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Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to the Monday edition of Fair Territory. A

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Speaker 1: lot of action right now, and I expect plenty of

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Speaker 1: action in the next couple of days leading up to Christmas.

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Speaker 1: Let's get right to it. Let's go to yesterday's news.

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Speaker 1: We had two major situations developed. One was a trade

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Speaker 1: the Red Sox made for Wilson Contreras. The other, earlier

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Speaker 1: in the day was the White Sox signing of Munataka Morikami.

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Speaker 1: Let's start with Contreras. This was a move that had

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Speaker 1: been rumored for several weeks. We all knew that the

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Speaker 1: Red Sox were looking for offensive help, and they still

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Speaker 1: are after the Contrerast's move. We'll get into that as

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Speaker 1: the show progresses. But this trade is the second trade

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Speaker 1: that they've made with their former president of Baseball Operations,

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Speaker 1: actually chief baseball officer, Hem Bloom. The second trade that

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Speaker 1: they've made in which Heim Bloom with the Cardinals now

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Speaker 1: sent the money to get better prospects and for the

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Speaker 1: Red Sox. These deals are, at least from a financial perspective,

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Speaker 1: the trade Wilson Contreras for Hunter Dobbins, who made his

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Speaker 1: for Haardo and Blake Aita, all right handed pitchers. They're

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Speaker 1: the guys who went for Wilson Contreras. I wrote and

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Speaker 1: tweeted Fajardo was just nineteen years old, a four hundred

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, acquired for the DFA Cambooser last winter,

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Speaker 2: So a guy who has been.

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Speaker 1: In the major leagues in Dobbins and two longer term prospects.

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Speaker 1: That's what the Cardinals get back for Wilson Contreras. What

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Speaker 1: do the Red Sox get? A guy who can play

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Speaker 1: first base, a guy who is pretty strong in the clubhouse,

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Speaker 1: a good leader, and a guy who, over the last

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Speaker 1: two seasons has been When judging by f war, Fangraft's

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Speaker 1: version of wins a Brough replacement nearly identical to Pete

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Speaker 1: Alonso in terms of production, their f wars are nearly

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Speaker 1: the same now. Alonso has more power contrast gets on baseboard.

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Speaker 1: Contreras is also more than two and a half years older.

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Speaker 1: But while you needed to trade three prospects for Contreras,

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Speaker 1: you're getting him for one hundred and twelve point five

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Speaker 1: that's from the Red Sox perspective, from a financial sense,

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Speaker 1: a good exchange, something that should help them next year.

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Speaker 1: I don't see Wilson Contreras necessarily slowing down.

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: Questions arise with their roster as a result of this move.

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Speaker 1: What happens to Tristan Cassis. Well, he's coming off a

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Speaker 1: is not certainty that he'll be ready for opening day,

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Speaker 1: you see. Jim McCaffrey wrote about that today in The Athletic.

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Speaker 1: But once Cassis returns, they can use him in some

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Speaker 1: Cassis is not really a proven major league player yet.

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Speaker 1: So this at least gives the Red Sox what the

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Speaker 1: The other question with the Red Sox Masataka Yoshida, what

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Speaker 1: there's seemingly no place for him, and I don't see

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Speaker 1: So that's a guy that they've talked about trading and

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Speaker 1: Maybe they go into spring training with their depth, see

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Speaker 1: cannot be their last offensive move. They've traded for Sonny

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Speaker 1: done some other smaller things and now they've added contraras

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Speaker 1: They need one more big bat and we'll talk more

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Speaker 2: Now.

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Speaker 1: The other big move yesterday, and this was a bit

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Speaker 1: from Mark Feinesland and Scott merkeno MLB dot Com that

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Speaker 1: the White Sox were a team for Murakami, and people thought, well,

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Speaker 1: the White Sox, why would they want Murakami? Well, a

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Speaker 2: So what happened to Murrikami?

