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Speaker 1: After senior insider Ken Rosenthal is here. Ken your thoughts

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Speaker 1: on the Braves doing this during the season to help

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Speaker 1: them get what they want in the offseason, including Hasan Kim.

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure how much of an effect that had

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Speaker 2: certainly couldn't hurt they got to know him.

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Speaker 3: From that perspective, yes, it helps because you.

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Speaker 2: Take a look at a player, you kind of see

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Speaker 2: what he's about, and then you decide, Okay, if he

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Speaker 2: gets the free agency, which he almost certainly would have,

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Speaker 2: he was going to decline that player option, then we

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Speaker 2: get back in. So from that perspective, yes, from Kim's perspective,

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Speaker 2: he did decline the player option and he got four

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Speaker 2: million dollars more out of it, so I'm sure he

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Speaker 2: got a little bit of a sense of what it's

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Speaker 2: like to be in Atlanta Brave. He is close with

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Speaker 2: Profar so that helps too. But if he had gotten

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Speaker 2: a commanding multi year offer on the market that he

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Speaker 2: liked from a team he liked, he probably would.

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Speaker 3: Have taken that.

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Speaker 2: Now it was reported that he received multi year offers,

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Speaker 2: and I believe that, but maybe he just feels, hey,

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Speaker 2: I'll do the one year at twenty, go back out

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Speaker 2: in the market.

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Speaker 3: Scott Boris has had success with a number of.

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Speaker 2: Players doing this lately, Peter A. Lonzo being the most recent,

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Speaker 2: So maybe Kim can see himself in that same light.

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Speaker 4: Is this indicative of the shortstop market and how thin

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Speaker 4: it is the fact that he was clearly the best

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Speaker 4: defensive shortstop in the market. In my opinion, twenty million

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Speaker 4: is a tremendous amount for a defensive not only but

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Speaker 4: essentially just a defensive shortstop.

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Speaker 2: It is a lot, But at the same time, Eric,

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Speaker 2: it's one year, and it is a guy who in

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Speaker 2: San Diego his last year there, I believe was an

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Speaker 2: offensive force as well. So if he has the kind

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Speaker 2: of year that hash On Kim has shown he can

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Speaker 2: have before, that's a.

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Speaker 3: Pretty valuable player.

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Speaker 2: And twenty million for that kind of player is probably

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Speaker 2: not a bad rate at all. Teams look at War

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Speaker 2: and this is a little bit outdated now, but it

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Speaker 2: used to be one War was worth eight million in

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Speaker 2: free agency. I think it's more like nine or ten now,

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Speaker 2: maybe even higher than that.

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Speaker 3: So two War.

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Speaker 2: Player, three War player, twenty million.

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Speaker 3: That makes some sense.

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Speaker 1: Ken, Let's get to the Padres and the Mets and

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Speaker 1: anyone else involved here. I'm going to try and take

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Speaker 1: the San Diego spin first. I loved what you talked

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Speaker 1: about with Aj Prewler the other day on fair territory

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Speaker 1: and how he's fun to keep up with because he's

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Speaker 1: all over the place when you try and get to

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Speaker 1: someone like this to be like, focus, what do you

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Speaker 1: think we're actually going to do here? What are you

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Speaker 1: seeing hearing in terms of what they'll do. I know

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Speaker 1: you were shooting down Tatisan Machado as anything in a

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Speaker 1: trade talk, but there are a lot of other impact

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Speaker 1: players on that roster.

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Speaker 2: Right and Scott using the word fun to describe what

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Speaker 2: it's like to cover AJ Prewler, that's one word. Frustrating

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Speaker 2: is another word. Difficult is another word, because he does

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Speaker 2: so many things or is involved in so many conversations

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Speaker 2: at once, and all teams are, but it seems to

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Speaker 2: me that he takes it almost to another level. Now,

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Speaker 2: as I reported with Will Simon and Dennis Lynn, Tatis

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Speaker 2: is not available and Lindora is not going to the Padres,

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Speaker 2: so people can forget about that. But you ask which

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Speaker 2: names are in play. Nick Pavetta is certainly a guy

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Speaker 2: the Padres are talking about, and you might say well, wait,

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Speaker 2: they've lost Dylan Cees, They're probably going to lose Michael King.

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Speaker 2: You Darvish is out for the season. Why are they

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Speaker 2: trading Nick Pavetta? And the answer would be simply that

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Speaker 2: if they can turn Nick Pavetta into two younger pitchers

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Speaker 2: or something else that can get them young pitching, that's

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Speaker 2: what they would want to do.

