WEBVTT - Did These Teams Make the Perfect Trades? 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:03.280 Hello, and welcome to Waken Jake. We're gonna post game 0:00:03.840 --> 0:00:08.280 Winter Meetings. See what we missed? I mean on Waken Jake, 0:00:08.360 --> 0:00:11.360 we haven't talked since Kyle Tucker is now a cub. 0:00:11.440 --> 0:00:13.800 I need to think about that a little more. Devin 0:00:13.840 --> 0:00:16.320 Williams is a New York Yankee. I've thought about that 0:00:16.440 --> 0:00:19.400 a lot. The other odds and ends that kind of 0:00:19.400 --> 0:00:24.079 didn't get closed at Winter Meetings, like Alex Bregman seemed 0:00:24.079 --> 0:00:27.479 like he was gonna sign Christian Walker. Those felt like 0:00:27.600 --> 0:00:31.040 they were in the Winter Meetings timeline, and now they're 0:00:31.080 --> 0:00:34.440 in the post Winter meetings Abyss. Are you trying to 0:00:34.440 --> 0:00:37.520 get a deal done before Christmas? Are thing's gonna start 0:00:37.560 --> 0:00:42.120 to leak? I mean the number Corbyn Burns has to 0:00:42.200 --> 0:00:47.160 want should be above Max Freed and who's gonna get there? 0:00:48.200 --> 0:00:51.720 So we'll talk about all of that, what remains, what's 0:00:51.760 --> 0:00:56.800 coming next. I just having a good Monday over here. 0:00:56.880 --> 0:00:59.080 When I say good Monday, I mean that in the 0:00:59.160 --> 0:01:03.920 bad way. We had tech Monster going on. Went out 0:01:03.920 --> 0:01:06.360 for lunch and it was like lightly raining, It's like 0:01:06.560 --> 0:01:09.160 I'll be fine, and then it really started raining and 0:01:09.200 --> 0:01:13.240 that wasn't as fine. Ordered my lunch from the wrong location. 0:01:13.560 --> 0:01:18.080 That was a tough break. Yeah. Yeah, so we're in it. 0:01:18.800 --> 0:01:21.840 But we're here watch a lot of football too, So 0:01:21.880 --> 0:01:26.840 we'll wrap up with that. But let's get into ball talk. 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:30.960 We'll call it coming out of the Winter meetings. They 0:01:32.120 --> 0:01:34.920 I think it was a standard winter meetings, like the 0:01:35.160 --> 0:01:39.160 signings and trades began. We had some good movement. 0:01:39.400 --> 0:01:42.839 Felt a little extra juice because last year was famously 0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:44.760 a wow nothing happened Winter meetings. 0:01:45.280 --> 0:01:47.480 Yeah. I guess I didn't appreciate that because I was 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:50.440 I was down in Mexico and we got the won 0:01:50.560 --> 0:01:55.120 Soto news, so that's all I wanted, selfish And now 0:01:55.120 --> 0:02:00.120 he's dead to me. Okay, Kyle Tucker is the best 0:02:00.200 --> 0:02:05.600 Chicago Cubs since fill in the blank Hovey Bias had 0:02:05.640 --> 0:02:09.200 back to back six war seasons in eighteen nineteen, I believe. 0:02:09.919 --> 0:02:13.960 But otherwise you're looking at Brizzo in like their best season. 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:19.079 Yeah, I guess Bryant's MVP year. 0:02:19.840 --> 0:02:26.080 You're not gonna beat that one Kyle Tucker there, But yeah, 0:02:26.160 --> 0:02:29.880 Kyle Tucker comes in gives the Cubs a lot of 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:35.480 outfield ian happ gold Glover friend texted him over the 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:37.640 weekend because he played a golf course I want to play. 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:40.919 He said it was hard. There was a lot of wind. 0:02:41.680 --> 0:02:43.200 Kind of the end of the convo, it was a 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:45.079 choppy one. I was hoping it was going to be 0:02:45.080 --> 0:02:48.600 a little looser. We'll work on it. It's the off season, 0:02:48.800 --> 0:02:53.160 you know, holiday grind. Everyone's out of rhythm, right, Yeah, 0:02:53.160 --> 0:02:56.200 So maybe I'm going to follow back up on that today. 0:02:57.080 --> 0:02:59.920 Cody Bellinger, will he be there? Say this is zoop? 0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:04.600 He was rumored to be in trade talks. He survives. 0:03:05.440 --> 0:03:08.160 Our guy, Pete Crow Armstrong is still on that team. 