WEBVTT - The Miz vs Cristopher Sánchez, Soto/PCA/Acuña Jr. heating up, Tarik Skubal Trade Deadline sweepstakes 0:00:01.320 --> 0:00:04.240 Welcome everyone to the Monday edition of Fair Territory. I'm 0:00:04.280 --> 0:00:06.840 Ken Rosenthal here with you for the next half hour 0:00:06.960 --> 0:00:10.680 or so. It is June first, it is no longer early, 0:00:11.039 --> 0:00:14.280 and as usual, we have a lot of cool things 0:00:14.320 --> 0:00:16.560 going on in our game. We're going to talk about 0:00:16.600 --> 0:00:19.320 some hitting stars today, We're gonna talk a lot about 0:00:19.360 --> 0:00:22.440 pitching stars. We're gonna talk about Trek Schouobl. We're gonna 0:00:22.440 --> 0:00:24.480 talk about some injuries too. Of course, we're going to 0:00:24.520 --> 0:00:28.000 talk about injuries we always do, but first the pitching 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:30.880 and I want to begin with a tweet from Jeff 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:35.960 Passing yesterday about the months of May for Jacob Miserowski 0:00:36.000 --> 0:00:40.360 and Christopher Sanchez. Now, just a week ago, I put 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:44.880 out a video for The Athletic basically saying Christopher Sanchez 0:00:45.159 --> 0:00:47.320 has to start the All Star Game if you based 0:00:47.360 --> 0:00:50.560 it on right now. And then we had another spectacular 0:00:50.600 --> 0:00:53.599 performance from the Miz yesterday. So here's the tweet from 0:00:53.760 --> 0:00:59.120 Jeff Comparing the statistics for Sanchez and Misowski. They're extremely 0:00:59.280 --> 0:01:03.120 close and you can go either way with this. Sanchez 0:01:03.200 --> 0:01:08.080 with the obvious consecutive scoreless inning streak. Misarowski has allowed 0:01:08.120 --> 0:01:10.840 oh one run in thirty eight and a third innings, 0:01:11.000 --> 0:01:14.520 Sanchez two thirds more of an inning, Miserowski the better 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:18.280 peripheral numbers. Okay, So which one? You could argue it 0:01:18.319 --> 0:01:21.480 all day long? And it reminded me of a conversation 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:25.000 I had going back to the year two thousand when 0:01:25.000 --> 0:01:27.440 I joined the sporting news from the Baltimore Sun and 0:01:27.520 --> 0:01:31.040 my boss was a guy named John Rawlings, And I asked, John, 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:36.880 which do you value more? Writing or reporting? Writing the 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:40.240 actual construction of sentences and words, how you make this 0:01:40.440 --> 0:01:45.080 thing sound, or reporting the gathering of information and reporting 0:01:45.080 --> 0:01:48.720 of news. And his answer to that was writing or reporting. 0:01:49.040 --> 0:01:54.280 He said, yes, Missowski or Sanchez. My answer is yes, 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:56.440 And again, you can argue it until you're blue in 0:01:56.480 --> 0:01:59.680 the face. It's a fun argument. Actually, Sarah Langs here 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:02.840 she is yesterday. There have been twenty instances since at 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:06.280 least nineteen hundred of a pitcher allowing one or no 0:02:06.440 --> 0:02:09.760 runs in a calendar month with at least thirty innings 0:02:09.760 --> 0:02:13.520 pitch Sanchez and Miserowski. This may are the only ones 0:02:13.560 --> 0:02:15.720 to do it in the same month in the same year. 0:02:16.200 --> 0:02:19.320 That's how good these guys have been. And it got 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:22.440 me thinking. It got me thinking again, going back to 0:02:22.480 --> 0:02:24.680 that video I did for The Athletic last week about 0:02:24.720 --> 0:02:28.440 who will start the All Star Game. Now, obviously Sanchez 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:31.799 would probably rate the edge if they were disclose because 0:02:31.800 --> 0:02:34.560 the game is in Philadelphia. But let's take it a 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:38.720 step further. Let's not just talk about Sanchez and Miseroski 0:02:38.800 --> 0:02:41.640 on the NL staff for the All Star Game. Let's 0:02:41.720 --> 0:02:44.960 talk about what that entire NL staff might look like, 0:02:45.360 --> 0:02:48.920 because we might see I'm exaggerating a little bit, but 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:52.240 maybe not much. We might see the first no hitter 0:02:52.400 --> 0:02:56.000 in All Star Game history. Let's look at a potential staff. Now, 0:02:56.000 --> 0:02:58.400 these are just some of the names. It's not a 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:01.160 complete staff. And if I'm leaving your favorite pitcher off, 0:03:01.320 --> 0:03:04.880 please just spare me with the vitriol. But this group 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:10.840 is pretty good. Sanchez, Miserowski, Chris Sales, Chris Sale, Chase Burns, 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:16.000 Paul Skeens, Yoshinoba Yamamoto, Shoeo Tani probably won't pitch, but 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:19.560 he would be deserving as a pitcher. Bryce Elder, Nolan McClain, 0:03:19.600 --> 0:03:22.040 who had a really good start again yesterday. And then 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:25.920 your back end of the bullpen, Rasa Legalsias, Joan Duran 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:30.720 and Mason Miller, Hard to hit that group. It will 0:03:30.720 --> 0:03:33.080 be a lot of fun to watch those guys in action. 0:03:33.440 --> 0:03:35.960 It will be a lot of fun, presuming they are 0:03:36.000 --> 0:03:39.720 all healthy, to watch the American League hitters try to 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:43.520 deal with what they would be dealing with in that scenario. 0:03:43.720 --> 0:03:46.160 It's gonna be amazing to see MS might throw one 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:49.480 hundred and nine that night. Now, the sport is not 0:03:49.600 --> 0:03:53.280 just about pitching. We have as well some hitters who 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:56.080 are getting really hot. Some of the biggest stars in 0:03:56.120 --> 0:03:58.640 the game, two in particular, and I'll talk about a 0:03:58.640 --> 0:04:02.040 third guy who is not yet a big star, but 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:05.160 certainly someone who tracks or attracts a lot of attention. 0:04:05.400 --> 0:04:08.320 All right, let's start with Juan Soto. New York Mets 0:04:08.360 --> 0:04:11.120 actually swept the Marlins over the weekend, scored twenty five 0:04:11.200 --> 0:04:13.480 runs in three games. Good for them. We'll see if 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:16.279 they can do it against better competition in the days 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:20.599 and weeks ahead. Soto nine home runs in his last 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:24.000 fifteen games. His ops is up to nine ninety four. 0:04:24.160 --> 0:04:28.520 Guess what he's Jan Soto yet again. Perhaps the bigger 0:04:28.640 --> 0:04:33.720 resurgence in Atlanta Ronald Acuna Junior. Now, remember he missed 0:04:33.760 --> 0:04:37.320 those twelve games with that straan hamstring in May. He 0:04:37.400 --> 0:04:41.720 really hasn't been Ronald Acunya Junior yet. Now he is 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:45.600 home runs in four straight games, five homers in those 0:04:45.640 --> 0:04:49.240 four games, and he is the key player on a 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:53.200 team that, even with him being only just average, Ronald 0:04:53.279 --> 0:04:56.560 Acunya Junior is the first in the major leagues to 0:04:56.680 --> 0:04:59.880 forty wins, the team with a nine game lead in 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:03.040 Division nine games over the Nationals, nine and a half 0:05:03.240 --> 0:05:06.719 over the Phillies. Wow, Ronald the Kuno Junior, and I 0:05:06.720 --> 0:05:08.800 want to talk about one more guy again, not one 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:11.440 of the biggest stars yet, but he had an amazing 0:05:11.480 --> 0:05:15.039 game Saturday on our air Fox PTE Crow Armstrong of 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:19.360 the Cubs. In that game, four for five, home run, double, 0:05:19.760 --> 0:05:23.600 spectacular catch to end it. PCA has had his ups 0:05:23.600 --> 0:05:27.080 and downs. They hit him leadoff for eight games, seemed 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:29.760 to free him up a little bit, and last night 0:05:29.839 --> 0:05:32.440 hit second got a hit in that game as well. 