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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 the master of the Foul Territory universe,

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Speaker 1: Scott Braun. And Scott, we're going to dive into two

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Speaker 1: teams today, at least in the first segment. But there

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Speaker 1: were some things that happened last night that were pretty

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Speaker 1: darned interesting.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Ken, I mean, I think we have to

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Speaker 2: start with sho Hey Otani and Christopher Sanchez, both pitching

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Speaker 2: last night, two of the say young candidates. Let's go

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Speaker 2: to Otani first, just because we're seeing something we've never

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Speaker 2: seen and we need to keep acknowledging that the era

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Speaker 2: is sub one. He's on base more than his opponents

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Speaker 2: are getting on base against him. In yesterday's game, the

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Speaker 2: average near or over three hundred. Right now. The only

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Speaker 2: thing I'm feeling jealous about, Ken, is that I don't

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Speaker 2: do games on the road much anymore. I don't hit

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Speaker 2: many games, and so you're gonna get to see Otani

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Speaker 2: a lot more than me and most others. So what

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Speaker 2: are you seeing when you see him?

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Speaker 1: What is the other word that we can use here?

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Speaker 1: There is no other word. And last night, as you mentioned, Scott,

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Speaker 1: he was on base five times, three hits, two walks,

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Speaker 1: and yet allowed only two hits and one walk, So yes,

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Speaker 1: on base more than he gave up. And he now

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Speaker 1: leads the National League and on base percentage four twenty.

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Speaker 1: He is one inning short of qualifying for the league

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Speaker 1: leaders as a pitcher, so one inning short of being

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Speaker 1: the league leader in era. And that is at a time,

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Speaker 1: of course, when Christopher Sanchez and Jacob Erzarawski are doing

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Speaker 1: remarkable things, as are other pitchers in the National League.

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Speaker 1: So the nl CY Young race looks like it's going

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Speaker 1: to be amazing. And let's talk about Sanchez too, because

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Speaker 1: that consecutive scoreless inning streak fifty and two thirds innings,

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Speaker 1: it was something to behold. And you saw last night

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Speaker 1: when it finally ended, just how fragile it was. Two

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Speaker 1: outs in the seventh, double by Ty Franz, single by

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Speaker 1: Jackson Merrill. It's over longest consecutive scoreless streak by a

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Speaker 1: left handed pitcher in Major League history. That is big stuff.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's incredible what he has done. And it

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Speaker 2: was fun to talk about the Picture of the Month

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Speaker 2: award for May. It's not an award that anyone usually

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Speaker 2: really cares about, to be honest, but it mattered because

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Speaker 2: of the Miz and Sanchez. So yeah, props to Sanchez

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Speaker 2: for doing what he's doing and being a guy that

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Speaker 2: wasn't highly touted and became a thing. Nice acquisition by

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Speaker 2: the Phillies from the Rays back in the day. Okay,

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Speaker 2: one more before we hit the lead. So on the

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Speaker 2: team side, the Chicago Cubs, what are you seeing from them?

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Speaker 2: And why are they kind of a mirage in one

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Speaker 2: way because we saw two double digit win streaks and thought, okay,

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Speaker 2: between Bragman and Edward Cabrera redoing the bullpen over the offseason,

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Speaker 2: this is going to be a force. They're not a

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Speaker 2: force right now. Are they a playoff contender?

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Speaker 1: Sure?

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Speaker 2: But a force no way.

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Speaker 1: Not even close. And you would have thought once the

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Speaker 1: ten game losing streak and did it, okay, they'll settle

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Speaker 1: back into who they are. They're three and five since then,

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Speaker 1: and there's still not going runs. They've lost four straight

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, three straight and scored only six runs in

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Speaker 1: that span. And it's just a team that offensively, for

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Speaker 1: whatever reason, gets all hot at once and then gets

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Speaker 1: of them, quite frankly, and the Brewers again commanding that

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Speaker 2: I'll be curious to see what they do at the

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Speaker 2: trade deadline. We know they have needs like starting pitching.

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Speaker 2: Will they give up the prospect capital? They did some

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Speaker 2: of that over the offseason with Edward Cabrera. We have

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Speaker 2: plenty of time to get to that with the Cubs.

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Speaker 2: So let's hit the lead and let's get to the

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Speaker 2: Diamondbacks and Padres in these next few minutes. Ken, your

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Speaker 2: latest notes column is out. Those are two of the

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Speaker 2: the Diamondbacks are good. Now wait till Corbyn Burns comes back,

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Speaker 2: along with AJ Puck who's back soon, and Justin Martinez.

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Speaker 2: But it sounds like Burns won't be back until September

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Speaker 2: if that If.

