WEBVTT - I Don't Buy These MLB Rumors 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:03.600 Hello, and welcome to Waken Jake myself, Jake's story, Ellie 0:00:03.880 --> 0:00:07.880 producer BBD. As we talk about the wild world of sports, 0:00:08.920 --> 0:00:10.840 a little bit of baseball off the rip per use, 0:00:11.039 --> 0:00:14.920 that's what you guys like, Just a couple big picture 0:00:15.080 --> 0:00:17.480 items or things that I've heard a lot early on 0:00:17.560 --> 0:00:20.160 in this baseball offseason. I've already got a little bit 0:00:20.160 --> 0:00:23.800 of the off season. I won't say the off season hangover, 0:00:23.880 --> 0:00:26.120 but a little bit of the Like, Okay, I know 0:00:26.160 --> 0:00:28.880 who the free agents are, I know who some of 0:00:28.920 --> 0:00:32.599 the trade candidates are. Let's like start actually doing it 0:00:33.040 --> 0:00:36.440 because right now there's just too many open spots. Because 0:00:36.479 --> 0:00:39.280 that's gonna be the fun part of free agency for 0:00:39.400 --> 0:00:43.479 me is when stuff starts getting nitty gritty and it's like, Okay, 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:47.080 Corbyn Burns did sign with the Mets. Is Max Freed 0:00:47.159 --> 0:00:54.480 gonna go Baltimore? Atlanta? Secret third option? Uh So again, 0:00:54.520 --> 0:00:58.800 we'll talk a little baseball. I did watch a fun 0:00:59.080 --> 0:01:01.480 basketball sport event last night that I want to talk 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:03.880 about that a little bit as we get back into 0:01:04.520 --> 0:01:08.400 the regular sports cycle. A bit tea up the football 0:01:08.440 --> 0:01:14.040 weekend and so much more. Sorry for all of the 0:01:14.040 --> 0:01:18.720 tones in my voice there let's talk some ball quick, 0:01:18.760 --> 0:01:21.759 because we've been we've been churning through the free agency, 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:23.480 and I want to open it up to the people 0:01:23.640 --> 0:01:27.399 a little bit. What are you guys hoping to see. 0:01:27.760 --> 0:01:30.759 I've had a couple fun creative ideas come through my head. 0:01:31.120 --> 0:01:34.520 I thought about going through like each division's off season 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:37.679 a little bit like say, inviting Katie Wu on the 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:41.200 show and going through her outlook on the NL Central 0:01:41.800 --> 0:01:44.760 because she's dialed in on her Cardinals, but she's probably 0:01:44.800 --> 0:01:47.680 got better thoughts on some Central teams. A couple of 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:56.000 the other beat riders from different regions, bring Carabas on Fistfight. No, 0:01:56.160 --> 0:02:00.480 we like Jared, he went to Jared, you know some 0:02:00.600 --> 0:02:03.400 other teams the perfect free agent fits. You're seeing a 0:02:03.400 --> 0:02:06.960 lot of these articles come out nowadays. So whatever you 0:02:07.080 --> 0:02:11.200 guys are looking for your off season baseball coverage, leave 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:16.960 a comment below, open to any concepts or constructs. For now, 0:02:18.040 --> 0:02:20.440 I think one thing I want to lock in stone. 0:02:21.840 --> 0:02:26.200 There's rumors about Alex Bregman going to Philadelphia today. A 0:02:27.040 --> 0:02:31.400 kind of makes a lot of sense. He fits that 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:36.160 locker room. They could trade Alec Baum as Capital spend 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:38.600 the money for Bregman. The twenty five to thirty MILLI year, 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:41.160 you trade bomb, you fill in your other needs that way. 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:43.680 And those Phillies teams, they don't have a ton of needs. 0:02:43.800 --> 0:02:46.560 They are still one of the krem de la tremps 0:02:47.480 --> 0:02:50.080 as they try to build up their high end talent. 