Speaker 1: Welcome to Massa Territory. Ladies and gentlemen. Can you smell it?
Speaker 1: Can you taste it? Can you do a little bit
Speaker 1: of both? The trade deadline is coming up, ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 1: We are a week away, a week away and a
Speaker 1: few hours away. Let's get to it here, ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 1: let's get to buster Oni. He had this here to
Speaker 1: say today. The Red Sox have been searching for a shortstop,
Speaker 1: speaking of Eli Daily Cruz in a market notably thin
Speaker 1: in shortstops. And you know the keyword that sticks out
Speaker 1: to me, there is market, the market. You gotta play
Speaker 1: to the market. You never know what could end up happening.
Speaker 1: You never know what possibilities could happen. I mean, Paul
Speaker 1: Tavoni just talked about it with Curtis Mead the other day.
Speaker 1: That was a guy that wasn't even on the board,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden teams were calling, and
Speaker 1: then things can happen, Things can change very quickly. So
Speaker 1: who knows, you know, again, Ellie day La Cruz, would
Speaker 1: he actually be on the market. I don't know about that.
Speaker 1: That's a little too much to dream of in my opinion.
Speaker 1: But we've talked about the usual suspects when it comes
Speaker 1: to shortstop possibilities for the Red Sox, and you might
Speaker 1: be asking why shortstop. We've talked about this too before. Obviously,
Speaker 1: Trevor Story has been out, He's going to be back eventually,
Speaker 1: But how what is that production going to look like?
Speaker 1: You don't know? Right, Yeah, you could say maybe the
Speaker 1: hernia was definitely a big factor in the performance drop
Speaker 1: at the beginning of the year. He was trying to
Speaker 1: play through it, couldn't do it. How much was that
Speaker 1: a factor there? I'm sure a good amount, but was
Speaker 1: there also just some you know, the performance is starting
Speaker 1: to come down a little bit. Maybe either way. You
Speaker 1: don't know what he's going to give you. You don't
Speaker 1: want to put all your eggs in that basket hoping that, Okay,
Speaker 1: Trevor Story is gonna come back and he's gonna really
Speaker 1: give us a lift. You don't know, and it's not fair,
Speaker 1: I think, to even expect that from someone coming back
Speaker 1: from a surgery and missing a whole lot of time,
Speaker 1: you know. So I'm not so sure about that. So
Speaker 1: that's where I wonder if the Red Sox they are
Speaker 1: looking to get as much insurance as possible. If you
Speaker 1: bring in a shortstop Story coming off surgery, maybe it
Speaker 1: would be better for him at least for the rest
Speaker 1: of this year to move over to second base. Why
Speaker 1: do I say at least this year? Well, you got
Speaker 1: to think about it from a market point of view, right,
Speaker 1: His agent wants Trevor Story to be playing shortstop, especially
Speaker 1: because he's going to be a free agent soon. He's
Speaker 1: gonna be hitting the market again. So I would imagine
Speaker 1: Trevor Story would like to stay playing shortstop to keep
Speaker 1: his value as high as possible. Does Why am I
Speaker 1: saying that? Because shortstops the positional value that they carry,
Speaker 1: it's one of the highest in the game. Teams will
Speaker 1: build around shortstops, right, So that's why you anytime you
Speaker 1: go to the draft, Right when you look at the
Speaker 1: draft and you may have like your long term shortstop already,
Speaker 1: and then you see your team draft a shortstop, you're like,
Speaker 1: why are we drafting a shortstop? We already have a shortstop, right,
Speaker 1: Like the Royals, if they pick up a short stop,
Speaker 1: you already got Bobby Wick Junior. Why are you drafting
Speaker 1: a shortstop? Because they tend to be the most athletic players.
Speaker 1: On the field, and they usually have a very good
Speaker 1: baseball like you, because shortstop is a very tough position
Speaker 1: to play. There's a lot of things going on there.
Speaker 1: So usually if you can handle shortstop, you more often
Speaker 1: than not are able to handle other positions. Right, You've
Speaker 1: seen guys at short go out to center field. Right.
Speaker 1: I mean, look at Trey Turner in the beginning of
Speaker 1: his career, he was playing, he was playing some center
Speaker 1: field right, so you know, Jackson Merrill, he moved out
Speaker 1: to center right. So they can move especially. I mean,
Speaker 1: if they can handle short, they can definitely handle second.
Speaker 1: I mean, look how good Trevor's Story was back in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty two at second base. He was great. There
Speaker 1: was one of the best defensive seasons at second base
Speaker 1: I think I've ever seen. So, yeah, Story, he's gonna
Speaker 1: want to play short, but you know, maybe you could
Speaker 1: convince him, like, hey, we really need this for this year.
Speaker 1: We'll figure it out for you in the off season. Right,
Speaker 1: So you could do that. But then again, you know,
Speaker 1: even if you do make that move, right, you pick
Speaker 1: up a short stop, you move Story over to second
Speaker 1: whatever it may be. You know, still you wonder, like,
Speaker 1: could you still you know it might be good to
Speaker 1: get that insurance, and then who knows, if Story isn't
Speaker 1: you know, he's not cutting it, then you still have
Speaker 1: Arius down at extra plea. If he if he's going
Speaker 1: to perform well over the next month or so, well,
Speaker 1: then you got him that you could possibly turn to.
Speaker 1: Right So it's this to me, sounds like they're really
Speaker 1: looking to cover their butts, and I think we just
Speaker 1: saw a good example of that trading for Curtis Mead
Speaker 1: over a week before the deadline. That was an aggressive
Speaker 1: move and they did a great job at getting ahead.
Speaker 1: In my opinion, you go back to Sonny Gray in
Speaker 1: the beginning of the off season, they make the move
Speaker 1: for him, they got ahead, They added a guy that
Speaker 1: you know is going to be really solid for you,
Speaker 1: but you still had like pretty much an entire offseason
Speaker 1: to address other needs, but even add more starting pitching,
Speaker 1: whichould they ended up doing right. So I think Craig
Speaker 1: he comes off as someone where he wants to throw
Speaker 1: out a wide net. He really wants to cover all
Speaker 1: the bases, no pun intended. So I'm not surprised that
Speaker 1: the Red Sox are in the market for a short stop,
Speaker 1: not surprised if story was playing, Well, that's a different conversation. Now,
Speaker 1: who could the Red Sox possibly be looking at? Well,
Speaker 1: are interesting that uh? You know C J. Abrams. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, listen, a couple of weeks ago, a few
Speaker 1: weeks ago, I'm thinking, I don't know if the Nationals
Speaker 1: trade Abrams right now, but they're starting to you know,
Speaker 1: you're starting to hear the noise a little bit more.
Speaker 1: And maybe that's just the people in the media, you know,
Speaker 1: trying to get a good story, whatever it may be.
Speaker 1: But if we are looking here at the current standings,
Speaker 1: taking a look, if we're going over to the National
Speaker 1: League Wild Card, well, the Nationals they're right there. So
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know. That's that's why I get
Speaker 1: back to you, like, I don't know if the if
Speaker 1: the Nationals would really want to move Abrams at this point,
Speaker 1: you know, he's there right there. What would that say
Speaker 1: to the fan base? I mean, you got two MVP
Speaker 1: caliber players on your team this year in Abrams, would
Speaker 1: you've already traded away Med You're gonna trade away Abrams too?
