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Speaker 1: Hey, we've got Robert Murray from Fans Added joining us

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Speaker 1: right now. This is when he thrives their insider and

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Speaker 1: joining us frequently here on FT. Robert, great to see you.

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Speaker 1: You look well rested. That's going to change over the

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Speaker 1: next few weeks. We'll see you down at the Winter

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Speaker 1: meetings too, which I'm excited about. That'll be in my

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Speaker 1: backyard in Orlando. Dude, let's start with Kyle Schwarbert. I

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Speaker 1: just wanted to get your thoughts on what his market

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Speaker 1: is looking like. It sounds like there are a ton

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Speaker 1: of teams interested, but I'm curious how many of them

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Speaker 1: are seriously going to get up to a number that

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Speaker 1: he's good with, and how many of them he's going

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Speaker 1: to consider contenders.

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Speaker 2: This is going to be his last contract.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and well, first of all, I want to say

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Speaker 3: thank you for saying that I'm well rested. I literally

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Speaker 3: just got out of the steam room before I hopped

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Speaker 3: on the show here, so I had I appreciate that. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: but no, with Shorebert, like he's my favorite player in baseball, Like,

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Speaker 3: how could you not love Kyle Schwarber. He hits bombs

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Speaker 3: Like shore bombs are like the best thing in baseball.

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Speaker 3: He hits for power, great leader, gets on base pretty frequently,

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Speaker 3: and he's just a total package. And if you're the

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Speaker 3: Philadelphia Phillies, you need to do everything in your power

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Speaker 3: to keep him. If you're the Boston Red Sox, you

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Speaker 3: need to write that wrong when you ended up letting

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Speaker 3: him leave as a free agent when he went to Philadelphia.

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Speaker 3: If you're the Toronto Blue Jays, when you want to

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Speaker 3: take a big swing, why not go after Schwarber or

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Speaker 3: even Kyle Tucker. He's from the Midwest area, so you

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Speaker 3: got to think some of those teams would be involved.

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Speaker 3: He was asked about the possibility that Cincinnati Reds the

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Speaker 3: other day, I believe maybe even it was yesterday, and

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Speaker 3: he didn't shoot that down. I mean, there's so many

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Speaker 3: teams that could use a Kyle Schwarber, that need a

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Speaker 3: Kyle Schwarber. He's going to do very well in free agency.

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Speaker 3: It's going to be like as eventual contract is going

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Speaker 3: to start with a three probably thirty million dollars per year,

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Speaker 3: probably well well more than that. Whether it's three, four,

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Speaker 3: five seasons remains to be seen. But to me, he's

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Speaker 3: the best player in the market. And if I was

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Speaker 3: a GM, which I'm not. I would do everything in

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Speaker 3: my power to possibly sign him, but.

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Speaker 4: Couldn't he hamstring a team? I watched him a lot

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Speaker 4: here in Philly. I you know, I watched him when

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Speaker 4: I worked for the Red Sox. Like, he obviously brings

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Speaker 4: that extra value, that extra clubhouse value. But a lot

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Speaker 4: of teams with expire not expiring contracts, but contracts that

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Speaker 4: are getting deeper into their age, aren't they leary of

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Speaker 4: locking up any DH for any amount of time, let

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Speaker 4: alone for four or five years.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that part's tricky for sure. And I think he's

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Speaker 3: an elite enough player that you don't really hesitate in

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Speaker 3: doing so. And I was talking to Craig Breslo and

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Speaker 3: he like he made it clear he can't talk about

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Speaker 3: any specific player because he didn't want to get get

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Speaker 3: in trouble or anything. But he said, when you have

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Speaker 3: an elite player like such as a David Ortiz, like,

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Speaker 3: you don't hesitate. You make him your designated hitter and

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Speaker 3: you don't think twice about it, Like, yeah, he likes

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Speaker 3: flexibility at the DH spot, like rotating guys. There is

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Speaker 3: something that he's definitely open to. But when you have

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Speaker 3: an elite player, in this case Schwarber, that could be

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Speaker 3: the exception to the rule, which is why I think

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Speaker 3: Boston or plenty of these other teams should take that risk,

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Speaker 3: which I don't know if it's necessarily well, I mean,

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Speaker 3: there's always risk with contracts, but with Schwarber, that's like

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Speaker 3: a really good gamble to take.

