Red Sox sign Ranger Suárez, Yankees acquire Ryan Weathers, Marlins shed SP, Team USA roster filling in

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Speaker 1: Breaking news coming in hot to ft.

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Speaker 2: The Boston Red Sox have pivoted fast Ranger Suarez five years, one hundred and thirty million dollars, no deferrals, no opt outs, and a stronger starting rotation.

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Speaker 1: What do we think?

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Speaker 3: I love this moves up, dog, that's what he just Ranger the Red Sox except Dog, I love this movie. You give me pivoting from Bregman two Ranger swars. Now they have Sonny Gray, Garrett Crochet, Ranger Suarez, Brian Bayo, and then whoever they picked the finish finish out that rotation.

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Speaker 1: Forget Kratz, tell him who he's forgetting.

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Speaker 3: Come on, Piano, Joiedohan, don't mess with the Johan.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Krats his favorite in all seriousness. If you're just catching this out of the blue and wondering while we're going nuts, Krats is very high on the upside of Johanna.

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Speaker 3: He's listed as a bullpen guy though no on the Red Sox. Yes he is on their roster. Yes he is on MLB dot com MLB dot com, but they have early totally Tanner, Howe Cutter, Crawford, Patrick Sandoval. They have a long list of starters. Possibility I mean, this is a solid, solid pitching staff.

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Speaker 2: They're five right now heading into camp if everyone's healthy and they do what they're supposed to do in spring training. Is Crochet one, Ranger Suarez two, which was what they were looking forward to. And Red Sox fans were pissed that they didn't get it too. They felt like Sunny Gray was a three.

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Speaker 1: Boom, here you go, here's your three, and these are all guys that can pitch in a playoff game.

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Speaker 2: Four is Bao, five is Oviedo. And if you want to be a team that gets through regular season and really make sure you make the playoffs, you need like ten and that's where you just mentioned five others that can float into the.

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Speaker 3: Jordan Hicks do and figuring out what he's gonna do.

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Speaker 1: With him, Yeah, well problem he's.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, wolock in Chatman at the back end is a pretty good place to start with Weiser And this is a solid team, though I still think they would like to get a bat like their right hand up.

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Speaker 2: Better than like if you had to decide between this and it's a nice pivot though it's vot I agree.

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Speaker 3: It's a really nice pivot.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and they still probably will acquire a bat. Maybe it's Henio Suarez to play third and then Marcella Meyer play second.

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Speaker 4: Here's why it's a nice fit, and I'm doing it as we talk. But what are the Red Sox? All the Red Sox care about playoffs? Winning a World Series, Red Sox fans whatever. Ranger Suarez, Obviously, I'm freaking out. I can't go too fast. He has a one point four to eight ERA is forty two innings and in the playoffs only thirteen walks. He's only given up thirty two hits. He's got almost a one whip in the playoffs. Like, this is a guy who has shown up. Has he thrown a lot of innings in the regular season. No, you just named off eight or nine guys that can pitch in the big leagues for this team have pitched in the big leagues. And yes, it's okay that you had guys that stepped up last year, you know, with Peyton and Kylie Early, and you had guys that stepped up and were pitching really well. It's okay that they're in Triple A when something happens, not if something happens. When something happens, and you call those guys up. This is huge. This also makes Red Sox fans say, okay, we're still pissed at the Red Sox were not coming off of the one sixty five that Bregman. You know, they that was the best offer that they gave. But beginning off season they were talking about we're not looking for We're not looking for any threes and fours. In my opinion, I think that's where the sunny Gray Oviedo, you know, that's that's the route where they live. And he's a man of his word. They were going after one of these guys maybe will come out. They were going after more than just Ranger. But to me, Rangers are number two and he is a Maybe some people he's not a number two during the regular season, that's fine. He is definitely your number two starter in the postseason to go with garat Crochet.

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Speaker 3: Now here's the real question that the fans will to know where does this put them in the division? But where does this put them? And now there's a team out there, the Yankees in this division. We already kind of talked about them getting Ryan Weathers. Okay, the Red Sox answer with Ranger Suarez, whatever you however you want to put it, that are probably a better choice. Okay, yes you have. The Orioles improved a lot, a lot.