Speaker 1: That's interesting to me, Now there was something out there.
Speaker 1: I'm going blank. I always hate to forget this, but
Speaker 1: I'm going blank on someone out someone put out there
Speaker 1: that the Nationals aren't actively shopping him, but they're at
Speaker 1: least listening to offers. So to Paul to Bony, He's like,
Speaker 1: all right, I got if I got a monster offer
Speaker 1: for mister Abrams. Well maybe we got to think about it.
Speaker 1: And we also had this here today from mister Jared
Speaker 1: Carabs over on the Section ten podcast, taking a look.
Speaker 1: Let's take a watch. Let's see what they got to.
Speaker 2: Say to It was the antithesis of what Coley said,
Speaker 2: because you know, we were in the scoop shop and
Speaker 2: the Langelier's news broke and it was like fuck, the
Speaker 2: price of Hunter Goodman just went up.
Speaker 1: And then call it was like sounds to me it's
Speaker 1: a family friendly show. I apologize. I was a school
Speaker 1: teacher for ten years. I can't accept the language. But
Speaker 1: I'll tell you I'll let it go this time.
Speaker 2: Like the price of Langoliers just went down, which is
Speaker 2: a great points aren't gonna want to sell for less? No, no, no,
Speaker 2: they won't sell for pennies on the dollar. But if
Speaker 2: if Hunter, if Langoleiers is off the table, and the
Speaker 2: price for Hunter Goodman just went up. Then that means
Speaker 2: I am solely focused on the shortstop position. I was
Speaker 2: told that just because the Red Sox traded for Mead,
Speaker 2: that doesn't mean that they wouldn't pursue c J. Abrams
Speaker 2: in a separate deal with the Nationals. So because that
Speaker 2: was another one of my thoughts. Besides, you know, Peyton
Speaker 2: Toley is sad and I don't like that. Is well,
Speaker 2: that means that they're not gonna they're not gonna make
Speaker 2: any other trades with the Nats, because why wouldn't you
Speaker 2: just have Early as part of this big package?
Speaker 1: But yeah, I want to touch on that one part
Speaker 1: right there. That's a that's an interesting point. Why didn't
Speaker 1: you just make a move for Abrams. Well, if you
Speaker 1: go back to the comments from Paul Toboni when he
Speaker 1: spoke about the trade, he's saying, things happen pretty quickly, right,
Speaker 1: it picked up pretty quick. Teams started getting aggressive for
Speaker 1: the Red Sox in that moment. They needed to make
Speaker 1: sure they got something at this deadline. Like I said,
Speaker 1: you know, they're trying to cover their butts a week out.
Speaker 1: So yeah, like you're in the moment right there for
Speaker 1: Curtis Mead. You don't have time to be trying to
Speaker 1: work out something else with Abrams. Listen, Abrams is the
Speaker 1: better player than Meat. Right, it is a little surprising
Speaker 1: that the Nationals traded one of their better bats in
Speaker 1: that lineup, but they needed pitching. So like in the moment, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're you're better off just sticking with the task at
Speaker 1: hand instead of trying to, you know, get cute like, oh, no,
Speaker 1: let's do something for Abrams, right, because you have a
Speaker 1: chance to get a good bat your line up right there.
Speaker 1: So I think that's the big point there, like, oh,
Speaker 1: why didn't you just do something for Abrams. Well, you
Speaker 1: don't know if you're gonna be able to get him,
Speaker 1: so at least get the guy that you know, it
Speaker 1: looks like the Nationals are going to move and ended
Speaker 1: up working out that way.
Speaker 2: So you've got You've got some shortstops out there that
Speaker 2: could be interesting to call up. And it's not going
Speaker 2: to be Bobby Witt. I would love for it to
Speaker 2: be Bobby Witt. It's not going to be Bobby Witt,
Speaker 2: but there are some other talented players at the tretstop position.
Speaker 1: You know, there's a couple of catcher two. I'm not
Speaker 1: out on. I'd call about Adley. I really wouldn't hesitate.
Speaker 1: Now you'd have to convince the Orioles to do it
Speaker 1: in division, but they would. I'm a fan. I'm glad
Speaker 1: Jared just said that. Like, I don't see Adley Rushman happening,
Speaker 1: as much as I would love for that to happen. Listen.
Speaker 1: I like Adley, I like him a lot, but I
Speaker 1: don't think you, especially with the Orioles, there's still in
Speaker 1: the hunt. You know, you don't trade one of your
Speaker 1: better players in division that is going to be on
Speaker 1: that team the next year if it was a rental
Speaker 1: like Okay, maybe I don't see it, but.
Speaker 2: C J.
Speaker 1: Abrams again, yeah, I think personally the Nationals will Listen.
Speaker 1: I don't think that guarantees that he's going to get moved.
Speaker 1: I do you know, Listen, if we're seeing these reports
Speaker 1: recently of for shortstops out there when it comes to
Speaker 1: the Red Sox, you're looking at including someone like Franklin
Speaker 1: Arius Well. I personally like when I saw the report
Speaker 1: from Pete Abraham, when I saw that you would have
Speaker 1: to do Arius for like Jeremy Pania, that to me,
Speaker 1: I'm like, what are we talking about because Jeremy Pani
Speaker 1: only is one year left. I don't know, Like unless
Speaker 1: the Astros were like, we're not moving Painia. If you
Speaker 1: want to do Arius, like okay, Like we'll talk about it,
Speaker 1: but we don't want to move him. I don't think
Speaker 1: Payia's going anywhere. The Astros, they they march to the
Speaker 1: beat of their own drum. Well, every team does, but
Speaker 1: the Astros especially, they don't trade these guys. They just don't.
Speaker 1: They want to. Jim Crane wants to put a competitive
Speaker 1: team on the field every year, and if that means
Speaker 1: that guy gets the free agency, then so be it.
Speaker 1: That's how he operates. Sure it'd be a fun story
Speaker 1: for Jeremy Panney, right, But you know, with Zach Netto,
Speaker 1: for example, I could understand that because the Angels don't
Speaker 1: have to move Nedos three more years of control left.
Speaker 1: So yeah, they should ask for Arius. Do we give
Speaker 1: him up for Neto? I don't think so. I don't
Speaker 1: think that's the route to go. If they wanted to
Speaker 1: do Marcelo Meyer and Anthony Ainson with some other prospects
Speaker 1: in there too, I am absolutely up for that kind
Speaker 1: of a conversation Arius, though, I wouldn't do it for Neto?
