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Speaker 1: Show FT at Metz Camp. Looking forward to chatting with

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Speaker 1: Boba Schett, Carlos Mendoza, Sean Manaya and perhaps some more

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Speaker 1: We're gonna get into the WBC in a moment on

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Speaker 1: the Team USA side before we do. I think the

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Speaker 1: Dominican Republic Exhibition game stole the show last night. Guys.

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Speaker 1: It's like Junior Caminero, Juan Soto, Homers and you would

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Speaker 1: We're showing right now from Tiger Territory and the athletic

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Speaker 1: covering this matchup AJ and experiencing a little bit of

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Speaker 1: the press box last night.

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Speaker 2: It looks a little uncomfortable. I'm not gonna lie. It

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Speaker 3: I thought they captured it so well, the winter ball environment.

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Speaker 3: So for the DR fans, for the Dominican Republic fans,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it looked awesome and it's a little precursor of

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Speaker 1: what we're going to get over the course of the

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Speaker 1: World Baseball Classics. So let's dive into it with Charge's

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Speaker 1: by our friends over at Fox one. The Fox one

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Speaker 1: get all of your World Baseball Classic coverage. I'm talking

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Speaker 1: about every single live game from March fourth to the seventeenth,

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Speaker 1: which is the day of the title game. More information

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Speaker 1: after we chat about the World Baseball Classic Team USA

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Speaker 1: So it sounds like a j Nolan McLain would pitch

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Speaker 1: It looks like from the article I read from Ken Rosenthal,

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Speaker 2: Would you love to have Schemes or Schooble or logan Web. Absolutely,

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Speaker 3: We're supremely focused on the final. There's no final if

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Speaker 3: They still have Nolan McLean pitching in the finals. That

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Speaker 1: Okay, So we'd have Logan Web pitching in the quarterfinals

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Speaker 1: Everybody gets confused. Tyler Rogers is the rich one on

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Speaker 2: I mean, if you go Yarborough throwing from over here

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Speaker 3: Ay, j would you rather have funk like you're talking

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Speaker 2: you always take stuff over funk, but sometimes stuff gets

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Speaker 2: hit and funk doesn't. So don't you know what's it?

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Speaker 3: Don't fake the funkunk on a nasty dunk, you know, like,

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Speaker 1: Hey, you want funk. The Team USA lineup was rolled

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Speaker 1: I felt bad for Adrian Hawser to start the game.

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Speaker 1: fair to say, aj there have been really good players

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Speaker 1: this should be their best lineup ever.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, this lineup, this whole team is really good. You

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Speaker 2: Last year, Mike trow is the captain this Sharon Judge

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Speaker 1: If we get you to come out of retirement, that

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Speaker 3: I saw that stuff coming out of Dominican bullpen last night.

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Speaker 1: Inside Scoop with FT senior insider Ken Rosenthal. Ken, let's

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Speaker 1: get right to the ped suspensions. We don't hear about

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Speaker 1: This is number two, one hundred and sixty two games.

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Speaker 1: But there's an appeal process going on right now.

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Speaker 4: There is, and it's kind of common implicated to explain.

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Speaker 4: Scott and I don't know that it's going to be successful,

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Speaker 3: How does this get out? Can that's go ahead? How

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Speaker 4: Ange, I didn't break this story, so I can't tell

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Speaker 1: I just explained it.

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Speaker 4: Was going to get out even before the appeal. This

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Speaker 5: I'm not sure.

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Speaker 3: Do you have any idea what the appeal like on

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Speaker 5: Positive test, don't go further, don't go further.

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Speaker 4: I don't know what the grounds of the appeal are.

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Speaker 1: Where that stands ken. Where do the Braves go from here?

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Speaker 4: So what do you think I would expect they would

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Speaker 4: And it would seem to me that it would behoove

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Speaker 3: Put it that way, what about Johann Rojas, how because

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Speaker 3: Do you see the Phillies making them move in a

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Speaker 5: We can make a big trade for an outfielder.