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Speaker 5: And that's what I was kind of getting to my

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Speaker 5: next question. There's always teams lurking, and especially two teams

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Speaker 5: I think of, Well, one, you got always number one

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Speaker 5: guy's always the Dodgers, of what they did last year,

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Speaker 5: what do you see from them? And then you got

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Speaker 5: the Mets and Stevie Cohen over there is not afraid

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Speaker 5: to pull off anything. You know, not only with Swarber,

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Speaker 5: but do you see any of those two teams going

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Speaker 5: where they need to be? Well, the Mets back to

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Speaker 5: where they need to be, not the Dodgers.

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Speaker 3: No, for sure, And I feel like both of those

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Speaker 3: teams should never be ruled out. Like Steve Cohen he

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Speaker 3: spends on like almost any owner in baseball, and the

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Speaker 3: Dodgers their ability to stockpile of talent and be competitive

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Speaker 3: I'm not ruling it out, but for them, they're probably

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Speaker 3: Faby and Ardaya of The Athletic reported that first that

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Speaker 3: he's interested or that they're interested in in Devin Williams.

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Speaker 3: Even a guy like Pete Fairbanks would make a lot

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Speaker 3: of sense for the Dodgers too, And you would think

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Speaker 3: maybe they end up looking for an outfielder of some sort.

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Speaker 3: Whether that could be just speculating, but I think a

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Speaker 3: Dodgers and really add to that outfield defense. But they're

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Speaker 3: also evaluating their internal options there as well. But you

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Speaker 3: can never roll out of splash with them the Mets.

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Speaker 3: They they need to figure out the pitching side, and

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Speaker 3: they also need to figure out defensively as well, what

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Speaker 3: He thrived with that in Milwaukee. I expect him to

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Speaker 3: do so. I just don't know the caliber of player

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Speaker 3: You can't really rule anything out there.

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Speaker 4: I danced around it a little bit. The Dodgers are

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Speaker 4: good at DH, so Schwarber ain't it for them? The

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Speaker 4: Guy Show show, Hey, I think it's Otani otanny. I'm

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Speaker 4: not sure how to get Maybe he's probably he's probably

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Speaker 4: good unless they can make another rule for the Dodgers

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Speaker 4: where they could have two d hs in the lineup,

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Speaker 4: which Major League Baseball already makes rules for the show. Hey, Dodgers,

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Speaker 4: So that's that's totally fine. But I want to go

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Speaker 4: to talk about them being in on Schwarber because that's

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Speaker 4: laughable to me, but supposedly they were in with a

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Speaker 4: much lower offer on Naylor, on Josh Naylor. So are

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Speaker 4: the Pirates really going to be spenders? And if so,

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Speaker 4: why and what level are we going to? Are they

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Speaker 4: just doing this to like make sure major League Baseball

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Speaker 3: Like I love that the Pirates are actually willing to

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Speaker 3: go out and bolster their offense because I've been I've

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Speaker 3: cheap too, with the exception of Keller, and then offensively,

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Speaker 3: they traded key Brian Hayes at the deadline. They saved

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Speaker 3: And the early indications this offseason are yeah, like they're

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Speaker 3: have more flexibility now than they've had in most off

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Speaker 3: who is definitely a player they coveted there in Pittsburgh.

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Speaker 3: Obviously did not get him. He went back to Seattle.

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Speaker 3: But they're going to be fishing its different waters than

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Speaker 3: they've been in previous years, and like, yeah, like the

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Speaker 3: Shoreward thing, I have a pretty hard time seeing that

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Speaker 3: as well. Like that would be that'd be a big surprise.

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Speaker 3: But the fact that they're even mentioned of those kind

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Speaker 3: they signed Tommy fam last offseason. They had a great

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Speaker 3: experience with him. I would not rule out a reunion there,

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Speaker 3: but Fam is not going to be would not be

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Speaker 3: the last of their last of their moves there. They're

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Speaker 3: going to be in the market for offense, meaningful offense,

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Speaker 3: and maybe it gets to the point when we can

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Speaker 3: talk about them being a playoff team, which would be

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Speaker 3: really exciting.