0:02:50.160 --> 0:02:55.280 And my god, Bregman high testosterone in that locker room. 0:02:56.040 --> 0:02:58.320 And yeah, Boham has had his moments at third base. 0:02:58.400 --> 0:03:00.160 I know some of the numbers will find this year 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:01.800 and it seems like he makes the play when he 0:03:01.840 --> 0:03:05.200 needs it, But Alex Bregman plays in a different category 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:10.160 over there. And the bigger thing for me a lot 0:03:10.200 --> 0:03:14.680 of the Tigers stuff. We did our free agency draft 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:17.360 on Talking Baseball. If you haven't checked that out, you should. 0:03:20.040 --> 0:03:22.320 There's a lot of Detroit Tiger stuff there. And I 0:03:22.320 --> 0:03:24.480 think I already did a little bit of this here, 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:28.959 but it wasn't making sense to me from the standpoint 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:33.480 of the Tigers have a lot of needs. Sure, aj 0:03:33.639 --> 0:03:36.200 Hinch is there. That's how many times has a player 0:03:36.240 --> 0:03:38.680 signed it a place because his old manager is there? 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:41.360 And who knows how that even like I don't want 0:03:41.360 --> 0:03:42.560 to say fizzled out, but. 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:44.960 Where those two at with each other? 0:03:45.040 --> 0:03:47.760 And end on the highest No, I'm sure they're fine, 0:03:47.800 --> 0:03:51.240 but I don't know. Usually free agency goes to the 0:03:51.280 --> 0:03:53.840 highest bidder, which, hey, maybe the Tigers are back in 0:03:53.880 --> 0:03:56.280 the game. I've been reading a few of the free 0:03:56.280 --> 0:03:59.760 agency articles, and you know, the Sun runs that team 0:03:59.840 --> 0:04:03.040 now Ilich that if you remember, the Tigers went on 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:07.280 a crazy spending spree during those you know, twenty teen 0:04:07.400 --> 0:04:11.480 years all that the pitching staff, Mickey cabs everyone, and 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:14.000 then they kind of came out of that recently that 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:17.880 hey they're back. And again just a reminder, the owner 0:04:17.960 --> 0:04:21.080 does dictate that. That's why San Diego has a huge payroll. 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:24.479 It's why the White Sox do not. Doesn't always matter 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:33.120 by city, matters by your ownership. So for the Phillies, 0:04:34.400 --> 0:04:39.720 Alex Bregman, the defense travels everywhere. Sure his homers travel there. 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:42.680 If you bring up Bregman's spray chart, it's a lot 0:04:42.680 --> 0:04:45.560 of pull homers. Houston is a good place for him 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:50.080 to play. Detroit would not be man. That is an 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:53.680 expansive outfield. It is cold there for a lot of 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:59.360 the season. I didn't like the fit. Necessarily, any team 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:01.760 could use Lgman. The guy said he's willing to play 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:03.400 second base. I want to be surprised if there's an 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:06.039 Alex Bregman Yankees rumor that leaks out. How fun is 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:08.839 that going to be? They could use him at both positions? Actually, 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:13.839 jazz figure it out. That's funny. Should we have talked. 0:05:13.560 --> 0:05:20.279 About that bragman like on talking Yanks on the Yankees? Yeah, 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:24.000 I mean the in Jeff Passons thing. He had kind 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:26.720 of a throwaway line about well, and because Willie Domas 0:05:26.760 --> 0:05:28.920 is down to play third, he's on the Yankees board. 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:34.040 Like what, there's there's a lot of ways, a lot 0:05:34.040 --> 0:05:34.720 of things can go. 0:05:34.960 --> 0:05:37.839 Hey man, if uh and that's I guess that's the 0:05:37.920 --> 0:05:40.000 off season fatigue I mentioned I'm starting to have. 0:05:40.160 --> 0:05:43.800 It's like, man, I need like a Domino to go right. 