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Speaker 4: Oh. I don't know they're going to make a big

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Speaker 2: Ben, You're gonna be a WBC with me? Correct, Wow,

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Speaker 1: Aj?

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Speaker 4: First of all, the honor is mine?

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Speaker 2: True? That's true. That actually is the truest thing you

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Speaker 5: Said in your life.

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Speaker 4: As far as the best roster ever assembled, I would

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Speaker 4: to examine the Dominican Republic's roster because it's pretty unbelievable

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Speaker 1: To be crazy too.

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Speaker 4: Japan is always going to be competitive in this tournament.

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Speaker 4: That's just the nature of it. That's what has happened

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Speaker 4: Mexico will be good good. I'm sure we'll see other

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Speaker 1: Ken, can we go over the pitching plans. You wrote

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Speaker 1: And I did feel like I get what krat said.

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Speaker 1: But also, isn't Derek Scooble more valuable pitching against Mexico

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Speaker 4: And DeRosa said, no, too much. It takes him out

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Speaker 4: alternate roster. It's Tyler, Rogers, will Vest and Matt Strom.

434
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Speaker 4: They will likely be added others removed for the knockout round,

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Speaker 4: should again the US advance.

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Speaker 2: And how come we only talk about this with the USA.

437
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Speaker 2: We're not talking about the pitchers lining up for the

438
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Speaker 2: Dominican We're not pitcher talking about pitchers lining up for

439
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Speaker 2: Japan or any of the other favorite teams. Is it

440
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Speaker 2: just because we maybe know the names a little bit better?

441
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Speaker 2: Why are we not? Everyone's like, oh, Schemes isn't going

442
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Speaker 2: to pitch the final? Well, how do the Dominican lineup?

443
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Speaker 2: Because they have the same problems, right, Japan has the

444
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Speaker 2: same issues. Where's Yamamoto gonna pitch? Right? So how come

445
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Speaker 2: we're just talking about the USA, not the other teams,

446
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Speaker 2: also because the other teams have to pitch too.

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Speaker 4: AJ. The only way I can answer that is because

448
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Speaker 4: right now I'm covering Team USA. I'm not covering those

449
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Speaker 4: other teams, and I haven't delved into it the same

450
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Speaker 4: way I have with Team USA. I would imagine, Yes,

451
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Speaker 4: you're right that the other teams are running into similar issues.

452
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Speaker 4: All teams that have made league players run into these

453
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Speaker 4: issues because the Major league teams have influence here, or

454
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Speaker 4: at least try to have influence. They have in some

455
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Speaker 4: cases the ability or the inclination to set conditions on

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Speaker 4: how their players can be used, pitchers in particular, and

457
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Speaker 4: it does affect things. We learned this in the last WBC.

458
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Speaker 4: We've learned that actually every WBC now guys want to

459
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Speaker 4: play more than they did in the past now, and

460
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Speaker 4: that's a great thing and for all and any criticism

461
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Speaker 4: school has received. My goodness, this guy is entering his

462
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Speaker 4: free agent year. This guy, there's no way he would

463
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Speaker 4: have pitched in this thing twenty three in seventeen. Players

464
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Speaker 4: want to be a part of it, and that's the

465
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Speaker 4: extent he can be a.

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Speaker 5: Part of it.

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Speaker 4: Okay, they'll take it so it's one of these things.

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Speaker 4: Now again, I have not looked at the Dominican Republic

469
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Speaker 4: rotation or the japan rotation as extensively as I've looked

470
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Speaker 4: at Team USA, But just off the top of my head, AJ,

471
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Speaker 4: I would imagine they're running into the same things.

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Speaker 2: Ken. You know, we have Brazil on Friday night. Right,

473
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Speaker 2: who's pitching for Brazil on Friday Night?

474
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Speaker 4: I do not know yet, aj can Ken.

475
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Speaker 2: Can't be so one sided and these things.

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Speaker 1: He's doing that.

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Speaker 4: Scott, it's Wednesday and he's asking me about Friday. We

478
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Speaker 4: got Wednesday, check into Thursday, then get to Friday, and

479
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Speaker 4: aj A, you on the Friday.