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Speaker 4: Robert, I'm gonna put you on the spot, and this

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Speaker 4: might be being putting you on the spot. Do you remember

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Speaker 4: their last multi year free agent contract? Yeah, because that

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Speaker 4: was one of my first stories ever, broke Francisco Lariano

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Speaker 4: three years for thirty nine million. Yeah, I'll never forget it.

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Speaker 2: There you go.

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Speaker 4: So what about what about their last free agent position

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Speaker 4: player multi year deal. Russell Martin.

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Speaker 4: So what year was that? You know, the thirteen, thirteen

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Speaker 4: So if you're if you're telling me this is what's

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Speaker 4: going to happen, all I have to say is prove

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Speaker 4: it from the Pirates. Yeah, prove it. Don't don't don't,

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Speaker 4: don't give me. We were in on him. We called

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Speaker 4: Kyle Tucker and he actually talked to us. It was amazing, Like,

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Speaker 4: to me, I needed to be proved. That's it.

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Speaker 3: No, I totally agree, like talk is cheap. But this

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Speaker 3: in previous offseasons, so like, we'll see. I'm more optimistic

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Speaker 3: And you gotta you gotta talk the talk, you gotta

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Speaker 3: walk the walk, you gotta do all that stuff. And

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Speaker 3: I hope that happens because Pirates fans deserve a playoff team.

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Speaker 3: They are a very passionate fan base, and they were

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Speaker 3: And hopefully this offseason I can say they're doing a

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Speaker 2: So we'll see.

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Speaker 5: I want to go over a little more to the

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Speaker 5: right side. On the East coast, they were talking about

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Speaker 5: the Yankees a little bit. Jazz Chisholm, really good player,

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Speaker 5: thirty thirty. What do you think about him signing back

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Speaker 5: with the Yankees and moving forward with that situation. I

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Speaker 5: know the Yankees aren't usually the ones that hit right away,

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Speaker 5: but what do you think about that?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, if I was them, I would definitely explore it.

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Speaker 3: Like he was an All Star last year. He's a

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Speaker 3: tremendous player. He's really been a great fit in New

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Speaker 3: they love them. And Brian Cashman did not shoot down

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Speaker 3: the idea of a possible extension when he was asked

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Speaker 3: about it at the GM meetings or on a conference

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Speaker 3: call at the GM meetings. But they typically don't extend

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Speaker 3: values there. But he could be an exception to the rule.

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Speaker 3: But that being said, he's a year away from free agency.

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Speaker 3: He had a great year this year. If he has

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Speaker 3: another great year next year, he can really just turn

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Speaker 3: that into a like a very strong contract in free agency.

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Speaker 3: So my guess is they poke around, they see what's

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Speaker 3: going to take, but my feel is it's probably unlikely

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Speaker 3: twenty six season.

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Speaker 1: Robert, We're getting some fan questions about some other starters,

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Speaker 1: One more for you, Robert finish line. We've got the

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Speaker 2: Didn't you break the rice Elglacias news.

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Speaker 3: I was right there with the Braves, the brave dude.

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Speaker 4: But we're I think Ryan.

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Speaker 2: That is right undercover Braves.

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Speaker 1: good stuff, man, Thanks for coming on. Good to see

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Speaker 1: little what is it your steam room session?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Steamroom.

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Speaker 3: I feel like a million bucks, you say, I'm well rested,

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Speaker 3: so it's clearly clearly it's working, baby. But I appreciate

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Speaker 2: Yeah you do. We'll see in Orlando coming.

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Speaker 3: Up there you go, as as Kratzy said, go Birds Baby.

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Speaker 1: Hey, Jeff Ponce joining us and a last minute joined

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Speaker 1: because we got some news before the show started that

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Speaker 1: there are more players from Japan being posted and available

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Speaker 1: as free agents to sign this off season. You can

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Speaker 1: catch Jeff's coverage, of course in Baseball America Baseball America

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Speaker 2: Jeff, Great to see you. I'll get right to business here.

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Speaker 1: Alkamoto is getting posted by the Immuri Giants of NPB.

