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

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Speaker 1: Monday Fair Territory Post Thanksgiving. Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving.

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Speaker 1: I am Ken Rosendahl here with you for the next

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Speaker 1: I don't know, twenty five minutes or so. And this

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Speaker 1: is the week, the week when things generally generally start

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Speaker 1: to ramp up in Major League Baseball's off season. This

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Speaker 1: is the week leading to the Winter Meetings, and you

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Speaker 1: will see certainly increased conversation. Whether it leads to increased

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Speaker 1: results remains to be seen. Over the Thanksgiving holidays, starting

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Speaker 1: Thanksgiving Eve and going right through the weekend, we had

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Speaker 1: two reported signings. We're going to get into both of

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Speaker 1: them today. We're also going to get into kind of

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Speaker 1: a Winter Meetings preview. Biggest storylines that'll be in the

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Speaker 1: inside Dish. But let's start off with what happens over

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Speaker 1: the holiday because we haven't been on the air since then,

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Speaker 1: and start with the most recent signing, and that would

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Speaker 1: be the Orioles two year, twenty eight million dollar deal

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Speaker 1: for Ryan Helsley with an op out after the first year. Hellsley,

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Speaker 1: of course drew some interest as a starter as well.

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Speaker 2: The Detroit Tigers.

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Speaker 1: Were among the teams looking at him as a starter,

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Speaker 1: But ultimately he goes back to the role in which

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Speaker 1: he is most familiar, a role in which he took

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Speaker 1: a step back last year, first with the Saint Louis

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Speaker 1: Cardinals and then.

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Speaker 2: Especially with the New York Mets.

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Speaker 1: But his peripherals, his underlying metrics remained quite strong. He

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Speaker 1: throws hard. He is a guy that teams still believe in.

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Speaker 1: He had a good market quite obviously to get fourteen

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Speaker 1: million a year for two years, that's decent money for

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Speaker 1: a closer. Not what he would have gotten if he

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Speaker 1: had been a free agent after twenty twenty four, perhaps,

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Speaker 1: but still for Hellsley, a good outcome. Now for the Orioles,

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Speaker 1: this is the latest of several moves that they have

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Speaker 1: made this offseason.

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Speaker 2: They have been I.

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Speaker 1: Would suggest the busiest team at least in terms of

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Speaker 1: results of any thus far. And I'll show you what

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Speaker 1: I'm talking about here, because they've already made four editions,

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Speaker 1: starting off with Andrew Kitsch. Remember they traded for him

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Speaker 1: from the Chicago Cubs, then exercised his option. They had

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Speaker 1: traded him to the Cubs and then brought him back

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Speaker 1: Leodi Taveres enters their center field mix now with Colton Kowser,

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Speaker 1: Taylor Ward, the big and controversial trade for Grayson Rodriguez,

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Speaker 1: and now Hellsley the closure that they needed with Felix

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Speaker 1: Bautista out for at least much of the season. They

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Speaker 1: still need to keep going with the bullpens particular, they

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Speaker 1: still need to round it out because basically they traded

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Speaker 1: most of their relievers, some of whom are becoming free

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Speaker 1: agents during last season. Now, the biggest thing with the Oriols,

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Speaker 1: the biggest thing that remains the biggest thing that has

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Speaker 1: haunted them since really last off season, is their lack

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Speaker 1: so far of a top of the rotation starting pitcher,

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Speaker 1: and frankly, I would like to see.

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Speaker 2: Them add more than one starter.

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Speaker 1: But they definitely are team that we should watch for

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Speaker 1: the top of the free agent market. I'm talking about

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Speaker 1: from ber Valdez, Rangers Suarez perhaps to am I also,

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Speaker 1: they're a team to watch with regard to trades. This

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Speaker 1: is a team that if trades are made for starting pitchers,

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Speaker 1: if some of these guys become available, the Orioles should

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Speaker 1: be in that equation. There's also a guy I wrote

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Speaker 1: about today my notes called Cody Ponce, who is coming

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Speaker 1: back from Korea. I wrote that he's probably going to

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Speaker 1: get three years, thirty to forty million. That's the kind

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Speaker 1: of guy too, that the Orioles should look at as

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Speaker 1: maybe a secondary piece. So if they signed Valdez, for instance,

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Speaker 1: and then acquired Cody Ponce as well, they could do

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Speaker 1: that just by spending money not making any trades. That

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Speaker 1: would be an interesting combination for them. And of course

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Speaker 1: they also could remain active for a bat, perhaps in centerfield,

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Speaker 1: perhaps Kyle Tucker, another guy Michael Olias knows well from Houston.