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Speaker 2: Broadcast, I am and Saturday, all right, we'll.

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Speaker 4: Be ready for both games.

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Speaker 5: Okay, we'll be ready.

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Speaker 2: Okay, because I hope Joseph. I hope Joseph Contrera's pitches,

484
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Speaker 2: because he does. It'd be kind of cold to broadcast,

485
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Speaker 2: you know, the son of a guy who played for

486
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Speaker 2: for a long time. It'd be awesome. He's in high school.

487
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Speaker 2: This guy's in high school throwing ninety five and hopefully

488
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Speaker 2: you know, he goes and pitches against USA and well

489
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Speaker 2: baseball class. It would be pretty incredible for those who.

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Speaker 4: Might not know what AJ's talking about, because I don't

491
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Speaker 4: think he gave you a frame of reference there. Joseph

492
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Speaker 4: Contreras is the son of Jose Contreras, AJ's former teammate

493
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Speaker 4: with the White Sox. He is nineteen, he's committed to Vanderbilt.

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Speaker 4: And because his mom, I believe, grew up in Brazil,

495
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Speaker 4: she was fifteen years old, she's Brazilian. He is pitching

496
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Speaker 4: for Brazil in this tournament. I actually met him the

497
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Speaker 4: other night. We were on the same flight from Atlanta together,

498
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Speaker 4: and it would be really cool, yes, to see him

499
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Speaker 4: pitch against the US. That's the extent of my Brazilian preparation.

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Speaker 5: So far, Aj.

501
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Speaker 4: But again, two days remain until the first pitch is thrown.

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Speaker 1: Ken, let's finish with this. Were you at the exhibition yesterday?

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Speaker 5: Yes?

504
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Speaker 1: The exhibition?

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Speaker 5: Yes?

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Speaker 1: Okay, So what was it like just for people to

507
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Speaker 1: watch all of those superstars in one spot, many future

508
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Speaker 1: Hall of famers playing together. That's part of the really

509
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Speaker 1: cool aspects here is that you get to see that

510
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Speaker 1: as well, and like who looks like a leader, and

511
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Speaker 1: just how they all mesh together.

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Speaker 4: Absolutely, and one thing DeRose has made a point of

513
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Speaker 4: really going back to January and even before, he has

514
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Speaker 4: wanted to put a team together that is a team

515
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Speaker 4: that is cohesive, that is together. Now. I know fans

516
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Speaker 4: sometimes say stuff is doesn't matter, it's all bunk. You

517
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Speaker 4: can't measure it.

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Speaker 1: Well.

519
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Speaker 4: The entire team stayed for the entire game in uniform

520
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Speaker 4: in the dugout yesterday. That's something you don't see in

521
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Speaker 4: spring training, and that to DeRosa spoke volumes. It showed

522
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Speaker 4: the commitment and the commitment to each other that you

523
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Speaker 4: would want in any team. So as far as how

524
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Speaker 4: they look on the field, it's every bit as imposing

525
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Speaker 4: as you would think when you have a lineup of Judge, Harper,

526
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Speaker 4: Schwarber Wit. I'm not going in the right order. Roman

527
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Speaker 4: Anthony made a strong impression yesterday with a big home run.

528
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Speaker 4: He is going to start for this team. He's not

529
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Speaker 4: going to be Alex Bregman in seventeen or Bobby Witt

530
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Speaker 4: Junior in twenty three. This guy's going to play a

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Speaker 4: meaningful role. He's not the Christian Latner. So it is

532
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Speaker 4: impressive to see how they're coming together and how they

533
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Speaker 4: all have a great passion for playing for their country

534
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Speaker 4: and maybe winning this tournament, trying to win this tournament.

535
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Speaker 4: It's a greater level of commitment than we saw, certainly

536
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Speaker 4: in the first years of the tournament.

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Speaker 1: And it's grown.

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Speaker 4: And it's grown because Team USA one in twenty seventeen

539
00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:04,960
Speaker 4: had a great tournament in twenty three and of course

540
00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:08,480
Speaker 4: that was a dramatic tournament with an incredible finish. Players

541
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Speaker 4: have gotten more into it and you're seeing that not

542
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Speaker 4: just in the participation but in the way that they're

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Speaker 4: going about it.