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:13.040 So the Cubs have a lot of outfield depth that 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:16.160 we will see what their next move is. The rumor 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:21.560 is they want to dump Belly somewhere. New York Yankees 0:03:21.600 --> 0:03:24.120 may be interested. We'll see who else would be interested. 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:29.520 Right now, their lineup lists out as hap good, Kyle 0:03:29.560 --> 0:03:34.800 Tucker very good, Saya Suzuki sure his numbers ended up 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:39.040 in a really good place last year for eighty two 0:03:39.160 --> 0:03:44.000 slug three, sixty two on base, twenty one homers, sixteen steals. 0:03:44.320 --> 0:03:47.480 Everyone does a little bit of something on these Cubbies. 0:03:48.760 --> 0:03:52.280 You slide Dansby down the lineup, Michael Bush coming off 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:55.560 his twenty one homer campaign and then Nico Horner is 0:03:55.560 --> 0:03:58.040 still involved in the team and we'll see is he 0:03:58.080 --> 0:04:00.880 gonna survive this offseason. People thought Matt Shaw was going 0:04:00.960 --> 0:04:05.760 to take over his spot. Currently they have Matt Shaw 0:04:05.840 --> 0:04:10.440 listed as the cubs starting third basement. So the Cubs 0:04:10.440 --> 0:04:14.680 have outfield depth. They'll need to turn that into some 0:04:14.680 --> 0:04:19.320 some more infield their rotation. And they signed Carson Kelly, 0:04:19.800 --> 0:04:24.240 so okay, there's eighty one games showed him in Auga, Steele, 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:29.080 James and Tyne, Matthew Boyd and Javier Assade, so they 0:04:29.120 --> 0:04:31.200 can have work to do on the pitching staff if 0:04:31.240 --> 0:04:35.080 they roll in with that pitching, it is what it is. 0:04:35.480 --> 0:04:39.520 They had to move one of their depth pieces to 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:46.279 go get Kyle Tucker along with trading the other prospect, 0:04:46.360 --> 0:04:50.159 Camp Smith. Trev was in on Camp Smith kind of randomly. 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:53.560 Sure played like very few minor league games, but why 0:04:53.600 --> 0:04:57.400 not Hayden Wesneski form Yankee farmhand. He was the depth 0:04:57.440 --> 0:04:59.600 I was talking about. He had good at ERA and 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:03.880 limited action last year, and trading a picture to Houston 0:05:04.040 --> 0:05:05.400 still has a scary. 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:09.160 On Houston's end. I think they're very excited to get 0:05:09.240 --> 0:05:12.080 Wesnavsky is essentially a throw in in the trade. 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:17.280 I think that slider slides and then Estak pretis who 0:05:17.279 --> 0:05:20.840 they traded for from the the Rays. Esack broke out 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:24.880 with them after kind of being a bust with the Tigers. 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:27.840 Estock turns on the ball one of the funnier spray 0:05:27.920 --> 0:05:30.719 charts you'll look at if you go check out baseball. 0:05:30.760 --> 0:05:34.240 Savant should play well with the Crawford boxes and we'll 0:05:34.279 --> 0:05:36.919 see what they do. Uh. Could they keep him at third? 0:05:36.960 --> 0:05:40.120 Could they move him at first, bring back Bregman trade 0:05:40.200 --> 0:05:44.920 or add someone else. Houston's just joining the party. They 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:47.760 currently have lost Kyle Tucker and Alex Bregman coming off 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:54.040 an eighty eight win season like Houston's Houston, and they 0:05:54.080 --> 0:05:56.840 still won the West last year, and they deserve an 0:05:56.880 --> 0:06:00.520 extra level of respect. But Houston needs to go to work, 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:03.320 and I do expect them to go to work because 0:06:03.360 --> 0:06:09.120 their outfield is empty right now. No offense to Chas McCormick, 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:11.520 Jake Myers, and I think they were listing our guy, 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:12.440 Taylor Tremmel. 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:16.080 I was just about to say, uh, seems like at 0:06:16.160 --> 0:06:18.279 least one infield or one outfielder coming in. 