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Speaker 1: I've talked to Barry one on one in my career,

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Speaker 2: Let's say the Inside scoop with FT senior insider Ken

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Speaker 2: Rosenthal joining us right now, and also a fresh fair

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Speaker 2: territory from yesterday for you to consume later on. But Ken,

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Speaker 2: let's start with the latest on Alex Bregman. Sounds like

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Speaker 2: still a lot of teams in the mix with their

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Speaker 2: own version of an offer, and the Astros thinking about him,

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Speaker 2: but also Jorgey Polanco. What else can you tell us?

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Speaker 1: It's interesting. I was just listening to the conversation you

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Speaker 1: guys were having, and clearly, if there was a team

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Speaker 1: willing to go to where Bregman wants, it would be

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Speaker 1: done by now. It's not done. And I've heard and

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Speaker 1: I've seen reports of multiple six year offer as well.

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Speaker 1: What's the dollar figure? Multiple zero offers? If a guy's

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Speaker 1: getting a six year, one hundred million dollar offer, not sufficient, right, So,

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Speaker 1: I'm not sure where this is going. And the Astros

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Speaker 1: clearly are lining up with Polanco an alternative plan. Might

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Speaker 1: they execute that plan?

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Speaker 1: They could, Polanco is a switch hitter. He's a guy

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Speaker 1: who can play first, second, third, possibly the outfield. Scott.

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Speaker 1: You mentioned the knee surgery earlier. His doctor, his surgeon

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Speaker 1: gave him a clean bill of health. He's ready to

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Speaker 1: go now. The knee issue apparently bothered him for not

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Speaker 1: just last season, but even before that. So he's excited

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Speaker 1: about playing and rightly so, because he's healthy. Is he

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Speaker 1: Alex Bragman. No, he's not Alex Bregman. And the question

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Speaker 1: for the Astros will be, Okay, here's the luxury tax threshold. Here,

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Speaker 1: at some point they're going to have to make a call.

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Speaker 1: And at that point, if it's to Polanco and not Bragman,

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Speaker 1: then it will be really interesting to see where Bregman

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Speaker 1: have interest. He's a really good player. But again he's

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Speaker 4: In your article, you mentioned how Jim Crane does not

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Speaker 4: want to go for a second year over the soft

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Speaker 4: salary cap. I mean the CBT, but he's not ruling

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Speaker 4: out the whole Bragmant thing. So if this Bragmant thing happens,

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Speaker 4: Let's say it happens that this doesn't really matter what

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Speaker 4: Does that precipitate other moves?

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Speaker 4: Does that mean there be some other type of dumping?

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Speaker 4: I know they already dumped Presley, but it ended up

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Speaker 4: being only eight and a half million that they dumped,

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Speaker 4: so you could fit Polonco in there. But could there

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Speaker 1: Good question, Eric, But my expectation would be that if

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Speaker 1: they did that I went over the CBT again for

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Speaker 1: a second straight year, it would be just like last

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Speaker 1: year when they did it with Hater. Well, we got

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Speaker 1: Josh Hader, we're going to go over the CBT. In

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Speaker 1: I don't know that the CBT will drive this as

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Speaker 1: much as Jim Crane's desire to win. And remember he

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Speaker 1: has said repeatedly that when he is owner. As long

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Speaker 1: as he is owner, they're not going to go backwards.

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Speaker 1: They're going to keep pushing and go forward, so making

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Speaker 1: more trades. I'm not even sure who they would trade

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Speaker 5: All Right, enough of the ostros. We've been talking about

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Speaker 5: him for like twenty minutes. Now, Ken, let's move on

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Speaker 5: to another team and nobody knows what the heck they're doing.

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Speaker 5: The Padres, will Caesar King be traded? And if one

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Speaker 1: Well, first off, I encourage people to read Dennis Lynn's

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Speaker 1: latest story on Matt Siler, late Peter Siler's brother, his

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Speaker 1: it's quite interesting. The charges going back and forth and

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Speaker 1: Aj Peller is always going to listen on potential free agents,

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Speaker 1: to have to make what appears to be some difficult decisions. Yes,

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Speaker 1: their payroll is going up or at least up for

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Speaker 1: that's because of internal raises. For the most part, they

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Speaker 2: staying on the trade and legal front, let's see if

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Speaker 2: I can transition to this one from your notes column.

