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Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to the Monday edition of the Fair Territory Extravaganza.

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Speaker 1: Monday Fair Territory Post Thanksgiving. Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving.

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Speaker 1: I am Ken Rosendahl here with you for the next

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Speaker 1: I don't know, twenty five minutes or so. And this

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Speaker 1: is the week, the week when things generally generally start

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Speaker 1: to ramp up in Major League Baseball's off season. This

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Speaker 1: is the week leading to the Winter Meetings, and you

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Speaker 1: will see certainly increased conversation. Whether it leads to increased

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Speaker 1: results remains to be seen. Over the Thanksgiving holidays, starting

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Speaker 1: Thanksgiving Eve and going right through the weekend, we had

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Speaker 1: two reported signings. We're going to get into both of

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Speaker 1: them today. We're also going to get into kind of

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Speaker 1: a Winter Meetings preview. Biggest storylines that'll be in the

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Speaker 1: inside Dish. But let's start off with what happens over

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Speaker 1: the holiday because we haven't been on the air since then,

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Speaker 1: and start with the most recent signing, and that would

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Speaker 1: be the Orioles two year, twenty eight million dollar deal

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Speaker 1: for Ryan Helsley with an opt out after the first year. Hellsley,

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Speaker 1: of course drew some interest as a starter as well.

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Speaker 1: The Detroit Tigers were among the teams looking at him

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Speaker 1: as a starter, But ultimately he goes back to the

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Speaker 1: role in which he is most familiar, a role in

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Speaker 1: which he took a step back last year, first with

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Speaker 1: the Saint Louis Cardinals and then especially with the New

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Speaker 1: York Mets. But his peripherals, his underlying metrics remained quite strong.

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Speaker 1: He throws hard. He is a guy that teams still

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Speaker 1: believe in. He had a good market quite obviously to

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Speaker 1: get fourteen million a year for two years, that's decent

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Speaker 1: money for a closer. Not what he would have gotten

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Speaker 1: if he had been a free agent after twenty twenty four, perhaps,

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Speaker 1: but still for Hellsley, a good outcome. Now for the Orioles,

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Speaker 1: this is the latest of several moves that they have

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Speaker 1: made this offseason. They have been I would suggest the

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Speaker 1: busiest team at least in terms of results of any

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Speaker 1: thus far. And I'll show you what I'm talking about here,

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Speaker 1: because they've already made four additions, starting off with Andrew Kischen.

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Speaker 1: You remember they traded for him from the Chicago Cubs,

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Speaker 1: then exercised his option. They had traded him to the

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Speaker 1: Cubs and then brought him back Leodi Tavers enters, their

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Speaker 1: center field mixx now with Colton Kowser, Taylor Ward, the

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Speaker 1: big and controversial trade for Grayson Rodriguez, and now Hellsley,

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Speaker 1: the closure that they needed with Felix Bautista out for

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Speaker 1: at least much of the season. They still need to

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Speaker 1: keep going with the bullpen ins particular, they still need

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Speaker 1: to round it out because basically they traded most of

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Speaker 1: their relievers, some of whom are becoming free agents during

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Speaker 1: last season. Now, the biggest thing with the Oriols, the

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Speaker 1: biggest thing that remains the biggest thing that has haunted

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Speaker 1: them since really last off season, is their lack so

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Speaker 1: far of a top of the rotation starting pitcher, and

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Speaker 1: frankly I would like to see them add more than

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Speaker 1: one starter. But they definitely are team that we should

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Speaker 1: watch for the top of the free agent market. I'm

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Speaker 1: talking about from ber Valdez, Rangers Suarez perhaps to am

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Speaker 1: I also they are a team to watch with regard

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Speaker 1: to trades. This is a team that if trades are

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Speaker 1: made for starting pitchers, if some of these guys become available,

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Speaker 1: the Orioles should be in that equation. There's also a

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Speaker 1: guy I wrote about today my notes called Cody Ponce,

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Speaker 1: who is coming back from Korea. I wrote that he's

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Speaker 1: probably going to get three years, thirty to forty million.

