Speaker 1: Welcome to episode number four thirty seven of the Marine
Speaker 1: Layer Podcast. We'll react to Luis Castillo getting traded to
Speaker 1: the Chicago White Sox.
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Speaker 1: Let's get it rolling, and we welcome you to this
Speaker 1: episode of the Marine Layer Podcast, part of the Just
Speaker 1: Baseball podcast network, recording here on Saturday evening, August first.
Speaker 1: Luis Castillo has been traded to the Chicago White Sox
Speaker 1: and the Mariners underway at the step line.
Speaker 3: I don't think we expected this, did we.
Speaker 2: I think we were at the point where we thought, yeah,
Speaker 2: they're not gonna be able to trade them.
Speaker 3: I think they deserve credit for this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, untradable and the first glance at this trade package
Speaker 1: that we'll dive into here a little bit more. It's
Speaker 1: not nothing like they didn't get a ton back for
Speaker 1: Louis Castile, but we were at the point that once
Speaker 1: George Kirby's name got resurfaced again this morning here on Saturday,
Speaker 1: all right, I mean, Louis Castile is untradable, or at
Speaker 1: least the Mariners don't deem whatever return they're gonna get
Speaker 1: for him as worth, like it's more valuable to just
Speaker 1: keep him on the roster for the final two months
Speaker 1: of the season and then you figure it out.
Speaker 3: Mm hm.
Speaker 1: Clearly that's not the case, and I kind of agree
Speaker 1: with them, given that the White Sox are gonna end
Speaker 1: up eating all of Louis Castile's salary, not only the
Speaker 1: money this year, They're gonna eat all twenty four million
Speaker 1: dollars of his salary next year, and then if his
Speaker 1: option vests, the White Sox are gonna be again on
Speaker 1: the hook for another They're I think twenty million dollars
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty eight. So that's the Mariners essentially clearing
Speaker 1: at this at this point, just under fifty million dollars
Speaker 1: potentially from their payroll, which I hope gets reinvested back
Speaker 1: into this roster in the form of a free agent,
Speaker 1: a trade, or an extension.
Speaker 3: You would hope.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they better not be sitting on this money, that's
Speaker 2: for sure, because we ain't gonna live with that. People
Speaker 2: should know, yes, if they don't they if they just
Speaker 2: sit on the money, people should be pissed.
Speaker 1: But they could now turn around and offer this salary
Speaker 1: that they were gonna pay anyway to Logan Gilbert.
Speaker 2: H Yeah, maybe to Brian wu or Bryce Miller if
Speaker 2: you're looking at extending them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, for sure. So there's more cash on hand
Speaker 1: for this Mariners team. They are gonna have to take
Speaker 1: on money of Sir Anthony Dominguez, who's owed seven and
Speaker 1: a half million dollars total this year, So what has
Speaker 1: it come out to? About two million dollars the Mariners
Speaker 1: will take on here for the final two months. He's
Speaker 1: owed ten and a half million next year, and then
Speaker 1: he has there's a mutual option for I think twelve
Speaker 1: and a half, but I doubt at this point, I
Speaker 1: doubt the Maritors would take that on. But yeah, so
Speaker 1: that's the money situation of this trade. The Mariners are
Speaker 1: taking on some but not as much as they were
Speaker 1: paying to Luis Castillo and the White Sox are sending
Speaker 1: some cash to the Mariners, an undisclosed amount.
Speaker 2: So to be clear, you know, there's a lot to
Speaker 2: unpack here, But the Mariners will have Sir Anthony Demingaz
Speaker 2: this year and then next year, so a year and
Speaker 2: a half they'll have him, and then he will likely
Speaker 2: hit free agency. That's that's how the contract structures out.
Speaker 2: And most of you fans probably know Sir Anthony Demingez
Speaker 2: is the guy that gave up the Grand Slam to
Speaker 2: au Henio Suarez in Game five, which is funny because
Speaker 2: about ten months later now he's a Mariner.
Speaker 3: It's funny how fast things change.