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:35.920 But if he ever puts it all together, he's going 0:05:35.960 --> 0:05:38.080 to be one of the most exciting players. Actually, he 0:05:38.200 --> 0:05:40.559 already is one of the most exciting players in the game. 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:43.200 He will be at that point one of the most 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:47.440 exciting and electric and incredible performers because he has so 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:50.440 many different skills that he can show off on a 0:05:50.480 --> 0:05:53.039 given night, and he did that Saturday night. It was 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:54.599 the PTE Crow Armstrong Show. 0:05:55.000 --> 0:05:56.919 Kratz. I know you love dad jokes. This is not 0:05:57.120 --> 0:05:59.880 a joke. 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Of course, all injuries are upsetting, 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:06.479 but one of them went to a guy who was 0:07:06.520 --> 0:07:08.440 going to be in the All Star Game for sure, 0:07:08.839 --> 0:07:10.680 and a guy who is keyed to one of the 0:07:10.680 --> 0:07:14.080 great stories in our game this season so far. I'm 0:07:14.080 --> 0:07:17.920 talking about the White Sox and I'm talking about Munataka Murakami. 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:21.920 He's out four to six weeks with a hamstring injury. 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:24.920 The White Sox, even without him, swept the Tigers over 0:07:24.960 --> 0:07:27.360 the weekend. We will get to the Tigers in the 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:31.480 inside dish, and the White Sox, of all teams, hold 0:07:31.600 --> 0:07:34.560 the second American League wild card. They're gonna have to 0:07:34.600 --> 0:07:38.200 hold on without Murakami now for some time, but he'll 0:07:38.200 --> 0:07:41.640 be back in short order. Now, Hazous Sanchez, this was 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:45.360 a really weird injury. It occurred yesterday at Camden Yards. 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:50.160 A fan, a young fan thirteen years old, reportedly thought 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:53.040 that Hazu Sanchez was signaling to him to play catch. 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:56.120 Sometimes you'll see that and outfield are playing catch between 0:07:56.120 --> 0:07:58.760 innings with a kid in his stands. The kid throws 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:01.320 the ball. Sanchez wasn't ready for it. He wasn't really 0:08:01.360 --> 0:08:03.720 thinking they were going to play catch. He gets hitting 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:06.920 the wrist. Hopefully he's okay. It was just an accident. 0:08:07.000 --> 0:08:11.280 It sounded like there was no animosity. Obviously, it's a 0:08:11.360 --> 0:08:14.240 kid trying to play catch. But let's hope he's okay, 0:08:14.280 --> 0:08:19.120 because that was most unfortunate. Connor Griffin, Pittsburgh pirates spectacular 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:22.720 rookie flexer muscle strain in his right elbow. Now, this 0:08:22.840 --> 0:08:26.520 is not expected to be too long an injury, and frankly, 0:08:27.200 --> 0:08:30.040 given that he's twenty years old, he's in his first 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:34.120 major league season. At some point this year he probably 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:36.280 was going to need a break. And by the way, 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:39.200 that's true for all the other great rookies. I'm not 0:08:39.240 --> 0:08:41.839 saying you put them on the phantom il, but guys 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:44.959 like McGonagall and Weatherholt, they're playing a one hundred and 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:48.280 sixty two game season