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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, with you for the next twenty six minutes

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Speaker 1: or so. Happy Hanukah. Christmas is ten days away, and

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Speaker 1: in these next ten days we expect quite a bit

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Speaker 1: of action. Josh Bell reaching agreement this morning with the

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Speaker 1: Minnesota Twins. That's a one year deal, and a lot

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Speaker 1: more expected in the days ahead. And let's start with

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Speaker 1: the free agent market and one player who seems close

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Speaker 1: to deciding. As reported by the Boston Globes Pete Abraham yesterday,

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Speaker 1: Michael King right handed pitcher down to three teams, the Yankees,

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Speaker 1: the Red Sox, and the Orioles, all in the Al East. Understandable,

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Speaker 1: if you're Michael King and you're in demand. You are

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Speaker 1: a guy who went to high school in Rhode Island,

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Speaker 1: attended Boston College, and obviously has played for the Yankees already.

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Speaker 1: So he's an East Coast guy. Not surprising he's looking

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Speaker 1: at the East Coast teams, three in the Al East

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Speaker 1: in particular, and in this particular instance, I would expect

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Speaker 1: that the Orioles are going to really have to outbid

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Speaker 1: the Yankees and Red Sox to get Michael King I

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Speaker 1: know what they've done is really exciting with Alonzo and

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Speaker 1: Hellsley and Taylor Ward and everything else, But there's still

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Speaker 1: not a team that necessarily is going to be considered

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Speaker 1: by Michael King, at least the way the Yankees and

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Speaker 1: Red Sox are. So Michael King one of many free

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Speaker 1: agents still out there. We're still looking at all the

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Speaker 1: best hitters, Tucker, Bishett Bellinger from ber Valdez on the

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Speaker 1: pitching side, Ranger Suarez on the pitching side. So there's

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Speaker 1: going to be quite a bit, not necessarily all transpiring

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Speaker 1: in the next ten days, but certainly over the next

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Speaker 1: I don't know, six weeks or so. Now. Also a

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Speaker 1: ton going on trade wise, and actually I'm going to

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Speaker 1: focus more on that today in this show than perhaps

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Speaker 1: free agents, because I wrote a little bit about this today,

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Speaker 1: actually a lot about it. We've written about it over

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Speaker 1: the weekend as well at the Athletic, and there are

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Speaker 1: just some really interesting trade discussions going on at this moment.

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Speaker 1: Let's start with the Kansas City Royal, who over the

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Speaker 1: weekend traded for Isaac Collins and Nick Meers from the Brewers,

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Speaker 1: gave up on Helzurpa the reliever, and previous to that

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Speaker 1: had signed Lane Thomas as a free agent. That's two outfielders,

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Speaker 1: Lane Thomas and Isaac Collins. And yet, as I report

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Speaker 1: this morning, they're still looking and they would take certainly

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Speaker 1: Jaron Duran if they could get him. They would take

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Speaker 1: Brendan Donovan if they could get him. Now, Brendan Donovan

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Speaker 1: is a guy, as Katie Wu of The Athletic reported,

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Speaker 1: seems to be headed to San Francisco or Seattle. Those

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Speaker 1: going to end up in either one, but as of

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Speaker 1: Katie's report on Saturday, those are the two front runners.

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Speaker 1: So the Royals don't really see themselves as much of

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Speaker 1: Duran just yet because in their view, the price right

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Speaker 1: for Jaron Duran they're going to have to give up

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Speaker 1: Cole Reagan's both guys under three years control. They'd line

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Speaker 1: he's a guy that could start a playoff game, game

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Speaker 1: more valuable than even a Jaron Duran now the Red

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Speaker 1: Sox don't quite see it the same way. I reflect

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Speaker 1: both points of view in the story. They believe these

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Speaker 1: talks have been more exploratory and informal. Whatever two sides

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Speaker 1: ton of things right now, and they have not yet

