Speaker 1: Welcome about the territory, Ladies and gentlemen. Another series win
Speaker 1: for the Red Sox here today. Final score six to one,
Speaker 1: record improves to fifty four and fifty. We're just getting
Speaker 1: more and more over five hundred, ladies and gentlemen. But
Speaker 1: there is still one thing to do, in my opinion. Well,
Speaker 1: obviously gotta keep winning games, and you know, maybe make
Speaker 1: another trade or two by the deadline. But you still
Speaker 1: got to get out of this four game under five
Speaker 1: hundred rut at home. But they did a great job
Speaker 1: this past week, a very successful home stand. Sixth straight
Speaker 1: series win, now seven series wins out of their last eight.
Speaker 1: This was a big series win in my opinion, because
Speaker 1: you had a lot of people after the streak saying, oh,
Speaker 1: that's just gonna die down. Now they just got hot.
Speaker 1: They faced a few bad teams in there, like the
Speaker 1: Mets and the Angels. This isn't real, but you know what,
Speaker 1: you went up against a couple of tough division opponents.
Speaker 1: And say what you will about the Orioles and the
Speaker 1: Blue Jays not having you know, the most successful seasons
Speaker 1: they were envisioning, but division matchups are always tough. They
Speaker 1: each got some good players on those teams. These were
Speaker 1: some good wins in my opinion, and these are wins
Speaker 1: that are gonna help sustain that big wins streak. And again,
Speaker 1: like I said, with home, you've had trouble at home
Speaker 1: all year. You're now four games away from four wins away,
Speaker 1: you know, unless there's a loss in there, but you
Speaker 1: were getting closer and closer to getting out of that rut.
Speaker 1: Good to see this performance at home this past week.
Speaker 1: Good to see the Red Sox continuing to win these series. Yeah, sure,
Speaker 1: you're not winning, you know, you know, no new fifteen
Speaker 1: game wins streak at least as of right now. But
Speaker 1: good to see that they're keeping this going at the
Speaker 1: right time as well, going into the deadline. We're about
Speaker 1: a week away, a little over a week away. Good
Speaker 1: to see. Good to see the offense here today, figuring
Speaker 1: out Kevin Gosman. He's always had success against the Red
Speaker 1: Sox in his career or especially since going to the
Speaker 1: Blue Jays, always had success against them. Big day here
Speaker 1: for Jared Duran. I'm just gonna say it right off
Speaker 1: the bat, Jared Duran is my player of the game
Speaker 1: for today. Big game for him today, three for four,
Speaker 1: a couple of Ribis. As we all know, he's had
Speaker 1: a down year. He's still under two hundred or the
Speaker 1: batting average OPS is just over six hundred at this point,
Speaker 1: WRC plus under a sixty.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: Sure, you look at the homers and the stolen bases.
Speaker 1: He is on pace for at least a twenty twenty season,
Speaker 1: you know, But you'd still like for everything else to
Speaker 1: come up. But in the end, Jared Duran had himself
Speaker 1: a good day here today and looking elsewhere, saw some
Speaker 1: small ball here today. Continuing to see that small ball success,
Speaker 1: moving runners over three more sack buns on the day,
Speaker 1: leading to runs. Seti Willier driving in those runs. Jami
Speaker 1: Jones with a big pink hit perform appearance in the
Speaker 1: seventh inning. Couple of Ribbi's Red Sox killer Jami Jones,
Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, I said it right when it happened.
Speaker 1: I'm like, this look really good.
Speaker 3: Move.
Speaker 1: Like this guy has torched the Red Sox over the
Speaker 1: last couple of years. He's hit great at Famway Park. Listen,
Speaker 1: Jami Jones. He is his own man. But I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be honest there I today when he had that double,
Speaker 1: I'm like this just looks like Rob Rev Snyder for
Speaker 1: like crying out loud like it. Really he makes you
Speaker 1: think of Rob Rev Snyder, right, But good to see
Speaker 1: that he's had some success here with the Red Sox.
Speaker 1: We'll see what ends up happening with these roster spots
Speaker 1: as moves continue to happen, especially with Curtis Mead. You know,
Speaker 1: where will Jami Jones fit in? You know, if they
Speaker 1: make some more moves here, we'll see. But I'm glad
Speaker 1: he was able to come through here today. Austin in
Speaker 1: the chat, big vibes guy. You know he was pumped
Speaker 1: up after that double here today. He brings energy in there,
Speaker 1: you know the guy again. He kind of reminds me
Speaker 1: of Rob reths Snyder in a way. Right, But hey,
Speaker 1: good day for him, good day for the offense. How
Speaker 1: about Ranger Suarez back on the mound here today. Not
Speaker 1: a long outing for him for innings, just over sixty pitches,
Speaker 1: give up a couple of hits, but look pretty good
Speaker 1: on the day here today, six strikeouts overall, bullpen looked great.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that. We're gonna go over today's game.
Speaker 1: We're gonna run through it pretty quickly. Just like yesterday,
Speaker 1: not as straightforward as yesterday. Dylan Sees just dominated the
Speaker 1: entire game, had a perfect game at one point, So
Speaker 1: you got a little bit more to talk about here today.
Speaker 1: But this, i'd say, for the most part, was a
Speaker 1: pretty straightforward game. We'll go through it pretty quickly here
Speaker 1: today because I know a lot of you are here
Speaker 1: to talk more about Curtis Mead. You know, I'm trying
Speaker 1: to come up with some nicknames, all right, you hear
Speaker 1: you know the nickname Tony segals right, you know, has
Speaker 1: a nice funny ring to it. I'm trying to come
Speaker 1: up with something for Mead. I don't know. I feel
Speaker 1: like I feel like the easy one. Something I don't know,
Speaker 1: Like you feel like you're about to say meet and
Speaker 1: then you say Mead. So I don't know. Could there
Speaker 1: be something there like meat locker? Does that work? I'm
Speaker 1: not sure. I don't know. Gotta come up with something.
Speaker 1: But Curtis Mead, Oh, I forgot to say the Mead
Speaker 1: sucks or one to other ladies and gentlemen. He's not
Speaker 1: even here yet, and he's already bringing success to this team.
Speaker 1: He's already bringing success. Oh, Phoenix, that's a good one.
Speaker 1: That's a good one. Derek, who do you think gets
Speaker 1: sent down? I don't know. It's good. We'll go, we'll
Speaker 1: talk about this. We're gonna spend a whole segment here
Speaker 1: today talking more about the Curtis Mead trade, which I
Speaker 1: also want to say, Holy cow. Uh, I went back
Speaker 1: to the stream last night and uh, because what I
Speaker 1: did for that stream here, I took a lot of
Speaker 1: the clips from that stream and I made a video
Speaker 1: that I uploaded on the main channel here today. Holy cow.
Speaker 1: I was all over the place last night. Like I've
Speaker 1: felt like I repeated myself. Well that's not usually new,
Speaker 1: but I felt like I repeated myself like a million
Speaker 1: times last night. I felt like I was going in
Speaker 1: all different directions. My brain was just was just cooked.
Speaker 1: I was so tired already. I was about to go
Speaker 1: to bed, and I'd just come home from a nice
Speaker 1: night out. Luckily I did get home for that. But
Speaker 1: holy cal, I was all over the place last night.
Speaker 1: So I do apologize if that was a tough listen.
Speaker 1: I felt like I said a lot of the things
Speaker 1: that a lot of the points I wanted to make.
Speaker 1: There was a couple of more I wanted to kind
Speaker 1: of touch on a bit today, kind of go over
Speaker 1: a couple of things, maybe tweak a couple of couple
Speaker 1: of thoughts as I thought more about them here today.
Speaker 1: But yeah, so sorry if that was a tough lesson
Speaker 1: last night. I know we're all kind of excited, but
Speaker 1: I felt like I was just everywhere. Anyway, we'll talk
Speaker 1: more about Curtis me. Craig Breslow did talk a couple
Speaker 1: of times here today. He was talking during the game,
Speaker 1: but he had a press conference before the game here today.
Speaker 1: I'm actually gonna play some of the clips. We'll I'll
Speaker 1: listen to that, we'll react as it goes. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: good show here today. If you can, all I ask
Speaker 1: just hit that like button for me. If you are
Speaker 1: just finding us for the first time, think about subscribing.
Speaker 1: We actually got a lot of new subscribers from that
Speaker 1: show last night, So anyone new just finding us from
Speaker 1: last night. If you are with us today, thank you
Speaker 1: for joining. We are getting very close to eight thousand subscribers.
Speaker 1: We are realistically, I think gonna be able to get
Speaker 1: there once the trade deadline has come and coming gone.
Speaker 1: I think we're about fifty subscribers away. We're getting close.
Speaker 1: Eight K was the goal for this year, maybe even ten.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Well, we'll see, but we're getting close.
Speaker 1: Before I do move on though, we did have a
Speaker 1: couple of super chats. Let me actually get those super
Speaker 1: chats rolling just in case, because you know me, I'll
Speaker 1: forget the super chats. Not that I don't want to
Speaker 1: play the superchats, but my brain is an actual potato.
Speaker 1: But what do we got is Siegler and Chang still
Speaker 1: gonna be part of the game play moving forward. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be really interesting. We'll talk about Curtis Mead. It
Speaker 1: looks like we have a good idea of where he
Speaker 1: could be playing. I'll give you my thoughts on that
Speaker 1: as well. But uh, you gotta think Chang is probably
Speaker 1: right now. We'll get to it. But I feel like
Speaker 1: Shang is probably gonna be the guy. Siegler I feel
Speaker 1: like has done enough to warrant Stang, but you just
Speaker 1: never know, you know, I feel like Shang is probably
Speaker 1: gonna be the guy at this point. We'll talk about it. Steve,
Speaker 1: what's going on, man? Great game? Agree about Duran Suarez
Speaker 1: lights oh a positive comment about Duran here today lights
Speaker 1: Suarrez lights out I gotta adjust the settings. These disappear
Speaker 1: too quick. Uh left kind of early. Going to Wysert
Speaker 1: was questionable, but it worked in the end. Good bullpen day.
Speaker 1: You know they got it done. Watson. You don't give
Speaker 1: a b run there late, But that's so okay, that's okay.
Speaker 1: Let's get to it, ladies and gentlemen. Oh, hold on
Speaker 1: a second. Oh, I know I keep saying we're about
Speaker 1: to get going here, but I think we got a
Speaker 1: new member. We got a new member. Jacob in the chat, Jacob,
Speaker 1: what does this say? Hill Hilligear, Jacob Hilligear ninety eight
Speaker 1: eighty six, welcome, my friend, Thank you for coming a
Speaker 1: monster member. I am actually going to try and find
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Speaker 1: Do you like the home Run sound? I was thinking
Speaker 1: about maybe going for I don't know, some of the
Speaker 1: Fenway sounds a little bit maybe possibly not just like
Speaker 1: the home Run I don't know, maybe find some other things.