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Speaker 1: He drafted Kyle Tucker with the fourth pick of the

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Speaker 1: twenty and fifteen draft. So that's the Orioles now sticking

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Speaker 1: in the Al East. The move that happened Thanksgiving Eve,

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Speaker 1: this one was rather fascinating too, even more fascinating than

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Speaker 1: the Hell's they move. And that's of course Dylan cease

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Speaker 1: to the Blue Jays cease seven years are reported two

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Speaker 1: hundred and ten million. There are deferrals in that deal,

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Speaker 1: as I reported, and then Mitch Bannen of The Athletic

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Speaker 1: Deferrals, we probably should look at it if it's indeed

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Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty two million dollar deal for Cease,

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Speaker 1: who always seems to have a lot of interest. People

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Speaker 1: love him in the industry, and yet his results at

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Speaker 1: times have been inconsistent. Top five cy Young Finisher twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty two and twenty twenty four, and yet the results,

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Speaker 1: curious to people why that happens. There are some reasons.

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Speaker 1: Keith Law has written about that for the athletic, but

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Speaker 1: positives is or the positives are, he always takes the ball.

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Speaker 1: Here's his bio one hundred and sixty ninth overall pick

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Speaker 1: in twenty fourteen, debut in twenty nineteen. Career milestones, five

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Speaker 1: straight seasons, thirty two plus starts. We'll get into that.

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Speaker 1: Al War leader in twenty twenty two. That's the year

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Speaker 1: he finished second in the cy Young five straight seasons,

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Speaker 1: two hundred strikeouts, that's impressive.

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Speaker 1: Is in twenty twenty five, and this is what I'm

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Speaker 1: talking about. Four point five to five era on a

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Speaker 1: He wasn't great out of the stretch, just seems to

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Speaker 1: But I want to show you the durability because this,

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Speaker 1: most since twenty twenty one when he really became I'm

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Speaker 1: a regular starter most games started in the last five seasons.

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Speaker 1: And here's what's interesting about this chart. Ceese, Burrios and Gosman.

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Speaker 1: What team do they all play for? The Toronto Blue Jays.

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Speaker 1: They're the top three on this list, well, Gosmin tied

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Speaker 1: with Logan Webb and Patrick Corbyn. But the Jays have

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Speaker 1: assembled a group of guys who should pitch, should take

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Speaker 1: the ball. Treya Savage next season likely will be on

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Speaker 1: some kind of innings limit he'll still be only a rookie.

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Speaker 1: And then you have as well as Shane Bieber first

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Speaker 1: So the Jays are in really good shape here with

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Speaker 1: a reliever of some ilk, whether it's Edwin Diaz or

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Speaker 1: We'll talk more about the relievers as we go on here,

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Speaker 1: but the Blue Jays obviously quite eager to defend their

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Speaker 1: did not get this season, even though they were just

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Speaker 1: two outs away their first World Series title.

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Speaker 2: Since nineteen ninety three.

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Speaker 1: One of the things sticking with the Al East I

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Speaker 1: mentioned this in my notes column today, it's about the

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Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Rays. Now, the Rays are not going to

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Speaker 1: be as active as the Blue Jays and the Orioles

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Speaker 1: But the Rays are a team that will make moves.

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Speaker 1: We know that they always seem to make moves, and

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Speaker 1: Brandon Lao coming up on the last year of his

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Speaker 1: contract at eleven point five million. They've talked about trading

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Speaker 1: what Lao is and one of the better ones in

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Speaker 1: the game when healthy. Brandon Lao is number three on

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Speaker 1: the Rays all time home runless But let's not get

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Speaker 1: too sentimental when we're talking about raised players. They're willing

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Speaker 1: The Rays then would be left with a whole second

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Speaker 1: But here's a guy that would fit for Pittsburgh, a

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Speaker 1: team that's more likely in my opinion, to get their

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Speaker 1: left handed bats making trades then signing free agents. San

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Speaker 1: The Red Sox already have made a big move for

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Speaker 1: Sonny Gray, seemingly solving their biggest rotation need. I would

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Speaker 2: To see what they're going to do with their bats.

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Speaker 1: Are they going to trade them or I'm talking about

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Speaker 1: some other outfielders. Are they going to go resign Alex Gregman.

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Speaker 1: Sean mccatton of Masslive dot com reporting over the weekend,

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Speaker 1: they may have some payroll restrictions. Every team talks about

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Speaker 1: payroll restrictions this time of year. They're building in the excuses.

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Speaker 1: But anyway, we will be back with more on the

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Speaker 1: Yankees in particular, and a lot of other winter storylines

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Speaker 1: when we come.

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Speaker 1: All right, time now for the inside Dish, and as promised,

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Speaker 1: we're going to take you through the top five storylines

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Speaker 1: leading to the Winter Meetings. This will apply, of course

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Speaker 1: to the Winter Meetings, but this is the.

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Speaker 2: Stuff to watch.

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Speaker 1: And we'll start at the top of the free agent market,

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Speaker 1: Kyle Tucker and even Cody Bellinger. Let's talk about the

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Speaker 1: biggest bats available. Tucker is a guy we haven't heard

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Speaker 2: Let's get to your questions.

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Speaker 1: First one comes from Tyler Max Smith, who asks does

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Speaker 1: the braves landing an extra draft pick from Baldwin's Rookie

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Speaker 1: of the Year Award make them more or less likely

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Speaker 1: to sign a qualifying off for free agent. That's a

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Speaker 1: good question, and I would say the answer is more

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Speaker 1: likely because if you sign a qualifying off for free agent,

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Speaker 1: you lose a draft pick, but at the same time,

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Speaker 1: at the same time, you gain one from the compensation.