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:23.600 Maurcio Mauricio Dubon still on the team and will play 0:06:23.640 --> 0:06:27.400 a lot and make great plays. But yeah, they're they're 0:06:27.520 --> 0:06:29.279 very interesting because they can go a lot of ways 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:33.160 with this Still, I kind of like Santan Dare for Houston, 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:36.000 kind of short down both lines. You can hide them 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:40.360 in left field if you need to, like Bregman could 0:06:40.400 --> 0:06:45.680 come back the Astros. They have pitching right now, their 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:49.840 rotations listed as Framber, Hunter Brown, Reno Blanco spend at 0:06:49.880 --> 0:06:54.719 the Luis Garcia and then, like I said, yeah, they 0:06:54.760 --> 0:06:58.200 got Weiznsky in the trade. At some point LANCEM Colors 0:06:58.279 --> 0:07:02.080 Junior expect him to be playing baseball again. I don't 0:07:02.080 --> 0:07:05.440 know when that is. And they still have hater A 0:07:05.520 --> 0:07:07.960 Brady Presley on the back end with Taylor Scott who 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:11.600 broke out last year. Let's see, let's see because there 0:07:11.680 --> 0:07:15.440 was there was some Framber trade rumors. Does Houston operate differently, 0:07:15.480 --> 0:07:19.120 they don't give out long contracts. Let's see how the 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:22.720 rest of their offseason goes. I would say, let's see 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:25.520 where the rest of the pieces fall before we see 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:28.160 what happens with them. But they have a lot of opportunity. 0:07:29.720 --> 0:07:32.960 They can go lefty or righty with it. They've got options. 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:37.560 Whatever falls to them, they can go with the Cubbies. 0:07:37.600 --> 0:07:40.320 It's a little bit of the same, but the talent 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:45.080 took a leap with Kyle Tucker. Like, it's kind of 0:07:45.080 --> 0:07:47.520 my theory with bullpens, when you add a good guy 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:49.920 in the ninth or eighth inning, it takes a little 0:07:49.920 --> 0:07:52.280 bit of pressure off everyone, and your guy pitching in 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:54.280 the eighth inning is pitching in the seventh and it 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:57.640 just the ripple effect you can feel. And I think 0:07:57.680 --> 0:08:01.000 in this line up, Kyle Tuk will be expected to 0:08:01.000 --> 0:08:03.680 be the man. He had the second what would have 0:08:03.680 --> 0:08:05.920 been the second most homers on the Cubs last year, 0:08:05.920 --> 0:08:08.160 but he did that in three hundred and thirty nine 0:08:08.240 --> 0:08:14.760 plate appearances. Happer six fifty seven plate appearances for those 0:08:14.800 --> 0:08:17.880 twenty five home runs, that's nice. No qualms, Gold Glove 0:08:18.200 --> 0:08:18.800 check on it. 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:22.320 That outfield defense is gonna be crazy. 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:25.720 I sent him, I don't know, it was clunky yesterday. 0:08:25.840 --> 0:08:30.600 Let's see, we'll text, all right, you know what, I'll 0:08:30.640 --> 0:08:35.280 reveal it. I'll reveal the people. I texted him Friday night, 0:08:35.280 --> 0:08:37.040 a little later than I should have, but I wanted 0:08:37.040 --> 0:08:39.760 to inquire about the golf. And it was like, honest, story, 0:08:39.840 --> 0:08:42.920 so I went for it. I started off the convo 0:08:43.040 --> 0:08:48.320 with Kyle Tucker. Period nice, he said, very good for 0:08:48.360 --> 0:08:52.480 the Cupies. I said, I want to know how the 0:08:52.520 --> 0:08:55.439 golf was. But I also didn't I said, I also 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:58.880 realized it's getting late. The next morning he texted me, Dude, 0:08:58.880 --> 0:09:01.720 that place a special. I said, another course record for you. 