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Speaker 1: Welcome into Northside Territory. Foul Territory Networks Cubs Podcast. I'm

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Speaker 1: Sadeve Charma with my partner Patrick Mooney. We are your

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Speaker 1: Cubs beat writers over at the Athletic Patrick, we have

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Speaker 1: a special guest today. It is team president Jed Hoyer.

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Speaker 1: Let's get right to it with Jed. Jed, thanks so

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Speaker 1: much for joining us. Appreciate you jumping on the show.

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Speaker 1: Looks like you're at the offices, is that right your.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's meeting week, so yeah, we're here a lot

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Speaker 2: fun times.

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Speaker 1: We're we're not going to dive into the draft. I

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Speaker 1: think you know what the topic, Djur is. Uh, it's July.

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Speaker 1: Your team is in the thick of it, obviously one

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Speaker 1: of the best records in baseball. Looks like you're headed

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Speaker 1: towards buying this summer, which is exciting to have a

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Speaker 1: clear direction. Uh, can you kind of give us as

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Speaker 1: we had to the All Star break? We know like

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Speaker 1: the draft does kind of slow things down. But where

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Speaker 1: is where? Where do you feel everything is right now

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Speaker 1: as far as the trade market. Do you feel like

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Speaker 1: anything could get done during the All Star break? And

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Speaker 1: where do you kind of see not not only your

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Speaker 1: team but the market in general, and how you expect

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Speaker 1: things to move this this July.

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Speaker 2: All right, let me unpack the seven questions you ask you.

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Speaker 2: So I guess to start with so typically, I guess

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Speaker 2: not typically because we've only done this for I guess

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Speaker 2: a handful of years. But there's always a lot of conversations,

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Speaker 2: you know, kind of this week, people will talk about

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Speaker 2: the draft, talk about their teams or whatever, and then

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Speaker 2: it kind of quiets down as we get sort of

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Speaker 2: into the draft, and then really the minute the draft

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Speaker 2: is over, now the trade conversations really pick up. I

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Speaker 2: spent the last couple of days of the of the

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Speaker 2: All Star break last year in Cooper's town with one

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Speaker 2: of my sons, and you know, my my phone is

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Speaker 2: ringing off the hook, and I was like, you know,

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Speaker 2: I thought, maybe we get a couple of days off

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Speaker 2: here after the after the draft, and I just think

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Speaker 2: people now kind of jump right in right into it.

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Speaker 2: So I think it'll it'll become active here for probably

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Speaker 2: after the draft. There's a lot of conversations going on,

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Speaker 2: but feels more exploratory.

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Speaker 3: Than about to get things done.

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Speaker 2: In general, I guess to sort of educate the listeners,

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Speaker 2: you know, the way.

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Speaker 3: The way it usually works is like people are always

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Speaker 3: say they're.

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Speaker 2: Willing to move early, but then normally the early price

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Speaker 2: is really exorbitant and therefore you end up kind of

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Speaker 2: moving into closer to the deadline.

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Speaker 3: Is usually how it works.

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Speaker 2: So my expectation is that the deals will get done

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Speaker 2: in a handful of days before July thirty first, but

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Speaker 2: it doesn't mean you don't try to make deals and

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Speaker 2: try to be active in advance. And then, as for

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Speaker 2: where we are, think that you know, the team has

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Speaker 2: played really well so far, a lot of really great

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Speaker 2: individual performances, and I think as a as a group,

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Speaker 2: it's been really impressive. I think there's obviously areas to add.

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Speaker 2: In any year, I think there's areas to add, you know,

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Speaker 2: trying to create more depth, trying to sort of fire

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Speaker 2: proof your team, so to speak, by insurance on certain areas.

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Speaker 2: But I do think in our situation this year, you know,

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Speaker 2: the position playing group has been really terrific, both offensively

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Speaker 2: and defensively. I think are starting pitching is hung in

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Speaker 2: there well in the absence of steel and assad and

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Speaker 2: then showed it for two months. But certainly that's an

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Speaker 2: area that we'll be in discussions on and then I

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Speaker 2: think like every team, every team needs, you know, additional relievers.

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Speaker 2: I don't think there's a team out there that feels

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Speaker 3: So that's really my expectation.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, certainly it'll be a very active month, both

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Speaker 2: with the draft and obviously the deadline.

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Speaker 4: I mean, Jed, after selling at the twenty twenty one

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Speaker 4: trade deadline, you memorily memorably said no reason to go halfway?

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Speaker 4: Does the same logic sort of apply here in a

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Speaker 4: different way because you've always been someone who you always

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Speaker 4: how does that apply here?

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Speaker 3: That's a good question.

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Speaker 2: It's certainly going to be buyers and we're going to

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Speaker 2: I don't know, you know what's going to percent itself. Obviously,

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Speaker 2: you want to do good deals, the you know, deals

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Speaker 2: take for granted where you are right now. I mean,

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Speaker 2: I think that's ultimately the one thing that we know

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Speaker 2: just you can't buy with with no restrictions and they

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Speaker 2: say we're gonna do whatever, because you know that that

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Speaker 2: can be really damaging. So I think the biggest thing

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Speaker 2: right now is we're of pushing our staff is be

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Speaker 3: You know, this is it's gonna be.