Speaker 1: Now would you do it for CJ. Abrams? Abrams is
Speaker 1: again you know, I'm gonna pull up the numbers. He's
Speaker 1: having a monster year and he still has two more
Speaker 1: years of control. My guess is they would want Arius
Speaker 1: back for this kind of production, right hitting two ninety
Speaker 1: seven A nine oh ps A one fifty three WRC
Speaker 1: plus twenty seven homers eighty two RBIs. I mean, this
Speaker 1: is a really good season from c. J. Abrams. This
Speaker 1: is his breakout, breakout year. He's had you know, some
Speaker 1: good seasons before, but not like this. So yeah, I
Speaker 1: think it would take Arius personally, because why wouldn't you
Speaker 1: demand someone like that for this type of production? Right? Uh,
Speaker 1: that's what I think now if we're looking at uh
Speaker 1: surplus trade values, I mean, yeah Arius right now. This
Speaker 1: is not saying Arius is the better player than c. J. Abrams.
Speaker 1: You might think you might be looking at the numbers
Speaker 1: right now like wow, Arius is already the better player. No,
Speaker 1: that's not what it means. It's when you it's the
Speaker 1: surplus Abrams. Yeah, he's gonna give you a lot of
Speaker 1: production over the next couple of years, but it's only
Speaker 1: two years and three months, and his salary is going
Speaker 1: to start going up as well as he gets close
Speaker 1: to the free agency. So it's the surplus, not the
Speaker 1: evaluation of a player. Arius, he has a lot because
Speaker 1: he is a sixty grade prospect right now, possibly higher
Speaker 1: in other organizations out there when it comes to valuing
Speaker 1: a player. So, yeah, he's a really good prospect. Obviously,
Speaker 1: he's a top three Baseball America, top ten on pipeline.
Speaker 1: So Fangrafts they have a really good article out there.
Speaker 1: If you want to go check it out, just google
Speaker 1: Fangraphs scouting Grades. It'll you'll see it. It's like the
Speaker 1: title has like twenty to eighty in it. You'll find it.
Speaker 1: It'll pop up right there. But it says in there
Speaker 1: that usually, on average, a sixty grade pro usually translates
Speaker 1: to a three wins above replacement player. I mean that's average, right,
Speaker 1: you know, that's on the average. He could definitely be
Speaker 1: better than a three war player. But when you think
Speaker 1: about you know, eventually, when Arius comes up, you're gonna
Speaker 1: have him for six years. And if you've got a
Speaker 1: three wins above replacement over six years, that's a lot
Speaker 1: of value right there, right one wins above replacement is
Speaker 1: worth around nine to ten million dollars. So if he
Speaker 1: gives you three war over six years, well that's a lot.
Speaker 1: It's eighteen wins above replacement eighteen times ten. You know
Speaker 1: that's that's worth one hundred and eighty million dollars. It's
Speaker 1: a lot. But then you also factor in that he
Speaker 1: is a prospect. There is risk there, so yeah, that's
Speaker 1: going to bring it down to a more digestible number
Speaker 1: like you see in front of the screen. Now, when
Speaker 1: it comes to baseball trade values, Franklin, Arius has the
Speaker 1: third highest value among all the prospects. So I believe heyesus.
Speaker 1: My day is number one. I'm going blank on who's
Speaker 1: number two. I think Arius is the third most So yeah,
Speaker 1: he's gonna have a lot of value. Abrams, you would
Speaker 1: only have him for two more years, so that's why
Speaker 1: you're seeing this difference. But for the Nationals, why wouldn't
Speaker 1: you ask for Arius in return? You should, You'd be
Speaker 1: you'd be irresponsible if you didn't. You can say, as
Speaker 1: a Red Sox fan, no way we're giving up Arius. Well,
Speaker 1: the Nationals have every right to ask for him and
Speaker 1: even demand him. Abrams is a good player. I think
Speaker 1: I think with Netto because he has flaws, he has
Speaker 1: more flaws than Abrams. Right, Netto defensively and plate discipline.
Speaker 1: Eh right, So like, yeah, you can kind of make
Speaker 1: those arguments like, no, we're not gonna give you Arius.
Speaker 1: You know, we like the good stuff with Neto, but
Speaker 1: there's a few other things that no, we can't do that.
Speaker 1: We'll do Marcella Meyer in some pitching, but for Abrams. Yeah, anyway,
Speaker 1: moving on, Yeah, I think you would have to do
Speaker 1: Arius uh in this kind of a deal. And to Bony,
Speaker 1: he would absolutely want Arius because he was with the
Speaker 1: Red Sox for years. He's he saw Arius, you know,
Speaker 1: starting up his career there. So yeah, I don't think CJ.
Speaker 1: Abrams is the most realistic, but who knows. Like we
Speaker 1: saw with Curtis Mead, things can happen really fast and
Speaker 1: conversations can change quickly. And obviously the Nationals are in
Speaker 1: the playoff hunt, I don't fully expect Abrams to be
Speaker 1: on the move. Now again with Netto, We've talked about
Speaker 1: Neto plenty of times. We all know it at this point.
Speaker 1: Guy can He's got good pop, he's got good athleticism. Oh, also,
Speaker 1: you know what, before I get there, I'll say this
Speaker 1: with Abrams, I'm gonna point out one more thing. I'm
Speaker 1: sorry I forgot to mention. I will actually say I
Speaker 1: was thinking about this this morning. I do wonder if
Speaker 1: the Reds, if they they are going to go for
Speaker 1: a short stop. I wonder if they would want to
Speaker 1: go for one that could go to the top of
Speaker 1: the order, that could lead off. They are so bad
Speaker 1: out of the leadoff spot looking at the numbers when
Speaker 1: it comes to ops out of the leadoff spot, they
Speaker 1: are dead last in Major League Baseball. They need an
Speaker 1: improvement there. Abrams, with his speed and able to get
Speaker 1: on base, to me, he's like a perfect candidate to
Speaker 1: go into that spot. The one knock on Abrams is
Speaker 1: his defense. But that's where you look at Story, right, Like,
Speaker 1: if Story is going to come back and Abrams is
Speaker 1: not good defensively there, you know, second base scouts view
Speaker 1: him as more of a second basement in the future.
Speaker 1: So could you do that? You know, I know, like
Speaker 1: you know scout his agent, that's gonna be a thing. No,
Speaker 1: we want to keep him a show because, yeah, we
Speaker 1: want to keep his value up. He's got a big
Speaker 1: payday coming so that's something to think about too. But
Speaker 1: scouts across the land do think he is more of
Speaker 1: a second baseman, So like, could you do that there? Story?
Speaker 1: When he comes back, he's at short, Abrams moves over
Speaker 1: to second base and Ivarrius is ready and Story slumping.
Speaker 1: Then Arius give him a shot at short right. So
Speaker 1: something I wanted to mention. I do wonder if a
Speaker 1: lefty bat at the top of the order is going
Speaker 1: to be something that the Red Sox would actually hope
Speaker 1: to get, because you think you just added another right
Speaker 1: handed bat with Mead. If you add another righty bat,
Speaker 1: well you're starting to get a little righty heavy, which
Speaker 1: is interesting because they've been they were getting more towards
Speaker 1: lefty heavy over the last couple of years. Right you
Speaker 1: were always looking for this right handed bat. Well, now
Speaker 1: you got one with Mead. If you add another righty,
Speaker 1: I mean you got really only a couple of lefties.