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Speaker 1: completed anything other than Sunny Gray and Oviedo trades of

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Speaker 1: Brendan Donovan is a really valuable player in demand from

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Speaker 1: any number of teams. Is it possible a team jumps

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Speaker 1: in now and tries to beat the Giants and Mariners.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely possible. But clearly now the Mariners are going to

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Speaker 1: be motivated after losing Joge Polanco to the Mets on

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Speaker 1: that two year, forty million dollar deal. They want to

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Speaker 1: The Diamondbacks on Sunday reached agreement with Merrill Kelly, right

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Speaker 1: that for Kelly, at thirty seven years old, is a

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Speaker 1: he was at the deadline from the Diamondbacks to the Rangers,

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Speaker 1: after of course coming back from Korea. So Merrill Kelly

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Speaker 1: good news for their rotation, which now looks a little

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Speaker 1: Justin Martinez. But the reason I'm talking about all this

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Speaker 1: to get more young pitching so they avoid being in

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Speaker 1: intriguing player available in trade right now because his contract

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Speaker 1: is viewed by teams as exceedingly reasonable. It's sixty years,

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Speaker 1: purposes gets knocked down to about fourteen and a half million.

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Speaker 1: You're a big market team with luxury tax concerns. Fourteen

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Speaker 1: like Kateel Marte, one of the best second basemen in

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Speaker 1: the game, if not the best, That is a good

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Speaker 1: whether some team meets that or not, that remains three seen.

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Speaker 1: You remember the issues reported by Nick mccoro of the

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Speaker 1: Arizona Republic last August about Marte in the clubhouse, missing

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Speaker 1: in the middle of a critical part of the season.

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Speaker 1: Turned out, the Diamondbacks won all three of those games.

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Speaker 1: Then Marte came back and they went one to nine.

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Speaker 1: Who can explain these things. But regardless, Merrill Kelly back

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Speaker 1: if they can get the right return. Now, it does

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Speaker 1: that creates all kinds of other issues. You lose offense,

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Speaker 1: Arizona Diamondbacks right now, a lot going on throughout the sport.

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Speaker 1: And we're going to talk more about one particular team

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Speaker 1: and one particular president of baseball operations when we return

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Speaker 1: Time Now for the inside Dish, the part of the

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Speaker 1: it is like to cover Aj Preller, Padres President baseball

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Speaker 1: operations in a transactional period. Transactional periods in baseball, of course,

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Speaker 1: this is almost impossible because you don't know what he's doing.

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Speaker 1: His hands are in everything. You hear all kinds of things,

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Speaker 1: And you don't know if that was more Sidlers thinking

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Speaker 1: they need starting pitching. Now. Here's what's interesting, and Dennis

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Speaker 1: Lynn reported this last week. The best of the remaining

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Speaker 1: another question coming here, this one from Cincy Brye. Any

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Speaker 1: already pushed away from the trade table. No, they have not.

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Speaker 1: They are talking about all kinds of things, and free

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Speaker 1: twenty five million with room to grow. Now, that was

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Speaker 1: for Kyle Schwarber, hometown guy from Middletown, Ohio. He was

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Speaker 1: it's a different equation with those guys. They're not going

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Speaker 1: to help sell tickets. That's not the only consideration here, obviously,

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Speaker 1: but it factored into what they did for Schwarber. Now,

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Speaker 1: be busy. I'm not quite sure what they are doing.

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Speaker 1: But to the answer your question, have they folded the tent, then,

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Speaker 1: to that would be no. All right. I want to

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Speaker 1: thank everyone for watching, everyone for listening, everyone for their questions.

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Speaker 1: You know where to find us YouTube, Apple, Spotify. You

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Speaker 1: know that Foul Territory is coming up shortly after this,

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Speaker 1: and you also know that on Thursday, we're going to

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Speaker 1: be back myself, Alana Rizzo. We're going to be back

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Speaker 1: with another edition of Fair Territory. Have a great week everyone,