Speaker 1: Let me know if you like the home Run sound.
Speaker 1: Jacob in the chat. Always love listening, greatly appreciate your
Speaker 1: honest opinions on everything and not just doing it for clicks.
Speaker 1: I appreciate you.
Speaker 4: Man.
Speaker 1: I promise I'm not doing this for like I don't know,
Speaker 1: like I would rather spend I mean, I think all
Speaker 1: of you have seen like I would all be here
Speaker 1: for like hour and a half, two hours just rambling.
Speaker 1: If you notice, I don't really post any shorts. I
Speaker 1: don't post like any reels. Usually, I don't look for
Speaker 1: the the spicy takes. I don't look for the cliffs.
Speaker 1: I just like to talk. So yeah, I appreciate you
Speaker 1: bringing that up, because that is something I'd rather talk
Speaker 1: here for two hours and at least try to get
Speaker 1: my honest thoughts out instead of just trying to go
Speaker 1: for a you know, some viral clip.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 1: Anyway, I appreciate that. Oh we got another member, Hill
Speaker 1: and Holt, two new members, and we haven't even gotten
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Speaker 1: get to it here. Also, voicemai open if you do
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Speaker 1: I'm sure a lot of you got something to say
Speaker 1: about the trade last night. Really quick. Let's just get
Speaker 1: to this, let's get to the post game here, and
Speaker 1: let's talk about Rangers Warz again. It was not a
Speaker 1: long outing for Suarez here today, not a long outing,
Speaker 1: and that was kind of expected, right, He's been on
Speaker 1: the il for a little over a couple of weeks
Speaker 1: at this point. But I feel like he looked pretty good.
Speaker 1: You know, mostly fastballs here today, fastball, tight pitches. He
Speaker 1: worked in some breaking and off speed. He looked like
Speaker 1: a guy that was just kind of getting back to
Speaker 1: it here, right, leaning more into the fastballs, working on
Speaker 1: the location a little bit. Looked like almost like a
Speaker 1: spring training for him. But he struck out six along
Speaker 1: the way, Vladd and Lucas in the first inning. He
Speaker 1: got var showing a double play in the second inning.
Speaker 1: Jimenez had a double in the third, but he got
Speaker 1: a couple more strikeouts along with that. Fourth inning, Kirk
Speaker 1: and Springer had a base hit, but he struck out Vladden,
Speaker 1: no komodo. Good day for Suarez, four innings, four hits,
Speaker 1: six k's. Hey got the job done. Bullpen was great,
Speaker 1: Weisert Tyrone Slaton teaming up for three innings, Watson two
Speaker 1: innings to finish it off, gave up a run. Good
Speaker 1: day for the pitching staff overall. But taking a look
Speaker 1: at the Red Sox offense and uh, I mean you
Speaker 1: really just had yourself a few good innings of offense
Speaker 1: here today, ladies and gentlemen. In the third inning, Monasteria
Speaker 1: with a base hit, another sack bunt from Carlos Nurviz.
Speaker 1: These catchers for the Red Sox man Carlos Denvius, Connor Wong.
Speaker 1: They are doing great with the bunts this year, doing great.
Speaker 1: You gotta love it, you know. Long, Yeah, he is
Speaker 1: hitting better this year, but you know he's not gonna
Speaker 1: be Shaye Langleiers by any means. Sorry to bring up
Speaker 1: the fact Shaye Langliers is no longer an option, Ladies
Speaker 1: and gentlemen. I didn't think he was gonna be anyway,
Speaker 1: but he is now out for a long time with
Speaker 1: a knee injury. Shaye Langley is not going anywhere, but Uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're not gonna get you know, the big dangers from
Speaker 1: the catching crew. But they're doing a great job of
Speaker 1: putting the bat on the ball. Carlos Nervius with a
Speaker 1: down year, but they're just making it work even with
Speaker 1: the negatives this year, you know, Carlos Nirvius having a
Speaker 1: down year. There's and you can even say, Sharon Duran, right,
Speaker 1: there's still finding ways to make things work, still finding
Speaker 1: ways to be productive. You know what, Hey, do what
Speaker 1: you can, right, That's what I've loved a lot about
Speaker 1: this team. They've made up for you know, coming into
Speaker 1: the year, where's the power gonna come from? Where we're
Speaker 1: gonna get the big dingers. Well, hey, hopefully me can
Speaker 1: give you a couple of them, right, maybe another bat
Speaker 1: too if they bring one in. But hey, I love
Speaker 1: that they're they're making up for that this year anyway.
Speaker 1: Nervizo the sack bunt, moves the runners over, Massip with
Speaker 1: the ground moves the runner over Massa with the ground out,
Speaker 1: moves Monasterio over to third base. And here it comes
Speaker 1: mister Setti, ladies and gentlemen, Rold moll Shart play hit into.
Speaker 3: A field of base.
Speaker 4: Hit that'll Chase in the run, he'll be held the
Speaker 4: first base, an ibi single. It's forty sixth run batted
Speaker 4: in Red Sox lead one nothing. How good is Sadan
Speaker 4: been with two strikes this year?
Speaker 2: Right?
Speaker 1: Did you see the match? A RaSE SETI continues to
Speaker 1: have a great year. I'll keep saying it over and
Speaker 1: over again. I think the guy is wildly underrated. Should
Speaker 1: have gone to the All Star Game from the start,
Speaker 1: should have went to the All Star Game last year.
Speaker 1: But uh hey, well can you what else can you say?
Speaker 1: The guy just continues to produce, both offensively and defensively.
Speaker 1: I also think I forgot to mention that yesterday said
Speaker 1: he had a great catch in the outfield. I know
Speaker 1: Dylan Cees dominated, but at least he had that from yesterday, Okay,
Speaker 1: said he's great. Fourth inning, Wilson with a walk, Durban
Speaker 1: with the base hit. We'll talk about Durban here in
Speaker 1: a little bit as well. Roamy with the sack bunt
Speaker 1: moves him over. Here comes Jaron Duran and there you
Speaker 1: go in the.
Speaker 4: Rank center and one run in here it comes Deban.
Speaker 4: He's around the scar and pen's a two run single.
Speaker 1: Dreana nothing, Boston, Jaron Duran, Like I said, down year,
Speaker 1: but coming through here today, hopefully we're hitting a hot
Speaker 1: stretch with Duran. Seventh inning, Duran comes up again, base
Speaker 1: hit off reliever Brandon Fisher who came in for Gosman
Speaker 1: Monasteria with a walk, and here comes the Red Sox killer,
Speaker 1: Jami Jones in field in.
Speaker 4: High fly ball left center field. That's deep back toward
Speaker 4: the wall, and that ball's off the green. That's gonna
Speaker 4: score two. The Red Sox had a couple more on
Speaker 4: a long drive off the wall by Jami Jones.
Speaker 1: Man, oh man, Jami Jones, who's fired up going into
Speaker 1: second base there, he was all pumped up. This guy
Speaker 1: loves Femway Park. You know who else loves Femway Park?
Speaker 1: Will you r brave?
Speaker 2: Two?
Speaker 4: Swinging a high fly ball to left field, driving Pina,
Speaker 4: Go go back to the wall. He's gonna try and
Speaker 4: play it off the green. Another run is in. Had
Speaker 4: a bray you scamper's in a second to run scoring
Speaker 4: double to make it six to nothing.
Speaker 1: Find a run of the day for the Red Sox.
Speaker 1: But will you or bray you coming through? Hit a
Speaker 1: little bit of a stretch there, But what was he like?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 1: For eighteen, I believe coming into the ab but Hey
Speaker 1: comes through with the double playing with the Gotta love it.
Speaker 1: That was a sixth run of the day for the
Speaker 1: Red Sox. Again, the Blue Jays did score late, but
Speaker 1: in the end, Red Sox win six to one. Good
Speaker 1: day for the Red Sox. It's been just a great
Speaker 1: time for the Red Sox going back to the beginning
Speaker 1: of July. Honestly, I mean, what an incredible month this
Speaker 1: has been. You had the win streak, You're winning series
Speaker 1: left and right, You're bringing a potential high upside bat
Speaker 1: for this lineup, and you still got a week away
Speaker 1: until the trade deadline. Things are just looking really good
Speaker 1: right now for the Red Sox. Man Oh Man Oh Phoenix,
Speaker 1: Oh for twenty that's right. I think what was it
Speaker 1: oh for eighteen coming into the game. Anyway, he wasn't
Speaker 1: hitting anything, but will you're good to see. But yeah,
Speaker 1: everything's looking really good for the Red Sox here right now,
Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen. You gotta love just I mean, obviously everything,
Speaker 1: but it's also just this momentum that they're building and
Speaker 1: building and building going into the deadline. You know, gotta
Speaker 1: love it. We are going to talk about Curtis Meade more.
Speaker 1: I promise it won't be for over the hour that
Speaker 1: we were here last night. I promise it won't be
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Speaker 1: kind of quick rundown on it, my quick recap on
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Speaker 1: Alrighty, act, well, hold on, before I do get to
Speaker 1: Curtis Mead, let's do a quick preview of the A
Speaker 1: series coming up. We got another West Coast trip, ladies
Speaker 1: and gentlemen. I am sorry to report the bad news.
Speaker 1: We got some late games coming on, but hey, at
Speaker 1: least they're winning games lately. I was afraid of this one.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, Like, go back a month ago, I'm thinking,
Speaker 1: oh my goodness, we got these late games. I gotta
Speaker 1: do these postgame recaps when and the Red Sox are
Speaker 1: gonna be sellers, Like, oh, this is gonna be tough.
Speaker 1: But now, hey, I'm pretty excited to do these. Pretty
Speaker 1: excited pitching match ups for these ones. Peyton totally going
Speaker 1: up against Jack Perkins in game one, Jake Bennett going
Speaker 1: up against Gage Jump in Game two. That's a very
Speaker 1: fun pitching matchup right there. Gage Jump was one of
Speaker 1: the higher pitching prospects coming into this year. He's had
Speaker 1: a couple of bumps and like all rookies do right.
Speaker 1: Jake Bennett did not have that status coming into the year,
Speaker 1: but he's obviously emerged as one of the best young
Speaker 1: pitchers in baseball this year. So that's a pretty fun
Speaker 1: pitching matchup. Gotta love that. Patrick Sandoval going Game three
Speaker 1: up against Jacob Lopez. Sandoval has been a little bumpy
Speaker 1: over the first few outings since coming back off the IL.
