Bryce Harper hurt by fake trade rumors? Ryan Ripken on Orioles new manager, Twins narrow down search

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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what he said. That's what he said. That's what he said, that's what he said.

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Speaker 2: Okay, there's a lot to unpack here, so let's set this up. Dave Dombrowski end of season presser. It's an hour plus, he asks. He gets asked one question about Bryce Harper. He basically said, this wasn't an elite year for a superstar player. Freddie Freeman caught strays for no reason. But he's okay, he's in the World Series. He's just as good as ever. Dave don Browski comes on our show and says a lot was made about nothing, and he thinks he's great, and there's absolutely no truth to bs trade rumors that were floated out there barely even floated out there, and it ran wild. Bryce actually replies and said, I've given my all to Philly from the start. Now there's trade talk. I made every effort to avoid this. It's all I heard in DC with the Nationals. I hated it. It makes me feel uncomfortable. He spoke to Matt Gelip, who put a story out in The Athletic. Harper is hurt by the comments from Dombrowski in the trade speculation. He also said all players get hurt. I hurt my wrist this year and missed a month. Of course, I don't have full year numbers. It's disappointed to hear me being questioned about my contribution to the team. Just really hurt by that notion because I love Philly so much. And he goes on to say, how you know he didn't put a opt out in there because he even though he was advised to do so, he wanted them to know he's going to be there forever. You know, remember last year there were thoughts that his camp wanted an extension even though there's a ton of time left. Scott Boris also spoke I'm paraphrasing a little bit for Scott's team. That's probably listening. But Scott mostly was okay with Dombrowski's comments. He just wanted him to include the fact that he was bothered by a rist issue this year.

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Speaker 1: Okay, that's fair for.

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Speaker 2: Dombrowski to say, Hey, he didn't have an elite year. He also had a rist issue. That's a big deal. Okay, where are we at here? AJ should Bryce be pissed at the Phillies? We had Dombrawski on the other day and he sounded super normal and chill, like I love Bryce, and I just said that, you know, it was a one twenty five ops year plus a year versus a one eighty or whatever he usually puts up.

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Speaker 3: I don't know what we're pissed about here. Dobrowski never said he was on the trade block, did he. I think someone made that up. I don't know what we're mad about. It wasn't Dombrowski that said it. Dobrowski came on here, Bryce, come on here and we'll talk about it. But I mean, he came on here and said there's absolutely no way they're trading him. He loves Bryce, he wants Bryce in Philly. I don't understand what we're mad about here. I wish at one point, Mike, you know, Career, the GM or President of Baseball officer, to come on and said, yeah about me. The way Dombrowski talked about Bryce Harper, it was pretty awesome to hear someone talk about another player like that. So I don't know why we're so angry. I mean, CROs you're in Philly, you're a boots on the ground there. But man, I don't understand what Bryce is so mad about It feels like he got mad over something that was taken out of context and not really if you listen to what Dombrowski said, I don't kind of agree with why he's so mad.

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Speaker 4: I think he got a little bit of miss information. I think he heard what Joel Sherman said. I think it was on a podcast. He didn't say, oh, he's like I see him getting traded here. He's just saying that there's speculation that he could.

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Speaker 1: It wasn't.

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Speaker 4: It was very very tame and Dombrowski obviously he came on here and we didn't say anything about, hey, do you think he's should be traded? Dombrowski brought it up himself, and so I think it's I think Matt Gilb got him at the right time, got him maybe some misinformation, or maybe maybe Bryce was listening to the wrong things or like going on speculation things. I think there is nobody that could have come to Philadelphia and endeared themselves more to Philly fans. I think when Dombrowski, I know, when Dombrowski came on a lot of people in Philly were like, Okay, that's nice. I'm glad he's not being traded. Now it gets re sparked back up by Gelb talking to him, and you know, I think now it's time for Dave Dombrowski to finally bury the hatchet here and just say, hey, you know what, here's what was going on. There was never any trade speculation, that was never from me. A lot of things have, like he said when he came on, kind of taken the you know, a life of its own. Comments that he said a short snippet in an hour long conversation.

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Speaker 1: And my favorite part of it was, which.

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Speaker 4: I don't think a lot of people necessarily read, was Boris said, you gotta let harpery meaning Ferrari Harpery. When Boris uses those play on words type of things, you gotta let him, you gotta let him eat. He said, maybe get somebody behind him so the tea he doesn't have the second least number of pitches in his own scene of anybody in baseball. Like he's saying, hey, you know what, if you didn't think he did well, maybe get a number four hitter that's gonna hit behind Harper to be able to protect him in the lineup, which I thought was a cool statement by Boris. Selling another one of his clients that probably is gonna get four million dollars.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean they didn't get good production out of the cleanup spot. You can look at the numbers, right both ops or if you wait the numbers, it's even worse for Philly. So okay, that's fine, that's fair.

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Speaker 3: Rights did come on he came on our show and staid the trade rumors weren't true. I don't understand, like he literally came on here and said they were not true.

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Speaker 1: He did. He he didn't have What else does he have to say?

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Speaker 3: He came on here and he had Remember, he pulled out a piece of paper at one point, was like and started reading out all these things, like what else does he He doesn't have to say anything. Plus, you know what, Brice, you have ten to five. They can't trade you, So just tell him I'm.

