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

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Speaker 1: is January twelfth, New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox.

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Speaker 1: Do you know where your free agent bat is? We

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Speaker 1: will get to that later in the show, but first,

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Speaker 1: let's talk about the team that actually did sign a

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Speaker 1: big free agent bat over the weekend, The team that

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Speaker 1: I wrote about last week and said they needed to

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Speaker 1: make a move precisely like this. Generally speaking, teams don't

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Speaker 1: listen to me, don't care what I write. But in

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Speaker 1: this case, I think I had the right idea and

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Speaker 1: the Cubs did the right thing. Alex Gregman five years,

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Speaker 1: one hundred and seventy five million. With deferrals, it's more

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Speaker 1: like five to one fifty or five to one fifty five,

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Speaker 1: but either way, he will be their third baseman next season.

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Speaker 1: And with the Cubs doing this, they've really completed an

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Speaker 1: offseason it would seem to me that has been very

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Speaker 1: good in almost every way. They got a starting pitcher

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Speaker 1: Edward Cabrera that they needed, rebuilt their bullpen with five

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Speaker 1: free agent signings, even brought in Tyler Austin bringing him

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Speaker 1: back from Japan. They've just had a really sound off

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Speaker 1: season for a team that, in my opinion and in

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Speaker 1: the opinion of a lot of people who follow them,

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Speaker 1: need to take a step forward. The question now is

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Speaker 1: what is next for the Cubs, And you see their

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Speaker 1: off season editions right there, and let's not forget showda

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Speaker 1: Imanaga also accepted a qualifying offer, so he's back. The

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Speaker 1: question with the Cubs now is would they trade Nico

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Speaker 1: Horner or Matt Shaw now that they have Bregmann in

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Speaker 1: the fold. In my opinion, I've written this, and Sahada

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Speaker 1: Sharma of The Athletic wrote it more eloquently than I've

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Speaker 1: said it today. The Cubs can't trade Horner. They shouldn't

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Speaker 1: trade Horner. They can entertain the thought if they'd like,

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Speaker 1: and if someone wants to offer them something ridiculous for

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Speaker 1: one year of Nico Horner, be my guest. But the

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Speaker 1: whole idea here is to build the best team possible,

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Speaker 1: and it's difficult to imagine the best Cubs team possible

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Speaker 1: not including Nico Horner. Nico Horner, yes, under club control

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Speaker 1: for only one more season. Well, guess what you know

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Speaker 1: what that means. It means the Cubs should sign him

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Speaker 1: to an extension, and that way they would have locked

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Speaker 1: up Horner at second, Swanson and short Bregman at third.

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Speaker 1: This is a team, as I've written, has very little

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Speaker 1: on their books beyond this season, so they're in perfect position,

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Speaker 1: as they were, for Gregman to do something along those

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Speaker 1: lines with Nico Horner. I know Yankee fans are lusting

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Speaker 1: after him, other teams probably two or other fan bases

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Speaker 1: at least, but I just don't see this happening. I

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Speaker 1: don't see it as particularly logical. So good for the

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Speaker 1: Cubs in getting the guy that they frankly should have

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Speaker 1: had last offseason. If you remember, they signed or attempted

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Speaker 1: to sign Alex Bregman for four years, one hundred and

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Speaker 1: fifteen million. They finished fourth in those sweepstakes. The Tigers

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Speaker 1: were ahead of them, other teams were ahead of them,

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Speaker 1: of course, the Red Sox were ahead of them, and

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Speaker 1: ultimately he gets much more than four to one point

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Speaker 1: fifteen from that team. He gets sixty million more and

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Speaker 1: an extra year. Good for Alex Bregman. He comes out

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Speaker 1: two hundred and fifteen million. It's not worth that in

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Speaker 1: so Alex Gregman, he'll be at Wrigglely next year, he'll

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Speaker 1: be at Wriggily with Edward Cabrera. And the Cubs are

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Speaker 1: a team that, depending upon what the Brewers do, are

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Speaker 1: which is what they should be every single year since

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Speaker 1: they are the biggest spender, or should be the biggest

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Speaker 1: spender in that particular division. Now moving on, this is

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Speaker 1: where it gets really interesting, and I touched on this

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Speaker 1: in my four takeaways on the Bregman contract Saturday night.

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Speaker 1: Three big bats remain Kyle Tucker, Cody Bellinger, Boba Schet.

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Speaker 1: More than three three teams are in the hunt for

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Speaker 1: those big bats. More than three big market teams are

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Speaker 1: in the hunt. In fact, I've listed five. I've got

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Speaker 1: And it's interesting because in speaking last week with the

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Speaker 1: I don't know why these teams in the mix for

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Speaker 1: That's a question we're going to see answered. The Yankees

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Speaker 1: That doesn't mean they won't sign him. But obviously those

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Speaker 1: negotiations have not gone well. The Athletics Brendan Cutty has

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Speaker 1: detailed that from the very beginning. So if the Yankees

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Speaker 1: that the Red Sox were in with Bregman. Number one priority.

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Speaker 1: That's Cody Bellinger for the New York Yankees. The Tucker

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Speaker 1: that the three teams in the mix for Tucker are

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Speaker 1: any of those teams go long with Tucker? That probably

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Speaker 1: exactly where they are. And here's Jim's tweet from this morning.

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Speaker 1: The league's source confirmed to me that the three main

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Speaker 1: teams involved in the Tucker negotiations, Toronto, the Dodgers, and

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Speaker 1: Will be interesting to see if any of the three

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Speaker 1: teams increase their offers soon to separate themselves from the other. Now,

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Speaker 1: the real question here, perhaps is what does Tucker want.

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Speaker 1: He's a low key guy. It's hard for people who

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Speaker 1: still a question that some free agents have. And then

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Speaker 1: MOOKI the trade of MOOKI that was the original sin.

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Speaker 1: After that, what happened. They overcompensated by giving Devers Raphael Devers,

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Speaker 1: Tom Karen, one of their team broadcasters, was critical of

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Speaker 1: and one other thing, The Foul Territory Network has Redman's

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Speaker 1: latest North Side Territory episode uncovers how the Cubs got

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Speaker 1: time now for the Inside Dish, the part of the

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Speaker 1: Schooble has asked for a record amount in arbitration, thirty

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Speaker 1: two million, the Tigers have offered nineteen million. It is

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Speaker 1: But first off, let's talk about how arbitration hearings work.

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Speaker 1: Time now for Grilling Ken, the part of the show

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Speaker 1: First question comes from armand is amazing armand he asks

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Speaker 1: spend more? Yes, of course they could spend more. All Right,

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Speaker 1: everyone for watching and for listening. Foul Territory coming up

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Speaker 1: flat with a lot of rizzo returning I talked to you. Then,

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