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Speaker 2: That results from the Rookie of the Year awards.

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Speaker 1: So I would expect that, Yes, the Braves would be

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Speaker 1: more likely to do that. Yes they want to keep

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Speaker 1: their picks. All teams do, but that to me would

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Speaker 1: seem to be the way to go. So let's see

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Speaker 1: what happens there now.

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Speaker 2: Next question.

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Speaker 1: This one comes from Harold Garb on Instagram, who says,

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Speaker 1: who pays for a free agent that undergoes a surgical

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Speaker 1: procedure his former team or himself. A free agent undergoing

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Speaker 1: a surgical procedure would obviously have to do it himself.

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Speaker 1: I would think his former team is not responded at

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Speaker 1: that point, he is not under contract to that team.

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Speaker 2: But it's pretty rare.

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Speaker 1: When we see free agents undergo surgeries.

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Speaker 2: While they are on the open market.

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Speaker 1: I can't even remember the last time that happened, so

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't think that that is a thing. It's a

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Speaker 1: good question, and it's a legitimate question, because of course

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Speaker 1: players would want to get that taken care of before

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Speaker 1: they are, in theory unemployed, but it just doesn't happen

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Speaker 1: all that often. All right, next question, Let's see what

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Speaker 1: this one is. This one comes from Peter Ross nineteen

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Speaker 1: oh seven, who asks Yankees are interested in a new

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Speaker 1: second basement and what relievers are they in on. I

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Speaker 1: don't expect the Yankees aren't necessarily interested in his second basement.

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Speaker 1: They've got jass Chishom Junior to play that position. That's

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Speaker 1: his preferred position. Third base is a different story to

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Speaker 1: some extent, but they've got Ryan McMahon there, so I

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Speaker 1: don't know why the Yankees would be looking at second

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Speaker 1: or third base. Shortstop is the question with them, with

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Speaker 1: Volty coming off surgery and Josey Cabaio being more of

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Speaker 1: a utility player. I would expect they'll start the season

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Speaker 1: with Caballero and then go to Volpi.

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Speaker 2: Once he is healthy.

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Speaker 1: There just aren't a lot of good shortstops available at

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Speaker 1: the present time, so that is where the Yankees are

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Speaker 1: with their infield relievers. I don't know exactly where they're

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Speaker 1: going to go there, and they're I'm sure looking at

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Speaker 1: all the top closers out there and talking to all

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Speaker 1: of them, from Devin Williams to Edwin Diaz, all of them.

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Speaker 1: But price is going to be a question, and it's

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Speaker 1: going to be a question of just how they want

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Speaker 1: to do it, because they've got David bednoin now, they

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Speaker 1: acquired him in the trade, so they don't need.

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Speaker 2: Necessarily a ninth inning guy. Maybe one of those.

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Speaker 1: Lesser relievers that I talked about, lesser in terms of

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Speaker 1: name valued, Milio Pagan, one of those guys Tyler Rodgers

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Speaker 1: that is more appealing to them. Samuel Rotiz three four

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Speaker 1: three nine, ask, good morning, what's up with the Dodgers?

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Speaker 1: What are they up to?

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Speaker 2: Good question? As always, The Dodgers are a.

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Speaker 1: Team that, in the terms of one executive, like to

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Speaker 1: hang around the backboard, And what I mean by that

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Speaker 1: is they like to see the market develop and then

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Speaker 1: they kind of say, Okay, if we can get this

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Speaker 1: kind of short term deal, we'll take him.

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Speaker 2: If not, we'll pass.

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Speaker 1: They are looking at relievers along those lines. One year

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Speaker 1: guy I can see making sense for them, even though

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Speaker 1: they've got Tanner Scott under contract still and let's see

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Speaker 1: if they become a player for Kyle Tucker or someone

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Speaker 1: else whose market might not develop to the extent that

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Speaker 1: that player wants. I don't think it's going to happen

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Speaker 1: that way with Tucker, but they.

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Speaker 2: Could use Kyle Tucker for sure.

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Speaker 1: And they're a team that I expect is going to

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Speaker 1: do something. I don't know exactly what it is, but

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Speaker 1: it's very difficult to bring the same team back, especially

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Speaker 1: when you've got.

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Speaker 2: So many older players.

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Speaker 1: It doesn't always work the way you want it. You

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Speaker 1: want to change up the mix a little bit. I

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Speaker 1: do expect that they're going to do that.

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Speaker 2: All right.

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Speaker 1: With that, I want to thank everyone for watching, for listening.

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Speaker 1: Foul Territory coming up Zach Britten, SCHIDAVIDI, and Bob Kendrick

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Speaker 1: from the Negro League's Hall of Fame on the Show

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Speaker 1: Today with Eric kratz, Aj Prazinski and Scott Brown. Fair

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