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Speaker 4: Okay.

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Speaker 3: The Blue Jays were six inches away from winning the World Series last year. Got sees Ponts still in it for Tucker.

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Speaker 1: They've Okamoto o Komodo improved.

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Speaker 3: People would say, Okay, these teams are improving. The Yankees haven't done much. Now you know what this does, Cody Bellinger. Cody Bellinger's going Yankees. You need me now more than ever. Okay, So where I mean to me? It's Red Sox and Blue Jays are probably the best two teams in this division right.

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Speaker 1: Now, better than the Yankees.

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Speaker 3: I think so because their pitching is just legit. They were good last year. Their pitching is legit. Their starters are really good now if these guys are all healthy and right. But where do you put the Yankees? Do you put the Yankees third? Second, third, fourth in this division? Because they haven't done much? Again, they haven't done much this offseason. Wait, how blue the Red Sox lineup?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Tough? What sorry?

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Speaker 4: How's how's the Red Sox lineup better? Right now?

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Speaker 1: Well?

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Speaker 3: I think well, they got Wilson Contraras he's the first baseman that makes he's better than Bregman. No, no, no, I say the first I didn't say anything about third shortstops. Same as Trevor story. Jared Durant will have a better year. He didn't have very good year last year. I think wrote full year of Roman Anthony right sit on Rafaela. I think we'll take another step mm hm Our Vaias and Connor Wong are solid behind the plan. Third base is the whole. Now do you fill with Meyer, do you fill Rome Gonzalez? What do you do there? Or do you go out and get a Geno Suarez for a year or two to I think that's how you finish this all. If you're the Red Sox, you say, ah, Geno, here's one year, twenty million. I don't know what the numbers are, random numbers. I'm just going out there. But here's a two year deal, forty or whatever you think will get them done. And then you really finish this off this offseason, you say, we're pretty good, right now, bring us some pop Gino? Yeah, right handed. They have Red Sox need right handed power. And he's the perfect guy and he fits from what everyone says. He's a great guy in the clubhouse. Oh yeah, so he fits perfectly? Or do you trade at Tristan Cassis for somebody you know him? And I know this isn't on the same but we're going to go back to the Rangers as his old team the Phillies. They signed Bobashet. Here's a name for you to watch for the Phillies if they don't sign JT. Jonahin Sure. Yeah, I just pitch in in guy, veteran guy won a World Series, Jeff. He'd probably get him a little bit cheaper, but he can help you out. You know what I'm saying, Just because when we were talking to Sean Armstrong he mentioned him and I was like, I forgot he was non tendered this offseason. That's a nice that wouldn't be if JT doesn't go back to the Phillies. That's a veteran guy. He can slot in there. They can do a lot of things for it.

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Speaker 1: It will cost much less than j T.

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Speaker 3: Exactly.

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Speaker 4: I lost his job to Al Higashioka last year. Yes, yeah, but you've give him a proven contract.

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Speaker 3: You give him a one year five and whatever and say you're gonna get a chance to play and throw a bunch.

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Speaker 1: Of incentives in there, change of scenery too, go win Kevin Long. Where are we at with.

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Speaker 2: The rest of the starting pitching market, So we think there's a chance Freddy Pearl to gets traded. The Red Sox were definitely in on Freddie Peralta. That's I don't want to say a fact, but as close to a fact as can be. Multiple insiders reporting about that throughout the off season and hearing about it behind the scenes. The whole deal right, asking price probably too high. They were trying to trade for others. They did trade for Sonny Gray a while back, but now the rotation is intact. It seems like the Mets are trying to land another starter.

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Speaker 1: The Orioles, for sure.

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Speaker 2: There's of course you see this and some people just immediately go what's next and how does this affect the market, And people are like, oh, Framber.

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Speaker 1: Valdez is about to get paid huge for his market.