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Speaker 1: That is right, and remember he's coming back from Tommy

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Speaker 1: Not a good thing to have happen when you're coming

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Speaker 1: Zach Gallon again last night not good. And their rotation

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Speaker 1: coming out of an early season slump, they've been okay.

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Speaker 1: But Burns would have kind of made them a team

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Speaker 1: not so sure they're going to be that team. Offensively,

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Speaker 1: they're interesting. They brought up some rookies. They've got Jordan

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Speaker 1: Lawler coming back. As I wrote today, they're looking for

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Speaker 1: But I had a scout text me this morning who

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Speaker 1: told me, I think they're going to be sellers. That's

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Speaker 1: what he said to me. I believe they're going to

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Speaker 1: I don't know that I buy that right now. Of course,

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Speaker 1: makings of a really dynamic offense. So we'll see. But

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Speaker 1: they're in a funny place right now because the burns

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Speaker 2: And I hurt them last year too when he went

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Speaker 2: down ken. The interesting part of last year for Arizona

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Speaker 2: was how long they waited. I remember asking you again

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Speaker 2: The Diamondbacks buying are selling? They ultimately sold, and then

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Speaker 2: they sold hard, right. I know they waited late, but

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Speaker 2: ended up selling guys like Josh Naylor and Gino Suarez,

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Speaker 2: not the biggest of returns, but I think Garcia was

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Speaker 2: if history repeats itself, we're not going to really know

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Speaker 1: I would tend to agree with that, and actually, Scott,

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Speaker 1: that's true of most teams, because teams want to wait

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Speaker 1: four clubs that have been disappointing Toronto, Baltimore, Texas, and Minnesota.

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Speaker 1: Their fans, each of those clubs are not happy. And

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Speaker 1: yet each of those clubs, you look at the wild

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Speaker 1: be a situation where teams wait and wait and wait.

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Speaker 1: Most likely missed a few early trades, but they need

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Speaker 2: sometimes it feels like we're going game to game as

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Speaker 2: All of the above is always okay for aj Preler.

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Speaker 1: Well, what I wrote about for starters is the background

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Speaker 1: here is that the Padres, for all their difficulties this year,

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Speaker 1: losing Darvish and Muskrove and everything that has happened to them,

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Speaker 1: and the Phillies have taken it to them. But offensively,

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Speaker 1: last three years. That's why in each deal he's made,

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Speaker 1: most likely they will need in their rotation. I fully

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Speaker 1: Preler can add to his bullpen too. He's done that before,

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Speaker 2: Let's get to dorks. Okay, Ken, we're going with a

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Speaker 1: Ken Scott Well said, and I thank you for joining me.

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Speaker 1: They have some prospects, probably not enough to win this

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Speaker 1: still contending, and if so, any ideas who? As I

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Speaker 1: As for names, pick any name you want on any

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Speaker 1: team that's out of it. Those are the guys who

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Speaker 1: As Chapman being perhaps foremost among them. I don't know

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Speaker 1: don't know that they would extend him. If I'm Brandon Law,

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Speaker 1: I want to go into the free agent market and

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Speaker 1: see what I can get, because he had an undervalued

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Speaker 1: armand is amazing one of our best questioners, who says,

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Speaker 1: who blinks first, David Sterns trading Freddy Peralta or Scott

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Speaker 1: Harris trading Trek Scouble. I've given up on the Mets

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Speaker 1: season and believe they should sell as many players as possible.

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Speaker 1: I'm with you on that the Mets, to me are

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Speaker 1: going to be sellers. The Tigers too. And I wrote

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Speaker 1: far below five hundred. This was before their sweep of

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Speaker 1: go Freddy Peralta, he'll probably go to He's the Mets'

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Speaker 1: don't know that it's a matter of either of those

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Speaker 1: We're quickly. We can better fifty four of the name

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Speaker 1: you mentioned in your article for the Diamondbacks left handed

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Speaker 1: hitter first based DH potential targets, which one do you

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Speaker 1: feel would be the best fit if they do end

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Speaker 1: up being Buyer's great article. By the way, thank you. Actually,

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Speaker 1: the guys I thought of who would be the best

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Speaker 1: would be open to anything. Would the Diamondbacks be able

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Speaker 1: Probably unlikely all of this would happen. I do believe

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Speaker 1: I just don't see them necessarily doing that. Lars Newpar

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Speaker 1: the IL tomorrow, and if he shows that he is

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Speaker 1: decent hitter. Overall, he's going to have some teams interested

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Speaker 1: right in the thick of the NL wild card race.

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Speaker 1: I want to thank Scott Braun for joining us today.

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Speaker 1: I want to thank you guys everyone for watching and

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Speaker 1: for listening. That's it for us. Foul Territory coming up next.

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Speaker 1: The hosts are Scott braun and aj Perzinski. The guests

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