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:04.520 He said, I wish that wind is tough. So I 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:11.360 didn't respond to that. So do I? I don't. Yeah, 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:17.200 that's I don't know. I'm just gonna leave it interested 0:09:17.240 --> 0:09:20.320 to see what feels like a pivotal off season for 0:09:20.360 --> 0:09:23.319 the Cubbies. What more do they have in the tank? 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:25.680 Can it all come via trade? Like if they do 0:09:25.800 --> 0:09:29.600 the Bellinger trade right, if they get Nico Horner involved 0:09:29.640 --> 0:09:32.520 in it, it feels like they can get to a 0:09:32.600 --> 0:09:36.720 strong place. I really would love if they got another 0:09:36.800 --> 0:09:39.520 starting pitcher you could look at and even of the 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:42.360 native all deal who he signed back with the Texas 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:46.040 Rangers twenty five MILLI year for three years. Keep twirling 0:09:46.120 --> 0:09:50.360 in Nate, but someone else you could look at him, 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:54.440 be like, do I big game postseason start? Do I 0:09:54.520 --> 0:09:58.120 want that? Like? No shots fired at jameson tyone our 0:09:58.200 --> 0:10:02.360 friend and he's in the gaming world now. I think 0:10:02.400 --> 0:10:06.720 we had him streaming over the weekend. Look where Jamo's 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:10.240 numbers landed last year. Three two seven. 0:10:10.120 --> 0:10:12.880 Okay about sixty five. 0:10:13.400 --> 0:10:16.520 Yeah, not a ton of strikeouts, not a lot of punches, 0:10:16.640 --> 0:10:21.640 But I Jamo throw some funk up there. I really 0:10:21.720 --> 0:10:23.800 enjoyed him as a Yankee more than his stats would 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:28.200 tell you. Uh. If they could bring in one more 0:10:28.280 --> 0:10:32.679 high leverage starter trading out of their their depth, I 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:37.000 would really like that for the Cubbies. And I don't know. 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:41.520 The NL Central continues to be an exercise because the Cardinals, 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:44.360 we were told by Katie we were doing nothing. If 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:51.000 maybe unloading pirates we're looking for hitting their rumor to 0:10:51.040 --> 0:10:56.120 be listening on Jared Jones, I don't. I don't know, 0:10:56.440 --> 0:11:00.200 pirates do something. The Brewers are just the class. Even 0:11:00.200 --> 0:11:02.880 while they're trading people away and they lose Williadomas and 0:11:02.960 --> 0:11:08.079 free agency, they train away Devin Williams, they continue to 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:11.160 find a way to persevere that these these cubs, if 0:11:11.200 --> 0:11:14.800 they make the next trade properly, it should be go 0:11:15.000 --> 0:11:18.360 time for the Cubs. And I'll I'll believe it if 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:24.640 I like the pieces back because Kyle Tucker. There's a 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:26.600 lot of different ways you can chop up his stats, 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:29.920 but I I think he's got the fifth most war 0:11:30.000 --> 0:11:35.040 of outfielders since he's gotten run and it's like Judge 0:11:35.600 --> 0:11:42.240 MOOKI I think Jordan counted. So Kyle Tucker is an 0:11:42.280 --> 0:11:44.880 absolute stud. If you're listening to this program, you already 0:11:44.880 --> 0:11:47.680 know that, and you just subscribe to the channel. Thank 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:51.880 you that this was a big move for the Cubs. 0:11:51.880 --> 0:11:54.160 I've called them out about not putting the chips on 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:59.400 the table. Kyle Tucker for one year. Let's see if 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:01.280 the Cubs will run out the wallet after that. But 0:12:01.440 --> 0:12:04.880 Kyle Tucker for one year an impact piece in the 0:12:05.000 --> 0:12:05.720 NL Central. 