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Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to the Thursday edition of Fair Territory. I'm

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Speaker 1: Ken Rosenthal here with my friend Alana Rizzo. We've got

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Speaker 1: a lot to talk about as camps have opened this

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Speaker 1: week and the moves keep happening. Just this morning, the

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Speaker 1: Dodgers announcing a one year, ten million dollar extension for

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Speaker 1: Max Mounsey that will carry him through twenty twenty seven.

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Speaker 1: Max Munsey a three time World Series champion with the Dodgers.

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Speaker 1: He has been a great Dodger and a guy that

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Speaker 1: they've come to really rely on. Humble beginnings to his career.

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Speaker 1: So congratulations to Max, a friend of the network. And

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Speaker 1: we had a move last night too that was quite interesting, Alana.

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Speaker 1: The Orioles agreement with Chris Bassett one year, eighteen point

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Speaker 1: five million.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Ken, good to be with you on this Thursday Again.

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Speaker 2: Congratulations to Max Munsey. Another extension for him ten million

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Speaker 2: dollars for twenty twenty seven and then a club option

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Speaker 2: for twenty twenty eight. But an eighteen and a half

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Speaker 2: million deal, million dollar deal with Chris Bassett. Ken for

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Speaker 2: the Orioles. Are they that much better now in terms

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Speaker 2: of the starting rotation?

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Speaker 3: Good for them, Owana.

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Speaker 1: That is the question, and if you go back to

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Speaker 1: the start of the off season, what were we talking about.

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Speaker 1: We were talking about their need and desire to add

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Speaker 1: a top of the rotation starter to go with Trevor

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Speaker 1: Rodgers and Kyle Bradish. They traded for Shane Boz, they

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Speaker 1: signed Zach Eflin, and now they've signed Chris Bassett. Now Boz,

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Speaker 1: Eflyn and Bassett will make less than Fromer Valdez will

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Speaker 1: make in his first year with the Tigers. That's good

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Speaker 1: in a sense if you're simply worried about the money.

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Speaker 1: But the question is did they do enough? Because with Rogers,

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Speaker 1: he's a guy that is coming off a season in

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Speaker 1: which he threw about one hundred and nine innings his

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Speaker 1: career highs one hundred and thirty three. Bradish, this will

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Speaker 1: be his first full season coming off of Tommy John surgery.

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Speaker 1: His innings are going to be only so high. Boz

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Speaker 1: is a guy who had his first full season coming

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Speaker 1: off Tommy John last year. Thirty one starts four point

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Speaker 1: eight seventy ra and you go through the group, there

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Speaker 1: are questions they're still now that's the group. That's the

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Speaker 1: sixth that they have, and six is a good number,

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Speaker 1: and They've got Kade Povich behind him and Tyler Wells

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Speaker 1: they can do some things with him as well, so

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Speaker 1: they're in a much better spot than they were at

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Speaker 1: the start of last season, Alana, But I do question

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Speaker 1: whether they should have gone for Dylan Cees or from

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Speaker 1: Er Valdez or Ranger Suarez or a trade for Freddy Peralta.

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Speaker 1: That's going to be the thing here now. If Rogers

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Speaker 1: is the ace that he appeared to be last season

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Speaker 1: after getting it together, if Bradish gets back to being

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Speaker 1: his a self, and if Baas fulfills his potential, no problem,

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Speaker 1: They've got it. I just don't know that they have

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Speaker 1: it just yet. And it's going to be really interesting

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Speaker 1: to see how we view this going forward, how this

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Speaker 1: team performs with this group.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's interesting.

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Speaker 2: It will be interesting to see because we talked so

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Speaker 2: much ken about how the Orioles seem to have a

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Speaker 2: very young and talented lineup, but they absolutely needed starting pitching.

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Speaker 2: Chris Bassett's certainly an asset to there. I tell you

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Speaker 2: what it seems like. Can we have an injury du jour?

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Speaker 2: It used to be the oblique. Everybody had an oblique

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Speaker 2: issue or perhaps a hamstring it seems this handmade bone

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Speaker 2: is wreaking some habit can a very little bone with

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Speaker 2: a very big problem for some of the game's key.

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Speaker 1: Stars, Francisco Lindor, Corbyn, Carroll Jackson, Holliday. It is curious

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Speaker 1: that this is all happening at once. I don't know

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Speaker 1: that it's coincidence. I don't know that it's not. Now

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Speaker 1: our hitters swinging too much in the offseason. Is that

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Speaker 1: is what's causing this. Is there some kind of training

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Speaker 1: method that they're using, some swing path or pattern that

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Speaker 1: they're trying to adopt. I don't know exactly. It's to

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Speaker 1: me most likely somewhat coincidental. But the real question is

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Speaker 1: not so much how this is happening, though that is

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Speaker 1: a question, and that's something for greater minds than I

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Speaker 1: to explain. The real question is the impact of these

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Speaker 1: injuries on the various players teams. Lindor the Mets a

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Speaker 1: third leading home run hitter last year behind Juan Soto

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Speaker 1: and Pete Alonso. The Mets have a much different look

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Speaker 1: about them this year. Alonso, of course, is gone gone

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Speaker 1: to the Orioles, and the power was going to be

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Speaker 1: a question even before this, with Lindor Now with hamme

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Speaker 1: injuries and surgeries, that is something that is a concern.

