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Greetings and salutations, everyone. It's Rich Wilson. Welcome to Fantasy
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Baseball Live. Today is Halloween. About 9.30 in the morning.
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Happy Halloween, Mr. McLeod.
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Thank you very much. May your trick-or-treating be very festive,
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my friend.
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Now, who are you dressed as today?
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Today? I am actually working today, and it's my last
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regular day driving nurses around. So I'm going to put
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on my Fred Flintstone shirt, and I'm going to be
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Fred Flintstone, and I'm going to hand out treat stalls
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to the nurses as they head into work.
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Oh, that's very nice.
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Yeah, do something. Just make the day a little bit
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brighter and hand them out a bag of chips or
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cheesies or something. Then have a little bit of fun
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with it, right?
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That's very nice. I mean, wow, you're so Canadian. You're
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very nice.
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Well, I thank you, despite the popular rumors that we're
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all pricks. We're not. Sorry. I mean, not nice people.
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You truly do have a Fred Flintstone shirt. That's true.
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Yeah, I do.
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Yeah. I save it for special occasions, you know, events
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where I have to wear a tie. Okay. Because it's
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got the tie down the front, the big blue tie.
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It's orange with all the diamonds. I should take a picture. It's...
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It's me. It's Fred Flintstone. Yes.
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Do you know a lot of, I'm assuming, you know,
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a lot of the nurses then that are going to be, uh,
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walking up to the hospital.
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Yes, I do. Yeah. I, I sort of, uh, I,
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I look at myself as being a bit more than,
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I'm also the hospital greeter. Okay.
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Yeah.
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Yeah. I say good morning to people. I've gotten to
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know a lot of people over the past couple of years, uh,
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simply because I'm, I'm around and I know you find
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it hard to believe, but, uh, My shy and quiet.
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I'm not always as inhibited as I am on the air, Rich.
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I can be occasionally outgoing.
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We're holding up in our apartment here, Timmy, because it
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was crazy last night. Lots of arrests. People just go
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nuts at Halloween and the day before Halloween.
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That full moon thing, it's a reality. It really is.
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It's funny because all the kids about three to five
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o'clock in the afternoon yesterday all went trick or treating
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to all the storefronts. And it was fun. It was
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very wholesome. And by eight o'clock, all of, you know,
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50 mile radius, everybody, all the 20 to 30 year
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olds kind of came to Morristown where we live and
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just tore it up.
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So it's crazy. Yes, they proved that they could get
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drunk and gravity works, right? And be jerks, which is
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unfortunate because it can be such a fun time. I
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can remember at a point, I think I was living
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in Thunder Bay. Yeah, I was. It was in Thunder Bay.
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We went trick-or-treating a couple times. The adults.
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Oh, really?
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Yeah, we had a designated driver, okay? And piled half
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a dozen war costumes and went to all of our
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friends' places, uh, Sponging for alcohol.
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That was what you were trick or treating for was alcohol.
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Well, yeah, exactly. Yeah. For free drinks. So we made
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our rounds and had a lot of had a lot
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of fun with it. And you know what? Adult Halloween
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can be fun. Or it can be something that is
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absolutely ridiculous and stupid. And we used to have fun
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with it. It gave us a chance to run into
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friends we hadn't seen for a while. Yeah, it was
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a good time. It really was. There's nothing wrong with
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adult Halloween. You just have to... You have to... use
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some common sense. It's not a time to be breaking
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things and throwing stupid things. Have fun with it.
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I think Halloween Eve is even bigger here than Halloween.
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I guess we'll find out tonight. But, I mean, because
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first time I think we've lived here
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where it's been on the weekend both nights. But they
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had a big bar crawl. So there were people just,
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you know, hundreds of people going down the street, stopping
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at all the bars and the lines, Tammy, were two
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blocks long, long to get into some of the bars.
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It was crazy.
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Yeah. We have, uh, our, our library in conjunction with
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several local businesses, they do, uh, I think they call
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it trunk or treat. Oh, sure. What they do. Yeah.
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Yeah.
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And they hand out, uh, they hand out, uh, Halloween
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packages to all the kids and it, it's fun. There's
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a lot of decorations up around town. There really is
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some absolutely outstanding ones. Uh, So it's a pretty big
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deal up here. When you're 100 miles north of nowhere,
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any excuse to celebrate something is cause. It's not quite
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the same as the Brewers winning the World Series, but
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it's close second.
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It was an interesting series, Timmy. It was over quickly.
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It should have been probably a sweep, but the Brewers
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pretty easily handled the raise. I guess my first question
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to you was, We both thought that the Brewers would win,
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but did you believe they would win so easily?
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No. I thought it was going to be six games
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or so. But the Brewers were just firing on absolutely
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all cylinders. The bullpen, there was no comparison. When you
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looked at the... When you looked at the top of
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the order, they sort of matched up. But where there
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was a huge, huge difference is looking at the bottom
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of the lineup. Compare with Sal Freilich and Cooper Pratt
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and Garrett Mitchell and big-time slugger David Hamilton. Compare the
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numbers that they put up. up against Ben Williamson, Richie Palacios,
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Ryan Valletti, Victor Mason, and Taylor Walls. The bottom half
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of the Brewers' lineup was just in comparison to what
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the Rays' production was. It was night and day. And
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those two things, combined with the top of the order,
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getting things done in Milwaukee, it was just one-sided.
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There was a number of one-run games, but to me,
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the Brewers were still very much in control because once
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they got past the fifth inning, it was over.
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Yeah, the bullpen just locked it down. For me, the
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key was game three. Okay, you know, when the Brewers
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nailed that big inning in Game 3, and Robert Gasser
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pitched lights out, you know, they went 10-1, I think
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it was.
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I thought that was Game 4, but yeah, it was
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one of those games where they won big.
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Yeah, Game 3. I think Game 4 is the one
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where the Rays won.
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Oh, that's right. You're right, you're right. The big game
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was Game 3, correct.
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Yeah. Yeah, but once we got into game three and
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the Brewers put up some big numbers in that inning
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and they could ride Gasser, at that point in time,
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they could rest their bullpen and be up three games
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to nothing. It was over at that point in time.
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It was just a matter of when it was going
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to be over. And, you know, like I said, being
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able to rest your bullpen in game three and be
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up three nothing, especially when their bullpen was that effective,
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you'd That was pretty well the end, at least for me. Yeah,
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they came back and they won the fourth game. I
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don't know what Ken Rosenthal was thinking. I don't think
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he was thinking. Did you catch his faux pas heading
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into game five? No, I did not.
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No, I didn't. What did he say?
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Well, what he did was he asked Taylor Walls, was
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it important to win one game just to show you're
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on this level?
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Oh, geez.
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And Wall's response after laughing was, no, I think it's
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pretty disrespectful, honestly. We're a team that's capable of, you know,
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of winning four games.
Obviously no team wants to be
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swept is what he said. And to Rosenthal's credit, I'll
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give him credit. He did apologize for his wording in
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the middle of Wall's response, but just wasn't, No, that was.
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Trying to find hype. And why didn't I did not
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hear that? That interview. So, I mean, that is disrespectful.
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I mean, yeah, it is. It's like asking, like, how
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important is this game to you? OK, well, we're down
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three to nothing. Yeah, it's pretty important.
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Well, yeah, there were important questions that could have been asked.
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Like they could have asked Williams Contreras. Do you plan
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on looking at a career umping once your baseball days
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are done?
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Yeah.
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Okay. His ability to differentiate between balls and strikes is
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a lot better than some of the umpires we've seen
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this year. Yeah, they could have asked... coming out of Tampa.
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They could have asked Junior Cavanaugh, did you autograph the
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ball that you pounded into the Fox broadcast booth during BP? Yeah,
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there's some fun questions that could have been asked, but
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Rosenthal blew it with that one.
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Yeah, Rosenthal's pretty good. So that's a shame that he
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stooped down to that. Or maybe it was just, we
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all have brain cramps and do stupid stuff. Maybe it
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was just that. But I will say in general, Most broadcasts,
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particularly once you get into the playoffs, they try to
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appeal to a broader audience. So they're not going to
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ask any detailed question. How are you going to handle
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Mizorowski's 102-mile-an-hour fastball coming with a nasty slider that's breaking
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at 10.8 inches? You're not going to ask questions like
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that because their eyes are going to gloss over.
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Yeah, and we got a different feed up here. We
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didn't get the principal feed. It was Schmoltz and that
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whole group. From what I understand, John Schmoltz was a
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little bit upset because Contreras was making as many challenges
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as he was. He didn't see the point in that.
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I disagree. That's what you're supposed to do. Well, yeah,
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if you don't believe it was a strike or a
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ball or whatever, yeah, you've got the right to appeal.
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And Contreras, he owned that part of the game, didn't he?
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He was just bang on with his challenges. It was impressive.
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Well, maybe that was part of the reason that went
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into his winning of the MVP of the series, but...
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To me, I mean, it wasn't really an offensive giant
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like you typically see in these World Series. I mean,
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Cooper Pratt was good. Jackson Turia was good. To me,
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I thought it was the relievers. I mean, Abner Uribe,
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five and a third inning, six strikeouts. Aaron Aspey, five
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and two thirds inning, nine strikeouts. He gave up no hits.
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He just gave up a walk. I mean, it was– no,
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I'm sorry. He gave up one hit and no walks.
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I mean, that was just dominating.
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Well, and Ashby made his way into the record book
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because his effort, with his. 44 whip, it was the
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second lowest whip in the history of the World Series.
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That is impressive. Yeah, it was. 44. I think the
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only person with a better whip was Mariano Rivera. Yeah.
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So we're talking, we're.
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Talking reliever ever. So interesting.
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Yeah. Yeah. And what was really interesting and it's going
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to cause a little bit of chaos in our off
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season drafts, especially early ones is Aaron Ashby was their
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go-to guy. It wasn't McGill. So what does, what does
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that do to your thinking heading into next year?
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Of course, McGill still throws 100 miles an hour. He's
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still pretty good.
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He is, but does McGill have sole reign to the
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job going into next year?
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I don't know about sole reign. He definitely has the job,
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and I'm going to tell you why. Because managers want
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to have guys like Aaron Ashby that you can actually
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put in when the best hitters are coming up, as
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opposed to... this fictitious, stupid stat called a save where
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why would you hold on to Aaron Ashby to pitch
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against the bottom of the lineup in a crucial game
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in the middle of the season when you've got your
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best hitters coming up in the seventh inning? It doesn't
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make any sense. That's how they should be using these
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great pitchers.
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Well, yeah, the only thing that crossed my mind is
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McGill is going to cost them some money. probably some
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serious money. I think he's heading into his last year
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before pre-agency. Can the Brewers possibly move him and go
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with Ashby and Uribe and Hall and the rest of
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that bullpen? It's deep enough. It just crossed my mind
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that maybe that'll be an area that the Brewers look
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at addressing in cost savings so they can spend a
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little bit somewhere else. Maybe I'm overthinking it.
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No, no. I mean, look, I think if that happens,
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then yeah, Aaron Ashby is your guy. So yeah, he's
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definitely in his final year of his arbitration, made 1.9,
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let's call it two. So yeah, he could, four or
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$ 5 million. That's yeah. I mean, I saw him, he
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signed a one year, $ 4. 7 million. So I got that.
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Hold on for a second. Let me see here. We
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made $ 4. 7 million last year. Yeah, so he could make
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$ 7 or $ 8 million. Yeah, he might be a guy
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where they're going through the process now of figuring out
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who you're going to tender and not tender. So would
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they not tender him? Wow.
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I don't know if they would, but compared to Ashby,
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there's some money to be saved, right? Aaron Ashby. Actually,
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that is sort of interesting. Because Ashby's not cheap either.
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What's he making?
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Aaron Ashby.
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My SPO track for Milwaukee Brewers, the page is not working,
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so I can't.
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Bring it up. Okay, Ashby.
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two more years of club options, but....
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He's under a five-year... He's got a five-year contract.
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Yeah. Yeah, he does. A five-year $ 20 million deal. He's
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locked in for 2027 at 7.7, and 28 and 29
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are club options at $ 9 and $ 13 million. So... They
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could look at Ashby. Ashby and McGill are going to
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cost a pile of money next year, probably close to
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$ 17- 18 million.
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Yeah, so looking at Ashby's salary at $ 7. 7 for next season,
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that would give a lot of logic to them moving
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on from McGill because you figure he's going to cost
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about the same amount of money and Ashby is the
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better pitcher. So yeah, you could You know, if you've
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got an early draft, I would think Aaron Ashby would
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be a guy that should be pushing up closer to
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the top. And, you know, Uribe's really good, too. He's
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got nasty stuff. Now, he's pretty cheap.
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would be a couple mil. See, this is.
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Why the Brewers won, Tim.
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800,000. Yeah, so it's minimum. Yeah, exactly. Exactly.
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So Aaron Ashby, this is why the Brewers are smart.
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and they give him basically five years, $ 20. 5 million, so
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$ 4 million a season, and they lock him in. And
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not that he won him a World Series, but he
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was a big contributor to the World Series victory, as
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was Jackson Chirio signing that great contract as well. This
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is why they won, Tim.
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Yeah. They... have a good, well-run organization. Pittsburgh and Colorado
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should be looking at this as some sort of a model,
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shouldn't they?
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So I've been under the notion, kind of what you're
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saying with McGill, that William Contreras falls into the same camp.
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That he's got one year of team control left. This
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is usually when they move guys. Trevor McGill would be
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You would figure at the top of the list for
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trying to move them, but so would be William Contreras.
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But I can't even imagine them trading the World Series
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MVP for the franchise's first World Series. Can you? I mean,
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I can't even believe that they would do that.
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No, I can't either. As much as it fits the
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pattern and it makes sense, it doesn't make sense for
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all the right reasons. I think Contreras will be there
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right through next year. Assuming the Brewers are, you know, hey,
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you look at their team, the Brewers are going to
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be competitive next year. They got to be the favorites
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in the, they got to be favorites in the Central
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and they've got to be a top three team looking
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at World Series odds. You know, Jefferson Quarrel, yeah, he,
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He might be ready in another year, but not next year.
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And I don't think they can let a player of
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contraris's skill set you know i i don't think they
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can move them it makes absolutely no sense and i
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think it would cause infuriations with the Brewer faithful. I think,
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you know, the bigger, the bigger cost is what would it,
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what would it do for their fan base? I, I,
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I think they hold onto Contreras. Now, Hey, if the
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team is struggling heading into the summer and their submission,
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they can always move them at the deadline. Yep. But not,
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not in the off season. No.
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So this is what's fascinating. So the, the one mistake
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that the Brewers made from a business standpoint is signing
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Christian Yellich. I mean, he's still signed through 2029 and
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is not St. Clair. But Jack Centurio signed for eight years.