0:12:06.320 --> 0:12:09.320 I mean we I think coming into this offseason for 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:13.040 the Cubs would have said, like, hey, there's no specific 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:15.520 spot that this has to come from, but they kind 0:12:15.600 --> 0:12:21.120 of need a new best player. And I don't think 0:12:21.160 --> 0:12:23.360 it's unfair. So Kyle Tucker is that. 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:32.360 Oh yeah, I mean defensively, offensively, and yeah, it gives 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:36.839 them just a little bit more threat and identity that 0:12:37.240 --> 0:12:39.480 I think those Cubs were missing. So let's see the 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:41.800 next move on both sides of those I think both 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:43.760 those sides are going to get the hype train going 0:12:44.600 --> 0:12:47.240 the rest of this offseason. The other big one that 0:12:47.360 --> 0:12:53.640 happened while you were sleeping was Devin Williams to the Yankees. Sure, 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:59.040 the Yankees get their closer and Devin Williams another one 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:02.160 year deal. We did have to send out a couple 0:13:02.200 --> 0:13:07.240 of sweet princes. Nestor Cortes, who won over Yankee fans. 0:13:07.280 --> 0:13:11.720 Hearts in a unique way with his pitching style, his 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:15.040 general look and demeanor kind of as fun as it 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:17.960 gets on a baseball field, so that'll be missed. But 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:19.800 he was kind of up and down this year the 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:24.120 season stats landed in a very solid spot, and that's 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:27.600 kind of what this trade turned into. The Milwaukee Brewers 0:13:27.679 --> 0:13:31.800 ran out of starting pitchers last year, they add Nestor, 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:35.120 Devin Williams goes out. The money's similar. I think they 0:13:35.160 --> 0:13:40.080 even get some money in the deal. And the Brewers 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:42.160 have a plan for one sixty two. It's we're gonna 0:13:42.160 --> 0:13:44.559 play a ton of defense and we're gonna pitch a lot, 0:13:45.120 --> 0:13:47.240 and our bullpen is going to be nasty with or 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:50.960 without Devin Williams, and it will be because they've figured 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:53.160 that part out and it's a huge advantage for them. 0:13:53.520 --> 0:13:55.719 So to be paying Devin Williams on the back end, 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:58.240 knowing you're probably gonna lose him as a free agent. 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:01.080 Devin Williams missed it uncle Las year. He only threw 0:14:01.120 --> 0:14:04.200 twenty one point two innings. That they have the other 0:14:04.360 --> 0:14:08.000 McGill brother over there save twenty one games for them, 0:14:08.120 --> 0:14:09.960 and they will fill out that bullpen like they do 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:13.520 every year. Their rotation, I mean, you have to have 0:14:13.559 --> 0:14:18.480 a little bit of beer goggles on. It's like a 0:14:19.560 --> 0:14:24.960 it's a hot beer goggles rotation, like Freddy Peralta. You're like, oh, yeah, 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:29.200 I like that. Brandon Woodruff. Bounce him back, Let's see 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:31.840 what he looks like. But you know, Brandon Woodruff had 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:35.960 his peak. He was he was killing it. Aaron Savale 0:14:36.240 --> 0:14:40.320 they traded for him at the deadline. He pitched really, 0:14:40.640 --> 0:14:44.080 really well for them. Tobias Myers was their breakout guy 0:14:44.200 --> 0:14:47.640 last year, twenty five starts a three flat era and 0:14:47.720 --> 0:14:50.120 Nesser Cortez one hundred and seventy four innings a three 0:14:50.280 --> 0:14:55.200 seven seven. So it's five guys who have all done 0:14:55.200 --> 0:14:58.120 it at a high level at different points in the 0:14:58.160 --> 0:15:01.880 major league season. I don't predict all five of them 0:15:01.960 --> 0:15:06.160 doing it, but you could say that three are and 0:15:06.240 --> 0:15:08.520 again that would be a big step up for Milwaukee 0:15:09.120 --> 0:15:12.800 where their rotation landed by the end of last season. 