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Speaker 2: I thought this was interesting that an off season trade

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Speaker 2: deadline ending at the winter meetings would help, But you said,

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Speaker 2: you know, way back, MLB wouldn't do this without a

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Speaker 2: free agent signings deadline. Well, that sucks because a free

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Speaker 2: in a bad spot. The trade part actually makes a

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Speaker 2: ton of sense, and even right now when you wrote

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Speaker 2: the market for free agents, it plays the part here.

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Speaker 2: So is this just MLB doing their usual legal first,

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Speaker 6: Second three questions, Scott, and for me, looking at the

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Speaker 1: The end of the winter meetings and you'd have some

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Speaker 1: February first or so and then reopen the trade market.

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Speaker 1: Right So, it wouldn't be a trade deadline I don't

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Speaker 1: Maybe you make it February fifteenth. I'm just thinking out

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Speaker 1: loud here the time when free agency, I'm sorry, the

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Speaker 1: the Union is never going to go for a deadline

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Speaker 1: on free agent signings. They view it as a restriction

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Speaker 1: That would be a lot more fun for us. But

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Speaker 2: So can you tell us how at least some teams

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Speaker 1: That's something that we're all looking forward to seeing. But

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Speaker 1: really no one has an answer yet, and certainly he'll

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Speaker 1: Tell you what you're asking right, here's what you're doing here.

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Speaker 1: Thanks, Guys.

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Speaker 2: In the Weeds twelve MLB breakout candidates that Jim Boden's

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Speaker 3: They really like him. Okay, aj pick one from this list.

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Speaker 5: Okay, first of all, let me say this, Michael Harris

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Speaker 1: He's already got a big deal.

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Speaker 5: He's got ops plus in his career of one hundred

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Speaker 3: He's already broke.

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Speaker 5: Out because he had a ninety nine ops plus last year.

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Speaker 5: Sadana Rafaela has kind of had some ups and downs,

433
00:21:37,840 --> 00:21:39,399
Speaker 5: but he played so many dang positions it's hard for

434
00:21:39,480 --> 00:21:42,359
Speaker 5: him to get comfortable anywhere. But my guy is James

435
00:21:42,359 --> 00:21:45,520
Speaker 5: Would because he's gonna get to play every day. He's

436
00:21:45,560 --> 00:21:48,520
Speaker 5: six foot seven, he's twenty two years old. This guy

437
00:21:48,560 --> 00:21:51,280
Speaker 5: did okay last year. He didn't do great. He did okay.

438
00:21:51,359 --> 00:21:53,399
Speaker 5: He was a he was a one war player. He

439
00:21:53,480 --> 00:21:56,359
Speaker 5: did alright in the big leagues last year. You know,

440
00:21:56,400 --> 00:21:59,600
Speaker 5: he had an OPS plus. It wasn't great. He had

441
00:21:59,640 --> 00:22:02,040
Speaker 5: ops last year of seven eighty one in the big

442
00:22:02,119 --> 00:22:02,880
Speaker 5: leagues last year.

443
00:22:03,520 --> 00:22:04,600
Speaker 4: That's pretty good.

444
00:22:04,880 --> 00:22:07,320
Speaker 5: So I think he's gonna get four hundred five hundred

445
00:22:07,320 --> 00:22:09,480
Speaker 5: of bats this year. He had two hundred and ninety

446
00:22:09,520 --> 00:22:11,679
Speaker 5: five last year. I think he's going to have an

447
00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:15,280
Speaker 5: opportunity to be an absolute stud for the Washington Nationals

448
00:22:15,280 --> 00:22:18,600
Speaker 5: and someone they can build their team around. And the

449
00:22:18,640 --> 00:22:20,760
Speaker 5: best part of James Wood is he knows how to

450
00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:22,879
Speaker 5: treat producer lady because he blew her off like Scott

451
00:22:22,880 --> 00:22:25,399
Speaker 5: does all the time. So cheers to you, James Wood.

452
00:22:26,640 --> 00:22:28,280
Speaker 2: Oh, we've had him on I don't know if we've

453
00:22:28,280 --> 00:22:30,360
Speaker 2: had him on FT because I get confused with all

454
00:22:30,400 --> 00:22:31,240
Speaker 2: of the shows I do.

455
00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:33,240
Speaker 3: Did we have him on FT? No, we had him

456
00:22:33,240 --> 00:22:36,160
Speaker 3: on hot Cheets on our baseball clad.

