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Speaker 1: Aj Preller is the one GM who will make trades

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Speaker 1: in March. He will make trades in April, in May

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Speaker 1: every calendar month. Welcome everyone to the Monday edition of

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Speaker 1: Fair Territory. Let's call it, for lack of a better term,

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Speaker 1: the injury addition, because injuries have become quite prominent in

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Speaker 1: the game over the last several days. And whenever people

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Speaker 1: ask me for predictions on the season, you've heard me

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Speaker 1: say this before, perhaps I always say, tell me who's

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Speaker 1: getting hurt, and tell me who's getting traded, and I'll

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Speaker 1: have a better idea on who might win each particular division,

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Speaker 1: injuries here that are quite significant in some ways and

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Speaker 1: start with the biggest name, Derrick Cole, and his loss

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Speaker 1: would be the most significant of annie. Jim Bowden reporting

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Speaker 1: The Yankees are awaiting a second opinion, and if that

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Speaker 1: And you might have kind of gotten winto this when

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Speaker 1: Brian Cashman, the general manager of the Yankees, said he

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Speaker 1: was preparing for the worst. The worst certainly would be

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Speaker 1: the loss of Coal for the entire season. The Yankees, remember,

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Speaker 1: are already down Louis Heel. He's going to be out

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Speaker 1: all of it, with his elbow issues. So the Yankees,

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Speaker 1: a team that many thought would be the favorite to

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Speaker 1: three very significant players. The twenty twenty three American League

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Speaker 1: Say Young Award winner that would be Cole, the twenty

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Speaker 1: That would be gian Carlo Stanton. Obviously, it's a terrible

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Speaker 1: The Orioles also in a very difficult position with their

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Speaker 1: Not that you could really do that other than signing

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Speaker 1: George Kirby shoulder inflammation, and if you read the quotes

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Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about some better news, at least

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Speaker 1: for one team in recent days, and that would be

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