0:15:13.920 --> 0:15:17.160 And so not only that is Devin Williams for Nestor 0:15:17.200 --> 0:15:21.920 Cortes on paper warwise and how the innings were will 0:15:22.040 --> 0:15:26.360 sort out. It's a discussion. I mean, you'd want Devin Williams. 0:15:26.360 --> 0:15:28.080 He's has an argument to be one of the best 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:31.160 closers in the game. For Nestor, who you're on his 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:32.680 good season, he's gonna be a. 0:15:32.760 --> 0:15:36.840 Three on a very competitive team. 0:15:37.240 --> 0:15:41.000 Yes, on a good team. Yeah, on a playoffs start 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:44.320 on a good team. When he's at his best, Nestor's 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:47.160 a dog, you know, and almost I don't want to 0:15:47.160 --> 0:15:50.400 say worst case, but as like a five starter even 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:52.160 swing if you need to. And I think the other 0:15:52.200 --> 0:15:54.200 thing that's interesting for Nestor, he's going from one of 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:56.240 the worst defensive teams in the league to one of 0:15:56.240 --> 0:16:01.400 the best defensive teams in the league. So uh, that 0:16:01.480 --> 0:16:05.120 should help out Nester. Don't be surprised if he becomes 0:16:05.120 --> 0:16:08.320 a fan favorite in Milwaukee. That yeah, the beer goggles 0:16:08.360 --> 0:16:14.160 on that rotation. Okay, Milwaukee, and then they get prospect 0:16:14.240 --> 0:16:17.040 Caleb Durban, who would become a fun joke and talking 0:16:17.120 --> 0:16:25.200 Yanks land listed five to six. But he's supposedly everything Brewers. 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:28.400 He plays great defense at multiple positions. The rumor is 0:16:28.400 --> 0:16:31.240 he's gonna get a shot at third, the third base position, 0:16:32.680 --> 0:16:35.080 even though he plays pretty much every in field outfield 0:16:35.200 --> 0:16:38.920 like every Brewers player. He steals bases like every Brewers player, 0:16:39.200 --> 0:16:41.800 and he has great swing discipline like every Brewers player. 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:45.400 So he's gonna fit in perfectly there. And Yankees fans, 0:16:45.440 --> 0:16:48.880 whether it's fair or not, a prospect like Caleb Durban, 0:16:50.040 --> 0:16:53.640 Yankee fans don't believe in them panning that guy out, 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:56.920 and it's it's a pretty simple mix, like he's not 0:16:56.960 --> 0:17:01.600 gonna get the opportunity or the that probably a young 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:04.399 player needs to be successful. Like Bryce Terrang with the 0:17:04.440 --> 0:17:08.760 Brewers is a fantastic example. Bryce Terrang's first season was 0:17:08.800 --> 0:17:13.800 atrocious and like, the Yankees, don't let that happen. Uh, 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:16.239 let's get some of the numbers because the people like that. 0:17:16.280 --> 0:17:19.919 Bryce Terrang one hundred and thirty seven games his rookie 0:17:19.960 --> 0:17:24.040 year too eighteen batting average, a two to eighty five 0:17:24.119 --> 0:17:29.480 on base a three hundred slug five eighty five ops. 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:33.680 This is over four hundred at bats like they let 0:17:33.840 --> 0:17:38.480 Bryce Terrang out there, and Bryce Terrang took his lumps 0:17:38.960 --> 0:17:41.080 the next year. It does suck for Bryce that the 0:17:41.160 --> 0:17:44.840 numbers came back down earth, but he had almost a 0:17:44.880 --> 0:17:47.760 five war season because his speed in defense is that valuable. 