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Anthony Sensatella, another good pitcher, signed for five years. Cooper
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Pratt signed for eight years. Louis Lara, who I don't
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think he made the World Series roster. Maybe he did.
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Signed for seven years. And then you got Aaron Ashby
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signed for five years. Those are really smart signings.
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Yeah, they are. What's Bryce Terang's status?
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He's not signed, so he's not on. Let's see. Bryce Terang,
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should we take a look at? Is he a free agent?
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Bryce Terang.
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He's pre-Arvin to 20. He's got to be coming close to...
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free agency he.
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Is one year 4.1 million dollar contract as a free
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agent in 2030 okay.
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So they still got a couple years as a drain.
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Yeah yeah and then they got you know that jose
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malta guy coming they got the lewis pina guy coming
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i mean it's just they're just stacked i mean it's
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just yep it's a great organization Any final thoughts on
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the World Series, Timmy? Yeah, he could come next season.
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I would not be surprised if he signs a team-friendly
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deal during spring training that we hear it's a very
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similar Jackson Churio type of deal.
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Yeah, no. I guess my wrap-up would be that, hey,
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you can't take anything away from the Rays. Okay, but
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the Brewers were simply a better team, one through nine,
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and especially the bullpen. Okay, the bullpen matchups weren't even close.
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You could almost say it was unfair when you looked
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at what the Brewers did as far as utilizing their
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bullpen versus the Rays and the overall depth. But again,
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the Brewers, one through nine, we're just flat out the
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better team. And I congratulate them. Good for the Milwaukee Brewers.
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The Brewers have Jesus Madej coming. They have Luis Pena,
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who broke his leg at the end of the season.
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So he's at least 2028. Josh Aminchowski, who is a
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guy that just hits. I mean, just hits. Braylon Payne
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is a potential hitter. star but he's a little bit
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further away they got jet williams who i was really
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impressed with at the fall league it's a good player
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he's ready bishop letson is their best pitcher in the
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organization he's like he's probably up next season they got
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a guy hit 48 home runs and
andrew fisher that's
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there then they got jeff guaro who's a catcher who
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is not william contraris but he's going to be a
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pretty good player when he comes up and these are
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and i think it keeps going.
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To don't Don't they have a third baseman that's just
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about ready? Power hitter, a big slugger?
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Andrew Fisher is the guy. He's playing third base. Probably
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moves to first base. Yeah, that's the guy that hit
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48 home runs.
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Yeah, now I was thinking of somebody else.
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Luke Adams is close, but he's not a power hitter.
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Okay, yeah, there was a third baseman that I liked
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on the roster, but I just can't remember who it is.
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But again, there's no shortage. There's no shortage of options.
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Yep. It's a good team. And I mean, I know
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the Dodgers are probably the favorite coming out of, you know,
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out of preseason, but man, the Brewers are good. Let's
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take a break and come back and talk the business
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of the World Series very quickly.
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Yeah, I was thinking of Brock Wilkins, who I was
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thinking of.
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Who? Brock Wilkins? Nah, I mean, he's okay.
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So I've got him ranked Brock Wilkins. Yeah. I told you,
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he didn't even make my... He didn't even make my
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list here, Tim. Okay. He was a mainstay on the
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list for a long time, but it's so deep.
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Yeah, they got so much talent.
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Brock Wilkin, when is he going to be up? 6'4, yeah,
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he hit 17 home runs, hit 191. Yeah, he's good, Tim.
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Hit 191 in 130 games in AAA. Struck out 28%
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of the time, so that's why he didn't make my list. Yes,
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trade him to the White Sox. In 2024, he hit 200. 2025,
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he hit 226. And last year, he hit 191 with
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averaging 17 home runs, striking out 28% of the time.
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Okay, yeah, let's move on. Okay. It's funny.
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And I'm
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And then now I know why he didn't make my list,
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because I think I had him– well, I don't bring
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that up to talk about old stuff. Anyway, let's talk
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the business of baseball, Mr. McCloud. So it just says
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that Levelset, the players make all of their money during
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the regular season. The contracts are for the 162-game season.
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So if you make $ 10 million, by the October 1st,
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you have all $ 10 million in the bank. You go
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play the postseason, you only play for a bonus. That's
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just the way it is. So 95%, 98% of the
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money that is earned from the players is earned during
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the regular season. That makes most of the money that
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is made for the league is done during the postseason.
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That's the way it's set up. And when you've got
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two small market teams with the Brewers and the Rays,
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you've got there was a lot of concern going in
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from the league that this was going to be a bloodbath.
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Turns out viewership was higher than they thought, partially because
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everybody in Wisconsin turned their television on to the Brewers game.
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They had a 70% share, which basically meant seven out
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of 10 households had the Brewers game on. So it
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was that accounted for a good 10 to 12%. of
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the viewership of the World Series was coming out of Wisconsin,
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which I thought was kind of fascinating. But last year, 15.5
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million people averaged. This year, a little less than 12
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million people watched the game. And because it was such
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a high concentration of people in Wisconsin, it lowered the
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advertising rates going out because that was looked at more
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of a regional kind of thing as opposed to the
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Dodgers versus the Blue Jays was more of a national
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view of it. So advertisers were able to, they're able
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to charge advertisers more for their commercial. So to me,
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it was not good. Plus five games. It was only
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five games.
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Well, how many ads for cheese can you fit into one.
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World Series game? That's true. That is true. But this
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is all important stuff because now we're going into the CBA,
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and the big thing that everybody knows is on the
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docket is that they want a salary cap on there. Well,
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you put a salary cap on there, the likelihood of
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having more Milwaukee Brewers versus– Tampa Bay Rays in the
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world series increases, or you fill in the Cleveland guardians,
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the Pittsburgh pirates, you level the playing field and major
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league baseball has done a terrible job at nationalizing the
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game because you've got, if, if in, in the super bowl,
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if the Jacksonville Jaguars play, I know some other small market,
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everybody's going to watch because it's, it's the super bowl.
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And it's like, they've done a great job at like,
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making it all football, and we really don't care where
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the team is.
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It's an event.
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It's an event. And baseball is just not set up
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that way. So I ask you the question, will Major
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League Baseball kind of pull away from requiring that structural
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change that they want by putting in a salary cap?
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Yeah, I think they will sometime about mid-May.
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You think it's May?
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I think it.
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So if it's mid-May, you're starting the season July 1st.
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Yes, I think we're going to have a reduced season
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next year. You're talking half season. Yeah, I don't think
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the owners are going to back down. I don't think
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Rob Manfred's going to back down and the players... No,
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I don't think they're going to. I don't think they're
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going to. I don't think they're going to budge. And
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I think they've got a case for not budging. As
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do the owners. Everybody's got a case. I just think
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it's going to be a headstrong situation. And I think
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we're going to lose playing time next year. I hope
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I'm wrong. But I
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a long, drawn-out battle.
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I think it's going to be a long, drawn-out battle.
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But gosh, I hope we're not making that decision in
475
00:30:31.509 --> 00:30:33.549
the middle of May and then signing a deal at
476
00:30:33.589 --> 00:30:36.490
the end of May and starting games July 1st. That
477
00:30:36.529 --> 00:30:40.000
sounds awful. That sounds really bad.
478
00:30:41.019 --> 00:30:45.700
Well, I've got an auction coming up in a week. Okay.
479
00:30:47.059 --> 00:30:50.369
And I have to make a decision heading into this
480
00:30:50.529 --> 00:30:54.869
auction how I'm going to approach next year. Because it
481
00:30:54.910 --> 00:30:59.869
will have a huge, huge bearing on players I draft.
482
00:31:01.509 --> 00:31:04.069
And where I draft them and what I pay for them.
483
00:31:04.990 --> 00:31:07.569
And I'm going to be leaning on going in with
484
00:31:07.609 --> 00:31:10.250
a philosophy of only half a season and looking at
485
00:31:10.309 --> 00:31:16.190
high upside. At least that's my thoughts right now. I'll
486
00:31:16.230 --> 00:31:24.990
gamble a bit on players that I think... the second
487
00:31:25.009 --> 00:31:28.460
half player could be a first half player. And on
488
00:31:28.500 --> 00:31:31.619
a shortened season, I think I'm going to gamble a
489
00:31:31.660 --> 00:31:35.259
bit more on upside than stability because of that fact.
490
00:31:36.539 --> 00:31:40.150
So tell me what that means. So let's take a
491
00:31:40.190 --> 00:31:44.349
look at a kid. That's let me bring my list
492
00:31:44.470 --> 00:31:46.730
up here and make sure, because we're talking a lot
493
00:31:46.769 --> 00:31:50.380
about kids, right? Because yeah. So let me take a
494
00:31:50.410 --> 00:31:55.730
look at how's way to Paula. Or Walker, Walker, Jenkins,
495
00:31:55.750 --> 00:32:02.339
Sebastian Walker, those cats that in Jenkins and DePaulo's case,
496
00:32:02.380 --> 00:32:04.779
they had a little bit of a taste, but it's
497
00:32:04.980 --> 00:32:10.619
usually takes them four to eight weeks to even start to,
498
00:32:10.799 --> 00:32:15.160
to do something. You're pushing those guys up or you
499
00:32:15.200 --> 00:32:16.200
pushing them down.
500
00:32:16.220 --> 00:32:19.460
Uh, they're all rostered.
501
00:32:19.720 --> 00:32:24.190
Okay. So I, they're out of the equation. The players
502
00:32:24.410 --> 00:32:32.549
I'm looking at are Curtis Meade, Caleb Durbin.
503
00:32:36.170 --> 00:32:40.970
I don't call those high upside guys, though. Those are.
504
00:32:41.150 --> 00:32:44.759
Yes, but in a half season, I think their value
505
00:32:44.920 --> 00:32:53.369
is higher than, per se, a steady vet like Oh,
506
00:32:53.400 --> 00:32:55.750
what's a good example? I can't even come up with
507
00:32:55.809 --> 00:32:58.349
a good example. I'm willing to bet that a half
508
00:32:58.410 --> 00:33:06.890
season of some of these players transfers to value over
509
00:33:07.009 --> 00:33:09.349
some of the veteran players that might be overpaid for
510
00:33:09.450 --> 00:33:11.470
on half a season. Does that make sense?
511
00:33:11.869 --> 00:33:18.210
No, it doesn't. So, so you're saying, so Curtis Meade
512
00:33:18.250 --> 00:33:21.349
will be a lot cheaper than Michael Trout.
513
00:33:22.109 --> 00:33:23.549
Um, Yeah.
514
00:33:24.150 --> 00:33:27.869
So, but you're saying that, isn't that like normal, like
515
00:33:27.930 --> 00:33:29.890
fantasy baseball kind of stuff, even if you had a
516
00:33:29.950 --> 00:33:32.410
full year? I mean, what makes it different if it's
517
00:33:32.450 --> 00:33:33.240
a half a season?
518
00:33:34.440 --> 00:33:37.700
What makes it a different, the difference to me is
519
00:33:37.779 --> 00:33:41.980
that it is a, you're working with smaller numbers. The
520
00:33:42.039 --> 00:33:47.119
difference between, say, Curtis Meade and Jazz Chisholm on a
521
00:33:47.180 --> 00:33:51.069
full season is X. On a partial season, it's, Is
522
00:33:51.150 --> 00:33:53.619
it actually half of that, or could we see an
523
00:33:53.759 --> 00:33:56.480
uptick because of small sample size?
524
00:33:57.319 --> 00:34:02.559
Well, if Curtis Meade gets hot, yeah, he could hit
525
00:34:02.559 --> 00:34:05.029
15 home runs in Jazz Chisholm, 18 home runs. If
526
00:34:05.069 --> 00:34:07.450
you put it over the course of the season, Chisholm
527
00:34:07.470 --> 00:34:10.110
hits a lot more than the difference is greater than three.
528
00:34:10.449 --> 00:34:14.650
But so, too, what if Curtis Meade gets off to
529
00:34:14.690 --> 00:34:17.179
a cold start? Then it's just the reverse.
530
00:34:18.219 --> 00:34:19.400
Yeah, my team's going to suck.
531
00:34:19.969 --> 00:34:20.909
Yeah.
532
00:34:20.949 --> 00:34:24.650
Yeah. Yeah. I'm just looking, I'm just looking at playing
533
00:34:24.670 --> 00:34:28.989
a smaller season and the dynamics of a smaller season
534
00:34:29.190 --> 00:34:32.530
on higher risk players, I think could be rewarding. How
535
00:34:32.570 --> 00:34:32.889
was that?
536
00:34:33.690 --> 00:34:35.570
I haven't thought about it, but I would have thought
537
00:34:35.630 --> 00:34:42.030
just the opposite. Um, cause you're yeah, because you are playing,
538
00:34:42.670 --> 00:34:45.650
you would seem like you'd want more consistency, a guy
539
00:34:45.690 --> 00:34:49.019
that's going to hit, five home runs every month is
540
00:34:49.059 --> 00:34:52.659
more valuable than a guy that might hit 10 in
541
00:34:52.699 --> 00:34:56.619
a month, but zero in another month, because it could
542
00:34:56.679 --> 00:35:00.019
be that you get two zeros instead of two tens,
543
00:35:00.079 --> 00:35:02.239
if you know what I mean, because you know, they're,
544
00:35:02.320 --> 00:35:03.300
they're so volatile.
545
00:35:04.800 --> 00:35:07.969
Yeah. It's an all in strategy. There's no
doubt about that. Yeah.
546
00:35:08.090 --> 00:35:11.590
But you don't mean strategies. I'm always playing. Yeah.
547
00:35:12.849 --> 00:35:17.670
It feels like that's more of an aggressive strategy than very, Yeah.
548
00:35:17.929 --> 00:35:19.489
So let me, let me ask you. So let's go
549
00:35:19.530 --> 00:35:25.389
back to the Paula Jenkins, Sebastian Walcott, Franklin rise, these
550
00:35:25.469 --> 00:35:28.610
young kids that have very little major league playing time.
551
00:35:28.849 --> 00:35:32.110
If at all, how do you play those in a
552
00:35:32.170 --> 00:35:35.489
shortened season? You've got to discount them, right? Cause cause
553
00:35:35.530 --> 00:35:39.449
you know, if you've got a hundred games, it's going
554
00:35:39.469 --> 00:35:41.360
to take them 30 or 40 just to get up
555
00:35:41.400 --> 00:35:42.500
the speed. Right.
556
00:35:44.000 --> 00:35:49.409
Right. But they're going to be playing in April and May,
557
00:35:49.449 --> 00:35:49.789
aren't they?
