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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 Hanukkah. 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 an agreement this morning with

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: close to deciding. As reported by the Boston Globes Pete

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Speaker 1: Abraham yesterday, Michael King right handed pitcher down to three teams,

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Speaker 1: the Yankees, the Red Sox and the Orioles, all in

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Speaker 1: the Al East. Understandable if you're Michael King and you're

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Speaker 1: in demand. You are a guy who went to the

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Speaker 1: high school in Rhode Island, attended Boston College, and obviously

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Speaker 1: has played for the Yankees already. So he's an East

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Speaker 1: Coast guy. Not surprising he's looking at the East Coast teams.

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Speaker 1: Three in the Al East in particular, and in this

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Speaker 1: particular instance, I would expect that the Orioles are going

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Speaker 1: to really have to outbid the Yankees and Red Sox

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Speaker 1: really exciting with Alonzo and Hellsley and Taylor Ward and

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Speaker 1: everything else, but there's still not a team that necessarily

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Speaker 1: is going to be considered by Michael King, at least

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Speaker 1: the way the Yankees and Red Sox are, So Michael

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Speaker 1: King one of many free agents still out there. We're

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Speaker 1: still looking at all the best hitters, Tucker Bashett Bellinger

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Speaker 1: not necessarily all transpiring in the next ten days, but

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Speaker 1: certainly over the next I don't know, six weeks or so. Now.

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

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Speaker 1: going to focus more on that today in this show

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Speaker 1: than perhaps free agents, because I wrote a little bit

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Speaker 1: about this today, actually a lot about it. We've written

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Speaker 1: and there are just some really interesting trade discussions going

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Speaker 1: on at this moment. Let's start with the Kansas City Royals,

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Speaker 1: who over the weekend traded for Isaac Collins and Nick

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Speaker 1: Meers from the Brewers, gave up on Helzurpa. The reliever,

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Speaker 1: and previous to that had signed Lane Thomas as a

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Speaker 1: free agent. That's two outfielders, Lane Thomas and Isaac Collins.

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Speaker 1: And yet as I report this morning, they're still looking

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Speaker 1: and they would take certainly Jaron Duran if they could

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Speaker 1: get him. They would take Brendan Donovan if they could

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Speaker 1: get him. Now, Brendan Donovan is a guy, as Katie

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Speaker 1: Wu of The Athletic reported, seems to be headed to

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Speaker 1: San Francisco or Seattle. Those are the two front runners

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Speaker 1: for him. Doesn't mean he's going to end up in

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Speaker 1: not really a factor for Duran just yet because in

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Speaker 1: are under the impression that for Jared Duran they're going

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Speaker 1: to have to give up Cole Reagan's both guys under

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Speaker 1: and that to them is more valuable than even a

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Speaker 1: Jaron Duran. Now the Red Sox don't quite see it

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Speaker 1: the same way. I reflect both points of view in

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Speaker 1: I don't know that this is going to happen. I

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Speaker 1: don't know what the Red Sox are going to do.

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Speaker 1: and they have not yet completed anything other than Sunny

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Speaker 1: Is it possible a team jumps in now and tries

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Speaker 1: to beat the Giants and Mariners. Absolutely possible. But clearly

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Speaker 1: now the Mariners are going to be motivated after losing

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Speaker 1: Joge Polanco to the Mets on that two year, forty

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Speaker 1: San Francisco so with all that, we move on. We

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Speaker 1: move on to Arizona and Ca Tell Marte. Now, the

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Speaker 1: on a two year, forty million dollar deal that for Kelly,

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Speaker 1: at thirty seven years old, is a really good deal.

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Speaker 1: But he has been a really good, consistent, durable pitcher

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

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

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

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Speaker 1: questions and certainly it caused some problems for him in

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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: 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: with the Inside Dish.

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Speaker 1: Time now for the Inside Dish, the part of the

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Speaker 3: what I want to talk about is what it is

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Speaker 3: like to cover Aj Preller, Padres President Baseball operations in

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Speaker 3: a transactional period.

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Speaker 1: Transactional periods in baseball, of course, being the trade deadline

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Speaker 1: exploring all these things. He never sleeps, he never slows down,

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Speaker 1: He is always on the phone. He rarely is engaging

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Speaker 1: Now where are the padres right now? Where they are

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Speaker 1: It's aj Preller, folks. He's always up to something. All right.

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Speaker 1: as we said, he's going to go. So the Cardinals

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Speaker 1: Bar or Gorman as well, to be traded. All right,

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

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Speaker 1: positional flexibility in a number of spots. They can sign

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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,

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

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Speaker 1: want to thank everyone for watching, everyone for listening, everyone

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

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Speaker 1: You 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,