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Speaker 1: Welcome Tim Brettan here. He is on to talk about

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Speaker 1: I'm sure I'm assuming the trade deadline because we love

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Speaker 1: the trade deadline. It's only about ten days away, So Tim, welcome.

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Speaker 1: What do you got for us is dig right into

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Speaker 1: the trades here.

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Speaker 2: But any direction you want to go in, I guess.

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Speaker 1: Would you tell me what's your favorite trade idea that

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Speaker 1: you have the favorite team you have?

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Speaker 3: What do you have here?

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Speaker 4: Well, so I focus on the Mets, So I think

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Speaker 4: you know, the Mets trading Luke Weaver to a team

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Speaker 4: like the Seattle Mariners, to me makes a lot of sense.

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Speaker 4: We were fitting into a bullpen. I think the Mariners

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Speaker 4: look to me like the team in the American League

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Speaker 4: does the best chance to make a real leap in

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Speaker 4: the second half. You know, they're sitting around five hundred,

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Speaker 4: They've be sitting around five hundred all year. But you

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Speaker 4: look at that roster, there's not like major areas that

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Speaker 4: need improvement outside of the bullpen. The bullpen has been

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Speaker 4: such a strength for Seattle for a while, it hasn't

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Speaker 4: been to this point this season. You put Weaver in

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Speaker 4: the back end of games there, you know, if you've

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Speaker 4: got Andre's munnos in the ninth inning. But you put

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Speaker 4: Weaver in front of him, the way he's pitched, this

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Speaker 4: is the start of May. He's given up one earned run.

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Speaker 4: He's been fantastic for the Mets. He's got that extra

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Speaker 4: year of team control, so New York can hang on

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Speaker 4: to him. But that might be the piece that gets

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Speaker 4: them the most at the trade deadline compared to some

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Speaker 4: of the guys who are in their walk years.

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Speaker 1: Okay, well enough about the Mets. We've we've talked about

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Speaker 1: them there there. We already talked too much about the Mets.

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Speaker 3: That's it.

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Speaker 1: The Mets are out. Let's get to your tiers. You know,

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Speaker 1: as a senior reporter for the Athletic you're the Mets guy.

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Speaker 1: I know you want to talk about the Mets. But

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Speaker 1: you've kind of tiered it right with teams Tier one,

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Speaker 1: Tiers two, tier three, all the way. I think he

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Speaker 1: goes down to what tiers seven? Yeah, tiers seven, So

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Speaker 1: let's start tier one. Let's start at the top. Okay,

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Speaker 1: it could be and should be aggressive buyers. So what

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Speaker 1: teams do you think should be And I don't want

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Speaker 1: to say could be, I say I would say will

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Speaker 1: be aggressive buyers.

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Speaker 2: Here in a couple of weeks.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think there you look at the Yankees, the Phillies,

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Speaker 4: the Brewers, the Cups, and actually the Pirates. The Pirates

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Speaker 4: are probably the one that stands out as a weird

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Speaker 4: one there. You know, the other four teams are all,

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Speaker 4: you know, looking like they're headed toward the post season

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Speaker 4: and kind of solidifying for what they could be in October.

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Speaker 4: But I think you look at teams that are aggressive

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Speaker 4: buyers in the past, like call them like all in buyers,

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Speaker 4: teams that are willing to trade significant prospect capital for

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Speaker 4: win now pieces.

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Speaker 2: You think about.

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Speaker 4: Teams like, you know, teams of the past, like the

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Speaker 4: twenty fifteen Rangers did that when they didn't seem like

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Speaker 4: they were in position to make the playoffs. The twenty

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Speaker 4: fifteen Blue Jays did that when they got David Price

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Speaker 4: and Troy Tulwitski. It really changes your what you look

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Speaker 4: like for the rest of the season. The Pirates have

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Speaker 4: a nice run differential. They they're not playing up to

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Speaker 4: those peripheral stats, but they've got a pathway toward the

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Speaker 4: playoffs in the National League, and if they can supplement

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Speaker 4: the roster the right way with some aggressive moves, they've got,

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Speaker 4: you know, Paul Skins at the top of that rotation,

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Speaker 4: a really nice rotation. If they can get to the postseason,

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Speaker 4: they become a scarier team than you might otherwise think

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Speaker 4: because of what they've done so.