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Speaker 2: I mean, he's going to get paid, but I don't necessarily think that he's going to Now go okay, well, now I'm getting one fifty one, sixty whatever. Framber's older than Ranger Suarez. This contract covers aged thirty four. Excuse me, age thirty to thirty four seasons for Ranger Suarez, who also entered free agency with a very low innings total for a starting pitcher seven hundred and sixty two innings. So you can look at it as, hey, this guy is a little bit injury prone. Last season was his top season innings wise in the majors at one fifty seven and a third. Or you can say, hey, Mileoje on the arm pretty good, so Framber can't play that game. He's been super solid and consistent, and that's good. You get durability there. But he's also, I believe two years older. That doesn't mean that he's going to get more guaranteed dollars. In are Suarez, I would actually take the under on his guaranteed dollars.

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Speaker 4: I think somebody goes four years, one twenty right there, I do math right for you.

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Speaker 3: Ranger.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Ranger got twenty six a year, four more four more years, I mean four more million a year for Framber knowing he's making these thirty two starts. Dude, those guys there's been some very mediocre pitchers who have not even sniffed the resume that Framber Valdez has that made every one of their starts that get nice contracts. So to do it, to do what Framber's done, and the fact that you know he makes his starts, there's there's an extreme value there. The two years I think. I think basically they'll push him to four. He probably wanted five. You know, he looks at other guys that are signing free agent picture contracts to thirty seven to thirty eight. I get, But I would agree with you that to guaranteed money, it might even be it might even be one thirty. Somebody might go, okay, four years, one thirty, but teams are just so reluctant to give more than five years.

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Speaker 1: But when I see people be like, oh, they're screwed, this is their only option.

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Speaker 2: Now, that's just not the case. That's not how teams operate anymore. That's how they create leverage. They go, we don't. There are times when a team's like, damn, we really need this guy, and I feel like the Yankees are in that spot with Bellinger. But in most other cases, it's like we have three or four other starting pitching options that we can look at in the trader free agent we.

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Speaker 3: Can make a case that they're not that much worse than you.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, our projections have you five percent better to you know, So I'm just throwing that out there. It would be nice, that would be a nice fit for Baltimore, but they are not ride or die on that scenario. Zach Gallon's going to land somewhere and I think pitch really well for a team and he can handle whatever scenario.

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Speaker 1: And I think he wants to be on the East Coast.

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Speaker 4: I was gonna say he might be the guy who may makes out the best after this Ranger deal. Like you look at his numbers, Everyone's gonna say, well, what happened this past year? It's terrible. You know, last year the twenty four he made twenty eight starts, So you know what's going on there? Do the Diamondbacks know something that everyone else doesn't know? To me, I think he's he possibly could get rate in the same range as Ranger because of the fact that he was making his starts way better, way better numbers than Ranger. In the regular season he's been three times, he's been top five. I think in the cy Young voting hasn't been there last two years, so that will drop his value. But I think people are putting too much stock into what he just did and not the full body of work.

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Speaker 2: Agreed, which is why he might have to do one of those higher A the opt out situations, and then hit the market one more time.

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Speaker 3: But I'd love to get Gallon on to talk about this.

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Speaker 1: We will, I mean not.

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Speaker 2: You don't talk to guys when they're going through this, but afterwards we try to talk to them. But for the Red Sox, I mean, hey, they they have taken a different turn with pitching, and a good one with pitching under Craig Breslow. That's one part that he's done a nice job with. And this isn't the ultimate stuff guy either. This is the six pitch mix, low walk, command, control fields, his position really well holds runners right. Like, this is a different type of pitcher that deserves to be paid just because he doesn't blow you away with stuff.

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Speaker 1: So I think that's cool.

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Speaker 2: And my last point is that I think the Red Sox are officially over there Chris Sale contract PTSD because it didn't work out after he signed the big deal and then they trade him away and then he becomes a stud again. And now they've given out big money to Gragrett Crochet last year and to Ranger Suarez. So good for Boston, good pivot, good.

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Speaker 1: Yep. Media can get off of them a little bit. It's not even media.

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Speaker 2: Fans can get off of them a little bit too and be like, okay, okay, I understand.

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Speaker 1: They've done things this offseason. They're not just sitting around.

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Speaker 2: We are announcing pieces of our spring training tour. We are going to be in both Florida and Arizona, just like last year.

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Speaker 1: We're not giving you dates and teams just yet. We're working on that.