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Speaker 1: There are some people that think that he has a

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think that's probably a pretty accurate assessment of

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Speaker 4: I saw Akamoto in two thousand and nineteen when he

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Speaker 1: I know murk Comy's gotten hit with the oh you know,

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Speaker 1: he might struggle against tay v Lo. I actually was

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Speaker 1: looking at Akamoto, Yeah, hitting better lately against high velocity.

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Speaker 1: Just trying to make comps here back and forth. Since

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Speaker 1: Murakami is getting so much attention, do you think there

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Speaker 1: is any chance that Akamoto actually ends up with a

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Speaker 1: better deal. I know Murakami is younger, but maybe more

440
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Speaker 1: of an average annual value to what he signs, or

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Speaker 1: Murakami is still more coveted in the market.

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Speaker 4: You know.

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Speaker 6: I struggle with that because I think when you're looking

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Speaker 6: at just the player, like in a vacuum, like the

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Speaker 6: next two years, like you probably do prefer Akamoto. But

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Speaker 6: I do think the age difference and just we know

447
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Speaker 6: how that impacts models in the draft, let alone in

448
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Speaker 6: free agency, there just aren't a lot of guys with

449
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Speaker 6: eighty raw power and the ability to consistently get to

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Speaker 6: it with some track record against higher level pitching. Not

451
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Speaker 6: a lot of those guys get to the market very often.

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Speaker 6: So I think you're going to see more years with

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Speaker 6: Mori Kami. The anual value might be a little bit

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Speaker 6: closer than people expect. I still anticipate more Kami getting

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Speaker 6: more And you know, maybe this isn't something that fans

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Speaker 6: necessarily want to think of, but I do think when

457
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Speaker 6: these guys are signing over here, there's almost like a

458
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Speaker 6: marketing factor to it, like you're getting yourself into that

459
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Speaker 6: Japanese marketplace that we know can be incredibly profitable. And

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Speaker 6: you know, a guy like Maurakami, I mean, you know,

461
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Speaker 6: his nickname is more or less like God over there,

462
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Speaker 6: so I think he's one of like the three or

463
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Speaker 6: four biggest stars in Japan. So there's probably like some

464
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Speaker 6: of that coming into it too, that his dollar and

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Speaker 6: his ask is probably just going to be higher.

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Speaker 5: So for Akamoto and Mirakami, who do you think, like,

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Speaker 5: what teams do you think are going to go after

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Speaker 5: both of these guys? Is there any teams you have

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Speaker 5: in mind? Or is it like, hey man, this is

470
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Speaker 5: they can work out for any team right now?

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Speaker 6: You know, I think there's obviously a lot of teams

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Speaker 6: that these guys would potentially be a great fit for.

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Speaker 6: You know, I wonder about Akamoto maybe being a potential

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Speaker 6: Red Sox option, just based on where they're at with

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Speaker 6: a third base position. I don't know how much they

476
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Speaker 6: necessarily believe in Marcelo Meyer going in next year. They could,

477
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Speaker 6: it's going to depend on whether he can actually finish

478
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Speaker 6: a full season healthy for the first time in his life.

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Speaker 6: That hasn't happened yet, So I don't think that that's

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Speaker 6: an absurd one. Certainly. I think the Yankees could be

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Speaker 6: in play on either of these guys. We've heard the

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Speaker 6: Blue Jays kind of kicking around some of these names.

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Speaker 6: The Rangers are always in on these guys. I've heard

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Speaker 6: that the Dodgers are out, but we also hear the

485
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Speaker 6: Dodgers are out, and then two weeks later, all of

486
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Speaker 6: a sudden, they're in the running. So I think there'll

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Speaker 6: be a I would be surprised if at least half

488
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Speaker 6: of the teams in the league don't take meetings with

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Speaker 6: these guys. And it's kind of the same with with

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Speaker 6: you know, Tetsuya and my who's the top pitcher that's

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Speaker 6: coming over that like, for my money, based on my

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Speaker 6: evaluations and the calls and the things that I've done

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Speaker 6: with scouts that have worked over there, I think he's

494
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Speaker 6: actually the top player that's coming over in terms of

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Speaker 6: what his impact could be. So it'll be kind of interesting.