Speaker 1: And people will say, well, if that's the reason I
Speaker 1: don't want him, yeah, Like, okay, we've talked about him
Speaker 1: before as a potential addition for the Mariners, especially when
Speaker 1: he's a free agent this offseason. We'll talk about the
Speaker 1: package here in a second. Let's talk about Luis Castillo
Speaker 1: here as a moment. So initial thought with this, lyle,
Speaker 1: are the Mariners going to invite Luis Castile back to
Speaker 1: the Mariner's fifty seasons celebration in a week?
Speaker 2: I'm serious, that's what you want that's what you want
Speaker 2: to talk about. He's traded and you're thinking about the
Speaker 2: fiftieth weekend.
Speaker 1: Well, I mean it would be on brand, it would
Speaker 1: be on brand. I'm joking. He's going to be on
Speaker 1: that list.
Speaker 3: He will.
Speaker 2: But but what do you mean is he invited like
Speaker 2: he'll be playing a joke for the White Sox.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a joke.
Speaker 1: Well, well, it's a similar conversation people have about the
Speaker 1: manager Lyle so now turning around on a player they
Speaker 1: just traded away.
Speaker 2: You mean the Christian Vasquez of the Seattle Mariners, Dan Wilson.
Speaker 2: That's who he is, by the way. But you know,
Speaker 2: you know what, you know what, I just stopped myself
Speaker 2: in real time. I could go down that rabbit hole.
Speaker 2: I'm not going to because people are here to listen
Speaker 2: to a talk, to listen to conversation about Luis Castillo,
Speaker 2: So let's do that. I would say a couple of things.
Speaker 2: If you're talking about the terms of the contract, I
Speaker 2: think they did very well, and not just because they
Speaker 2: cleared so much money. But we haven't spent a whole
Speaker 2: ton of time talking about this yet. I mentioned it
Speaker 2: a little bit in the reaction. We just posted on
Speaker 2: social media. But that vesting option that Luis Castillo has
Speaker 2: for twenty twenty eight had a chance to be a
Speaker 2: real headache. And here's what I mean by that. We
Speaker 2: hadn't gotten into it yet because it wasn't time yet.
Speaker 2: But come next season, if Luis Castillo had thrown one
Speaker 2: hundred and eighty innings or more, what happens to a
Speaker 2: vesting option, meaning it is no guarantee to be picked up.
Speaker 2: Vesting option is not a guaranteed year under the contract.
Speaker 2: It means that you have to hit a threshold for
Speaker 2: the year to be picked up. And if Louise hit
Speaker 2: one hundred and eighty innings in twenty twenty seven, the
Speaker 2: vesting option becomes a player option, which means Luis Castillo
Speaker 2: deciding whether he wants to hit free agency in twenty
Speaker 2: twenty eight or pick up the twenty million dollar option
Speaker 2: is one hundred percent his choice. The Mariners have no
Speaker 2: say if he had hit one hundred and eighty innings
Speaker 2: next year. Why that's a problem is because that had
Speaker 2: a chance to get real dicey. If Louise had been
Speaker 2: healthy all year and making starts. What happens when you
Speaker 2: get into the tail end of the season and he's
Speaker 2: approaching the innings limit, do the Mariners start to treat
Speaker 2: him differently? And are they yanking him out of starts early?
Speaker 2: And then his Castillo and his camp unhappy, And then
Speaker 2: heaven forbid, they get to the last start of the
Speaker 2: year and he's maybe six inning short and they pull
Speaker 2: him after five and a third and then is there
Speaker 2: a grievance file? Like the whole thing would have been
Speaker 2: a nightmare if Louise had gotten close to that inning
Speaker 2: threshold next year, it was going to be a headache
Speaker 2: for all parties involved. For the Mariners to not have
Speaker 2: to deal with that anymore is a plus.
Speaker 1: Mm hmm, it is. I do think at this point though,
Speaker 1: since they're willing to trade him here at the deadline,
Speaker 1: he would have been shipped off in the off season.
Speaker 1: But again, someone would have traded for.
Speaker 2: Him maybe, but we were worried nobody was going to
Speaker 2: take on his deal, his contract.
