coming off arguably his best year.

838
00:38:12,280 --> 00:38:15,360
Speaker 1: Freddy Peralta, will he or won't he go? The latest

839
00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:19,600
Speaker 1: from Ken sounds like he will be training going. That's big.

840
00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:21,640
Speaker 4: He's a cheap guy who's making an eight eight million

841
00:38:21,640 --> 00:38:25,279
Speaker 4: this year for a guy that was unbelievably good last year.

842
00:38:25,320 --> 00:38:26,000
Speaker 1: He's a one.

843
00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:27,839
Speaker 2: Why would the Brewers do this? I know they can

844
00:38:27,840 --> 00:38:29,160
Speaker 2: get some players.

845
00:38:30,200 --> 00:38:32,360
Speaker 1: After this year. He's gosh, I know it just it

846
00:38:32,480 --> 00:38:33,040
Speaker 1: just hurts you.

847
00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:35,000
Speaker 2: It hurts your heart.

848
00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:36,520
Speaker 1: He's gone after this year.

849
00:38:36,520 --> 00:38:39,279
Speaker 4: If you throw an extension offer for five years one hundred,

850
00:38:39,320 --> 00:38:40,399
Speaker 4: you think he would turn that down?

851
00:38:40,560 --> 00:38:42,279
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, I do.

852
00:38:42,480 --> 00:38:43,080
Speaker 2: I'm not there.

853
00:38:43,280 --> 00:38:43,560
Speaker 1: I know.

854
00:38:43,640 --> 00:38:44,200
Speaker 2: I'm just saying.

855
00:38:45,600 --> 00:38:47,560
Speaker 1: I mean, it doesn't hurt to throw things out there,

856
00:38:47,719 --> 00:38:49,759
Speaker 1: but if you're going to do that, you have to

857
00:38:49,840 --> 00:38:54,239
Speaker 1: do it sooner. That's I know they did sign and

858
00:38:54,280 --> 00:38:56,200
Speaker 1: I think Freddy would have done another one. But you

859
00:38:56,239 --> 00:38:58,040
Speaker 1: can't do it with a year to go. I mean

860
00:38:58,040 --> 00:39:00,000
Speaker 1: you can, but then at the number is close to

861
00:39:00,080 --> 00:39:01,919
Speaker 1: free agent number. If you did it two years ago,

862
00:39:02,920 --> 00:39:05,799
Speaker 1: the number could be attractive. Yeah, you're right, that's the

863
00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:08,080
Speaker 1: whole thing. I mean, I think you can carry guys.

864
00:39:08,120 --> 00:39:09,640
Speaker 2: So then where does he get traded? Yankees?

865
00:39:11,000 --> 00:39:13,960
Speaker 1: They're definitely trying, but I think almost anyone's trying.

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00:39:13,719 --> 00:39:18,960
Speaker 4: For Freddy Pearl for Yeah, White Sox, Hello, White Sox.

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Speaker 1: I don't think it'll be the White Sox for one season,

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Speaker 1: but a team that's in this year. You got to

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Speaker 1: be in it this year. You think you're winning, you

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Speaker 1: think you're getting to the playoffs and doing damage this year.

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Speaker 1: Then you're trading for Freddy per Altocrats because the asking

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Speaker 1: price is going to be high. He also will get

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Speaker 1: a qualifying offer after this season if he's traded before

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Speaker 1: the season, so that gets factored into the price. So

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Speaker 1: a team will have to give up someone, you know,

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Speaker 1: a pick that's worthy of that, they make you pay

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Speaker 1: for that, and then you trade the prospects or whatever

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Speaker 1: you think the value is of the player on top

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Speaker 1: of that.

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Speaker 3: Rewind back. I didn't hear what you guys said because

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Speaker 3: my screen froze. But Cormyn Burns twenty twenty three, Like

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Speaker 3: that's exactly I mean twenty twenty four to the Orioles,

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Speaker 3: Like if you're, oh, what's it gonna cost?