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Speaker 2: Far this year.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's start a rotation, no bullpen, so maybe they

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Speaker 3: kind of go deep deep. Maybe you should just put

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Speaker 3: RP RP relief pitching, relief pitching. But let's go to

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Speaker 3: the Brewers. Number two team that on that list. For me,

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Speaker 3: this is a team that has consistently I played there

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Speaker 3: in twenty eighteen and didn't quite make the big move,

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Speaker 3: made a bunch of little ancillary moves. Could this be

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Speaker 3: the year because of the fact that they've done it again,

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Speaker 3: because of the fact that they downgraded their pitching and

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Speaker 3: now their pitching is still really good. Is this a

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Speaker 3: year that you would see them making a push for

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Speaker 3: possibly one major piece and then a few ancillary pieces.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I'd really like to see it because

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Speaker 4: this team, they've done it in the regular season for

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Speaker 4: so long. Last year they finally got over that that

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Speaker 4: postseason hurl. They hadn't won a postseason series since you

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Speaker 4: were there at eighteen and got to the NLCS, and

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Speaker 4: you look at that they've got so many good kind

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Speaker 4: of middle tier guys that it might be and that

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Speaker 4: goes through their prospects is they've got more prospects coming,

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Speaker 4: so they've got a chance to maybe consolidate a little bit,

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Speaker 4: trade two good pictures to get one great pitcher kind

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Speaker 4: of thing. And obviously, you know the name that you're

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Speaker 4: gonna want to bring out there is Trek Schoubl And

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Speaker 4: you imagine what that rotation looks like with School and

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Speaker 4: Misroowski at the top of it. You know guys guy

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Speaker 4: who won two says the last two years, a guy

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Speaker 4: who might win it this year in the National League.

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Speaker 4: That becomes a different kind of animal in the postseason.

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Speaker 4: Or even if they wanted to do something on their infield,

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Speaker 4: on the left side of the infield, we've got two

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Speaker 4: good defenders over there in Cooper.

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Speaker 2: Pratt and Joey Ortiz at third base, but maybe add a.

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Speaker 4: Little bit of pop to the lineup if they wanted

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Speaker 4: to make that kind of move so that they've got

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Speaker 4: different places they can upgrade. There's no again, no significant

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Speaker 4: weakness on that roster, but maybe more of an opportunity

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Speaker 4: to take a position that's good and make it great

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Speaker 4: at the deadline and push them over the top into

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Speaker 4: a pennant.

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Speaker 3: Perhaps one of the other teams in the same tier

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Speaker 3: is the Yankees. The Yankees historically don't do big moves

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Speaker 3: at the trade deadline. Brian Cashman has said it, He's like,

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Speaker 3: you know what, you know, there's a lot of like

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Speaker 3: false hopeful teams, So I don't see a lot. He's

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Speaker 3: already laid out the groundwork across the city from you that. Eh,

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Speaker 3: you know what, there's probably no reason for us to

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Speaker 3: go big. Is very ch this year because their biggest

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Speaker 3: piece and Aaron Judge is out that they do go big.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, And I think you look at the American League,

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Speaker 4: like if they were in the Central or the West,

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Speaker 4: you'd say, you know, just you don't have to do

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Speaker 4: a whole lot to supplement that regular season roster, get

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Speaker 4: in the playoffs, do what you can. But because they're

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Speaker 4: they're trailing Tampa Bay in the East so far and

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Speaker 4: Judge's status is uncertain going forward, maybe you do want

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Speaker 4: to supplement that roster for the regular season to make

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Speaker 4: sure you catch Tampa, make sure you get that first

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Speaker 4: round by and make sure your playoff path is a

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Speaker 4: bit easier than it would be if you have to

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Speaker 4: go on the road in the Division Series and I

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Speaker 4: have to play a Wildcard Series then go on the

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Speaker 4: road in the DS. So I think again there's opportunities there.

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Speaker 4: They're you know, same with their starting rotation. Their starting

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Speaker 4: rotation is good and deep, especially now with Max Freed

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Speaker 4: coming off to the IL, but there's maybe an opportunity

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Speaker 4: to trade two good pitchers for one great one. There's

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Speaker 4: an opportunity certainly in their bullpen. The back end of

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Speaker 4: their bullpen could use some supplementation as well. So I

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Speaker 4: think that's another roster that, you know, it looks good

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Speaker 4: on paper. I think if everyone is healthy on the

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Speaker 4: they're still the favorite in the American League, even with

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Speaker 4: the struggles they've had in the summer. But you know,

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Speaker 4: there's still some uncertainty there and some chances to get

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Speaker 4: better and make them a better potential opponent for the

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Speaker 4: Dodgers or the Brewers or whoever ends up coming out

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Speaker 4: of the National League.