558
00:35:52.489 --> 00:35:59.010
Not necessarily. So if you're on the 40-man roster, you
559
00:35:59.190 --> 00:36:03.550
are in the major league union. So to Paula Jenkins,
560
00:36:04.150 --> 00:36:06.889
I don't know about Walcott. I don't know about Franklin Arise,
561
00:36:06.949 --> 00:36:09.360
but those guys have already been called up or definitely
562
00:36:09.380 --> 00:36:13.250
in the 40-man roster. Franklin Rice might be because he's
563
00:36:13.309 --> 00:36:15.949
been in the system a while. But if you're not
564
00:36:15.989 --> 00:36:19.389
on the 40-man, that means you're in the minor league union,
565
00:36:19.510 --> 00:36:20.739
which they're playing.
566
00:36:21.909 --> 00:36:28.179
Right. Which might give them an edge once the season starts.
567
00:36:29.019 --> 00:36:29.400
It could.
568
00:36:29.420 --> 00:36:32.320
And there might be a quick call-up and they'd be ready, right?
569
00:36:32.800 --> 00:36:35.940
It could. So I guess you've got to do extra
570
00:36:36.059 --> 00:36:39.889
research to figure out If you're on the 40, let's
571
00:36:39.929 --> 00:36:43.750
take Walker Jenkins, definitely on the 40-man roster. I mean,
572
00:36:43.829 --> 00:36:46.809
I guess they could have demoted him. I mean, I
573
00:36:46.829 --> 00:36:49.730
guess that's possible. They might demote some of these guys
574
00:36:50.289 --> 00:36:52.530
at the beginning of the season so they continue to play.
575
00:36:53.750 --> 00:36:56.900
I don't know if they're going to lock it in
576
00:36:56.940 --> 00:36:58.820
if there's a walkout.
577
00:36:59.880 --> 00:37:06.070
Yeah, lots of variables. Lots of variables, some of which
578
00:37:06.110 --> 00:37:08.630
we don't know right now. Actually, there's nothing we know
579
00:37:08.690 --> 00:37:11.570
right now. This whole thing could be settled, in theory,
580
00:37:12.369 --> 00:37:15.289
before December 1st. In theory.
581
00:37:16.050 --> 00:37:20.150
I don't see any incentive for them to
make things
582
00:37:20.230 --> 00:37:24.760
go quickly with it. Because the history of life says
583
00:37:24.860 --> 00:37:26.840
everybody waits until the last minute to try to get
584
00:37:26.860 --> 00:37:30.300
the biggest leverage. I mean, look at... I mean, look
585
00:37:30.360 --> 00:37:33.420
at the trade deadline. I mean, it always is the
586
00:37:33.480 --> 00:37:36.670
last 15 minutes. You've got twice as many trades in
587
00:37:36.690 --> 00:37:38.690
the last 15 minutes as you had the five days
588
00:37:38.710 --> 00:37:39.289
before that.
589
00:37:40.590 --> 00:37:45.789
Right, yeah, because teams obviously look at what's happened, and
590
00:37:45.849 --> 00:37:50.289
if they want to move somebody, they'll take less. Teams
591
00:37:50.309 --> 00:37:52.489
will pay a little bit more depending on what their
592
00:37:52.530 --> 00:37:54.659
needs are. Yeah, there's a lot of variables involved there.
593
00:37:55.039 --> 00:38:00.059
But I think What is interesting, and I think we're
594
00:38:00.119 --> 00:38:04.860
going to see a mad dash in the next 30 days.
595
00:38:05.960 --> 00:38:08.920
We're going to see it as we start looking at
596
00:38:08.960 --> 00:38:10.800
some of the free agents. Are they going to want
597
00:38:10.820 --> 00:38:14.260
to shore up their position before December 1st? I would
598
00:38:14.280 --> 00:38:18.309
think it would be advantageous to do that. In a
599
00:38:18.369 --> 00:38:21.610
big way. I know the Asian players, they'll be looking,
600
00:38:21.909 --> 00:38:24.900
it should be fast and furious because usually they have
601
00:38:25.000 --> 00:38:28.440
a six week, I believe it is, window to negotiate.
602
00:38:28.480 --> 00:38:30.840
They're only going to have four weeks. If they're going
603
00:38:30.860 --> 00:38:32.300
to get it done, they're going to have to get
604
00:38:32.340 --> 00:38:36.480
it done by December 1st. They just finished the regular
605
00:38:36.559 --> 00:38:40.960
season and Players are announcing for postings, yada, yada, yada.
606
00:38:41.619 --> 00:38:43.440
I think we're going to see a rash of signings.
607
00:38:43.460 --> 00:38:45.559
I think we're going to see them fairly quickly as
608
00:38:45.639 --> 00:38:49.960
players look to shore up their personal positions for next year.
609
00:38:50.420 --> 00:38:52.739
That is why we're going to take a break, and
610
00:38:52.780 --> 00:38:54.469
that is why we're going to talk for the rest
611
00:38:54.510 --> 00:38:57.309
of the show about the free agents and where they're
612
00:38:57.349 --> 00:39:01.329
going to sign. Because, Tim, guess what? It opens on Monday,
613
00:39:01.550 --> 00:39:05.730
five days after the World Series. Players can start to sign.
614
00:39:06.889 --> 00:39:09.809
The Players Association has already put their lists out there.
615
00:39:11.090 --> 00:39:12.599
Timmy, let's take a break. I'm going to come back
616
00:39:12.639 --> 00:39:14.960
with a little tidbit of information.
617
00:39:16.519 --> 00:39:21.599
Okie dokie. Kind of laid.
618
00:39:25.130 --> 00:39:28.889
Up the last couple of days, Timmy. I stepped in
619
00:39:28.929 --> 00:39:32.579
a pothole. crossing the street yesterday morning. Yeah, and it
620
00:39:32.619 --> 00:39:35.829
twisted my ankle. Thinking about suing the town.
621
00:39:38.449 --> 00:39:41.909
Well, you along with every other member of the community
622
00:39:41.929 --> 00:39:47.380
that's probably stumbled on a pothole somewhere. Yeah, I.
623
00:39:47.659 --> 00:39:51.110
I don't know how I was... It was very heavy traffic.
624
00:39:51.159 --> 00:39:54.219
There was a fire truck that just went by. There
625
00:39:54.260 --> 00:39:56.320
was road construction at the road. It was a mess.
626
00:39:56.880 --> 00:39:58.960
And I was kind of looking around, and I didn't
627
00:39:59.019 --> 00:40:03.099
look down and stepped right in it. So anyway, I've
628
00:40:03.119 --> 00:40:06.159
been icing it. It's fine. It's just a little sprain,
629
00:40:06.199 --> 00:40:07.599
but it was very annoying.
630
00:40:09.659 --> 00:40:14.289
My cousin ended up in a cast from his– hip
631
00:40:14.489 --> 00:40:18.130
to his ankle for almost, it was, it was a
632
00:40:18.170 --> 00:40:20.550
good six months. He fractures like they had to put
633
00:40:20.929 --> 00:40:23.849
some metal in doing exactly what you did. So you
634
00:40:23.869 --> 00:40:25.150
can never be too careful.
635
00:40:25.170 --> 00:40:28.730
Yeah. I twisted my ankle so many times throughout my life.
636
00:40:28.869 --> 00:40:31.869
I just says, so here's my interesting tidbit. I did
637
00:40:31.909 --> 00:40:32.469
not know this.
638
00:40:32.630 --> 00:40:32.969
Okay.
639
00:40:33.010 --> 00:40:37.539
And report it as my AI assistant is Sebastian Walcott
640
00:40:37.679 --> 00:40:39.420
on the 40 man. The answer is no. I said,
641
00:40:39.440 --> 00:40:40.480
it's Franklin arise.
642
00:40:40.500 --> 00:40:40.570
Hmm.
643
00:40:41.119 --> 00:40:43.829
And he said there's a citation that the Red Sox
644
00:40:43.909 --> 00:40:48.090
deliberately chose not to promote their number one prospect to
645
00:40:48.110 --> 00:40:50.650
the big leagues at the end of the 2026 season,
646
00:40:50.710 --> 00:40:55.469
specifically to keep them off the 40-man roster. How about that?
647
00:40:55.489 --> 00:41:01.570
Uh-huh. Yes. And I'm sure Madej isn't on the 40-man.
648
00:41:02.010 --> 00:41:05.010
He's definitely not on the 40-man. I mean, Hernan and
649
00:41:05.349 --> 00:41:08.320
Theo Gillen. Aiden Miller. Let's see if Aiden Miller's on
650
00:41:08.340 --> 00:41:13.210
the 40-man roster. Aiden Miller. See Aiden Miller on the
651
00:41:13.210 --> 00:41:16.989
40 man. Let's see what it says there. He's got,
652
00:41:17.050 --> 00:41:20.489
he might have to be. Nope. He is not on
653
00:41:20.530 --> 00:41:21.269
the 40 man.
654
00:41:21.769 --> 00:41:22.690
Okay.
655
00:41:23.730 --> 00:41:26.650
So yeah, so
these, yeah. So those guys can keep playing.
656
00:41:26.670 --> 00:41:30.409
So it's very interesting. So if you're doing an early draft, everyone,
657
00:41:30.469 --> 00:41:33.190
you're really going to have to do some homework. I
658
00:41:33.210 --> 00:41:36.860
would try to push off my drafting until. At least
659
00:41:36.900 --> 00:41:39.300
we know a little bit more information about what's happening.
660
00:41:39.320 --> 00:41:41.659
It's going to be real challenging. You know, Timmy, I
661
00:41:41.679 --> 00:41:45.710
always love doing a New Year's Day draft. That's my thing.
662
00:41:45.750 --> 00:41:50.550
But I don't know, man. It seems dicey to do that.
663
00:41:52.090 --> 00:41:57.889
Yeah, you'd be tossing a lot of darts. And again,
664
00:41:58.570 --> 00:42:01.050
depending on who signs. We don't know who's going to
665
00:42:01.110 --> 00:42:06.269
sign the next 30 days. But... The later you can
666
00:42:06.329 --> 00:42:10.670
go on a draft, the obvious advantages are huge because
667
00:42:10.710 --> 00:42:13.219
you know where people are going to be. You get
668
00:42:13.239 --> 00:42:19.039
some ideas to playing time, yadda, yadda, yadda. Yeah, the
669
00:42:19.079 --> 00:42:21.639
longer you can wait, the better off you are. The
670
00:42:21.699 --> 00:42:26.389
earlier you go, the more you're tossing darts. And that
671
00:42:26.429 --> 00:42:29.110
dartboard is rather uncertain as to what it's going to
672
00:42:29.150 --> 00:42:29.869
look like, right?
673
00:42:31.539 --> 00:42:35.070
Here's the problem. I primarily play that draft and hold
674
00:42:35.110 --> 00:42:38.869
league for content for the show. So I like to
675
00:42:39.110 --> 00:42:41.489
talk about it and talk about it with you. And
676
00:42:41.690 --> 00:42:42.809
that's part of the reason.
677
00:42:43.190 --> 00:42:44.630
I do it.
678
00:42:44.710 --> 00:42:48.510
So I might have to do two. I remember COVID year.
679
00:42:49.090 --> 00:42:53.329
So I drafted COVID during the COVID year in January.
680
00:42:53.510 --> 00:42:56.150
No one was thanking COVID, right? I mean, no one
681
00:42:56.190 --> 00:42:57.769
had an inkling that there was going to be a
682
00:42:57.809 --> 00:43:02.619
problem in January when I drafted. And once the season
683
00:43:02.699 --> 00:43:09.150
started up, that was that 62-game season, 50-man roster, 22
684
00:43:09.150 --> 00:43:12.010
of my– 22. I think it was 22 of my
685
00:43:12.070 --> 00:43:16.969
players did not play or only played part of the season.
686
00:43:17.690 --> 00:43:20.610
A lot of them just did not play because of COVID.
687
00:43:21.489 --> 00:43:22.469
And it was awful.
688
00:43:23.469 --> 00:43:26.610
Yeah, it's– yeah, there's no fun in that game.
689
00:43:27.090 --> 00:43:32.570
No, no. But let's go on, Timmy. We've got a
690
00:43:32.670 --> 00:43:34.880
lot of free agents to go through. First of all,
691
00:43:35.360 --> 00:43:37.360
I gave you the list. I think it was MLB list,
692
00:43:37.820 --> 00:43:40.519
top 20, 25 guys. What did you think of the
693
00:43:40.760 --> 00:43:43.699
quality of the list? It's obviously Tarek Skubal. Is it
694
00:43:43.780 --> 00:43:46.900
Tarek Skubal and everybody else, or is it meaty? I
695
00:43:46.980 --> 00:43:50.860
think it's meaty.
696
00:43:51.360 --> 00:44:00.219
I think there are solid options there. especially pitching options
697
00:44:00.440 --> 00:44:01.559
from top to bottom.
698
00:44:01.579 --> 00:44:03.719
A lot of pitchers. A lot of pitchers.
699
00:44:03.820 --> 00:44:07.139
Yeah. The problem I have when I looked at this
700
00:44:07.300 --> 00:44:13.219
is trying to find potential fits. Okay. It's easy to
701
00:44:13.300 --> 00:44:18.860
say that, like Brandon Lowe is a free agent. Randy
702
00:44:18.960 --> 00:44:23.650
Rosarino is. There's some good bats sitting in there. But
703
00:44:23.750 --> 00:44:27.869
who needs those bats? Where are they going to fit
704
00:44:28.010 --> 00:44:32.440
in and be utilized? There's a lot of players on
705
00:44:32.500 --> 00:44:37.820
this list. And, hey, pitching is pitching. It'll find a home.
706
00:44:38.639 --> 00:44:43.920
Some of the bats, man, it's tough to pick. It's
707
00:44:43.960 --> 00:44:45.989
tough to pick candidates where they could land.
708
00:44:46.010 --> 00:44:49.489
This is why this is hard, Tim. This is why
709
00:44:49.510 --> 00:44:50.670
you have to bring it, man.
710
00:44:50.690 --> 00:44:50.860
Stop it.
711
00:44:51.440 --> 00:44:53.619
You're already couching it that you're not going to do well.
712
00:44:54.039 --> 00:44:56.389
So I don't want to hear about it. I want
713
00:44:56.590 --> 00:44:57.329
answers from you.
714
00:45:00.429 --> 00:45:03.989
I will come up with my best definite maybes.
715
00:45:04.150 --> 00:45:06.130
Okay, that's good.
716
00:45:06.230 --> 00:45:07.670
I'll try and overachieve.
717
00:45:08.389 --> 00:45:12.000
I was surprised at how much pitching was on the
718
00:45:12.059 --> 00:45:14.320
list and how few hitters were on the list.
719
00:45:15.659 --> 00:45:21.309
Yeah. There are a lot of pitchers out there. And correspondingly,
720
00:45:21.469 --> 00:45:23.769
there's a lot of teams that need pitching. There's a
721
00:45:23.889 --> 00:45:25.010
lot of options.