457
00:22:35,520 --> 00:22:38,359
Speaker 5: Chased him down in Palm Beach last year and he

458
00:22:38,400 --> 00:22:40,320
Speaker 5: gave her the old Heisman trophy.

459
00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:45,359
Speaker 2: Maybe he was asking for an autograph and he was like, nah,

460
00:22:45,480 --> 00:22:46,320
Speaker 2: I don't have time.

461
00:22:48,240 --> 00:22:52,520
Speaker 4: No. Claudy his least favorite player now yep. Plus he's

462
00:22:52,520 --> 00:22:53,480
Speaker 4: in the braves division.

463
00:22:54,080 --> 00:22:54,640
Speaker 3: He's nice.

464
00:22:54,680 --> 00:22:58,400
Speaker 2: He's a big, big, friendly giant. He's very shy when

465
00:22:58,400 --> 00:23:01,959
Speaker 2: we spoke to him, he's very shy. He is not

466
00:23:02,040 --> 00:23:06,800
Speaker 2: only an enormous dude, super fast. Did you see the

467
00:23:06,840 --> 00:23:08,920
Speaker 2: sprint speed eighty fifth percentile?

468
00:23:09,560 --> 00:23:10,159
Speaker 4: That's crazy?

469
00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:15,359
Speaker 3: That size, that is special. So I like that pick krats.

470
00:23:16,760 --> 00:23:19,199
Speaker 4: With Nick Lodolo. I was gonna go is say down

471
00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:23,480
Speaker 4: Rafaela because Pat thinks he's an MVP candidate. I don't

472
00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:25,160
Speaker 4: agree with him. I just wanted to say that about

473
00:23:25,160 --> 00:23:30,040
Speaker 4: Pat Nick Lodolo, this guy, I think he's like I

474
00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:34,439
Speaker 4: think he's averaged like ten point seven strikeouts per nine

475
00:23:35,040 --> 00:23:37,040
Speaker 4: last year. It was down a little bit from there,

476
00:23:37,080 --> 00:23:40,879
Speaker 4: but he dealt with a foot injury the entire offseason

477
00:23:40,960 --> 00:23:44,200
Speaker 4: into the season that ended up lingering. And anybody that's

478
00:23:44,240 --> 00:23:49,119
Speaker 4: dealt with feet injuries, planner, fasciitis, you know, broken toes,

479
00:23:49,160 --> 00:23:53,640
Speaker 4: that kind of stuff, play through it. You just never

480
00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:57,879
Speaker 4: quite there in that point, I talked to his pitching coach,

481
00:23:58,359 --> 00:24:01,920
Speaker 4: Derek Johnson, and he said he has been healthy since

482
00:24:01,920 --> 00:24:05,280
Speaker 4: the end of last season, going through an entire offseason,

483
00:24:05,359 --> 00:24:07,800
Speaker 4: and this guy's potential has been through the roof. His

484
00:24:07,840 --> 00:24:12,280
Speaker 4: angle that he throws from analytically is ridiculous. Hitters don't

485
00:24:12,320 --> 00:24:15,760
Speaker 4: see it. Oh, and he's not afraid to go inside.

486
00:24:16,240 --> 00:24:18,560
Speaker 4: He led the league one year his rookie year in

487
00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:22,439
Speaker 4: hitting dudes. Last year he was pretty close. He throws

488
00:24:22,480 --> 00:24:27,119
Speaker 4: inside with that angle. He creates so much variance in

489
00:24:27,160 --> 00:24:30,720
Speaker 4: his slider and his heater in. Guys just have a

490
00:24:30,760 --> 00:24:33,480
Speaker 4: tough time seeing him. And I don't even want to

491
00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:37,400
Speaker 4: say the H word, but when he gets thirty starts,

492
00:24:37,760 --> 00:24:40,600
Speaker 4: the numbers he's gonna put up are all star caliber.

493
00:24:43,280 --> 00:24:49,840
Speaker 3: The H word health health, Yeah, that's true. And that's

494
00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:51,640
Speaker 3: the case with a few of these red starters.

495
00:24:52,720 --> 00:24:57,879
Speaker 2: You're right, the backfoot slider from Nick Lidolo, it's like,

496
00:24:58,200 --> 00:24:59,200
Speaker 2: is that gonna hit.

497
00:24:59,080 --> 00:25:01,320
Speaker 3: The foot or is he going to land in this zone?