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Speaker 2: An interesting market. I think it'll sort itself out over

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Speaker 2: the next few weeks. But there's not a ton of

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Speaker 2: obvious sellers right now. That might change, you know, you know,

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Speaker 2: as some teams realize it's not there, the odds aren't

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Speaker 2: great for them, but it may be a year we

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Speaker 2: have to be a little bit more creative because I

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Speaker 2: do think the new playoff system and I do think

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Speaker 2: that the way the American League get set up this

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Speaker 2: year could lead itself to fewer sellers, and therefore maybe

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Speaker 2: you have to be creative and how you put a

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Speaker 1: You're touching on it there, Jed. But there's there's a

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Speaker 1: few teams that feel like they're they're going to wait

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Speaker 1: to see where they where they sit, and they have

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Speaker 1: really interesting players Arizona, Kansas City, Boston even I think

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Speaker 1: any of those teams have players that you guys would

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Speaker 1: likely be interested in. How do you kind of balance

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Speaker 1: the the idea of, Okay, maybe you want to be

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Speaker 1: aggressive and ad, but then also be patient and say,

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Speaker 1: what if these teams start selling and we've made an

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Speaker 1: aggressive move and now we don't have the assets to

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Speaker 1: go get a player that you may seem as see

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Speaker 3: That's a great question, and that's what you have to prioritize.

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Speaker 2: And I'd say most of the conversations I've had this

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Speaker 2: where teams acknowledge their position but realize, like, hey, we

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Speaker 2: got I don't know how many games exactly we have left,

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Speaker 2: but we call it twenty games left roughly, maybe a

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Speaker 2: little bit more before the deadline. I'm going to wait

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Speaker 2: I think that's a very common refrain right now. You know,

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Speaker 2: there's a very small handful of teams in the obvious

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Speaker 2: what really determines how the deadline feels.

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Speaker 3: And so you're totally right, like jumping at a deal early.

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Speaker 3: You know, you may look.

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Speaker 2: Back and say, oh, man, if I had known this

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Speaker 3: So I think that's going to be a real balance

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Speaker 3: as we as we go forward. Kratz.

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Speaker 4: Jenn I spent a lot of time trying to think

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Speaker 4: of a different Kyle Tucker question because you're so scripted

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Speaker 4: in your no comments, But like, how does he change

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Speaker 4: his calculus at the trade deadline? You obviously want to

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Speaker 4: maximize this year just in case maybe his replacement could

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Speaker 4: like budget forty fifty million dollars for him for the

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Speaker 4: it's not about one player at any deadline, but what's

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Speaker 4: kind of the internal debate just around that idea?

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Speaker 2: Well, I think that kind of goes back to what

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Speaker 3: I think that you know, certainly you're you're always.

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Speaker 2: Trying to balance those things, but you know, what's in

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Speaker 3: On our offense. I think you know he's been terrific.

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Speaker 2: I think that's really benefited us in so many ways.

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Speaker 2: And so you know, clearly, you know, this has been

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Speaker 2: and he's sort of he's a big part of that,

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Speaker 1: That's going to factor into our calculusm Jack, You've You've

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Speaker 1: talked to us a lot about how you kind of

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Speaker 1: you look at these moments, these deadline opportunities as moments

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Speaker 1: to you know, actually make a move. Sometimes teams just

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Speaker 1: don't seem as motivated and you kind of enjoy the

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Speaker 1: fact that there's a deadline here. How like how rare

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Speaker 1: and fleeting are these opportunities to improve your team and

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Speaker 1: find motivated teams to work with.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I was talking to another team president the other

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Speaker 2: day and he sort of said that, like a hey, listen,

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Speaker 2: this is the one time I know you've got you

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Speaker 2: had twenty nine teams that are going to other teams

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Speaker 2: that are going to be, you know, looking to do deals,

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Speaker 2: and you know sometimes you know, other times of the year.

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Speaker 3: You know you don't have it, You don't you don't know,

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Speaker 3: you have everyone's attention.

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Speaker 2: I guess this is the best way to say it, right,

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Speaker 2: And I think this time of year people get themselves

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Speaker 2: are deals that are clearly like, you know, either a

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Speaker 3: Now for this team.

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Speaker 2: But like that was kind of what I did last

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Speaker 2: but ultimately it wasn't enough. But you know, that was

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Speaker 2: it was like, hey, this is an active time. I

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Speaker 2: started talking to Tampa actually right around this time of year,

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Speaker 7: I don't know that he's underrated, but Washington National's superstar

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Speaker 5: For me. This is his first full season in the majors.

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Speaker 3: That helps.

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Speaker 5: He's been intentionally walked four times in a game. Anyway,

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Speaker 1: We're a council, obviously a unique mind has his favorite

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Speaker 2: his kind of power. I was always pushing him to

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Speaker 2: work on spunting more.

