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Speaker 1: From the Berkshires to the sound from wherever you live

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Speaker 1: in MLB America. This is Inside the Parker. You give

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Speaker 1: us twenty two minutes and we'll give you the scoop

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Speaker 1: on major League Baseball. Now here's Baseball Hall of Fame

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Speaker 1: voter number seventy six, Rob Parker. Welcome into the podcast.

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Speaker 1: I'm your host, Rob Parker. What a off season addition

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Speaker 1: of Inside the Parker we have for you. Coming up,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna talk with former big league first basement It's

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Speaker 1: Lugo Dmitri Young. He'll drop five plus a little getting robbed,

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Speaker 1: that and much more. Let's go to lead off it's

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Speaker 1: getting robbed and keep him on. Rob's hot take on

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Speaker 1: the three biggest stories in Major League Baseball. Number one,

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Speaker 1: say it isn't oh, but Carlos Correa is going back

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Speaker 1: to the Minnesota Twins after two failed blockbuster deals, first

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Speaker 1: for one year and then opted out for a contract

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Speaker 1: worth about two hundred million dollars. There's a chance if

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Speaker 1: two hundred and seventy it's not the amount of money here.

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Speaker 1: Originally thought he had signed a deal for three hundred

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Speaker 1: and then that fell apart when the Giants canceled the

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Speaker 1: stop a deal. But the Mets also had reservations when

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Speaker 1: they looked at X rays and physicals of his repaired,

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Speaker 1: Twins did the right thing. They don't have the money

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Speaker 1: Think of it as going to the supermarket and buying fruit,

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Speaker 1: You hope that most of it is salvageable and you

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Speaker 1: what the Twins have done. I applaud them for trying

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Speaker 1: Happy New Year, Welcome to the podcast, Dmitri. Hey, thank

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Speaker 1: So these big deals are off for a three fifty

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Speaker 1: Ever again, no, no, you to meet you. You're You're

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