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Speaker 2: It's the Inside Scoop with FT senior insider Ken Rosenthal. Ken,

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Speaker 2: great to have you on a lot to get to

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Speaker 2: him and get right to business, and happy Valentine's Day

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Speaker 2: to you and your family.

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Speaker 1: So on that.

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Speaker 2: Note, of course, of course, on that note, Ken, you

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Speaker 2: know what's funny? Marcus Stroman shows back up to camp

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Speaker 2: they wanted him to be there, and he alluded to

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Speaker 3: I don't really think anything's going on other than Marcus

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Speaker 3: And I guess Todd and Eric could tell me better

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Speaker 3: He is not technically late, as he pointed out, and

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Speaker 3: my opinion, because he is a different personality, and because

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Speaker 3: It's worth eighteen million dollars. If he gets to one forty,

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Speaker 4: There's a way he's handled this, because you said he's

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Speaker 3: I guess the question, Eric is if his personality is

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Speaker 3: Todd, My guess is the Cardinals were upset when he

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Speaker 4: Who does this hurt the most, Aeronauto or the Cardinals.

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Speaker 5: I want to move a little bit north to Tito Francona.

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Speaker 5: I want to tell her about Reds a little bit.

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Speaker 5: This guy has been phenomenal. We know about the health scares,

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Speaker 5: Is it going to be the same guy, fiery guy,

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Speaker 3: Health Wise, Todd, he's the same guy. Personality wise, he's

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Speaker 2: And if you want Ken's take, first of all, great

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Speaker 2: Hey Otani, I know you touched on that briefly in

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Speaker 3: Well, first of all, this rule was created essentially for Otani, right,

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Speaker 2: Ken there's no better way to finish your segment today

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Speaker 2: There we go see beautifully beautifully stated poetry to our

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Speaker 2: here on Friday, Ken, thank you for the time. I

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Speaker 3: Hey, Happy Valentine's Day to AJ. I hope he's having

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Ken fair tear Tory part of the FT

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Speaker 2: Network Fresh episode yesterday. A good chunk of time on

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Speaker 2: Office unfiltered. It is Jim Bowden joining us. You'll see

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Speaker 1: I don't like distractions. I like a happy culture. I'll

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Speaker 1: All he would need to do is get twelve million

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Speaker 1: a year the next three years to equal what Houston

434
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Speaker 1: had on or fifteen million a year for three years

435
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Speaker 1: to beat what Detroit had. So Alex Bregman's gonna beat

436
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Speaker 1: this by signing this deal. That's number one. Number two.

437
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Speaker 1: I thought Todd the two best places for Alex was

438
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Speaker 1: either go back to Houston number one, where he succeeded

439
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Speaker 1: in that ballpark, or number two. I thought Fenway Park

440
00:21:17,840 --> 00:21:20,399
Speaker 1: was the next best spot because of the Green Monster.

441
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Speaker 1: He's a poll hitter and they needed the balance. And

442
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Speaker 1: I think Boston is a great fit for him. It's

443
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Speaker 1: got a chance to win. I think a better chance

444
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Speaker 1: to win in Boston than Detroit, Houston, and even Chicago

445
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Speaker 1: for that matter. So I liked it from that perspective.

446
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Speaker 1: I think the part that's going to be fascinating to

447
00:21:38,240 --> 00:21:39,520
Speaker 1: me is where are you going? To play him.

448
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Speaker 5: Now.

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Speaker 1: I know Alex Cora has come out and said that

450
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Speaker 1: he thinks he can win a Gold Glove at second base.

451
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Speaker 1: You know what, maybe he can. I think he'd be

452
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Speaker 1: a plus plus defender. But I can tell you, if

453
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Speaker 1: I'm looking at the Red Sox, the best the Lignement

454
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Speaker 1: is going to be Pregnant at third base. Move Devers

455
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Speaker 1: to first base, and open up a pathway for Christian

456
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Speaker 1: Campbell to play second base, and let Tristan casss dh.