Speaker 1: You know, you have Williard Duran, you know Masa. So
Speaker 1: I don't know something to think about. I wonder if
Speaker 1: they prefer that, you know, a lefty at the top
Speaker 1: of the order with some speed right that fits into
Speaker 1: their style. So we'll see, we'll see moving on again
Speaker 1: with Netto, We've already talked about him a lot. Yeah, like,
Speaker 1: I'm up for it as long as Arius is not included.
Speaker 1: But then again, you go back to the conversation once again,
Speaker 1: is Neto more of a a better fit at either
Speaker 1: third base or second base? Short? He's had some issues.
Speaker 1: He's a playmaker at short. He's athletic, he's going to
Speaker 1: make some nice plays, but consistently he's had some issues. Right,
Speaker 1: He's got he's way in the in the negatives on
Speaker 1: the outs above average. I think his righty back would
Speaker 1: fit perfect Femway Park. He's got that pole swing, he's
Speaker 1: got some pop, he's got speed that fits into the
Speaker 1: aggressive base running style the Red Sox have been implementing.
Speaker 1: So yeah, there's a there's arguments for Netto, but not
Speaker 1: for Franklin Arius. Here's one guy I actually thought about
Speaker 1: this morning. I've seen this name pop up a little
Speaker 1: bit over the last I mean even going back to
Speaker 1: the offseason. I've been seeing this name Otto Lopez with
Speaker 1: the Marlins. Now you might be thinking, well, the Marlins,
Speaker 1: I mean they're in the postseason race. Well, the Marlins
Speaker 1: have been dropping games left and right. The Marlins are
Speaker 1: free falling right now, would they be open to selling
Speaker 1: high on Auto Lopez, just like we kind of saw
Speaker 1: with the Nationals with Curtis Mead. Lopez has been a
Speaker 1: good player over the last couple of years, but this
Speaker 1: is easily his best season. He's hitting three twenty eight
Speaker 1: eight fifty three ops a, one to thirty one WRC
Speaker 1: plus nine homers forty seven RBIs now if we look
Speaker 1: at stackcast taking a look, and he also kind of
Speaker 1: fits into kind of what the Red Sox have been
Speaker 1: trying to do with hitters, right they look for those
Speaker 1: good floor guys. He makes a lot of contact, he
Speaker 1: doesn't strike out, he doesn't swing and miss. He does
Speaker 1: chase out of the zone, and he does walk a
Speaker 1: good amount, so he is pretty aggressive up there. But
Speaker 1: he does make a lot of contact. He squares up
Speaker 1: the ball well. But the batter ball profile is on
Speaker 1: the lower side and the Red Sox so you've been
Speaker 1: seeing them implementing more bat speed, trying to get more
Speaker 1: exit v LO out of these guys. He doesn't. He's
Speaker 1: a righty bat. He doesn't pull very much, so that's
Speaker 1: the one thing he doesn't really fit into. That pull
Speaker 1: air percentage of the Red Sox have been looking for to.
Speaker 1: But he's going to give you good speed, he's going
Speaker 1: to give you good defense. And another thing too is
Speaker 1: he has played a lot of second base, he's played
Speaker 1: well at short. But that's a guy that could move over.
Speaker 1: You know again, if you want if Story, if you're
Speaker 1: going to be putting him back at short, I know,
Speaker 1: numbers wise, you'd look at this and be like, oh,
Speaker 1: why wouldn't you put him at short? You have the
Speaker 1: option either way. You could put him at shore if
Speaker 1: you got him or Story or who you know, you
Speaker 1: can you have that flexibility is That's what I think
Speaker 1: is important here. So he's got a little bit of
Speaker 1: control left. And again he's kind of like one of
Speaker 1: these guys that are trending up, So like do the
Speaker 1: Red Sox look to take advantage of that and instead
Speaker 1: of going for an expensive option like a Netto or
Speaker 1: an Abrahms Otto, Lopez would not cost as much as
Speaker 1: those guys. It's like, I wonder if he would be
Speaker 1: an option here. Again, it's like a you're going for
Speaker 1: a guy that's trending up, someone to think about. I
Speaker 1: don't know if necessarily that's someone they would go for
Speaker 1: but I see some qualities that they have shown to like,
Speaker 1: you want a blockbuster, ladies and gentlemen, you want a blockbuster? Well, hey,
Speaker 1: Francisco Lindor, right, I mean, this is a This is
Speaker 1: definitely something to debate about Lindor. He's been a very
Speaker 1: interesting player this year. Obviously, the Mets have completely just
Speaker 1: collapsed this year. It's been a nightmare. He's coming off
Speaker 1: of a calf injury. He's not having a good season.
Speaker 1: He's only hitting two twenty three six 't eighty six ops,
Speaker 1: ninety four WRC plus. But you wonder you've been hearing
Speaker 1: his name a little bit. If the Mets are looking
Speaker 1: to try to get out of that contract, could you
Speaker 1: see Craig. We've had reports that Craig in the front
Speaker 1: office they could be willing to take on money. Here's
Speaker 1: where I think the hold up is. And here's why
Speaker 1: I don't think it's realistic. Again, because he's a shortstop.
Speaker 1: He's not moving over to second base. You have arius
Speaker 1: coming up, so I don't think this is going to happen.
Speaker 1: But I did just want to bring him up just
Speaker 1: to talk about it because I know people are going
Speaker 1: to suggest it. So I don't think it's very realistic. Personally,
Speaker 1: he's not having a good season. You know, if you
Speaker 1: think about a guy though, like if you're looking at it,
Speaker 1: you know someone that could possibly go to the top
Speaker 1: of the order, you know, get a switch hitter right
Speaker 1: the ban using Siegler who's a switch hitter at the
Speaker 1: top of the order. So you kind of wonder if
Speaker 1: that could fit. You wouldn't have to give up really
Speaker 1: a whole lot for him because you'd be taking on
Speaker 1: the contract. So you know, it's again I see like
Speaker 1: some arguments for it, but I don't really think it's realistic.