722
00:45:26.650 --> 00:45:29.250
All right, Timmy, let's talk. And we're also going to,
723
00:45:29.369 --> 00:45:31.800
in the middle, probably we'll break right before we do
724
00:45:31.889 --> 00:45:34.239
the segment of Japanese players coming over. I'm going to
725
00:45:34.260 --> 00:45:36.099
turn it over to Tim because I can't even pronounce
726
00:45:36.159 --> 00:45:36.940
most of these guys.
727
00:45:37.619 --> 00:45:41.559
So neither can I.
728
00:45:42.139 --> 00:45:45.099
So we talked before the, we got four of the
729
00:45:45.139 --> 00:45:48.280
Japanese guys coming across and we'll let Tim. Tell us
730
00:45:48.300 --> 00:45:51.300
a little bit about them. And I've got some spots
731
00:45:51.340 --> 00:45:53.639
for him, so we'll see. I have no idea what
732
00:45:53.659 --> 00:45:58.079
I'm doing, Tim, so I guessed.
733
00:45:58.119 --> 00:45:59.179
Join the crowd, Rich.
734
00:46:00.699 --> 00:46:03.489
So Scott Bars has already been out pimping all of
735
00:46:03.550 --> 00:46:09.130
his guys. Look, Scott Bars, I know, is at least
736
00:46:09.190 --> 00:46:11.949
hated by Major League owners and stuff like that. I
737
00:46:11.989 --> 00:46:15.710
get it. And he gets a bad rap in the press. But, Timmy,
738
00:46:15.829 --> 00:46:19.530
if you had an 18 year old pitcher that was
739
00:46:19.570 --> 00:46:23.789
your son, you'd want Scott Boris to represent him hands
740
00:46:23.849 --> 00:46:28.449
down because no one pimps their players better, makes it
741
00:46:28.510 --> 00:46:31.500
sound like they're the best player in the world. It
742
00:46:31.559 --> 00:46:34.199
is amazing. He is already out there telling everybody, you
743
00:46:34.239 --> 00:46:36.179
got to jump on these guys early. What he's telling
744
00:46:36.219 --> 00:46:38.880
the market is these guys are going to move quickly.
745
00:46:39.239 --> 00:46:40.260
Don't mess around.
746
00:46:41.900 --> 00:46:44.650
Yeah, no, there is no doubt. I would go to
747
00:46:44.670 --> 00:46:48.030
Scott Boris and say, Hey, Junior, you listen to what
748
00:46:48.190 --> 00:46:51.980
this man has to say. Exactly. He doesn't always get
749
00:46:52.260 --> 00:46:56.400
it right. Yeah, Papa wants to retire before 50. Okay,
750
00:46:56.440 --> 00:46:59.119
let's get this done right.
751
00:46:59.260 --> 00:47:02.789
Oh, you think your son's going to give you money?
752
00:47:03.949 --> 00:47:05.550
My kids would never.
753
00:47:05.150 --> 00:47:10.780
Give me money. What is this thing crap we're talking
754
00:47:10.840 --> 00:47:11.360
about here?
755
00:47:11.820 --> 00:47:12.579
I might get a lunch.
756
00:47:12.599 --> 00:47:14.280
As long as it's under 20 bucks, I might get
757
00:47:14.320 --> 00:47:23.199
a lunch. I'll give you my, I'll give you my,
758
00:47:23.280 --> 00:47:25.780
the line I love is I brought you into this world.
759
00:47:25.860 --> 00:47:26.940
I could take you out.
760
00:47:28.900 --> 00:47:29.460
Exactly.
761
00:47:29.559 --> 00:47:30.239
Exactly.
762
00:47:30.260 --> 00:47:32.119
I mean, I wanted to take back my guitar from
763
00:47:32.159 --> 00:47:37.570
my son. Relationship we have. It's like, come on.
764
00:47:38.789 --> 00:47:40.369
Yeah. Okay.
765
00:47:40.449 --> 00:47:44.369
Moving on. So obviously the big, big guy in Scott
766
00:47:44.389 --> 00:47:49.369
Barr's client is Tarek Skugel. It's only 30 years old. Um,
767
00:47:49.409 --> 00:47:52.789
where does he sign? And I'm going to ask, does he,
768
00:47:53.730 --> 00:47:55.929
I'm going to ask a separate question as well. I
769
00:47:55.969 --> 00:47:58.719
know I didn't ask you to prepare this at the beginning,
770
00:47:58.780 --> 00:48:02.980
but do these guys sign in this month long, uh,
771
00:48:03.039 --> 00:48:06.179
window that we've got open. So Tarek Scooble, where's he signed?
772
00:48:06.219 --> 00:48:07.760
And does he sign in this next month?
773
00:48:09.320 --> 00:48:14.949
Yeah, I think he signs in the next month and Dodgers.
774
00:48:16.170 --> 00:48:16.610
Really?
775
00:48:16.630 --> 00:48:22.239
Uh, Yeah, I think the Dodgers, it's got to be
776
00:48:22.280 --> 00:48:23.880
a big market team. It's got to be a team
777
00:48:23.900 --> 00:48:28.840
with a pile of money to spend that needs somebody
778
00:48:28.889 --> 00:48:30.570
to put them over the top, and Scooble is the
779
00:48:30.610 --> 00:48:34.929
guy to do it. I think the Dodgers will spend.
780
00:48:35.030 --> 00:48:37.949
I think that's done like dinner.
781
00:48:39.369 --> 00:48:42.230
I think the market for Tarek Scooble is going to
782
00:48:42.250 --> 00:48:46.269
be massive. I agree with Tim. Because, I mean, the
783
00:48:46.389 --> 00:48:50.230
Mets need pitching. The Red Sox need pitching. I mean,
784
00:48:50.409 --> 00:48:53.769
all of the big market teams need pitching, probably except
785
00:48:53.789 --> 00:48:57.070
for the Yankees. It's about the only team that really
786
00:48:57.110 --> 00:49:01.760
doesn't need pitching, but everybody else does. And, I mean,
787
00:49:01.800 --> 00:49:05.239
I could go the Mets here. I could go the Cubs.
788
00:49:05.739 --> 00:49:07.500
Cubs are a big market team. I could go the
789
00:49:07.559 --> 00:49:08.239
Blue Jays.
790
00:49:08.239 --> 00:49:10.619
But I broke down the Mets.
791
00:49:10.619 --> 00:49:14.349
Excuse me, I wrote down the Red Sox. And now
792
00:49:15.150 --> 00:49:22.980
I'm rethinking that because they're all left-handed pitching. So why
793
00:49:23.000 --> 00:49:25.900
would they want another left? Well, it's Tarek Skubal. I'm
794
00:49:25.920 --> 00:49:29.360
going to switch because I still have my hand because
795
00:49:29.440 --> 00:49:32.139
I have a tendency to overthink things. I'm going to
796
00:49:32.179 --> 00:49:36.429
go with the New York Metropolitans. Tarek Skubal.
797
00:49:38.619 --> 00:49:39.400
Yeah, that would.
798
00:49:39.420 --> 00:49:40.579
My next... I'm going to switch.
799
00:49:41.239 --> 00:49:44.340
Go ahead. I was going to say, that would bring
800
00:49:45.070 --> 00:49:49.349
the Mets roster with McLean and some of the kids.
801
00:49:49.909 --> 00:49:53.469
That would give the Mets a very... Wherever he lands...
802
00:49:53.690 --> 00:49:59.030
It's big. It's big, yeah. It's going to take the
803
00:49:59.110 --> 00:50:04.300
existing rotation and make it from a middle of the road,
804
00:50:04.380 --> 00:50:10.739
maybe middle-upper situation... to a world series caliber rotation. That's
805
00:50:10.780 --> 00:50:12.840
how good Tarek Scuba was. Yeah.
806
00:50:13.519 --> 00:50:17.340
Now he is 30, 30. So the next three or
807
00:50:17.360 --> 00:50:19.719
four years are going to be very good. He
does
808
00:50:19.760 --> 00:50:22.030
have Tommy John surgery on the books. It was back
809
00:50:22.090 --> 00:50:27.949
in college. So that lasts about 10 years. So you
810
00:50:27.989 --> 00:50:30.250
have to expect in the next two to three years,
811
00:50:30.349 --> 00:50:33.869
four years, that elbow might give out. It could be
812
00:50:33.889 --> 00:50:36.250
a brace surgery after that. So there's a chance he
813
00:50:36.309 --> 00:50:39.750
loses a year. But I would think it's a seven
814
00:50:39.789 --> 00:50:43.489
or eight year contract of $ 40 million. So don't you
815
00:50:43.530 --> 00:50:47.170
think it's going to be close to $ 350, $ 400 million
816
00:50:47.190 --> 00:50:47.840
for him?
817
00:50:48.820 --> 00:50:51.579
That sounds about right to me. Yeah. And I think
818
00:50:51.619 --> 00:50:55.420
what you're doing is you're buying five years of excellence
819
00:50:56.000 --> 00:51:00.159
and paying for three at the end.
820
00:51:01.849 --> 00:51:06.639
Well, I will say that elite pitchers seem to have
821
00:51:06.679 --> 00:51:10.219
a longer shelf life than elite hitters do. It always
822
00:51:10.260 --> 00:51:13.610
seems like, you know, the guys that when they hit 37,
823
00:51:13.610 --> 00:51:16.280
38 that play the field are not the same guys.
824
00:51:16.380 --> 00:51:19.739
But you take a look at Scherzer and Verlander. I mean,
825
00:51:19.780 --> 00:51:23.849
they pitched well until their upper 30s before they finally
826
00:51:23.889 --> 00:51:27.309
gave out. So what's to say that Tarek Skubal can't
827
00:51:27.409 --> 00:51:28.250
at 37, 38 still be pitching well.
828
00:51:28.289 --> 00:51:28.369
I.
829
00:51:30.630 --> 00:51:33.489
He's got the kind of stuff and the pitchability.
830
00:51:34.699 --> 00:51:39.039
Yeah, there's nothing to say that he can't. Other than
831
00:51:39.059 --> 00:51:42.539
the fact that pitchers get old, they get hurt. Their
832
00:51:42.559 --> 00:51:47.699
skills diminish, just like everybody else. Yeah, he could be
833
00:51:47.739 --> 00:51:50.440
fine right through until 40. You could get three to
834
00:51:50.480 --> 00:51:52.679
four years out of him. So I'm sort of splitting
835
00:51:52.699 --> 00:51:55.289
the difference on that one. But I think you've got
836
00:51:55.329 --> 00:52:02.059
four or five years of true number one best pitcher
837
00:52:02.099 --> 00:52:06.300
in the league type potential sitting there. You're not getting
838
00:52:06.340 --> 00:52:09.719
a discount on Derek Scougal. No.
839
00:52:10.179 --> 00:52:13.239
And the Mets. I mean, I get the Dodgers. It's
840
00:52:13.280 --> 00:52:16.179
a great pick. I mean, apparently he loved his time there.
841
00:52:17.510 --> 00:52:21.829
He went fairly far into the playoffs. But the Mets,
842
00:52:22.210 --> 00:52:25.670
after Nolan McClain and Christian Scott, it's good. Good pitcher.
843
00:52:25.750 --> 00:52:31.349
Zach Thornton, Kodai Singha, eh. I mean, they need pitching help.
844
00:52:32.789 --> 00:52:35.070
That they do. I agree. All right.
845
00:52:35.190 --> 00:52:38.860
Michael King. I'm going to go first because I switched.
846
00:52:38.880 --> 00:52:42.079
I had Michael King getting the Mets, but I'm going
847
00:52:42.099 --> 00:52:44.679
to go with the Red Sox with Michael King because
848
00:52:45.079 --> 00:52:49.780
they're so left-handed oriented. They're going to need a right-handed pitcher.
849
00:52:49.800 --> 00:52:51.480
So that's where I'm going with Michael King. And I
850
00:52:51.539 --> 00:52:56.190
do think he signs here in the next month.
851
00:52:59.260 --> 00:53:06.679
Okay. Where do I have him? I have him going
852
00:53:06.699 --> 00:53:15.420
to the Cardinals. Okay. The Card's offense is ready to roll. Okay.
853
00:53:15.940 --> 00:53:20.760
They've got plenty of offense. Young, upside, yaddy, yaddy. The
854
00:53:20.780 --> 00:53:25.039
starting pitching is not anywhere close to being competitive. I
855
00:53:25.079 --> 00:53:29.090
think the Cardinals go in on a couple pitchers. Uh,
856
00:53:29.119 --> 00:53:31.570
being that, that he needed at least one, if not
857
00:53:31.690 --> 00:53:34.329
two to contend, I think King on a three to
858
00:53:34.409 --> 00:53:36.809
four year deal in St. Louis makes sense.
859
00:53:40.989 --> 00:53:43.010
So I'm just checking to see who are, uh, I
860
00:53:43.030 --> 00:53:45.030
think that's a great call. Yeah, I agree. I mean,
861
00:53:45.070 --> 00:53:49.389
it's yeah, there's a say you Suzuki. So I'm just
862
00:53:49.409 --> 00:53:52.530
looking at the Scott bars clients. It's really only Scooble
863
00:53:52.570 --> 00:53:56.480
and Rosarine and Suzuki. Those are his big, big guys.
864
00:53:56.500 --> 00:53:59.820
So let me put down the Cardinals for Tim. The
865
00:53:59.860 --> 00:54:03.789
next one is interesting, Tim. That is Freddy Peralta. If
866
00:54:03.829 --> 00:54:07.309
you would have pitched a gem of a game on
867
00:54:08.309 --> 00:54:13.309
the game that the Brewers scored 10 runs, I think
868
00:54:13.329 --> 00:54:15.739
he cost himself a little bit of money because he
869
00:54:16.500 --> 00:54:20.059
looked great until the fourth inning. Things kind of came unraveled,
870
00:54:20.500 --> 00:54:23.619
which hearkened to his time with the Mets. I don't
871
00:54:23.659 --> 00:54:26.219
know where he's going, but I'm 100% sure it will
872
00:54:26.260 --> 00:54:27.400
not be back with the Mets.
873
00:54:28.599 --> 00:54:33.139
I would think that's a safe call, yep.
874
00:54:34.679 --> 00:54:36.420
I think he should go back to the Rays, but
875
00:54:36.519 --> 00:54:40.380
they can't afford him. They'll choose not to afford him.
876
00:54:40.539 --> 00:54:42.000
There you go.
877
00:54:42.559 --> 00:54:44.480
Where do you have him going?
878
00:54:46.469 --> 00:54:52.590
The Padres don't give up on anything. Okay, Peralta tried
879
00:54:52.630 --> 00:54:53.190
the East Coast.