0:05:43.880 --> 0:05:45.880 A couple of things have to break, so it's like, Okay, 0:05:45.920 --> 0:05:47.760 that team is gonna be out on starting pitching. This 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:50.479 team is out on that. You know, Alex Pegman' still 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:52.719 in play for those Yankees, although also a big left 0:05:52.720 --> 0:05:55.000 field like I was talking about, But I don't know. 0:05:55.080 --> 0:05:59.240 I had a bunch of Yankees Jimmy and Joe's pushing 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:01.800 Christian Walker on me, which, don't get me wrong, Christian 0:06:01.800 --> 0:06:05.560 Walker a fine ball player probably in a single year 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:08.480 better than Bregman. Kind of a question mark if I'm 0:06:08.520 --> 0:06:12.520 being honest ghost Snakes, and I know defensively and offensively 0:06:12.520 --> 0:06:16.440 where Walker's at. He's also older that I don't know 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:19.200 if we're giving out that kind of money, I'd look 0:06:19.200 --> 0:06:23.960 at Bregman. Anyways. With all of that, the thing I 0:06:23.960 --> 0:06:26.320 can't get over hurdle wise for the Tigers is I 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:30.120 don't think they know who they are yet. They have 0:06:30.279 --> 0:06:35.120 so much young talent on the field that I think 0:06:35.160 --> 0:06:37.880 they need to let their hitting play out a little more. 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:41.039 You can bring in one or two hitters, but to 0:06:41.080 --> 0:06:43.760 be paying Bregman thirty mili on the left side and 0:06:44.000 --> 0:06:48.360 Jave Bias still has three more years, Like I just 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:53.520 Detroit may have those deep pockets, but with the Bias 0:06:53.560 --> 0:06:56.800 situation and then bringing in bregmant that one has just 0:06:56.839 --> 0:06:59.280 never made sense to me that everyone's been wondering what 0:06:59.360 --> 0:07:02.440 the Breggy homes he is going to have suitors. I 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:04.920 guess I keep hearing the Detroit one, and maybe that's 0:07:04.960 --> 0:07:07.120 just the John Boy media bubble, even though it's not 0:07:08.839 --> 0:07:11.000 that I'm gonna rule that out for the people, and 0:07:11.040 --> 0:07:16.280 I'm willing to be wrong. The other thing that I 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:20.520 I guess I'll keep it third base. Hello, Nolan Aernado, 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:24.640 I I guess I didn't fully have him on my radar. 0:07:24.760 --> 0:07:27.360 And with that, I mean if Alex, If I think 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:30.240 Alex Bragman can sign with Philly, Alec Bohm is a 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:35.800 potential third base trade guy. Uh, Nolan Ernado. I've been 0:07:35.840 --> 0:07:39.280 wondering what's going on with my Saint Louis Berts and 0:07:40.840 --> 0:07:43.040 for me, I thought the equation was going to be this. 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:45.200 The NL Central is still a little bit of a 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:48.680 crap shoot. Sure, Milwaukee does their thing every year, but 0:07:48.720 --> 0:07:52.240 we've seen them bounce down a little bit. If Milwaukee 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:54.560 was an eighty five win team next year, is anyone 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:57.960 actually shocked? No. Do they deserve to be treated better 0:07:57.960 --> 0:08:02.160 than that. Absolutely, But it's the world of baseball. Injuries, 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:04.240 young players, etc. Don't need to do the whole thing. 