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Speaker 6: I would imagine at least half the teams are going

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Speaker 6: to be on this. Obviously, there's going to be some

498
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Speaker 6: teams that probably aren't going to meet the asking price

499
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Speaker 6: on the big three big free agents coming over, you know,

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Speaker 6: the Pirates, those sort of teams that just don't break

501
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Speaker 6: past those thresholds. The Guardians, I'd be really shocked if

502
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Speaker 6: they're in on them, but you never know.

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Speaker 1: I'm with you on a Maya. I'm on the high

504
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Speaker 1: side there. From what I've read and what I've seen,

505
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Speaker 1: I think he's a one or two. I've seen some

506
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Speaker 1: people throw at his career walk numbers. I'm like, yeah,

507
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Speaker 1: I'd rather look at the last year or two where

508
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Speaker 1: the command's gotten better. So I ask about him because

509
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Speaker 1: the other news that broke is Kona Takahashi, and Takahashi

510
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Speaker 1: also will likely link with a major league club over

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Speaker 1: the next month or so, So what do you think

512
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Speaker 1: about him? We can mix in some comps about how

513
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Speaker 1: much better obviously Amaya is in the upside brain, But

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Speaker 1: what do you think about Takahashi first of all, who's

515
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Speaker 1: now officially fresh on the market as well.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, so this is a case of I've actually heard

517
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Speaker 6: some people bring up that they think the reason Amy

518
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Speaker 6: was posted when he was was because they held the

519
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Speaker 6: bag too long on Takahashi. This is a guy that

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Speaker 6: I think would have commanded a lot more a few

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Speaker 6: years ago. The stuff is kind of ticked down. He

522
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Speaker 6: doesn't have swing and miss stuff. The only pitch in

523
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Speaker 6: his arsenal that had a thirty plus percent misrate across

524
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Speaker 6: the four primary pitches that he throws was a slider,

525
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Speaker 6: which is a pretty decent pitch over there. It's a

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Speaker 6: little bit like a sweepere curveball. It's got a little

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Speaker 6: bit of drop, a little bit of tilt. So like

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Speaker 6: when I look at a player like this who throws

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Speaker 6: ninety three miles an hour, doesn't ride it a whole ton,

530
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Speaker 6: doesn't have interesting release traits. A lot of it is

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Speaker 6: pitch ability, and historically we've seen players like this come

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Speaker 6: over from Japan and typically not have.

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Speaker 2: A lot of success.

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Speaker 6: So you know, I don't know how much money he'll

535
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Speaker 6: even command. If it might be a short term deal,

536
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Speaker 6: maybe you know, a couple of years. I'd be surprised

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Speaker 6: if he's anywhere even in shouting distance of you know,

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Speaker 6: moto Ami or Murakami.

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Speaker 1: Okay uh Do you have any comps for the four

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Speaker 1: guys that we're talking about? Major league guys for any

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Speaker 1: of them? Have you written up any comps at BA

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Speaker 1: for Murakami or Takahashi or a my Alkamoto, et cetera.

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Speaker 1: And I ask it in two ways. One is any

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Speaker 1: comps from current big leaguers that we're looking at or

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Speaker 1: former big leaguers. And also, like you said, with someone

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Speaker 1: like Takahashi coming over and that particular profile not playing well,

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Speaker 1: have we seen other players from overseas come over with

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Speaker 1: that profile and that success in another league and it

549
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Speaker 1: not play well here because of the stuff.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, so you know we're looking at comps. You know,

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Speaker 6: I think the the Murakami comp and I think you

552
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Speaker 6: got to sort of look at it with a scale, right,

553
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Speaker 6: like there's probably a high end comp of like this

554
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Speaker 6: is what the ceilings? If things go well, maybe he's

555
00:26:54,160 --> 00:26:57,920
Speaker 6: you know, you Hennioswarez, which you know, big power, kind

556
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Speaker 6: of fringy defense at third base, but can play it,

557
00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:02,680
Speaker 6: And I think that's an area where Murakami really needs

558
00:27:02,720 --> 00:27:06,000
Speaker 6: to improve. So I think that's that's kind of like

559
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Speaker 6: what the high end outcome is the lower end outcome,

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Speaker 6: I think just in terms of like the bat, I

561
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Speaker 6: think is very similar to like Joey Gallo, where there

562
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Speaker 6: could be big home run stretches where he carries your