Speaker 1: I know he's going to be an option that gets
Speaker 1: brought up. Though I've mentioned now let's get away from
Speaker 1: shortstop a little bit. If you are okay with Trevor's
Speaker 1: story coming back and playing short like, if you're fine
Speaker 1: with that, and then you have Arius as a backup
Speaker 1: in triple A, possibly someone depending on how he does,
Speaker 1: he's some insurance there. Could you look at second base,
Speaker 1: And I've mentioned the idea of Luis or Eyes and again,
Speaker 1: like you know, like I've said here, I've said it
Speaker 1: multiple times, I think they need a consistent option out
Speaker 1: of the leadoff spot. I think they need that, and
Speaker 1: we just said earlier like you feel like, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe getting a lefty here will kind of help balance
Speaker 1: things out with a Rise, he's at second base. He's
Speaker 1: been good defensively there. He's having a great season at
Speaker 1: the plate, hitting three twenty seven, eight to fourteen ops
Speaker 1: one three WRC plus. He's not going to give you power,
Speaker 1: but that's not what you're looking for. You're looking for
Speaker 1: a guy that could just be a nice option out
Speaker 1: of the leadoff spot that gets things going, got back
Speaker 1: to ball, you know, So a Rise he can play
Speaker 1: second base. Curtis Meade. I know they said that he's
Speaker 1: going to be getting a good amount of looks at
Speaker 1: second very small sample with him there, so that's a
Speaker 1: wait and see. But if you did bringing a Rise
Speaker 1: like you could still kind of, you know, go back
Speaker 1: and forth. When a Rise needs a day off, he
Speaker 1: can or a day off in the field, he can
Speaker 1: DH and then Mead can play second right, So you
Speaker 1: can still make that work. That's a that's a that's
Speaker 1: a good under That's an underrated thing with Mead is
Speaker 1: he has versatility. Green Monster nineteen. I like Tony leading off,
Speaker 1: I listen, I love Siegs man, I love Siegs. The
Speaker 1: thing is is, lately he's been inconsistent, and I got
Speaker 1: I'm checking, just got a notification. I'm making sure we
Speaker 1: keep our eyes on what's going on on Twitter. But yeah, Siegs,
Speaker 1: he had a great game the other night, but he
Speaker 1: has been inconsistent overall over the last couple of weeks
Speaker 1: or so. The numbers were not looking great over that
Speaker 1: sample going into that good game the other night. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I like the energy that he brings, but you kind
Speaker 1: of wonder if he would be better off in like
Speaker 1: a utility kind of a role. You know, I like,
Speaker 1: I like Siegler, but but if you really wanted to
Speaker 1: get an option that you know you can count on
Speaker 1: every single day to go into the leadoff spot, put
Speaker 1: the bat on the ball, get some hits, I think
Speaker 1: a rise is still an option, and then you know,
Speaker 1: shortstop all right, Trevor story and then maybe Arius if
Speaker 1: he's showing the ability to get a call up. I
Speaker 1: think a rise is still some And you know you
Speaker 1: want to talk about too. You seemed all the time
Speaker 1: with Craig it's deals that you're not hearing about. We're
Speaker 1: not hearing anything about a rise in the red Sox.
Speaker 1: So I don't know if it's not, if it's a
Speaker 1: possible option, but you know it would be one that
Speaker 1: you haven't heard anything about. There's been really no connection
Speaker 1: even Jeff Passing with you know, his trade candidates articles
Speaker 1: that he puts out. He never puts the Red Sox
Speaker 1: for him, but he also never put Curtis Meade in
Speaker 1: that article. So again and with a rise. I think
Speaker 1: also a benefit too is he would just be a
Speaker 1: rental and you know, so that gives you kind of
Speaker 1: that flexibility to you know, you're not tied down to something.
Speaker 1: So you go into the off season and you figure
Speaker 1: out second base at that point, so looking at another option, well,
Speaker 1: you know, let's actually move on here from the middle infield.
Speaker 1: Oh you know what, Actually I do want to talk
Speaker 1: about this for a second. Do you want to talk
Speaker 1: about this? Kateel Marte, I guess wiped out his entire
Speaker 1: Instagram and he took out the Diamondbacks out of his
Speaker 1: bio and everything. So people are like running rampant right
Speaker 1: now saying, oh my goodness, he wants out of Arizona.
Speaker 1: He's gonna get traded. Well, I mean, hey, we all
Speaker 1: know about ktel Marte. We are very very familiar with this,
Speaker 1: and there was actually I believe there was a oh
Speaker 1: he deleted the tweet. Oh that's interesting. I saw this.
Speaker 1: It was from Diamondbacks at Diamondbacks Prospects could tell Marte
Speaker 1: has cleared his Instagram of all of his Dback's content.
Speaker 1: But then I think there was an article somewhere or
Speaker 1: there was someone that reported let me actually pull this
Speaker 1: up because I want to make sure we don't get
Speaker 1: too crazy with this. Can tell Marte. Okay, here we go.
Speaker 1: It was from It was from here, Uh, John Gambadoro,
Speaker 1: I believe he was talking to tell Marte stuff, and
Speaker 1: I think even Bregman in the off season, but he
Speaker 1: said here, if you're referring to can tell Marte scrubbing
Speaker 1: his Instagram, it's not trade related. The Diamondbacks are not
Speaker 1: looking to trade, can tell Marte. So let's just kind
Speaker 1: of move on from this. Okay, let's move on from this.
Speaker 1: But we also had here talk about catchures for the
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Speaker 1: Alrighty, let's get see it here. Passin also Jeff Passon.
Speaker 1: Now we're going to get to this article here from
Speaker 1: Ken Rosenthal. But Jeff Passen was on Instagram threads. I
Speaker 1: always forget about threads. It's but remember it's it's there.
Speaker 1: You can't you can't forget about these outlets. Passing has
Speaker 1: a kind of a thing for threads. But before we
Speaker 1: get to that, let's talk about this article here with catchers.
Speaker 1: Now we had this from Kim Rosenthal. A number of
Speaker 1: teams including the Ale East Powers, the Tampa Bay Rays,
Speaker 1: New York Yankees, and the Boston Red Sox. I also
Speaker 1: imagine the Rangers would be in this mix because they
Speaker 1: could use an upgrade there, want to add a catcher.
Speaker 1: Another potential trade candidate, the Athletics, Shay Langliers, went on
Speaker 1: the injured list Sunday with a tormniscus in his right knee,
Speaker 1: which is potentially season ending, effectively removes him from the
Speaker 1: trade market. Goodman twenty six entered Sunday age twenty six.
Speaker 1: Sorry entered Sunday third of the majors with thirty one
Speaker 1: home runs at twelfth with an ops of eight ninety.
Speaker 1: And it's not out of clubs are weary of a
Speaker 1: run producer who plays his home games at a hitter
Speaker 1: friendly corps field. Goodman is one of the sport's top
Speaker 1: road performers. I love that. I love that a guy
Speaker 1: with the Rockies is like, all right, I'm gonna kind
Speaker 1: of debunk this whole thing. I can mash away from cores,
Speaker 1: so just watch. I'm glad Goodman's been to do that.
Speaker 1: Yet interested clubs are resisting the Rockies early ask, according
Speaker 1: to people briefed on the discussions, in part because of
Speaker 1: their dissatisfaction with Goodman's work behind the plate. I've been
Speaker 1: trying to tell people this, ladies and gentlemen, listen. Goodman
Speaker 1: is absolutely a guy that can mash in the middle
Speaker 1: of the order. I have no doubt about that. But
Speaker 1: there are some negatives with him, and I've seen people, man,
Speaker 1: I'm like arguing with people like I don't like. I
Speaker 1: don't know, I don't I don't think I'm necessarily arguing
Speaker 1: with people. I just try to give people information, but
Speaker 1: some people out there just don't want to take the information.
Speaker 1: They just want to be like, no, that's you're a moron.
Speaker 1: I don't need to listen to that. It's like, okay,
Speaker 1: I'm just trying to help you out. But with Goodman,
Speaker 1: I've said multiple times to people, he's not gonna be
Speaker 1: as He's going to cost you something. He's absolutely I'm
Speaker 1: not saying he's gonna cost you a bag of chips.