457
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Speaker 1: That's gonna be the best alignment. Not that they can't

458
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Speaker 1: win with Devers at third and Bregnant at second and

459
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Speaker 1: Casses at first, because they can. But you're gonna be

460
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Speaker 1: watching that team all year and you're gonna say to yourself,

461
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Speaker 1: you've got two guys that are out of position out

462
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Speaker 1: of the four. That's what you're gonna say. It's gonna

463
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Speaker 1: be the same thing we said about the Padres, and

464
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Speaker 1: Bob Melvin was running them right, and he had Bogarts

465
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Speaker 1: at short and Kim at second, and we all kept

466
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Speaker 1: looking on the field going no, no, no, no. Kim

467
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Speaker 1: needs to be a short and Bogarts needs to be

468
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Speaker 1: at second. Mike Schilt comes in aligns it that way,

469
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Speaker 1: and they end up last year, what being the second

470
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Speaker 1: best team in baseball to the Dodgers. So I just

471
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Speaker 1: think it's important that Alex Corr calls in Rock the

472
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Speaker 1: old Devers and does the best way of convincing him, Hey,

473
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Speaker 1: we need you to go to first base, not just

474
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Speaker 1: short term, but long term. It's gonna be the best

475
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Speaker 1: position for you. That way, we get pregnant to won

476
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Speaker 1: the Gold Glove, gets to stay at his position at

477
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Speaker 1: third base, and gives us a better chance to win

478
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Speaker 1: and helps our pitching staff.

479
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Speaker 4: You need to listen to Jay because JB was on

480
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Speaker 4: here for if you haven't seen you, if you haven't

481
00:23:04,720 --> 00:23:07,480
Speaker 4: seen JB on here as a fan, he said before

482
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Speaker 4: Bregman's either going to go for one of three things,

483
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Speaker 4: and the one thing hit on perfectly. He made the

484
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Speaker 4: forty million dollars.

485
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Speaker 3: I get it.

486
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Speaker 4: Someone has deferred all that stuff. It's a record, And

487
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Speaker 4: so if you want to listen to who knows what's

488
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Speaker 4: going to happen. JB's the guy. But I have to

489
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Speaker 4: ask you a question. Did you ever have a celebration

490
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Speaker 4: after signing somebody like this type of celebration that John

491
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Speaker 4: Henry had and what was that moment? Because John Henry's

492
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Speaker 4: wife posted a picture of him with his cigar that

493
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Speaker 4: we talked about yesterday on Instagram. Did you ever have

494
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Speaker 4: a moment like this?

495
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Speaker 1: No, I never did this cigar thing. The only time

496
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Speaker 1: I ever smoked a cigar was when we won the

497
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Speaker 1: World Series in ninety and I got into the waterfall

498
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Speaker 1: at the Park fifty five hotel in San Francisco. We

499
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Speaker 1: had swept the Oakland A's and I got in the

500
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Speaker 1: waterfall with lou Penella and was smoking cigars. That's the

501
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Speaker 1: only kind of celebration with cigar. But I will tell

502
00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:05,560
Speaker 1: you when the King Griffy Junior trade went down, there

503
00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:08,800
Speaker 1: was champagne popping everywhere, and yeah that included being poured

504
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Speaker 1: on my head. That was the only time I ever

505
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Speaker 1: really celebrated a move. Nice. There you go.

506
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Speaker 2: Okay, I got a few other things to hit with JB.

507
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Speaker 2: Let's take us to the other big signing that got

508
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Speaker 2: really overshadowed but would have dominated the headlines at least

509
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Speaker 2: for a day or two. Nick Pivetta signs with the Padres.

510
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Speaker 2: Were you surprised that the Padres not only were able

511
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Speaker 2: to do an addition after there was so much talk

512
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Speaker 2: about the budget constraints, but that they were able to

513
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Speaker 2: talk him into such a unique contract structure that really

514
00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:43,840
Speaker 2: pays him pebbles for what he could be worth to

515
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Speaker 2: the rotation in year one and it's kind of deferred

516
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Speaker 2: to year two.