when in the minor leagues, and 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:49.960 a lot of these guys weren't in the minor leagues 0:08:50.120 --> 0:08:53.120 very long to begin with. But in the miners they 0:08:53.160 --> 0:08:56.240 often get well, they always get the Monday off. They 0:08:56.280 --> 0:08:58.440 often get a scheduled day off during the week and 0:08:58.520 --> 0:09:01.680 maybe at DH Day too. They are not trained in 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:03.800 the miners right now. This is kind of a problem 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:07.200 in the system to withstand the rigors of a one 0:09:07.240 --> 0:09:11.240 hundred and sixty two game season. So Connor Griffin, who 0:09:11.320 --> 0:09:15.240 had actually been playing really well, had gotten hot. This 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:18.320 might be a good thing for him. Ellie Dela Cruz 0:09:18.760 --> 0:09:21.360 hamstring injury. They're going to know more about him today, 0:09:21.679 --> 0:09:25.199 hopefully with the imaging taking place. He's having a great year. 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:27.080 I wrote a long feature about him a couple of 0:09:27.080 --> 0:09:31.439 weeks ago. The Reds have kind of settled into mediocrity, 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:34.760 but without Dela Cruz they clearly would be a team 0:09:34.880 --> 0:09:38.360 challenged to stay afloat in the NL Central. And finally, 0:09:39.280 --> 0:09:42.240 Garrett Crochet Boston Red Sox. Now the Red Sox clearly 0:09:42.320 --> 0:09:45.560 are going nowhere, but they've been awaiting the return of 0:09:45.600 --> 0:09:49.120 Crochet and he had a very minor setback, as he 0:09:49.200 --> 0:09:52.720 described it, with his left flat but he's been shut down. 0:09:52.720 --> 0:09:55.800 You see the tweet from Jamia Webster right there. He's 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:58.920 the Red Sox reporter for Nessen. Garrett Crochet feeling a 0:09:58.960 --> 0:10:02.120 little lat tight on his left side. We just spoke 0:10:02.200 --> 0:10:04.640 with him. He feels its minor. Didn't want to even 0:10:04.720 --> 0:10:07.920 really label it a setback. It's been feeling better since 0:10:07.960 --> 0:10:12.520 it happened last Thursday at Fenway. Set for imaging next week. Again, 0:10:12.679 --> 0:10:15.199 you don't want to see this with Crochet. You want 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:17.920 to see him back on the mound. So all these 0:10:17.960 --> 0:10:22.480 injuries taking place, I always say every season at the 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:25.520 start when people ask for predictions, tell me who's going 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:27.840 to get hurt, tell me who's going to get traded, 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:31.320 and I will tell you who exactly is going to 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:33.800 have a really good season. Of course, we don't know 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:36.280 that any of that at the start of the season, 0:10:36.360 --> 0:10:39.760 but we're going to get into a situation with someone 0:10:39.920 --> 0:10:44.040 that is hurt and with a team that obviously could 0:10:44.080 --> 0:10:46.520 be making trades, and we're going to talk about that team. 0:10:46.720 --> 0:10:56.640 Yes it's the Tigers. Right after this timing out for 0:10:56.640 --> 0:10:58.160 the Inside Dish, the part of the show where I 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:01.120 talk about a story I've written than happening in the game. 0:11:01.440 --> 0:11:03.720 All of the above, and today I'm going to talk 0:11:03.760 --> 0:11:07.600 about the column I published today in The Athletic. It's 0:11:07.640 --> 0:11:11.640 a column about the increasing likelihood that Trek Scouble will 0:11:11.640 --> 0:11:15.200 be traded assuming he is healthy. And remember he is 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:18.600 recovering from an innovative new surgery to remove a loose 0:11:18.640 --> 0:11:22.320 body from his left elbow, and obviously we are all 0:11:22.360 --> 0:11:25.520 awaiting his return. He is scheduled to throw again today 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:30.240 in a simulated game. Now, I initially thought when this 0:11:30.360 --> 0:11:32.480 talk started, I don't know, a couple of weeks ago, 0:11:32.600 --> 0:11:36.400 about the possibility of trading Schooble. I thought it was premature. 