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Speaker 1: That's the kind of guy too, that the Orioles should

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Speaker 1: look at as maybe a secondary piece. So if they

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Speaker 1: signed Valdez, for instance, and Michaelias goes back with Valdez

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Speaker 1: to the Houston Days and then acquired Cody Ponce as well,

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Speaker 1: they could do that just by spending money not making

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Speaker 1: any trades. That would be an interesting combination for them.

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Speaker 1: And of course they also could remain active for a bat,

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Speaker 1: perhaps in centerfield, perhaps Kyle Tucker, another guy Michael Oias

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Speaker 1: fourth pick of the twenty and fifteen draft. So that's

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Speaker 1: the Orioles now sticking in the Al East. The move

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Speaker 1: that happened Thanksgiving Eve, this one was rather fascinating too,

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Speaker 1: even more fascinating than the Hell's They move. And that's

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Speaker 1: of course Dylan cease to the Blue Jays cease seven

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Speaker 1: years are reported two hundred and ten million. There are

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Speaker 1: deferrals in that deal, as I reported, and then Mitch

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Speaker 1: are expected to reduce the present value AAV of the

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Speaker 1: deal to around twenty six million per year, still the

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Speaker 1: hundred and eighty two million dollar deal for Cease, still

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Speaker 1: always seems to have a lot of interest. People love

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Speaker 1: have been inconsistent. Top five cy Young finish in twenty

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Speaker 1: curious to people why that happens. There are some reasons.

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Speaker 1: Keith Law has written about that for the athletic, but

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Speaker 1: Cease for any negatives you might have with him, the

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Speaker 1: positives is or the positives are, he always takes the ball.

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Speaker 1: Here's his bio one hundred and sixty ninth overall pick

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Speaker 1: in twenty fourteen, debut in twenty nineteen, career milestones, five

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Speaker 1: al War leader in twenty twenty two. That's the year

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Speaker 1: he finished second in the cy Young five straight seasons,

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Speaker 1: two hundred strikeouts, that's impressive. And then here he is

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Speaker 1: in twenty twenty five. And this is what I'm talking about.

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Speaker 1: Four point five to five era on a team in

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Speaker 1: which Nick Pivetta pitched really well and had a good

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Speaker 1: ra but Cease, for whatever reasons, didn't have that. It

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Speaker 1: wasn't great out of the stretch, just seems to give

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Speaker 1: But I want to show you the durability because this,

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Speaker 1: to me, is the thing that recommends Dylan Cease the

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Speaker 1: most since twenty twenty one, when he really became a

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Speaker 1: And here's what's interesting about this chart. Cees, Burrios and Gosman.

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Speaker 1: What team do they all play for? The Toronto Blue Jays.

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Speaker 1: They're the top three on this list, well, Gosmin tied

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Speaker 1: with Logan Webb and Patrick Corbyn. But the Jays have

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Speaker 1: assembled a group of guys who should pitch, should take

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Speaker 1: the ball. Treya Savage next season likely will be on

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Speaker 1: So the Jays are in really good shape here with

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Speaker 1: One of the things sticking with the al least I

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Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Rays. Now, the Rays are not going to

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Speaker 1: be as active as the Blue Jays and the Orioles

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Speaker 1: they always seem to make moves, and Brandon Lao coming

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Speaker 1: point five million. They've talked about trading him for several

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Speaker 1: and one of the better ones in the game when healthy.

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Speaker 1: Brandon Lao is number three on the Rays all time

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Speaker 1: any point. So Brandon lau could go. The Rays then

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Speaker 1: The Red Sox already have made a big move for

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Speaker 1: we have to see what they're going to do with

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Speaker 1: talking about some of their outfielders. Are they going to

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Speaker 1: Every team talks about payroll restrictions this time of year.

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Speaker 1: They're building in the excuses. But anyway, we will be

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Speaker 1: back with more on the Yankees in particular, and a

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Speaker 1: All right, time now for the inside Dish, and as promised,

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Speaker 1: we're going to take you through the top five storylines

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Speaker 1: leading to the Winter Meetings. This will apply, of course

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Speaker 1: to the Winter Meetings, but this is the stuff to watch.