0:08:04.520 --> 0:08:07.360 But I thought the Cardinals a proud franchise. They've kept 0:08:07.400 --> 0:08:12.200 Olie Marmaal. Not sure why. Sorry that was aggressive. Don't 0:08:12.240 --> 0:08:15.960 live myself. Coffee kicked in for a second there. Maybe 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:17.480 he's great and they're going to kill it this year 0:08:18.040 --> 0:08:20.640 that I was doing Cardinals math of Hey, they've got 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:24.800 money coming off the books, Goldschmidt off the books, Gibby 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:28.400 off the books, Lance Lynn off the books. You can 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:34.559 turn those three into two dogs. Probably another high level 0:08:34.640 --> 0:08:36.960 starting pitcher to pair with Sonny Gray, although there's some 0:08:37.000 --> 0:08:39.000 trade rumors about him that I don't believe in at all, 0:08:39.040 --> 0:08:41.080 because he's got a full note trade. It seems like 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:42.160 he's going to hang out. 0:08:43.559 --> 0:08:43.640 That. 0:08:43.760 --> 0:08:46.200 For me, I was trying to do some Saint Louis math, Hey, 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:50.160 you could you can inject this team with two studs 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:52.520 with the money that just came off the book, so 0:08:52.559 --> 0:08:55.439 it doesn't have to look differently early returns out of 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:57.199 there is that they're not going to do that. They 0:08:57.200 --> 0:08:59.360 don't want to spend money foolishly. They kind of want 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:01.880 to find out who the young guys are. I'll uh 0:09:01.960 --> 0:09:05.840 what I'm suggesting with Detroit, We'll see. I'm interested to 0:09:05.840 --> 0:09:08.720 see where their temptations kicked in with this free agency, 0:09:08.760 --> 0:09:12.080 because there is pitching out there and if guys price 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:16.960 tags land in the right spot. You know. The other 0:09:17.080 --> 0:09:20.280 thing that we ignore a lot in these free agencies is, okay, 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:24.680 say the Cardinals are actually out next year, and we've 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:27.160 done this with a couple of the big boy free agents. 0:09:28.960 --> 0:09:31.319 Saint Louis is a proud baseball city. If they think 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:34.640 they're out next year, they think they're in the year after. 0:09:35.280 --> 0:09:38.079 So should that stop them from a max free Should 0:09:38.120 --> 0:09:40.360 that stop them from a Corbyn Burns If the price 0:09:40.440 --> 0:09:42.800 is right, I don't know. Doesn't Corbon Burns give you 0:09:42.840 --> 0:09:45.760 Saint Louis vibes a little bit a beard? They haven't 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:47.960 been rumored at all. I don't think they're in on them. 0:09:48.160 --> 0:09:51.200 But if they thought Corbin Burns is the guy for 0:09:51.280 --> 0:09:55.040 the next six years, I don't know. Maybe next year 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:58.240 could happen if that price lands in an affordable area. 0:09:59.440 --> 0:10:02.240 I'm almost getting myself mad because now I'm creating more 0:10:02.280 --> 0:10:07.440 scenarios that could be very not real. And the last thing, 0:10:08.960 --> 0:10:12.000 and again comment you want different beat writers, you want 0:10:12.000 --> 0:10:15.240 more individual team stuff, you want divisional stuff, you want 0:10:15.360 --> 0:10:18.680 mock scenarios. I'm in for all of it, as you 0:10:18.720 --> 0:10:21.480 guys know, because I do. I do Jones for this stuff. 0:10:21.520 --> 0:10:24.320 I said when I said I'm getting fatigued of it. 0:10:24.320 --> 0:10:26.440 It's more so I just want to happen. Give me 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:32.520 some action, Jeff Passing. We do. And it's a slight 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:37.320 dunking of sorts. I suppose we have to check in 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:43.520 on our Angels of the work done this free agency. 