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Speaker 1: Welcome everyone to the Monday edition of Fair Territory. I'm

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Speaker 1: Ken Rosenthal here with you for the next I don't know,

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Speaker 1: twenty six minutes or so. Hope everyone had a great weekend.

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Speaker 1: We're coming off a big weekend of NCAA tournament play,

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Speaker 1: and we're also coming off an exciting weekend in baseball

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Speaker 1: in terms of the anticipation building for the twenty twenty

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Speaker 1: weekend and we're going to get through that as well.

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Speaker 1: The biggest news, of course, was Chris Sanchez, Christopher Sanchez,

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Speaker 1: I should say, signing with the Philadelphia Affilies. Whether it's

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Speaker 1: an extension or a contract. The team can't seem to

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Speaker 1: figure out what they call it themselves, but it's something,

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Speaker 1: and it guarantees him six years, including this one through

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Speaker 1: two thousand and thirty two, actually seven years, I believe,

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Speaker 1: and he was already under control for five years, so

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Speaker 1: he gets two more guaranteed. What happened was they picked

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Speaker 1: up the two club options on this deal and then

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Speaker 1: they added two guaranteed years at thirty million per year,

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Speaker 1: so we go from five guarantee to seven. And you

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Speaker 1: might ask, okay, why did the Phillies do this. That's

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Speaker 1: my question. Why did the Phillies do this. They had

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Speaker 1: the guy under a good deal. Now, obviously, when you

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Speaker 1: get the two additional years at thirty million per year,

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Speaker 1: those will be below market. Assuming Christopher Sanchez remains a

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Speaker 1: really good picture a reasonably safe assumption, but you're also

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Speaker 1: assuming health and with a picture, you can never do that.

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Speaker 1: So it seems to me the Phillies were trying to

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Speaker 1: get ahead of themselves a little bit, get ahead of

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Speaker 1: the curve with regard to future salaries for a guy

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Speaker 1: who is one of the top five pitchers in the game. Again, though,

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Speaker 1: it's not something that they needed to do, and you

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Speaker 1: could take the perspective that the agent for Christopher Sanchez,

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Speaker 1: Gen Monto, did and saying, hey, this is great and

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Speaker 1: the team didn't have to do this. It shows ownership's commitment.

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Speaker 1: That's one perspective. But if you're managing your payroll as

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Speaker 1: efficiently as possible, I'm not sure this was the best plan. Now,

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Speaker 1: under the previous deal, including his club option, Sanchez would

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Speaker 1: have earned forty seven million through two thousand and thirty,

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Speaker 1: so this obviously gets him sixty more million dollars. You

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Speaker 1: can see why he wanted to do that. And if

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Speaker 1: you're a starting pitcher, even though the market for those

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Speaker 1: much guaranteed money as possible. So I can see Sanchez's

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Speaker 1: logic for sure. Even though while this deal helps making

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Speaker 1: the previous deal look better than it was, the previous

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Speaker 1: potentially walking away from a certain amount of money that

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Speaker 1: the line, and certainly there was risks for him as well.

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Speaker 1: But the Filly is the good news for them as

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Speaker 1: they go forward. Here is their rotation is pretty much set.

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Speaker 1: So you have Sanchez now through twenty thirty two, potentially

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Speaker 1: signed him to an extension five years, one hundred and

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Speaker 1: thirty five million. He is a pitcher who has had

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Speaker 1: injury problems, and that too was a risky deal. But

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Speaker 1: given the nature of starting pitching, given that the price

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Speaker 1: always rises, you can understand what the Phillies are thinking here.

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Speaker 1: Zach Wheeler under contract through twenty twenty seven. He, of

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Speaker 1: course is coming off an injury, expected back sometime early

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Speaker 1: You want that guy. And then Aaron Nola, another Phillies

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Speaker 1: pitcher under a long term deal through two thousand and thirty.

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Speaker 1: They've already been questions raised about that contract. And then

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Speaker 1: The question is, and the element of the team's face

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Speaker 1: because of course there is the threat of injury that

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Speaker 1: Will Salmon at the Athletic On Sunday, Connor Griffin, the

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Speaker 1: great prospect from the Pittsburgh Pirates, optioned to the minor leagues. Now,

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Speaker 1: And as we wrote the projection models on him, the

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Speaker 1: surplus value in baseball the position player and Paul Skeens,

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Speaker 1: value in baseball. Now, the problem is that Connor Griffin

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Speaker 1: I should say as well what happened. What happened was

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Speaker 1: we reported that others have as well. They've offered him

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Speaker 2: Hey, it might be time to have a heart to

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Speaker 2: but you cost too much.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not paying this much anymore. That's it. I mean,

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Speaker 3: why would I go more than fifteen dollars a month.

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Speaker 3: the same.

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Speaker 2: Coverage exactly, and you don't have to deal with the

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Speaker 1: Now for the Inside Dish. And you hear me say

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Speaker 1: what they accomplished, whatever they accomplished, is going to be

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Speaker 1: good enough for their owner, Jim So those are two

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Speaker 1: guys that will definitely be under scrutiny, particularly if that

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Speaker 1: team does not achieve what the owner expects it to achieve.

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Speaker 1: The New York managers Aaron Boone and Carlos Mendoza always

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Speaker 1: under scrutiny. Mendoza perhaps a little bit more in the

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Speaker 1: sense that they changed a lot of coaches, and usually

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Speaker 1: that's the prelude to a managerial change if things don't

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Speaker 1: go well. Boone, of course, we've been waiting for the

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Speaker 1: Yankees to win their first World Series in two thousand

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Speaker 1: and nine forever. He's been the manager for almost a

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Speaker 1: decade now, and they will be heat around him if

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Speaker 1: they fall short again. And I'll give you one more

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Speaker 1: Philadelphia Phillies manager Rob Thompson. Again, it's the question of

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Speaker 1: expectations versus performance. If the Phillies do not perform to

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Speaker 1: the level of expectations, then perhaps Rob Thompson will be

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Speaker 1: held responsible. A lot of times these things aren't fair.

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Speaker 1: I don't know that any of these turnovers, if they happen,

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Speaker 1: would be fair considering what might transpire during the course

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Speaker 1: of the season. But those are some managers and executives

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Speaker 1: just to start the year that are on the hot seat.

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Speaker 1: And I know Mets fans will say Sterns as well,

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Speaker 1: he's not in the hot seat. We'll see what this

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Speaker 1: offseason brought the Mats and we'll see how it fares

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Speaker 1: and how they turn out. But I don't expect David

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Speaker 1: Sterns to be in any trouble. So with that, I

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

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Speaker 1: Territory coming up at eleven am Eastern. It's aj Eric

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