Speaker 1: He's gonna cost you a decent amount, but not like
Speaker 1: you know what it would cost to you know, even
Speaker 1: get Abrams or Netto or even you know, especially you know,
Speaker 1: someone like a of course, like a Bobby Wick Junior's
Speaker 1: gonna be nowhere near that. Goodman is going to cost
Speaker 1: you something, but not as much as you would think
Speaker 1: because his defense is so so behind the plate. The
Speaker 1: metrics show that, and his plate discipline is a big
Speaker 1: red flag. Do you want a good example of plate
Speaker 1: discipline coming back to bite you, lack of plate discipline
Speaker 1: coming back to bite you. I mean, listen, I'm not
Speaker 1: comparing these two, but you just take a look at
Speaker 1: cal Raley last year. The guy had sixty home runs,
Speaker 1: but there was so much swing and miss. There were
Speaker 1: a lot of strikeouts, and look what's happened to cal
Speaker 1: Rally because pictures, I don't know what it was. Pitchers
Speaker 1: just could not figure this guy out. Last year. He
Speaker 1: just holy cow, he won an incredible run last year.
Speaker 1: But as time went on, once teams really got to
Speaker 1: kind of sit back and be like, oh, you know what,
Speaker 1: this is how we're gonna attack Kyle Raley. Well, now
Speaker 1: you've seen him this year. He went to the WBC.
Speaker 1: I mean he said that kind of you know, probably
Speaker 1: threw him off a little bit. But still, you know,
Speaker 1: with that and already not having great plate discipline, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're you're gonna see a pretty big, pretty big fall
Speaker 1: off right there. And look what's happened again. I'm not
Speaker 1: comparing the two. Kyle Raley I still think is you know,
Speaker 1: is an amazing catcher. Unfortunately he's just having a horrible
Speaker 1: slump this year. But you when you lack plate discipline,
Speaker 1: that can really catch up to you. Goodman, his projections
Speaker 1: are not going to be as strong moving forward because
Speaker 1: of that, and because of the defense and also his
Speaker 1: getting back to his value. He is going into his
Speaker 1: arbitration years now. He is going to start making more money.
Speaker 1: So as that money increases and the projections are going
Speaker 1: to kind of stay well, that surplus is going to
Speaker 1: start getting smaller because that money is going to start
Speaker 1: getting higher and there's not really much growth more growth
Speaker 1: for his projections at least as of right now, unless
Speaker 1: he really fixes something. You know, because the game of baseball,
Speaker 1: as we know, ladies and gentlemen, it can change fast,
Speaker 1: right every day you got games going on, all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, the Marlins are twenty and six and then
Speaker 1: they're losing ten in a row. Things can change really quick.
Speaker 1: So yeah, values are dynamic. Just like that. He could
Speaker 1: definitely Hunter Goodman could definitely go into the offseason and
Speaker 1: he could really fix up that plate discipline, lower the strikeouts,
Speaker 1: really work on that defense, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: next year Great defensively lowers the strikeouts. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: then the projections will start going up. But based off
Speaker 1: of what you have right now. You can't base projections
Speaker 1: off of what you don't see. You have to go
Speaker 1: off of what you see in front of you. So anyway,
Speaker 1: I just want to point that out there. So now,
Speaker 1: if you were to make a trade for Hunter Goodman. Again,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's gonna cost you something. It's not gonna
Speaker 1: be cheap. So looking at Goodman, he's got right around
Speaker 1: a thirty million dollar value on the median side as
Speaker 1: of right now, which is good so for the Red Sox.
Speaker 1: If they really wanted to try and pull off something,
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, they definitely could. Now would the Rockies
Speaker 1: want Marcello Meyer? I don't know. Now you might be
Speaker 1: thinking here, wow, Marcello Meyer has around the same value
Speaker 1: as Hunter Goodman. That doesn't mean Marcello Meyer is the
Speaker 1: better player than Hunter Goodman as we speak. I had
Speaker 1: an argument with someone yesterday about this surplus value is
Speaker 1: around the same right now with Marcelo Meyer and Hunter Goodman. Again,
Speaker 1: not a better player than Hunter Goodman. But when you
Speaker 1: consider Marcella Meyer was a top fifteen prospect last year,
Speaker 1: scouts are not going to put someone that high on
Speaker 1: prospect boards just for fun. Oh Marcelo Meyer, Oh he's
Speaker 1: gotta he's got a he's got some good looking hair,
Speaker 1: He's he's a handsome guy. Oh man, he's got a
Speaker 1: nice swing. Alright, you know what, We're gonna put him
Speaker 1: in the top fifteen. No, that's not how it works.
Speaker 1: Marcelo Meyer. As bad as he's been this year, as
Speaker 1: even with all the injuries that he's had, he still
Speaker 1: has good upside, which scouts see because he has good
Speaker 1: pop from the left side of the plate, and he's
Speaker 1: shown a lot of good things defensively, has a good
Speaker 1: baseball IQ. There is a lot more upside. Attack been
Speaker 1: to a lot more. I mean, I've mentioned this before,
Speaker 1: Jordan Walker, Pete curR Armstrong. Took them a little bit
Speaker 1: to really get things going, and now they're two of
Speaker 1: the top young players in the game. Marcelo Meyer, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's having a down year now, but we could be
Speaker 1: seeing Meyer maybe a couple of years where he's really lifted,
Speaker 1: he really takes off. You don't know. So, Yeah, Marcela Meyer,
Speaker 1: Hunter Goodman surplus value is around the same right now
Speaker 1: because Meyer again top fifteen prospect last year, five more
Speaker 1: years of control, that's a long time still in his
Speaker 1: pre RB years. This is actually pretty low value for
Speaker 1: a young shortstop that was just a top fifteen prospect.
Speaker 1: That's a low value. Shortstops are going to have some
Speaker 1: of the highest value in the game. That's why you
Speaker 1: see guys like Bobby Wick junior Ellie de la Cruz
Speaker 1: very high, right, So yeah, just want to point that
Speaker 1: out for everyone, because I don't want you to think
Speaker 1: I'm saying by showing you this, Mark Sela Meyer is
Speaker 1: a better player than Hunter Goodman. Of course he's not
Speaker 1: right now looking at the overall package. So would the
Speaker 1: Rockies want Marcel Meyer in a deal? I would actually
Speaker 1: say probably not because obviously he's on the IL right now.
Speaker 1: He hasn't been able to figure it out, so you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know if the Rockies would want to take
Speaker 1: a chance on that. For the Angels, I think maybe
Speaker 1: there's a bit of a different case possibly if they're
Speaker 1: going to give up a shortstop in netto Will, at
Speaker 1: least they'd get a high upside one in return with
Speaker 1: some pitching, you know, So you can make that argument.
Speaker 1: For the Rockies though they already got Ezekiel Tavar. They
Speaker 1: just drafted Ethan Holliday pretty high last year, and then
Speaker 1: they just drafted and shortstop Tyler Bell out of Kentucky,
Speaker 1: so they got a lot of shortstops there. So I
Speaker 1: don't know do they want Marcela Meyer. I don't know.