0:10:45.000 --> 0:10:51.560 Cleveland brought back Austin Hedges yep, Aaron Bummer two years 0:10:51.600 --> 0:10:54.240 Atlanta Braves he kicked in for them. People have liked 0:10:54.320 --> 0:10:57.360 him for a while. Heavy Sinker, weird arm angle good, 0:10:58.040 --> 0:11:01.600 Michael Waka re signed Roy that done walk is older, 0:11:01.720 --> 0:11:08.160 found a home they want him bing bang bong. Other 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:13.000 than that, it's a lot of halos. Kyle HENDRICKX one year, 0:11:13.040 --> 0:11:16.720 two and a half million, fine, I'm not gonna Kyle 0:11:16.760 --> 0:11:20.599 Hendrix has pitched a lot of Major League Baseball. His 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:25.000 best days are probably not ahead of him. He can 0:11:25.040 --> 0:11:26.880 throw you a couple of MLB innings, and even if 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:29.360 he can't for two and a half mil, that shouldn't 0:11:29.400 --> 0:11:34.840 hurt an MLB team, especially of the Angels stature. And hey, 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:39.840 if he I mean honestly, if he gives you Kyle 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:44.280 Hendricks gives you five good games, that contract is worthwhile. 0:11:44.679 --> 0:11:48.120 So here we go Halos, Here we go Boom boom. 0:11:48.400 --> 0:11:51.679 They traded for Jorge Sohilaire. Which what was this during 0:11:51.720 --> 0:11:54.280 the World Series or was it the day after? The 0:11:54.320 --> 0:11:58.320 moment after? It was like the day after because I 0:11:58.360 --> 0:12:02.200 remember I was talking to you beebes. I think it's 0:12:02.400 --> 0:12:04.600 we were doing talking baseball or even some with Jimmy, 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:07.160 and they were like, you mentioned the Solaire trade. I 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:09.400 didn't hear about it. I think I was off Twitter 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:12.280 the day after, and I don't think anyone was talking 0:12:12.280 --> 0:12:18.719 about it the day after. But Jorge Solaire the first. 0:12:18.480 --> 0:12:20.480 Day that it could have happened, it happened, whether it 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:22.640 was the day after, two days whatever. 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:26.720 He's on your angels. They trade him for Griff Canning Griffin. 0:12:26.840 --> 0:12:31.040 I don't know if he prefers that Griffin Canning I 0:12:31.080 --> 0:12:36.520 believe was on my I told our R and D 0:12:36.679 --> 0:12:41.920 department ak Dalton Feely to find me the next Luke Weaver. 0:12:42.400 --> 0:12:45.480 I think he had Griffin Canning potentially. Is that Yep? 0:12:46.080 --> 0:12:53.440 The numbers are scary, scary similar that. Yeah, as we've 0:12:53.520 --> 0:12:56.080 seen with the Orlanda Breds before, don't be surprised if 0:12:56.080 --> 0:12:59.320 they tap into Griffin Canning in some way. In the 0:12:59.360 --> 0:13:02.640 Solaire thing. It was kind of funny that the Braves operate. 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:07.960 How we talk about teams and then we question ourselves 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:10.440 because we're like, oh, well, teams can't actually do all 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:14.000 these deals. They traded for Solaire because they needed bodies, 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:17.920 and then the season ended and they traded them out. 0:13:18.200 --> 0:13:22.840 They did that like if we said that on an 0:13:22.880 --> 0:13:25.720 episode of Talking Yanks, like, Hey, what I know, this 0:13:25.840 --> 0:13:28.720 guy's got two years left or three years left, Let's 0:13:28.720 --> 0:13:30.600 trade from get us through the rest of the season, 0:13:30.600 --> 0:13:32.880 and then we'll dump them out. It would be like, 0:13:33.120 --> 0:13:37.120 you guys are idiots. You can't just haven't just trade 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:41.880 for a guy and then trade The Braves just did that. 0:13:43.120 --> 0:13:45.600 Let's see what they do with Griff Canning. Uh so Laire, 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:48.719 which I was gonna be I was gonna be a 0:13:48.760 --> 0:13:51.480 little critical because Jorge Solaire has a bit of history 0:13:51.520 --> 0:13:56.000 between the teams he's playing for and how he performed. 