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Speaker 3: They need multiples.

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Speaker 2: So Pavetta is one name, Mason Miller is another name,

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Speaker 2: Ramo Loreato a third, and there's two other relievers that

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Speaker 2: we've heard as well, and these are.

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Speaker 3: Just some of the names in the Mets conversations.

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Speaker 2: That's Jeremiah Estrada and Adrian Morey Jane. So these teams

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Speaker 2: have been talking, there's no question about that, and that

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Speaker 2: doesn't mean a deal is going to come to pass,

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Speaker 2: and it mean that it isn't.

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Speaker 3: What I imagine and.

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Speaker 2: What the Mets know is that Preller is talking to

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Speaker 2: twenty eight other teams as well, and he's simply trying

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Speaker 2: to put together the best possible equation for his club.

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Speaker 2: It doesn't seem like he wants to go backwards in payroll,

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Speaker 2: but it also seems that he can't go up. So

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Speaker 2: if he's going to add players at money, he's going

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Speaker 2: to have to subtract somewhere as well, and that seems

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Speaker 3: Where this is.

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Speaker 2: But if you're going to ask me to predict how

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Speaker 2: this all might play out, I have no idea.

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Speaker 4: It is there a chance that the Padres can take

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Speaker 4: a step back because he said, you don't want to

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Speaker 4: take a step back in a sense of payroll, but

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Speaker 4: how things are working out injuries, the possibility of needing

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Speaker 4: to maybe drop a little payroll with all the moves

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Speaker 4: they made at the trade deadline, are they okay taking

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Speaker 4: a step back for this season? Because we saw that

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Speaker 4: earlier with ajp early in his career when he brought

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Speaker 4: in all these guys and then he had to get

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Speaker 4: rid of some of them to then build for the

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Speaker 4: next season. Is that a possibility? As he said, no,

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Speaker 4: I'm keeping pedal to the medal win this year, next

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Speaker 4: year and the following years.

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Speaker 2: He hasn't said either, But my expectation, Eric is that

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Speaker 2: he wants to keep going and keep competing. That is

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Speaker 2: his personality. He is in a different situation now than

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Speaker 2: he was in those early years. This is a team

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Speaker 2: that draws three million, It's a huge force in San

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Speaker 2: Diego incredible success story from that perspective alone, and they

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Speaker 2: intend to compete. And Aj Preller is a competitive dude

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Speaker 2: and he wants to compete. So I don't see them

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Speaker 2: taking a step back. And if you'll take a look

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Speaker 2: at it, think about it. They've got Machado, Tatis and

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Speaker 2: Bogart's to huge contracts. Why would you be taking a

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Speaker 2: step back with those guys still in play for you?

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Speaker 3: So I don't see it happening now.

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Speaker 2: Maybe in a couple of years when Machado and Bogarts

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Speaker 2: and maybe they would love to offload a Bogart's contract

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Speaker 2: right now. But it's for us taking a step back.

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Speaker 2: That's not what I see them doing at all.

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Speaker 5: Speaking of competing, the Tigers go out and sign Kenley Jansen.

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Speaker 5: Does that potentially change their plans with Trek Scuble? Are

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Speaker 5: they going for it this year? They got a legit

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Speaker 5: closer at the back end or TVD.

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Speaker 2: TVD and the way it works, Kevin, you know this

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Speaker 2: too from just your year's plan. Teams are going to

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Speaker 2: look at everything and if they trade Tarrek Schooble, it

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Speaker 2: would be with the idea of still competing in twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty six, they wouldn't be in their minds going backwards.

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Speaker 2: They've signed Finnegan, they've signed Jansen now, and they want

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Speaker 2: to win now. The best way to win for twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty six is with Trek's scouble. But if they can put.

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Speaker 3: Together a package, it's the same thing we were talking

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Speaker 3: about with Paveta.

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Speaker 2: If you can turn them into multiple guys who can

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Speaker 2: help you short and long term, then you at least

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Speaker 2: consider it now. It's got to be a big package.

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Speaker 2: It's Trek Scooble two times cy Young winner back to

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Speaker 2: back years, but it is one year of Trek's schoobl

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Speaker 2: so that's going to depress it somewhat. And if they

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Speaker 2: can get this monster kind of return, maybe, but I

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Speaker 2: still believe that trade is.

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Speaker 3: A long shot.

