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Speaker 1: Hot corner time. We got some fresh notes from Ken

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Speaker 1: Rosenthal this morning in his column. Let us begin with

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Speaker 1: Kyle Schwarber. There is interest from the Reds. There's interest

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Speaker 1: from Schwarber. AJ is laughing why because if you keep

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Speaker 1: reading the article you can see that the math is

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Speaker 1: not mathing. I would love to see this, Like, if

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Speaker 1: there's someone that would be more perfect, please tell me

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Speaker 1: who it would be. AJ, offense needed thump. This would

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Speaker 1: be a great guy to hit behind Ellie. This would

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Speaker 1: be a great guy for a very young clubhouse.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 1: He's from Ohio, grew up going to Reds games, the

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Speaker 1: whole deal. There's interest from him. It's just that he's

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Speaker 1: probably going to get like five years, one thirty to

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Speaker 1: one fifty mil. The Reds. I've already announced that they're

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Speaker 1: going to keep payroll in the same range as last year.

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Speaker 1: That gives them about twenty million dollars to spend. That

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Speaker 1: alone won't cover Kyle Schwarber. And there are not a

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Speaker 1: lot of big time movable contracts like in the article, AJ,

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Speaker 1: Gavin Lux's name is thrown out there. That's five million.

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Speaker 1: That's still not getting you there. So am I just

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Speaker 1: saying what's going am I like basically narrating your brain right.

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Speaker 2: Now, let me just say that Scott did who we

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Speaker 2: have on earlier Noah Hiles, who does he work for

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Speaker 2: the Pittsburgh Pirates?

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Speaker 1: He don't work for the pirates.

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Speaker 2: Well, he works covers.

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Speaker 1: Was not hire him?

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Speaker 2: Yes? He cover? Excuse me, he covers the pirates? What

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Speaker 2: did I ask him? Are they just going to say

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Speaker 2: they're in on a guy to make the fans happy?

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Speaker 2: Do we really think we have to look at track

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Speaker 2: records that the Castellini family who owns the Red, and

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Speaker 2: they have a great restaurant and hotel. They know I'm

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Speaker 2: Scott Still I stayed their first spring Trainey called Sanctuary

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Speaker 2: wonderful place. But do you think that they're going to

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Speaker 2: take their money and put it into Kyle Schwarber after

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Speaker 2: the track record of never having done this in their

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Speaker 2: entire life, and all of a Suddeny're gonna flip uwitch

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Speaker 2: and say we're gonna sign Kyle Swarber for three years,

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Speaker 2: one hundred and thirty million, Like, no, it's not gonna happen.

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Speaker 2: And to get him to go to Cincinnati. I know

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Speaker 2: he's from there, and we're won the Red's games and

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Speaker 2: this and that, blah blah blah blah blah. They're gonna

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Speaker 2: have to overpay and they don't have a history of

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Speaker 2: doing it. So it's cool. It's great. It's a fun story.

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Speaker 2: A team go Reds, Mister Red Missus, Red Bronson Arroyo

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Speaker 2: out there on his boat playing the guitar, Todd Frasier

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Speaker 2: hitting one handed homers, Joey Vada wearing his uniform three

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Speaker 2: sizes too small. All that is great, But at the

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Speaker 2: end of the day, they're not going to do it

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Speaker 2: because they haven't done this. Until they do it, I

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Speaker 2: gotta see it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's such a bummercrats because I know that they

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Speaker 1: can't think this way. But if the Reds have a

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Speaker 1: little playoff run in them next year, you're going to

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Speaker 1: make up that money and then some right. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I think we can calculate whatever the number is, five, ten,

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Speaker 1: fifteen million dollars per playoff game that you get right,

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Speaker 1: We don't have the official public numbers. I really think

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Speaker 1: Kyle Schwarber is the missing piece for a team like this.

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Speaker 1: They've got a nice core of young starters, they have

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Speaker 1: a developing core of young position players. More work to

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Speaker 1: do there, but their offense wasn't good enough. And it's

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Speaker 1: a great American ballpark too, even if I mean whether

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Speaker 1: you look at the regular offense or the league adjusted offense,

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Speaker 1: looks even worse for them, right like league adjusted park

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Speaker 1: adjusted I should say offense. Last year by most metrics,

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Speaker 1: they were bottom ten. This is a park where home

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Speaker 1: runs are hit. Their home run leader last year was

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Speaker 1: Ellie de la Cruz at twenty two home runs, including

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Speaker 1: just four in the second half of the season. There

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Speaker 1: were reports, of course, of an injury for Ellie. Also

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Speaker 1: he was getting fed more off speed pitches, blah blah,

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Speaker 1: whatever it is. Kyle Schwarper had fifty six home runs

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Speaker 1: last year for Philadelphia.