Speaker 1: Let's see if he can get this tidied up a
Speaker 1: little bit more, hopefully go a little deeper into the game,
Speaker 1: and then for Game four. No announced starter for the
Speaker 1: A's as of right now, but Sonny Gray looking for
Speaker 1: a bounce back performance. Unfortunately, he took his second loss
Speaker 1: of the year yesterday against the Blue Jays. He just
Speaker 1: didn't have it. He had no command, leaving breaking stuff
Speaker 1: over the plate. He was getting hit all over the place,
Speaker 1: easily his worst outing since Minnesota back in April. I'm
Speaker 1: sorry to bring up the bad memories. I'm sorry. I
Speaker 1: promise I don't I don't ever want to talk about
Speaker 1: that Twin series. That was awful. I just said, I
Speaker 1: don't want to talk about the Twin series. But here
Speaker 1: I am still talking about the Twin series. But we're done,
Speaker 1: no more, no more Minnesota. But Sonny Gray hopefully, hopefully
Speaker 1: hoping for a bounce back performance. We will see now.
Speaker 1: As for the A's when it comes to you know,
Speaker 1: what's going on in the lineup. Obviously, Kurtz, this guy's
Speaker 1: a monster. I've said it many times. He just makes
Speaker 1: me think of like a modern day Jason Giambi up there,
Speaker 1: Like go back to Jason Giambi with the A's. He
Speaker 1: makes me think of that. Kurtz is an absolute freak.
Speaker 1: He's gonna be a tough ab so to str He's
Speaker 1: performing well with the bat this year. Jacob Wilson, this
Speaker 1: guy's a contact machine. You know. Tommy White, they just
Speaker 1: called up recently. He's a fun bat. He was very
Speaker 1: fun to watch in college. You know. If they've had
Speaker 1: some other guys stepping up this year as well, like
Speaker 1: Henry Bolte. He was looking good at one point. Ops
Speaker 1: has come down though they've had some injuries. You know,
Speaker 1: Shaye Langlers. We just said he's gonna be out with
Speaker 1: a knee injury for quite a while, so he's not
Speaker 1: gonna be a trade candidate now. Zach Geloff got hurt
Speaker 1: a little while ago. He was having a good season,
Speaker 1: you know, Brent Brooker, he had to get surgery on
Speaker 1: his knee a little bit of ago. So this A's team,
Speaker 1: they've completely fallen apart. I mean they were looking at
Speaker 1: one point, they were right there in the wildcard hunt,
Speaker 1: and I was saying, if they could find a way
Speaker 1: to add some pitching, man, this would be like a
Speaker 1: pretty strong as team. But unfortunately, the injuries. The Luis
Speaker 1: Evarino has been hurt too, because of the lack of pitching,
Speaker 1: because of the injuries, just completely fallen out of it.
Speaker 1: You know. See you wonder could the A's look to
Speaker 1: make some moves at this trade deadline. I don't know,
Speaker 1: you know, it's turned into a lost season pretty much.
Speaker 1: Obviously Langleiers isn't gonna get moved now. But could you see,
Speaker 1: you know, there was a report a little bit ago.
Speaker 1: I don't remember was it Hayman. I can't remember who
Speaker 1: it was, but I swear I saw Tyler Sodastrom's name somewhere.
Speaker 1: Remember last year, Soda Strom was a trade candidate. He
Speaker 1: was popping up for the Red Sox as a possibility,
Speaker 1: you know, like, I wonder if they looked to move.
Speaker 1: Maybe they they look to take advantage of his value
Speaker 1: to try and get back some pitching. I don't like.
Speaker 1: I wonder if he's a name to pay attention to
Speaker 1: again because he came up last year. I know he
Speaker 1: got the extension. What was that extension? It was a
Speaker 1: seven year, eighty six million dollar deal at the start
Speaker 1: of this year. I don't think he gets moved because
Speaker 1: of that contract, but I don't know, just with how
Speaker 1: things have gone there, I mean, could they look to
Speaker 1: cash in on that if they got back like a
Speaker 1: good top of the rotation pitcher. So anyway, the A's
Speaker 1: obviously not playing great. Let's see how that goes. And
Speaker 1: also let me pull up really quick here, let's see
Speaker 1: what's going on with the standings. Actually, do I have?
Speaker 1: I got the graphic? Here we go taking a look
Speaker 1: here in the wild card hunt. Right now, the Red
Speaker 1: Sox sitting in the second spot, fifty four and fifty,
Speaker 1: a game and a half up on the Guardians who
Speaker 1: have lost five straight. So The Red Sox are sitting
Speaker 1: pretty comfortably right now. They're five behind the Yankees at
Speaker 1: this point, still got a lot of season left. Why
Speaker 1: couldn't you go after that first division spot? Why couldn't
Speaker 1: you go after? Maybe? Talk, I want to talk a
Speaker 1: little division maybe. Yeah, the Red Sox, they're in a
Speaker 1: comfortable spot right now, So let's talk. Curtis Meat. Curtis Meat.
Speaker 1: This was the story of Boston here over the last
Speaker 1: I mean less than twenty four hours, eighteen hours, whatever,
Speaker 1: but yeah, I mean so again, if you did join
Speaker 1: me last night for the reaction, thank you for that. Again,
Speaker 1: do apologize if that was a bit of a tough listen,
Speaker 1: I was just out of it last night. That whole
Speaker 1: thing just took me by Some trades always take me
Speaker 1: by surprise, but that one last night, I felt like
Speaker 1: I got punched in the face because I was not
Speaker 1: I'm never expecting trades, you know, unless you're at the deadline.
Speaker 1: But this one last night, I'm like, oh, yeah, I
Speaker 1: got the night off. We are good. I went out
Speaker 1: to you know, dinner last night, had had a good
Speaker 1: date night last night. Man, I was I was winding
Speaker 1: down and then bam, you get sketched. What are they?
Speaker 1: What was it from h from step brothers Pow pow
Speaker 1: right in the right in the face, Curtis Mead coming
Speaker 1: to the Boston Red Sox. In the end, the Red
Speaker 1: Sox needed a bat, plain and simple. We've talked about this,
Speaker 1: there's no secret there but and the Nationals needed more
Speaker 1: starting pitching. I've said it many times in the past.
Speaker 1: Very thin on starting pitching and also just the I mean,
Speaker 1: they have a couple of guys in the system like
Speaker 1: Travis Acora, Jarl and Susana I believe he came back
Speaker 1: in the one Soda trade a few years ago, but
Speaker 1: you needed more, especially major league ready guys. That rotation
Speaker 1: is so thin, you know Cap Cavali Connley early that
Speaker 1: looks like a good one two punch. I think Travis
Speaker 1: a Kora, Jarl and Susana eventually once they succor I
Speaker 1: think is still out after Tommy John. But regardless, the
Speaker 1: Nationals needed more young pitching, especially major league ready pitching.
Speaker 1: And you got to think about it when it comes
Speaker 1: to bats on the market, right, we've heard the name
Speaker 1: zach Netto Peanya Angliers is now not available. Luisa Rise
Speaker 1: obviously still out there. But if you're looking for like
Speaker 1: a game changing kind of a bat or could possibly
Speaker 1: change the game with with high upside, there's not a
Speaker 1: lot that you could get without giving up some major,
Speaker 1: major prospect talent. Right, So, like talking about Neto, Right,
Speaker 1: that's been a debate in Red Sox Land over the
Speaker 1: last couple of years or last couple of days. Turned
Speaker 1: down the volume, you know, and we were seeing a
Speaker 1: report that you know, Franklin, Arius might have to be
Speaker 1: included in that conversation, right, which I don't think the
Speaker 1: Red Sox would give up Arius and that kind of
Speaker 1: a deal. But then you think, okay, maybe yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean teams are obviously going to ask for a guy
Speaker 1: like that, especially at this time of the year. No,
Speaker 1: we don't got to move Neto, we don't got to
Speaker 1: move Pain yet, we'll talk about it if you're willing
Speaker 1: to include Arius. Who knows, maybe that starts to kind
Speaker 1: of lose its grip over the next week or so,
Speaker 1: maybe that comes down a little bit. Right, that's negotiations.
Speaker 1: But if you think about it from Craig's point of view,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be tough to acquire a guy that could
Speaker 1: be a game changer for your lineup. Now, my thinking
Speaker 1: is he was probably looking at the market, like always,
Speaker 1: the market dictates everything. You got to play with the
Speaker 1: cards that are dealt. It's very and you've seen this
Speaker 1: a lot over the past, where he probably said, you
Speaker 1: know what, instead of looking for a guy at the
Speaker 1: top of the market, instead of spending the big assets
Speaker 1: to go get that guy like Zach Netto, for example,
Speaker 1: why don't we go for a guy that's trending up,
Speaker 1: that maybe is not getting a whole bunch of eyeballs
Speaker 1: on him, but he's just quietly having a really good year.
Speaker 1: And you take a look at where Mead was in Washington,
Speaker 1: James Wood, cj Abrams both having MVP caliber years when
Speaker 1: you were you ever hearing about Curtis Mead, But here
Speaker 1: he was, you know, looking at offensive rankings. Guy's doing
Speaker 1: great over there. He is, I believe he's top twenty
Speaker 1: when it comes to io percentage, great metrics. But you
Speaker 1: weren't hearing anything about him. You're hearing about James Wood,
Speaker 1: c j Abrams, no trade to let no list out there,
Speaker 1: even passings list, no list had Curtis beed right. So
Speaker 1: that's where Bresla was like, you know what, let's tap
Speaker 1: into that, Let's go for the guy that's trending. And
Speaker 1: we've seen examples of this over the past.
Speaker 3: You see.
Speaker 1: The more, I feel like you see it more with
Speaker 1: the smaller market teams because they have to kind of
Speaker 1: they got to think outside the box, right, with a
Speaker 1: lot of stuff because you know, they don't got those
Speaker 1: all the money in the world, so they got to
Speaker 1: kind of dig a little bit. And you've seen moves
Speaker 1: where teams will try to grab those guys that are
Speaker 1: trending up before they become like, you know, like these
Speaker 1: top guys on the market, right estoc Paratus go back
Speaker 1: to when he was with Detroit. He's kind of he
Speaker 1: was bouncing back and forth between the miners and the
Speaker 1: majors at that point back in twenty twenty one. He
Speaker 1: was showing some really good plate discipline at the time,
Speaker 1: but you felt like you could tap and do more
Speaker 1: with the bat, especially the battle ball profile. The Rays.
Speaker 1: I mean, they saw an opportunity there where like, hey,
Speaker 1: this guy gets on bass, like he does pretty good.