Speaker 1: Well, clearly someone was willing to take on his deal.
Speaker 2: But until an hour ago, we were not convinced, and
Speaker 2: we weren't convinced it was gonna in an offseason where
Speaker 2: there may not be a lot of time to make trades.
Speaker 2: Considering there's probably going to be.
Speaker 1: A lockout, but knowing the Mariners, I mean, they probably
Speaker 1: would have in the off season, especially with Kate Anderson
Speaker 1: and Ryan Sloane, like legitimately on the doorstep. I mean
Speaker 1: Kate is now but slowan by the offseason you would
Speaker 1: think is almost right there. They would trade him for pennies,
Speaker 1: maybe they save that money. They would absolutely do that,
Speaker 1: and then they would again hopefully turn around and give
Speaker 1: that money to one of their other starters that they
Speaker 1: have not yet extended yet. I just I feel some
Speaker 1: gratitude here for Luis Castile. I mean he was one
Speaker 1: of the starts of this current era of Mariners baseball,
Speaker 1: which has led to them getting all the way to
Speaker 1: the ALCS Game seven of the ALCS. It was that
Speaker 1: trade in twenty twenty two that did, I would say,
Speaker 1: officially solidified the Mariners as one of the best, one
Speaker 1: of the good teams in Major League Baseball, maybe best
Speaker 1: as a generous term, but one of the good teams
Speaker 1: in Major League Baseball. One of this allowed them to
Speaker 1: compete here for the last few years, and a lot
Speaker 1: of that doesn't happen without Louis Castile and the fact
Speaker 1: he signed an extension with the team a month after
Speaker 1: being traded is I mean, it's a real endorsement on
Speaker 1: the franchise and like what they did to acquire him
Speaker 1: and their sales pitch to him and then Louis Castillo
Speaker 1: for a portion of this contract didn't age perfectly, but
Speaker 1: performed well in some really big moments for the Mariners.
Speaker 1: So just want to say thank you to Luis. It
Speaker 1: was awesome to watch him in a Mariner's uniform. And
Speaker 1: he will I joked about the fifty. He will be
Speaker 1: in the top fifty. They'll read his name off I
Speaker 1: believe next next weekend.
Speaker 3: Absolutely they will.
Speaker 2: Yeah, people should feel a lot of gratitude toward him.
Speaker 2: In twenty twenty three, he was top five in al
Speaker 2: Cy Young voting twenty twenty two. He came into this
Speaker 2: town and this team, and he gave this city and
Speaker 2: this ball club an absolute jolt. He was you know,
Speaker 2: you call him the rock. He was absolutely the rock
Speaker 2: of this rotation. They don't get past the Blue Jays
Speaker 2: without him. And that absolutely dominant, dominant posts and starred
Speaker 2: he had in twenty twenty two, and then he follows
Speaker 2: it up with a great year in twenty three. He
Speaker 2: did a lot, and he provided a lot of stability
Speaker 2: in that rotation for a young group of guys that
Speaker 2: had somebody to look up to and somebody that had
Speaker 2: been there and done that and had true big league
Speaker 2: success and was there as you know, not just a mentor,
Speaker 2: but somebody that you could really if you're one of
Speaker 2: those other pitchers, learn a lot from, take a lot
Speaker 2: of things from. For the Mariners and Mariners fans, he
Speaker 2: gave them legit production for a handful of years there.
Speaker 2: So look, they got out of this deal at the
Speaker 2: right time. They traded him at the right time. They
Speaker 2: did well in the deal. But that doesn't mean you
Speaker 2: shouldn't appreciate what he did, because he really did a lot.
Speaker 1: Let's get into this trade package. Let's start with the
Speaker 1: biggest piece of this package, and that's Sir Anthony Dominguz.
Speaker 1: We talked about the salary. Now what about the baseball player.
Speaker 1: I'd say the TLDR on Sir Anthony Domingez. He strikes
Speaker 1: a lot of guys out, even in a down year
Speaker 1: this year, He's got a twenty eight percent strikeout right.
