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Speaker 1: going to start off today talking about the biggest news

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Speaker 1: of the weekend. The first major domino to fall. Aaron Nola,

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Speaker 1: right handed pitcher, free agent seven years, one hundred and

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Speaker 1: seventy two million dollars to go back to Philadelphia. Not

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Speaker 1: exactly a surprise, but maybe a little bit of a

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Speaker 1: surprise because the Phillies had not gotten this done in

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Speaker 1: spring training, had not signed Noah to an extension, and

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Speaker 1: his one executive told me, when does Dave Dobrawski not

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Speaker 1: sign a guy that he wants to sign? And it

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Speaker 1: hadn't happened back in March, so obviously it's happened now

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Speaker 1: and we'll talk about it. It's an interesting move in

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Speaker 1: a lot of ways, as all free agent signings are,

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Speaker 1: and this one, to me, it's a great compliment to

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Speaker 1: the Phillies that Aaron Nola wanted to stay, wanted to

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Speaker 1: be part of that culture. And it's a compliment to

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Speaker 1: Nola as well, who reportedly he turned down more money

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Speaker 1: from other clubs, but he had the self awareness to think, Okay,

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Speaker 1: you know what, I've succeeded here. I've been a really

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Speaker 1: good pitcher here. I want to be here. Nola is

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Speaker 1: from Baton Rouge. He went to LSU. There was some

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Speaker 1: thought maybe he would prefer to go south, maybe even

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Speaker 1: to the Atlanta Braves, but no, he goes back to

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Speaker 1: the Phillies seven one seventy two. It's a classic Phillies

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Speaker 1: free agent deal under Dombrowski. We've seen this before, Bryce Harper,

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Speaker 1: Trey Turner, deals that are stretched out to lower the

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Speaker 1: average annual value. Nola's AAV will be twenty four point

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Speaker 1: six million. That's only twenty third all time for a

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Speaker 2: Now, it's still really good.

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Speaker 1: I know that twenty four point six million a year,

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Speaker 1: most of us would take it. But in the general

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Speaker 1: scheme of things in the baseball financial world, it is

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Speaker 1: a relatively modest salary. But that's the way the Phillies

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Speaker 1: do it. They want the lower AAVs to over their

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Speaker 1: luxury tax burden. And what they're getting, well, frankly, they're

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Speaker 1: getting one of the most durable pitchers in the game.

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Speaker 1: Aaron Nola has been that from year to year really

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Speaker 1: show you just where he ranks among starting pitchers. Actually

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Speaker 1: all pitchers over the last seven seasons in innings pitched,

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Speaker 1: because this is telling Garrett Cole, well, he's the leader.

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Speaker 1: From twenty seventeen to twenty twenty three, Nola is second.

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Speaker 1: Cole hasn't beat by about forty six and a third innings.

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Speaker 1: That's it, and Patrick Corbyn and Jose Barrios then Max Sherzer.

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Speaker 1: So really, over the last seven seasons, this has been

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Speaker 1: one of the most durable pitchers in the game. That

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Speaker 1: is why he is getting paid in a very real sense. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: he's entering his age thirty one season. You never know

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Speaker 1: how pitchers are going to age. But Nola does a

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Speaker 1: lot of good things, strikeouts, command innings pitched, and as

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Speaker 1: Ino Saras said in The Athletic wrote in our little

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Speaker 1: summary of the deal, and I really liked what he said.

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Speaker 1: Ino said, Nola on a per game basis is maybe

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Speaker 1: not the guy you want. He's not going to outshine

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Speaker 1: some of the best aces in the game on a

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Speaker 1: per game basis, But on a per season basis, yes,

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Speaker 1: Aaron Nola works. He works really well for any team

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Speaker 1: and that is why he got the impressive deal that

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Speaker 1: he did. Now, every signing creates a domino effect. As

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Speaker 1: you know, the signing team obviously fills a hole, and

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Speaker 1: the teams that do not get the player that they want,

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Speaker 1: well for them there is greater urgency. This starting pitcher

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Speaker 1: market is deep, but it's not all that deep, and

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Speaker 1: the demand still exceeds the supply. You might have seen

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Speaker 1: Scott Boris's comments about seven teams needing at least two

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Speaker 1: starting pitchers. That probably is the range of accurate. I

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Speaker 1: the question becomes for the Braves, where do they turn?

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Speaker 1: Where do the Cardinals turn? Where do all these other

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Speaker 1: teams that might have had a spot for Aaron Nola go?

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Speaker 1: Now that he is off the board. Now we know

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Speaker 1: who the other top free agents are. Siamamoto, It's Snell,

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Speaker 2: We know who the trade candidates are.

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Speaker 1: It's Dylan Cees, It's Corbyn Burns, Tyler Glass, now Shane Bieber.

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Speaker 1: But again, there are only so many pitchers to go around,

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Speaker 1: but at least now the first domino has fallen. Now

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Speaker 1: today in the Athletic I write about another player, Well,

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Speaker 1: I'm talking about Shohy Otani and the story I wrote, well,

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Speaker 1: Otani's free agent value? Teams calculating worth without the answers

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Speaker 1: Otani wants to remain a two way player, and there's

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Speaker 1: no reason not to believe him. Otani has made a

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Speaker 1: the same time, I wrote in the story that the

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Speaker 2: Agreement which prohibits it.

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Speaker 1: The reason for that is that when you have executives

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Speaker 1: You could say, well, we're out on this guy. That

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Speaker 1: The executive said, I think he will come back. I

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Speaker 1: how that might affect the bidding, how it might compel

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Speaker 1: Some other news over the weekend, and this is one

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Speaker 1: That tells you who Brandon Woodriff can be when he

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Speaker 1: selection for best run franchise?

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Speaker 2: Wow?

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Speaker 1: This is an interesting one because you're gonna look at

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Speaker 1: it any number of ways. The team that gets the

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Speaker 1: most for the amount of money it spends is probably

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Speaker 1: Tampa Bay, right, But I would say the best run

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Speaker 1: franchise and I'll even go with them over some other

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Speaker 1: ones that are equally well run or as well run.

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Speaker 1: I would say it's the Los Angeles Dodgers. And you

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Speaker 1: can say, well, Ken, they've only won one World Series

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Speaker 1: since nineteen eighty eight and it was in a short season.

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Speaker 2: What are you talking about?

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Speaker 1: Okay, I get it, But they've performed remarkably under the

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Speaker 1: Freedman Dave Roberts regime. They are in the playoffs virtually

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Speaker 1: every year. They have one of the best farm systems

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Speaker 1: in the game virtually every year. Yes, they have more money,

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Speaker 1: no doubt about it, and they generally use it quite well.

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Speaker 1: But in terms of putting a competitive, winning team on

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Speaker 1: the field every season, giving their fans something to look

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Speaker 1: forward to every season, no team has done it as

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Speaker 1: consistently well over a longer period than the Dodgers. The

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Speaker 1: Braves have been great, the Astros have been great, other

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Speaker 1: teams too, But the Dodgers. They are right now. The

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Speaker 1: landmark franchise, the model franchise, the one that the Mets,

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Speaker 1: for instance, under Steve Cohen, talk about emulate. Thanks for

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