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Speaker 2: But one thing we can give you is the start of the spring training tour, and that includes something that we talk about somewhat frequently on this show, and that's the Playmaker's Classic, which is one of the biggest charity events of the year in baseball and it involves by far the most players you'll ever see at an event.

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Speaker 1: And we will be there in Arizona.

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Speaker 2: I'm not promising which of the cast of many FT characters will be there, although I can promise this guy, but we will be there. FT will do shows from your Playmakers Classic. I probably will not be there. Yeah, do you know that I am likely not doing almost anything on site.

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Speaker 3: For the Spender rating for me, it's better for you to be around you.

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Speaker 2: It's better for the players, it's better for technology in case a team has that minor league WiFi and most.

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Speaker 1: Of them are good, but not all of them.

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Speaker 2: But also you know how you do your thing in between you're talking to a guy and then he comes to down. Who's going to be there on the side to just keep us going? I guess my role, Hey, I got to take the hit Crafts. Somebody can't go and have fun on the road in Florida and spring training and in Arizona.

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Speaker 1: So actually it's it's me and you.

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Speaker 4: That's exactly That's exactly what aj AJ's built for.

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Speaker 3: That.

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Speaker 4: That's why aj will never be a manager of a team, because you can't go to visit everybody while you're being a manager. He's a travelman. He can't be a travelman.

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Speaker 3: Yes, you can, Crafts because Kevin Kiermeyer wants to do it. He wants to work for all thirty teams at the same time. So why can't you do it? Why can't you do it? I don't understand.

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Speaker 1: That's going to have to be continued. I can't believe we had him on on the day.

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Speaker 4: That that was that was a fail.

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Speaker 3: I told you I saw him in uh winter meetings, right.

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Speaker 1: M hm? And he man, did you guys debate or no?

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Speaker 3: I said, I didn't even want a debate. I just went up to him and said, hey, I heard we didn't agree on your idea. I said, you know, let's come on and let's have a discussion. And he did.

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Speaker 1: He say okay.

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Speaker 3: He said okay, but it was and I was like, look, I hope it works for you. How's it going. He's like, oh, it's going great. But I was standing there talking to Katie Blue at the same time. She had walked by, and she looked at me and goes, that was a little bit awkward, and I said, well, so we kind of had. And then I explained the whole thing to her and she's like, oh, that's why he kind of looked a little He turned a little like white when he saw you. Well, and I was like, well, I don't have any problem with Kevin here. I have absolutely let me make this great guy. I've always got along with him. I have no problem with kiirmi Rob just because I said I don't think what he's going to do is going to work. And he has other opinions. I hope it does work because if it works for him and the crowds can go work for thirty teams as the catching instructor.

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Speaker 4: On Thursdays, just on Thursdays.

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Speaker 3: That's the only well there's thirty thursdays throughout the year, so we can figure it out.

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Speaker 1: We can even double up with some teams if they pay you double.

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Speaker 3: True. Yeah, true.

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Speaker 2: I would love to see that debate, and not even in like I'm saying it, just in a genuine entertainment factor, just like I'm really anxious to try and get a ticket to the Trek Schooble Arbitration super Bowl. But I would love to see Kevin and AJ actually talk out why this wood and wouldn't work behind the scenes right, what the we'll do would be? Anyway, I want to stay on track for.

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Speaker 3: A second, but also about spring training Arizona and Florida, and as much as Kratz as we're having fun for the Playmaker's Classic and all the things we're doing when I travel around, fun being had is limited because I'm so damn tired at the end, Like it takes me a month to recover from the month of ring training that we do.

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Speaker 1: It's not like bigger spring training. No, it's more rigorous.

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Speaker 3: Because especially some teams, like I'll use the Diamondbacks and your Snake's territory shirt. We had to be at the Diamondbacks last year like five in the morning. I mean I got there at six thirty, but the crew had to be there five. Yeah, okay. And plus I had to sleep with Michael in the same house condos whatever, made in the.

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Speaker 1: Same bed, you guys know.

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Speaker 3: But it was it was, it was from It wasn't very far away. That's it was close enough to where I could hear him.

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Speaker 2: He has an alarm clock problem, and I think that's being rectified, gentleman clock.

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Speaker 3: But I think I don't want to share a bathroom.

