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Speaker 2: By the way, it's very nice Schooble's not.

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Speaker 1: Going to the Guardians, just saying that. Well, let's set out.

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Speaker 3: Let's let's one point here, run point for Zach first off,

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Speaker 3: writing for The Athletic, covering the Guardians for a while.

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Speaker 3: Selby's podcast also fantastic listen. But let's do a good

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Speaker 3: ten minutes right here with Zach and layout the off

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Speaker 3: season to do list top three for Cleveland in your

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Speaker 2: Man, how you doing?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, what's up guys? That list that you guys just

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Speaker 4: showed with Tucker Alonsos, that's wrong segment here to the

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Speaker 4: Guardians release. It's look, they're in a weird spot right.

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Speaker 4: They went to the Alcs and they won the division again.

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Speaker 4: They have nobody signed. They have five guys guaranteed contracts

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Speaker 4: for next year, really four plus they're chipping in on

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Speaker 4: But also it's Cleveland. They don't spend money, so they

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Speaker 4: have glaring holes. If you listed the top ten things

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Speaker 4: outfield the bullpen. Those are the two primary targets. I

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Speaker 4: think if you need a third, I would say the outfield. Again,

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Speaker 4: it was the thirtieth ranked outfield offensively in baseball. And

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Speaker 4: that's with Stephen Kwan on the roster, and he's going

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Speaker 4: to be a popular name in trade talks all winter too.

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Speaker 4: So it's it's pretty obvious. They made the playoffs. They

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Speaker 4: team has ever fielded. They got to improve that.

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Speaker 1: So it's the same thing we've talked about with Cleveland

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Speaker 1: forever no yah for the last five years. Well no,

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Speaker 1: They're on the you know, the side of the street,

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Speaker 2: Let's put out so many players.

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Speaker 4: have you know, Jose Ramirez is gonna make twenty one million.

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Speaker 4: They're paying two point seventy five million for Miles Straw.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, they know they need help. You know, Nick Enright

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Speaker 1: Right, you brought up class A, So I need to

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Speaker 1: ask the question how much did it hamstring the team?

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Speaker 1: I mean, obviously it hurt the organization and the team.

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Speaker 4: It didn't really make sense. None of it added up.

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Speaker 4: You know, I don't think that it's possible that they

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Speaker 3: Zach, good stuff as always, thanks for chiming in.

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Speaker 1: Yes, you forgot say.

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Speaker 3: But hopefully they knock out. Yeah, hopefully they knock out

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Speaker 3: you know, number one and two on the lists. It's

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Speaker 3: you know, they're kind of the same obviously.

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Speaker 1: Anyway, it's like we're next year twenty twenty Sex, we're

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Speaker 3: We have the graphic prepared for when we do this

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Speaker 3: a year from now during the lockout, Zach, thank you man,

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Speaker 3: good talking to you. You gotta guys tick her all right,

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Speaker 3: bet MGM, futures we're starting to look in next year

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Speaker 3: Guardians to win the AL penn plus thirteen hundred.

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Speaker 2: Not touching it, not touching it. I'm not touching.

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Speaker 1: It against them, yeah, but still the offense to the Guardians.

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Speaker 3: Boys team regular season team the.

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Speaker 5: I think the Orioles were at thirteen hundred, the Rangers

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Speaker 5: not gonna do much in the off season for to

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Speaker 5: improve this team. So you're saying the team they had

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Speaker 5: Pennant have a tough time believing that, and they might,

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Speaker 5: and they might. They're talking about Kwan.

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Speaker 1: You talked about Kwan maybe being traded, right, that's another problem. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: Like that's one of their best, one of their few

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Speaker 2: That'll be a tough loss for them.

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Speaker 1: That'd be a huge one And for the it goes

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Speaker 1: back to the fans though for me, like everyone wants

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Speaker 1: that's one of their guys. Man like, you can't tell

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Speaker 2: They can't. It's just it's a churn process that they

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Speaker 3: about this. I know you guys covered this. Good for

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Speaker 3: the Mariners with the Josh Naylor deal five years, ninety

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Speaker 3: two and a half million bucks. We're going to talk

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Speaker 3: about the Pirates portion of that conversation.

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Speaker 2: I can't wait to get office the biggest of shit.

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Speaker 2: Yeah it was, but good for the Mariners.

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Speaker 3: Did you guys hear the quote from Jerry Depoto when

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Speaker 3: he said he got there and he was like, Oh,

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Speaker 3: I'm so excited to hitting this park.

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Speaker 2: They freaked out. They were like, you are that's cool.

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Speaker 3: I mean, we've talked about it, I know, but there

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Speaker 3: this is gonna be awesome, and they were like, if

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Speaker 3: this guy's good, we need.

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Speaker 2: To keep him.

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Speaker 1: No, I loved hitting her.

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Speaker 5: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: Naylor was so good with them, and I just feel

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Speaker 3: like he's one like the what was the play where

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Speaker 3: he blocked the tried to block the double play, Like, it's.

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Speaker 1: Just one of those he didn't try. He did, he

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Speaker 1: did jump, he had.

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Speaker 2: Butters as silly as it is.

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Speaker 3: I just feel like Naylor is one of those guys

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Speaker 3: that's like, I will take a bullet for this team.

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Speaker 3: And I feel like they needed that and they recognized

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Speaker 3: that they got a little taste. And that's why trades

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Speaker 3: are also important, right, both sides get to see how

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Speaker 3: they like each other, and they did and he ends

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Speaker 3: up signing early.

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Speaker 2: So I just wanted to give my two cents.

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Speaker 3: I give a ton of credit to Mariners ownership for

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Speaker 3: stepping up on that front almost one hundred million dollars

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Speaker 3: for a free agent. Used to not be crazy in Seattle,

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Speaker 3: but it is these days. So good for them for

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Speaker 3: getting that done. I've been a big Nailor fan for

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Speaker 3: years either. He's underwritten, now properly rated, previously underrated,