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Speaker 3: There's I mean a lot of teams. When you look

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Speaker 3: at signing a DH for five years, you say, like

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Speaker 3: when you look at the Phillies, okay, like, well, we're

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Speaker 3: gonna have Trey Turner, who's gonna need some DH time.

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Speaker 3: Bryce Harper is gonna need some DH time in those

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Speaker 3: five years. The Reds don't have that. The Reds are

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Speaker 3: not aging the way that other teams are. So that's

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Speaker 3: why this does fit. He's from Cincinnati, he's got more kids.

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Speaker 3: Now that'd be huge, he'd be able to make his

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Speaker 3: mark on yet another team. And everywhere this guy goes,

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Speaker 3: they make the playoffs. With the Cubs, they won the

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Speaker 3: World Series. He goes to the Phillies, they lose in

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Speaker 3: the World Series. They make the playoffs every year. Like

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Speaker 3: he is that kind of game changing person. But exactly

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Speaker 3: like AJ said, Sorry, Reds fans, it ain't gonna happen.

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Speaker 1: Such a bummer. It just it feels right. Wait, you're

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Speaker 1: mute at AJ, but it feels right. It feels right.

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Speaker 2: They could shoot your stupid mute button. Thank god. It stupid.

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Speaker 2: But they can't afford it. They can't afford it. But

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Speaker 2: my question is is listen, as much as we all

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Speaker 2: love Kyle Sharber and we love what he brings offense,

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Speaker 2: are they only one piece away? Because so who's their

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Speaker 2: first basement? Is it South Stewart? Is it Incarnacian Strand

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Speaker 2: you know, is Ellie going to take the next step?

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Speaker 2: Is Stevenson saying, hell, they're more than one piece away.

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Speaker 2: I think that's the way you're going to look at it,

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Speaker 2: and that's the way they're going to do it.

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Speaker 3: I don't I don't agree that they're one piece away.

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Speaker 3: I think I think they are one piece away. I

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Speaker 3: think Spencer Steer, I think Matt McClain, I think Ellie

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Speaker 3: d la Cruz. And I'm only going on watching them seeing, Okay,

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Speaker 3: this track record is Ellie always going to be a

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Speaker 3: like a ops plus of one oh six first career.

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Speaker 3: I have a hard time believing that that athletic that

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Speaker 3: fast on the basis switch hitter, he's never facing right,

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Speaker 3: all right, left on left, like, I think there are

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Speaker 3: too many pieces, and they are. They're just grossly underperforming offensively. Now,

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Speaker 3: this might be one of my conspiracy theories. The pitching

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Speaker 3: is ridiculous for this team. The starting pitching is ridiculous.

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Speaker 3: The bullpen was a little above average, and the offense

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Speaker 3: was brutal. So is Great American Small Park all of

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Speaker 3: a sudden becoming a pictures park. Did the human door

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Speaker 3: get turned up a little bit too much? I'm just saying,

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Speaker 3: just looking at it, like maybe it's not as great

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Speaker 2: All right, well, I'm gonna ask you this. Here's the

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Speaker 2: problem with the Reds. They strike out too much. Look

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Speaker 2: at their strikeout numbers. They strike out a ridiculous amount.

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Speaker 2: That's not gonna change just because you throw Kyle Swerburn there,

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Speaker 2: because guess what KYLEE. Schwerber does do He strikes out

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Speaker 2: generate offense and humidor no humidor if great Kyle Swerber

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Speaker 2: goes out and hits you forty five homers, if your

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Speaker 2: next guy has twenty and it's Elie, you gotta find

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Speaker 2: out a way to cut down on the strikeouts. That's

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Speaker 2: the biggest thing for the Reds offense. They strike out

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Speaker 2: way too much. Check the numbers.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so maybe someone like Akamoto is more the answer, right,

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Speaker 1: more of a contact, higher floor kind of guy. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's certainly a huge difference in terms of clubhouse presence.

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Speaker 1: I feel like Kyle Schwarber is leading the league or

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Speaker 1: influence a young ball club. It's no knock on Alcamota.

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Speaker 1: I'm just bringing out I mean, he's coming from another

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Speaker 1: be a good fit. But it just felt like this

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Speaker 1: had had written up and it's not likely to actually happen.

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Speaker 1: But who knows, Maybe the Reds will just wake up

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Speaker 1: one day and decide screw it. That's up the payroll

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Speaker 1: couple extra Playoff games out of it, it more than

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Speaker 1: covers it. Anyway, I don't think they're one piece away

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Speaker 1: they're a piece like shore Burr, away from being much

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Speaker 1: more of a sure fire Playoff contender. Right last year

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Speaker 1: they made it eighty three wins, they made it just barely.