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Speaker 1: Okay, great info and save travels. Then good luck with

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Speaker 1: your buddy in the box above you. We will be

546
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Speaker 1: anxiously awaiting and listening to that broadcast. Have fun.

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Speaker 5: Thanks guys. That's what he said.

548
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Speaker 1: That's what he said.

549
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Speaker 2: That's what he said.

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Speaker 1: That's what he said. That's what he said. Is engineered

551
00:27:37,359 --> 00:27:40,800
Speaker 1: by Fastenall, where industry meets innovation. This is one of

552
00:27:40,880 --> 00:27:45,800
Speaker 1: my favorite topics during this time of year. Spring training extensions.

553
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Speaker 1: Jim Bowden on GM territory is going to be our

554
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Speaker 1: that's what he said. To give us some names. But

555
00:27:50,400 --> 00:27:53,040
Speaker 1: before we do that, let's run through some names of

556
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Speaker 1: our own. Eric Kratz, do you have one or two

557
00:27:55,280 --> 00:27:58,520
Speaker 1: names that you think need to get Spring training extensions

558
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Speaker 1: done with their teams.

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Speaker 5: I mean the obvious.

560
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Speaker 3: I think it's the team's need to get the extensions done,

561
00:28:04,560 --> 00:28:06,639
Speaker 3: not players that need to get it done. To me,

562
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:09,960
Speaker 3: the obvious one is Connor Griffin. I mean, I think

563
00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:13,359
Speaker 3: you have to look at Roman Anthony's number, and I

564
00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:15,800
Speaker 3: think if you go over that, if you go one

565
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Speaker 3: to fifty five, I think Roman Anthony got.

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Speaker 5: Eight years one fifty.

567
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Speaker 3: If you go over that to like one fifty five,

568
00:28:23,359 --> 00:28:26,280
Speaker 3: now it stays under twenty million a year because Bob

569
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Speaker 3: Nutting doesn't want to go over that. But I think

570
00:28:29,000 --> 00:28:31,959
Speaker 3: just his makeup and everything, I think that's kind of

571
00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:34,000
Speaker 3: the obvious one that I feel like the Pirates need

572
00:28:34,040 --> 00:28:36,119
Speaker 3: to get done. I think another one that was a

573
00:28:36,119 --> 00:28:39,120
Speaker 3: guest on just the other day, Bryce Terrank. I think

574
00:28:39,160 --> 00:28:40,880
Speaker 3: he showed what he can do. I think he made

575
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Speaker 3: some adjustments. His power numbers are I think going to grow.

576
00:28:46,160 --> 00:28:50,560
Speaker 3: He's got platinum glove defense at second base. To me,

577
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Speaker 3: if you lock him up right now before he hits

578
00:28:53,600 --> 00:28:57,720
Speaker 3: twenty five to thirty homers and is a perennial All Star,

579
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Speaker 3: now you're getting a cheaper price and you're kind of

580
00:29:00,760 --> 00:29:04,800
Speaker 3: transitioning from the Yelich time. When I think Yelly's done

581
00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:07,680
Speaker 3: in twenty nine, I think is his last year. Let

582
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Speaker 3: me actually just triple check that. Twenty twenty nine. There's

583
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Speaker 3: a mutual option, so twenty eight and you know, you

584
00:29:14,680 --> 00:29:17,200
Speaker 3: kind of transition it to the next guy.

585
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Speaker 5: And I think Bryce Terraang is the guy to.

586
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Speaker 1: Do it cool. I like those And by the way,

587
00:29:21,440 --> 00:29:24,040
Speaker 1: Roman Anthony's extension last year was eight years, one hundred

588
00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:26,760
Speaker 1: and thirty million dollars. There's club option and the whole

589
00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:30,680
Speaker 1: deal max escalators. Club option can make a nine, one sixty.