Speaker 1: You know, he's young. Why don't we make a move
Speaker 1: for him and we can take advantage of that trending
Speaker 1: of him trending up. And it also just happened to
Speaker 1: be where Detroit they were looking for more immediate offense
Speaker 1: at the time, they bring in Austin Meadows, right, so
Speaker 1: you go go back to a little before that, right
Speaker 1: YONDI Diaz the Indians at the time, but a guy
Speaker 1: that was showing really good things, had good metrics at
Speaker 1: the time. But they had a lot of guys in
Speaker 1: the mix. You had like Jose Ramirez, right, I think
Speaker 1: you had Carlos Santana in the mix as well, if
Speaker 1: I remember correctly. So, like you know, for a raised team,
Speaker 1: they're like, okay, well, I mean he's not getting like
Speaker 1: a ton of playing time, but he's playing well, so
Speaker 1: let's go after him before he really like emerges as
Speaker 1: this you know, big name. Go back even a little further,
Speaker 1: I think you could even say, and these are just
Speaker 1: a few examples. There's plenty of them over the years,
Speaker 1: but just the ones that came to mind. Jose Batista.
Speaker 1: Like Jose Batista, granted he was having a lot of
Speaker 1: struggles early in his career, but there were things where,
Speaker 1: you know, like a guy that could hit the ball
Speaker 1: pretty hard, you know, he showed some okay qualities but
Speaker 1: you felt like you could tap into it. Why do
Speaker 1: you think teams would pick him up constantly? He was
Speaker 1: going around all these teams because teams saw a potential
Speaker 1: with him and the Blue Jays eventually they got they
Speaker 1: got lucky there and they won out and they made
Speaker 1: a couple of tweaks with him, and look at the
Speaker 1: star that he became. Right. So a lot of times,
Speaker 1: a lot of those good moves come from the guys
Speaker 1: that you're not fully expecting. And I wonder if Mead
Speaker 1: could fit into this category. And I think that's basically
Speaker 1: Craig read the market. I think he just saw an
Speaker 1: opportunity here and obviously the Nationals they need pitching, and
Speaker 1: they lined up perfectly. Now, I also want to mention
Speaker 1: this over on Baseball Trade Values. I actually had a
Speaker 1: conversation with John Bitzer of Baseball Trade Values about this,
Speaker 1: because value wise surplus trade value wise not the end
Speaker 1: all be all. Numbers are numbers, that's only half the battle.
Speaker 1: Philosophy is the other half of the battle, right, But
Speaker 1: value wise, this was clearly a win for the Nationals.
Speaker 1: Why because Connie Early is a starting pitcher that has
Speaker 1: a lot of value, a lot of control, left five
Speaker 1: more years plus and he's shown some good things, shows
Speaker 1: a good floor. It was also one of the higher
Speaker 1: pitching prospects this year. Coming into the year, Curtis Mead
Speaker 1: was also a higher ranked prospect at one point a
Speaker 1: few years ago, he was in the fifty range. I
Speaker 1: believe he was as high as like thirty five or
Speaker 1: like thirty four, thirty three somewhere in there. I believe,
Speaker 1: back in like twenty twenty three. But a guy that
Speaker 1: hadn't fully found his way the Rays, I don't know,
Speaker 1: they just kind of gave up on him. He went
Speaker 1: to the White Sox, couldn't really figure it out there.
Speaker 1: But then with the Nationals he made a couple of tweaks,
Speaker 1: made something. I believe there was an old hitting coach
Speaker 1: in the minor leagues that was with the Rays when
Speaker 1: he was coming up, and he's with Washington now and
Speaker 1: they connected back again and they got to work and
Speaker 1: they figured it out. So but overall, Mead his surplus
Speaker 1: value is not going to be very high because he
Speaker 1: just hasn't shown anything prior to this year. But like
Speaker 1: I said, trending up, something has clicked this year now.
Speaker 1: As you can see here, this is about a twenty
Speaker 1: million dollars surplus value difference. However, there is a slight
Speaker 1: mistake here. Let me actually pull up Curtis Meade. Now,
Speaker 1: as you can see, he's not a free agent until
Speaker 1: twenty thirty one, so you got him for twenty seven eight,
Speaker 1: twenty nine, twenty thirty, so you have him for four
Speaker 1: more years after this season. Over on Baseball trade values,
Speaker 1: they actually made a slight mistake. This was posted yesterday.
Speaker 1: By the way, they have him at three point they
Speaker 1: have him at about three and a half years of control.
Speaker 1: So that's an error on that part on their part,
Speaker 1: and I talked to John about that today. So once
Speaker 1: you add another year of control, that's gonna bump his
Speaker 1: value up even more. Now you are still a way
Speaker 1: a bit of part, I believe when you add that
Speaker 1: extra year of control. I mean, if I were to
Speaker 1: just do the quick math, they had him at thirty
Speaker 1: three for the field value, Divide that by three point four,
Speaker 1: so I few times that by four point four. That
Speaker 1: would go up to forty two point seven. So if
Speaker 1: you minus twenty one point seven, that's about a twenty
Speaker 1: million dollars surplus. So this would actually get approved by
Speaker 1: their simulator. Not I'm not trying to to the horn
Speaker 1: of BTV. I'm just explaining why there was a difference
Speaker 1: last night, because again they goofed up on the years
Speaker 1: of control. That was just an error on their part.
Speaker 1: So yeah, this is value wised. This is actually closer
Speaker 1: than you would think. So just pointing that out now.
Speaker 1: Like we said last night with Curtis Mead, the metrics
Speaker 1: look very good. They're looking there's not a lot of
Speaker 1: weaknesses here. I mean, the expected numbers look good. The
Speaker 1: plate discipline looks good. A guy that makes a lot
Speaker 1: of contact, he doesn't swing and miss. He's in the
Speaker 1: middle range when it comes to the batter ball profile.
Speaker 1: But that's where he fits into the Red Sox organization
Speaker 1: very well. What have the Red Sox done well at
Speaker 1: over the last couple of years, last few years, increasing
Speaker 1: bat speed, getting more exit vlow They have shown time
Speaker 1: and time again they're good at that. Wilson Contreras, Look
Speaker 1: what he's done this year they got he was already
Speaker 1: he already had pretty good bat speed before they got
Speaker 1: even more out of them. And look what kind of
Speaker 1: the year he's having bad speed. Isn't the und all
Speaker 1: be all but I mean, the harder you can hit
Speaker 1: the ball, more probability you're gonna have some success. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: Curtis Mead, this is I again, time will tell you
Speaker 1: never know, it's not just about the metrics. Who knows
Speaker 1: he comes to ball and you know, there's always the possibility,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe you don't line up exactly when it
Speaker 1: comes to hitting, coaches and whatever. Of course, of course
Speaker 1: something could go wrong. Obviously that's that's anything. That's just
Speaker 1: the human and the human element of it. But if
Speaker 1: everything goes accordingly and he comes in, you keep doing
Speaker 1: what you're doing from Washington, but you can add a
Speaker 1: bit more here. You got a potential like game changing
Speaker 1: kind of a bat for the middle of the order. Potentially,
Speaker 1: That's that's a big word here, okay, because you never know.
Speaker 1: Hopefully things line up, the stars aligne and you could
Speaker 1: get even more out of him. So again you're taking
Speaker 1: a chance, you are giving up high floor with the pitching,
Speaker 1: but it's coming from a surplus Jake bet If Jake
Speaker 1: Bennett didn't emerge this year, I don't know if you
Speaker 1: make this train. But because as he did, and Suarez
Speaker 1: has really worked out minus a couple of injuries. Sonny's
Speaker 1: been good, totally's obviously busted out this year, you know,
Speaker 1: and you got and you still have I insin down
Speaker 1: to the minors two getting closer, So like you've you
Speaker 1: could make this move right, And yeah, it stinks because
Speaker 1: I like Connolly early. He's a guy that seems like
Speaker 1: he's got a really good head on his shoulders. He's
Speaker 1: obviously shown a lot of potential on the mound. But
Speaker 1: this was a moment where the Red Sox felt, you
Speaker 1: know what, this is our shot to take a chance here.
Speaker 1: There's a bit of risk, of course, but when you're
Speaker 1: looking for more upside with the offense, I think it's
Speaker 1: a risk worth taking, especially if you are dealing it
Speaker 1: from a surplus, if you're dealing it from something where
Speaker 1: if it left you a little thin in an area
Speaker 1: like okay, yeah, that's that's easier to question. But in
Speaker 1: this case, I'm okay with it. Let's see how it
Speaker 1: turns out. Now, where is Curtis Mead going to play?
Speaker 1: Where is he going to play? Well, we talked about
Speaker 1: this last night. I was saying, I see him dhing
Speaker 1: more often. That's where I was last night. I was
Speaker 1: kind of looking at where he had played this year,
Speaker 1: I said, oh, okay, he's played a little second base, he's
Speaker 1: mostly played third, he's even played some first. But when
Speaker 1: you look at the numbers, when you go into how
Speaker 1: he's done at each position over the years, he's actually
Speaker 1: shown some pretty good things at second base. He hasn't
Speaker 1: played there a lot. When he did play there the
Speaker 1: most in his career, it was back in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: It was one hundred and fifty nine innings, so it's
Speaker 1: not a lot. He didn't do great in that sample,
Speaker 1: but the next year he did show some improvements. It
Speaker 1: was even smaller than the year prior, but he had
Speaker 1: two defensive runs saved, he had a two run valund you,
Speaker 1: and then he barely He's played there a little bit
Speaker 1: this year with the Nationals, and he's gotten the job done.
Speaker 1: So Chad Tracy's saying today, I believe Craig Brett, who
Speaker 1: will listen to in just a second, that looking like
Speaker 1: second base is going to be where they're gonna give
Speaker 1: him some run. And that makes sense, right because second
Speaker 1: base has been you know, Siegler obviously has come up
Speaker 1: and done some great things, but he's been a little
Speaker 1: inconsistent as of late great game the other night, but
Speaker 1: before that he had hit a pretty bad stretch. So
Speaker 1: at least with this it gives you and with the
Speaker 1: way Meat is hitting this year, it gives you a
Speaker 1: little little something, right, gives you a little bit more
Speaker 1: insurance there. I would say, yeah, second base for sure?
Speaker 1: Why not? I say, But like Chad Tracy said one
Speaker 1: more line that he said, it's something they're going to
Speaker 1: keep an eye on. It's not he's not a guarantee.