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Speaker 2: Was it is? What's gonna cost?

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Speaker 3: Except I they think Corbyn Burns made fourteen or sixteen

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Speaker 3: that year in arbitration. Freddie P is making half Freddy

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Speaker 3: P is gonna make hay and that means a lot

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Speaker 3: to teams. But hey, you know what I I hated

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Speaker 3: for my Milwaukee Brethren that they that they would lose

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Speaker 3: Freddy P.

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Speaker 2: Just I get it.

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Speaker 3: They have depth, they do, but man, you can't because

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Speaker 3: he's he's really he's really turned into he took another

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Speaker 3: step next this this past.

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Speaker 1: Year he did.

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Speaker 2: True.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, there are too many teams that need starters.

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Speaker 1: This is too attractive. The Orioles could make an offer.

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Speaker 1: I know they've already traded away a bunch of prospect

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Speaker 1: capital and it's easier for them to spend, but they've

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Speaker 1: also spent a lot. I mean, they could make a play.

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Speaker 1: They've matched up with the Brewers the past. Don't rule

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Speaker 1: it out. Is it like.

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Speaker 2: Yankees, Brewers, Yankees, Orioles, Mets Nets.

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Speaker 4: There's some teams out there that could make a move

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Speaker 4: for Freddy that would definitely Cubs would I mean the

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Speaker 4: would probably.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, the Cubs would. Yeah, they wouldn't trade him

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Speaker 1: in the Cubs. The Cubs would love to get Freddy P.

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Speaker 1: Doesn't cost much in the Cubs.

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Speaker 2: Or what about the break.

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Speaker 1: What won't happen breaks? Wow?

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Speaker 2: Okay to me, I think this is the Yankees got

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Speaker 2: to be the Yankees.

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Speaker 1: Right Well, I don't know if it has to be,

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Speaker 1: because it depends on how they match up. The Brewers

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Speaker 1: might say, hey, we don't love the prospects. You're throwing

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Speaker 1: our way.

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Speaker 3: True, but I mean they just they offloaded Collins already.

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Speaker 3: Are they do they need to restat restock in the outfield?

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Speaker 2: Do they need to.

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Speaker 1: Like you guys?

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Speaker 4: Here's a better question. Is this the year with the Brewers?

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Speaker 4: Were they finally lost too much and they can't do

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Speaker 4: it again?

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Speaker 1: Oh and then they don't make the playoffs?

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Is this the year?

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Speaker 4: Because for years we've been people have been saying this

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Speaker 4: is the year. Is just at some point it all

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Speaker 4: it comes.

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Speaker 1: To this isn't the year. And I'll tell you why.

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Speaker 1: They actually have a number of starters that will be

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Speaker 1: back that can It's not going to fill the place

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Speaker 1: of Freddie p but they do have many starting pitching

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Speaker 1: options there. They're farm systems in a better place the

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Speaker 1: last few years, and I think that's what's taken them

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Speaker 1: again to this next level of winning the division. And

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Speaker 1: here's the most important part. Cardinals are going to be

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Speaker 1: way worse. Reds have done nothing. Cubs have done nothing

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Speaker 1: but rebuild a bullpen that was good and now fill that.

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Speaker 1: But they haven't replaced Tucker or done much so where.

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Speaker 1: I mean, there's competition, but it's not like you look

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Speaker 1: in your life. What's the team I'm missing. Pittsburgh got

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Speaker 1: a little better, but it's a little better. Yeah, just

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Speaker 1: a little better for me. You think they got a

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Speaker 1: lot better. I think they got a little think they

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Speaker 1: got a little better than a little. Okay, they got better,

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Speaker 1: but I still think the Brewers are the team to

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Speaker 1: beat in the division right now. Okay that's me.

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Speaker 2: Tell let's you a baseball. Pakodo says, I don't care

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Speaker 2: about the wins. I mean wins they're going to adult.

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Speaker 1: What is that?