590
00:29:30,840 --> 00:29:32,680
Speaker 1: Max escalators can get it all the way up to

591
00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:35,240
Speaker 1: the to thirty range, but you'd need to be racking

592
00:29:35,320 --> 00:29:37,160
Speaker 1: up some big awards to do that. So just to

593
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Speaker 1: give some parameters for what Connor Griffin might be looking at.

594
00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:41,480
Speaker 1: A couple more names.

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Speaker 2: Aj Well, a couple that we've talked to in the

596
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Speaker 2: last two days. One was sitting next to me not

597
00:29:46,120 --> 00:29:49,040
Speaker 2: long ago. And Freddy Peralta. I think he's he makes

598
00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:51,760
Speaker 2: all his starts, He's had quality starts. David Sterns knows

599
00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:54,080
Speaker 2: him well. You saw how happy he is, what a

600
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Speaker 2: kind of guy he is.

601
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Speaker 5: In the clubhouse.

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Speaker 2: Everyone talks about the presence he has. I think Freddy

603
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Speaker 2: Peralta would be an awesome candidate for an extension in

604
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Speaker 2: these New York metropolitans. And the other one is someone

605
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Speaker 2: we had on yesterday in the same division. That's Kyle

606
00:30:06,000 --> 00:30:09,040
Speaker 2: Stowers with the Marlins. Why because you saw the numbers

607
00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:12,000
Speaker 2: he put up last year thirty homers, one hundred RBIs

608
00:30:12,280 --> 00:30:16,320
Speaker 2: was an All Star. He just exudes confidence and he's

609
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Speaker 2: a guy that the Marlins I think could get and

610
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Speaker 2: keep him around for a while. I think he would

611
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Speaker 2: be a perfect extension candidate for the Miami Marlins.

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Speaker 1: Nice, Okay, And then I'll give you a couple others.

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Speaker 1: By the way, before we get to GM territory's choices,

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Speaker 1: Mariner's starting pitching, I'll throw that out there. So pick

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Speaker 1: a name, Brian Wu, Logan Gilbert, anyone Gilbert's a free

616
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Speaker 1: agent after twenty seven, who is a free agent after

617
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Speaker 1: twenty nine? Those are probably the two most likely candidates.

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Speaker 1: Kirby can go on that list to. I guess Bryce

619
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Speaker 1: Miller can go on that list. Yeah, So anyone that's

620
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Speaker 1: interested I think would be good to pursue. I think

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Speaker 1: the As should continue down their line of success of

622
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Speaker 1: getting extensions. It's the best to spend their money right

623
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Speaker 1: now versus recruiting. It's difficult to recruit and you're gonna

624
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Speaker 1: massively overpay to get someone there who might not want

625
00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:11,480
Speaker 1: to be there. So Nick Kurtz, Shay Langaliers, those should

626
00:31:11,520 --> 00:31:13,800
Speaker 1: be the next two on their list, and then one

627
00:31:13,800 --> 00:31:15,440
Speaker 1: more guys to throw your way. I wanted to get

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Speaker 1: your thoughts here, AJ Hunter Brown top three Cy Young,

629
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Speaker 1: he said recently on Crush City Territory, one of our shows,

630
00:31:22,680 --> 00:31:25,120
Speaker 1: our Astros show, that he wanted to try and get

631
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Speaker 1: an extension done. It didn't sound like there were many

632
00:31:27,200 --> 00:31:30,760
Speaker 1: combos yet. I know Hunter Brown is a Scott Boris client.

633
00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:34,080
Speaker 1: It's not like Boris has never done these. If you

634
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Speaker 1: actually look at the Astros, do you know who Boris

635
00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:39,160
Speaker 1: reps on that team who has racked up a couple

636
00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:43,080
Speaker 1: extensions before ever hitting free agency?

637
00:31:43,960 --> 00:31:44,200
Speaker 2: Yeah?