563
00:27:18,160 --> 00:27:20,760
Speaker 6: team for a few weeks, and there could be really

564
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Speaker 6: low lows where you know, he's hitting a buck four

565
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Speaker 6: a month and he's just not connecting and the strikeouts

566
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Speaker 6: are ugly. Joey Gallo was a very good athlete, of course,

567
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Speaker 6: I mean he's made the transition now I was trying

568
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Speaker 6: to to make the transition to pitching. What was a

569
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Speaker 6: good outfielder like Murakami doesn't have any of those sort

570
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Speaker 6: of skills to fall back on. So I think that's

571
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Speaker 6: kind of the range of outcomes, Like I think there's

572
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Speaker 6: going to be some strikeouts here, there's going to be

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Speaker 6: home runs, but just you know, how how much contact

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Speaker 6: can he make ultimately is going to decide what his

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Speaker 6: ceiling is.

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Speaker 2: When I look at Akamoto.

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Speaker 6: It's a it's a little harder, you know, the name

578
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Speaker 6: that kind of came to mind, and this is like

579
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Speaker 6: a throwback name. It's kind of like Bill Miller, where

580
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Speaker 6: like he was a really reliable defensive third baseman, was

581
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Speaker 6: a really consistent hitter and made contact, good approach, but

582
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Speaker 6: it was probably like mid teen's power. I think there

583
00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:13,800
Speaker 6: might be a little bit more power here then there

584
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Speaker 6: was with Bill Miller. But Bill Miller obviously was a

585
00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:17,679
Speaker 6: was a very good player. So that's kind of the

586
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Speaker 6: first one that comes to mind. Like currently, I'm trying

587
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Speaker 6: to think about somebody off the top of my head that's,

588
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Speaker 6: you know, in above average third baseman that maybe doesn't

589
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Speaker 6: have thirty home run power, and you know, nothing's coming

590
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Speaker 6: to mind. I think like Alex Bragman is probably a

591
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Speaker 6: little bit too rich.

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Speaker 4: Evan Longoria.

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Speaker 6: I don't think, Leah, I don't think like outside of like, no,

594
00:28:40,840 --> 00:28:43,840
Speaker 6: not MVP Evan Longoria. But yeah, I think that's that's

595
00:28:43,880 --> 00:28:45,520
Speaker 6: not a terrible come up in terms of what he

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Speaker 6: can do.

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Speaker 2: Let me ask this off season, Oh go ahead, you donad.

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Speaker 5: I interrupted you there, but yes, it seems like this

599
00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:59,320
Speaker 5: offseason there's more Japanese guys being posted and wanting to

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Speaker 5: come over here. Do you think it's been been a

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Speaker 5: smoother transition for them to come over here into the

602
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Speaker 5: big leagues, into the United States. I mean, I feel

603
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Speaker 5: like this is going to keep continuing as we see

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Speaker 5: a guy like Shoho Tani and you know, the Yakamotos

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Speaker 5: and all the other guys.

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Speaker 2: Of the world that are going out there and dominated.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, I think, you know, we've seen some of the

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Speaker 6: biggest stars come over here, and you know, I don't

609
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Speaker 6: know if there's kind of been a standard established over

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Speaker 6: the last we'll say, almost ten years of like if

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Speaker 6: you're one of the best players in the world, you

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Speaker 6: have to come over here and kind of prove yourself.

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Speaker 6: Every time I talk to folks over there or scouts

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Speaker 6: over here, it is always sort of a concern in

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Speaker 6: terms of like the initial touchdown in.

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Speaker 2: Major League Baseball.

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Speaker 6: I think for a lot of these guys can be

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Speaker 6: a little bit rough because of that, you know, cultural

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Speaker 6: divide and just getting yourself sort of settled into a

620
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Speaker 6: new country and a completely different culture, and even just

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Speaker 6: in terms of like how how their workout days go,

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Speaker 6: like their baseball days, game day, all that sort of stuff.

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Speaker 6: All that sort of things are very different from what

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Speaker 6: probably what a lot of them had even experienced in Japan,

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Speaker 6: so obviously the language barrier, all that sort of stuff.