Speaker 1: Heed like, Okay, you're gonna put him a second base
Speaker 1: You're good, Like Arise, with how he's played this year
Speaker 1: at second base, you put him there. You don't worry
Speaker 1: about it, right, you got to monitor it. I am
Speaker 1: still under the inclination that you'll again it comes down
Speaker 1: to what, you know, what o their moves could they make?
Speaker 1: But I do feel like he probably fits better at
Speaker 1: DH most of the time. But that's where the Red
Speaker 1: Sox have really tapped in. They play to the matchups.
Speaker 1: You know, Yeah, you can see Masa dhing like I
Speaker 1: could say here, when Masa is in the lineup, you
Speaker 1: can see Mead at second base. But if you have
Speaker 1: Masa not in the lineup that day. That's where you
Speaker 1: could have me dhing and then you could have Seguler
Speaker 1: playing second base. So depending on how that works out,
Speaker 1: that's where that's what I think they're going to do.
Speaker 1: We'll see either way you are. You are bringing in
Speaker 1: the bat of mister Curtis Mead. Now we are going
Speaker 1: to listen to Craig Breslo just a little bit before
Speaker 1: we do, though, I think we had another supershat, one
Speaker 1: more super chat. What do we got? How many home
Speaker 1: runs does meat have in sacrient Let me fix this?
Speaker 1: How many home runs does Mead have in Sacramento?
Speaker 3: This series?
Speaker 1: Oh you know, I actually that didn't even dawn on me.
Speaker 1: Sacramento it's a home run haven. Oh man, I don't know.
Speaker 1: That'd be pretty electric comes in honestly, Like, what would
Speaker 1: you be surprised with how the mojo has been over
Speaker 1: the last month with all the good vibes? Are we
Speaker 1: going to be surprised if Curtis Mead hits a homer
Speaker 1: in his first ab and going into Sacramento? Would not
Speaker 1: be surprised in the slightest, especially in a home run
Speaker 1: haven like that. We'll see, But let's take a listen
Speaker 1: here Craig Breslo had a few things to say here today.
Speaker 5: You know, a lot of trade conversations and concepts kind
Speaker 5: of drag out over the course of days, weeks, months.
Speaker 5: Even this one came together pretty quickly. I think was
Speaker 5: a good opportunity for each team to you know, to
Speaker 5: to meet some objectives.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 5: And so there wasn't a whole lot of back and forth,
Speaker 5: you know, outside of making sure that we did as
Speaker 5: much work as we possibly could and and you know, god,
Speaker 5: as comfortable as as we could.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 5: Because anytime you give up a player like Connolly Early,
Speaker 5: oh sorry one second, our roster, it's it's really tough.
Speaker 5: But looking at our roster, looking at our needs, we
Speaker 5: felt like this was something that that makes us better.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean, like we've talked, you know, Connley
Speaker 1: Early was is not someone you give up easily, so
Speaker 1: especially some of the high floor that's shown you a
Speaker 1: lot that I mean, he started a postseason game for
Speaker 1: you last year. The fact that he went out there
Speaker 1: and he was mentally holding it down in just an
Speaker 1: environment like that, you know, and remember you had you
Speaker 1: had some bad defense that that didn't help you out
Speaker 1: in that one. If you didn't have those couple of
Speaker 1: defensive miscues. I mean, holy cow, Early could have had
Speaker 1: a really good performance. So not easy to give him up,
Speaker 1: of course.
Speaker 5: Sure, you know, I think we had a lot of
Speaker 5: information available to us. There was you know, the kind
Speaker 5: of objective information that we have some some live looks
Speaker 5: from from scouts and scouting reports, talking to the coaches here. Uh,
Speaker 5: and you know, it does seem like there were meaningful
Speaker 5: changes to uh, to his setup where he was holding
Speaker 5: his hands, to his bat path, to his to his stride,
Speaker 5: you know, to to where he's consistently getting to more damage.
Speaker 5: He's always had good back to ball skills, He's never
Speaker 5: really chased, He's doesn't swing and miss a ton, has
Speaker 5: had good bat speed, and then kind of put it
Speaker 5: all together, but put it all together in a way
Speaker 5: that that we think is real and sticky. So we
Speaker 5: feel like that the way that he's performed over the
Speaker 5: last few months is actually the guy that that we're getting.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So again, you know, they're they are they're taking
Speaker 1: advantage of a guy that has They're taking advantage of
Speaker 1: a situation where a guy like Mead has figured it
Speaker 1: out at least right now, you know there, Yeah, there
Speaker 1: is there is risk here, but they're buying it. And
Speaker 1: but here's the thing when you think about over the years,
Speaker 1: when you think about it, you know guys that have
Speaker 1: those good bats of ball skills, that have that good
Speaker 1: plate discipline that can work counts time and time again.
Speaker 1: You've seen those guys have success over their careers when
Speaker 1: they have that understanding of a strike zone, when when
Speaker 1: they have good picture recognition right when they just kind
Speaker 1: of are able to work those counts better. You know,
Speaker 1: those guys, I feel like from more often than not,
Speaker 1: they tend to have more success. And I think that's
Speaker 1: what the Red Sox they believe here. And he just
Speaker 1: mentioned that saying, you know, he's always been a guy
Speaker 1: that's you know, had good bats of ball skills. So
Speaker 1: let me actually, I don't think I'm gonna get flagged
Speaker 1: if I if I play this. Yeah, so I think
Speaker 1: we'll be okay because this is on Neesson.
Speaker 5: Yeah, so, you know, I think right out of the gates,
Speaker 5: the plan is for me to get work at second,
Speaker 5: for Durban to stay at third. We'll put that in
Speaker 5: in TRACE's hands. But I know Trace has talked to
Speaker 5: to durb He's talked to Siegler. I've talked to Curtis,
Speaker 5: and the one thing that all three have said is
Speaker 5: we are willing to do whatever is best for the team.
Speaker 1: So yeah, it's funny because we had the conversation yesterday.
Speaker 1: Durbin said that he's in funny. It was really funny timing.
Speaker 1: He said yesterday that he was willing to move wherever.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I think right now this is kind of
Speaker 1: the way you go and then you you mix and match.
Speaker 1: You d h him. But what I also like about
Speaker 1: that is that he is giving it to Chad Tracy.
Speaker 1: I feel like Chad Tracy just, first off, can we
Speaker 1: please get an extension worked out with Shag Tracy? Like,
Speaker 1: I think he has more than earned a contract extension
Speaker 1: at this point. I wouldn't be surprised if they're writing
Speaker 1: up the details of or you know, trying to get
Speaker 1: some kind of negotiations going. I wouldn't be surprised about that.
Speaker 1: I mean, the guy has clearly done a great job,
Speaker 1: and that, to me, I think is a good sign saying,
Speaker 1: you know, not just not just giving him that decision,
Speaker 1: but openly saying it, saying we're gonna put that in
Speaker 1: Tracy's hands. So I think that's that's a good sign
Speaker 1: for a possible extension down the road.
Speaker 3: Now, we'll still work through that.
Speaker 5: Obviously, it's been a whirlwind twelve hours or so for
Speaker 5: for all parties, So we'll kind of make sure we
Speaker 5: get Curtis here. I think you schedule to travel later
Speaker 5: in the day, not in time for today's game, and
Speaker 5: then we'll figure out what the corresponding move is.
Speaker 1: So he's talking there, if someone asked him, what was
Speaker 1: the corresponding move going to be, my guess is it's
Speaker 1: gonna be I think it's gonna be Shang, you know,
Speaker 1: and you just kind of well, then again, I don't know,
Speaker 1: you think about it too with you know Monasterio, right,
Speaker 1: I mean, are you okay with putting him at short
Speaker 1: every day?
Speaker 5: You know?
Speaker 1: It's I don't know, I'm not sure about that one.
Speaker 1: I mean, if I'm looking here, I mean, I guess
Speaker 1: you know you could do that for the time being.
Speaker 1: Another also another factor is Chang is a lefty, So
Speaker 1: I don't know if that comes into play or not,
Speaker 1: but it's really interesting. My guess would be Chang. But
Speaker 1: then you're you're you're full of righty's. Well, actually, no, no,
Speaker 1: because if you and then you Seeglue, I take that back.
Speaker 1: Seeglue would go to the bench more often as the
Speaker 1: switch guy. So I would probably lean towards Chang. I
Speaker 1: could be wrong, who knows, I mean, could there be
Speaker 1: I don't know, Like, do do you get a d Like,
Speaker 1: do you get a DFA somewhere? I would think, you know,
Speaker 1: obviously romy he's in the infield, Chang's in the infield.
Speaker 1: I did. I did think last night maybe Jamike Jones,
Speaker 1: but you know, you kind of need another outfielder out there.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be interesting, Like I don't know, I've seen
Speaker 1: people mentioned you know, could this be, you know, a
Speaker 1: DFA for Masa or could you could they be working
Speaker 1: on a trade behind the scenes like with Masa? Possibly,
Speaker 1: but he's been hitting really well for you, So I
Speaker 1: don't know. I think I even saw somewhere too, you know,
Speaker 1: could you find a way to move Duran and then
Speaker 1: you know Masa goes out to left? You know, I
Speaker 1: think there's a whole bunch of ideas out there of
Speaker 1: how you could you do this?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Would they go with a five man bench?
Speaker 1: I don't know about that, so I don't know. It's interesting.
Speaker 1: I think it's either my guess is chang. But then again,
Speaker 1: I mean that pretty much means like Monasterio is your
Speaker 1: shortstop and the story is going to be coming back eventually.
Speaker 1: I don't know's it's gonna be. Really, I feel like
Speaker 1: you could go a whole bunch of different ways with this.
Speaker 1: It's interesting, it's interesting, super chat swingman, Lou, what's going
Speaker 1: on for an nine and nine Robbie? Even if Mead
Speaker 1: goes off, this is an f of a trade. If
Speaker 1: we would have gotten prospects all so cool, but one
Speaker 1: for one is an awful trade. I am going to
Speaker 1: disagree with that, Lou. I do understand where you're coming from.
Speaker 1: But again, I think when you think about that, there's
Speaker 1: a need for this lineup, the need, the need for Mead.
Speaker 1: You had a need for Mead. You needed something, And
Speaker 1: I am sure they tried other avenues, right And if
Speaker 1: they got the sense that realistically you would have to
Speaker 1: give up Arius to get Netto or whoever, then I
Speaker 1: don't think this is really a bad pivot. Obviously, because
Speaker 1: metrics are looking safe, everything is looking good. They feel
Speaker 1: comfortable that things are gonna stick and you're dealing from
Speaker 1: a surplus, I really think, and if you if you
Speaker 1: think about it from early as well. While we do
Speaker 1: love the upside and the good floor that he brings you, already,
Speaker 1: it's such a young age. I think with you know, early,
Speaker 1: obviously he's still coming back from the elbow issue and
Speaker 1: he's had he's had some inconsistencies, which rookies obviously go
Speaker 1: through that. You know nothing, you know, nothing wrong with that.