880
00:54:53.250 --> 00:54:53.969
Maybe
it's time.
881
00:54:54.750 --> 00:54:59.130
Maybe it's time to head west and look at the
882
00:54:59.170 --> 00:55:01.510
Padres because they are going to need pitching.
883
00:55:03.630 --> 00:55:05.050
If they lose Michael King.
884
00:55:05.909 --> 00:55:08.630
Yeah, take Michael King out of that rotation and look
885
00:55:08.650 --> 00:55:12.500
at what the Padres have. It's not much. It's not
886
00:55:12.539 --> 00:55:13.539
enough to make the playoffs.
887
00:55:14.690 --> 00:55:16.829
Yeah, let's see who they have. So they take Michael
888
00:55:16.909 --> 00:55:20.389
King out. And we've got Joe Musgrove. I mean, two
889
00:55:20.449 --> 00:55:25.010
Tommy John surgeries that have pitched in forever. Randy Vasquez, J.P. Sears,
890
00:55:25.050 --> 00:55:31.050
former Yankee kid. Johnny Brito, Jager Haynes. Wow, they got nothing.
891
00:55:32.170 --> 00:55:36.610
Yeah, they got nothing. The Cards and the Padres and
892
00:55:36.659 --> 00:55:38.539
the Cubs, all three of them, they have to be
893
00:55:38.619 --> 00:55:44.150
adding pitching this offseason because there's offense there. I can't
894
00:55:44.190 --> 00:55:47.190
see AJ Perler sitting back and doing nothing, and especially
895
00:55:47.210 --> 00:55:50.869
the new ownership group that's all pumped and excited. They're
896
00:55:50.889 --> 00:55:54.090
going to have to buy some pitching. So I just
897
00:55:54.130 --> 00:55:55.329
tossed the dart at Peralta.
898
00:55:56.570 --> 00:55:59.050
I think it's a good call. I have them going
899
00:56:00.000 --> 00:56:02.559
to a team where they seem to make the wrong
900
00:56:02.619 --> 00:56:05.659
call on free agents all the time, and that is
901
00:56:05.699 --> 00:56:10.559
the Baltimore Orioles. So I think they will overpay for
902
00:56:10.619 --> 00:56:15.260
Freddy Peralta and... I think he'll turn back into the
903
00:56:15.960 --> 00:56:20.929
bad Freddy Peralta. So I'm afraid of Freddy Peralta next
904
00:56:20.969 --> 00:56:24.829
year in fantasy leagues. Unless he goes back to the Rays.
905
00:56:26.210 --> 00:56:35.079
Yeah, I... If I can buy him as a number three, yeah,
906
00:56:35.119 --> 00:56:40.889
I'll be interested. I don't think I will be able to, though. And... No,
907
00:56:41.030 --> 00:56:45.289
I don't want to pay number two price, I don't think,
908
00:56:45.309 --> 00:56:48.929
next year for Freddie Burrell. I've got other directions I'd
909
00:56:48.969 --> 00:56:49.530
rather head.
910
00:56:51.440 --> 00:56:53.599
That is our top three. Timmy, let's take a break
911
00:56:53.659 --> 00:56:56.239
and come back and do some Japanese players.
912
00:56:59.579 --> 00:57:00.989
Zero point.
913
00:57:11.449 --> 00:57:13.320
I'm just going to name these players.
914
00:57:14.139 --> 00:57:14.420
Yep.
915
00:57:14.980 --> 00:57:18.440
And I'm sure butcher the pronunciation here, but I'm going
916
00:57:18.460 --> 00:57:22.300
to give it a shot. First one is Hiromi Ito.
917
00:57:24.000 --> 00:57:27.420
Congratulations. We have a bingo. Yep.
918
00:57:27.480 --> 00:57:30.039
Right-handed pitcher. I don't know anything about him. Tell us.
919
00:57:30.139 --> 00:57:31.940
Tell us who he is, what he can do.
920
00:57:33.110 --> 00:57:37.269
Well, heading into the season, his 2025, he won the
921
00:57:37.349 --> 00:57:41.800
Saw Amuro Award as the best pitcher in Japan. Okay,
922
00:57:41.820 --> 00:57:47.199
he had a lousy spring, a lousy WBC, and a
923
00:57:47.280 --> 00:57:52.599
terrible April this year before rebounding and posting a 10-10
924
00:57:52.699 --> 00:57:59.260
record with a 318 ERA. He is a legitimate high
925
00:57:59.320 --> 00:58:04.909
number two type ceiling, number three on the type floor.
926
00:58:05.789 --> 00:58:09.400
The poor start's going to cost him. And I think
927
00:58:09.440 --> 00:58:15.500
potentially provide value as a free agent. If I had
928
00:58:15.539 --> 00:58:18.179
to guess right now, I would look at the Yankees
929
00:58:18.280 --> 00:58:21.750
or possibly a West Coast team.
930
00:58:22.610 --> 00:58:25.429
How was his control? I'm going to ask these on
931
00:58:25.570 --> 00:58:28.610
all these Japanese players, because that's where I got burned
932
00:58:28.650 --> 00:58:32.050
with the guy signed with Houston that I don't even
933
00:58:32.079 --> 00:58:33.260
want to think about, Amaya.
934
00:58:35.239 --> 00:58:39.880
Ah, yes, yes. Uh, if you just give me two seconds,
935
00:58:40.059 --> 00:58:49.199
I will call up my, my trusty NPB stats because
936
00:58:49.300 --> 00:58:51.679
I don't have them all memorized yet. There, this is,
937
00:58:51.860 --> 00:58:58.690
there are so many players, especially young players looking at, uh,
938
00:59:00.469 --> 00:59:08.380
hitting the colleges, possibly signing minor league deals, It could
939
00:59:08.409 --> 00:59:11.760
have been an awesome, awesome year. It's still going to
940
00:59:11.800 --> 00:59:12.119
be good.
941
00:59:12.119 --> 00:59:16.420
1.77 walks per nine, is that correct? 34 this year
942
00:59:16.440 --> 00:59:18.460
in 172.2 innings hit. A lot of 16 home runs, yeah.
943
00:59:18.460 --> 00:59:31.150
26 starts, struck at 8 per 9, walked 1.7 per 9, a.
944
00:59:30.909 --> 00:59:36.610
323 ERA, a FIP of. 281,. 298. Okay, so he's
945
00:59:36.650 --> 00:59:38.650
got good control. So I'm not going to have an
946
00:59:38.670 --> 00:59:39.889
Amaya situation here.
947
00:59:41.610 --> 00:59:45.719
No, and if you look historically, he walked 34 last year.
948
00:59:45.739 --> 00:59:51.380
He walked 29 in 196 and two-thirds in 25. 39
949
00:59:51.550 --> 00:59:56.030
and 41, the two years before that were 26, 24 starts. No,
950
00:59:56.110 --> 01:00:03.739
he is a very good pitcher who, for whatever reason,
951
01:00:03.840 --> 01:00:07.179
just struggled early on this season, right at the ship.
952
01:00:07.199 --> 01:00:10.250
But I think it's going to cost him a little bit.
953
01:00:12.349 --> 01:00:13.469
Only time will tell.
954
01:00:13.769 --> 01:00:17.369
I'm going to the Mariners. Where do you have them going?
955
01:00:19.170 --> 01:00:20.110
I'm going to go with the Yankees.
956
01:00:21.550 --> 01:00:25.170
Now, so has he been posted yet, or is he
957
01:00:25.190 --> 01:00:27.369
going to be– you figure they're going to get posted
958
01:00:27.469 --> 01:00:28.389
very soon, right?
959
01:00:29.809 --> 01:00:33.150
Yes. His team is going to post him. He hasn't
960
01:00:33.269 --> 01:00:40.030
announced officially if he's going to accept it. Oh. At
961
01:00:40.070 --> 01:00:44.769
least that's what I'm hearing. Okay. He could decide to
962
01:00:44.809 --> 01:00:49.530
stay in Japan. I think he's coming over. We're just
963
01:00:49.550 --> 01:00:52.920
waiting for an announcement.
964
01:00:53.460 --> 01:01:00.000
Next guy is Kamitera. K-A-I-M-I-T-A-I-R-A. Is that how you pronounce it?
965
01:01:00.980 --> 01:01:03.619
That's close enough for me.
966
01:01:03.659 --> 01:01:04.980
Let me give you some of the stats here, and
967
01:01:05.000 --> 01:01:06.050
then you can tell us all about him.
968
01:01:06.030 --> 01:01:06.409
146 innings pitched.
969
01:01:06.409 --> 01:01:13.989
8.7 strikeouts per nine, 2.8 walks per nine at 136 ERA,
970
01:01:14.650 --> 01:01:18.730
struck down 146 and walked 45. So control not as
971
01:01:18.769 --> 01:01:21.199
good as the last guy. Timmy, tell us about him.
972
01:01:22.489 --> 01:01:27.190
Okay, you're going to love this guy, Rich. Yeah, in
973
01:01:27.349 --> 01:01:29.269
a huge way, okay?
974
01:01:29.369 --> 01:01:30.630
There's something wrong with him.
975
01:01:31.349 --> 01:01:34.289
Oh, hell yeah, and here we go.
976
01:01:34.309 --> 01:01:36.860
89-mile-an-hour fastball, that's what we're talking about.
977
01:01:37.610 --> 01:01:43.630
No, he can bring it to 96, 98 miles an hour. Okay.
978
01:01:44.510 --> 01:01:48.170
He throws eight pitches. A four-seamer, a cutter, a change-up,
979
01:01:48.230 --> 01:01:51.389
a sweeper, a slider, a splitter, a two-seamer, and occasionally
980
01:01:51.409 --> 01:01:55.300
a curveball. Yeah, so he throws everything. Yeah, he throws
981
01:01:55.380 --> 01:02:00.840
everything under the... Last year, he won 36 ERA. And
982
01:02:00.900 --> 01:02:07.900
it wasn't his best single year's ERA. Okay. Okay. Uh,
983
01:02:07.960 --> 01:02:09.679
you're looking at a picture.
984
01:02:11.199 --> 01:02:12.179
The 090 ERA in 2021.
985
01:02:12.179 --> 01:02:16.599
Wow. Six of his eight years in Japan, he has
986
01:02:16.699 --> 01:02:19.199
owned a sub two ERA.
987
01:02:20.079 --> 01:02:21.619
It's only 26, by the way.
988
01:02:22.500 --> 01:02:27.139
Yes. But now we've had the good stuff. Six of
989
01:02:27.199 --> 01:02:31.170
those eight years, I said a sub two ERA. Six
990
01:02:31.269 --> 01:02:34.130
of the past eight years, he has pitched out of
991
01:02:34.250 --> 01:02:37.900
the bullpen. Only two years as a starter. Oh, I
992
01:02:37.900 --> 01:02:38.420
see that.
993
01:02:38.679 --> 01:02:40.820
He started this year, but did not start the last
994
01:02:40.880 --> 01:02:42.219
two seasons.
995
01:02:42.239 --> 01:02:51.139
That's interesting. He is 5'8, weighs 210 reported pounds.
996
01:02:51.849 --> 01:02:53.090
Oh, this is the good stuff.
997
01:02:54.389 --> 01:02:55.030
Okay.
998
01:02:55.429 --> 01:02:57.429
I got to give him a 0.0. This is for sure.
999
01:02:57.489 --> 01:02:59.030
He pitches from three quarters, and he.
1000
01:02:59.050 --> 01:03:06.159
Has almost a seven-foot stride. Oh, wow.
1001
01:03:06.179 --> 01:03:09.639
Well, that's cool. I can have a seven-foot stride with
1002
01:03:09.679 --> 01:03:13.440
a five-foot-eight-inch height. That's pretty remarkable.
1003
01:03:15.440 --> 01:03:19.829
Oh, yeah. The problem is, what are you getting? Are
1004
01:03:19.869 --> 01:03:23.909
you getting a reliever, elite? Are you getting a starting
1005
01:03:23.969 --> 01:03:27.329
pitcher who has only pitched two of the past eight seasons?
1006
01:03:27.670 --> 01:03:31.150
How will they hold up physically? There are just a
1007
01:03:31.329 --> 01:03:36.230
pile of question marks. And he is arguably heading into
1008
01:03:36.369 --> 01:03:46.449
this offseason, coming off the best season the Japanese pitcher enjoyed. Personally,
1009
01:03:46.550 --> 01:03:50.630
I'm staying away. There's too many questions and not enough answers.
1010
01:03:51.489 --> 01:03:54.489
And I think somebody will pay dearly for him. And
1011
01:03:54.789 --> 01:03:58.650
it probably won't be me. My problem is a combination
1012
01:03:58.690 --> 01:04:02.389
of the stature, the physicality, and the starting pitcher relief.
1013
01:04:02.769 --> 01:04:05.829
I'm not going to invest in a relief pitcher. Hey,
1014
01:04:05.869 --> 01:04:07.289
the price, I think you're going to have to. And
1015
01:04:07.309 --> 01:04:10.150
I think teams are going to look at him principally
1016
01:04:10.210 --> 01:04:12.570
as a starter. There's just too many questions for me.
1017
01:04:12.849 --> 01:04:16.159
But he is a fascinating topic. There is no doubt
1018
01:04:16.199 --> 01:04:19.239
about it. What would be.
1019
01:04:19.219 --> 01:04:22.420
A major league baseball team that would take a gamble
1020
01:04:22.500 --> 01:04:23.380
on a guy like this?
1021
01:04:24.940 --> 01:04:30.699
I have no idea other than the team that I
1022
01:04:31.659 --> 01:04:36.429
pulled up is the White Sox because they need both
1023
01:04:36.469 --> 01:04:39.670
starting pitching and relief pitching. They could have Grant Taylor
1024
01:04:39.710 --> 01:04:42.309
and him going back-to-back out of the bullpen and both
1025
01:04:42.369 --> 01:04:44.289
pitching as starters every 10th day.
1026
01:04:45.050 --> 01:04:49.670
Don't even start, McLeod. I'm just sick about Grant Taylor.
1027
01:04:49.829 --> 01:04:51.309
Don't make me nauseous here.
1028
01:04:53.679 --> 01:04:58.280
I went with the White Sox. That's a good call, actually.
1029
01:04:58.400 --> 01:05:00.280
A swing and miss pitcher to go along with all
1030
01:05:00.300 --> 01:05:01.199
the swing and miss bats.
1031
01:05:01.760 --> 01:05:06.260
Yeah. I'm going to punt here and just say the
1032
01:05:06.389 --> 01:05:11.829
Orioles because they seem to draft, sign these kind of players,
1033
01:05:12.429 --> 01:05:15.690
hoping for the best. But I don't know.
1034
01:05:15.710 --> 01:05:23.090
It's a fascinating topic, but I'm staying away. just because
1035
01:05:23.110 --> 01:05:24.210
of a lack of definition.