498
00:25:02,359 --> 00:25:06,600
Speaker 2: It's often producing some pretty nice swords.

499
00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:10,160
Speaker 5: But by the way, the rest of this list, let's talk.

500
00:25:10,200 --> 00:25:10,640
Speaker 4: Can we talk?

501
00:25:10,720 --> 00:25:12,640
Speaker 5: I know we kind of bounce around here, but can

502
00:25:12,640 --> 00:25:14,600
Speaker 5: we talk about some of these other guys like Brian

503
00:25:14,600 --> 00:25:17,280
Speaker 5: wu he's established. Sorry, that's why it's like break out Brian,

504
00:25:17,320 --> 00:25:20,280
Speaker 5: who's nasty when he has the H word health. Parker

505
00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:24,440
Speaker 5: Meadows was pretty good for Detroit. Now why at Langford's

506
00:25:24,440 --> 00:25:27,280
Speaker 5: second half was really good. Connor Norby's gonna get to

507
00:25:27,280 --> 00:25:30,119
Speaker 5: play finally, so good for him. And then Jordan Walker

508
00:25:30,200 --> 00:25:31,560
Speaker 5: is the one that I want to see what happens

509
00:25:31,560 --> 00:25:33,920
Speaker 5: with him because the up and down, he hits too

510
00:25:33,920 --> 00:25:35,879
Speaker 5: many balls on the ground. He doesn't do this, he

511
00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:41,200
Speaker 5: doesn't do that. I mean, have the Cardinals room Jordan Walker.

512
00:25:41,240 --> 00:25:42,800
Speaker 5: I know we've asked that, but like, what are they

513
00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:44,480
Speaker 5: doing with him? Is he gonna be the he needs

514
00:25:44,480 --> 00:25:46,040
Speaker 5: to be a guy. They say, go play right field

515
00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:48,480
Speaker 5: every day and we'll see what happens for five hundred bats.

516
00:25:48,560 --> 00:25:51,000
Speaker 5: That's that's what the Cardinals need to do with Jordan Walker.

517
00:25:52,160 --> 00:25:54,679
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm glad you brought him up, because you're right.

518
00:25:54,720 --> 00:25:56,760
Speaker 2: A lot of players on this list have had some

519
00:25:56,800 --> 00:25:59,440
Speaker 2: success already, and I think Boden's referring to the fact

520
00:25:59,440 --> 00:26:02,240
Speaker 2: that some of those guys could go to a star level.

521
00:26:02,440 --> 00:26:04,840
Speaker 2: Then there's others who have barely touched the bigs, and

522
00:26:04,880 --> 00:26:08,360
Speaker 2: then there's someone like Jordan Walker. I've been saying this

523
00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:13,280
Speaker 2: through and through Kratz. He's not an outfielder. He's not

524
00:26:13,400 --> 00:26:15,560
Speaker 2: going to be an outfielder. And I think some guys

525
00:26:15,560 --> 00:26:17,800
Speaker 2: are thrown in the outfield and it makes them so

526
00:26:18,000 --> 00:26:21,320
Speaker 2: uncomfortable that it.

527
00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:24,480
Speaker 3: Throws them off kilter. Do you agree or disagree?

528
00:26:25,200 --> 00:26:27,000
Speaker 4: No, I think it's trying to look up like the.

529
00:26:27,320 --> 00:26:30,560
Speaker 2: Statcast, the sprint speed and all that for him. He's

530
00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:34,879
Speaker 2: no James Wood in the outfield, Okay, and it shows,

531
00:26:35,680 --> 00:26:36,520
Speaker 2: but look at.

532
00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:39,400
Speaker 4: But look at a Cardinal outfielder. Was Matt Holliday an

533
00:26:39,400 --> 00:26:43,919
Speaker 4: incredible outfielder. Listen, he's playing in the same organization. To me,

534
00:26:44,119 --> 00:26:47,440
Speaker 4: you give this kid, who is really his entire big

535
00:26:47,520 --> 00:26:50,840
Speaker 4: league career, he's been a kid, just the vote of

536
00:26:50,880 --> 00:26:53,639
Speaker 4: confidence that, yes, we're gonna put you in left field.

537
00:26:53,680 --> 00:26:55,359
Speaker 4: I want you to keep the ball in front of you.