638
00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:47,640
Speaker 1: No, Altuve, Altuve your done. I think's got a different

639
00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:51,280
Speaker 1: rep Al Tuovey's done it twice. So this is a

640
00:31:51,320 --> 00:31:53,840
Speaker 1: guy who could have cashed out multiple times in free agency,

641
00:31:53,920 --> 00:31:56,680
Speaker 1: especially during his first go round, and Houston pushed something

642
00:31:56,680 --> 00:31:58,480
Speaker 1: in his way that he was into. Hunter Brown's a

643
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Speaker 1: pitcher to AJ you always say get your rich first,

644
00:32:01,200 --> 00:32:04,040
Speaker 1: and especially if you're someone who has something that's a

645
00:32:04,080 --> 00:32:06,400
Speaker 1: taking time bomb and it's called a major league arm for.

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Speaker 3: Anyone, I would love to hunt Hunter Brown was my

647
00:32:09,880 --> 00:32:13,080
Speaker 3: guy last year. I rode him hard in the bed

648
00:32:13,200 --> 00:32:15,640
Speaker 3: MGM segments last year, so I was in the strikeout

649
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Speaker 3: totals because he was just nasty and dominant. I would

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Speaker 3: love for the Astros, if I'm an Astro fan, to

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Speaker 3: get a Hunter Brown extension to keep him around for

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Speaker 3: the long term, because he's durable.

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Speaker 2: He looks he's a big man. He's durable, and he

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Speaker 2: can go out there and take the ball every fit

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Speaker 2: day and give you quality innings. They went Verlander to

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Speaker 2: Fromber and now it's Hunter's turn to kind of lead

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Speaker 2: this rotation.

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Speaker 3: I think Jim Crane's relationship with him plays a little

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Speaker 3: bit to do with it too. I think at teams

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Speaker 3: I've been on and watching Jim Crane, how he interacts

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Speaker 3: with players, it's the I mean a little bit that

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Speaker 3: I was there. You could see how he interacted with Korea,

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Speaker 3: you could see how he interacted without Tuve, and when

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Speaker 3: I was there, George was there. Like I think those

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Speaker 3: things kind of sometimes supersede the whole Scott board, so

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Speaker 3: he doesn't do extensions. Boros will do an extension when

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Speaker 3: it's good for his player, he'll advise him not to

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Speaker 3: and allow them to make their own decision.

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Speaker 1: And the closer you get the free agency, your percentage

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Speaker 1: chance of hitting the market and getting a bigger payday happens.

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Speaker 1: So for Brown, what are you going to do over

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Speaker 1: the next few years. It's easier to do these sometimes

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Speaker 1: with a guy who's really early on and you don't

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Speaker 1: even know what this success is going to look like.

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Speaker 1: Now we're getting a good body of work suddenly from

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Speaker 1: Hunter Brown. Okay, let's get some other names GM territory

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Speaker 1: with the Bowdens.

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Speaker 5: What he got other players?

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Speaker 6: The Cincinnati Reds, I think with La Day of the Cruz,

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Speaker 6: they've already offered him a Joey Botto type of deal

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Speaker 6: that didn't get it done. If I'm the Reds, I

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Speaker 6: wouldn't stop trying to get Dela Cruz done right now.

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Speaker 6: I wouldn't wait until a year from now, because I

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Speaker 6: think the price is just going to go way up,

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Speaker 6: So I would try to get that done this spring.

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Speaker 6: I think in Washington's camp, I think leftfielder James Wood

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Speaker 6: is a guy that I lock up now before he

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Speaker 6: is able to hit his prime. And to be honest

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Speaker 6: with you, if I'm the Tigers, knowing I'm probably gonna

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Speaker 6: lose Trek Scoogl in free agency, I also don't want

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Speaker 6: to lose my superstar outfielder Riley Green. So I kind

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Speaker 6: of feel like I would try to get Riley Green

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Speaker 6: signed to a long term deal now instead of waiting

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Speaker 6: a couple of years. They've got three years of control left.

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Speaker 6: I wouldn't want to wait a couple of years on

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Speaker 6: Riley Green either. I think he's a forty home run

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Speaker 6: perennial All Star kind of player here. So I would say,

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Speaker 6: to answer your question, the Oriols with Gunner Henderson and

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Speaker 6: Adlee Rritchman, the Rays with Junior Camenero, the Reds with

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Speaker 6: lad and the Cruz, the Nationals with James Ward, and

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Speaker 6: the Tigers with Riley Green. All of them makes sense

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Speaker 6: to me. And if you're going to do it, this

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Speaker 6: is the time to do it right now. March of

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Speaker 6: twenty six.