Speaker 1: But when metrics wise, when you do look at early,
Speaker 1: I mean last year they were off the sharts. But
Speaker 1: this year, I mean, you know, it's you know, it
Speaker 1: looks like a guy that's kind of figuring things out right.
Speaker 1: And that's not a bad thing. But for the situation
Speaker 1: at hand, you had a need for me, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: start saying that you needed a hitter, you need a
Speaker 1: bat and other teams I believe, listening to Paul Taboni
Speaker 1: earlier today, if I remember correctly, he said a lot
Speaker 1: of teams were starting to call, so the Red Sox
Speaker 1: had a shot here. And I mean, if you're thinking
Speaker 1: about what were even these other offers out there, Early
Speaker 1: is a guy that's shown a lot of promise, a
Speaker 1: lot of flour I think has more ceiling to tap into.
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, for the Nationals, like I would imagine
Speaker 1: he's probably obviously he was the best offer because they
Speaker 1: took it. But this is a shot for the Red
Speaker 1: Sox to get someone like this. I wouldn't be surprised
Speaker 1: at all to Bony told Craig, hey, listen, you got
Speaker 1: like you got ten minutes to let us know, because
Speaker 1: we got some other teams on the phone. If you
Speaker 1: want to do early, let us know you got ten minutes.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be surprised if they did something like that.
Speaker 1: It's there is risk, there absolutely is, and I am
Speaker 1: not denying that. But I think you had an opportunity
Speaker 1: to be aggressive here to get some good upside. I
Speaker 1: think it's worth the risk, especially coming from a surplus
Speaker 1: that's kind of just where I'm at. You never know
Speaker 1: what could happen. Though, Paul and the Chat Fancy need
Speaker 1: to get over their love of players and look at
Speaker 1: things realistically. This is a damn good trade for the Socks.
Speaker 1: I think there's a lot of a lot of upside
Speaker 1: for it. As always wait and see. I like doing
Speaker 1: the predictions because they're fun. They're always a good conversation starter,
Speaker 1: but realistically you always gotta wait and see. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of potential here, a lot, And with the way
Speaker 1: he's hitting, I think there's if you don't mess with anything,
Speaker 1: if you don't just don't touch anything, let the guy
Speaker 1: do what he's been doing. I mean, shoot, have hims.
Speaker 1: I don't know, probably not allowed. But man, if there's
Speaker 1: a way to have him keep working with whoever he
Speaker 1: was working with, Holy count, figure out a way to
Speaker 1: make that happen. Probably not obviously, but you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, there's good opportunity here. We will see back
Speaker 1: to Craig. Let's see what Craig was saying here.
Speaker 8: The deal say about how you were reading the markets.
Speaker 8: Unusual to have a deal of this consequence, you know,
Speaker 8: seven marine days before the deadline. What did the timing
Speaker 8: say about you? Your take on things moving in the market,
Speaker 8: getting established?
Speaker 3: Probably a few things.
Speaker 5: You know, in a in a perfect world, I'm sure
Speaker 5: everybody would would like to have all of the different
Speaker 5: concepts in front of them, line them up, and then
Speaker 5: make a decision at the same time. You know, these
Speaker 5: decisions are always on I don't think there's a I
Speaker 5: don't think there's a comfortable trade that gets made this
Speaker 5: this time of year, and there are a few advantages
Speaker 5: for us. One is, we felt like this is something
Speaker 5: that makes us better and independent of the alternatives, you know,
Speaker 5: we felt like this this made sense for us. The
Speaker 5: other thing is that, uh, you know, getting seven or
Speaker 5: eight extra games with Curtis Meat in our lineup is
Speaker 5: is real, you know, So we don't want to.
Speaker 3: Discount the value of of getting those That's.
Speaker 1: That's that's a that's a really big point, man, especially
Speaker 1: in this race, in this wildcard race, looking for a
Speaker 1: postseason spot, looking where you came from to get back
Speaker 1: to this point. Offense is the clear need right now
Speaker 1: after putting in that much effort to get back to
Speaker 1: where you are. Yeah, I love that you're bringing in
Speaker 1: something here with Curtis Meade to help you get as
Speaker 1: many wins as possible. Here at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: you gotta get wins. You need a more offense in
Speaker 1: this lineup. He gives you more of an opportunity to
Speaker 1: win games, and every win matters at this point, especially
Speaker 1: the effort that it took to get here. You know,
Speaker 1: It's like you, I mean, what's a what's a what's
Speaker 1: a good analogy here. You had a you had a
Speaker 1: broken oven. You got to make a cake for a
Speaker 1: I don't know something, my birthday. You got to make
Speaker 1: a cake for my birth but the oven's broke. You
Speaker 1: finally fix the oven. Holy cow, you got You only
Speaker 1: got minimal time to make this cake and you end
Speaker 1: up making a great cake. And then are you just
Speaker 1: gonna take that cake to the party on just a
Speaker 1: paper plate. No, I'm gonna put that thing in a
Speaker 1: nice case, make sure it doesn't fall out. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: get the ones where the little little things snap on
Speaker 1: the side so it's not gonna fall out. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: do everything I can to protect that cake that took.
Speaker 1: You know, obviously I had to fix my oven and
Speaker 1: obviously make it right. Was that a good analogy? I'm
Speaker 1: sorry if that was bad, But yeah, I understand what
Speaker 1: he's saying. You have the pitching, you need another bat,
Speaker 1: the need for me. Well, that didn't work. Hold on,
Speaker 1: Oh this fold on a second. Facebook. I'm playing it
Speaker 1: on Facebook.
Speaker 5: The I think this move it makes our our major
Speaker 5: league roster better. And that's not to diminish Connolly early
Speaker 5: in what I think he's capable. I think he's gonna
Speaker 5: he's gonna be a really good starting pitcher for for
Speaker 5: a long time with the Nationals. But what our roster
Speaker 5: needed right now, you know, we thought with someone who
Speaker 5: can hit at the top of the order, in the
Speaker 5: middle of the order, he's a particularly good fit for
Speaker 5: our park, just given kind of the batted ball profile
Speaker 5: and the power, and so we think he makes us better.
Speaker 5: He makes us better in the short term and the
Speaker 5: long term. He's you know, he's twenty five years old.
Speaker 5: Obviously it's been kind of a bumpy road at times
Speaker 5: for him to to kind of settle in and establish
Speaker 5: himself as a big leaguer. But at twenty five, still
Speaker 5: feel like his best years are ahead of him. So,
Speaker 5: you know, we think this is a move to make
Speaker 5: us better in twenty six and we'll continue to look
Speaker 5: for those opportunities.
Speaker 1: And also, twenty five years old, it's not like you're
Speaker 1: getting someone that's you know, about to go into the
Speaker 1: the tail end of his career. You got a guy
Speaker 1: that's twenty five. I mean, man, there's so much upside
Speaker 1: to tap into here. Man, oh man. So those were
Speaker 1: the thoughts on from Craig Breslow and I believe we
Speaker 1: also had him talking today at Femway Park. Let's take
Speaker 1: a listen. I'm not going to show this clip because
Speaker 1: they do show some of the game, so I don't
Speaker 1: want to get hit with the copyright, So we're just
Speaker 1: gonna listen to this one. Becket Inning.
Speaker 4: Chief Baseball Officer Craig Breslow has just acquired Curtis Mead
Speaker 4: from the Washington Nationals. Seventeen home runs, right handed power.
Speaker 1: Great to have it.
Speaker 4: Can we talk about that dive in what you loved
Speaker 4: about this guy? Yeah, right handed power.
Speaker 5: Seventeen home runs a pretty good place to start, but
Speaker 5: now feel like he's made some real swing changes this season,
Speaker 5: kind of put things together. He's been a top pross
Speaker 5: for a really long time, but maybe didn't have the run,
Speaker 5: you know, wasn't able to get things to click, and
Speaker 5: it's doing so this season. And he's a great fit
Speaker 5: for our park. He's a great fit for our lineup,
Speaker 5: and really excited to get him on board.
Speaker 9: And we're talking overhaul mechanically like hands stride batpas.
Speaker 1: Let me actually really quick, let me pull this one
Speaker 1: up because I wanted you to particularly particularly play where
Speaker 1: he talked about the trade deadline coming up. Let me
Speaker 1: get this pulled up, let me find the time stamp.
Speaker 3: It is.
Speaker 1: Here we go.
Speaker 4: Do you feel confident that another deal at the tradeline
Speaker 4: Craig is in the offing for you?
Speaker 5: If I've learned anything approaching my third deadline, it's to
Speaker 5: never feel like you can predict what's going to happen over.
Speaker 3: The next week.
Speaker 5: We're gonna we're gonna explore every opportunity that we can.
Speaker 5: This came together, you know, I think on a relatively
Speaker 5: early compared to where deals typically do. But I don't
Speaker 5: want to discount the importance of getting Curtis in the
Speaker 5: lineup for the next week or so.
Speaker 4: Sure.
Speaker 9: Also, I mean there's still a lot of teams over
Speaker 9: this next week have don't really know which direction they're going.
Speaker 9: There's still games to be played, a couple series to
Speaker 9: be played for those teams to even get to that point.
Speaker 9: So yeah, to your point, you get an extra seven
Speaker 9: eight games with that power.
Speaker 4: Jaron Duran batting with a runner on at first base
Speaker 4: and two down and he'll cut and missing one with
Speaker 4: thirteen home runs. What has happened with this team. It's
Speaker 4: amazing the way it's come together. There's there's a feeling
Speaker 4: that everything changed beginning with that Yankee series. But the
Speaker 4: way fans have fallen in love with this team has
Speaker 4: been amazing to watch.
Speaker 5: We've been able to see the identity come through and
Speaker 5: these guys show up.
Speaker 3: They compete for each other, they compete for the fans.
Speaker 5: Trace has done an incredible job in bringing them together,
Speaker 5: and they believe in each other. You know, there's just
Speaker 5: there's a ton of confidence in the clubhouse, and I
Speaker 5: think the players feel like they're supported, They're they're surrounded
Speaker 5: by people who believe in them.
Speaker 4: Can you get Roman Anthony back? Are you confident you'll
Speaker 4: see him back this year?
Speaker 3: I hope.
Speaker 6: So.
Speaker 5: You know, he's he's working his tail off to try
Speaker 5: to get back. He sees what's happening, he wants to
Speaker 5: be a part of it, and he's pushing himself every day.