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Speaker 1: Is that what you had to do?

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Speaker 4: Yes?

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Speaker 1: Well, guess what we've grown up.

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Speaker 1: We are upgrading.

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Speaker 3: Thank you Jesus.

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Speaker 1: We're going from the minor leagues to a small market team.

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Speaker 3: Can I get points for that hotel?

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Speaker 1: I think you can.

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Speaker 4: Wh what a never never happy?

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Speaker 1: And now let's charge hold on Before we hold on?

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Speaker 3: Can we stop before I want to? I gotta say something And this is way off the topic. I can't wait to go to Playmakers, but I have to ask Scott. I know Scott's answer, But Kratz, have you ever played pickleball?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I played today for the first time, Like I actually played pickle ever first time.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you did invite me. I would have played.

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Speaker 3: You played pickleball?

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Speaker 2: You don't think I play. No, I played tennis. I've played pickleball and paddles.

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Speaker 1: My I paddle is awesome. Wait, why aren't we playing paddle? I want to play.

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Speaker 3: I play paddle an we're gonna start. But anyways, that's what sky you irrelevant. I played pickleball this morning for the first time. I've been on a core and kind of dinked and pooped dinner, pooped it over the net and all that. But I actually played today. It was kind of it was much more fun then I thought it was going to be, and it was much more exercise than I thought it would be.

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Speaker 2: But to me, paddle wipes off the floor, not even close. It's not even close. So that's why for me, I was like, yeah, this is this is nice. But I'd already played paddle first and then played pickleball, and I was just like, if I'm going to not play tennis and this is what I'm going to play, I'm playing paddle.

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Speaker 3: A couple of years ago, I got to go to the racket. They have a racket convention here, like a rack at the convention Center, and it was and they had paddle and I got to play with like one of the top players in the world. You want to talk about impressive. Can you even like return from the Yeah, you can't can because you know it hits the wall and you bounce it off and all that stuff. But they just make it look so easy. I'm puffing and puffing and they know as soon as it's hit it's going to hit the wall, and I can go up to the net and do this, and it's like, you.

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Speaker 2: Know how in paddle you can find those angles where it's like almost impossible because you're going to smack your racket against the wall.

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Speaker 1: I feel like that's what.

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Speaker 3: No, But yeah, they know how to do yeah, obviously better. But of course, but pickleball. Listen, I've always made fun of pickleball and my friends that played pickleball, but I played it today. I was impressed. It was fun. It was more fun than I thought it would be.

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Speaker 2: Totally agreed. Yeah, it's a fun time, all right, so we'll have to all play. Let's charge.

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Speaker 3: Charge.

00:22:43
Speaker 2: Derek from Pinstripe Territory had a great kickstart to his episode about the Yankees acquiring Ryan Weathers from the Miami Marlins.

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Speaker 1: He was like, I thought that the Yankees.

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Speaker 2: Were going to acquire someone whose dad played as part of the nineties nine Steve for the Yankees. Cody Bellinger not a key part, but I'm just saying someone who played on the team during that time period, and instead it's Ryan Weathers.

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Speaker 1: Is that Dave David pitched for the Yankees. But anyway, here comes a starter. Young starter from the Marlins. Marlins shedding starters apparently they have too many, and then there are four prospects going the other way to the Marlins. What do we think about this one? For the Yanks?

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Speaker 3: It's a nice rotation piece. Yeah, he can be he could. They have a lot of lefties now rode on great night, throw weathers in. When are they getting cold back? He'll Schlitzler whereas he what's his role?

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Speaker 1: Those guys aren't all lefties.

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Speaker 3: I know there's three three of the three of the five or lefties, and he's probably slide in a fourish in the rotation four to five ish. So I'd like this rotation. Uh. I do like this rotation a lot. And I like the death with Blackburn and Yarborough, who can do a bunch of different things. And then when they get cold back, and obviously Redond's not listened to. He's not healthy right now. But I like this move and and listen, I don't know anything about the guys who they gave up for it, but he's a young lefty controlled arm. I was upside. What's not to like about this? And if you're the Marlins like this, isn't this the kind of guy that you want to hang on to for a couple of years, and if you're trying, as they said, we're still trying to compete, Like, wouldn't this be a guy you'd want to try to compete with?