Speaker 1: The balance is he has a fourteen percent walk rate,
Speaker 1: which is really, really really high. I do have a
Speaker 1: comp right off the bat. I think this is the
Speaker 1: Mariner's second chance at Ryan's Stanek.
Speaker 3: I'm sure you just fired a whole lot of people
Speaker 3: up with that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, guy who lasted four months and then was ironically
Speaker 1: also traded at the deadline.
Speaker 2: Look, Sir Anthony Demingez is not fixing this bullpen. His
Speaker 2: era sits at about four. The expected numbers are also
Speaker 2: lower than that. He walks everybody. There's some positive parts
Speaker 2: to his game, but he's not gonna be a leverage
Speaker 2: reliever for this team. He's going to be somebody that
Speaker 2: throws in low leverage in the sixth inning, which is fine,
Speaker 2: and there is a role there. He's almost essentially filling
Speaker 2: a potential Carlos Vargas role until he gets back, or
Speaker 2: that type of role. But there's two things that are
Speaker 2: true here. He can give them something something, but the
Speaker 2: Mariners also still need to go add to their bullpen
Speaker 2: because they need more leverage bullpen arms.
Speaker 3: And he is not that guy anymore.
Speaker 2: Once upon a time, Sir Anthony Dominguez was absolutely lights out,
Speaker 2: like when he was in Philadelphia. I mean, he he
Speaker 2: was just a rock for those guys. But he's not
Speaker 2: that guy anymore.
Speaker 1: No, he was good last year though, before he gave
Speaker 1: up the Gino Grand Slam, he had a thirty percent
Speaker 1: strikeout rate in a low era. Yeah, the walk rate
Speaker 1: was still pretty high last year. But he does miss bats.
Speaker 1: No matter what's gonna happen, Guys are gonna swing a
Speaker 1: miss against him. It's just in a given outing. Are
Speaker 1: you gonna get enough swing and miss to offset the
Speaker 1: pitches he throws out of the strike zone. I don't
Speaker 1: think he's a guy at this point of his career
Speaker 1: the Mariners can like tweak and fix. The Mariner's philosophy
Speaker 1: is just go out and throw strikes. You could tell
Speaker 1: Sir Anthony Diminge, is that all you want. It's not
Speaker 1: a guarantee he goes out there and does it, but
Speaker 1: he will be one of the eight best Mariners relievers.
Speaker 1: That's a positive. Oh and by the way, Lyle, the
Speaker 1: Mariners essentially add at a reliever slot. Why trading Luis
Speaker 1: Castillo because the six man rotation is done? Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: that's done. The piggyback six man. We don't have to
Speaker 1: hear that term again the rest of the season.
Speaker 2: Thank god, thank god. Honestly, like hopefully ever again. But yeah,
Speaker 2: that is essentially the roster spot that Sir Anthony Demngez
Speaker 2: will take because the Mariners can go back to having
Speaker 2: an additional bullpen spot which will be filled by Dominguez
Speaker 2: and subtracted by Castillo.
Speaker 1: Nolan Jones is going to probably be in Triple A,
Speaker 1: if I'm gonna guess, Since the Mariners have Luke Raley
Speaker 1: and don Can Zone, there is no room for Nolan
Speaker 1: Jones on the big league roster. He was a former
Speaker 1: top prospect. He has some power, he's got a cannon
Speaker 1: for an arm in the outfield, but he's really struggled
Speaker 1: offensively in his big league career, which is why the
Speaker 1: Mariners are probably gonna just stash him in Triple A
Speaker 1: and use him as as depth Nice dude, though, we
Speaker 1: interviewed him for our Bullpen Banner channel last year so
Speaker 1: that we can vouch for how productive he's gonna be
Speaker 1: on the fields, Like that's to be tvd.
Speaker 2: He is probably a depth piece at this point where
Speaker 2: if Luke Rayley gets traded or somebody goes down with
Speaker 2: an injury, then he gets called up and maybe he'll
Speaker 2: have a chance to prove himself come next year. I
Speaker 2: mean to be fair. Nolan Jones three years ago had
Speaker 2: a phenomenal season. I mean, he had about a four
Speaker 2: and a half win year and was mashing at the
Speaker 2: plate in Colorado. But he hasn't been that guy in
Speaker 2: now a while. So it's gonna take some show it
Speaker 2: to me. It's gonna take some prove it. He's gonna
Speaker 2: have to go down and actually like do it in
Speaker 2: Triple A. And he's hit okay down there this year.