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Speaker 2: What does BEM have for their win total right now?

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Speaker 1: I don't know, but we can check. We can check.

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Speaker 1: We're doing that segment in a second. One other thing

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Speaker 1: that just came through is am I in his press

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Speaker 1: conference said he will not pitch for Team Japan in

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Speaker 1: the WBC. He wants to get acclimated but his teammates

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Speaker 1: without a disruption during spring training. And then Chandler Rome

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Speaker 1: also tweeted he wants to prioritize getting used to things

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Speaker 1: in his first year. Wait, I'm going to add to that.

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Speaker 1: I want to prioritize my free agent year. He's trying

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Speaker 1: to show that he's a one to fifty mil pitcher

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Speaker 1: and not a sixty three or whatever. The number is

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Speaker 1: right to all of these major league teams that just

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Speaker 1: said me, we don't really believe in you stuff wise,

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Speaker 1: if he can throw strikes, I think he could be

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Speaker 1: a top end starter, right, And most teams just now said, eh,

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Speaker 1: you're more of a four right with maybe three upside.

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Speaker 1: He's trying to prove he's a a two. And then

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Speaker 1: if you go back into the market as a two

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Speaker 1: with that kind of stuff and upside, then you're now

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Speaker 1: one hundred mili plus player. So for him, it's spring training.

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Speaker 1: Major leagues. Screw the wb SI so much.

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Speaker 4: Is Team Japan gonna get hurt? I mean, I know

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Speaker 4: Isoto playing for Team Japan.

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Speaker 1: Yamamoto is pitching, show Hey, I don't know if he's pitching,

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Speaker 1: but he's playing. But he's playing.

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Speaker 2: Then, But then is like Murkami probably won't play for teams.

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Speaker 1: And position players are an easier sell I think, is

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Speaker 1: it though?

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Speaker 4: Because these guys are coming over to the new team.

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Speaker 4: A lot of times guys don't want to do it

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Speaker 4: in their first year because they're getting acclimated to a

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Speaker 4: new team and everything.

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Speaker 1: This is a big part of a question.

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Speaker 4: I know, that's what I'm saying. These are big names

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Speaker 4: for Team Japan. That's why I'm wondering if these guys

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Speaker 4: all say, hey, we're not doing.

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Speaker 1: It, they get a lot of pressure.

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Speaker 4: See the thing about Team Japan that they we also

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Speaker 4: do is they go like a month early if you remember,

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Speaker 4: and they start practicing like now.

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Speaker 1: But this is where you have leverage to say, listen,

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Speaker 1: I just signed with the new team. I'll play, but

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna play under my terms. I'm not doing the

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Speaker 1: whole song and dance and everything else.

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Speaker 2: I don't know.

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Speaker 1: It's interesting they have more leverage the guys. They also

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Speaker 1: just won last time around, So I think Team Japan's like,

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Speaker 1: we'll take the talent and if you need to work

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Speaker 1: around your schedule a little bit, we'll do it. Okay,

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Speaker 1: but we'll see. But no, inn It's interesting.

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Speaker 4: It's just an interesting thought on because Team Japan had

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Speaker 4: all these guys and now a lot of them have

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Speaker 4: come to the States and now what happens to their

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Speaker 4: teams is still as good as it was. And I

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Speaker 4: still want listen, I still want show hey, facing whoever

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Speaker 4: the best player is on Team USA in the finals

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Speaker 4: with the game on the line, like you did with

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Speaker 4: Mike Trout last time. Unbelievable judge, judge bottom of the Trout,

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Speaker 4: not judge, No, no, this time, this time, I'm talking

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Speaker 4: this time.

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Speaker 1: Right, show Heber's judge would be awesome, Yes.

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Speaker 2: Right, bottom of the night, tie game, one run lead,

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Speaker 2: whatever it is, something like that. That's cool.

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Speaker 1: But I don't know if we'll show. Hey, we mate,

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Speaker 1: We'll see. Yeah,