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Speaker 1: Hey, We've got Aaron Gleaming from The Athletic, also from

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Speaker 1: the Smoking Hot Gleaming and The Geek podcast joining us

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Speaker 1: right now to talk twins. Aaron, great to have you

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Speaker 1: on and we've been waiting for this moment to cover

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Speaker 1: the Chris Paddock trade to the Tigers. We love a

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Speaker 1: good al Central trade. So how you doing and what

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Speaker 1: did you think of the deal?

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Speaker 2: I'm just glad I didn't wear a hat backwards or

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Speaker 2: forwards for this, and I have no writing in the

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Speaker 2: background here for me, so I think I'm safe and

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Speaker 2: that aj I think you look good and I'm jealous

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Speaker 2: of your hair, so however you want to wear it on?

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Speaker 3: Gleam it? What is that thing behind you?

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Speaker 4: Like?

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Speaker 3: My eyes are bad?

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Speaker 5: Now's today?

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Speaker 4: Now?

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Speaker 2: I might have got yourself in It's a It's like

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Speaker 2: a cow.

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Speaker 3: What is that like? Morrise code.

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Speaker 2: This is a man using his girlfriend's office and has

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Speaker 2: no idea what the artwork is so and maybe likely

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Speaker 2: afraid to comment on it because she might hear this later.

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Speaker 4: So I'm just gonna sit this one out.

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Speaker 3: There's a picture of you. Is that you two over

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Speaker 3: your shots? Because you would never have that in your office?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't have an office. Yeah, true love.

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Speaker 3: Yes, all right, So here's the question, what are the

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Speaker 3: twins gonna do? I already asked him a question. He

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Speaker 3: didn't answer my next question.

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Speaker 2: No, I mean I was dodging. I was dodging the question.

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Speaker 3: Uh.

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Speaker 2: I think we're gonna see pretty much. That was the

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Speaker 2: start of I think what they're gonna do, which is

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Speaker 2: Paddock is one of or one was one of six

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Speaker 2: impending for agents that they had. I think he was probably,

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Speaker 2: you know, third or fourth most valuable in that group.

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Speaker 2: You know, Harrison Bader, Willie Castro, Danny cool Ohm, and

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Speaker 2: then Paddock they traded, and then they also have Christian

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Speaker 2: Vasquez at catcher and then Ty France. You know, I

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Speaker 2: think they're still sort of in the wild card mix.

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Speaker 2: I mean, they're playoff odds are like ten or fifteen percent.

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Speaker 2: But I think the Paddock deal, doing it so early

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Speaker 2: think signals they're gonna trade all of the impending for

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Speaker 2: And you know, not that Paddock had Hue value or anything,

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Speaker 2: but they dumped a bunch of salary. I think four

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Speaker 2: and a half million, which I know that doesn't really

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Speaker 2: mean anything except to the pole AADs the owners, but

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Speaker 2: I think that was part of the equation with that trade.

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Speaker 2: And then they got a catching prospect back who seems

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Speaker 2: like a decent nineteen year old catcher prospect from the Tigers.

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Speaker 2: But I would expect kind of that to be the

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Speaker 2: first step with a bunch of very similar moves the

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Speaker 2: rest of the rest of the next couple of days.

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Speaker 3: So are we talking Duran, are we talking Jacks? Are

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Speaker 3: we talking Castro? Or are we talking who? I mean?

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Speaker 6: Are they going to go all in and just dismantle

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Speaker 6: and start over? And then if they do do that,

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Speaker 6: how does Carlos Korea feel about that? Byron Buckson feel

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Speaker 6: about that? Because these guys signed these long term deals

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Speaker 6: and now they're kind of stuck.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think I wouldn't rule out them

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Speaker 2: trading Doran Jacks somebody like that, even maybe Brock Stewart

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Speaker 2: relievers who have two or three more years of team control.

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Speaker 2: But I think they're in a position where they would

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Speaker 2: need to kind of be blown away to accept one

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Speaker 2: of those offers. I'm not saying they wouldn't do it

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Speaker 2: or that that might not happen, but I think they're focused.