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Speaker 5: Okay, speaking of trades, the Phillies go on sign of

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Speaker 5: Dolas Garcia. I'm guessing the days of Nick Castiano's wearing

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Speaker 5: a Phillies uniform are coming to an end. What are

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Speaker 5: you hearing about him? Where he could end up? Is

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Speaker 5: this gonna be a situation They're probably gonna have to

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Speaker 5: eat some money in order to get something done.

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Speaker 2: To the last question, the answer is yes and Castellanos

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Speaker 2: is a guy who has had some good moments with

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Speaker 2: the Phillies, no question about that, but it seemed to

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Speaker 2: sour last year, and there's no question, no doubt that

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Speaker 2: he will not be on their roster in twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 2: They have acquired a Dolice Garcia. They've signed him for

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Speaker 2: ten years, million dollars, and Dave Dombrowski has basically said

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Speaker 2: our outfield is set, told reporters that today in Philadelphia,

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Speaker 2: Solis Garcia will be in right, marsh in I'm sorry,

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Speaker 2: Justin Crawford, the rookie in center and marsh and a

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Speaker 2: platoon partner perhaps in left. That's the way they're going

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Speaker 2: to go about this. And Nick Castianos is not part

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Speaker 3: Where he ends up, I don't know.

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Speaker 2: He is someone that if they pay enough money down,

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Speaker 2: you can probably send them pretty much anywhere.

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Speaker 3: But we'll see how this all plays out.

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Speaker 4: All right, let's go to the Japanese market in Munitaka.

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Speaker 4: Morikami has kind of been silent. We're not sure what's

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Speaker 4: going on ever since, especially ever since we saw the

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Speaker 4: stat that he's hit oh ninety five on fastballs, which

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Speaker 4: I heard from somebody that that was maybe a little overblown.

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Speaker 4: That he does hit over he does hit fastballs over

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Speaker 4: ninety three miles an hour, But what is his market

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Speaker 4: looking like, because if they think his power will we'll

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Speaker 4: duplicate into the big leagues. It's eighty power by some scouts.

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Speaker 2: Right, And this is the question with Murakami, and I

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Speaker 2: wrote about this yesterday basically saying he's the biggest mystery

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Speaker 2: in the market.

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Speaker 3: Because we don't hear or haven't heard.

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Speaker 2: Many teams involved doesn't mean that there are teams that

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Speaker 2: are not involved.

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Speaker 3: We just don't know where this is right now.

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Speaker 2: And sometimes these negotiations with Japanese players and other players too,

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Speaker 2: you just don't hear much about the teams involved. We

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Speaker 2: haven't frankly heard much about Okamoto or am I either

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Speaker 2: in terms of teams. So that said, Murakami is a

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Speaker 2: guy who, yes, as you said, Eric, eighty power, but

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Speaker 2: serious concerns about the swing and mis tendencies.

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 3: I wrote in my notes column.

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Speaker 2: Otani ages eighteen to twenty two seasons had an even

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Speaker 3: I do expect he's going to be a major league player.

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Speaker 3: I couldn't predict where, and I know I'm saying a

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Speaker 2: I don't know, But guess what, guys, I don't know

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Speaker 4: Is there is there a certain player that each of

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Speaker 4: wrong every time a Kamoto a Kamoto, thank you, Ken

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Speaker 4: Is there a person in the market. Is there a

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Speaker 2: Akamoto both play third, seemingly first and not great defenders

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Speaker 3: Spot, So that affects it. But also Dellinger affects it.

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Speaker 2: All of these things come into play, and it puts

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Speaker 3: I forgot Boba Schett, He's another one. So all of this.

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Speaker 2: Comes into play. And yes, Eric, I think you're reading

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Speaker 5: You had wrote about it, and it had just come

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Speaker 2: I don't expect it to affect it, and the whole

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Speaker 3: Of those teams, the.

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Speaker 2: So no real surprises there. I don't expect it to

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Speaker 2: And it's going to be a high price, because, as

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Speaker 2: I wrote, by some estimates, the surplus value on this

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Speaker 2: On top of he is a really productive player, one

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Speaker 4: One of the things you wrote about was the Nats

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Speaker 2: It seems to me the Nats want to see what

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Speaker 2: their new president base operations, new manager, new coaching staff entirely,

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Speaker 2: interesting to see what they do here with Gore. My

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Speaker 2: opinion is that they should trade him. To me, it's

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Speaker 2: Right now, Mackenzie Gore is healthy. He is a guy

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Speaker 2: if his value will increase, and maybe, hey, if his

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Speaker 2: but you extend him and go about it that way.

