Speaker 1: Welcome to about a territory, Ladies and gentlemen. A friendly
Speaker 1: friend of the show is back on the show, Chris Catillo.
Speaker 1: How you doing, my friend?
Speaker 2: I friendly. I've never been called in on Twitter before,
Speaker 2: so I'm glad in the podcast YouTube Red Sox Space,
Speaker 2: I get that Moniker at least listen.
Speaker 1: I see a lot of the haters on Twitter, and
Speaker 1: you're always so respectful when you I believe you had
Speaker 1: just put something. I think someone was very angry about
Speaker 1: the report they were about to go over, but you
Speaker 1: handled it in a very respectful manner. I thought it
Speaker 1: was very friendly, to be honest.
Speaker 2: So here we are here too in form and remind
Speaker 2: that it's just baseball. It's not the end of the world.
Speaker 2: It is what it is, and you know, you keep
Speaker 2: it moving.
Speaker 1: You know, sometimes you just got to take a breath.
Speaker 1: You gotta take a breath sometimes. But I understand this.
Speaker 1: We got we just got some frustrating news across the desk.
Speaker 1: I was going to start this off asking you, uh,
Speaker 1: if you were ready to break the Bobby Wick junior trade.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately we can't talk about that right now. I'm kidding. No,
Speaker 1: obviously that's not happening. Everybody, but unfortunately breaking news. Curtis Mead.
Speaker 1: It is second ab last night for the Red Sox
Speaker 1: getting hit on the hand wrist area. Initial the initial
Speaker 1: report it was a contusion and X rays came back negative.
Speaker 1: But they did further testing here today and according to
Speaker 1: Tommy Castle, wuso's reporter and mass Lives own Christopher Smith
Speaker 1: and yourself confirming that it is a broken wrist. I'll
Speaker 1: simply ask, I mean, obviously this is very frustrating to see,
Speaker 1: but what is your initial reaction to this?
Speaker 2: I texted somebody asking is there a fracture in there?
Speaker 2: And they thumbs up the text. So that's all I
Speaker 2: know as of seven o eight pm. As we record
Speaker 2: this in real time, you know, the Red Sox will
Speaker 2: most likely make an announcement and a lot of times
Speaker 2: you can get the details out of the injury designation
Speaker 2: which will be in there. Seems like Nick so guards
Speaker 2: on the way to Sacramento, join them and chat. Tracy
Speaker 2: will be talking, you know, twenty minutes after record this,
Speaker 2: and he'll give as many details as you can. I
Speaker 2: think the clubhouse is open, and Sacramento it's tiny, so
Speaker 2: it's not that open. But I think Mead will be
Speaker 2: talking here soon. We have Chris Smith out there, so
Speaker 2: it is developing very much. But you know, a huge blow,
Speaker 2: you know, anytime there's a broken bone, you know, I
Speaker 2: think it would be premature for us to speculate it
Speaker 2: could be the rest of the season, but there are
Speaker 2: only two months left in this season, so you're looking
Speaker 2: at you know, him out for at least a few
Speaker 2: weeks and potentially longer. And this is a guy that
Speaker 2: obviously they had very high hopes for and for this
Speaker 2: to happen to wit bats into his Red Sox tenure
Speaker 2: is brutal. I saw somebody on ex Twitter or whatever
Speaker 2: hell hole pointed out that they at least it's not
Speaker 2: a rental and that this guy is going to be
Speaker 2: in a Red Sox uniform for four more years after this,
Speaker 2: So I guess that's the silver lining. It's not like
Speaker 2: you get a guy for two months and this happened,
Speaker 2: but they anticipate him being a big piece, if there
Speaker 2: is a positive way to look at it, because you
Speaker 2: know me, Robbie, that's it. They have basically, you know,
Speaker 2: they have a cast of characters that have proven relatively
Speaker 2: capable at in the middle infield, over the last few weeks, right,
Speaker 2: I mean, Siegler is a guy people like, so Guard
Speaker 2: had some good at bats his first stint up before
Speaker 2: he got hurt. They've had the Monasterios and Chang's and
Speaker 2: Ikfs and the Meyers of the world be up here
Speaker 2: throughout the year, and you know, all of them, basically
Speaker 2: except Meyer, have given you something offensively at a different time.
Speaker 2: So they are in terms of depth options. They have
Speaker 2: that because they had it, you know, when they traded
Speaker 2: for meat as an upgrade. But still when you, you know,
Speaker 2: put what you did on the table to send Connolly
Speaker 2: early to Washington and get this guy, it's a huge loss.
Speaker 2: And we'll figure out over the next hours or days
Speaker 2: you know exactly how long he's going to be out.
Speaker 1: It's going to be really interesting to see you. I
Speaker 1: can't I can't think of a time like this, honestly,
Speaker 1: going back all the year, watching all these deadlines. You
Speaker 1: make a move and then two AB's in. I'm sure
Speaker 1: there is a couple that I'm just not even remembering.
Speaker 1: But it's pretty crazy to see this. But I got
Speaker 1: to ask you, if you were to envision what could
Speaker 1: be going on in that Red Sox front office right now.