0:17:47.840 --> 0:17:54.160 Fifty stolen bases from Bryce Terrang in eighty five ops 0:17:54.160 --> 0:17:57.320 plus and he won the Gold Glove. So that's that's 0:17:57.359 --> 0:18:00.760 what the Brewers can do that the Yankees don't allow 0:18:00.840 --> 0:18:03.960 themselves to do. Whether that's good or bad, I don't know. 0:18:04.160 --> 0:18:09.400 Probably bad that Caleb Durbin has a much better chance 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:11.919 of success with the Milwaukee Brewers than he did the 0:18:11.960 --> 0:18:16.680 New York Yankees. And again, maybe that's the Yankees' philosophical problem. 0:18:17.160 --> 0:18:20.520 Maybe that's one of the slight curses of the Yankees 0:18:20.560 --> 0:18:22.720 being able to sign whatever free agents they want and 0:18:22.800 --> 0:18:26.159 constantly putting a contender out there. But that's why it 0:18:26.200 --> 0:18:28.639 was a win for Milwaukee. They get their starting pitching 0:18:28.680 --> 0:18:31.800 innings next year, they don't have to pay nineteen mil 0:18:31.920 --> 0:18:34.320 for a guy in the free agent pool. They get 0:18:34.320 --> 0:18:36.560 a prospect that could play for them for the next 0:18:36.600 --> 0:18:42.200 half decade, and the Yankees. The Yankees get a closer 0:18:43.200 --> 0:18:47.399 Captain America, he was Team USA, is closer. He'll slot 0:18:47.440 --> 0:18:51.880 in assumed he'll slot in behind Luke Weaver because Luke 0:18:51.920 --> 0:18:55.200 Weaver was a great breakout player for the Yankees last year, 0:18:55.200 --> 0:18:58.040 but he can't pitch multiple innings. The Yankes have had 0:18:58.080 --> 0:19:00.359 that guy in their bullpen now the past couple of 0:19:00.440 --> 0:19:05.000 years between Jonathan Lewisega who just resigned with the Yankees, 0:19:05.560 --> 0:19:10.840 Chad Green, Michael King, who he now sees the number 0:19:10.880 --> 0:19:14.600 two for your San Diego padres that I think the 0:19:14.680 --> 0:19:17.719 Yankees value having that multi inning swing guy. So if 0:19:17.760 --> 0:19:20.159 the bullpen, if the rest of the guys in the 0:19:20.160 --> 0:19:22.600 bullpen are down, if you can get two out of 0:19:22.640 --> 0:19:25.520 that guy or two point one and reset the whole pen, 0:19:25.680 --> 0:19:29.399 that's huge. But man, if Luke Weaver looks like he 0:19:29.440 --> 0:19:33.720 did last year, which there were clear changes starter going 0:19:33.760 --> 0:19:36.760 to the bullpen, he changed his motion, it felt like 0:19:36.920 --> 0:19:40.840 he You haven't seen a lot of guys want the 0:19:40.960 --> 0:19:45.200 role more than Luke Weaver. Him and Devin Williams. Seven 0:19:45.280 --> 0:19:50.280 eight nine is as lockdown as the Yankees have had 0:19:50.280 --> 0:19:52.600 in a while, because even when it was Chapman with 0:19:52.680 --> 0:19:56.880 more of his powers and Zach Britton there was something 0:19:58.359 --> 0:20:01.439 Chapman was wild and Britain was contact that it was 0:20:01.480 --> 0:20:04.159 like it almost fell out of your out of your hands. 0:20:05.520 --> 0:20:08.119 Most of the time. This will work, this is this 0:20:08.200 --> 0:20:11.560 is gonna be good. These guys are like I wanna say, 0:20:11.640 --> 0:20:17.119 legendary Chapman. Is Britain has a season? Yeah, but it 0:20:17.240 --> 0:20:20.840 was like, okay, Zach Britain, there's gonna be two balls 0:20:20.840 --> 0:20:23.320 in play these first two hitters. If they get through, 0:20:23.359 --> 0:20:26.199 we're in trouble. If not, we're fine. And Chapman it 0:20:26.280 --> 0:20:29.399 was just when when are the strikes gonna come? Uh 0:20:29.560 --> 0:20:33.120 that Devin Williams and Luke Weaver should have the ability 0:20:33.119 --> 0:20:36.480 to shorten the games. The Yankees trade from their pitching 0:20:36.520 --> 0:20:42.240 depth with Nestor Uh to lock up and we'll see 0:20:42.280 --> 0:20:44.160 if they add anything in the bullpen. But the Yanks 0:20:44.160 --> 0:20:47.240 are gonna pitch Garrett Cole, Max Freed, Rodan, Luis Heel 0:20:49.080 --> 0:20:52.120 and then you still got a Stroman or Schmidt there. Man, 0:20:52.160 --> 0:20:54.719 if Jonathan Lewisaca can come back and look good, and 0:20:54.760 --> 0:20:59.679 I'm I'm nervous. I've been hurt by Johnny Laza one 0:20:59.720 --> 0:21:03.280 too many times. I had him and the Michael King. Wait, 0:21:03.359 --> 0:21:05.760 this guy throws three pitches. Let's let's bring him back 0:21:05.760 --> 0:21:08.080 to being a starter. But the injury history is just 0:21:09.400 --> 0:21:11.000 pretty intense at this point. 