517
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Speaker 3: Yeah.

518
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Speaker 1: So once they got the control person settled by Major

519
00:24:51,720 --> 00:24:54,639
Speaker 1: League Baseball in Peter Sidler's brother was named the control person.

520
00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:57,440
Speaker 1: That allowed him to be able to go forward with

521
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Speaker 1: AJ Preller and give him some freedom to add a

522
00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:02,440
Speaker 1: little bit of payroll. And of course AJ had to

523
00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:05,159
Speaker 1: get a little creative and three million dollars signing bonus

524
00:25:05,240 --> 00:25:08,160
Speaker 1: one million up front on the fifty five million dollar

525
00:25:08,280 --> 00:25:11,640
Speaker 1: deal to help them for this year. So he got

526
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Speaker 1: creative to get it done, and the ownership gave him

527
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Speaker 1: that freedom. Look, Nick Pivetta and his agent made a

528
00:25:18,119 --> 00:25:22,200
Speaker 1: huge mistake. They were offered twenty point nine million on

529
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Speaker 1: a one year contract and they rejected it. How did

530
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Speaker 1: world you reject that? And now he's going to pay

531
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Speaker 1: the price. I mean, now the AAD is what you know,

532
00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:34,680
Speaker 1: just ten or eleven million a year, and you could

533
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Speaker 1: have had twenty in the front year and then gone

534
00:25:36,960 --> 00:25:38,960
Speaker 1: back in the market next year. That was a big mistake.

535
00:25:39,040 --> 00:25:42,320
Speaker 1: So anyway, Pavetta did the right thing, which is you

536
00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:45,080
Speaker 1: gotta pivot, You gotta admit you made a mistake. You

537
00:25:45,160 --> 00:25:47,760
Speaker 1: can't cry over the mistake. You got to go out

538
00:25:47,760 --> 00:25:50,120
Speaker 1: there and get the best possible deal you can get

539
00:25:50,760 --> 00:25:53,760
Speaker 1: for the most money because you're turned down twenty So

540
00:25:53,960 --> 00:25:56,440
Speaker 1: he did that and he's gonna end up Okay. He's

541
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Speaker 1: in a good spot for the rest of his life. Here.

542
00:25:59,040 --> 00:26:00,960
Speaker 1: Now for the Padre, they get a back of the

543
00:26:01,080 --> 00:26:04,760
Speaker 1: rotation starter. They're not gonna have Joe Musgrove all year,

544
00:26:04,920 --> 00:26:07,920
Speaker 1: So he becomes that fourth guy, right, Dylan Cease one,

545
00:26:08,040 --> 00:26:11,280
Speaker 1: Michael King two, you Darvis three. Now Nick Pavetta becomes

546
00:26:11,359 --> 00:26:13,520
Speaker 1: the fourth guy. And he's a guy that can win

547
00:26:13,640 --> 00:26:16,080
Speaker 1: double digits. He can pitch one hundred and sixty to

548
00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:19,240
Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty innings, which extremely important this day

549
00:26:19,280 --> 00:26:21,680
Speaker 1: and age, and he's going to do it at a

550
00:26:21,760 --> 00:26:24,520
Speaker 1: good value. No, I'm being told that although the Padres

551
00:26:24,640 --> 00:26:28,639
Speaker 1: listened the entire offseason on offers for Dylan Cease and

552
00:26:28,760 --> 00:26:31,720
Speaker 1: Michael King, I'm being told they never got an offer

553
00:26:31,800 --> 00:26:34,520
Speaker 1: they liked. They never got an offer that they were considering,

554
00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:37,399
Speaker 1: and that now they're ready to go and try to

555
00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:39,680
Speaker 1: you know, win the division or win a wild card

556
00:26:39,720 --> 00:26:41,880
Speaker 1: and try to get back to the playoffs. And look,

557
00:26:41,920 --> 00:26:44,880
Speaker 1: this is something they can revisit in July if things

558
00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:46,920
Speaker 1: go south and all of a sudden they're not a

559
00:26:46,960 --> 00:26:49,560
Speaker 1: playoff team, they can sit there and talk trade at

560
00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:51,879
Speaker 1: that point. But for now, it looks like that's going

561
00:26:51,960 --> 00:26:54,320
Speaker 1: to be the rotation to start the year in San Diego.