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Speaker 3: You know, good thing he didn't listen, So yeah, it

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Speaker 3: fouls it off the right.

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Speaker 2: But but like, but I think that's what I would say,

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Speaker 2: is like, you know, the shape of the player is

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Speaker 2: the same as I expected, minus hitting balls off the scoreboard,

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Speaker 2: you know, And that's the part that I've been really surprised.

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Speaker 2: But like, these aren't wall scraper home runs. He's not like,

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Speaker 2: you know, hitting balls in the basket with a wind

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Speaker 2: blowing out. I mean, he's hitting balls that are way gone.

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Speaker 2: And that's you know, again, like this game surprises you,

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Speaker 2: which is kind of the fun part of the job,

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Speaker 2: right that you know, it would have been impossible to

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Speaker 2: predict that he would come into this kind of power,

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Speaker 2: but he has, and you know, it's it's vaulted him

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Speaker 2: from you know, really good player to a star and

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Speaker 2: it's been fun to watch.

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Speaker 1: Uh, this this question is probably hard to answer as

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Speaker 1: far as the last five years, So I'm going to

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Speaker 1: go with the do O years. And was there a

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Speaker 1: move that either maybe maybe wasn't like about to be

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Speaker 1: made or you thought was done, but something that was

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Speaker 1: you know, discussed quite a bit that you think maybe

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Speaker 1: it would have changed those World Series years that the

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Speaker 1: World Series and in that time in either direction like

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Speaker 1: either this would have extended it by years or this

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Speaker 1: this could have blown things up. Was there a deal

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Speaker 1: that never came together that you guys discussed the.

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Speaker 2: One I just mentioned, I think would be a fair

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Speaker 2: a fair one that like you know, you had we

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Speaker 2: traded for Verlander in seventeen, does that does that change

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Speaker 2: things a little bit?

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Speaker 3: You know, he was on the market again.

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Speaker 2: I look back at the decision making process and I

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Speaker 2: think the process was good. I think the logic was good,

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Speaker 2: but like obviously we got it wrong.

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Speaker 3: We should have been aggressive and we should have traded

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Speaker 3: for him that year.

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Speaker 2: And I think that's one that I think about sometimes,

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Speaker 2: like how different things could be had.

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Speaker 3: That happened, you know, you know, flipping it around.

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Speaker 2: Like I think about that, like if you know, if

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Speaker 2: Houston takes Chris Bryan and we take a Pell, I

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Speaker 2: do think that that's you know, I do think with

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Speaker 2: all of these different things, there's a sliding doors aspect

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Speaker 2: of so many moves that you know, I think that yes,

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Speaker 2: like had we gotten Berlin or maybe that would have

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Speaker 2: extended things, for example, but obviously have we not drafted Chris,

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Speaker 2: that might have short circuited.

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Speaker 3: The whole process. So yeah, that's probably one that I

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Speaker 3: would I would think about.

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Speaker 4: I know, you're not gonna do something just to do

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Speaker 4: something or to make headlines, but like you said, this

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Speaker 4: is a rare sort of opportunity. And you you've talked

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Speaker 4: before about how you know, the best years in base

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Speaker 4: you know, those those rings that you have are kind

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Speaker 4: of you know, the they're the thing like if you're

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Speaker 4: definitely buying. I guess the next threshold would be like

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Speaker 4: can this team win a World Series? And I realized

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Speaker 4: we're in the middle of July, but you know what

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Speaker 4: it looks like, you like, what are the as this

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Speaker 4: team kind of reached those indicators?

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Speaker 3: I mean, I guess I would say this. I think

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Speaker 3: we've we've played really well for quite a while.

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Speaker 2: I do think though it's a long season. You sort

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Speaker 2: of said, like my mindset is sort of going back

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Speaker 2: to the previous questions. Okay, what things can go wrong,

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Speaker 2: what things are we're trying to fix. But certainly, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I think that we've we've we've show our position playing

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Speaker 2: group has.

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Speaker 3: Been really good. I do think that I.

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Speaker 2: Think we've pitched well considering some of the injuries. But

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Speaker 2: I do think that's an area that we need to

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Speaker 2: continue to bolster. So yeah, I think there's areas we

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Speaker 2: certainly need to upgrade. And it's just a long season.

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Speaker 2: You know, you don't get it. You know there's no

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Speaker 2: metal for halfway. You know you gotta you gotta keep going.

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Speaker 2: And that that's probably how I look at it.

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Speaker 1: Jed, thanks so much for joining us. Well we'll leave

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Speaker 1: it there. Appreciate you giving us some of your time.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure we'll be bugging you over the next month plenty.

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Speaker 1: See it Wrigley and on the road and whatnot.

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Speaker 3: I did this podcast so you wouldn't sorry.

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Speaker 1: It was not a great beforehand, Sorry and fulfill that problem.

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Speaker 3: Thank you.

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Speaker 1: All right, Thanks so much for listening to everyone.

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