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Speaker 1: How quickly will the power come, So it generally takes

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Speaker 1: some time. It's probably going to take some time for Lindoor,

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Speaker 1: and that is a concern for the Mets, even if

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Speaker 1: he is back opening day. Corbyn Carroll very similar situation.

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Speaker 1: Corbyn Carroll is not a very big guy, but he

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Speaker 1: was the Diamondback's second leading home run hitter last year,

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Speaker 1: actually the first if you don't count Aohanno Suarez who

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Speaker 1: was traded at mid season. Carol had thirty one home runs.

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Speaker 1: Like Lindor, this is a team that scores, a team

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Speaker 1: with a really good offense. But Aronado coming in, Carlos

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Speaker 1: Santana coming in, these are guys not in the primes

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Speaker 1: of their careers. And if Carol loses power and it

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Speaker 1: takes a while for him to get it back, what

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Speaker 1: kind of impact does that have. Jackson Holliday, it's a

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Speaker 1: little bit of a less of an issue. He is

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Speaker 1: not the power threat that those other two are, yet

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Speaker 1: he supposedly could be at some point in his career.

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Speaker 1: But that is the concern here, not so much that

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Speaker 1: they'll get back The surgery is relatively simple. Guys get

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Speaker 1: back in six weeks, but how quickly will the power

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Speaker 1: come back? And that's a legitimate concern.

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Speaker 2: I guess it's better that it happened now when spring

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Speaker 2: training can than in the middle of the season. But

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Speaker 2: you'd hate any of your stars to go out. Corbyn

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Speaker 2: Carroll was going to be on Team USA for the

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Speaker 2: World Baseball Classic, which starts soon. Corbyn Carroll he's out

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Speaker 2: now for that. So what does it mean for Team

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Speaker 2: USA as far as a Carol replacement?

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Speaker 3: What do you know?

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Speaker 1: My understanding is that they're looking at all options for

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Speaker 1: the outfield. They need one more, obviously now to replace Carol.

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Speaker 1: I would think more of a corner outfielder. Jackson Merrill

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Speaker 1: is one name. Maybe Roman Anthony, someone young like that

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Speaker 1: is another. Kyle Tucker has played in the WBC before.

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Speaker 1: I don't know that he'd want to leave the Dodgers

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Speaker 1: in the first year of his big contract. But obviously

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Speaker 1: there are excellent American outfielders out there. They just need

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Speaker 1: to find one and need to figure out exactly how

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Speaker 1: they're going to adjust the roster.

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Speaker 3: I have one more really quickly.

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Speaker 2: Ken on the Roman Anthony prospect, possibility of taking Corbin

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Speaker 2: Carroll's place, young player, superstar player in the making. If

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Speaker 2: you're the Red Sox, you believe very highly in him

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Speaker 2: with the contract that he was given. Do you think

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Speaker 2: the Red Sox would allow him considering he missed a

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Speaker 2: lot of last season and the postseason for them.

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Speaker 1: That's actually a good question. And the insurance issue would

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Speaker 1: come to the four there too, because guys who had

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Speaker 1: that kind of injury history last year do not get insured. Now,

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Speaker 1: Roman Anthony is a minimum salary player, It's not that

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Speaker 1: big a deal from a financial standpoint for the Red

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Speaker 1: Sox to assume the risk, as the Diamondbacks did with

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Speaker 1: Carlos Santana making two million this week. If I'm the

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Speaker 1: Red Sox, ideally I want him on my team in

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Speaker 1: my camp. It's the same with every team and every player.

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Speaker 1: They don't ideally want guys playing in the WBC. But

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Speaker 1: there is a value to Anthony going and joining Team USA.

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Speaker 1: And we're just talking about this hypothetically. And Bobby wit

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Speaker 1: Junior in the last WBC, he was the last man

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Speaker 1: on the team. Essentially, he was their Christian Latner from

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Speaker 1: the nineteen eighty four US Olympic basketball team. He didn't

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Speaker 1: play much, but he learned a ton and I'm sure

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Speaker 1: it would benefit Anthony or any other young player that

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Speaker 1: might be under consideration just to be around Aaron Judge

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Speaker 1: and Cal Rolly, Bobby wit Junior, all of these superstars

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Speaker 1: at the same time when he get the same playing time.