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Speaker 1: I like Junior Kamanara on that list. They showed at

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Speaker 1: the back end the only thing and great stuff from

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Speaker 1: Jim Bowden, longtime former GM pops up on this show

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Speaker 1: all the time as a resident GM plus is sentre

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Speaker 1: running point on Jim Territory. Go check it out on

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Speaker 1: Riley Green, AJ. Do you think there could be a discrepancy.

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Speaker 1: The Tigers are one of the more analytical focused teams

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Speaker 1: in the game, and just playing off a public stat

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Speaker 1: that has its own proprietary metrics for many teams behind

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Speaker 1: the scenes Baseball Reference War two years ago, he was

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Speaker 1: a five point four number. Last year he was at

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Speaker 1: two point two. He did hit a ton of dangers,

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Speaker 1: thirty six homers, and slogan percentage was close to five

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Speaker 1: hundred eleven RBIs. I don't think anyone's doubting the power,

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Speaker 1: but there could be on base percentage questions and some

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Speaker 1: other parts of his game that the Tigers might dispute.

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Speaker 1: I love the player, but the Tigers might say, hey,

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Speaker 1: you know, he was more of a two win player

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Speaker 1: and he's like, nah, I'm more of a five plus

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Speaker 1: win player. And that's a huge difference in how you

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Speaker 1: value somebody.

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Speaker 2: Well. Also, the contact I think is one thing they're

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Speaker 2: worried about with Riley Green. I know at the end

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Speaker 2: last year, especially in the postseason. In some of the

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Speaker 2: second half, he had some contact issues and they would

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Speaker 2: really like to see that improve a little bit. Doesn't

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Speaker 2: He did have a really nice year and did a

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Speaker 2: lot of really good things for the Tigers last year,

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Speaker 2: but they really, I know, talking to people, they would

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Speaker 2: love for to see his contact rate go up just

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Speaker 2: a little bit because if he puts more balls in play,

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Speaker 2: there's more chance for damage. So they would love to

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Speaker 2: see that. And if that happens, maybe this is a

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Speaker 2: mid year extension kind of guy.

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Speaker 1: Hmm, that's a good call. And then one more team

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Speaker 1: that would probably be smart to figure out some extensions

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Speaker 1: at some point beyond the Halo. Taking this from the

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Speaker 1: La Times, the Angels did not make zach Netto a

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Speaker 1: form a long term contract offer this offseason, according to Cia,

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Speaker 1: his agency Krats. At this point, I actually still am

745
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Speaker 1: under the I don't even know if you call conspiracy theory,

746
00:36:39,440 --> 00:36:41,680
Speaker 1: but belief that Ardi Moreno is going to sell the

747
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Speaker 1: team soon. And with that being the case, it just

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Speaker 1: feels like they're trying to keep everything short. Now. I

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Speaker 1: don't know why that would necessarily have a ton to

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Speaker 1: do with selling a team, but he does seem lost

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Speaker 1: at the moment with the whole winning versus the fan

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Speaker 1: experience aspect. If I want to buy a team and

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Speaker 1: I knew that there were a few core players locked

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Speaker 1: up long term, I would think there's more value. But

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Speaker 1: often a group will look at their books and say,

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Speaker 1: as clean as the books are, the better off we

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Speaker 1: are to sell this team. I disagree. I think a

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Speaker 1: few guys core wise that don't cost a ton actually helps.

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Speaker 1: But that's just me.

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Speaker 3: I mean, I feel like you can just put all

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Speaker 3: the names and pictures on the dartboard and you can

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Speaker 3: just throw one in there. Do you want to give

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Speaker 3: one to Joe Adell? Do you think his defense and

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Speaker 3: left field will just be serviceable and not below average

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Speaker 3: like it wasn't centered. Do you think Zach Netto is

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Speaker 3: going to continue to make the moves? Do you think

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Speaker 3: Nolan Shanewell would be a guy that well, he's not

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Speaker 3: going to hit for a lot of power. Could anchor

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Speaker 3: your your team at first base? I think there's a

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Speaker 3: lot of options because of how young these guys are.