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Speaker 1: Ken, good stuff. We'll talk to you later in the week.

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Speaker 1: We'll also hear from you on fair territory later in

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Speaker 1: the week.

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Speaker 3: Sounds good. Thanks.

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Speaker 1: I love that there are quite a few rumors flowing

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Speaker 1: and we're waiting for more trade activity. That is the

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Speaker 1: one thing that I'll point out. I expected more. I

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Speaker 1: and we haven't seen a ton. Let's start with Brendan Donovan.

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Speaker 1: The Mariners and Giants have emerged as front runners in

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Speaker 1: a potential trade for him. According to Katie Wu, we've

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Speaker 1: I'm a big fan. We were sitting with Olie Marmal

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Speaker 1: and I'll say it for him. It sounds like Donovan

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I like to refer to those guys as an

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Speaker 4: It's the heart.

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Speaker 5: He just plays the game the right way. You know,

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Speaker 5: there's certain guys that the some of their parts is

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Speaker 5: his heart makes him a very, very valuable player. And

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Speaker 5: you know, we need to get more former gms on this.

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Speaker 5: The last time we were on that was on and

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Speaker 5: I'd love to just hear more about these conversations, like

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Speaker 5: what is the hold up? The Cardinals are obviously in

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Speaker 5: a point in time where you know, they're kind of retooling.

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Speaker 5: They're getting rid of some guys that have value. They're

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Speaker 5: trying to bring in, you know, the max returns for

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Speaker 4: You know, what's the hold up?

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Speaker 5: If you're one of these two teams that has a

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Speaker 5: you know, you hear all these teams and gms talk

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Speaker 5: about versatility. Brandon Donovan is a Swiss army knife. You

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Speaker 3: He's gonna give you.

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Speaker 5: A grade at bat. I don't know what the hold

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Speaker 5: we want them? What are you willing to give up?

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Speaker 4: Here is no? Yes?

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Speaker 2: No?

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Speaker 5: Like, how does it take so long?

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Speaker 2: You know?

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Speaker 5: It's like negotiating with my five year olds?

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Speaker 1: Sometimes it's worse. Yeah, these guys just nickel and dime

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Speaker 1: if I'm Seattle, I'm like, yo, I want to get

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Speaker 1: this done today. I'm replacing Jorge Polanco. He's beloved there,

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Speaker 1: we went after him. I actually think Donovan might end

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Speaker 1: So anyway, we'll circle back to that bet MGM Futures

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Speaker 1: World Series winner. The Mariners are getting thirteen to one odds.

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Speaker 3: KP.

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Speaker 1: Kratz as a sucker for anything that's double digit odds.

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Speaker 1: Double digit to one, right, so this is essentially thirteen

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Speaker 1: to one. You can thirteen x your money. If the

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Speaker 1: Mariners win. The World Series is coming up this upcoming season.

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Speaker 1: This is not a bad place to play. They have

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Speaker 1: system right now. It doesn't always play out that way

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Speaker 1: They brought Anler back, they tried to bring Polanco back.

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Speaker 1: I think they're going to trade for someone I hope

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Speaker 1: they get for their purposes, either Donovan or can Tell Marte.

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Speaker 1: I think that'd be a huge boost for their offense.

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Speaker 1: So this isn't crazy.

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Speaker 5: He yeah, blessing in disguise. When I moved to the

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Speaker 5: I love big returns on my small bets, so I'm

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Speaker 5: all in on this number. I would hammer it, especially

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Speaker 5: it brings the number down a little bit. But I

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Speaker 1: Mm hmm. I don't win much.

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Speaker 5: I don't win much, but I take the bet because

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Speaker 5: when it does hit that one time, God, it feels

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Speaker 1: It makes up for a lot of other bets that

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Speaker 1: don't do as well. I'll tell you that you throw

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Speaker 1: a hondo down on the Mariners. Krats. We did Phillies yesterday.

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Speaker 1: I like this one better.

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Speaker 4: I mean I like the number a lot better. I'm

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Speaker 4: getting three hundred extra dollars. The Phillies were at plus

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Speaker 4: thirteen to one. And I disagree with you, Scott. You

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Speaker 4: that doesn't necessarily equate to wins in the big leagues.

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Speaker 4: Completely disagree. Because Brennan Donovan equates to wins in the

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Speaker 4: big leagues, Katel Marte equates the wins in the big leagues.

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Speaker 4: That's your top five minor league system. You don't have

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Speaker 4: to give Bryce Miller up for Brennan Donovan. I don't

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