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Speaker 4: That was that was my whole thought, Like, how did Ryan Weathers get into the category of Eduard Cabrera and Sandy al Contra who was supposed to be traded last year and now he's still there because his value wasn't where they thought.

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Speaker 1: It was.

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Speaker 4: Like to me, I think you can look at you can look at that depth, you can look at the pieces they have in the rotation. Obviously, when Rodn and Cole come back, nobody's taking their spots. But maybe there's a little bit of a belief in the larger markets like the Dodgers, like the blue Jays, that oh, we need to have more than six starters. We need to have more than six guys who can make a start in the big leagues for us, and I think this is a great piece to do that. Now he has never thrown out of the bullpen. I said that pretty confidently.

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Speaker 2: And now now he has a little bit, he has a little bit. Crats fifty five starts fifteen. Relief appearance is not a lot though, But.

00:25:23
Speaker 4: Yes, okay, okay, so he has, but I thought that was early when he first came up. And now last year he cleaned up a little bit of his He remember reading an article about how he cleaned up his health, and he wanted to be able to stay healthy throughout the year. The biggest thing for the Yankees here is the fact that they get three years of control out of this guy, Like I think that's there's value in that, And there's value in the fact that they have three other guys that are currently slotted in that have started big league games in their bullpen. So you don't resign Devin Williams, you don't resign Luke Weaver. Maybe they find lightning in a bottle with one of these guys becoming a reliever at some point. But I was surprised when I saw this. I was also surprised when I saw four guys going back, And what AJ said is exactly what I thought. I don't know any of those guys' names, so it probably means the Marlins were kind of looking for more of a shoot a wider swath against the wall and see what sticks instead of that one prospect. That would be a straight up trade for Ryan Weathers.

00:26:36
Speaker 3: Yeah. But if you here's the thing, if you're kind of Ryan Weathers to give you a lot of innings. His career yan innings is ninety four. Is Edward Carberro again a least said, someone's recording us, by the way, I don't know.

00:26:48
Speaker 4: Who, but we're always being recorded.

00:26:51
Speaker 3: Not normally. They don't tell me before. That's usually hidden wave. I don't know, but it just goes recording in progress. This is but I mean, he threw thirty eight innings in the major leagues last year, eighty six and twenty twenty four. Yeah, not a strikeout guy. He doesn't even have a strikeout per inning.

00:27:08
Speaker 4: Oh, he was trying to be He was trying to change his health. He was trying like he did it. He didn't diet, makeover to lose weight and try to stay healthy, but didn't.

00:27:20
Speaker 3: Innings last year in the big leagues. It didn't work.

00:27:24
Speaker 1: Yes, it's a great flyer for the Yankees.

00:27:26
Speaker 3: It is a great thing. Again, I don't know who they gave up. Maybe JJ Cooper obviously knows much more about that than I do. But yeah, it's it's it's one of those. It's it's a weird time for the Marlins unless they know something that someone else doesn't know to trade a guy with three years of control that they're does the Marlins have that much pitching in their.

00:27:44
Speaker 1: Way think they can just move this guy. They think they do. I don't, because this is.

00:27:49
Speaker 3: The second guy.

00:27:50
Speaker 2: You've got Sandy al contract Ury Perez, Braxton, Garrett Max Meyer, who has needed to get a full.

00:27:58
Speaker 3: Run jup given my junk up.

00:28:00
Speaker 1: And then they have one of the.

00:28:01
Speaker 2: Top pitching prospects in the sport Thomas White, and a very solid pitching prospect in Robbie Snelling. Those are the ones that I know somewhat well, right, And so that's more than five.

00:28:12
Speaker 4: But you need a whole organization.

00:28:15
Speaker 1: No, I mean there's more.

00:28:17
Speaker 3: But but also, okay, let's be let's one hundred percent of let's be transparent here with this whole thing. None of those guys, maybe Sandy Eurie Perez is up and down at times, and he's got.

00:28:28
Speaker 1: Stuff, super talented.