1036
01:05:24.230 --> 01:05:30.599
All right. Next guy is Kona Takahashi. He is 29
1037
01:05:30.599 --> 01:05:32.360
years old. He'll be 30 years old when he starts
1038
01:05:32.380 --> 01:05:35.019
the season. Doesn't look like he strikes out a ton
1039
01:05:35.039 --> 01:05:38.409
of guys, walks too many, 254 ERA. What do you
1040
01:05:38.429 --> 01:05:39.130
know about him, Tim?
1041
01:05:40.869 --> 01:05:43.010
Well, he posted last year and didn't find a job.
1042
01:05:44.050 --> 01:05:45.090
This year he's a free agent.
1043
01:05:46.530 --> 01:05:48.829
Oh, so will he sign? Oh, you think it was?
1044
01:05:49.050 --> 01:05:52.070
Okay. I, Yeah, I think you'll find a job, and
1045
01:05:52.090 --> 01:05:54.190
I'm going to bet on the Jays, because I don't
1046
01:05:54.210 --> 01:05:58.449
think Spencer Arrighetti did enough to warrant a shot at
1047
01:05:58.469 --> 01:06:01.750
the number five starter role in Toronto. I think the
1048
01:06:01.789 --> 01:06:05.219
Jays will look at him on a relatively team-friendly short-term deal.
1049
01:06:07.159 --> 01:06:10.480
But he's not going to command big bucks. Everybody had
1050
01:06:10.539 --> 01:06:14.239
a shot at him last year. He didn't get a job.
1051
01:06:16.239 --> 01:06:19.139
I'm going with the Padres, and I have no idea why.
1052
01:06:21.269 --> 01:06:28.130
They need pitching. He doesn't... I see nothing. I don't
1053
01:06:28.349 --> 01:06:32.309
know about his stuff, but I mean, in 2025, he
1054
01:06:32.329 --> 01:06:36.699
pitched 148 innings and he struck out five per nine. Yeah.
1055
01:06:38.110 --> 01:06:40.360
Yeah, I think he got number five back in the
1056
01:06:40.400 --> 01:06:41.440
rotation type starter.
1057
01:06:41.460 --> 01:06:46.659
All right. How about the first positional guy is Tarukai Sato.
1058
01:06:50.750 --> 01:07:01.469
That's close enough for me. Here we're talking somebody who
1059
01:07:01.489 --> 01:07:06.889
I think is going to command potentially the top dollar.
1060
01:07:07.409 --> 01:07:09.230
Ooh, 39 home runs.
1061
01:07:10.760 --> 01:07:12.579
Yes, the year before he hit 40. He broke out
1062
01:07:12.659 --> 01:07:14.619
in 25, duplicated it in 26. 26% strikeout rate. Hmm.
1063
01:07:20.159 --> 01:07:21.360
Ooh, doggies. Yeah.
1064
01:07:21.380 --> 01:07:26.099
Let's have the White Sox sign them.
1065
01:07:26.699 --> 01:07:31.119
I'm going with the Jays. And I think, you know,
1066
01:07:31.139 --> 01:07:35.070
when you look at the Jays outfield, okay, right now
1067
01:07:35.090 --> 01:07:39.949
you've got Nathan Luke's and Jonathan Klaas' occupying two spots.
1068
01:07:39.969 --> 01:07:42.849
That's not the answer. They've got a big hole in
1069
01:07:42.869 --> 01:07:47.090
the outfield. Addison Barger should be back. Who knows what
1070
01:07:47.130 --> 01:07:49.530
can be expected there? But I think the Jays are
1071
01:07:49.550 --> 01:07:55.210
hoping that Kazuma Okamoto can help in the Sato recruiting.
1072
01:07:55.730 --> 01:08:04.500
He won the Triple Crown this year in Japan. He's
1073
01:08:04.579 --> 01:08:08.980
a good player, but there is miss in that swing
1074
01:08:09.019 --> 01:08:12.750
and miss game. Okay, there isn't the power of Murakami.
1075
01:08:12.789 --> 01:08:17.930
There's better strike zone judgment than Murakami, but considerably. Quite
1076
01:08:17.970 --> 01:08:20.489
possibly not as good as Okamoto. The three are very
1077
01:08:20.529 --> 01:08:23.970
much very close to being that same player, and I
1078
01:08:24.010 --> 01:08:28.010
think the Jays are going to use Okamoto and Landham
1079
01:08:28.050 --> 01:08:29.529
to fill one of those outfield slots.
1080
01:08:33.369 --> 01:08:39.300
Makes sense. I mean, it's a big swing and miss profile, so...
1081
01:08:40.869 --> 01:08:43.449
Blue Jays don't seem to care about that with Okamoto
1082
01:08:43.470 --> 01:08:46.409
signing on Okamoto. I mean, obviously the Mets are the
1083
01:08:46.449 --> 01:08:49.930
big teams. The Yankees seem to be, you know, they
1084
01:08:49.949 --> 01:08:53.229
could use a left-handed power bat. So with all the
1085
01:08:53.270 --> 01:08:54.970
right-handed power, so I'll go there.
1086
01:08:54.989 --> 01:09:00.300
Yeah. And your guess is as good as mine. He
1087
01:09:00.399 --> 01:09:09.050
is going to command I would think 25 mil anyways
1088
01:09:11.529 --> 01:09:16.010
a year. 150. He's every bit as good of a player,
1089
01:09:16.050 --> 01:09:20.729
if not possibly better than Murakami and Okamoto. He's in
1090
01:09:20.750 --> 01:09:25.060
that group. The power potential is enormous. There's risk with
1091
01:09:25.079 --> 01:09:30.920
the batting average. But he is a very good player.
1092
01:09:32.239 --> 01:09:35.380
I think Okamoto was 20, the other side of 20,
1093
01:09:35.380 --> 01:09:38.869
and Murakami landed a deal somewhere in that same area.
1094
01:09:38.970 --> 01:09:42.369
So Sato is not going to command anything less.
1095
01:09:42.770 --> 01:09:45.949
So is he going to sign here in the next month?
1096
01:09:47.210 --> 01:09:47.430
Yes.
1097
01:09:48.779 --> 01:09:54.739
And Kami Itari, will he sign in the next month? Yes.
1098
01:09:55.060 --> 01:09:55.720
They'll all sign.
1099
01:09:56.060 --> 01:09:56.579
They'll all sign.
1100
01:09:56.720 --> 01:09:56.899
Okay.
1101
01:09:58.300 --> 01:10:02.810
All right. That's our Japanese. Let me just do a 0.0
1102
01:10:02.810 -->
01:10:06.250
on all of them.
1103
01:10:06.449 --> 01:10:08.229
Yeah, I know it's there somewhere.
1104
01:10:08.569 --> 01:10:12.090
Sato seems like Murakami all over again.
1105
01:10:12.109 --> 01:10:17.270
Not quite as extreme on the strikeout rates. Okay. Yeah.
1106
01:10:17.289 --> 01:10:17.569
Okay.
1107
01:10:18.439 --> 01:10:18.699
Yeah.
1108
01:10:19.319 --> 01:10:22.390
None of the, and I'm scared. The guy who didn't,
1109
01:10:22.989 --> 01:10:25.569
let's see the, who was the one that didn't strike? Oh,
1110
01:10:25.670 --> 01:10:29.569
it was Ito. Didn't strike, didn't walk very many guys.
1111
01:10:29.609 --> 01:10:32.729
He seems to be interesting. The guy at the slow start.
1112
01:10:33.689 --> 01:10:38.050
Yeah. The only thing that bummed me out with Sato
1113
01:10:38.130 --> 01:10:42.020
is the fact that I was really hoping that Hiroki
1114
01:10:42.060 --> 01:10:45.960
Sake was going to be posted this year. He asked
1115
01:10:46.039 --> 01:10:51.149
last year, usually the year after. they do post them,
1116
01:10:51.270 --> 01:10:55.170
but because they play on the same team and Hanschen
1117
01:10:55.869 --> 01:11:00.250
won their division last year, Saki is not getting posted.
1118
01:11:00.329 --> 01:11:04.329
And he was the leader in strikeouts this year. Another,
1119
01:11:04.350 --> 01:11:11.319
another great season. So hopefully next year, he in round three,
1120
01:11:11.340 --> 01:11:14.340
he does get posted, but he's staying in Japan this year,
1121
01:11:14.399 --> 01:11:15.539
which is a bummer for me.
1122
01:11:15.560 --> 01:11:20.930
All right. Going back to North American players, well, this
1123
01:11:20.989 --> 01:11:23.550
is kind of a, say Suzuki played, obviously, with the
1124
01:11:23.590 --> 01:11:26.409
Cubs for the last few years. He's 32 years old.
1125
01:11:27.069 --> 01:11:30.149
Where does he sign, and is Japan off the table?
1126
01:11:32.689 --> 01:11:34.159
Yes, Japan is off the table.
1127
01:11:34.579 --> 01:11:37.300
Really? Why would you say that?
1128
01:11:41.300 --> 01:11:44.600
You just look at the numbers. He's a top 20 outfielder,
1129
01:11:45.140 --> 01:11:46.489
maybe top 15.
1130
01:11:46.489 --> 01:11:48.869
So no reason to go back to Japan. He should
1131
01:11:48.909 --> 01:11:50.569
be able to find a job in North America.
1132
01:11:50.590 --> 01:11:50.789
Okay.
1133
01:11:51.489 --> 01:11:53.470
I've got him signing with Cleveland Guardians.
1134
01:11:54.989 --> 01:11:58.270
Okay. That makes sense. They could use a power back.
1135
01:11:58.869 --> 01:12:01.949
Will they be willing to spend the money? We'll see.
1136
01:12:02.390 --> 01:12:04.029
They need to spend the money.
1137
01:12:05.350 --> 01:12:08.319
Yeah. Yeah, they do.
1138
01:12:08.340 --> 01:12:12.569
By the way, here's my logic. Here's my logic. He's 32.
1139
01:12:12.569 --> 01:12:13.989
you figure it's going to be more of a three
1140
01:12:14.010 --> 01:12:16.649
or four year deal as opposed to a eight or
1141
01:12:16.710 --> 01:12:19.729
nine year deal because of his age. And I'm thinking
1142
01:12:19.750 --> 01:12:23.739
maybe the guardians will step in. He's a good player,
1143
01:12:24.100 --> 01:12:29.119
probably their DH. And I, I just think they need
1144
01:12:29.180 --> 01:12:31.239
a power. They need a guy like Suzuki.
1145
01:12:32.760 --> 01:12:33.220
I agree.
1146
01:12:34.140 --> 01:12:34.970
Where do you got him going?
1147
01:12:36.770 --> 01:12:39.850
Okay. I, I'm going to another team that needs a
1148
01:12:39.890 --> 01:12:43.119
power bat, big bat, because they got lots of guys
1149
01:12:44.960 --> 01:12:49.460
with contact. They got some question marks around Roman Anthony.
1150
01:12:49.779 --> 01:12:52.020
I got them going to Boston. They've been trying to
1151
01:12:52.119 --> 01:12:55.640
upgrade on Duran for years. I think this is the
1152
01:12:55.739 --> 01:12:58.369
offseason they get it done, and they do that upgrade.
1153
01:12:58.810 --> 01:13:01.770
Get Suzuki in there, and it will give them a
1154
01:13:02.069 --> 01:13:06.949
legitimate 30-home run bat to go with Wilson Contreras. Other
1155
01:13:06.989 --> 01:13:10.840
than that, they... they don't have that big power bat.
1156
01:13:10.880 --> 01:13:13.260
And I think Boston could use him in the 3-4 hole.
1157
01:13:14.319 --> 01:13:16.640
That's a good call. I like that call. I just
1158
01:13:16.659 --> 01:13:18.579
don't know if he's going to play the outfield. I mean,
1159
01:13:18.739 --> 01:13:24.350
he was playing a lot of DH with the Cubs. But, yeah,
1160
01:13:24.390 --> 01:13:27.909
I mean, Jaron Duran has been an enigma after that
1161
01:13:27.970 --> 01:13:30.090
breakout season a couple of years ago. I mean, he's
1162
01:13:30.130 --> 01:13:34.220
fallen into a good player, not a great player. Is
1163
01:13:34.239 --> 01:13:35.340
that a fair way to say it?
1164
01:13:36.600 --> 01:13:38.699
Yeah, well, and you look at right now, they've got
1165
01:13:38.720 --> 01:13:44.619
the roster reserves. They got Roman Anthony in the DH slot. Okay.
1166
01:13:45.020 --> 01:13:48.359
Suzuki could fit into that slot a lot better, I think,
1167
01:13:48.479 --> 01:13:51.100
and give Roman Anthony a position to play, maybe.
1168
01:13:51.649 --> 01:13:53.430
You don't want Roman. You don't want one of your
1169
01:13:53.470 --> 01:13:57.090
best young players sitting in the DH slot. He's athletic
1170
01:13:57.130 --> 01:14:00.829
enough to play a decent corner outfield. So I'm assuming
1171
01:14:00.850 --> 01:14:01.729
better than Suzuki.
1172
01:14:01.750 --> 01:14:03.569
Yeah. Yeah.
1173
01:14:04.970 --> 01:14:08.250
Okay, let's go to number nine. Randy Rosarino, 32 years old.
1174
01:14:08.289 --> 01:14:09.050
Where do you got him going?
1175
01:14:13.409 --> 01:14:16.090
The Astros. They could use an outfielder in the worst
1176
01:14:16.189 --> 01:14:18.489
of ways. It would allow Jordan Alvarez to move into
1177
01:14:18.590 -->
01:14:22.989
the three-fourth slot. I think Rosarino in Houston makes a
1178
01:14:23.029 --> 01:14:23.770
lot of sense.
1179
01:14:24.170 --> 01:14:26.909
I agree. I've got him going to the Atlanta Braves
1180
01:14:26.970 --> 01:14:29.649
who need an outfielder as well. I think he's going
1181
01:14:29.670 --> 01:14:31.949
to make a lot of money, Randy Rosarino.
1182
01:14:31.989 --> 01:14:36.630
Yeah. Well, he's got, what, 17 years now of 2020? Yeah,
1183
01:14:36.670 --> 01:14:39.140
he should. Yeah, I think it's five or six. But,
1184
01:14:39.149 --> 01:14:42.720
I mean, every year you pencil him in. It's 20-plus
1185
01:14:42.760 --> 01:14:49.220
home runs, steals 20-plus bases. Yeah, he fits well in
1186
01:14:49.279 --> 01:14:53.779
either a leadoff or probably number two slot. And Houston, yeah,
1187
01:14:53.859 --> 01:14:56.180
both the teams mentioned need an outfielder.