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Speaker 1: All right, tim, we're gonna run through a couple of

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Speaker 1: these here fairly quickly, because there's a couple of them. Honestly,

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Speaker 1: we don't really care about We're gonna I'm gonna start

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Speaker 1: with tier seven and tier six because these are like

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Speaker 1: the worst teams in baseball. Tier seven is the Angels, Mets,

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Speaker 1: and Giants. They're out of it. We know that, right,

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Speaker 1: they should be and could be aggressive sellers if they

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Speaker 1: have pieces that people want, and in the Angels case,

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Speaker 1: if they decide they'll actually do what they need to do,

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Speaker 1: which they don't typically do.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 1: Tier six typical sellers, Royals, Rockies, A's again, teams that

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Speaker 1: are out of it. Yes, they usually do sell because

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Speaker 1: you know what, they're usually not very good and they're

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Speaker 1: usually not in it. But see, then it gets interesting

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Speaker 1: to me when you get into like tier five, the Reds,

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Speaker 1: I don't think they're in it, right. I don't think

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Speaker 1: the Reds are in it on tier five, and the

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Speaker 1: Cardinals are kind of fake in it for me, They've

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Speaker 1: hung around, they've been pretty good. They've hung around about

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Speaker 1: five to six games above five hundred. This is where

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Speaker 1: it starts getting a little more interesting. And then when

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Speaker 1: you get to tier four is where you're.

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Speaker 3: Like, what will these teams do?

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Speaker 1: Because you have the Padres, the Nationals, the Blue Jays,

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Speaker 1: and the Tigers. Here will the Tigers get rid of

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Speaker 1: schoobl right? Will the Padres use Mason Miller or a

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Speaker 1: Michael King. Will the Nationals actually go out and make

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Speaker 1: a move, which they haven't done for the last few years.

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Speaker 1: And then the Blue Jays, We've talked about them all

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Speaker 1: already today they were in they were this close to

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Speaker 1: winning the World Series. Will they sell and if they

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Speaker 1: do so, what will the reaction be?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean these are the teams that kind of

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Speaker 4: hold the trade deadline in their hands right now. These

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Speaker 4: are the pivotal teams that will decide whether this is

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Speaker 4: a huge seller's market for those you know, seven or

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Speaker 4: eight teams beneath them, or if we have more of

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Speaker 4: an even distribution than we usually do. And you think

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Speaker 4: about the pieces that those teams have. It starts obviously

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Speaker 4: with Detroit and schoobl Then you've got Mason Miller with

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Speaker 4: San Diego.

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Speaker 2: You've got CJ. Abrams with Washington.

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Speaker 4: You've got Kevin Gosman and Dalton var Show, maybe Jeff

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Speaker 4: Hoffman with Toronto. Like though those can be you know,

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Speaker 4: we ranked the best players available at the deadline. I

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Speaker 4: think those are those are all top ten pieces, so

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Speaker 4: that those are the guys that if they do become available,

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Speaker 4: and you know, you look at Aj Preller's a guy

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Speaker 4: who does not want to sell. Has shown over the

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Speaker 2: You know, obviously Scooble is the crown ruel. We have

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Speaker 4: There, it's rare to see a shortstop with that much

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Speaker 4: And that makes me wonder, like, you know, if in

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Speaker 4: I think the biggest one is probably Nick Lodolo if

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Speaker 4: Compared to some other guys. You know, Spencer Steer is

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Speaker 2: They're gonna move someone like him.

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Speaker 4: But really the next part of the roster I think

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Speaker 3: Makes sense.

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Speaker 1: Let's go up one more tier. Let's go to tier three,

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Speaker 1: I don't know why they wouldn't buy, try and buy.

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Speaker 4: I think these are teams that we looked at kind

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Speaker 4: That's a team that that look if they turn and

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Speaker 2: Down the last few years.

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Speaker 4: You know, if if, if we don't hear that from

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Speaker 4: But I think, you know, those teams have talked to

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Speaker 3: All right, let's talk about the big board of actual

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, like we still have Wilson Contreras and

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Speaker 2: But you know, we put that out Monday, the teams

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Speaker 4: So it's you know, that's how fluid it can be.

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Speaker 4: Like we didn't have Mason Miller on it yet. We

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Speaker 4: lot of you know, Boston's winning streak has changed some

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Speaker 4: Chapman was on the list as well, and change the

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Speaker 4: I think everyone's still waiting on those teams. We talked

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Speaker 4: That's gonna determine so much of what happens at this deadline.

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Speaker 1: Teams, teams, teams, all about the teams. It's all about

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Speaker 1: the teams. Nobody cares about the players. Who can the

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Speaker 1: teams get? Who can the teams get? You know, Tim,

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Speaker 1: it's crazy, but we're just thankful that we don't have

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Speaker 1: to talk about your Mets anymore. We can talk about

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Speaker 1: David Stearns decides to change it up a little bit.

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Speaker 1: But Tim, thank you. We appreciate it.

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