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Speaker 2: He's gonna be you mentioned Castrow. I think he's definitely

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Speaker 2: get traded. I think they'll probably find a small deal

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Speaker 2: for Danny Coulom, who can just be a second lefty,

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Speaker 2: and some contenders bullpen if they get blown away in

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Speaker 2: a offer for a non impending free agent like some

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Speaker 2: of the names you mentioned, I do think they're somewhat

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Speaker 2: open to it. But then the other thing, we couldn't

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Speaker 2: Every time I'm on we talk ownership to some degree

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Speaker 2: it's difficult, I think for the front office to know

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Speaker 2: what their future is.

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Speaker 4: So to trade somebody who has.

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Speaker 2: A is a very good player like Jacks or Doron,

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Speaker 2: but also his team controlled not just this season, not

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Speaker 2: just next season, but twenty twenty seven, I think that

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Speaker 2: is a big leap for a front office and an

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Speaker 5: Does that give not no hope because they're still exciting players,

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Speaker 5: but Twins fans like, oh great, we're just gonna get

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Speaker 5: a bunch of six, six more one year rentals offseason

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Speaker 5: because there's no ownership drive or motivation or even direction.

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Speaker 5: If that's how this trade deadline goes. To me, if

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Speaker 5: I were Twins fans, I would be more excited if

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Speaker 5: we got rid of a Griffin Jacks because of the return,

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Speaker 5: because of what that could potentially be. But it could

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Speaker 5: be another missing trade deadline or missing off season because

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Speaker 5: ownership situation just is still in flux.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, all that is definitely true. I agree

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Speaker 2: the end of twenty twenty three for Twins fans, payroll

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Speaker 2: got cut, team has been underwhelming, all sorts of that stuff.

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Speaker 2: Like you mentioned, You know, I do think that it

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Speaker 2: is viable if you get a great offer, especially for

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Speaker 2: a relief pitcher. I mean, we know even the best

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Speaker 2: relievers sometimes have a pretty short shelf life, you know,

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Speaker 2: they kind of burn bright, fade away a little bit.

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Speaker 2: And if you can get multiple building block type of

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Speaker 2: reliever with two more years of team control. I do

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Speaker 2: think that's something you can consider. But also, if I'm

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Speaker 2: going to be around next year, let alone twenty twenty seven,

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Speaker 2: because first of all, if new owners come in at

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Speaker 2: some point, which obviously Twins fans are hoping for, they

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Speaker 2: might bring in their own people to begin with. That

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Speaker 2: happens a lot, and regardless of that, the Twins are

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Speaker 2: about to miss the playoffs for the fourth time in

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Speaker 2: five years, So I think it's fair to question the

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Speaker 2: performance of this regime anyway, which has been in place

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Speaker 2: since twenty seventeen. So I definitely agree that depending on

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Speaker 2: the quality of the offers you're getting, and the fact

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Speaker 2: that Class A just got taken off the market too,

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Speaker 2: could potentially lead to bigger and better offers for Deron

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Speaker 2: definitely think they're smart to listen, and for that matter,

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Speaker 2: if you want to listen on Joe Ryan too. I mean,

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Speaker 2: I'm not against listening, like, let someone try to go

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Speaker 2: crazy and make you an offer, but I do think

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Speaker 2: that the front office might feel like, do we want

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Speaker 2: to enter into another rebuild or even a you know,

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Speaker 2: step back, where it's not going to be good here

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Speaker 2: for a couple of years. Where are they going to

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Speaker 2: be here in a couple of years. What who's even

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Speaker 2: going to own the team in a couple of years.

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Speaker 3: Derek Falvey's in charge, he's been in charge. They lost

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Speaker 6: But how handcuffed are they? How much are their hands

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Speaker 6: tied by this ownership. I don't want to call it

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Speaker 6: a problem, but ownership selling. We're not selling. We might

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Speaker 6: sell if we sell. Joe Pollott still has to be

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Speaker 6: part of the ownership group. Like, how handcuffed is Derek

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Speaker 6: Falve with this team in the payroll and the trades

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Speaker 6: he's actually allowed to make.