1188
01:14:56.199 --> 01:14:59.159
Houston's a really good call there. I like that. Does
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01:14:59.199 --> 01:15:01.600
Suzuki and a Rosarito sign here in the next month?
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01:15:06.960 --> 01:15:10.510
Number 10, and then we'll take a break. This one's hard.
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01:15:11.090 --> 01:15:18.250
Brandon Lau, 32 years old, second base. I think there's
1192
01:15:18.270 --> 01:15:20.210
going to be limited options for him here. Where do
1193
01:15:20.250 --> 01:15:23.850
you think he's going to land?
1194
01:15:23.869 --> 01:15:26.340
Yeah, I looked at it from the same perspective as you.
1195
01:15:26.460 --> 01:15:30.159
Limited options. I think this is my first player I'm
1196
01:15:30.180 --> 01:15:36.720
going to say doesn't sign. Okay. in the next 30 days.
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01:15:37.560 --> 01:15:42.520
And he played a long time for the Rays. Is
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01:15:42.579 --> 01:15:45.579
Richie Palacios the answer? I don't think so. How about
1199
01:15:45.600 --> 01:15:48.279
a return to Tampa Bay? And I think it'll be
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01:15:48.399 --> 01:15:58.470
one of those one, two-year bridge contracts with opt-outs. So
1201
01:15:58.510 --> 01:16:03.810
I'm going to go Tampa Bay with a uniquely termed contract.
1202
01:16:03.850 --> 01:16:04.250
How's that?
1203
01:16:06.409 --> 01:16:10.470
That's yeah. I, I don't think he'll, I think it's
1204
01:16:10.489 --> 01:16:12.119
gonna be tough for me to return to the Rays,
1205
01:16:12.180 --> 01:16:14.500
but I think he could get like a two year
1206
01:16:14.539 --> 01:16:18.279
deal with a, with a mutual option for a third
1207
01:16:18.340 --> 01:16:19.000
year with.
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01:16:18.920 --> 01:16:20.779
Maybe $ 15.
1209
01:16:19.699 --> 01:16:22.119
Million a year or something like that. I think that
1210
01:16:22.159 --> 01:16:24.449
would probably, and I think the Rays could afford that.
1211
01:16:25.770 --> 01:16:30.050
Yeah. So I, the Rays, what we've.
1212
01:16:29.869 --> 01:16:31.989
Seen for the, what we've seen for the last couple
1213
01:16:32.010 --> 01:16:34.770
of years with the Rays, they need more pop in
1214
01:16:34.810 --> 01:16:37.050
that lineup. And, Lyle's got pop.
1215
01:16:38.289 --> 01:16:41.689
Yeah. The other team I looked at was the Yankees,
1216
01:16:41.729 --> 01:16:44.329
but Anthony Volpe is looking like the second coming of
1217
01:16:44.369 --> 01:16:47.489
Babe Ruth. Are they going to take Volpe as a
1218
01:16:47.510 --> 01:16:51.029
second base? Yeah, I don't think so. I think they're
1219
01:16:51.060 --> 01:16:53.619
going to go with it. I think he earned that
1220
01:16:53.680 --> 01:16:55.659
right with the way he played in the second half.
1221
01:16:56.739 --> 01:16:59.600
I think Anthony Volpe was one of my targets last
1222
01:16:59.640 --> 01:17:01.399
season and I blew it. I think he's been the
1223
01:17:01.420 --> 01:17:03.460
target for my last couple of years. He'll be again
1224
01:17:03.479 --> 01:17:08.340
because the data on that guy looks really good He
1225
01:17:08.420 --> 01:17:14.159
might could use a change of scenery, but I think
1226
01:17:14.180 --> 01:17:16.520
that guy's good. I just don't think we've seen the
1227
01:17:16.579 --> 01:17:18.960
best of him. I think he was promoted too soon,
1228
01:17:19.420 --> 01:17:23.880
wasn't quite ready, but I think the data's good there.
1229
01:17:24.260 --> 01:17:27.500
I got Brandon Lau going to the Red Sox. I struggled.
1230
01:17:27.579 --> 01:17:30.659
I asked my AI assistant who needed a second baseman.
1231
01:17:31.060 --> 01:17:32.810
He gave me a list of teams. I'm like, okay,
1232
01:17:32.829 --> 01:17:34.750
I think he might fit with the Red Sox, but
1233
01:17:35.550 --> 01:17:38.050
I just don't think he's going to be very expensive. Timmy,
1234
01:17:38.090 --> 01:17:40.510
let's take a break and come back and do a
1235
01:17:40.529 --> 01:17:42.170
few more players in the call of the day.
1236
01:17:43.590 --> 01:17:44.329
Sounds good.
1237
01:17:53.899 --> 01:17:56.779
Clay Holmes has had a pretty good career once he
1238
01:17:56.800 --> 01:17:59.859
moved out of the bullpen. He's 34 years old, so
1239
01:17:59.899 --> 01:18:03.890
I don't think he's going to be terribly expensive. Decent pitcher, though.
1240
01:18:03.909 --> 01:18:04.430
Where does he go?
1241
01:18:06.279 --> 01:18:07.579
I'm going to go with the Padres.
1242
01:18:10.239 --> 01:18:11.399
That's where I had them going to.
1243
01:18:11.420 --> 01:18:15.260
I mean, they desperately need, uh, they need pitching in
1244
01:18:15.300 --> 01:18:17.069
the worst of ways. And I think they're going to
1245
01:18:17.090 --> 01:18:20.449
add a couple. So clay homes on the two, three
1246
01:18:20.489 --> 01:18:24.170
year deal. Yeah. I think, I think that could work.
1247
01:18:26.369 --> 01:18:29.920
Let's skip over, uh, Adrian Morahan. Maybe not. Let's keep it.
1248
01:18:30.000 --> 01:18:33.439
Is Adrian Morahan going to be signed as a closer?
1249
01:18:35.159 --> 01:18:35.420
Yes.
1250
01:18:37.039 --> 01:18:38.060
So where does he sign?
1251
01:18:39.220 --> 01:18:40.300
The New York Yankees.
1252
01:18:41.020 --> 01:18:42.979
Really? So they're not going to re-sign Bednar?
1253
01:18:44.050 --> 01:18:47.630
No, I think Bednar moves on. And I think the
1254
01:18:47.649 --> 01:18:52.710
Yankees look at using Mori on that. the backfill into
1255
01:18:52.750 --> 01:18:58.149
their bullpen. And the ninth inning, Bednar's ninth inning is
1256
01:18:58.210 --> 01:19:01.430
wide open. This kid's got the stuff to get it done.
1257
01:19:01.449 --> 01:19:05.140
I think he will. I think the Yankees will spend
1258
01:19:05.189 --> 01:19:05.979
a bit to get it done.
1259
01:19:09.390 --> 01:19:12.829
I didn't think about that option, but I'm going to
1260
01:19:12.890 --> 01:19:22.699
go with the Detroit Tigers. They need a closer. Morhan
1261
01:19:22.739 --> 01:19:24.760
might be expensive, though. He's only 28 years old. He's
1262
01:19:24.779 --> 01:19:25.800
got a really good arm.
1263
01:19:26.920 --> 01:19:30.789
He's going to cost 10 plus mil a year. Yeah.
1264
01:19:31.010 --> 01:19:32.229
At least. Yeah.
1265
01:19:32.899 --> 01:19:35.359
So not, not totally convinced on that's why he wanted
1266
01:19:35.399 --> 01:19:37.720
to skip them. But I don't want to go with
1267
01:19:37.779 --> 01:19:40.060
Tim and the Yankees. Cause I think that's where Bednar goes,
1268
01:19:40.159 --> 01:19:43.100
but he was, he was a little, he was good
1269
01:19:43.159 --> 01:19:45.779
for the Yankees though, but prone to blow ups, but
1270
01:19:45.800 --> 01:19:48.420
that's sinker guys are prone to prone to blow ups. Anyway,
1271
01:19:48.720 --> 01:19:53.279
Trevor Rogers is the next guy kind of reclamation project
1272
01:19:53.380 --> 01:19:55.640
for the Orioles. And you got to give them credit
1273
01:19:55.680 --> 01:19:59.100
for as bad as they have been in developing pitchers
1274
01:19:59.159 --> 01:20:03.109
over the last, Well, over the last five to eight years,
1275
01:20:03.289 --> 01:20:05.069
they did a good job with Trevor Rogers.
1276
01:20:06.380 --> 01:20:08.140
Yeah, they did. And I think they did a good
1277
01:20:08.180 --> 01:20:12.840
enough job. He's going to stay there.
1278
01:20:13.520 --> 01:20:15.420
Yeah, I'm staying there as well. I've got three pitchers
1279
01:20:15.460 --> 01:20:21.079
going to the Orioles. He could go somewhere else. Maybe
1280
01:20:21.119 --> 01:20:23.460
I'll pick somewhere else. Now I'm going to skip him
1281
01:20:23.479 --> 01:20:27.220
with the Orioles. That's where I had him. Okay, let's
1282
01:20:27.239 --> 01:20:30.930
skip over Jake Bowers. Let's go to... Louis Arise, Tim.
1283
01:20:32.069 --> 01:20:34.010
I don't think Louis Arise is going to sign in
1284
01:20:34.029 --> 01:20:35.350
the next month. What say you?
1285
01:20:36.350 --> 01:20:38.029
I don't think he's going to sign in the next
1286
01:20:38.090 --> 01:20:39.649
two or three months. I think he's going to be
1287
01:20:39.720 --> 01:20:43.260
a last-minute deal on a one-year deal, and I've got
1288
01:20:43.359 --> 01:20:44.100
with whomever.
1289
01:20:44.119 --> 01:20:49.399
Oh, I got the Blue Jays. As you know, I
1290
01:20:49.460 --> 01:20:53.960
don't get Louis Arise. Everybody in baseball seems to get him.
1291
01:20:54.399 --> 01:20:58.060
I mean, my gosh, the Philadelphia Phillies move, one of
1292
01:20:58.079 --> 01:21:02.909
the best– historical player in Bryce Harper to the outfield
1293
01:21:03.250 --> 01:21:06.289
so that Louis Arise could play for. I don't understand
1294
01:21:06.350 --> 01:21:09.100
the allure of Louis Arise. Does he have pictures of people, Tim?
1295
01:21:09.300 --> 01:21:09.909
I don't know.
1296
01:21:11.399 --> 01:21:13.020
He's got a negative stash somewhere.
1297
01:21:13.079 --> 01:21:14.970
Yeah, I don't get it.
1298
01:21:15.899 --> 01:21:18.500
I look team through team and who needs a second base?
1299
01:21:18.600 --> 01:21:21.899
I think the Jays will go with Ernie Clement. But again,
1300
01:21:21.920 --> 01:21:25.619
he could fit in with the Jays lineup. I'm not...
1301
01:21:27.609 --> 01:21:30.260
That's why I put with whomever. I don't know. I'm
1302
01:21:30.310 --> 01:21:33.359
with you. I don't get it. I don't see the lure.
1303
01:21:35.220 --> 01:21:40.359
You're looking at a number two type hitter. And I, yeah.
1304
01:21:40.420 --> 01:21:43.779
Well, Timmy, we can't. So we play. It's a game.
1305
01:21:44.399 --> 01:21:47.380
Usually it's one to zero at the end of the
1306
01:21:47.420 --> 01:21:50.510
free agency. Who wins? You got to pick a team.
1307
01:21:52.789 --> 01:21:57.100
Whomever. Okay. I'll pick a team. Colorado. Yeah. Perfect fit
1308
01:21:57.119 --> 01:21:57.880
for the Rockies.
1309
01:21:58.399 --> 01:22:02.880
There you go. That's true. Look, I get Lewis Uriah's
1310
01:22:02.899 --> 01:22:05.539
skill set. I think we all do. I mean, he's
1311
01:22:05.560 --> 01:22:11.630
a contact guy. And he should be a marginal, caustic
1312
01:22:11.729 --> 01:22:14.930
player that is a guy that you'd like to have
1313
01:22:15.010 --> 01:22:19.510
on your team. But why he is looked upon as
1314
01:22:19.569 --> 01:22:21.250
a star is beyond me.
1315
01:22:23.789 --> 01:22:29.020
Yeah, there's just not enough there for me. Yeah, there's
1316
01:22:29.039 --> 01:22:32.020
not enough power. There's not enough speed. Yeah, he's a
1317
01:22:32.060 --> 01:22:37.060
contact player. Yeah, okay. And hey, it's just not enough
1318
01:22:37.170 --> 01:22:40.970
for me. And maybe it's because I play the fantasy game. Okay,
1319
01:22:41.029 --> 01:22:45.869
where that multifaceted skill set counts a little bit more.
1320
01:22:46.590 --> 01:22:49.569
I just can't see tying up a position for five homers,
1321
01:22:49.649 --> 01:22:55.000
four stolen bases, and a 310 batting average with a 360, 380.
1322
01:22:55.000 --> 01:22:59.539
Just no. I want more, and he just doesn't do
1323
01:22:59.579 --> 01:22:59.960
it for me.
1324
01:23:01.340 --> 01:23:04.180
Yeah, I was hoping to
bring up war with fan graphs,
1325
01:23:04.640 --> 01:23:07.460
and it's blank for some reason. I think he's one
1326
01:23:07.479 --> 01:23:11.180
of those guys that always scores well in war. So,
1327
01:23:11.600 --> 01:23:14.819
but I don't know why it's not coming up anyway.
1328
01:23:14.859 --> 01:23:17.670
Let's skip over Ryan Jeffers and go to Sonny Gray,
1329
01:23:17.670 --> 01:23:20.649
37 years old. This is going to be a nice
1330
01:23:20.710 --> 01:23:22.670
signing by somebody because it's only going to be a
1331
01:23:22.770 --> 01:23:25.390
year or two. And this is, again, why I think
1332
01:23:25.409 --> 01:23:28.069
Tarek Skubal is going to break the bank because Sonny
1333
01:23:28.100 --> 01:23:34.399
Gray is still a decent pitcher and he's 37 years old.
1334
01:23:35.180 --> 01:23:35.979
Where do you have him going?
1335
01:23:37.819 --> 01:23:41.479
Losing Cade Horton really hurt the Cubs. Oh, I've got
1336
01:23:41.560 --> 01:23:45.270
to go to the Cubs too. Yeah, the Cubs need
1337
01:23:45.689 --> 01:23:49.149
pitching in the worst of ways. And I think it
1338
01:23:49.189 --> 01:23:51.909
would be a good fit until they can transition to
1339
01:23:51.970 --> 01:23:56.489
some of their younger arms, which they should be transitioning
1340
01:23:56.569 --> 01:23:59.270
into now with looking at what they have. The offense
1341
01:23:59.340 --> 01:24:02.260
is solid in Chicago. They need pitching. I got the Cubs.