538
00:26:55,960 --> 00:26:58,840
Speaker 4: Don't let the balls get to the wall that shouldn't

539
00:26:58,840 --> 00:27:01,440
Speaker 4: get to the wall. We're gonna work all in front

540
00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:04,480
Speaker 4: of you, and we're gonna play really deep, and that's

541
00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:06,840
Speaker 4: how we're gonna help you out. And you know what,

542
00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:11,119
Speaker 4: you're going to get six hundred plate appearances. You're gonna

543
00:27:11,160 --> 00:27:13,800
Speaker 4: get him. Just pen him in. You're gonna hit seventh

544
00:27:13,960 --> 00:27:16,760
Speaker 4: until you start hitting better. Then you're gonna get moved

545
00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:19,240
Speaker 4: up in the order. And to me, ground balls, fly balls,

546
00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:22,919
Speaker 4: oppo pool whatever. If he has the hit tool that

547
00:27:22,960 --> 00:27:27,040
Speaker 4: they that made him an elite prospect, go let it play.

548
00:27:27,080 --> 00:27:29,680
Speaker 4: This is the season six hundred, that bat six hundred

549
00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:32,000
Speaker 4: plate appearances or nothing.

550
00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:38,000
Speaker 2: M I mean, I'm looking at the sprint speed. It's

551
00:27:38,000 --> 00:27:40,600
Speaker 2: actually better than I thought. I'm seventy eight, but it

552
00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:41,960
Speaker 2: looks clunky when he's out there.

553
00:27:41,840 --> 00:27:42,600
Speaker 3: In the apple. But I don't know.

554
00:27:42,640 --> 00:27:45,000
Speaker 2: For me, I'm going off eye tests more than anything.

555
00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:47,760
Speaker 2: AJ And it's not like you're hiding.

556
00:27:48,680 --> 00:27:50,440
Speaker 4: Let him hit, Let him hit. Figure it out.

557
00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:52,560
Speaker 3: But you always find a position in the field.

558
00:27:52,640 --> 00:27:53,560
Speaker 1: Okay, put him in DH.

559
00:27:53,880 --> 00:27:55,920
Speaker 5: I know they have contreres put him at first, if

560
00:27:55,920 --> 00:27:57,399
Speaker 5: you have to put him in left field, whatever you

561
00:27:57,400 --> 00:27:59,800
Speaker 5: gotta do, just you gotta get this guy's bat in

562
00:27:59,800 --> 00:28:02,200
Speaker 5: the and see what you got. They've hyped this guy

563
00:28:02,280 --> 00:28:04,400
Speaker 5: up for over a year now, a couple of years now,

564
00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:06,119
Speaker 5: they gave him a shot. He was doing okay, they

565
00:28:06,119 --> 00:28:08,520
Speaker 5: send him down, right, That messes with your head as

566
00:28:08,560 --> 00:28:09,000
Speaker 5: a player.

567
00:28:09,080 --> 00:28:09,280
Speaker 4: Man.

568
00:28:09,680 --> 00:28:11,240
Speaker 5: Just give this guy and say, you know what, Jordan,

569
00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:12,640
Speaker 5: this is a rebuilding year.

570
00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:13,680
Speaker 4: This is your year.

571
00:28:13,680 --> 00:28:15,280
Speaker 5: Now. If he goes out and he hits two hundred

572
00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:18,800
Speaker 5: till in June, maybe send him down. But if he

573
00:28:18,920 --> 00:28:21,879
Speaker 5: doesn't and he's doing okay, if he's doing just okay,

574
00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:23,919
Speaker 5: let him sit there and take the next step and

575
00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:25,880
Speaker 5: figure it out instead of worrying about, oh my gosh,

576
00:28:25,920 --> 00:28:27,679
Speaker 5: when am I gonna go to Memphis? I'm going to Memphis.

577
00:28:27,760 --> 00:28:29,280
Speaker 5: If I don't get to hit him going to Memphis, No,

578
00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:31,520
Speaker 5: you're there all year, Jordan. Go figure it out.

579
00:28:34,080 --> 00:28:36,919
Speaker 4: Especially with his hit tool, especially with his hit tol Like,

580
00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:39,840
Speaker 4: you're not sitting there going this dude was just dropping

581
00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:42,960
Speaker 4: tanks in the big in the minor leagues. We gotta

582
00:28:43,040 --> 00:28:44,680
Speaker 4: call him up. They do that all the time, and

583
00:28:44,720 --> 00:28:47,640
Speaker 4: see how that works out. Like guy's fizzle. They get

584
00:28:47,680 --> 00:28:52,160
Speaker 4: beaten by big league pitching. There is a aspect to

585
00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:54,960
Speaker 4: wondering and looking over your shoulder.