562
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Speaker 1: I love everything about that.

563
00:26:56,560 --> 00:26:59,120
Speaker 5: I'm looking at your newest article. You wrote a list

564
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Speaker 5: of teams, best trades, best teams, best acquisitions, least improved teams,

565
00:27:04,880 --> 00:27:06,719
Speaker 5: and you got the Padres on there right now. Does

566
00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:09,639
Speaker 5: this sway your decision to change it a little bit,

567
00:27:09,760 --> 00:27:11,600
Speaker 5: or or that you're stuck with this you can't change

568
00:27:11,640 --> 00:27:12,159
Speaker 5: this anymore.

569
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Speaker 2: No.

570
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Speaker 1: I mean, look, I'm kind of disappointed, right. I mean,

571
00:27:16,280 --> 00:27:19,680
Speaker 1: I thought that Hasung Kim was so important defensively a shortstop.

572
00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:23,840
Speaker 1: I thought Jerk said Profar had that breakout year, you know,

573
00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:26,320
Speaker 1: and obviously paid dividends, made his first All Star game.

574
00:27:26,359 --> 00:27:28,159
Speaker 1: I would have liked to see them bring both of

575
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Speaker 1: them back. You know. I like the Padres, don't get

576
00:27:31,280 --> 00:27:33,359
Speaker 1: me wrong, but I think they're now the third best

577
00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:36,720
Speaker 1: team in the West. I think it's Dodgers, Diamondbacks, and

578
00:27:36,800 --> 00:27:40,560
Speaker 1: then Padres because I think the Diamondbacks signing Corbyn Burns

579
00:27:40,800 --> 00:27:43,639
Speaker 1: makes their rotation seven deep puts them in a good position.

580
00:27:44,119 --> 00:27:46,800
Speaker 1: I think we'll see Corbyn Carroll have a bounce back year.

581
00:27:47,320 --> 00:27:49,720
Speaker 1: I think by June, Jordan Lawler will be a third

582
00:27:49,800 --> 00:27:52,240
Speaker 1: base and Soarez will be d h and Lawler will

583
00:27:52,240 --> 00:27:55,280
Speaker 1: be an impactful guy down the stretch. So I just

584
00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:58,719
Speaker 1: like where Arizona is and I wanted to see San

585
00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:01,480
Speaker 1: Diego do more. There's still time, right There's still time

586
00:28:01,520 --> 00:28:03,440
Speaker 1: for adjustments. But right now I see him as the

587
00:28:03,520 --> 00:28:04,800
Speaker 1: third place team in the West.

588
00:28:06,480 --> 00:28:09,400
Speaker 4: What do you know about the Rendon situation? Obviously we've

589
00:28:09,480 --> 00:28:13,000
Speaker 4: seen him play not play, but like there's so many

590
00:28:13,119 --> 00:28:17,880
Speaker 4: things surrounding for me that like he's now having hip surgery,

591
00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:21,560
Speaker 4: like like it just he didn't know that this was coming,

592
00:28:21,840 --> 00:28:24,200
Speaker 4: or he just did he just get hurt. Does a

593
00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:28,399
Speaker 4: team have insurance on his contract? Is that a normal

594
00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:31,560
Speaker 4: regular thing? Because we hear about the Strausburg contract. They

595
00:28:31,640 --> 00:28:33,840
Speaker 4: weren't able to get it, they still went through with it.

596
00:28:35,000 --> 00:28:37,119
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know why they haven't released the player.

597
00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:40,840
Speaker 1: It must be Arty Moreno. Obviously, Perry Mansion didn't sign him.

598
00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:43,440
Speaker 1: It was done by Billy Eppler before he got there,

599
00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:46,200
Speaker 1: and Arty Moreno signed off on his player should have

600
00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:48,240
Speaker 1: been released two years ago. He can't play. He's done.

