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

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Speaker 1: first edition of twenty twenty six. Happy New Year Day everyone,

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Speaker 1: I hope everyone had a great holiday. Everyone is back

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Speaker 1: at it on this Monday, and that would include.

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Speaker 2: The sleeping baseball world.

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Speaker 1: This offseason has not progressed in a particularly rapid fashion.

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Speaker 1: I wrote this morning with Will Salmon about a number

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Speaker 1: of teams that still have unfinished business. And in that

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Speaker 1: story we noted that the top three free agents according

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Speaker 1: to the Athletics Big Board, are still unsigned. That would

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Speaker 1: be Kyle Tucker, Bobashett and Alex Bregman. Six of the

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Speaker 1: nine are still unsigned, and twenty of the top fifty.

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Speaker 1: And there are still a number of trade conversations percolating

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Speaker 1: as well. And we're going to start today talking about

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Speaker 1: one of those trade conversations that I reported yesterday with

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Speaker 1: Will Salmon. I'm sorry with Chris Kershner about the Yankees

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Speaker 1: and the Yankees' interest in Edward Cabrera of the Miami Marlins. Now,

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Speaker 1: we wrote the talks have taken place. We wrote that

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Speaker 1: as of now, no deal is close, but certainly this

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Speaker 1: is something the Marlins have been discussing for quite some time.

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Speaker 2: There are other teams in the mix.

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Speaker 1: After we reported this, a number of reports came out

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Speaker 1: citing the Mets, the Cubs, and others that are also

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Speaker 1: sniffing around on Cabrera. As they say in baseball, the

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Speaker 1: Orioles have been involved in the past as well. It

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Speaker 1: certainly appears that Cabrera is going to get traded. He's

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Speaker 1: an interesting guy. He's extremely talented, immensely talented.

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Speaker 2: He also gets hurt a lot.

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Speaker 1: He was on the IL twice last year, and he

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Speaker 1: is a guy that if you get him, you love him.

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Speaker 1: Of course you love the talent, but you hold your

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Speaker 1: breath as well that he will stay healthy. And with

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Speaker 1: the Yankees the situation that they're in, as Chris and

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Speaker 1: I described in the story, Garrett Cole, Carlos Rodon Clark,

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Speaker 1: Schmidt all starting the season on the injured list. They're

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Speaker 1: supposed to return at various times. Rodin and Cole, first,

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Speaker 1: So the Yankees do clearly have a rotation opening and

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Speaker 1: that is one reason, of course, why they're interested in

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Speaker 1: Edward Cabrera. We'll be talking more about the Yankees and

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Speaker 1: their off season in the Inside Dish. Now, obviously, Edward

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Speaker 1: Cabrera is not the only starting pitcher in play with

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Speaker 1: regard to trade. Now you have also Mackenzie Gore of

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Speaker 1: the Washington Nationals, and you have Freddy Peralta of the

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Speaker 1: Milwaukee Brewers. And we reported in the same story that

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Speaker 1: we wrote about Cabrera that the Yankees are among the

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Speaker 1: many teams that have also shown interest in Peralta. Why

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Speaker 1: is Paralta so attractive even though he is under club

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Speaker 1: control for only one more year. Well, one because he's good,

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Speaker 1: and two because he is incredibly affordable. Eight million dollars

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Speaker 1: for this season coming up, and that's about half of

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Speaker 1: what Corbyn Burns was making when the Oriols acquired him

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Speaker 1: from the Brewers two years ago. So Peralta is attractive

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Speaker 1: not only to teams like the Yankees and the Mets

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Speaker 1: big market, but even small market teams can afford him,

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Speaker 1: and they're in the mix as well. Do I expect

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Speaker 1: Paralta to get traded? I would say yes, I do

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Speaker 1: expect that to happen. I expect the Brewers to get

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Speaker 1: doing it, and if they get a major league ready

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Speaker 1: that rotation. They actually already have depth. It's Woodriff, it's Miserowski,

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Speaker 1: and it's Priester to start that rotation, and then they

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Speaker 1: Even without Freddy Peralta, who of course has been immensely

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Speaker 1: arguably his best year. So we'll see what happens with Paralta,

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Speaker 1: and we'll see what happens with Cabrera. But trade talks

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Speaker 1: bra Valdez still out there, Rangers Suarez still out there,

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Speaker 1: and the big free agent hitters that I mentioned, not

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Speaker 2: We did have a big.

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Speaker 1: Signing over the weekend, and that was the Toronto Blue Jays,

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Speaker 1: kind of a surprise entry into the Kazuma Okamoto sweepstakes.

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Speaker 1: better guarantee. In my opinion, Murakami took thirty four million

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Speaker 1: Himself, betting that he'll ultimately have two good years and

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Speaker 1: Okamoto a little bit older Kami. And you see the

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Speaker 1: this is where I don't quite see the fit for

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Speaker 1: the Blue Jays. Offensively, yes, absolutely fits into their high

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Speaker 1: and said that he is better at first base than third.