586
00:28:55,240 --> 00:28:57,360
Speaker 1: Am I gonna play against this guy? Am I gonna

587
00:28:57,400 --> 00:28:57,920
Speaker 1: not play?

588
00:28:58,080 --> 00:28:58,160
Speaker 3: Like?

589
00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:00,480
Speaker 4: You gain a confidence, you become a lead in a

590
00:29:00,520 --> 00:29:03,760
Speaker 4: clubhouse when you know you're in that lineup. Doesn't mean

591
00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:07,400
Speaker 4: he's a four hitter right now, that's okay, Like, let

592
00:29:07,480 --> 00:29:10,680
Speaker 4: him have success and then let him build on it,

593
00:29:10,800 --> 00:29:13,240
Speaker 4: let him permeate to the rest of that lineup. That's

594
00:29:13,280 --> 00:29:15,600
Speaker 4: been the issue with a lot of that team, besides

595
00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:18,960
Speaker 4: Missy YadA and Malina is nobody ever plays one position,

596
00:29:19,160 --> 00:29:21,840
Speaker 4: so they never get comfortable. Oh you're not playing today,

597
00:29:21,880 --> 00:29:24,000
Speaker 4: you are playing today. You're pinch iting. You went three

598
00:29:24,080 --> 00:29:26,080
Speaker 4: for four, Now you're pinch it in the next day.

599
00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:28,960
Speaker 4: You're playing center field. Oh you want a gold glove,

600
00:29:29,040 --> 00:29:32,440
Speaker 4: Now you're playing the right field. Like It's just it's

601
00:29:32,800 --> 00:29:34,920
Speaker 4: it's too much for a young player. Don't do that

602
00:29:34,960 --> 00:29:37,800
Speaker 4: to young players. Do that to aj when he's when

603
00:29:37,800 --> 00:29:39,840
Speaker 4: he's thirty eight and he signs as a one year

604
00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:43,240
Speaker 4: free agent. Do that to Adam Fraser who signs with

605
00:29:43,240 --> 00:29:45,280
Speaker 4: the Pirates one year. Those are the guys who do

606
00:29:45,320 --> 00:29:46,840
Speaker 4: it too, not twenty year olds.

607
00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:49,920
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's clunky when you look at the roster still

608
00:29:50,000 --> 00:29:52,760
Speaker 2: right now on fangrafts they've got I mean, when is

609
00:29:52,760 --> 00:29:57,560
Speaker 2: that short. They've got Alec Burlerson DH first base, Contreras

610
00:29:57,600 --> 00:30:01,240
Speaker 2: second base, Donovan Arnatto's at third. Outfield is Newt bar

611
00:30:01,400 --> 00:30:05,880
Speaker 2: Walker and Victor Scott and then von Herrera as the

612
00:30:05,920 --> 00:30:08,560
Speaker 2: catcher with Pajes backing him up, with Gorman on the bench,

613
00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:12,240
Speaker 2: Tommy Sagaci who's young, and Michael Siani who's a really

614
00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:15,120
Speaker 2: good defensive outfielder too. So they it's like a bunch

615
00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:18,120
Speaker 2: of here. Here's how I look at auditioning. There's just

616
00:30:18,160 --> 00:30:20,400
Speaker 2: like a lot of constant auditioning going on.

617
00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:21,040
Speaker 4: Let them go.

618
00:30:22,280 --> 00:30:24,320
Speaker 5: Cardinals are this year anyways, they're not trying.

619
00:30:24,360 --> 00:30:24,920
Speaker 4: They've said it.

620
00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:27,200
Speaker 5: So let the young guys figure out what you got.

621
00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:29,760
Speaker 5: Figure out some of those guys and the guys who

622
00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:32,680
Speaker 5: name Win established himself. You know, let some of the

623
00:30:32,720 --> 00:30:34,760
Speaker 5: other guys see if Victor Scott, if he can do it,

624
00:30:34,800 --> 00:30:36,760
Speaker 5: see who their catcher is going to be. You know,

625
00:30:36,800 --> 00:30:39,000
Speaker 5: what are you gonna do with Nolan Arnado if he's there?