1342
01:24:03.649 --> 01:24:05.640
I got the Cubs, too. I hate it when we
1343
01:24:05.699 --> 01:24:09.560
both agree on that. That's a push. And probably he's
1344
01:24:09.600 --> 01:24:12.340
not signing with the Cubs, too.
1345
01:24:12.720 --> 01:24:16.640
Yeah, that's called a loser squared, Rich.
1346
01:24:16.979 --> 01:24:19.880
I think it's a perfect fit for the Cubs, Padres,
1347
01:24:20.260 --> 01:24:23.399
that kind of team. Maybe even the Cardinals as well.
1348
01:24:23.779 --> 01:24:25.039
Yeah, maybe the Cards, yeah.
1349
01:24:25.319 --> 01:24:29.479
Yeah, but he's with the– didn't he pitch with the Cards? Yeah,
1350
01:24:29.500 --> 01:24:35.479
so– Okay, let's skip Taylor Maley. How about David Bednar?
1351
01:24:35.539 --> 01:24:37.420
I got him staying with the Yankees, and then you don't,
1352
01:24:37.439 --> 01:24:39.659
because that's where you have Morahan going.
1353
01:24:40.840 --> 01:24:46.060
Yep, I got Bednar going to the Chicago Cubs. Their
1354
01:24:46.079 --> 01:24:49.300
bullpen needs as much help as a rotation. Is Danny
1355
01:24:49.340 --> 01:24:53.779
Palencia the answer? Kurt, more often than not, I think
1356
01:24:53.800 --> 01:24:57.090
David Bednar could be the answer, and he would certainly
1357
01:24:57.170 --> 01:25:00.029
upgrade that Cubs bullpen in a big way. Something they need.
1358
01:25:02.239 --> 01:25:04.939
One of the more controversial and last guy that we're
1359
01:25:04.960 --> 01:25:10.840
going to talk about is Casey Mize, number one overall pitcher.
1360
01:25:11.239 --> 01:25:15.020
When he does pitch, he was pretty good last season
1361
01:25:15.100 --> 01:25:18.729
with the Tigers, but he seems to be a guy
1362
01:25:18.770 --> 01:25:21.689
that pitches two games and then sits out two games.
1363
01:25:21.750 --> 01:25:25.170
He just has not been able to stay healthy. Still
1364
01:25:25.310 --> 01:25:28.510
really young, good arm. Where does he sign?
1365
01:25:30.569 --> 01:25:34.810
Well, you know, with your description, the Cubs would be
1366
01:25:34.840 --> 01:25:40.119
a perfect fit. You're going to put him in the Cubs?
1367
01:25:40.159 --> 01:25:41.140
I'm going to go with the Cubs.
1368
01:25:43.640 --> 01:25:45.579
I don't think he's going to be terribly expensive. He's
1369
01:25:45.619 --> 01:25:50.229
got Tommy John surgery on the books. Even though he's
1370
01:25:50.310 --> 01:25:54.689
relatively young. I think it's, I'm going to go wild
1371
01:25:54.750 --> 01:25:56.369
card here and go with the Royals.
1372
01:25:58.060 --> 01:26:01.869
Okay. Yeah. That makes you, they've, they've looked at resurrecting, uh,
1373
01:26:02.510 --> 01:26:05.869
Seth Lugo. Yeah. I mean, I'm not saying Casey Mize
1374
01:26:05.909 --> 01:26:08.970
and Seth Lugo are the same arm, but it's, yeah,
1375
01:26:09.989 --> 01:26:12.460
I could, I could see that happening. Yeah. Because he's
1376
01:26:12.500 --> 01:26:14.100
not going to command big bucks and yeah, I don't
1377
01:26:14.119 --> 01:26:15.739
think he's going in the first 30 days.
1378
01:26:16.319 --> 01:26:19.300
I don't think so either. I mean, it depends. I
1379
01:26:19.319 --> 01:26:23.479
think I forgot who is, uh, who is his agent is, but, uh, Yeah,
1380
01:26:23.779 --> 01:26:27.079
I think he'll be relatively, he'll be cheaper than people think,
1381
01:26:27.220 --> 01:26:30.500
given his age and pedigree, just because he's not been
1382
01:26:30.539 --> 01:26:32.859
able to stay healthy. And I think people will say
1383
01:26:33.420 --> 01:26:35.140
one or two year deals is all we're going to do.
1384
01:26:35.199 --> 01:26:37.359
And I think that's when it'll open it up for
1385
01:26:37.399 --> 01:26:38.930
the Royals of the world.
1386
01:26:40.289 --> 01:26:45.390
I agree. You say Casey Mize and your perception versus
1387
01:26:45.449 --> 01:26:49.350
reality are two very different things. And I think Major
1388
01:26:49.369 --> 01:26:51.369
League Baseball teams will pay for reality.
1389
01:26:53.220 --> 01:26:56.300
I have Casey Mize on a number of dynasty leagues.
1390
01:26:56.380 --> 01:27:00.119
So I watch his career very closely. And I, I mean,
1391
01:27:00.159 --> 01:27:02.649
I'm telling you, Timmy, it was, there was a lot
1392
01:27:02.689 --> 01:27:05.729
of back and forth between the IL and the starting
1393
01:27:05.810 --> 01:27:08.989
rotation for me. It was tough. And you have to
1394
01:27:09.029 --> 01:27:11.170
remember the first time he comes back, he uses pitches
1395
01:27:11.229
--> 01:27:14.029
four innings. Then the next game he'll pitch six innings
1396
01:27:14.069 --> 01:27:16.770
and then he's back on the IL. It was really frustrating.
1397
01:27:17.689 --> 01:27:25.020
Yeah. Yeah. I'm, I'm sure the Padres experienced as they
1398
01:27:25.100 --> 01:27:27.920
experienced it. Yeah, I would agree with you. Yep.
1399
01:27:29.439 --> 01:27:32.319
That is a wrap, my friend. Always a fun podcast.
1400
01:27:32.359 --> 01:27:35.380
We will keep track. I put our guesses into the
1401
01:27:36.020 --> 01:27:40.010
podcast notes, and we'll see how it's all going to
1402
01:27:40.069 --> 01:27:42.090
play out. A lot of pitching, not a lot of
1403
01:27:42.109 --> 01:27:47.069
positional players, but everybody needs and wants pitching. So we'll see.
1404
01:27:47.109 --> 01:27:51.199
I guess the most interesting hitter as a Rosarino and
1405
01:27:51.220 --> 01:27:55.439
I guess Sato might be really interesting. Um, he might
1406
01:27:55.479 --> 01:27:58.399
command more, a bigger deal than we think just because
1407
01:27:58.920 --> 01:28:01.100
there's such little hitting available.
1408
01:28:02.159 --> 01:28:04.140
Yeah. I think he and have, we didn't discuss him,
1409
01:28:04.159 --> 01:28:06.439
but I think he and half is another bat that
1410
01:28:06.470 --> 01:28:08.329
will generate something, some interest.
1411
01:28:09.569 --> 01:28:11.050
Yeah. 32 years old though.
1412
01:28:11.430 --> 01:28:13.869
So yeah. Oh yeah. That's yeah.
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01:28:14.470 --> 01:28:17.789
We're at the hour. Tim. So that's, uh, we've had enough.
1414
01:28:19.069 --> 01:28:23.039
We've had enough. Yes, we have. And I got to
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01:28:23.079 --> 01:28:28.399
pack up the car and we got to get some
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01:28:28.439 --> 01:28:34.130
things done today or else I'll be heading to Phoenix
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01:28:34.770 --> 01:28:37.529
wearing the same clothes for two weeks. The thought of
1418
01:28:37.569 --> 01:28:39.689
that is just butt ugly. We don't need that.
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01:28:41.119 --> 01:28:42.960
Always do the laundry when you're there. I think there's
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01:28:43.000 --> 01:28:46.159
a laundry room in the hotel. If you don't get
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01:28:46.180 --> 01:28:47.420
a chance to get it done, just do it when
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01:28:47.439 --> 01:28:49.760
you get there. Let me ask you a question. What
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01:28:49.819 --> 01:28:52.100
is the junk food of choice for the ride?
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01:28:52.119 --> 01:28:58.140
The junk food of choice? I mean, you're going to
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01:28:58.149 --> 01:28:59.399
have a bag.
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01:28:59.079 --> 01:29:01.600
Of food, I'm assuming, that you're taking along to Munchlin
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01:29:01.640 --> 01:29:02.100
on the way.
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01:29:02.659 --> 01:29:05.340
What's it going to be? I'm taking my electric cooler.
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01:29:06.479 --> 01:29:09.060
Oh, okay. Wow. Okay.
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01:29:09.220 --> 01:29:12.779
Yeah. I'm going to buy him. We're going to have
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01:29:12.800 --> 01:29:17.100
some fruit, maybe some crispy veggies, a meat and cheese tray.
1432
01:29:17.159 --> 01:29:18.859
Wait a minute. What are you talking about?
1433
01:29:19.670 --> 01:29:23.449
Who's taking over this podcast? This does not sound like
1434
01:29:23.489 --> 01:29:26.350
the great Tim McCloud. This sounds like some health freak.
1435
01:29:26.430 --> 01:29:27.289
What's going on here?
1436
01:29:28.470 --> 01:29:31.369
Well, hey, I'm going with Joey. She's got to have
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01:29:31.390 --> 01:29:40.430
something to eat. We haven't discussed what I'm eating. Fruit
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01:29:40.479 --> 01:29:41.470
and vegetable.
1439
01:29:41.750 --> 01:29:44.750
What the hell is going on with you, McLeod?
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01:29:46.109 --> 01:29:49.010
Yeah, I figured you'd like that one. Yeah, okay, yeah.
1441
01:29:49.350 --> 01:29:51.510
I did, too. My doctor is listening, and he just
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01:29:51.550 --> 01:29:52.069
loves it.
1443
01:29:52.189 --> 01:29:54.420
Yeah, that's great. Yeah, perfect.
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01:29:54.439 --> 01:29:59.899
Fruit and vegetable. Tim McLeod's stepping it up. I'm going
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01:29:59.920 --> 01:30:01.319
to be eating what's called Copico.
1446
01:30:02.500 --> 01:30:05.000
What? I'm sorry? Copico.
1447
01:30:05.060 --> 01:30:08.119
That's my snack of choice these days. Oh, you told me.
1448
01:30:08.149 --> 01:30:10.369
That's what the nurses shared with Yes.
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01:30:10.850 --> 01:30:18.939
Yes, yes. It is a product of Jakarta, Indonesia. Okay.
1450
01:30:19.069 --> 01:30:24.079
And it's a hard candy, kopiko, cappuccino or just regular
1451
01:30:24.159 --> 01:30:27.260
coffee flavored. It's like a Werther's sort of hard candy,
1452
01:30:27.560 --> 01:30:31.840
but it's coffee flavored. And that is my snack choice
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01:30:31.920 --> 01:30:35.319
of this trip. Jody will be eating all the good stuff,
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01:30:35.399 --> 01:30:37.760
all the healthy stuff, and I'll be eating all the crap.
1455
01:30:38.279 --> 01:30:42.770
Love Jody, man. You should follow Jody around. That sounds
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01:30:42.800 --> 01:30:44.159
like the diet you should be eating.
1457
01:30:45.119 --> 01:30:46.899
Well, if we were going to do that, she'd be
1458
01:30:46.939 --> 01:30:48.659
driving and I'd be in the back seat, right?
1459
01:30:49.100 --> 01:30:52.800
That's true. That's true. And we've heard that Tim is
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01:30:53.060 --> 01:30:55.220
doing most of the driving. We'll leave it at that.
1461
01:30:56.100 --> 01:30:57.279
Yes, yes, yes.
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01:30:57.739 --> 01:31:01.180
Well, Tim, safe travels. Can't wait till you get there.
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01:31:01.279 --> 01:31:03.239
When is the first day that you arrive?
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01:31:05.399 --> 01:31:08.479
Wednesday late afternoon. Hopefully catch a game Wednesday night.
1465
01:31:09.069 --> 01:31:11.489
Oh, that'd be great. Yeah, that'd be great. So I
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01:31:11.550 --> 01:31:13.850
think you're going to have good weather. It's lousy weather
1467
01:31:13.890 --> 01:31:16.189
there this weekend again. I think it's raining again.
1468
01:31:16.289 --> 01:31:17.510
Yeah, I saw that, yeah.
1469
01:31:17.550 --> 01:31:20.489
But I think next week should be good. So I've
1470
01:31:20.510 --> 01:31:22.069
got my fingers crossed for you there.
1471
01:31:23.130 --> 01:31:28.619
Yes, as do I. I'm escaping our cold weather and
1472
01:31:28.680 --> 01:31:31.079
that first snowfall of the year up here, and I
1473
01:31:31.100 --> 01:31:35.420
would hate to spend a week in Phoenix in the rain. Yeah,
1474
01:31:35.460 --> 01:31:36.800
that would not do anything for me.
1475
01:31:37.439 --> 01:31:39.260
Like I said, when I was– A couple of weeks
1476
01:31:39.279 --> 01:31:41.979
ago when I was there, it was very odd to
1477
01:31:42.020 --> 01:31:44.819
be having to look at the weather forecast when you're
1478
01:31:44.840 --> 01:31:47.260
in Phoenix, Arizona. It's just something you just don't do.
1479
01:31:47.340 --> 01:31:51.920
It's odd. Well, no. No, it's 85 degrees. It's sunny.
1480
01:31:52.119 --> 01:31:53.699
It's dry. Life is good.
1481
01:31:54.199 --> 01:31:54.399
Yeah.
1482
01:31:54.779 --> 01:31:55.010
Yeah.
1483
01:31:55.020 --> 01:31:55.199
Yep.
1484
01:31:55.600 --> 01:31:59.529
For sure. Timmy, enjoy yourself. Let me know when you
1485
01:31:59.569 --> 01:32:02.210
get there. Take some pictures and send them along to me.
1486
01:32:02.310 --> 01:32:05.369
And we will talk next Sunday, I'm assuming, when you
1487
01:32:05.449 --> 01:32:07.729
are in Phoenix. We'll figure out what time works best
1488
01:32:07.810 --> 01:32:08.090
for you.
1489
01:32:09.319 --> 01:32:12.199
Yeah, with all the time zone changes and everything else,
1490
01:32:13.560 --> 01:32:17.920
I'm sure we'll figure one that fits the bill. And again,
1491
01:32:17.939 --> 01:32:21.109
to all our listeners, hope you enjoyed the show. Be safe,
1492
01:32:21.130 --> 01:32:26.590
be well, and next time we'll be live from Phoenix
1493
01:32:26.649 --> 01:32:27.210
and Morristown.