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Speaker 1: I don't know that he would. And by the way,

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Speaker 1: that was the nineteen ninety two dream team. I believe

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Speaker 1: that the wrong year eighty four, so ninety two Christian

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Speaker 1: Latner Bobby with twenty twenty three, Team USA will see

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Speaker 1: if they go for a younger player or if they

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Speaker 1: go for someone who is more established. For that Corbyn Carol.

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Speaker 2: Spot Yeah, I can see both sides of that equation,

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Speaker 2: the team side as well as perhaps the Anthony side

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Speaker 2: of wanting to play for Team US. Say, all right,

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Speaker 2: this is an interesting story. It keeps getting more interesting.

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Speaker 2: Matt Gelb of the Athletic saying that the Phillies told

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Speaker 2: Nick Castellanos not to report to the team's complex this week.

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Speaker 2: There's some dynamics at play here, Ken, What more can

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Speaker 2: you tell us about whether he's going to be traded

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Speaker 2: or just outright released.

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Speaker 1: There have been Dynamics that player with Nick Castillanos going

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Speaker 1: back to last season when he had the issue with

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Speaker 1: Rob Thompson in Miami and of course that led to

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Speaker 1: quite a bit of a kerfuffle. Let's put it that way. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: the Phillies do not want Nick Castillanos. Dave Dombrowski, the

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Speaker 1: of the offseason that he's not going to be back.

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Speaker 1: So why are they not allowing him to come to

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Speaker 1: the spring training Because they're trying to do something and

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Speaker 1: they don't don't want a player who is not going

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Speaker 1: to be back to be part of the team as

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Speaker 1: they're getting ready here. So either a trade or Nick

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Speaker 1: Castillanos getting released is going to be the outcome here.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure the Phillies are working hard to try to

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Speaker 1: trade him, and there are teams that need right handed

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Speaker 1: bats who could maybe use Castianos. The Padres would be

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Speaker 1: the one that comes immediately to mind. Maybe the Marlins

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Speaker 1: that is home for Nick Castianos. Miami is so obviously

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Speaker 1: he's not going to be a Philly And then we'll

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Speaker 1: see where he ends up and if he can kind

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Speaker 1: of revive his career a bit.

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Speaker 3: It's going to seem it's going to take a lot.

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Speaker 2: It seems to be able to kind of change the

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Speaker 2: narrative if you will on Nick Castillanus, who was a

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Speaker 2: good Philly for a while, but obviously things went south.

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Speaker 2: Much more to come on fair Territory with Ken Rosenthal.

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Speaker 2: Get those questions in. You have an opportunity to grow

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Speaker 2: Ken right after this.

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Speaker 2: All right, another question about Zach Gallen, and it's not

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Speaker 2: going to go away Ken until Zack Gallan gets signed.

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Speaker 2: I still cannot believe pitchers and catchers have reported and

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Speaker 2: he has no home videos two o seven. With Baltimore

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Speaker 2: signing starting pitcher Chris Bassett, are they now out on Gallon?

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Speaker 3: Okay, who you're giving your flowers to? Ken?

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Speaker 1: Ron Washington And I've known Ron Washington since nineteen eighty seven.

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Speaker 2: exactly where it was, so a little morbid, but also.

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Speaker 3: Unique and funny.

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Speaker 2: And everybody, of course knows about the bloody lip jersey.

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Speaker 2: So the Texas Rangers, good job, you are my dude

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Speaker 2: of the week.

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Speaker 3: All right.

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Speaker 2: Time now for our dorks of the week. All right,

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Speaker 2: I'm going to take the first one on this dork

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Speaker 2: of the week is everybody that has an issue with

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Speaker 2: guys showing up to their new spring training facilities with

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Speaker 2: their old bags. Keith McPherson, who has a show on Wfan,

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Speaker 2: was saying that Luke Weaver was sending a bad message

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Speaker 2: to the New York Mets because he showed up to

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Speaker 2: camp with a Yankees bag. Guys, this is something that

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Speaker 2: happens to everybody that changes teams. Brent Rooker had a

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Speaker 2: funny tweet. No one in the locker room cares it

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Speaker 2: all if you show up with your stuff in your

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Speaker 2: old team's bag. And it is pretty much physically impossible

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Speaker 2: to gain fifteen to twenty pounds of muscle in four

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Speaker 2: months of off season training. Anybody that has not played

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Speaker 2: for the same team their entire career, like my husband

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Speaker 2: Chris Lianetta, has seventeen thousand bags. And when you get

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Speaker 2: traded to the next team, you'll see here. Anthony Siegler

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Speaker 2: coming from the Brewers showing up to Red Sox camp.

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Speaker 2: He's bringing his Brewers gear because that's all he has.