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Speaker 2: I mean, we've seen you mentioned it the last two

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Speaker 2: deadlines when they were in a position to be buyers,

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Speaker 2: like clear buyers. I think two years ago they were

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Speaker 2: in first place at the deadline. Last year they were

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Speaker 2: in the first wild card. Their playoff odds at the

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Speaker 2: deadline in the past couple years were like seventy something percent.

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Speaker 2: Now it's ten percent. And they didn't do anything. I mean,

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Speaker 2: they brought in like a middle reliever each time and

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Speaker 2: it gets also back to what you just said, which

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Speaker 2: is they didn't have any money to add anybody, and

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Speaker 2: any deal they were going to have to make in

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Speaker 2: the last two years would have to involve the selling

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Speaker 2: team eating a bunch of money, which is going to

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Speaker 2: cost you more prospects from the Twins point of view,

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Speaker 2: or would have to involve money coming in and money

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Speaker 2: going out major league from major league deal, which that's

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Speaker 2: a very tough needle to threat all the time. I

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Speaker 2: think this time around, any trade they make is going

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Speaker 2: to be shedding money. They already shed four and a

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Speaker 2: Dobnick's contract in there too. You know, if they end

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Speaker 2: up trading the three or four other names that I mentioned, Castro, Bator, Koulom,

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Speaker 4: Now.

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Speaker 2: Am I confident that money will ever be reinvested in

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Speaker 4: Absolutely not.

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Speaker 2: I've been covering the Twins way too long to know that,

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Speaker 2: But you know, it is, I think a factor.

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Speaker 4: But then the thing you have.

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Speaker 2: To worry about, would they get better prospects, Let's say,

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Speaker 2: for Chris Paddock, and I think they got a decent

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Speaker 2: have eaten four and a half million dollars or three

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Speaker 2: million dollars in that deal instead of having the Tigers

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Speaker 2: take it all on. And so I think that's another

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Speaker 2: example of Yes, the payroll has been slash since twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty three. Yes, the front office's hands are tied, but

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Speaker 2: even in a selling position, not you know, trying to

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Speaker 2: maximize the money saved could hurt the return you're getting

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Speaker 2: on some of these deals.

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Speaker 5: As the All Start game Byron Buckston absolutely squashed any

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Speaker 5: any decisions or talk about getting traded. He said, I

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Speaker 5: have a no trade class. I love Minnesota. Is that

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Speaker 5: good for the Twins? Is that good? Yes? Oh man,

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Speaker 5: I get to keep my jersey for another you know,

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Speaker 6: There was a lot of guys that were that I

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Speaker 2: I think that's a good point actually, because he got paid,

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Speaker 4: Last couple of years.

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Speaker 2: So he took sort of a fifteen million dollars a year,

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Speaker 2: And like you said, you had plenty of very good

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Speaker 2: And I think it's it's a little bit of a

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Speaker 1: No, they all walked away, right, Yeah, they kind of

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that one they let Artis go for nothing, because.

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Speaker 4: That is even for the twins. That's not much.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not like they couldn't afford him, they just didn't.

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Speaker 3: Well anyway, they thought they had other guys coming. They

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Speaker 4: For most of the guys.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, you only struck out one hundred times. You're

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Speaker 1: Yes, seriously, game has changed, all right, So I'll finish

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Speaker 1: the way we started. What are the Tigers getting in

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Speaker 1: Chris Paddock because apparently some other insiders were saying that

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Speaker 2: I was told that they had a handful of teams interested,

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Speaker 1: I don't hate that maybe the strikeouts tick up for

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Speaker 1: Good to catch up with you man. Thanks for the time.

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Speaker 1: Uh congratulations you survived.

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Speaker 4: A J.

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Speaker 1: Perzinski.

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Speaker 2: Let's just hope no one else but us. Here's your

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Speaker 1: Thank you, you guys, your girls. Like so, I was

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Speaker 1: listening to FT again today and.

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Speaker 4: Thanks.

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Speaker 1: I appreciate you man.

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Speaker 4: See you boys,