0:21:11.760 --> 0:21:15.320 Big injury history, but his nasties as good as anybody's, 0:21:15.320 --> 0:21:20.040 and I think there were teams interested in trying him 0:21:20.080 --> 0:21:21.520 out like that. I think a lot of them would 0:21:21.520 --> 0:21:25.280 have settled on the injuries, probably sticking the panel, but 0:21:25.280 --> 0:21:27.040 that doesn't stop some of these teams. So I don't know. 0:21:27.480 --> 0:21:29.399 I'm trying to figure out what makes a team like 0:21:30.240 --> 0:21:33.679 certain guys for move back to the rotation because like 0:21:34.880 --> 0:21:37.679 Clay doesn't fit that description, but the Mets are plenty 0:21:37.720 --> 0:21:38.920 to do that. I don't know. 0:21:39.160 --> 0:21:42.280 The Clay stuff is interesting and I don't I don't 0:21:42.280 --> 0:21:45.720 know how much we got of that on this program yet, 0:21:45.760 --> 0:21:49.920 but uh yeah, I mean it's tough because he has 0:21:50.000 --> 0:21:53.800 a go to pitch. He is a sinker that he 0:21:53.840 --> 0:21:57.359 throws fifty percent of the time. That's a pitch that 0:21:57.440 --> 0:21:59.760 gets put in play and pitch they can get a 0:21:59.760 --> 0:22:03.720 lot of outs. But Clay's secondary stuff always felt like 0:22:04.200 --> 0:22:07.480 just filler for the sinker. He threw a sweeper and 0:22:07.520 --> 0:22:12.400 a slider, so you know, there's some very pitch variety there, 0:22:13.760 --> 0:22:18.359 but nothing going away. From the left. He's outside of 0:22:18.359 --> 0:22:20.840 the sinker. So I'm super interested to see what the 0:22:20.880 --> 0:22:24.040 Mets do. And like you said, the contract at three 0:22:24.080 --> 0:22:28.359 for twenty eight, like, that's less than Jordan Hickscott. So 0:22:28.560 --> 0:22:30.760 if he just ends up being a reliever of the 0:22:30.760 --> 0:22:34.840 setup guy for Edwin Diaz, that's still an okay number. 0:22:34.880 --> 0:22:37.840 Like what's Tanner Scott about to get? And I can't 0:22:37.960 --> 0:22:40.760 I can't guarantee you Tanner Scott will be better than Clay. 0:22:40.840 --> 0:22:44.600 I know he's showing the strikeout stuff and he's left handed, 0:22:44.800 --> 0:22:49.280 but I mean, Clay's had a decent a good track 0:22:49.320 --> 0:22:51.679 record the past couple of years. And part of our 0:22:51.760 --> 0:22:54.920 biggest complain about Clay, besides them not taking him out 0:22:54.920 --> 0:22:58.600 of the closer spot, was that the defense the Yankees 0:22:58.640 --> 0:23:03.240 had didn't help Clay, and we saw that magnified on 0:23:03.280 --> 0:23:07.120 the biggest stage that all parties should have been slightly offended, 0:23:08.440 --> 0:23:12.480 and I think they now are. So those were the 0:23:12.560 --> 0:23:18.560 two biggies since we last spoke. Yankees still need a 0:23:18.600 --> 0:23:22.200 lot of work to do in the lineup, probably one 0:23:22.240 --> 0:23:26.480 free agent, one trade, maybe in one more other whether 0:23:26.600 --> 0:23:30.920 whatever that means to you or them. Who's on the 0:23:30.960 --> 0:23:31.960 other side of Milwaukee. 0:23:31.960 --> 0:23:36.200 I mean, well, it all screams Brewers move. 0:23:36.359 --> 0:23:40.399 They'll sign someone and we'll shrug. Or they'll they'll trade 0:23:40.480 --> 0:23:45.320 Reese Hoskins to Houston and then they'll sign Christian Walker 0:23:45.440 --> 0:23:50.280 and he'll be amazing. It's they get to do a line. 0:23:50.320 --> 0:23:53.200 Trust. Yeah, they mine trust. 0:23:53.280 --> 0:23:56.919 And they deserve it. Uh So for the rest of 0:23:57.040 --> 0:24:01.479 these upcoming moves outside out of winter meeting, I'm interested 0:24:01.520 --> 0:24:05.000 to see how they trickle in. We still have game 0:24:05.119 --> 0:24:09.840 changing free agents out there. Corn Burns the number one pitcher, 0:24:10.800 --> 0:24:15.760 believed number one pitcher on the market, whether it's Baltimore, 0:24:15.840 --> 0:24:18.200 whether it's the Mets trying to send a message, whether 0:24:18.280 --> 0:24:20.679 it's you know, I think the Texas Rangers had a 0:24:20.680 --> 0:24:26.440 crazy number out there for Max Freed. Washington Nationals looking 0:24:26.480 --> 0:24:29.919 to make their splash and get in the mix. We 0:24:29.960 --> 0:24:32.800 will see there will be a Corbyn Burns market. I 0:24:32.880 --> 0:24:36.399 don't see it getting into the ugly is free agent 0:24:36.760 --> 0:24:41.000 or is spring training sneaking up on us? I hope 0:24:41.000 --> 0:24:43.560 not for Corbin Burns because there's no need for that 0:24:43.680 --> 0:24:47.200