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Speaker 1: The questions that a lot of teams had, really twenty

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Speaker 2: His swing and miss, his ability to hit.

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Speaker 1: his representatives at Excel Sports Management, believe that he could

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Speaker 1: building an interesting young core of position players, and they've

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Speaker 1: It was Lenine Sosa with twenty two. So Morikami goes

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Speaker 1: But there were some big trades on Friday involving starting pitchers,

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Speaker 1: specifically controllable starting pitchers. Shane Boz, three years of club control,

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Speaker 1: You're gonna think to yourself, well, maybe I can do

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Speaker 1: In the eyes of many in the major leagues. Boz

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Speaker 1: This emboldens those teams to ask for more, if it

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Speaker 1: We will be back with the Inside Dish, more on

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Speaker 1: Time now for the inside Dish.

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Speaker 2: You know, the drill.

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Speaker 1: It's the part of the show right to talk about

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Speaker 2: On with the Boston Red Sox.

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Speaker 1: As I wrote, the Red Sox have created a financial

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Speaker 1: first choice. What is this path you speak of? Ken

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Speaker 1: this week, we learned that the Fenway Sports Group, owners

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Speaker 1: a reported one point seven billion to one point eight billion.

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Speaker 1: Fenwaz Sports Group would say, that's a separate transaction, has

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Speaker 1: Red Sox simply based on their cash. All right, whatever,

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Speaker 1: the Red Sox have money. We know they have money.

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Speaker 1: Time now for grilling and Ken the part of the

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Speaker 2: Let's get right to them.

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Speaker 1: First question comes from Tyler Max Smith, who says Anthopolis Braves,

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Speaker 1: Athletic wrote today, they also could use Cody Bellinger or

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Speaker 1: someone of that ILK to help their offense, with Pete A,

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Speaker 1: Lonzo Goan, and Jorge Polanco their only offensive replacement thus far,

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Speaker 1: outside of the exchange of Brandon Nimo from Marcus Simeon.

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Speaker 1: All right, next question, this one comes from cam Stanch

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Speaker 1: five six oh three. What the heck are the Yankees doing?

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Speaker 2: It seems like nothing.

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Speaker 1: Well, They've resigned Tim Hill, They've signed Paul Blackburn, Amed Rosario,

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Speaker 1: Ryan Yarbero.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I know it's not enough.

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Speaker 1: The Yankees are not necessarily going to be as active

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Speaker 1: as they were last offseason when they lost Juan Soda

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Speaker 1: to free agency. But they know at the very least

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Speaker 1: they have to find a bat to replace Cody Bellinger.

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Speaker 1: They have to find help in that bullpen in front

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Speaker 1: of David Bednar, and they really could use one more starter.

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Speaker 2: With Rodin and.

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Speaker 1: Cole not starting the season in the rotation. With Schlitler,

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Speaker 1: a guy who probably will be on some kind of

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Speaker 1: innings restriction, they need help there too. The Yankees, like

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Speaker 1: the Mets, I do not believe that they're simply going

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Speaker 1: to call it an off season over the next couple

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Speaker 1: of days. You know what we're done January February, we'll.

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Speaker 2: Just be quiet. No, they're going to do stuff. We

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Speaker 2: just don't know what they're going to do.

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Speaker 1: And that is the intrigue that the rest of this

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Speaker 1: off season brings for those particular teams and for all

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Speaker 1: of these other teams we've talked about as well.

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Speaker 2: All Right, that wraps it up today.

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Speaker 1: I want to thank everyone for watching and for listening,

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Speaker 1: Foul Territory is coming up and listen to who is on.

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Speaker 2: Foul Territory today.

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Speaker 1: Pete Alonzo, Brandon Low, and Robert Murray. Alana Rizzo joins

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Speaker 1: me for our final Fair Territory of the year that

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Speaker 1: will be Friday at twelve thirty Eastern.

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Speaker 2: Talk to you then.

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Speaker 1: Merry Christmas, Happy handed that everyone have a great holiday