0:11:37.120 --> 0:11:41.600 And actually, when the deadline talk starts in spring training 0:11:41.760 --> 0:11:45.240 in April, even early May, it's kind of a pet 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:47.880 peeve of mine. I always think, what are we doing here? 0:11:48.480 --> 0:11:50.800 It's not yet time. There's so much time to go 0:11:50.920 --> 0:11:54.400 until the deadline that you really can't assess just yet. 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:57.360 And like pet peeves, or most pet peeves, they're not 0:11:57.520 --> 0:12:02.640 entirely rational, and I'm not always right either. So with Scooble, 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:07.400 my feeling was from the beginning that eventually the Tigers 0:12:07.400 --> 0:12:10.080 would snap out of it, that they'd be in contention 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:13.480 in a weak al Central, in a weak American league 0:12:13.760 --> 0:12:17.240 with an expanded playoff system. How far out of it 0:12:17.440 --> 0:12:20.679 could they have fallen? Well, then I started to talk 0:12:20.720 --> 0:12:23.920 to some executives over the weekend just asking what they 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:27.240 thought of the whole situation, and they said, man, look 0:12:27.240 --> 0:12:30.360 at the Tigers record. They're not coming out of this, 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:32.400 or at least they're not coming out of it to 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:34.560 the point where they're going to be able to contend. 0:12:35.120 --> 0:12:37.120 So I did a little research, talked to my friends 0:12:37.160 --> 0:12:41.480 at step stats Perform, and they kind of verified that 0:12:41.559 --> 0:12:44.079 the Tigers are in a really bad place. They got 0:12:44.120 --> 0:12:46.679 swept by the White Sox over the weekend. They're now 0:12:46.760 --> 0:12:51.000 twenty two and thirty eight. That is sixteen games under 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:54.920 five hundred, sixteen games. Just to get back to five hundred, 0:12:55.080 --> 0:12:57.200 you'd have to go sixteen to oh right, or that 0:12:57.280 --> 0:13:00.480 kind of thing. Well, that's going to be differ for 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:04.560 a team that has fourteen players on the injured list, 0:13:04.960 --> 0:13:09.320 ten pitchers. Now, they got Kerry Carpenter back yesterday. They're 0:13:09.360 --> 0:13:12.920 expecting Labor Torres to come back relatively soon as well. 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:16.559 That should help. But their offense is among the worst 0:13:16.800 --> 0:13:19.200 in the game, their defense is among the worst in 0:13:19.280 --> 0:13:22.959 the game, and without Scooble, they are four and twenty one. 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:26.079 Since learning of the news that he would require the 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:30.600 nano'eedle scope surgery, the Tigers are four and twenty one. 0:13:31.280 --> 0:13:34.800 So I asked the people, as stats perform, Okay, how 0:13:34.880 --> 0:13:38.040 rare would this be under the current playoff format? Because, 0:13:38.080 --> 0:13:41.400 of course, in the past, for many, many years, there 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:43.840 are only two teams that made the World Series, and 0:13:43.880 --> 0:13:45.880 they were the only ones to reach the postseason. Then 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:48.560 we expanded a little bit and now we've got six 0:13:48.640 --> 0:13:51.520 teams from each league. So I said, okay, since twenty two, 0:13:52.640 --> 0:13:55.480 what are the or what teams have made it under 0:13:55.520 --> 0:13:59.920 these circumstances sixteen games under five hundred? No team has 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:03.800 made the playoffs since coming or since starting or I'm sorry, 0:14:03.880 --> 0:14:05.959 let me get this right. No team has made the 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:09.240 playoffs since at some point going sixteen games under five 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:14.199 hundred since twenty twenty two, when this current format was instituted. 