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Speaker 1: I think they would be in a much better position here,

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Speaker 1: and I do think some of that young pitching is

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Speaker 1: going to take the next step for them in the rotation. Okay,

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Speaker 1: next thing on the list, and last one we'll cover

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Speaker 1: here today from Ken had to do with the Brewers.

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Speaker 1: They are the ultimate flip floppers right now. I mean,

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Speaker 1: because some of these comments have been public, it's not

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Speaker 1: like they're just coming from anonymous sources. Maybe Freddy Parolta

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Speaker 1: Oh Woodriff took the qualifying offer, Now, maybe we'll trade him.

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Speaker 1: Then again, you kind of see that they're not going

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Speaker 1: back to we're listening. So aj. I do think some

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Speaker 1: of this has to do with teams calling and upping there.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to say offers, but they're conversations because

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Speaker 1: doing that because they looked at Dylan see seven years

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Speaker 1: at present value close to two hundred million dollars and said, hmmm,

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Speaker 1: nine year old Freddy Parolta with better credentials right now,

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Speaker 1: right or at least comparable credentials for eight million bucks

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Speaker 1: I could find one more prospect to make this happen Milwaukee,

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Speaker 1: Can I entice you into this? It's not a money

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Speaker 1: after this year. Do we have to maximize a return here?

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Speaker 1: Or can we afford to keep him, build on the

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Speaker 2: No, I agree, it's not a money thing. It's a

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Speaker 2: we can get it super extra special stuff for this

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Speaker 2: Milwaukee's ahead of this game. They did it with Devin Williams.

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Speaker 2: They've done it for years, the Corbyn Burns. But the

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Speaker 2: one guy they let walk was Willia Damas right, and

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Speaker 2: even though they wont a bunch of games. Freddy Peralta

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Speaker 2: eight million dollars. Teams are like, yeah, we can get

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Speaker 2: one year of healthy, full menu Freddy. And he finished

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Speaker 2: probably I don't know where he finished the Young but

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Speaker 2: pitch for us. Heck yeah, and we'll give you the

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Speaker 2: ABC and D. I like this for the Milwaukee I

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Speaker 2: hate it if you're a fan. But at the same time,

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Speaker 2: I'm like, if we can get a bunch of things

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Speaker 2: winning and our playoffs going to do it, I'm sorry.

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Speaker 3: Uh yeah, calling online. Six is the Red Sox. How

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Speaker 3: do how do the Brewers? The Brewers have to match

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Speaker 3: big league ready pieces. To me, I think it's two players.

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Speaker 3: I think it's Jaron Durant, and I think it's another

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Speaker 3: continue to win. Is it Marcella Meyer and somebody else?

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Speaker 2: So then let's let's go through some of the teams

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Speaker 2: Will they spend the money? Right? Will they? Will Puster

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I'm curious to see where the rotation

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Speaker 4: I guess for teams that were selling pitching just was

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Speaker 4: you've got Joe Ryan and Pablo Lopez, and if they're

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Speaker 4: think that the Nationals with Mackenzie Gore, it's the same

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Speaker 4: They haven't gotten out of the rebuild yet, and so

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Speaker 4: It probably takes a little bit of time for them

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Speaker 4: But at some point later this offseason, I think that

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Speaker 4: but a trade of that kind of magnitude later in

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Speaker 3: Anthony, how long have you been writing for MLB trade rumors.

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Speaker 4: Uh, six years part time, I think full time for four.

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Speaker 3: Okay, So when I played, I finished in twenty twenty,

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Speaker 3: I had gotten traded eight different times, and MLB trade

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Speaker 3: rumors not once told me I was going to get traded.

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Speaker 3: And as a player, that is tough to hear. So

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Speaker 3: you guys got to get your sources. Bet No, I

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Speaker 3: just want people to know that it's you guys do

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Speaker 3: an incredible job. And honestly, I know a lot of

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Speaker 3: players that read it, watch it and not saying it

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Speaker 3: took over for Baseball America, but Baseball America's had had

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Speaker 3: the They had the books in our clubhouse and dudes

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Speaker 3: would always be pulling up MLB trade rumors. So you

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Speaker 3: guys do a great job.

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Speaker 4: Well, thank you. I appreciate It's always it's always kind

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Speaker 4: of ratifying to you know, you get players or fun

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Speaker 4: office people are like, oh yeah, we actually read the

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Speaker 4: stuff that you guys put up.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, no doubt. We are all hooked and we

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Speaker 1: will continue to be the rest of the off season. Anthony,

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Speaker 1: great to have you, odd Man, really appreciate it, and

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Speaker 1: welcome to have Tea as a guest here for the

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Speaker 1: first time. I hope you enjoyed it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I did.

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Speaker 4: Anytime that I really appreciate it,