Speaker 1: I think that's a big part too. From right there,
Speaker 1: I know, I kind of let that run a little bit,
Speaker 1: But you know, no answer on Roman Anthony. That's a
Speaker 1: big thing. So could that be another thing that comes
Speaker 1: into play here when it comes to future moves. I'm
Speaker 1: sure they're gonna be really looking at that over the
Speaker 1: next week. I wouldn't even I wouldn't even be surprised
Speaker 1: if they look to try to get him swinging this week,
Speaker 1: just to see, like, all right, let's see, let's let's
Speaker 1: take some swings, and if he feels pain still, I
Speaker 1: wonder if that triggers them to be like, all right,
Speaker 1: we we we we gotta go cover our butts here
Speaker 1: and we gotta we got to figure out, you know,
Speaker 1: a way to get another bat here, you know, because
Speaker 1: you can't count on him coming back. So I actually
Speaker 1: wonder if they look to see if there's any progress
Speaker 1: this coming week, because whatever, if he swings a bat
Speaker 1: and it hurts, it's like, well, you know, he's already
Speaker 1: where he's at, so it's like all right, yeah, So
Speaker 1: I don't know, I wouldn't be surprised at all if
Speaker 1: there are more moves that could be made. I talked
Speaker 1: about this last night. I still think you could add
Speaker 1: someone for the middle infield. I mean, now, obviously Meat
Speaker 1: is looking like he's gonna getting a majority of the
Speaker 1: time at second base, that doesn't mean you can't go
Speaker 1: get another guy. You know. I know, stories coming back,
Speaker 1: but if you had a situation where story comes back
Speaker 1: and play short, and you go get another middle infielder
Speaker 1: they can play second. You know, go get a rise
Speaker 1: you know, why couldn't you go get a rise stories
Speaker 1: at short and then Mead ends up just dhing most
Speaker 1: of the time. Or Caleb Durban saying he's open to
Speaker 1: moving across. If the Red Sox are really big on defense,
Speaker 1: if they wanted to go get a third baseman, say
Speaker 1: Max Chapman, who wouldn't cost a lot to acquire because
Speaker 1: he's on an underwater contract. Do the Red Sox make
Speaker 1: a move like that where they've shown the willingness to
Speaker 1: be open to taking on money. So if they're willing
Speaker 1: to do that, you'd have an amazing infield. You'd have
Speaker 1: Chatman at third. Well, Durban, I think you would be
Speaker 1: completely fine at second base. He's been great at third.
Speaker 1: But you know, even a situation like that, I don't
Speaker 1: think adding need here completely counts you out for adding
Speaker 1: something else, especially if Roman is not showing any signs
Speaker 1: of progressing. So Phoenix, I totally get what you mean.
Speaker 1: I'm not moving Durban off a third. I'd move him
Speaker 1: off for Chapman. Chapman's an amazing defender. Caleb Durban has
Speaker 1: been great too. I think he'd be just as good
Speaker 1: at second base, and he came up as a second baseman.
Speaker 1: So if you had an opportunity to get some great
Speaker 1: defense like Chapman at third, who has also a swing
Speaker 1: built for Femway, I'd listen to that. I wouldn't completely
Speaker 1: I wouldn't completely discredit that. Now there was one thing
Speaker 1: I couldn't find the clip. But quoting from Craig Breslo here,
Speaker 1: Tyler Millican, thank you for posting these quotes here today,
Speaker 1: he said, I don't when asked if the offense is
Speaker 1: still the priority, I don't know. I don't think anybody
Speaker 1: would sit here and say, no, we don't need any
Speaker 1: more offense. We have to be mindful of losing Connolly
Speaker 1: and losing those innings. We have to be mindful of
Speaker 1: the workload that we put on our bullpen. We'll look
Speaker 1: across a pretty wide scope here and figure out if
Speaker 1: anything makes sense for us. The fact that he bring
Speaker 1: again with these kind of quotes, you have to kind
Speaker 1: of look at spific parts, right. The innings part is
Speaker 1: the one that sticks out to me. So I think
Speaker 1: it's a safe bet. No one else is getting moved
Speaker 1: from the Major league level. I mean, I don't know,
Speaker 1: Like even Patrick Sandoval, do you move him at this point?
Speaker 1: At least while he may not have looked amazing overall,
Speaker 1: he's still a guy that can give you gives you winnings.
Speaker 1: So I actually wonder if you still move him. I
Speaker 1: don't think anyone else. So Bennett's not going anywhere. Don't
Speaker 1: even think about that obviously, totally, No no one else.
Speaker 1: Maybe Sandoval, but even then I don't think so. So
Speaker 1: does this open up the possibility of moving ansin? But
Speaker 1: then again you also pause at that because now you've
Speaker 1: just moved one of your young starters. So now wouldn't
Speaker 1: you rather keep your depth as well with your top
Speaker 1: pitching prospect. So I don't know, Like it's it's interesting
Speaker 1: what they could do. So that's where.
Speaker 5: You know.
Speaker 1: And here's another thing. And we've brought up this name
Speaker 1: a lot, a lot a lot, Marcelo Meyer. What happens
Speaker 1: with him now? I imagine he's not going to be
Speaker 1: coming back to the major league team when he's healthy
Speaker 1: unless someone else goes down. Who knows. With Trevor story,
Speaker 1: you never know. But what happens with him now, I
Speaker 1: still think he's a trade candidate. But then again, what
Speaker 1: do other teams think? I don't know. I think I
Speaker 1: saw Red Sox stats put out there today. Could you
Speaker 1: dangle Arius? I've said it a million times. I would
Speaker 1: not be happy about that unless you got yourself like
Speaker 1: a star kind of a guy. This one more time
Speaker 1: with the quote. This tells me that no more starters
Speaker 1: at the major league level are going to be moved.
Speaker 1: I'm even hesitant with Sandoval, and that also makes me think, like,
Speaker 1: you know, could you end up keeping in too? So
Speaker 1: you wonder, you know, Arius and Meyer, could they be
Speaker 1: up for grabs? You know, I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Could there be a possible big move? You know, you
Speaker 1: also think about this. I don't know, Like I think
Speaker 1: Red Sox Stats mentioned Tyler Sodastrom today, I don't know
Speaker 1: if I'm thinking on the fly right now. Sorry if
Speaker 1: this doesn't make sense, but like, if Roman's not going
Speaker 1: to come back, if you are weary about Roman coming back,
Speaker 1: I don't know, Like soda Strom's a guy that can
Speaker 1: play some outfield and obviously d h So I don't know,
Speaker 1: like could that be a possibility? And then you kind of,
Speaker 1: you know, down the road, you just figure out the positions.
Speaker 1: So I don't know, like, is he a possible option?
Speaker 1: I kind of wonder. I think a lot of this
Speaker 1: rides on Roman, a lot of it, and I think
Speaker 1: this is going to be a big week Phoenix in
Speaker 1: the chat trading Meyer first chance, Yeah, I think he
Speaker 1: I don't. I feel like it's I would say it's
Speaker 1: like the worst kept secret right now. If you're looking
Speaker 1: at Red Sox trade candidates, his name has popped up
Speaker 1: multiple times. I feel like he is up for grabs
Speaker 1: at this point if a team wants to take the chance.
Speaker 1: So again, one more thing, I one more time. I
Speaker 1: think there is still a possibility of making moves. And
Speaker 1: as for the pitching staff too, I think also him
Speaker 1: saying right there, we have to be mindful of the
Speaker 1: workload that we put on our bullpen. That also tells
Speaker 1: me that they're going to be looking for relief help.
Speaker 1: I've been talking about relief help for a while. I
Speaker 1: think you go after one of these guys on the
Speaker 1: mets like a bras, a bond or a mentor. I mean, shoot,
Speaker 1: I'd even look into what would it take to bring
Speaker 1: back Bernadino. Even I'd look into that, you know, like
Speaker 1: like brock Burke on the Reds. Could you do someone
Speaker 1: like him? I yeah, I think there's a lot more
Speaker 1: to do here. I think there's a lot more to do.
Speaker 1: Let's take a look here at some voicemails. Do we
Speaker 1: have any voicemails? All right, we got a voicemail.
Speaker 2: Here we go, Hey, Robbie. A few things people need
Speaker 2: to understand about Craig Breslow. His team is very tight.
Speaker 2: Nothing ever gets out. There's ever reports about them being interested.
Speaker 2: That's every team, but Craig loves dealing in the shadows.
Speaker 2: You will almost never hear a actual legiti report of
Speaker 2: someone they're targeting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, yeah, we just saw it last night.
Speaker 1: I mean how many times have we seen I feel
Speaker 1: like the only guy that the Red Sox have traded
Speaker 1: for and even signed that you had heard about prior
Speaker 1: was Wilson Contreras. Like you had heard that connection a
Speaker 1: little bit and then it happened. I think what was
Speaker 1: like a couple of weeks, a few weeks after or
Speaker 1: something like that. Everyone else it was like a complete surprise.
Speaker 1: Well Bregman, obviously they were connected with Bregman for a while.
Speaker 1: So but yeah, you you look at all the moves
Speaker 1: last night. No one again, no one even had excuse me,
Speaker 1: no one even had Curtis meat as a trade candidate.
Speaker 1: Everyone was all the lists had c j Abrams and
Speaker 1: maybe even James Wood, right, so that you know, it's
Speaker 1: actually interesting we had that little Where did that report
Speaker 1: come from? That came from?
Speaker 2: Ah?
Speaker 1: Oh was Marino Papenn? Marino Papenn? Stay positive, we move forward.
Speaker 1: I think he had been the he was the one
Speaker 1: that put the James Wood thing out there. Did the
Speaker 1: Red Sox actually ask about James Wood? They probably did, so,
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's an interest thing. They made a
Speaker 1: trade with the Nationals and then he put that report out,
Speaker 1: and before he put the report out, so but yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, Curtis Mead was not mentioned anywhere anywhere. The
Speaker 1: only time that in my head he was ever a
Speaker 1: trade candidate was when I was coming up with you know,
Speaker 1: some trade videos in the past over the last couple
Speaker 1: of weeks, last few weeks, and I'm looking at guys,
Speaker 1: I'm like, well, the Nationals like Abrahms, he's getting a
Speaker 1: couple of years to free agent, couple of years close
Speaker 1: in a free agency. But Mead, yeah, he's hitting really well,
Speaker 1: but he's still really far away. Why would the Nationals
Speaker 1: want to move him? But here he is there, he
Speaker 1: is so yeah, you never ever hear about these Ranger
Speaker 1: Suarez right, that came out of nowhere, right, that was
Speaker 1: the pivot from nowhere. So yeah, you're absolutely right. So
Speaker 1: that's where I kind of like we can keep talking
Speaker 1: about these other guys like Netto and a Rise who
Speaker 1: are out there. Well, what I'll say this with a Rise,
Speaker 1: I haven't seen one connection with him in the Red Sox,
Speaker 1: at least I don't unless it's like a mock trade.