601
00:28:49,040 --> 00:28:51,480
Speaker 1: He can't play when he's healthy. He can't play when

602
00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:54,080
Speaker 1: he's not healthy. It's been one of the biggest busts

603
00:28:54,120 --> 00:28:56,320
Speaker 1: of any free agent signing in this era. It's been

604
00:28:56,320 --> 00:28:59,440
Speaker 1: a total disaster. And I said this, and the people

605
00:28:59,480 --> 00:29:01,120
Speaker 1: in Washington and didn't like it when I said the

606
00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:03,600
Speaker 1: Nationals shouldn't resign him, and they're like, how can you

607
00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:05,640
Speaker 1: say that. We just won the World Series. This guy

608
00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:08,680
Speaker 1: was a top five MVP because he doesn't like baseball.

609
00:29:09,240 --> 00:29:12,080
Speaker 1: It's like JD. Drew. They don't love baseball. They play

610
00:29:12,240 --> 00:29:15,280
Speaker 1: because it's a job. It's worked for him, but there's

611
00:29:15,320 --> 00:29:18,240
Speaker 1: no incentive past that. Look, he could really hit in

612
00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:21,120
Speaker 1: his prime. He always had injury prone when he came

613
00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:23,840
Speaker 1: up with Seattley, he was injury prone when he was drafted.

614
00:29:24,360 --> 00:29:26,840
Speaker 1: He did have a nice little snapshot of a career.

615
00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:29,239
Speaker 1: But you know, you've got to be careful with these

616
00:29:29,320 --> 00:29:31,560
Speaker 1: guys that get into their thirties and you sign free

617
00:29:31,600 --> 00:29:34,840
Speaker 1: agent contracts because a lot of these guys don't work out.

618
00:29:34,920 --> 00:29:37,440
Speaker 1: It takes a special work ethic and a special human

619
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Speaker 1: being to be able to keep yourself in top condition

620
00:29:40,720 --> 00:29:42,560
Speaker 1: throughout your thirties to be able to play late in

621
00:29:42,600 --> 00:29:44,840
Speaker 1: your thirties, And the way I look at Rendon, I

622
00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:46,920
Speaker 1: don't want to waste my time or voice or energy.

623
00:29:46,960 --> 00:29:49,040
Speaker 1: I don't think we'll ever see him play a game again.

624
00:29:49,640 --> 00:29:51,440
Speaker 1: I don't. If they want to put him on the

625
00:29:51,480 --> 00:29:54,440
Speaker 1: emergency IL and keep paying them, that's fine, they can

626
00:29:54,520 --> 00:29:56,960
Speaker 1: do that. I would release the player and just move on.

627
00:29:59,080 --> 00:29:59,720
Speaker 5: I'm so with you.

628
00:29:59,800 --> 00:30:01,720
Speaker 2: Ja Be been saying it for a while now, and

629
00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:05,800
Speaker 2: I'm like, if there's anything to karma, if you just

630
00:30:06,560 --> 00:30:09,080
Speaker 2: get the name off the roster, I feel like they

631
00:30:09,160 --> 00:30:10,160
Speaker 2: improve right away, you.

632
00:30:10,200 --> 00:30:10,760
Speaker 1: Know what I'm saying.

633
00:30:10,840 --> 00:30:14,240
Speaker 2: It's just it's always a stain, and it's always something

634
00:30:14,320 --> 00:30:17,480
Speaker 2: that actually kind of dominates the headlines around the team.

635
00:30:17,480 --> 00:30:20,200
Speaker 2: When you're like, can we talk about zach Netto, Can

636
00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:22,480
Speaker 2: we talk about Logano Hoppy? Can we talk about Trout

637
00:30:22,560 --> 00:30:24,360
Speaker 2: coming back? It's just negative.