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:17.280 The team that was the furthest back or the furtherest 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:22.240 under five hundred was the twenty twenty four Astros. They 0:14:22.240 --> 0:14:26.880 were twelve under. The Tigers are sixteen under. You might say, whoa, Well, 0:14:26.880 --> 0:14:31.880 wait about what about the twenty twenty twenty twenty four 0:14:31.880 --> 0:14:35.840 Detroit Tigers, who of course had that incredible run in 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:38.600 the final two months of the season. Well, they were 0:14:38.640 --> 0:14:41.880 never more than nine games under five hundred. They were 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:44.720 ten games out of a playoff spot, and the current 0:14:44.720 --> 0:14:47.400 Tigers are only seven games out of a playoff spot, 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:52.000 only seven So from that perspective, these Tigers are in 0:14:52.040 --> 0:14:54.920 a better position than the twenty four team was. But 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:58.040 at the same time, those games under five hundred are 0:14:58.360 --> 0:15:01.680 really telling, and to get back in it, it's just 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:04.320 going to be really difficult for them. If you look 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:08.960 at it, you do the math, to go and win 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:11.840 just eighty five games, win eighty five games, and that 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:14.320 probably wouldn't be good enough for the playoffs, but maybe 0:15:14.320 --> 0:15:16.680 in this American league it would be. Right now, we 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:20.120 have the final playoffs spot being held by a sub 0:15:20.160 --> 0:15:22.280 five hundred team, the Toronto Blue Jays, So let's get 0:15:22.360 --> 0:15:25.400 him to eighty five. To get to eighty five, they 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:28.200 would need to go sixty three and thirty nine the 0:15:28.240 --> 0:15:31.200 rest of the way. Okay, So where am I going 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:34.640 with this? Where I'm going with this is it sure 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:37.600 looks like the Tigers aren't getting back into contention, even 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:40.880 if they get healthy, even if Scooble returns and is 0:15:40.960 --> 0:15:45.920 his usual amazing self. So assuming he does get back 0:15:46.280 --> 0:15:49.240 pitch effectively, and we don't know how this is going 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:52.040 to go, it's a new surgery, and while everything so 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:55.640 far is great, while he has checked every box, while 0:15:55.720 --> 0:15:59.240 the progress is rapid, we just don't know how he 0:15:59.280 --> 0:16:02.760 will pitch. But I assume he's going to be back 0:16:02.840 --> 0:16:06.360 in relatively a short amount of time, maybe the middle 0:16:06.400 --> 0:16:09.080 of the month, maybe, if they're really cautious, the end 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:12.360 of the month. And once he's back and establishes that 0:16:12.680 --> 0:16:15.440 he is the Trek Schoobl who is coming off back 0:16:15.440 --> 0:16:19.080 to back cy Young Awards, at that point, it would 0:16:19.080 --> 0:16:21.200 seem to me the Tigers are going to have little 0:16:21.240 --> 0:16:25.120 choice here. You either lose him for a draft pick 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:27.520 by offering him a qualifying offer at the end of 0:16:27.520 --> 0:16:30.280 the season if you keep him the whole way, or 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:32.480 you make a trade in which you would get greater 0:16:32.560 --> 0:16:36.600 projected value than you would if you just got a 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:39.160 draft pick that was somewhere in the thirties the low 0:16:39.240 --> 0:16:44.160 thirties next year. So then you ask, Okay, where's this going. 