0:13:58.160 --> 0:14:00.199 That being said, he was good for the Giants last 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:03.120 year and he's like an adult, like and Poorge Solaire 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:04.880 is not mailing it in just because he's on a 0:14:04.920 --> 0:14:07.760 bad team. He's he's a man now. He's I think 0:14:07.800 --> 0:14:11.160 he had like slow start and figured figured it out. 0:14:11.640 --> 0:14:16.280 Baseball had braves, one of them. Baseball Happens twenty twenty 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:18.640 three with Miami had thirty six homers and eight fifty 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:22.000 three is his contract here that's fine as long as 0:14:22.000 --> 0:14:25.320 you're doing it. And last year he put together, you know, 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:28.360 a really solid season, twenty one homers in one hundred 0:14:28.360 --> 0:14:32.000 and for two games, a sate seven eighty ops for 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:34.120 a one to twenty one ops plus, He's numbers did 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:36.920 tick up with the Braves. Is that the Braves? Was 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:42.720 that anything? Who knows he gets traded to the Angel 0:14:42.840 --> 0:14:47.800 So in my head, the Kyle Hendrick signing, it's one 0:14:47.840 --> 0:14:49.920 of those things that you want to laugh at because 0:14:49.960 --> 0:14:52.360 it's the Angels and they've deserved the right to be 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:54.560 laughed at. I think Angels fans would admit that to you. 0:14:55.720 --> 0:14:58.240 The Solaire deal, I don't know. If so Lair got 0:14:58.240 --> 0:15:00.840 traded to Houston, we'd all be like, dude, look at 0:15:00.840 --> 0:15:03.440 that homer he hit at the train, Like you, you know, 0:15:03.720 --> 0:15:06.840 Horio Solaire is a really good power hitter, d h 0:15:07.600 --> 0:15:10.000 that could maybe play some corner outfield in a pinch. 0:15:10.800 --> 0:15:13.240 Solaire's like June first through the rest of the year. 0:15:13.320 --> 0:15:15.800 Numbers real good. 0:15:15.600 --> 0:15:20.480 Real good, real good. So they bring in Solair, which, hey, again, 0:15:20.520 --> 0:15:22.480 if this was a different team, we'd be like, wow, 0:15:22.520 --> 0:15:24.920 look at these prices of free agents. They got some 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:27.600 really good right handed power in Jorge Solaire, and they 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:30.160 they gave up Griffin Canning, who they might have been 0:15:30.200 --> 0:15:34.480 done with anyways, Sure, and maybe that'll be right, and 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:38.520 maybe so Lair will protect Trout and Rehnhifo and Ward, 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:45.080 although I think Rehnhitho is a good trade candidate. The 0:15:45.200 --> 0:15:48.840 only real free agency signing that I feel has happened 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:56.840 is Travis Darnault. You know, Waka re signed those other 0:15:56.840 --> 0:16:02.240 ones I mentioned, I mean, Arned Bummer resigned. We're still 0:16:02.240 --> 0:16:06.400 at the infancy of free agency. Travis Darnaut signs and 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:08.600 it pops up the Angels and I was like, you 0:16:08.640 --> 0:16:13.600 know what, Hey, Travis Darnah is a really solid baseball player. 0:16:14.800 --> 0:16:17.480 I was debating him having on my wish list for 0:16:18.320 --> 0:16:21.120 the Yanks. Are many teams this year, he's Travis Darnau. 0:16:21.160 --> 0:16:25.200 I've seen him have multiple three homer games, maybe three, 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:28.480 maybe two. He's got a really nice inside out swing 0:16:28.520 --> 0:16:32.560 when it's on. He's older now, but you know, Travis 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:36.120 Darnaut is a winning player, whether he's your starter, the 0:16:36.120 --> 0:16:39.200 best backup in the league. For a few years, it 0:16:39.240 --> 0:16:41.440 felt like it feels like the catcher position around the 0:16:41.520 --> 0:16:45.640 league is you know, one hundred and twenty games, Max, 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:48.200 I mean, and that's high for a lot of the guys. 0:16:48.640 --> 0:16:53.360 That thirty six year old Travis Darnaut whatever you hear, 0:16:53.400 --> 0:16:56.200 he gets a two year contract. The way I am 0:16:56.240 --> 0:16:59.240 now wired now is like, I'm happy for him. Thirty 0:16:59.240 --> 0:17:02.160 six year old Catcher ain't supposed to get two year 0:17:02.200 --> 0:17:05.040 