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Speaker 3: Christian Moore just got called up last year. But to me,

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Speaker 3: what you said about Nedo, you're talking about a five

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Speaker 3: plus war player this past year. You might be too late.

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Speaker 3: He might have already started to show his value in

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Speaker 3: the big leagues and be like, wait a minute, I

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Speaker 3: can just ride this out for another four years and

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Speaker 3: become a free agent. It's going to cost a big number.

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Speaker 3: It's gonna cost a big number. And if they're not

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Speaker 3: willing to go that big, I think they may have waited.

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Speaker 3: I think the value was there before, when he was

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Speaker 3: still getting his feet wet in the big leagues. And

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Speaker 3: now you're gonna pay. You're gonna pay a lot if

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Speaker 3: you're an angel, if you're if you're a argrenum.

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Speaker 1: Right, it was only now a few years away from

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Speaker 1: World Baseball Classic, Pool C and Pool D craft. You

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Speaker 1: can go first here you think there's any value, I

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Speaker 1: know you might not be the most well versed on

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Speaker 1: Pool C in Japan is at minus one minus five,

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Speaker 1: Korea plus eight hundred. Everyone else is above twelve to

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Speaker 1: one odds and then Dominican Republics minus one sixty five

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Speaker 1: in Pool D plus one sixty five for Venezuela. Likely

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Speaker 1: that'll be decided by the matchup between these those two

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Speaker 1: teams and everyone else is further away. Netherlands at thirteen

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Speaker 1: to one odds.

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Speaker 3: What do you think easy value? Korea is the easiest value.

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Speaker 3: Don't don't sleep on the Korean team. I've seen them

801
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Speaker 3: beat Japan head to head. I was at the game.

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Speaker 3: I was at the game in Tokyo, and like gave

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Speaker 3: they gave them a run Chinese Taipei. I think they're

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Speaker 3: just going to be too short to be able to

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Speaker 3: win the division, to be able to win that pool

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Speaker 3: and Venezuela plus one sixty five they could do it.

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Speaker 3: But I have the Dominican winning the entire thing. I

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Speaker 3: already locked that in on bet MGM appreciate that plus

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Speaker 3: four hundred that I locked it in at. But to me, Korea,

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Speaker 3: Korea is the easy easy bet here because you can

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Speaker 3: beat Japan and then run the rest of the table

812
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Speaker 3: and not win the entire thing. But at plus eight hundred,

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Speaker 3: there's a ton of value there. AJ thoughts the list,

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Speaker 3: It's Korea for me, all type.

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Speaker 1: Aj who's pitching for each team, Well.

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Speaker 2: Is going to pitch one game. Korea. There's probably a

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Speaker 2: Kim that's gonna pitch some game because right, and I

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Speaker 2: mean that because every time I watch it, there you

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Speaker 2: have h and then other than that, I don't really

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Speaker 2: know the check. The check guy probably is going to

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Speaker 2: strike out show Hey throwing sixty five again, so that's

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Speaker 2: probably good. Other not, I don't really know. But because

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Speaker 2: I'm not covering this, Like Ken said, I'm focused on

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Speaker 2: the USA because I have two USA games, but I

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Speaker 2: love Listen, I love Korea. If you're gonna bet on

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Speaker 2: any of these, it would be Korea. Japan lost their exhibition.

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Speaker 3: Game the other night, I think to the to the

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Speaker 3: I don't know who they played, Yokohama maybe.

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Speaker 2: Based Oars I think it was, but doesn't mean anything.

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Speaker 2: Australia doesn't have enough check doesn't have enough. Venezuela is

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Speaker 2: not a good enough value. So yeah, it's Korea or

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Speaker 2: bust here. Good boys and girls, if you're betting on

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Speaker 2: these pools.

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