0:16:44.400 --> 0:16:46.640 Who is going to be in it? It will be, 0:16:46.760 --> 0:16:49.720 of course the usual suspects, But really, if you're a 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:53.240 contender and Tarrek Scoogl is out there, you're going to 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:55.840 at least check in and see what the price would 0:16:55.880 --> 0:16:59.440 be and make a decision for your team whether it 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:03.480 would make Now, there are three problems with acquiring him. 0:17:03.840 --> 0:17:06.760 One is he's only a rental. Two, he's going to 0:17:06.760 --> 0:17:09.320 be owed if at the deadline he has traded. If 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:13.119 it takes until then, about ten million dollars. That's a 0:17:13.119 --> 0:17:16.159 lot of money for any team, even a team like 0:17:16.200 --> 0:17:19.679 the Dodgers. And then finally, because he would be traded 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:21.800 in the middle of a season, you're not going to 0:17:21.800 --> 0:17:23.840 be able to make him a qualifying offer. He would 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:26.960 be ineligible for a qualifying offer. You could not get 0:17:27.000 --> 0:17:29.960 a draft pick on the back end. So I wrote 0:17:30.000 --> 0:17:32.199 about some of the teams that might be involved. The 0:17:32.280 --> 0:17:35.000 Dodgers clearly would be one, and yes, I know they've 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:37.880 got Snell and Glass now coming back off the il, 0:17:37.920 --> 0:17:41.840 they've got River Ryan, TRIPLEA. They seemingly have an embarrassment 0:17:41.920 --> 0:17:45.040 of pitching riches, but they always have pitching injuries too. 0:17:45.520 --> 0:17:49.199 And with the potential for a salary cap or at 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:53.199 the very least some form of restrictions that will be 0:17:53.480 --> 0:17:56.840 greater than they are today, the Dodgers might view this 0:17:56.840 --> 0:18:01.199 as something of a last call and an possibility, an 0:18:01.200 --> 0:18:05.760 opportunity to make one last push push their payroll. Even higher. 0:18:05.760 --> 0:18:08.040 They clearly don't care about money. They've got one of 0:18:08.040 --> 0:18:10.600 the best form systems in baseball. They clearly would be 0:18:10.600 --> 0:18:14.080 in some of the other teams I mentioned the Padres. 0:18:14.160 --> 0:18:16.359 Of course they're going to be in. They've got aj 0:18:16.480 --> 0:18:21.119 Preller as their GM. They've got a staff that is 0:18:21.160 --> 0:18:24.320 still questionable. Rotation, I should say that is still questionable. 0:18:24.320 --> 0:18:26.639 Their bullpen, of course, is the best in the game. 0:18:26.920 --> 0:18:29.480 They need offense, at least from what we've seen so far. 0:18:29.600 --> 0:18:32.000 But Aj Preller would be in, and I would not 0:18:32.040 --> 0:18:34.119 be surprised, as I wrote, if he is already calling 0:18:34.160 --> 0:18:36.920 around trying to get prospects from other teams to put 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:40.040 in a Schooble deal. The Phillies people would say, well, 0:18:40.280 --> 0:18:42.840 they've got Sanchez, they've got Zach Wheeler, what do they 0:18:42.880 --> 0:18:46.560 need Trek Scougle for. Well, their owner, John Middleton and 0:18:46.600 --> 0:18:50.719 their president Baseball Operations are among the most aggressive people 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:53.439 in the game, most competitive people in the game, and 0:18:53.480 --> 0:18:56.520 as I wrote, I don't expect them if Schooble is 0:18:56.560 --> 0:19:01.119 available to simply say, nah, we're good. Phillies would be in. 0:19:01.440 --> 0:19:03.800 Yankees would be in, even though they have, of course 0:19:04.000 --> 0:19:07.320 a very deep rotation. And then I mentioned some small 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:10.240 market teams as well, Milwaukee I wrote about them last week. 0:19:10.280 --> 0:19:13.920 Tampa Bay always seems to play big on the