contracts if I'm being honest, And I'm like, okay, a 0:17:05.040 --> 0:17:09.919 little bit of an Angel's tax there. I brought up 0:17:09.960 --> 0:17:12.920 the Angel's roster because I was like, let me, what's 0:17:12.960 --> 0:17:16.680 this look like? Basically, don't talk me into their over 0:17:17.000 --> 0:17:20.359 at any point coming up? What does the Angel's roster 0:17:20.480 --> 0:17:24.240 look like? And I was kind of like, damn, there's 0:17:24.040 --> 0:17:27.159 there's a lot of outfielders there. Remember Mickey Moniac went 0:17:27.280 --> 0:17:29.000 nuts for a little bit, and it was like, remember 0:17:29.080 --> 0:17:31.920 he was a one to one pick. His numbers ended 0:17:32.000 --> 0:17:36.800 up coming back to Earth whatever, twenty six years old. Sure, Mickey, 0:17:37.600 --> 0:17:40.680 Mike Trout was the best player ever until they brought 0:17:40.680 --> 0:17:42.919 a guy in on a team that could do something 0:17:42.920 --> 0:17:46.320 nobody else could do. Hurt a lot lately, give me 0:17:46.359 --> 0:17:51.040 the Mike Trout trade content, Come on, Philly, figure it out. Dombrowski, 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:57.080 Taylor Ward has been good. Nice, twenty five homers last year, 0:17:57.359 --> 0:18:03.320 Joe Adell twenty and fifteen, some tough defensive plays. It 0:18:03.359 --> 0:18:05.920 felt like he was starting to find something. And somehow 0:18:06.000 --> 0:18:10.760 Joe Adele is still twenty five. So I'm not done 0:18:10.760 --> 0:18:15.240 writing the book on Joe Adele. So I was like, okay, 0:18:15.320 --> 0:18:18.879 that's that's a lot of outfielders and now DH with 0:18:18.960 --> 0:18:23.240 Jorge Solaire, that spot is essentially taken. If they need 0:18:23.320 --> 0:18:25.240 him to play a corner in a pinch, he can, 0:18:25.440 --> 0:18:30.040 but they already have outfielders, so that's not the thing. Okay, okay, okay. 0:18:30.880 --> 0:18:36.520 Uh Anthony Rendon penciled in at third, great, see how 0:18:36.520 --> 0:18:43.360 that goes? Our guy Nolan Saneul never we're never quite sure. Ever, 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:47.200 the young first baseman. His stats are fine, if not good. 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:50.920 He's twenty two. Yep, Zach Netto, We're gonna be talking 0:18:50.960 --> 0:18:54.119 about how underrated he was all of last year this offseason. 0:18:54.200 --> 0:18:59.080 Twenty three homers, thirty stolen bases, good defense at shortstop. Yes, 0:18:59.280 --> 0:19:02.640 Luis Frin, he second talented young player, got hurt last year, 0:19:02.920 --> 0:19:11.960 might be traded, Yes, I had forgotten. I don't want 0:19:11.960 --> 0:19:16.160 to say. The most valuable chip is probably Neto. At 0:19:16.200 --> 0:19:20.440 this point, the rotation's a mess. I'm not even gonna 0:19:20.600 --> 0:19:22.639 say the names because they need to trade for people. 0:19:22.720 --> 0:19:26.920 Kyle Hendricks currently slide into their three hole. So let's 0:19:27.000 --> 0:19:31.000 just not Jose Soriano. You're one which one of you 0:19:31.080 --> 0:19:34.280 has the scouting report on Jose Soriano right now? He 0:19:34.320 --> 0:19:38.000 actually has pretty good stuff. But the point is I 0:19:38.040 --> 0:19:42.400 forgot about logan O Hoppy. Well, he's nails man. He's 0:19:42.440 --> 0:19:48.199 a stud. And hey, if they do this right, like 0:19:48.240 --> 0:19:52.359 I talked about, with the catchers, you gotta juggle them anyways, 0:19:52.400 --> 0:19:54.800 you're gonna get run out of two players there the 0:19:54.880 --> 0:19:58.920 DH spot. Although you just traded for Jorge Soilaire, who's 0:19:59.040 --> 0:20:03.159 primarily a DA sneak. Darnault some days in there. But 0:20:03.240 --> 0:20:05.679 you can't really do that with both catchers because if 0:20:05.720 --> 0:20:07.639 you do and you need the other catcher now, you 0:20:07.680 --> 0:20:11.480 lose the DH. Whatever. Maybe they got a third catcher, 0:20:11.520 --> 0:20:15.520 they could call it from the miners. I'll just be 0:20:15.560 --> 0:20:20.360 honest with you. When the Darnault signing happened, all baseball 0:20:20.359 --> 0:20:25.359 fans had a little snicker and it was like, come on, Angels, really, 0:20:25.800 --> 0:20:32.399 your early moves of this offseason are Hendricks, Darnault, Jorge 0:20:32.440 --> 0:20:37.560 Solaire when I saw that they had and reminded myself 