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Speaker 1: And we'll start at the top of the free agent market,

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Speaker 1: Kyle Tucker and even Cody Bellinger. Let's talk about the

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Speaker 1: biggest bats available. Tucker is a guy we haven't heard

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Speaker 1: that jump out for And there are other bats in

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Speaker 1: this market as well, Schwarber and Bashett and Bregman. But

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Speaker 1: Tucker and Bellinger both left handed hitters, both outfielders for

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Speaker 1: the most part. Bellinger, of course, can play first base

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Speaker 1: as well. These are perhaps the two most interesting guys,

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Speaker 1: and the New York Yankees should be in the middle

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Speaker 1: of both of them, at least, talking about Bellinger at

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Speaker 1: FAM Time Now for Grill and Ken. Let's get to

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Speaker 1: your questions. First. One comes from Tyler Max Smith, who

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Speaker 1: for a free agent that undergoes a surgical procedure his

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Speaker 1: he is not under contract to that team. But it's

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Speaker 1: pretty rare when we see free agents undergo surgeries while

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Speaker 1: they are on the open market. I can't even remember

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Speaker 1: the last time that happened, so I wouldn't think that

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Speaker 1: get that taken care of before they are, in theory unemployed,

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Speaker 1: but it just doesn't happen all that often. All right,

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Speaker 1: next question, let's see what this one is. This one

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Speaker 1: comes from Peter Ross nineteen oh seven, who asks Yankees

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Speaker 1: are interested in a new second basement and what relievers

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Speaker 1: are they in on. I don't expect the Yankees aren't

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Speaker 1: necessarily interested in his second basement. They've got jass Chisholm

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Speaker 1: Junior to play that position. That's his preferred position. Third

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Speaker 1: base is a different story to some extent, but they've

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Speaker 1: got Ryan McMahon there, so I don't know why the

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Speaker 1: Yankees would be looking at second or third base. Shortstop

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Speaker 1: is the question with them, with volt becoming off surgery

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Speaker 1: and whose Caballero being more of a utility player. I

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Speaker 1: a lot of good shortstops available at the present time,

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Speaker 1: so that is where the Yankees are with their infield relievers.

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Speaker 1: I don't know exactly where they're going to go there,

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Speaker 1: and they're I'm sure looking at all the top closers

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Speaker 1: out there and talking to all of them, from Devin

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Speaker 1: Williams to Edwin Diaz, all of them. But price is

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Speaker 1: a question of just how they want to do it,

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Speaker 1: because they've got David bednoin now, they acquired him in

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Speaker 1: the trade, so they don't need necessarily a ninth inning guy.

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Speaker 1: Maybe one of those lesser relievers that I talked about,

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Speaker 1: those guys Tyler Rodgers that is more appealing to them.

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Speaker 1: Samuel Rotiz three four to three nine, ask, good morning,

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Speaker 1: what's up with the Dodgers? What are they up to?

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Speaker 1: Good question? As always, The Dodgers are a team that,

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Speaker 1: in the terms of one executive, like to hang around

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Speaker 1: the backboard. And what I mean by that is they

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Speaker 1: of say, Okay, if we can get this kind of

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Speaker 1: short term deal, we'll take him. If not, we'll pass.

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Speaker 1: They are looking at relievers along those lines. One year

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Speaker 1: guy I can see making sense for them, even though

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Speaker 1: they've got Tanner Scott under contract still and let's see

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Speaker 1: if they become a player for Kyle Tucker or someone

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Speaker 1: else whose market might not develop to the extent that

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Speaker 1: that way with Tucker, but they could use Kyle Tucker

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Speaker 1: for sure. And they're a team that I expect is

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Speaker 1: going to do something. I don't know exactly what it is,

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Speaker 1: but it's very difficult to bring the same team back,

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Speaker 1: especially when you've got so many older players. It doesn't

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Speaker 1: always work the way you want it. You want to

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Speaker 1: change up the mix a little bit. I do expect

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Speaker 1: that they're going to do that. All right. With that,

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Speaker 1: I want to thank everyone for watching, for listening. Foul

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Speaker 1: Territory coming up Zach Britten, Schida Beadi, and Bob Kendrick

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