Speaker 1: I haven't seen any report saying there's any kind of interest.
Speaker 1: So I don't know. Is that a guy that you
Speaker 1: think about getting the bat on the ball while you
Speaker 1: got one of the best in the business right there
Speaker 1: with a Rise? I would love him. Could you imagine
Speaker 1: you bringing a Rise? He's your leadoff guy. They also
Speaker 1: had Masa leading off here today and that was another
Speaker 1: bad day for the leadoff spot. I feel like the
Speaker 1: best leadoff spot, the best performance out of the leadoff
Speaker 1: spot we've gotten over the last while with Siegeler the
Speaker 1: other night four for five. You never see that, So again, like,
Speaker 1: could you go after a rise and then you got meat.
Speaker 3: In the middle.
Speaker 1: Like sounds pretty good if you ask me anyway, But yeah,
Speaker 1: keep your eyes out, like I don't know that's where
Speaker 1: like someone like Soda Strom. He's been mentioned like very minimally,
Speaker 1: But could that be a guy like if I'm looking here,
Speaker 1: you know some other possibilities. Let's see if I'm looking
Speaker 1: for someone that you don't even think of being a candidate,
Speaker 1: Like there's I don't know, like there's no way the
Speaker 1: Tigers are going to trad Dylan Dingler. So if you're
Speaker 1: looking for a catcher, I think you can cross him
Speaker 1: off the list. I don't think he would be a
Speaker 1: surprise candidate. Someone asked about Riley Green yesterday. I believe.
Speaker 1: I don't know, Like where are the Tigers at in
Speaker 1: these standings right now? Tigers the three and a half out,
Speaker 1: So I don't know, like do they all of a
Speaker 1: sudden decide that they're okay with moving one of these
Speaker 1: guys to bring in value besides Schooble, I'm going down
Speaker 1: the list. I don't know, Like I know, Bryce Eldridge
Speaker 1: has been mentioned before as a possible trade candidate. I
Speaker 1: believe in the off season, I don't think he would
Speaker 1: go anywhere. At this point, we've heard Luis Garcia junior
Speaker 1: and again getting back to the Nationals. Remember he was
Speaker 1: popping up. So sounds like to me, Craig's been calling
Speaker 1: the Nationals quite a bit. James would Louis Garcia junior.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean, if I'm looking other possibilities, I
Speaker 1: don't know, like, no one really you know, again, like
Speaker 1: Soda Strom, maybe he jumps off. I don't know. Liam Hicks,
Speaker 1: is that a possibility? Like, if you're looking for some
Speaker 1: catching help, could Liam Hicks be a possibility? He's a
Speaker 1: left handed bat. Well, I don't know. I mean, you
Speaker 1: could get a platoon going right lefty bat. He's got
Speaker 1: a little bit of pop like Dalton Rushing. I don't
Speaker 1: know if the Dodgers move him at this point with
Speaker 1: Will Smith being hurt. Yeah, I mean, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'd have to look further. But no one really besides
Speaker 1: those couple of names, like I don't know, no one
Speaker 1: really jumps off as like a under the radar trade
Speaker 1: candidate to me, at least guys that are like towards
Speaker 1: the like in the top half when it comes to rankings. Offensively,
Speaker 1: so we got a few more super Chats. Let's get
Speaker 1: to those from Carl. I hate to see early go,
Speaker 1: but they have more pictures then rotation spots. So if
Speaker 1: we trade one piece for a power hitting DH and
Speaker 1: Curtis me, then I'm in. Yeah. Uh, time will tell,
Speaker 1: Time will tell. I love the possibilities, I love the potential.
Speaker 1: There seems to be good floor. We'll see. It's a
Speaker 1: lot giving up early, and I really hope it works out. Uh,
Speaker 1: Jacob nine to nine cents super Chat. I appreciate my
Speaker 1: friend becoming a member. I appreciate you, man, appreciate you.
Speaker 1: But everybody did we actually did? We end up going
Speaker 1: over an hour here today? Oh my goodness, it's been
Speaker 1: almost an hour and a half. See, I'll just ramble on.
Speaker 1: I'll just ramble on, man, goodness. Almost an hour and
Speaker 1: a half is one of our longest shows I think
Speaker 1: of the season. I'm gonna start getting out of here,
Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen. It's uh, it's almost dinner time. I'm
Speaker 1: getting hungry over here. I actually still got I got
Speaker 1: to run to the store. Oh, Jacob, super Chat, what
Speaker 1: about Auto Lopez? Marlin's have been horrible? You know the
Speaker 1: Marlins all of a sudden. I mean they have been
Speaker 1: really falling off. I mean they're still three out, they're
Speaker 1: barely into the positives with run differential. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't know do they end up moving Sandy? Now
Speaker 1: I'm thinking, Man, they're good, they're they're they're all set.
Speaker 1: They're not gonna be moving Sandy. But I don't know
Speaker 1: this is gonna be. This is getting a little hairy
Speaker 1: for the Marlins. I don't know the do the Red
Speaker 1: Sox call about Sandy? If you Craig's talking about Ednings,
Speaker 1: does he does he go get another starter for the rotation?
Speaker 1: I don't know. Anthony under the radar guy kiber Ruiz,
Speaker 1: he's on a long term deal, so I mean that
Speaker 1: contract is I mean, that's that's not up for a while,
Speaker 1: so I don't think he would go anywhere. But never
Speaker 1: say never, Never say never, my Phoenix. In the chat
Speaker 1: Michael King Morihan, you wonder does Preller is Preller open
Speaker 1: to that kind of a move where you can get
Speaker 1: a cost controlled talent for someone like Duran and then
Speaker 1: you get some pitching possibly, you know, Michael King, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I think I saw something on him that
Speaker 1: they could be open to moving him. Where are the
Speaker 1: posrays in these standings right now? I mean they're two out.
Speaker 1: I look at the pogsrays with where they're at. They
Speaker 1: have talent there. My guess is Preller. He kind of
Speaker 1: tries to dance that line, thread that line a little bit,
Speaker 1: thread the needle. I wonder if that's the approach they're
Speaker 1: going to take where he could make a move like that.
Speaker 1: I don't know, Like, do you like, if you're looking
Speaker 1: at Duran, he's lost so much value. It's really unfortunate.
Speaker 1: But like, could Morhon be an option? That would be awesome. Oh,
Speaker 1: that would be awesome. That'd be amazing. You know that gif?
Speaker 1: What's that gif? I think it's from the movie like
Speaker 1: like like on like Beethoven or something. I always forget
Speaker 1: this guy who the character is, who the name is.
Speaker 1: The guy's like looking at the notes and he's like
Speaker 1: flipping through it, and then he reads the music and
Speaker 1: he it's so beautiful to him, and he just like
Speaker 1: drops all of the the music notes or whatever they're
Speaker 1: called because it's like so beautiful and he can't even
Speaker 1: handle it. That would be me if I looked at
Speaker 1: the back end of the Bullpen for the Red Sox.
Speaker 1: If that had Chapman, Whitlock and Morahon, Oh beautiful, beautiful,
Speaker 1: I need that, please. I would be so open to
Speaker 1: getting Morahan. Man. I would love a high levelverage lefty.
Speaker 1: I've been talking about getting a high leverage lefty. I
Speaker 1: was okay with Danny Koolohan when it happened, But oh, man,
Speaker 1: if there's more potential there.
Speaker 3: I would love it.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: But do you trade Duran for a reliever at this point?
Speaker 3: I don't know about that.
Speaker 1: That just and he's a rental too. Like I feel
Speaker 1: like like trade value wise, like I mean, yeah, Duran
Speaker 1: is really falling off here, so like numbers wise, that
Speaker 1: would work, But philosophically, like, you don't trade you know,
Speaker 1: you don't trade an every day, everyday player with two
Speaker 1: years of control left where a rental reliever. I don't know, man,
Speaker 1: I don't know. But why not? Why why couldn't Why
Speaker 1: couldn't he be a candidate for the Red Sox. Would
Speaker 1: love that, would love that. But my guess is Preller,
Speaker 1: he's gonna look to kind of thread the needle, kinda
Speaker 1: look to bring back talent that can still help them
Speaker 1: in the second half. So like that's where I could
Speaker 1: see Duran being a possibility. Maybe I know he's having
Speaker 1: a down year, but he still gives you some pop
Speaker 1: with speed. But a big part of that's Roman. What's
Speaker 1: gonna happen there and Steve and the chat Mason Miller? Oh,
Speaker 1: that would be I would be dropping the music notes
Speaker 1: all over the place, like I would probably faint, to
Speaker 1: be honest, if the Red Sox found a way to
Speaker 1: get Mason Miller, I'd faint. I would, I mean honestly,
Speaker 1: Like could you even get like really creative here? I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Nah, I'm not even gonna do it.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say, like, let's say Preller was like,
Speaker 1: all right, Mason Miller, he's got a ton of value here.
Speaker 1: What if we could get back Chatman for this year
Speaker 1: and then we have him for next year, but then
Speaker 1: we also get someone with Chapman like a high like
Speaker 1: a couple of high value prospects, right, Like could you
Speaker 1: see like some I don't know, would the Red Sox
Speaker 1: even do that? Why would I don't know. So that's
Speaker 1: where trades they get, They just get a they can
Speaker 1: get messy. So that's where you start thinking about these possibilities,
Speaker 1: and it's like, no, you gotta think about it from
Speaker 1: both sides. Right anyway, I'm out here, everybody. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: wrap it up right there. I'm hungry. I feel like
Speaker 1: I'm starting to get delirious. We'll be back here actually
Speaker 1: really quick. Let me check on the game for tomorrow
Speaker 1: Tomorrow night. It is at nine to forty Eastern time,
Speaker 1: so we'll be here around midnight or so. Goodness gracious,
Speaker 1: I need some sleep here tonight that I've been getting
Speaker 1: wrecked lately with all this stuff. Man, my whole sleep
Speaker 1: got messed up last night. I'm tired today, but we
Speaker 1: keep pushing through here, ladies and gentlemen. Trade deadline is
Speaker 1: a week away. Sleep is for the weary. I'm out here, everybody,
Speaker 1: go enjoy the rest of your evening. Thank you for
Speaker 1: all the super chats. Thank you for all the members,
Speaker 1: the new members as well, stopping UMBI. Thank you for
Speaker 1: all the familiar faces. We'll be back here tomorrow night.