638
00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:26,080
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna know what I learned. You know, I

639
00:30:26,200 --> 00:30:28,320
Speaker 1: learned Scott as a GM, and I learned it early

640
00:30:29,160 --> 00:30:31,800
Speaker 1: when you make a mistake as a GM or an

641
00:30:31,840 --> 00:30:35,240
Speaker 1: owner or or manager, whoever's making the personnel decision. If

642
00:30:35,280 --> 00:30:37,880
Speaker 1: you make a mistake, the worst thing you can do

643
00:30:38,800 --> 00:30:41,440
Speaker 1: is to keep looking at the mistake. Just move on.

644
00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:43,880
Speaker 1: We're all going to make mistakes. Players aren't going to

645
00:30:43,920 --> 00:30:46,920
Speaker 1: live up to our expectations. That's going to happen. Or

646
00:30:47,040 --> 00:30:48,760
Speaker 1: you just made a bad trade or a bad free

647
00:30:48,760 --> 00:30:51,840
Speaker 1: agent signing and it's on you. Either way doesn't matter.

648
00:30:52,280 --> 00:30:54,600
Speaker 1: You don't have to keep looking at it. And you know,

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Speaker 1: sometimes an owner will sit there and go, wow, we

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Speaker 1: got to pay this guy X amount. Okay, but if

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Speaker 1: you can't before, we can't play. We made a mistake.

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Speaker 1: We just have to admit to it and then move

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Speaker 1: on because your team will always be better the sooner

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Speaker 1: you move on from a mistake than looking at it.

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Speaker 1: It's going to be better for the culture of the team,

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Speaker 1: the performance of the team, and it's going to be

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Speaker 1: better for the player too.

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Speaker 2: To be honest, right, sometimes I feel like the team,

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Speaker 2: you know, looks at the contract, looks at what the

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Speaker 2: player's done.

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Speaker 1: But in this case, he hasn't done anything for you,

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Speaker 1: So just move.

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Speaker 2: On, you know, Like I think I think the Chris

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Speaker 2: Taylor case is a little more interesting, and they gave

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Speaker 2: him a lot of leeway, and I think it could

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Speaker 2: come to a head in this spring training. I think

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Speaker 2: Pahes should be on the big league roster. I don't

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Speaker 2: know if you want to jump in there, because I

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Speaker 2: do want to get to your article in a sect two,

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Speaker 2: but I think that's a little more delicate. I'm like

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Speaker 2: with Rendon, I don't get it. I know that he's

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Speaker 2: getting paid a lot of money, but the career's done.

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Speaker 2: So I'm with you there, all right. Let me get

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Speaker 2: to your article if I can, because I wanted to

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Speaker 2: spend the last couple of minutes with you to show

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Speaker 2: everyone what you just put out in the Athletic. And

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Speaker 2: obviously they can get a lot more info there and

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Speaker 2: check out the article give it a click. But can

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Speaker 2: you give us at least you know one or two

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Speaker 2: teasers in there that you really liked. I think we

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Speaker 2: have it if we can show it. So going over

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Speaker 2: some best case scenarios, four teams, best trade for one team,

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Speaker 2: best value signing, best and worst overall, I was looking

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Speaker 2: for the right words best and worst of this year's

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Speaker 2: MLB off season.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean I think what's kind of fun for

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Speaker 1: me to do is just kind of look at, Okay, well,

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Speaker 1: what was the best trade for one team and what

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Speaker 1: was the best trade for both teams? Right? I mean

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Speaker 1: for one team. I really liked the Kyle Tucker trade

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Speaker 1: for the Cubs. Yeah, you gave up your first round

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Speaker 1: pick for this year and east soak paratus. Who has

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Speaker 1: some power, But to be able to get Kyle Tucker

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Speaker 1: to be your right fielder when you have a chance

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Speaker 1: to win the division, I thought that was a really

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Speaker 1: great trade for the Chicago Cubs. But trades are also

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Speaker 1: supposed to work for both sides, right, And I think

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Speaker 1: the trade that I thought was the best trade for

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Speaker 1: both sides was the trade the Chicago White Sox and

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Speaker 1: the Boston Red Sox made that sent Garrett Crochet to Boston,

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Speaker 1: giving them a number one type starting pitcher and a

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Speaker 1: pitcher they controlled for two years and we'll have an

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Speaker 1: opportunity to sign him long term. But I thought the

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Speaker 1: White Sox and Chris Gets did a good job in

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Speaker 1: what they got in return. They got a long term

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Speaker 1: solution to catcher. Kyle Teeal. I've seen a lot of them.