Speaker 1: My guess would be no. Now could you do a
Speaker 1: deal with Anthony Ions maybe you know the Rockies. I mean, listen,
Speaker 1: they need to pitch it. They need to pitching. I
Speaker 1: can maybe see something like that. But then again, would
Speaker 1: the Red Sox want to give up Ayenson for someone
Speaker 1: that that could that has red flags? There's a lot
Speaker 1: of power right now, of course there is. He would
Speaker 1: definitely help you this year, but they'd really have to
Speaker 1: shure up that plate discipline. And if you go back,
Speaker 1: you know over the years, you know, the last couple
Speaker 1: of years or so, they're trying to clean up those strikeouts. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they still want to hit the ball hard, but they're
Speaker 1: leading more towards putting the bat on the ball and
Speaker 1: trying to just be more efficient with the bat instead
Speaker 1: of just trying to hit the crap out of the ball.
Speaker 1: So I don't know if Hunter Goodwin is even someone
Speaker 1: the Red Sox would like fully cove it. I'm sure
Speaker 1: they'd be like, okay, yeah, what would it take to
Speaker 1: get him? You could definitely help us a lot. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't know. I don't know if they'd
Speaker 1: give up Anthony Jinson though, I really don't think so.
Speaker 1: Could they tempt them. I actually wonder if we're going
Speaker 1: to see a report at some point that Justin Gonzalez
Speaker 1: is getting interest. This guy is mashing. He is mashing,
Speaker 1: Holy cow, Justin Gonzalez. Cause he had a walk off
Speaker 1: home run yesterday. Catchers out there are are afraid for
Speaker 1: their life around him. I don't know if anyone saw
Speaker 1: that clip of him he hit a home run. I
Speaker 1: guess the catcher took notice that maybe he was taking
Speaker 1: his time around the bases a little bit. Catcher said
Speaker 1: something to him when he got home. Justin Gonzalez is like,
Speaker 1: who the heck are you? What are you? What are
Speaker 1: you gonna do? I'm I'm a massive boy here. What
Speaker 1: are you gonna do to me? The catcher was saying stuff,
Speaker 1: and then Justin Gonzalez just just freaking like a I
Speaker 1: just smacked the top of his helmet. Holy cow. I
Speaker 1: would be very afraid to be around an angry Justin Gonzalez.
Speaker 1: But I actually wonder if he's gonna get some interest, because,
Speaker 1: I mean, the guy is looking like man, he's looking
Speaker 1: like the real deal. I know he's still far away,
Speaker 1: he's got a long way to go, but he's looking
Speaker 1: good down an a ball. So I wouldn't be surprised
Speaker 1: at all if we see a report at some point
Speaker 1: that the Red Sox were getting a lot of interesting
Speaker 1: justin Gonzalaz. I don't think they should move him. Please
Speaker 1: do not trade this guy. Please. This guy's a maniac.
Speaker 1: He's a freak. Now. I'm not gonna sit here and
Speaker 1: say he's gonna be yorded on Avarez from the right
Speaker 1: side of the plate, But holy cow, when you look
Speaker 1: at the build, when you look at the power upside,
Speaker 1: this guy scout like, I mean, you gotta wonder, like,
Speaker 1: do you have your future yard on Alvarez from the
Speaker 1: right side of the plate. Please do not move him, please?
Speaker 1: And Andy as a car. That's a guy that's really
Speaker 1: broken out in the minor leagues this year. He's very
Speaker 1: far away. Could the Red Sox actually tempt some people
Speaker 1: like with him, But then again, it's good depth in
Speaker 1: the lower end of their minor league system, so I
Speaker 1: don't know. I think again, it's always it always comes
Speaker 1: down to the right deal. Like Franklin Premira, I don't
Speaker 1: know if the Red Sox would trade him, because they've
Speaker 1: really been they got to sure up the catching within
Speaker 1: the organization. It's been kind of a question mark, I
Speaker 1: don't know, like you got, Like, I don't know. Kyson
Speaker 1: Witherspoon's not having a great year, so I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean again, he has that top draft pick status,
Speaker 1: so you know, there is definitely a lot to work
Speaker 1: with there. He's just got to put it together, you know.
Speaker 1: Could he be a part of the deal, like Henry
Speaker 1: godbout could you see him? He's looking good in the
Speaker 1: miners like Marcus Phillips, same as Kyson Witherspoon. He's having
Speaker 1: a bit of a tough time, but there's there's some
Speaker 1: projection there. So like, I don't know, Like I wonder
Speaker 1: if the Red Sox actually line up as a good
Speaker 1: trade partner with the Rockies for Hunter Goodman. I just
Speaker 1: I don't know, based off of what I think the
Speaker 1: Red Sox preference would be and what the Rockies would
Speaker 1: ask for, I don't know if they line up necessarily. Now,
Speaker 1: could you call the Orioles, hey, listen? I know we uh,
Speaker 1: I know we play each other a lot, but would
Speaker 1: you would you be opposed to giving us adle? What
Speaker 1: do you think? Again, I don't think he's gonna get
Speaker 1: I don't think he's gonna get moved, I'd be I'd
Speaker 1: be surprised if he gets moved. But in division, come on,
Speaker 1: that's not gonna happen. I'd like adli Adley's He's been
Speaker 1: one of my favorite players over the last few years.
Speaker 1: I really like him a lot. Ryan Jeffers listen, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't know. This is where I kind of get
Speaker 1: back to where I think what the Red Sox think
Speaker 1: of their catching with for this year. They have made
Speaker 1: it work. The uh Carlos Snervas, Connor Wong. These guys
Speaker 1: are laying down sack bunts all over the place. You
Speaker 1: got a good thing going with the with the pitching staff.
Speaker 1: You know, you kind of wonder if, like, how interested
Speaker 1: are they in that? That is a big thing. Man,
Speaker 1: that's a big thing. When you got a good thing
Speaker 1: going on with your catchers and pictures, when you guys
Speaker 1: are on the same page, that's a really That's one
Speaker 1: of those little details that I think people overlook a lot.
Speaker 1: I could even say from experience, I was not by
Speaker 1: any means a good picture when I was in high school,
Speaker 1: But there was one cattuer that I loved working with,
Speaker 1: loved working with this guy. We just had it going
Speaker 1: on man like we just it just felt like he
Speaker 1: knew what I wanted to do, and I knew what
Speaker 1: he was gonna call, and I knew the locations. Oh,
Speaker 1: we were just on the same page. It was beautiful.
Speaker 1: And actually I do remember I pulled up my numbers.
Speaker 1: I had two starts with one catture. We had two
Speaker 1: cattures basically kind of like Wong and Nervas going back
Speaker 1: and forth. Right. One guy I had like an Elra
Speaker 1: over like a forty. I remember I gave up like
Speaker 1: ten runs in a game with him and we were
Speaker 1: not seeing eye to eye. I still remember he got
Speaker 1: like frustrated because I'm like, no, I kept shaking him off,
Speaker 1: not like I madey good. Well, like I shook him
Speaker 1: off a couple of times. Remember him going like, what
Speaker 1: do you what are you doing? And I was like,
Speaker 1: I don't, I don't want to do that pitch man,
Speaker 1: like I don't know. We didn't. We didn't see eye
Speaker 1: to eye really, but the other guy. Funny enough, that
Speaker 1: other guy actually ended up getting drafted. He was actually
Speaker 1: in the Red Sox system. That's a cool that's actually
Speaker 1: a pretty cool story. My favorite cacture in high school
Speaker 1: was actually in the Red Sox system at one point.