big names, 0:19:13.960 --> 0:19:18.040 even if they don't often acquire them. Baltimore with Michaelllias 0:19:18.200 --> 0:19:21.199 under pressure. And then two teams that perhaps have the 0:19:21.320 --> 0:19:24.640 greatest need for a starting pitcher right now. That would 0:19:24.640 --> 0:19:27.560 be the Toronto Blue Jays, who have an entire rotation 0:19:27.800 --> 0:19:30.920 on the injured list, and the Chicago Cubs, who are 0:19:31.000 --> 0:19:36.240 still without Justin Steele and Kate Sorry, Kate Horton. They're 0:19:36.400 --> 0:19:40.520 of course presumptive ace. Matthew Boyd is coming back, Edward 0:19:40.520 --> 0:19:44.479 cabrere wia back, but they could use obviously another starter. 0:19:45.359 --> 0:19:48.080 I don't know which team is going to jump to 0:19:48.119 --> 0:19:50.280 the four here, and we don't know exactly how this 0:19:50.359 --> 0:19:53.719 is going to play out. In fact, it's really still 0:19:53.800 --> 0:19:57.040 early to talk about all this because we haven't seen 0:19:57.160 --> 0:19:59.760 school will come off this surgery. We don't know how 0:19:59.760 --> 0:20:02.639 this is going to go. And if for some reason 0:20:03.600 --> 0:20:06.960 he comes back and has another problem with the elbow, 0:20:07.200 --> 0:20:10.640 or for some reason he comes back and just isn't 0:20:10.680 --> 0:20:13.439 as effective again, we don't know how any of this 0:20:13.480 --> 0:20:17.520 is going to go. Then the entire equation changes. So yes, 0:20:17.600 --> 0:20:20.600 it is still early to talk about this. But at 0:20:20.600 --> 0:20:23.960 the same time, given the Tiger's position and the way 0:20:24.000 --> 0:20:29.760 I outlined it, sixteen games under five hundred, it's going 0:20:29.800 --> 0:20:31.879 to be awfully tough for them to come out of this, 0:20:32.040 --> 0:20:35.960 even with Scooble coming back, even with Carpenter now back 0:20:36.000 --> 0:20:39.760 and Torres joining him at some point soon they are 0:20:39.920 --> 0:20:43.520 all but buried. All right, that's it for the inside dish. 0:20:43.520 --> 0:20:53.520 We'll be back with Grilling Ken right after this. All right, 0:20:53.560 --> 0:20:55.400 time now for Grilling Ken, the part of the show 0:20:55.440 --> 0:20:58.399 where I answer your questions. Let's get right to them. 0:20:58.880 --> 0:21:01.359 First one comes from I can't even pronounce this, but 0:21:01.800 --> 0:21:03.959 the question is what would the Brewers have to give 0:21:04.080 --> 0:21:07.199 up for a two month rental on Terek? Okay, this 0:21:07.320 --> 0:21:10.720 is a good question because it speaks to the value 0:21:10.760 --> 0:21:13.960 of a rental, and I would expect to get Schoogle. 0:21:14.040 --> 0:21:16.439 It's going to take probably at least one top one 0:21:16.560 --> 0:21:20.119 hundred prospect, even though he is only a rental. So 0:21:20.680 --> 0:21:25.000 the Brewers have all of these infielders, They've got Cooper 0:21:25.040 --> 0:21:27.679 Pratt and Jet Williams ready to get to the big leagues. 0:21:27.720 --> 0:21:30.320 They're on the verge of the big leagues left side infielders. 0:21:30.400 --> 0:21:34.680 They've got Jesus Mate made and Luis Pagna. They're coming. 0:21:34.960 --> 0:21:38.439 They've got others as well. I don't know exactly what 0:21:38.440 --> 0:21:40.480 it would take, but I would assume it's going to 0:21:40.480 --> 0:21:43.600 be a package of two or three players at least, 0:21:44.119 --> 0:21:46.720 and one of them being a top one hundred guy. 0:21:47.040 --> 0:21:49.439 Not sure about that, And there are all kinds of 0:21:49.480 --> 0:21:52.640 ways to do these kinds of deals. The Tigers might say, 0:21:52.680 --> 0:21:55.280 you know what, we'd rather have a lot of different 0:21:55.280 --> 0:22:00.360 players who have big upside than one top one hundred guy. 0:22:00.800 --> 0:22:03.520 I don't know. Usually teams prefer the top one hundred guys. 0:22:03.560 --> 0:22:06.760 So we'll see. But the Brewers have, according to the 0:22:06.760 --> 0:22:09.440 Athletics Keith Law, the number one system in the game. 0:22:09.760 --> 0:22:12.719 They certainly have the ability to make this trade if 0:22:12.760 --> 0:22:15.800 they want to. If you're the Brewers, though, it's ten million, 0:22:16.280 --> 0:22:19.000 and it's given up your future, and they value their 0:22:19.040 --> 0:22:21.760