00:28:30
Speaker 3: Junk was a guy that kind of came out of nowhere last year. Meyer is a guy they've been talking about forever and he never has really put it together. Is this a rotation, like they say, the Marlins, we're gonna compete with what we got. Is this a rotation you look at and say it can compete in the NL East with the Braves, the Phillies, the Mets. I mean, this to me has all the makings. And listen, and mcollough did a great job last year, and Idy sorry, sorry, Clayton McCulla did a great job last year with this team. But at this moment, right now, they have no they have limited offense, and they just they don't have any pitching.

00:29:08
Speaker 4: Really.

00:29:09
Speaker 3: I mean, I know they'll mix a match and do the things they do, but at some point, you know, listen to Raise Way and I know Peter Bendix is a raised guy, but at some point the Rays also had really good pitchers and really good players.

00:29:21
Speaker 1: For a long time. The Marlins think they have all that.

00:29:23
Speaker 2: They think they have really good pitching already, and they don't want people to get in the way, veterans get in the way of their young products.

00:29:31
Speaker 3: Why do they trade Sandy talent?

00:29:33
Speaker 1: They don't feel like they're getting the value yet for him, so they'll trade him.

00:29:36
Speaker 3: Why not trade Juri Pres He's been around like two years.

00:29:38
Speaker 2: I know, Well that's the thing. You look from a Marlins perspective and you're like, these guys, I think they're playing the cell high game.

00:29:49
Speaker 1: That's what I think, Krats.

00:29:51
Speaker 2: I think they're playing the I don't even know if you'd call it sell high for weathers. For Edward, no, I guess I mean for weathers. There are parts of his game that people like he does. The fifth percentage doesn't really match the strikeouts, right, He's getting swing and miss on pitches, but not putting guys away.

00:30:10
Speaker 1: So is there a pitch sequencing thing.

00:30:12
Speaker 2: Yes, there's obviously health a health component here, But I mean he throws hard. He's averaging about ninety seven on his heater. That's upper echelon for a starting pitcher. So I think the Yankees think they're going to bring someone in and they're going to be able to either turn him into an underrated starter or convert him into a full time bullpen guy. I mean, not to use the direct example. Here's nothing stuff wise comparison, but Luke Weaver comes over and was toiling around and then all of a sudden becomes a high leverage arm for the Yankees.

00:30:42
Speaker 3: So anyway, Let's for not forget the most important part about Ryan Weathers.

00:30:46
Speaker 1: His dad.

00:30:47
Speaker 3: He married a Gator.

00:30:49
Speaker 1: He married a Florida Gator, next Florida Gator. Yeah, I didn't know that as a volleyball player. Volleyball player.

00:30:55
Speaker 2: Okay, So for the Marlins, they clearly feel like they're in a good spot to just keep shedding starting pitching. For the Yanks, they get a little depth. I don't think they're going to do anything else pitching wise. Now they're going to focus on the Bellinger marriage. Let's hit Leah sneaking in a little futures on the Braves. Eighty seven and a half wins over under bet MGM has them right up in that playoff range. I mean, that's a playoff team these days.

00:31:27
Speaker 1: If you win eighty seven eighty eight games, right right on that cusp.

00:31:34
Speaker 3: Well, I want to say over, but this is really hard for me. I think that they shored up their bullpen with Suarez and the Glaciers. They brought Glaciers back. I think Sales Strider another year off, Tommy John, I don't see Akunya Albi's, Riley Olsen, all of them having down years again. They have Drake Baldwin a full year of profar not on steroids. We'll see how that goes. I think eighty I think this is eighty eight to eight. It's a tough division with the Phillies and the Mets, but I think they're in eighty eight to eighty nine. So I'm gonna go over.

00:32:08
Speaker 4: The Marlins keep trading away their team, so yeah, absolutely, the Braves are gonna. I think the Braves are gonna. I think they're an eighty nine win team. I think this division could have two ninety plus win teams, and I think eighty seven is a is a good number to buy the over, I really do. I don't see how they've just absolutely added to this bullpen. I believe in this. I believe in this starting starting, you know, position player or rotation that they got going on, where now they can mix and match. Not everybody has to play one hundred and sixty two. As much as they want to, they don't have to. I think they've given themselves a little bit more depth, change of voice. I don't see how this team has to be good enough to make the playoffs, and I think the playoffs lit the playoff line is eighty six, So I love the fact that they they gave us to us right at that line. So I'm taking the over.