Speaker 2: It hasn't been anything otherworldly, but he's been okay. Most
Speaker 2: likely here he is a depth piece moving forward who
Speaker 2: maybe at some point gets some big league playing time.
Speaker 1: The most intriguing piece of this trade package is the
Speaker 1: catcher they got, minor league catcher Boston Smith. He ranked
Speaker 1: right in the middle of the White Sox organization, but
Speaker 1: we had as soon as his trade went down, multiple
Speaker 1: people text us about the intrigue of Boston Smith. And
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, tell me this sounds intriguing. In
Speaker 1: Double A this year is a one ninety six w
Speaker 1: orc plus On the season. Between high end A and
Speaker 1: Double A, he's slashing two ninety one, four forty eight,
Speaker 1: five eighty nine with a one to sixty seven w
Speaker 1: ORC plus.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'd say that's pretty good. I'd say that's really
Speaker 2: really good. So the Maritors all of a sudden have
Speaker 2: some pretty real catching depth in their system, because even
Speaker 2: when you get past garb is the backup. I think
Speaker 2: people believe Johnny Parada is get gonna get some more
Speaker 2: playing time at some point or another. But then when
Speaker 2: you get past him, now you're gonna have both Luke
Speaker 2: Stevenson and Boston Smith. Likely those two will be kept
Speaker 2: apart from each other, I would have to. I mean, look,
Speaker 2: they could split time if they're in the same at
Speaker 2: the same level with the same team, if they have to.
Speaker 2: But I would guess the most likely outcome here is
Speaker 2: they try to keep those guys apart. Maybe Smith's and
Speaker 2: triple A while Stevenson's in double A, et cetera. And
Speaker 2: now you have catching depth for the future, and maybe
Speaker 2: one of those guys is now further additional like trade
Speaker 2: bait at some point or trade piece.
Speaker 1: We'll have to dig around on Boston Smith a little
Speaker 1: bit more. He was again only like the fifteenth ranked
Speaker 1: White Sox prospect on MOB pipeline, so there's not a
Speaker 1: ton of prospect pedigree with him, but like he rakes,
Speaker 1: so I'm wondering what the real knock on him is.
Speaker 1: The juxtaposition of that is Luke Stevenson. If he keeps going,
Speaker 1: he's gonna be a top one hundred prospect. So like that,
Speaker 1: there's gonna be that factor going into it where Luke
Speaker 1: Stevenson will be getting some national attention from like where
Speaker 1: he ranks on all these prospect lists. Well, Boston Smith's
Speaker 1: a little bit more of an under the radar guy,
Speaker 1: but there's one thing we do know is that he
Speaker 1: hits the crap out of the ball.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it'll be interesting to see how they manage those guys.
Speaker 2: So we'll see how that fares down to the minor
Speaker 2: leagues as time goes on. But yeah, I think the
Speaker 2: Mariners did pretty well here. I don't think a lot
Speaker 2: of people believe they could trade Luis Castillo at this point,
Speaker 2: and they not only traded him, but they ate the
Speaker 2: entire car or they got the White Sox. They traded him,
Speaker 2: they got the White Sox to eat the entire contract,
Speaker 2: and they still got pieces, bad.
Speaker 1: Pieces that they could use on their team, not just
Speaker 1: random pieces, which is good. I'd say the last thought
Speaker 1: I have here comes from the reporting that Adam Jude
Speaker 1: had out of this trade, is that the Mariners are
Speaker 1: still open to trading Emerson, Hancock and George Kirby. So
Speaker 1: that tells me this this Louis Castile move was to
Speaker 1: free up salary and clear space in the rotation for
Speaker 1: better arms to pitch. That could be the five guys
Speaker 1: currently remaining in the rotation, that could also include Kate
Speaker 1: Anderson and Ryan Sloan. That they're going to now use
Speaker 1: Kirby or Hancock potentially to bring them back the impact
Speaker 1: they need without trading prospects. So it's not just going
Speaker 1: to be potentially we still have about forty eight hours
Speaker 1: to go one of these guys getting traded just to
Speaker 1: shed one guy. It's like, all right, we shedded some salary.