Speaker 1: Obviously there's probably huge disappointment across the board, But what
Speaker 1: sense are you getting Obviously, like you said, it's just developing,
Speaker 1: But are you getting the feeling that Craig it could
Speaker 1: get a bit more aggressive here, try to turn up
Speaker 1: the noise a little bit with phone calls out there,
Speaker 1: or do you get the feeling he stays the course,
Speaker 1: doesn't overreact and you know, just keeps doing what he's doing.
Speaker 2: I mean, if you think about this from a logical perspective,
Speaker 2: it's like trading Connolly early makes it way less likely
Speaker 2: or way less palatable that they would move a Tolly
Speaker 2: or a Bennett or an ions in or you know,
Speaker 2: some of these other young pitchers that they have. Right
Speaker 2: the fact that Curtis Mead got hurt to a bat
Speaker 2: ten doesn't change that. And so if you have the
Speaker 2: Angels with Zach Netto saying unless you give us totally
Speaker 2: your Bennett, this is total speculation, but probably not far
Speaker 2: off from what it actually is. If you don't give
Speaker 2: us totally your Bennett, then you're not getting this guy.
Speaker 2: Because Curtis meets hurt, They're not going to just be
Speaker 2: like okay and give up two of those now three
Speaker 2: guys after Early's been traded. I mean, they don't get
Speaker 2: Early back now that meat's been hurt, and so that's
Speaker 2: a big chip. I think everybody looked at that young
Speaker 2: starting pitching depth as an area they could obviously deal
Speaker 2: from with the three of them and more on the
Speaker 2: way they kind of you know, that bullets left the
Speaker 2: chamber for lack of a better term, and so I
Speaker 2: think it would be wrong, you know, to be to say,
Speaker 2: all right, well, basically we don't have collin Early anymore.
Speaker 2: But back to the drawing board, let's go like restart
Speaker 2: our deadline. And you know, I think that that is
Speaker 2: a question they're going to have to face. I think
Speaker 2: it could get them more aggressive in maybe the rental market.
Speaker 2: But you know, we'll see. I'll give you the the
Speaker 2: updates now. Chris Smith, uh me to just talk to
Speaker 2: the media out there. He's flying to Boston meet with
Speaker 2: a hand specialist. Not sure if surgery is going to
Speaker 2: be needed. Had an MRI today that revealed the fracture
Speaker 2: after the initial X rays were negative yesterday. So there
Speaker 2: you go.
Speaker 1: Man, oh man, that's ay. Well we got you gotta
Speaker 1: love it, you gotta love it. You guys do a
Speaker 1: great job, but it's obviously you know, you feel for
Speaker 1: the guy too, right, he just turned to season around,
Speaker 1: he gets a great opportunity coming to Boston and uh,
Speaker 1: here we are unfortunately, but obviously, you know, like you said,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe you could dip into you know, the
Speaker 1: rental market a little bit more, would be a little
Speaker 1: bit cheaper. You know, we've gotten reports right looking at shortstops,
Speaker 1: looking at cat Sure, where are you feeling that the
Speaker 1: Red Sox could be leaning towards when it comes to
Speaker 1: making a move.
Speaker 2: I'm mean, it's a it's a great question. I mean
Speaker 2: the billion dollar question right now. You know. I think
Speaker 2: the areas that they're looking at or obvious for everybody.
Speaker 2: We outline them earlier today on mass Live. The shortstop
Speaker 2: potentially long term which is confusing, but real catching help
Speaker 2: which is not perfect in the middle of the season,
Speaker 2: but real and pitching depth, which you know, the need
Speaker 2: for that increased when you move a guy like early
Speaker 2: and you're a little shorter in the rotation. Every contender
Speaker 2: is looking for bullpen arms this time of year, so
Speaker 2: that's a real thing. I just think, you know, they're
Speaker 2: they're looking at those types of options. Any team's going
Speaker 2: to prefer controllable over rental. Sometimes you don't have a choice.
Speaker 2: Last year, the two guys they got were rentals at
Speaker 2: the last minute. One and Matt's worked out. The other
Speaker 2: in May didn't. So we'll see where it goes. I
Speaker 2: still think they're you know, looking to improve, looking to buy,
Speaker 2: but you know it's easier said than done this time
Speaker 2: of year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's uh, it's gonna be a very interesting week.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be hearing all the all the gossip, all
Speaker 1: the juiciness, saw all the wonderful trade deadline news over
Speaker 1: the next week. But Chris, that is all we got
Speaker 1: here for today. I want to thank you for coming
Speaker 1: on giving us the latest on what's going on here
Speaker 1: really quick. Let people know at home where can they find.
Speaker 2: You, Masslive dot Com, Chris Catillo on Twitter, Fenway Rundown
Speaker 2: Podcast Easy, and I.
Speaker 1: Believe you are going to be going to the Dodgers
Speaker 1: series here, correct?
Speaker 2: Yep, Yes, Midy's out there for us now in Sacktown,
Speaker 2: Sean and I will be flying out Thursday to La Well.
Speaker 1: I am. I am praying for you that no meals
Speaker 1: get interrupted with this trade deadline coming around yeah, eat,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be tough.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: I feel good about it this time, Chris, I feel
Speaker 1: good about it. So everybody, if you kind of the
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