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Speaker 6: Do I think it's getting a little bit easier. Sure,

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Speaker 6: I think, you know, teams are more cognizant of it

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Speaker 6: in terms of making sure that all these guys have

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Speaker 6: their resources to have the smoothest possible transition. And you know,

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Speaker 6: I think that modern technology probably help helps out with

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Speaker 6: some of the translation stuff that you know, in nineteen

632
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Speaker 6: ninety five just wasn't available or easily accessible. So I

633
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Speaker 6: think some of all that stuff is probably getting baked

634
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Speaker 6: into it a little bit more now, and we're seeing

635
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Speaker 6: more and more of these players come over.

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Speaker 1: Jeff, good stuff, Thanks for hopping on informing us. I mean,

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Speaker 1: Monday on Hot Sheet.

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Speaker 2: See you then, Scott, Thanks guys, Yeah, appreciate that.

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Speaker 6: Dude.

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Speaker 1: YouTube channel. If you don't subscribe to their channel, it

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Speaker 1: would be cool to do. So they work their tails off.

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Speaker 1: Hey we're back, do you guys. I'm gonna bring something

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Speaker 1: up from the chat? Do you guys ever hear a

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Speaker 1: baseball name who didn't play that long ago and you're like,

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Speaker 1: oh my gosh, I forgot about his entire assistence. So

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Speaker 1: I just saw one in the chat. Yeah, yo's Mani Tomas.

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Speaker 1: Do you guys remember you was Mani Tomas common Backs.

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Speaker 4: Common Back's got probably like thirty or fifty million dollars.

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Speaker 5: Yes, he signed early too, right.

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Speaker 4: He's tubing guy. I think Okay, I love playing that game.

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Speaker 4: I love I love playing the Do you remember I

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Speaker 4: even played that game from like college, like it was

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Speaker 4: that second heasman that transferred in our sophomore year and

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Speaker 4: they're like, oh, yeah, you know Jimmy Pollard And you're like,

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Speaker 4: what what a name? I love that when guys, when

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Speaker 4: guys do that, like Susdorff. Uh. You know guys that

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Speaker 4: get called up for like one day or something like

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Speaker 4: that and they play, you know, they play one big

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Speaker 4: League game. Like Todd doesn't remember those guys because he's

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Speaker 4: not a good teammate.

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Speaker 2: I remember them all, man, I remember.

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Speaker 1: Those Remember we got an influx of Cuban talent, right,

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Speaker 1: like we had a real Golden era to an extent

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Speaker 1: of Cuban talent. Jose Bray, you Pueague in his prime,

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Speaker 1: Saspadae right, go down the line. So and hey, there

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Speaker 1: were some misses too, Rusen Castillo for the Red Sox.

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Speaker 1: But Thomas six years, sixty eight and a half million

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Speaker 1: bucks with his contract at a Cuba Look at that,

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Speaker 1: and then you know the career lasted four seasons, really

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Speaker 1: played less about two seasons worth in terms of games played.

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Speaker 1: And was it bat and one year with it bat

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Speaker 1: was above average and he hit thirty one home runs,

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Speaker 1: but that was it.

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Speaker 2: League figured him out.

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Speaker 1: Donzo last game was I think he made six played

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Speaker 1: appearances in twenty nineteen, but really it was twenty fifteen

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Speaker 1: to twenty seventeen. Just to blast from the past, we

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Speaker 1: see that in the chattel.

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Speaker 5: We should make that a part of one, Like every

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Speaker 5: couple of days.

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Speaker 4: Remember a random name. Just bring a random name up.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I like that. Remember him and then you just chat.

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Speaker 1: I would love that, you know, and then we could

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Speaker 1: like rack a bunch of them in a playlist on

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Speaker 1: you remember me.

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Speaker 2: I'm in. I'm in.

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Speaker 4: Cubans. Cubans. Something that's fun about Cuban players. They always

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Speaker 4: smell so delicious when they come into the box. I mean,

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Speaker 4: I played against a Cuban dude that sprayed the bottom

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Speaker 4: of his cleats before every game that it smelled like

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Speaker 4: bottom of his cleat's, not inside his cleat's to the bottom.

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Speaker 4: I asked him to smell him one time when he

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Speaker 4: was in the box.

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Speaker 2: He's thick. Yeah,