Speaker 1: Now we're going to try and go out and acquire impact,
Speaker 1: so they get the right package for Emerson or George Kirby.
Speaker 1: At least for the reports. It still could happen and
Speaker 1: could give that drastic change that we've been asking for.
Speaker 2: Right and by impact we mean impact bat obviously, And
Speaker 2: it makes sense that they're still shopping those guys around,
Speaker 2: right because trading Luis Castillo doesn't change the fact that
Speaker 2: Kate Anderson still needs a spot in this rotation come
Speaker 2: twenty twenty seven, and right now there's no room for him,
Speaker 2: and they're obviously gonna want to and almost have to
Speaker 2: clear space for him, so they're gonna have to find
Speaker 2: some solution there now. If they trade one of these
Speaker 2: guys at the deadline, it does make the rest of
Speaker 2: this season much more interesting because you could call Kate
Speaker 2: up now and if he's got enough innings left, he
Speaker 2: becomes your fifth starter for the rest of the season,
Speaker 2: and then maybe if the team actually gets into the playoffs,
Speaker 2: he moves to the bullpen. But it does leave you
Speaker 2: a spot open in your rotation if you trade one
Speaker 2: of these guys.
Speaker 1: And where Kate is at right now, he still doesn't
Speaker 1: throw over seventy five pick in any of his starts,
Speaker 1: and that would be the same up at the big
Speaker 1: league levels. You'd have to get used to a lot
Speaker 1: of five inning starts for Kate Anderson, or it could
Speaker 1: be super efficient and get through six innings. But they've
Speaker 1: really really been strict on his innings this year, so
Speaker 1: even if he does come up and he pitches, well,
Speaker 1: you're only going to get so many bullets out of
Speaker 1: him this year, so you know, at the big league level,
Speaker 1: sure that works. But compare that to Emerson Hancock and
Speaker 1: George Kirby, who don't really have innings limits this year.
Speaker 1: They're not getting pulled out at seventy five pitches. They
Speaker 1: will throw you seven complete if that's how their starts going.
Speaker 1: So you wonder, like kid might be better on an
Speaker 1: inning by inning basis, But is it better to have
Speaker 1: a seven inning, seven inning starter or a five inning starter.
Speaker 2: But you only have to manage it for about seven
Speaker 2: weeks and then if the team gets if the team
Speaker 2: gets into the playoffs, Kaid goes to the bullpen and
Speaker 2: the other four will be the one starting playoff games.
Speaker 1: But it's seven weeks in which you need to reclaim
Speaker 1: a playoffs spot they are not currently in.
Speaker 2: For sure, and it does make things much more interesting.
Speaker 2: But we have said for a while now that Kate
Speaker 2: feels like a big league arm just simply pitching in
Speaker 2: the minors, so they if the Mariners feel the same way,
Speaker 2: then they won't have.
Speaker 3: Issues bringing them up.
Speaker 2: If they trade one of these starting pitchers, it would
Speaker 2: be drastic change, that's for sure. If by the end
Speaker 2: of this deadline, we see Luis Castillo traded one of
Speaker 2: Hancocker Kirby traded for an impact bat, and then Kate
Speaker 2: Anderson brought up that does look like a different ball club.
Speaker 1: The answer to that question ultimately lies with what kind
Speaker 1: of impact bat they bring back. How good is that bat,
Speaker 1: if that's worth it or not, because if they get
Speaker 1: like a really good bat to come back somehow for
Speaker 1: one of those two guys, then sure, I mean, one
Speaker 1: of your starters can pitch a couple less innings than
Speaker 1: everyone else because your lineup is that much better.