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Speaker 1: I think he's a twenty home run thirty five forty

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Speaker 1: double offensive catcher that's going to be very good at

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Speaker 1: calling games for the young pitching staff in Chicago. Braden

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Speaker 1: Montgomery was the Red Sox number one pick this year.

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Speaker 1: He's a right fielder. I got to spend a lot

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Speaker 1: of time with him during the draft last year. Love

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Speaker 1: his makeup, love the character. He's an athlete, and he's

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Speaker 1: got tremendous power and should be a long term solution

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Speaker 1: in right field for the White Sox when he gets there.

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Speaker 1: And they got a couple of the mid level prospects too.

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Speaker 1: But yeah, the article just basically looked at the off

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Speaker 1: season in a way of just kind of breaking down

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Speaker 1: all the different superlatives. I also have another article out

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Speaker 1: today that ranks all thirty teams in baseball as of today,

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Speaker 1: including several surprises, like my take that the Texas Rangers

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Speaker 1: are the second best team in the American League right now. Oo.

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Speaker 1: I like to lead it.

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Speaker 4: Wow, I love that my leading. My leading was gonna

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Speaker 4: be about your your under the radar move. What's the

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Speaker 4: best under the radar move that you saw this offseason?

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Speaker 1: Oh?

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Speaker 2: What was?

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Speaker 3: What?

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Speaker 1: Do you guys have? The article there, I forget with

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Speaker 1: I have it all.

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Speaker 4: It was Jake Jake Berger move froh.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I wouldn't hit it hitter.

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Speaker 1: Thinking of the Rangers, yes, I love that deal because

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Speaker 1: they didn't give up any top prospects. So the package

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Speaker 1: was mid level guys going back, and here's an upgrade

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Speaker 1: at first base with power.

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Speaker 5: You know.

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Speaker 1: I was talking to Chris Young in September, right, and

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Speaker 1: he said to me, one of the things he learned

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Speaker 1: this year, of course he was brought up with pitching

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Speaker 1: in defense. He said, one thing I learned is you

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Speaker 1: gotta have power in twenty twenty four, twenty twenty five,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna win. And he said, I gotta go out

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Speaker 1: there and find a way to add even more power

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Speaker 1: to my lineup. So he makes that trade or Jake

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Speaker 1: Berger didn't give up a lot, and that's a thirty

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Speaker 1: home run bat to sit there and plug in first

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Speaker 1: base to replace Nathaniel Lowe as a fifteen home run bat.

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Speaker 1: He also went out and got Jock Peterson, who, as

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Speaker 1: we know, against writing and pitching, he's good for another

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Speaker 1: twenty five home runs there. So I mean, this is

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Speaker 1: a team that just added fifty to fifty five homers

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Speaker 1: to the bottom of their lineup and really extended the lineup.

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Speaker 1: And that's what you're gonna have. Langford's gonna be better

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Speaker 1: his second year, Evan Carter is going to be impactful.

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Speaker 1: They're going to get Josh youngback. I mean, this lineup

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Speaker 1: and they're only a year removed from the World Championship

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Speaker 1: as we all remember, but this lineup is going to

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Speaker 1: be tough to navigate. And I thought the Burger pickup

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Speaker 1: was a really good under the radar move.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's good one Berger and Jock. That's a lot

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Speaker 2: of extra thump. I'm a big fan.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, JB.

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Speaker 2: Great to have you on everyone. Check out the two articles.

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Speaker 2: Our team behind the scenes got real fancy for you

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Speaker 2: on your way out too, So we're excited to have

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Speaker 2: you at Resident GM.

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Speaker 1: Jim Bowden, Yeah,