00:33:04
Speaker 1: I'm taking the over as well, full healthy season, hopefully for Acuna bouncebacks.

00:33:09
Speaker 2: The rotation really got hit. I know many teams used the injury excuse. I mean they lost all of their starters at different times, like they really took a hit.

00:33:17
Speaker 1: And wait, here's the X factor.

00:33:19
Speaker 2: Last year we talked about it before the season started, the Gauntlet, and the Gauntlet was even worse than we thought it was, going out to the West Coast to face start the Dodgers team feeling themselves and the Padres and getting just dusted. This year, they start their season at home and they welcome in the Kansas City Royals, followed by the Sacramento As. Then they go on the road to take on the Diamondbacks and Angels. Point is, and there's some Marlins and Nats Is mixed into the beginning of their season. Point is, I anticipate a better start than zero to seven. And I know that it sounds crazy, but they never really recovered from that.

00:33:53
Speaker 1: No, they did not, So I feel that.

00:33:55
Speaker 3: Start, especially with all the banged up they were. Lopez is supposed to be back, right, chmister Arver is supposed to be back. Schedule matters, schedule matter, especially early in the years. Sale shsh.

00:34:10
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00:34:18
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00:35:02
Speaker 2: Hey may Day with Trevor may firing up right about now, So we're gonna get off in the next sixty seconds so you can see what Trevor has to say. Love that graphic, by the way, that's so freaking good on the screen. If you're listening on the pod, just tune into Trevor's show. He is actually going to talk further about the n season tournament. We had a meeting with Trevor yesterday and he was like, oh, what should I do for mace planning?

00:35:21
Speaker 1: And we're like, tournament. He was into it.

00:35:24
Speaker 2: Then we found out earlier today some other additions to the WBC. We haven't been doing this on every single show, but like, remember we learned about bust In Griffin Jackson. Now was announced today Gabe Spire.

00:35:36
Speaker 1: So the Team.

00:35:37
Speaker 2: USA Bullpen is starting to round into form. So Spire, who can try and shut down some lefties?

00:35:43
Speaker 3: By the way, is there an easier pick for Tmosa? And Griffin Jacks who went to the Air Force Academy and is still in like the Air Force Reserves. Yes, his wife is in the Air Force Reserves.

00:35:53
Speaker 1: Like, come on, Paul Skins is easier, but.

00:35:55
Speaker 4: No he's not.

00:35:56
Speaker 3: No, he's not. Griffin Jackson actually, like I know was in the Air Force. Yes, not Paul's didn't go there for tears actually like in there.

00:36:05
Speaker 4: It's so cool to see somebody who like is active considered active military playing for Team US. I played with Noah Song when I played in twenty nineteen, Like just like these guys were focused on our country for four years in their education, but just how they talk about everything from standing at attention to the like it just it gives me chills thinking about listening to Noah who didn't really say much, but when he did talk, you were like, yeah, like this is it.

00:36:35
Speaker 1: Last one? Dennis Lynn reported during the show.

00:36:38
Speaker 2: The Padres have hired Bud Black as a senior advisor to Baseball Ops, so he's back with the Padres. Will Myers a special assignment coach in player development, only working for one team, not thirty. It's twenty twenty six, Dennis Lynn said, but it feels like twenty fifteen again.

00:36:53
Speaker 3: Will Myers and his hair will be serving drinks at the bar outside of Petco like they did in twenty twenty two, and they'd be to Dodgers.

00:37:00
Speaker 1: And he bought everyone drinks. Right.

00:37:03
Speaker 2: We have Mason Miller tomorrow, by the way, speaking of the Padres, and Grayson Rodriguez is on the schedule tomorrow as well.

00:37:09
Speaker 3: Looking forward, he's ducking me.

00:37:13
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you're missing him again. You'll get him.

00:37:15
Speaker 2: You'll get him spring training almost spring training in Arizona. There, you'll get him all right. Good show everyone. Lots of action today, krat that's on the way out.

00:37:28
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00:37:31
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00:37:32
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00:37:35
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00:37:37
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