Speaker 1: Go look him up. His name's Harrison Coty. He was
Speaker 1: a draft pick out of Florida Gulf Coast University. I
Speaker 1: believe he got drafted by the Angels. He bounced around.
Speaker 1: I think he ended up going to the Red Sox
Speaker 1: at one point. But yeah, that was my favorite cacture
Speaker 1: in high school, Harrison Cody. Shout out to you, my friend.
Speaker 1: You were awesome as a catcher. He actually converted into
Speaker 1: a picture in high school. He transferred high schools at
Speaker 1: he he was a catcher, but then the school that
Speaker 1: he went to was like, hey, we already got a guy,
Speaker 1: but like, you have a really good arm. Do you
Speaker 1: want to be a picture? And he's like all right.
Speaker 1: And then this guy ended up being great as a picture.
Speaker 1: He went to Florida Gulf Coast as a picture, same
Speaker 1: school Chris Sale went to and he got drafted as
Speaker 1: a picture. So yeah, go look him up, Harris and Cooney.
Speaker 1: Really good guy. I hope he's doing all right. So anyway,
Speaker 1: I got really off subject there. Do the Red Sox
Speaker 1: want to mess with what they got going on? If
Speaker 1: they wanted to add some more offense? I think Jeffers
Speaker 1: is a sensible option if they really wanted to. I
Speaker 1: mean he would definitely. He's come back recently. How is
Speaker 1: he doing recently? Here? Let's see over. I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's gonna give me the numbers. Let me look
Speaker 1: him up. Let me go to his game log over
Speaker 1: the last ten or so since coming back off the IL.
Speaker 1: It's been a little bit here, so he's played. He's
Speaker 1: played about like what ten games. Looks like he's hitting
Speaker 1: really well since coming off the IL. He's hitting two
Speaker 1: eighty six five point fourteen on the slugging over a
Speaker 1: three point forty on base. He's got a couple of
Speaker 1: homers as well, So it doesn't look like Ryan Jeffers
Speaker 1: has skipped a beat. Again, this is gonna come down
Speaker 1: to can they line up? Do the Twins even end
Speaker 1: up moving him? That's another thing again. Let's check out
Speaker 1: the standings again. Let's see what's going on. Where are
Speaker 1: my standings?
Speaker 4: Here?
Speaker 1: We go taking a look wild card race. I mean,
Speaker 1: the Twins are a game back. I don't know, do
Speaker 1: you move him?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 1: This is what makes it so tough for like these
Speaker 1: teams that are hanging around right now, like the Tigers,
Speaker 1: they got a big decision coming up three and a
Speaker 1: half out. That's gonna be really interesting to see what
Speaker 1: move they make with if they move Schooble. I think
Speaker 1: right now, like pretty much Blue Jays, Royals, A's Angels,
Speaker 1: they are looking like prime sellers, Tigers, Orioles. I think
Speaker 1: there's still they're waiting this out. I think they're gonna
Speaker 1: see what happens this week. Astros I really don't think
Speaker 1: are gonna sell unless they get like creative or if
Speaker 1: they traded away a guy, but you can bring someone
Speaker 1: back that can help the team now and over the
Speaker 1: next couple of years. Mariners. I don't think the Mariners.
Speaker 1: The Mariners are not gonna sell. They got too much talent. Uh,
Speaker 1: they're a game and a half out. They're right there.
Speaker 1: They're gonna they're gonna look to add. But it's it's
Speaker 1: interesting with the Twins because you know, kind of coming
Speaker 1: into the year, you just think like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: like where what are you gonna do this year? So
Speaker 1: I don't know, but they're right there. But Jeffers, you know,
Speaker 1: I think you would bring back something that's gonna come
Speaker 1: down to if they feel like the offer is good enough.
Speaker 1: You know, so teams might not give them, you know,
Speaker 1: like Ana Maze, because they're only gonna have him for
Speaker 1: a couple couple of months, three months. So I don't
Speaker 1: know that's gonna be interesting. But Jeffers, yeah, he would
Speaker 1: definitely help you. But again, I wonder do the Red
Speaker 1: Sox want to mess with this? So that's where I
Speaker 1: get back to short. That's where I get back to short,
Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen. You know, if you're looking for a
Speaker 1: clean upgrade that can give you insurance, you know, with
Speaker 1: story coming back, I think you gotta look at that.
Speaker 1: I will also say, we did talk about this last night.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw this out there. If you're looking for
Speaker 1: like kind of something like out of left field, you're
Speaker 1: looking for like something where that's like not a clear
Speaker 1: thing right now. I don't know, Like we talked about
Speaker 1: this yesterday, like could they show some interest in Soda
Speaker 1: Strom Like he's popped up a little little bit as
Speaker 1: like a possible guy. I think Bob Nightingale was the
Speaker 1: one that put that out there. It's always weird with Bob.
Speaker 1: You gotta be you gotta be careful. He throws a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff out there. But the A's they've completely
Speaker 1: fallen off this year. You know, they just signed him
Speaker 1: to an extension, but do they do they listen to offers? Now?
Speaker 1: With soda Strom, he's you know, he's a guy that's
Speaker 1: pretty much gonna be left first base and d H
Speaker 1: I think that comes down to, like what happens with Roman?
Speaker 1: I don't know, But then you'd have to figure that
Speaker 1: out in the off season. I saw Red Sox stats
Speaker 1: mention him. It's just a matter of where do you
Speaker 1: fit him though, so and then you know, you'd have
Speaker 1: to figure out Duran. You know, that's a whole that's
Speaker 1: a whole story in itself with his down year, But
Speaker 1: like how do you make that work right? Again? I've
Speaker 1: seen people I've seen his name being mentioned, but like
Speaker 1: could that be an example of like just kind of
Speaker 1: like a like a what the like what how are you?
Speaker 1: How are you gonna do that? You know, like we've
Speaker 1: seen those kind of moves before where you like on
Speaker 1: when you see it, you're like huh, like why like
Speaker 1: why are we doing that? Like I don't know, it's
Speaker 1: one of those just like an out of left field,
Speaker 1: no pun intended. So I don't know someone like that
Speaker 1: like someone that could have some versatility to play some outfield.
Speaker 1: Place him infield. Oh also I'll mention as well, where
Speaker 1: did he go? Like Luis Garcia Junior. We've talked about
Speaker 1: him before. That's more of like a d H first
Speaker 1: base kind of an option, like if you really wanted
Speaker 1: to get another bat in this lineup, you know, could
Speaker 1: he be someone? We've heard his name? But then again
Speaker 1: was that more you were talking about him and maybe
Speaker 1: it moved over to Curtis Mead, you know, So again
Speaker 1: you'd have to kind of figure out the fit. So so,
Speaker 1: I don't know, be prepared. I'm not saying something like
Speaker 1: this is gonna happen, but be prepared for like an
Speaker 1: odd ball kind of a move where it takes a
Speaker 1: little bit to figure out how it's gonna work. So
Speaker 1: that is all for this when it comes to the trade,
Speaker 1: candidate