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Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to the Monday edition of Fair Territory. I'm

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Speaker 1: Ken Rosenthal here with you for the next I don't know,

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Speaker 1: twenty six minutes or so. Hope everyone had a great weekend.

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Speaker 1: We're coming off a big weekend of NCAA tournament play,

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Speaker 1: and we're also coming off an exciting weekend in baseball

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Speaker 1: in terms of the anticipation building for the twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: six season. And we also had some news over the

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Speaker 1: weekend and we're going to get through that as well.

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Speaker 1: The biggest news, of course, was Chris Sanchez, Christopher Sanchez,

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Speaker 1: I should say, signing with the Philadelphia Affilies. Whether it's

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Speaker 1: an extension or a contract. The team can't seem to

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Speaker 1: figure out what they call it themselves, but it's something,

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Speaker 1: and it guarantees him six years, including this one through

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Speaker 1: two thousand and thirty two, actually seven years, I believe,

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Speaker 1: and he was already under control for five years, so

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Speaker 1: he gets two more guaranteed. What happened was they picked

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Speaker 1: up the two club options on this deal and then

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Speaker 1: they added two guaranteed years at thirty million per year,

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Speaker 1: so we go from five guarantee to seven. And you

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Speaker 1: might ask, okay, why did the Phillies do this. That's

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Speaker 1: my question. Why did the Phillies do this. They had

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Speaker 1: the guy under a good deal. Now, obviously, when you

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Speaker 1: get the two additional years at thirty million per year,

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Speaker 1: those will be below market. Assuming Christopher Sanchez remains a

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Speaker 1: really good picture a reasonably safe assumption, but you're also

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Speaker 1: assuming health and with a picture, you can never do that.

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Speaker 1: So it seems to me the Phillies were trying to

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Speaker 1: get ahead of themselves a little bit, get ahead of

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Speaker 1: the curve with regard to future salaries for a guy

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Speaker 1: who is one of the top five pitchers in the game. Again, though,

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Speaker 1: it's not something that they needed to do, and you

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Speaker 1: could take the perspective that the agent for Christopher Sanchez,

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Speaker 1: Gen Monto, did and saying, hey, this is great and

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Speaker 1: the team didn't have to do this. It shows ownership's commitment.

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Speaker 1: That's one perspective. But if you're managing your payroll as

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Speaker 1: efficiently as possible, I'm not sure this was the best plan. Now,

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Speaker 1: under the previous deal, including his club option, Sanchez would

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Speaker 1: have earned forty seven million through two thousand and thirty,

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Speaker 1: so this obviously gets him sixty more million dollars. You

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Speaker 1: can see why he wanted to do that. And if

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Speaker 1: much guaranteed money as possible. So I can see Sanchez's

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Speaker 1: logic for sure. Even though while this deal helps making

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Speaker 1: the previous deal look better than it was, the previous

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Speaker 1: the line, and certainly there was risks for him as well.

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Speaker 1: But the Filly is the good news for them as

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Speaker 1: they go forward. Here is their rotation is pretty much set.

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Speaker 1: So you have Sanchez now through twenty thirty two, potentially

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Speaker 1: signed him to an extension five years, one hundred and

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Speaker 1: thirty five million. He is a pitcher who has had

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Speaker 1: injury problems, and that too was a risky deal. But

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Speaker 1: given the nature of starting pitching, given that the price

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Speaker 1: always rises, you can understand what the Phillies are thinking here.

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Speaker 1: Zach Wheeler under contract through twenty twenty seven. He, of

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Speaker 1: course is coming off an injury, expected back sometime early

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Speaker 1: You want that guy. And then Aaron Nola, another Phillies

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Speaker 1: pitcher under a long term deal through two thousand and thirty.

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Speaker 1: They've already been questions raised about that contract. And then

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Speaker 1: The question is, and the element of the team's face

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Speaker 1: Will Salmon at the Athletic on Sunday, Connor Griffin, the

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Speaker 1: player with the most surplus value in baseball the position

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Speaker 1: what happened. What happened was the Pirates did not get

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Speaker 1: other aspect is the Pirates, by not including him on

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Speaker 1: They're risking again losing the possibility of getting that draft pick.

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Speaker 1: it's not in the Pirate's interest to keep him down

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Speaker 1: you remember this offseason, invested more money than they have

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Speaker 1: I think they're ready to take another step forward. They

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Speaker 1: Jacob Marci of course should not be eluding me. The

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Speaker 2: Hey, it might be time to have a heart to

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Speaker 2: but you cost too much.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not paying this much anymore. That's it. I mean,

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Speaker 3: Mintmobile can give that to me, and I get all

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Speaker 3: the same.

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Speaker 2: Coverage exactly, and you don't have to deal with the

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Speaker 1: get to your questions. The first one, which pitching matchup

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Speaker 1: good enough for their owner, Jim So those are two

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Speaker 1: guys that will definitely be under scrutiny, particularly if that

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Speaker 1: team does not achieve what the owner expects it to achieve.

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Speaker 3: The New York.

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Speaker 1: Managers Aaron Boone and Carlos Mendoza always under scrutiny. Mendoza

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Speaker 1: perhaps a little bit more in the sense that they

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Speaker 1: changed a lot of coaches, and usually that's the prelude

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Speaker 1: to a managerial change if things don't go well. Boone,

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Speaker 1: of course, we've been waiting for the Yankees to win

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Speaker 1: their first World Series in two thousand and nine forever.

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Speaker 1: He's been the manager for almost a decade now, and

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Speaker 1: they will be heat around him if they fall short again.

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Speaker 1: And I'll give you one more Philadelphia Phillies manager Rob Thompson. Again,

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Speaker 1: it's the question of expectations versus performance. If the Phillies

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Speaker 1: do not perform to the level of expectations, then perhaps

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Speaker 1: Rob Thompson will be held responsible. A lot of times

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Speaker 1: these things aren't fair. I don't know that any of

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Speaker 1: these turnovers, if they happen, would be fair considering what

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Speaker 1: might transpire during the course of the season. But those

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Speaker 1: are some managers and executives just to start the year

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Speaker 1: that are on the hot seat. And I know Mets

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Speaker 1: fans will say Sterns as well, he's not in the

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Speaker 1: hot seat. We'll see what this offseason brought the Mats

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Speaker 1: and we'll see how it fares and how they turn out.

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Speaker 1: But I don't expect David Sterns to be in any trouble.

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Speaker 1: So with that, I want to thank everyone for watching

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Speaker 1: and for listening. Foul Territory coming up at eleven am Eastern.

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