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Speaker 1: The Jays obviously have a first baseman that's Vladimir Gerrero Junior.

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Speaker 1: It works if you view him as that. Now, if not,

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Speaker 1: But what's really interesting about the Blue Jays is a

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Speaker 1: for one more big bat. Alex Bregman would seem like

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Speaker 1: less of a priority for sure, and that's what Cody

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Speaker 1: Stavenhagen and Mitch Batnen wrote in The Athletic after the

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Speaker 1: and you still have, though, Bishett who could play second base.

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Speaker 1: That would raise questions about how the jas would use

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Speaker 1: Ernie Clement, their postseason hero, and also Kyle Tucker maybe

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Speaker 1: have two outfielders who are potential free agents after this season.

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Speaker 1: I'm talking about George Springer and Dalton varshow So, it's

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Speaker 1: an interesting dynamic in play with the Jays. They've had

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Speaker 1: what we've seen so far as a tremendous offseason. John

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Speaker 2: I don't know that.

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Speaker 1: We can necessarily judge anything right now, because there's so

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Speaker 1: much to be done, so much incomplete. As again Will

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Speaker 1: the Blue Jays, that's the Yankees. We've got a lot

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Speaker 1: Courtraro now is through twenty twenty nine, with a club

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Speaker 1: They've been on the fringes of the Brandan Donovan conversations.

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Speaker 1: It seems like other teams maybe are in better position

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Speaker 1: Exactly transpires with the Royals over the coming weeks as

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Speaker 2: About a month away. It's hard to believe.

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Speaker 1: Only about a month away early spring training this year,

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Speaker 1: because of course, this is a World Baseball Classic season.

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Speaker 1: The WBC will take place in March. All right, that's

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Speaker 1: All right, time now for the Inside Dish, the part

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Speaker 1: a trend in the game, or perhaps one division that

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Speaker 2: The Blue Jays, we know what they've done.

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Speaker 1: Dylan sees Cody Pond's Tyler Rodgers and as we discussed

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Speaker 1: Because Okamoto, the Red Sox, Sonny Gray, Johann Oviedo, Wilson

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Speaker 1: right there are guys that they re signed from last

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Speaker 1: year's club, Ryan Yarborough, Paul Blackburn, Amed Rosario. These are

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

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Speaker 1: where I answer your questions.

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Speaker 2: Let's get right to them.

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Speaker 1: First question comes from Robot fifty to fifty three. What

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Speaker 1: Bellinger signs a short contract for two years with a

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Speaker 1: can see Kyle Tucker considering that, perhaps from a team

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Speaker 1: I would expect ultimately that is what he's going to get.

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Speaker 1: they can go to a more competitive team, they're going

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Speaker 1: to take that option.

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Speaker 2: As a classic example, would you.

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Speaker 1: Rather play for Toronto or would you rather play for Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 1: I think we know the answer, So we saw the answer.

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Speaker 1: So the Pirates maybe their best route is another trade,

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Speaker 1: and they're willing to make such a trade. They're still

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Speaker 1: willing to trade young players prospects. They're less willing to

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Speaker 1: trade major league players, which is what every team seems

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Speaker 1: to want this offseason, because if you do that then

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Speaker 1: you've got to backfill, and the options to backfill on

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Speaker 1: your major league roster are diminishing. So I do expect

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Speaker 1: the Pirates to do more, but maybe it will come

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Speaker 1: from the trade route more so than the free agent route.

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Speaker 1: Aohano Suarez is a guy who might fit, but I

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Speaker 1: think Aohano Suarez is going to have interest elsewhere as well. So,

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Speaker 1: as I said, the Pirates are in a bit of

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Speaker 1: a tough spot. Obviously it's one of their own making

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Speaker 1: from years of neglect. But what's interesting about this, and

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Speaker 1: I'll close the show with this, As I said, teams

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Speaker 1: now this particular offseason are not so much willing to

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Speaker 1: take prospects. Very few are willing to take prospects. There

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Speaker 1: are so many teams trying to win. Why is that. Well,

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Speaker 1: we're entering ACBA year, the final year of the collective

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Speaker 1: Bargain Agreement, and maybe some teams are trying to put

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Speaker 1: a better foot forward to show that they're spending money.

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Speaker 1: The Pirates are one of those teams, and maybe they

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Speaker 1: want to justify where they are and how they're operating

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Speaker 1: their franchises as we get.

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Speaker 2: Ready for the next fight over revenue sharing and the like.

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Speaker 2: All right.

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Speaker 1: With that, we're going to close it out. I want

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Speaker 1: to thank everyone for watching and for listening. Foul Territory

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Speaker 1: coming up at one pm. Jim Bowden, Chris Kirshner, both

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Speaker 1: colleagues are mining from the Athletic and Vinnie Pasporentino joined.

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Speaker 1: AJ prisentsk Eric Kratz and Scott Braun. We're back Thursday

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Speaker 1: at twelve thirty Eastern.

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Speaker 2: I'll talk to you then