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Speaker 2: It's the inside scoop with FT senior insider Ken Rosenthal

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Speaker 2: Kenneth's Friday, We're a little loopy, so I'm gonna give

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Speaker 1: He's going to the Blue Jays. He is. And what's

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Speaker 1: And I know he's excited about that, about the mere

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Speaker 3: Obviously, this is a different offseason. If we had heard

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Speaker 3: Were there other teams that were in the mix? And

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Speaker 1: Well, the injuries certainly played a role in the salary.

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Speaker 3: Did the Orioles maybe overpay a little bit for Tyler

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Speaker 1: Eric I wrote about this yesterday with Will Salmon in

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Speaker 1: Don't believe they are comfortable. The question is how much

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Speaker 5: That's great.

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Speaker 2: And he's like always wanted to be a Yankee and

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Speaker 5: Okay, Junior Kemena are actually coming on Monday next week.

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Speaker 5: You could, you could take it on the show like that's.

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Speaker 1: Never been It's not going to happen, Todd.

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Speaker 5: Anyway. You know, I want to get on Peter a

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Speaker 1: My understanding is that there's nothing to that, and the

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Speaker 2: I'm going to take us to the Giants for a moment.

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Speaker 2: He said, can you ask Ken, what does the Giants

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Speaker 1: They signed the Damis, that was their big move, and

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Speaker 1: It should be a competitive team, there's no doubt about that.

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Speaker 2: All right, one more on this, because Buster Posey is

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Speaker 1: First off, Buster Posey is right, opt outs are only

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm with you there, right If you're trying to

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Speaker 2: and worry about tomorrow tomorrow, Ken, thank you so much,

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Speaker 2: I actually have a question because we asked Ken rosadaal

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Speaker 4: just think that that's the way. That's the what you

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Speaker 4: need the closer now you need to you need to

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Speaker 4: wipe out pitch. They can go get a strikeout when

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Speaker 4: you need it. And he's a throw a lout of

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Speaker 4: fastballs guy, but he won't give up and he's not

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Speaker 4: going to shy away. So that's something that at least

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Speaker 4: you'll have right away. But I think you make the adjustment.

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Speaker 4: But maybe we start with what he's done well and

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Speaker 4: then transition in there if if that's what you need

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Speaker 4: to do.

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Speaker 2: And I know the industry is shifted where they're valuing

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Speaker 2: quality often over quantity, but do need to eat some innings?

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Speaker 2: It is very valuable. How many times have we talked

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Speaker 2: towards the end of the season like this team's got

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Speaker 2: to find innings somewhere, So it does matter