0:20:37.560 --> 0:20:40.560 that they had logan O happy just a little broken, 0:20:41.720 --> 0:20:45.280 just a little broken. So hey, I bought into the 0:20:45.359 --> 0:20:48.280 Ron Washington stuff last year. I know they're trying to 0:20:48.280 --> 0:20:51.040 get the lol Angels out of them. They currently haven't 0:20:51.040 --> 0:20:53.359 this offseason, but they're one of the only teams that 0:20:53.440 --> 0:20:57.399 made moves, so I can't be fully critical yet. But 0:20:57.520 --> 0:21:01.679 my god, and if I'm the Angels, i am on 0:21:01.720 --> 0:21:09.399 the d backs phone every hour, and I'm fighting for 0:21:09.480 --> 0:21:12.679 Jordan Montgomery because I would say that what a perfect 0:21:12.720 --> 0:21:15.960 place to come back and build yourself up for half 0:21:16.000 --> 0:21:19.840 a season. You need innings. You can pay the tab 0:21:20.040 --> 0:21:23.919 of the twenty two and a half mil Jorma. Montgomery 0:21:23.960 --> 0:21:27.679 just needs a change of scenery. Get that done and 0:21:27.760 --> 0:21:31.040 to make it full circle, twenty minutes about mostly Tigers 0:21:31.040 --> 0:21:38.159 and Angels. Welcome Jorn Montgomery in the middle of that 0:21:38.240 --> 0:21:44.840 Tiger's rotation chef's kiss. All right, that was some random 0:21:44.920 --> 0:21:48.040 early around the horn baseball stuff that had just been 0:21:48.080 --> 0:21:50.280 on my mind. That isn't the stuff that we've been 0:21:50.359 --> 0:21:53.040 doing again. Let us know what else you want to 0:21:53.040 --> 0:21:57.080 hear I'm actually really excited to talk about this because 0:21:57.119 --> 0:22:00.800 I did watch the Clay Curry game last So we'll 0:22:00.800 --> 0:22:03.760 ease into some NBA and a little bit of football. 0:22:04.359 --> 0:22:06.320 But first, why don't you look at this blitz Ball 0:22:06.520 --> 0:22:08.480 Battle five pregame show. 0:22:08.760 --> 0:22:11.760 It is a big one Blitzball Battle five presented you 0:22:11.800 --> 0:22:13.439 by a Draft Kings. So we've got a pair of 0:22:13.520 --> 0:22:16.240 one and oero teams going at it. Beck Flurry Power, 0:22:16.280 --> 0:22:19.679 who needed a two out, two run homer kmag in 0:22:19.760 --> 0:22:20.680 order to survive. 0:22:20.960 --> 0:22:23.840 Colinstone was not himself yesterday. He could not find his 0:22:23.920 --> 0:22:26.560 own He had trouble with the velocity. That's something to 0:22:26.600 --> 0:22:27.200 watch today. 0:22:27.600 --> 0:22:30.399 Forgotten Rotten peeked out a win over delt Kibe and 0:22:30.440 --> 0:22:33.560 they threw a no hitter, thanks in part to Shelfy, 0:22:33.640 --> 0:22:35.399 who he was a guy we really didn't know much 0:22:35.400 --> 0:22:36.080 about coming in. 0:22:36.280 --> 0:22:38.280 He is a guy that you could probably count on. 0:22:38.359 --> 0:22:41.439 L like the game. But Trevor Pluf was money on 0:22:41.480 --> 0:22:42.280 the mound yesterday. 0:22:42.480 --> 0:22:45.000 For me, I'm gonna take Forgotten Rotten one because they 0:22:45.080 --> 0:22:46.520 proved that they could pitch yesterday. 0:22:46.800 --> 0:22:48.920 We know what they can do offensively each other proof 0:22:48.960 --> 0:22:51.000 hitting over seven to seventy last year. 0:22:51.040 --> 0:22:52.160 Forgotten run for me too. 0:22:52.240 --> 0:22:54.960 I think between them and love Yours, they're the two 0:22:55.000 --> 0:22:58.040 teams that can score ten runs and also shut you down. 0:22:58.080 --> 0:22:59.240 So I think it's gonna. 0:22:59.000 --> 0:23:01.160 Be right, not gonna have a dissenting opinion. I too 0:23:01.200 --> 0:23:02.040 think forgotten rotten. 0:23:02.040 --> 0:23:03.720 I'll get it done. You'll have to tune in later 0:23:03.760 --> 0:23:06.439 today to see for yourself. Put the ball battle by 0:23:06.600 --> 0:23:08.520 presented you by DraftKings. 0:23:08.680 --> 0:23:12.520 All right. Uh. Coming into this episode, I was debating. 0:23:13.920 --> 0:23:16.960 I was like, should I just do a sports sports 0:23:17.040 --> 0:23:19.240 catch up for everyone? But I'll be honest, I'm not 0:23:19.280 --> 0:23:21.800 fully catch caught up. I watched a little bit of 0:23:21.840 --> 0:23:25.080 the Knicks in Big Bodega. Karl Anthony Town's at it 0:23:26.119 --> 0:23:28.119 good behind the back pass, Sure. 0:23:28.359 --> 0:23:29.840 A couple real cool passes. 0:23:30.080 --> 0:23:32.920 Yeah, let's go. The five and five Knicks are back. 0:23:33.440 --> 0:23:33.600