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh, I just thought about this too. I guess
Speaker 2: there's a chance we'll see Nolan Jones in the big
Speaker 2: leagues here in the next couple days. Because Luke Rayley
Speaker 2: hit the IL. They called up Stuart Fairchild here on Saturday,
Speaker 2: So there's a chance that could just be Nolan Jones.
Speaker 1: Until Raley gets back or until he's traded right now, and.
Speaker 2: I don't know how long Rayley's going to be out,
Speaker 2: so we'll see. There is a chance we'll see Nolan
Speaker 2: Jones in the big leagues.
Speaker 1: Well, I hope he makes the Mariner's bench better based
Speaker 1: on how he's hitting odds are No, the maritor's bench
Speaker 1: has been an issue. There's not a whole lot of
Speaker 1: depth there. Yeah, and it's really hurt them in spots.
Speaker 2: I mean it hurt him on Friday night, which, by
Speaker 2: the way, just another horrendous, disgraceful loss on Friday.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was terrible. Now they made up for it
Speaker 3: by winning on Saturday. Good for them. But they're going
Speaker 3: into a rubber match with Twins.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well that's a Twins team with a better record
Speaker 1: than the Mariners.
Speaker 2: Lyle, that's true. They do have a better record than
Speaker 2: the Mariners. Incredible. Well, I would say that just about
Speaker 2: wraps up all the thoughts we have on Cassillo. Make
Speaker 2: sure to make a know of this. By the way,
Speaker 2: I think we mentioned it on Friday's pod. We'll make
Speaker 2: a note of it on social media on Sunday. But
Speaker 2: a reminder to you guys, Monday's podcast is not gonna
Speaker 2: be out first thing Monday morning. So if you wake
Speaker 2: up Monday morning and you're set to listen to the podcast,
Speaker 2: don't be alarmed when it's not out in the morning.
Speaker 2: The reason we're doing that is because we want to
Speaker 2: wait till the deadline is over make sure all the
Speaker 2: moves are done, and then we can fully recap everything
Speaker 2: and we will put it out for you guys Monday evening,
Speaker 2: like as soon as the deadline ends and as soon
Speaker 2: as we record and as soon as it's uploaded, it
Speaker 2: will be out for you guys Monday late afternoon or
Speaker 2: Monday evening. But again, there's just not much of a
Speaker 2: point for us to record a Monday morning pod and
Speaker 2: then if a bunch of trades go down on Monday afternoon,
Speaker 2: like you guys aren't filled in on what's up to date,
Speaker 2: so we're just gonna wait till Monday evening.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, all.
Speaker 2: Right, Well, celebrity softball game was fun. As we're sitting
Speaker 2: here in our final minute at a blast.
Speaker 1: Is the guy who hit a home run?
Speaker 3: Oh? I did hit a home run? Yeah, I went
Speaker 3: three for three. It was fun. I had to double
Speaker 3: a homer single. I was hell bent on getting one. Now.
Speaker 2: I didn't hit it all the way out of Lee
Speaker 2: Johnson Field. I tried, but they put up a temporary
Speaker 2: fence like two hundred and fifty feet away.
Speaker 3: I got one out of that fence, which, hey, we'll
Speaker 3: take it.
Speaker 1: And then I dropped a fly ball and grounded out.
Speaker 3: Twice, so it was great.
Speaker 1: Polar opposites on.
Speaker 2: If you're on the podcast, listen a valiant effort is
Speaker 2: we have a friend that likes to say but thanks.
Speaker 1: That makes me feel a lot better, well a lot better.
Speaker 3: We'll have a couple we have a couple of videos.
Speaker 2: We'll we'll try and post them tomorrow for you guys,
Speaker 2: so that'll be fun. But we did have a blast.
Speaker 2: We did meet a few of you there that were
Speaker 2: out at the event, so shout out to those of
Speaker 2: you that came out to Kirkland to watch it. And yeah, no,
Speaker 2: it was a really cool event for a really nice
Speaker 2: cause and hopefully we get to do it again at
Speaker 2: some point.
Speaker 3: So yeah, all.
Speaker 2: Right, that just about wraps up this edition of the
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