626
00:30:39,320 --> 00:30:41,520
Speaker 5: Right Like, let the young guys go figure it out

627
00:30:41,760 --> 00:30:43,520
Speaker 5: and if the Cardinals they don't work out, then the

628
00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:46,600
Speaker 5: Cardinals will have to change their tune with Hein Bloom

629
00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:48,800
Speaker 5: at the head. But like this year, let him figure

630
00:30:48,800 --> 00:30:50,560
Speaker 5: it out and see where they go. It might take off.

631
00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:51,040
Speaker 5: You never know.

632
00:30:51,760 --> 00:30:53,760
Speaker 2: I think they're going to be better than most people

633
00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:55,880
Speaker 2: think because while they haven't been adding, I thought they

634
00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:58,400
Speaker 2: were going to subtract, and they haven't really subtracted. Arnado's

635
00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:01,600
Speaker 2: still there, Helsey's still there, Michaelist et cetera. So I

636
00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:04,280
Speaker 2: actually think they're gonna be okay, no playoff team, probably not,

637
00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:07,080
Speaker 2: but I think they're gonna be five hundred ish, maybe

638
00:31:07,080 --> 00:31:07,880
Speaker 2: a drop above.

639
00:31:08,160 --> 00:31:08,480
Speaker 3: Yeah.

640
00:31:08,840 --> 00:31:12,560
Speaker 4: Last week, real quick, real quick, Heine Bloom. Look what

641
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:15,080
Speaker 4: he did to the Red Sox minor league system. He's

642
00:31:15,120 --> 00:31:17,040
Speaker 4: going to do that. He's already starting to do it.

643
00:31:17,080 --> 00:31:19,680
Speaker 4: He's already starting to do highers. He's been in the

644
00:31:19,680 --> 00:31:22,600
Speaker 4: front office. He's looking for that staff that's going to

645
00:31:22,640 --> 00:31:25,800
Speaker 4: grow that minor league system. You have to get it

646
00:31:25,840 --> 00:31:27,680
Speaker 4: through your head that it's okay to let some young

647
00:31:27,720 --> 00:31:31,080
Speaker 4: guys right now establish themselves in the big leagues, because

648
00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:34,120
Speaker 4: then they're going to continue to feed that big league

649
00:31:34,160 --> 00:31:37,400
Speaker 4: team with those minor leaguers that hein Bloom clearly did

650
00:31:37,400 --> 00:31:40,560
Speaker 4: a great job in Boston because look what they've they've

651
00:31:40,560 --> 00:31:41,440
Speaker 4: got coming up now.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he crushed it. They have high end prospects. He

653
00:31:43,920 --> 00:31:46,640
Speaker 2: absolutely crushed it. Underrated job there. They just didn't let

654
00:31:46,720 --> 00:31:54,360
Speaker 2: him finish the job. You guys see this Winter League

655
00:31:54,360 --> 00:31:57,520
Speaker 2: game in the Dominican Republic Electric.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's cool. Did you did you see.

657
00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:03,560
Speaker 2: Drama to game six? Albert Pools is the manager and

658
00:32:03,600 --> 00:32:05,760
Speaker 2: he can tests the bat of some other dude and

659
00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:07,560
Speaker 2: then they shred it up and then they said it

660
00:32:07,600 --> 00:32:11,240
Speaker 2: was fine. And then anyway, Quato's pitching Game seven. And

661
00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:18,200
Speaker 2: there's the picture from our guy draftneck Mark Mets host

662
00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:21,960
Speaker 2: on Mets Up, who said Quato's wearing number one hundred

663
00:32:23,080 --> 00:32:24,040
Speaker 2: when he's pitching.

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Speaker 3: To Emilio Bonifacio. There's a blast from the past.

665
00:32:26,560 --> 00:32:31,720
Speaker 2: The Junior Camonaro home run was absolutely insane. Did you

666
00:32:31,760 --> 00:32:33,840
Speaker 2: guys watch him go around the bases.

667
00:32:34,560 --> 00:32:37,160
Speaker 4: Barely, he barely made he just touched home now and

668
00:32:37,200 --> 00:32:38,400
Speaker 4: he hit the home run last night.

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Speaker 2: It was it was about ten minute layover between home

670
00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:47,360
Speaker 2: run and touching home after home run, it was freaking wild.

671
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Speaker 2: Oh here we go. So that was the start of it.