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Speaker 2: The stuff is given to you when you show up

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Speaker 2: to camp. It's not like you can go to the store.

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Speaker 3: This is some just some of Chris bags.

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Speaker 2: He started his career with the Rockies, then he went

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Speaker 2: to the Angels, then he went to the Diamondbacks, the Mariners,

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Speaker 2: went back to the Rockies, finished with the Yankees. He

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Speaker 2: would show up to camp with whatever bag he happened

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Speaker 2: to have. It's not like you go to Samson Night

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Speaker 2: and say, hey, I need a Mets bag.

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 2: So anyway, everybody that thinks it's a big deal and

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Speaker 2: has tried to make this into a story, that's not

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Speaker 2: you or my dork of the week.

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Speaker 3: The bags are.

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Speaker 2: Assigned when they get to their new camp. Ken all right, sorry,

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Speaker 2: got that off my chest.

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Speaker 3: Needed to do that. Who is your dork of the week?

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Speaker 1: All right, I'm gonna go quick. It's Chicago White Sox GM,

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Speaker 1: Chris Getz and the White Sox in general. Now you

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Speaker 1: might have seen this on social media. Gets referred to

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Speaker 1: Luis anil Acunya, a player he acquired from the Mets

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Speaker 1: four different times as a switch hitter, when Acuna, of course,

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Speaker 1: is a right handed hitter. Now, everybody makes mistakes and

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Speaker 1: gets to his credit is due to statement this morning,

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Speaker 1: kind of making light of the whole thing, saying he

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Speaker 1: went a little too far. I got carried away describing

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Speaker 1: his versatility, said jokingly, he could play every position on

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Speaker 1: the field, so why does it have to stop there?

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Speaker 1: I called Luis Anhel and told him that even though

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Speaker 1: he's just right handed, we still love him. Good comeback,

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Speaker 1: good recovery. By Chris Getz. He's dork of the week.

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Speaker 1: But you know what, somebody with the white sox should

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Speaker 1: have corrected him. It's a mistake. Now, yes, the GM

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Speaker 1: should know the player he acquired is not a sweitch hitter.

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Speaker 1: But my goodness, things happen. Mistakes happen. We need people

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Speaker 1: to save us once in a while.

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Speaker 3: And that's what our producers and our editors do. They

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Speaker 3: save us.

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Speaker 2: Jeremy Meyer, the producer and director of this show, he

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Speaker 2: saves us often. We have all made mistake. All right,

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Speaker 2: If you're still with us, we appreciate you very much.

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Speaker 3: Ken.

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Speaker 2: You just recently wrote a column for The Athletic on

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Speaker 2: Alex Bregman, and I loved it because the Cups camp

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Speaker 2: obviously is barely underway yet Alex Bregman is already making

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Speaker 2: his new teammates better tell me more right.

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Speaker 1: I had a couple different stories in there, Alana, from

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Speaker 1: players who described the impact he's making and what he's

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Speaker 1: doing for them. Reliever named Hoby Milner, left handed reliever

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Speaker 1: just joined the team this year, was talking with Fregman

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Speaker 1: at the Cub's convention and Bregman said, we had a

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Speaker 1: tip on you last year. Actually we had two tips.

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Speaker 1: Milder was aware of one of them when he was

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Speaker 1: with the Texas Rangers, didn't know the other. But Alex

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Speaker 1: Bregman picks up stuff like this, and also the expectation

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Speaker 1: is he's going to have a very positive impact on

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Speaker 1: p Crow Armstrong, who of course struggled in the second

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Speaker 1: half last year. Chase rate low obp and people might

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Speaker 1: read this and say, oh, well, what's the difference. It's

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Speaker 1: not gonna matter. How do you measure this stuff? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: I get it, but this all was well chronicled when

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Speaker 1: he was with Houston, well chronicled when he was with Boston.

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Speaker 1: The difference he makes in a clubhouse, the difference he

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Speaker 1: makes in helping players improve. It is part of the

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Speaker 1: reason the Cubs were willing to go to five years,

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Speaker 1: one hundred and seventy five million, about one hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifty five million present day value. It's not fiction, folks,

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Speaker 1: it's real things that happen. And when this kind of

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Speaker 1: thing happens, it does change a team. And that's what

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Speaker 1: the Cubs are looking forward to here. And as I wrote,

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Speaker 1: it's already taking place.

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Speaker 2: That's the same thing I would say when I just

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Speaker 2: said that any team that had Ron Washington on it

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Speaker 2: is better for it. Any team that has Alex Bregman

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Speaker 2: on it is a much better team. Well, everybody, thank

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Speaker 2: you so much for watching and listening. Foul Territory is next.

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Speaker 2: Spare with Ken is back on Monday.

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Speaker 3: Talk to you then,