672
00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:52,080
Speaker 2: That was the start of it. And also that was

673
00:32:52,120 --> 00:32:53,560
Speaker 2: not a walk off home run.

674
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Speaker 4: Crazy.

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Speaker 3: That's fun, that's fun. But they're used to it.

676
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Speaker 2: They know what's going on there and that you are

677
00:33:00,560 --> 00:33:03,560
Speaker 2: allowed to take your celebration antics to another level. This

678
00:33:03,640 --> 00:33:06,240
Speaker 2: is what we always try and bring more up to MLB.

679
00:33:06,560 --> 00:33:08,920
Speaker 2: So there's a lot of cool blast from the past.

680
00:33:08,960 --> 00:33:13,240
Speaker 2: Names AJ and the theatrics are in my mind, first level,

681
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Speaker 2: first rate, a plus.

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Speaker 5: First of all, let me just say this, Yes, they

683
00:33:17,360 --> 00:33:19,600
Speaker 5: know what they're gonna get. People are asking why don't

684
00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:21,800
Speaker 5: they do this in Major League Baseball because they play

685
00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:23,840
Speaker 5: too many games and people are gonna get tired of it.

686
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Speaker 5: I'm sorry, Like, if I'm playing against him and it's

687
00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:29,320
Speaker 5: the it's the thirteenth time we've played him and he

688
00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:33,080
Speaker 5: does this, someone on my team is gonna get angry.

689
00:33:33,080 --> 00:33:36,680
Speaker 5: Someone's gonna get their feelings hurt. It even happens in

690
00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:38,320
Speaker 5: winter ball every once in a while you'll see you'll

691
00:33:38,320 --> 00:33:40,240
Speaker 5: see a brawl and winter ball. But I mean it's

692
00:33:40,280 --> 00:33:42,480
Speaker 5: cool to see right here in a huge game to

693
00:33:42,560 --> 00:33:46,280
Speaker 5: send them to the to the Caribbean World Series. Uh,

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00:33:46,800 --> 00:33:50,000
Speaker 5: you know, he high fived everybody on his team, everybody

695
00:33:50,000 --> 00:33:54,000
Speaker 5: in the stands, everybody in the whole town, everybody. He

696
00:33:54,080 --> 00:33:55,440
Speaker 5: even I think he high fived the guy in the

697
00:33:55,480 --> 00:33:58,000
Speaker 5: light standard that was working on the scoreboard. I don't know,

698
00:33:58,360 --> 00:34:00,680
Speaker 5: but I mean he high five everybody. He stopped at

699
00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:04,360
Speaker 5: seven different dance moves, hugged the coach coming around third base.

700
00:34:04,760 --> 00:34:06,840
Speaker 5: I mean, it was an incredible game. Good for him.

701
00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:09,520
Speaker 5: It's a cool moment. But you could never get away

702
00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:12,160
Speaker 5: with this, and not for any other reason than just

703
00:34:12,360 --> 00:34:13,799
Speaker 5: someone's gonna get their feelings hurt.

704
00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:16,240
Speaker 2: At some point, they had to make your own omelet

705
00:34:16,280 --> 00:34:18,600
Speaker 2: station at second base. It was great, right exactly.

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00:34:18,840 --> 00:34:19,680
Speaker 3: He pulled up with.

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00:34:19,719 --> 00:34:21,919
Speaker 2: The you know, you had the peppers and the even

708
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:23,960
Speaker 2: the lobster. It was like a high end one. It

709
00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:26,080
Speaker 2: was great, right. He took orders from everyone and then

710
00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:26,960
Speaker 2: eventually made it home.

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Speaker 3: But it was fun. I will say.

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Speaker 5: It was like when you play golf and you get

713
00:34:30,160 --> 00:34:32,240
Speaker 5: to the ninth holl and they have like the taco station.

714
00:34:32,360 --> 00:34:35,280
Speaker 5: It's so delicious. He stopped and got tacos for everybody

715
00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:37,040
Speaker 5: in the dugout. I think he even gave us them

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00:34:37,040 --> 00:34:39,080
Speaker 5: out to the other team, so I mean he was

717
00:34:39,200 --> 00:34:41,120
Speaker 5: he was giving high fives, to everybody that would get

718
00:34:41,120 --> 00:34:41,719
Speaker 5: anywhere near.

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Speaker 3: Him, so good for him.

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Speaker 2: Yes, And it was a championship game so regular season no,

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Speaker 2: that wouldn't play