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Speaker 1: Not going anywhere. And it shut. Nolan Arnado did it if you have send trade.

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Speaker 2: The no trade clause with the Phillies, right, So he said he hasn't spoken to owner or GM or present base boss, whatever you want to call. But isn't this a super simple dave on the line? Hey, Bryce, I went and cleared it up on Foul Territory right after. That's really the only show you should be watching and paying attention to daily. You should go on that show too. Anyway, we're not trading you. We love you. I reiterated that if you want, I can get the Foul Territory team behind the scenes to cut the clip and send it to you as well. But in all seriousness, I have the quote that started the trade speculation, and this is how the news cycle is. I don't want to say dangerous, but full of crap nowadays. Joel Sherman is an insider. He reports on news, trades, et cetera, just like Ken does, just like many others in the industry do, right, That's one part of the job. Those insiders also are commentators and have opinion, and they're allowed to have opinions. They write columns, they go on shows. Sometimes we bring on Ken and ask him for news. Sometimes we ask what his opinion is. That's fine either way. Joel went on his Yankee podcast and said about Bryce, I think I think this is a player that is angry about the contract he's currently operating under. Would I be one hundred percent shocked if Bryce Harper gets traded this offseason. No, so all he said was in his opinion, probably based on last year wanting an extension. He thinks he doesn't like the contract and wants to move on. So he actually said he thinks Bryce wants to go and that's why he doesn't feel one hundred percent shocked. Now, he might have felt eighty percent shocked, but not one hundred percent shocked if he gets traded. No report, no talking to anyone on that front right now, fast forward. All of a sudden, a lot of the aggregator world looks at this and says, oh, here's an insider saying that he's going to get traded.

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Speaker 5: Come on.

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Speaker 2: So it's a poor job on many people's case, including whoever was giving that information to Bryce, or if Bryce is seeing that online whatever social media accounts he's following AJC. That's the part where I think we're lost in translation. Go directly to the source, go to the president baseball op go to the owner, and like you said, it doesn't even matter anyway with the no trade clause. But on top of that, we're taking one sentence from an opinion podcast and we're turning it into this. What I fear is that we're going to run into front office members being so careful about every word they say. I mean, Dave Dombrowski we mentioned is a real talker and he didn't say anything wrong. Now you're gonna have front office dudes even more worried about any freaking word that they say. Because they're worried it turns into this. This episode of FT is brought to you by Hule Cheers. We got a new fuel addition here, the Daily Greens. I've got blueberry, lemon and time you've got I.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well, we already have enough GM speak, don't you. I mean, all these gems that come on here, there's been a few that don't. But how many of these gems do we get on here that say they give you the perfect long and they just have a lot of words.

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Speaker 1: I don't ever really say anything or give you any opinion. We don't want that. And the guys that.

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Speaker 3: Are good again, Dave Dombrowski came on here and he laid it flat on the table and said, Bryce is not going to be traded.

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Speaker 1: We love Bryce.

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Speaker 3: I didn't need to say anything else. Bryce, We're sorry, but I don't know, I don't know what else you can say. And yeah, sure, right, Scott. People take one sentence and it makes for clicks, and everybody wants to click. So hey, Bryce Harper's gonna get traded. Click click look lolick, look look, look look click. Every person in Philly freaks out what and then Bryce probably he gets a text from somebody. I don't know if this is true or not, and this is my Someone probably texts him and says, hey, Bryce, do you hear you get the rumors you're getting traded? And Bryce is probably like, what the hell are we talking about? And then he didn't even read the article, he just saw the headline and then boom, next thing you know, he's got to go on Matt Gelve's show and defend himself, which I appreciate him doing that, but I mean.

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Speaker 1: He's not getting traded. Bryce.

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Speaker 3: You have ten to five plus, you have Scott Morris. Maybe Scott if he gets you traded, I'll get you another three hundred million. But you're not getting traded.

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Speaker 2: Thank you. He got duped by clickbait. It takes one phone call and I'm sure it's happening.

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Speaker 3: I'm pretty sure you can get Sherman's number two if he needs it. I'm pretty sure that Scott probably has it. Scott Boris probably.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure there's been back and forth already, but again it was only on a pot. He wasn't reporting it.

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Speaker 4: Last word crats Bryce subscribe to foul territory and you'll find out all you need to find out. Guy, just hit the subscribe button. Bryce does it. Everyone else can do it.

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Speaker 2: Bryce will come on someday. But well, I think I think now is the time. But anyway, we'll get to it in the off season coming up next.

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Speaker 3: The Orioles have only somebody that played with him.

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Speaker 1: Who was that? You don't have anybody in this show that's played with Bryce Harper.

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Speaker 4: Pap.

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Speaker 2: What are you talking about? Yeah, I don't think that one's gonna go well, although ratings would go through the roof if we bring them on for that right the official public ten year later apology or something like that. Anyway, Hey, your thoughts on the Twins manager process here. So Dan Hayes reported over the weekend that they're likely down before there's still a chance World Series ends. They look into some other guys maybe involved in the series right now, but it sounds like James Rowson, Ryan Flaherty, Scott Servis, Derek Sheling for the four.

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Speaker 3: Derek Shelton would be Roco Baldelli, wasn't he there was his bench coach. Wouldn't that be just like going back to Roco kind of sort of maybe. I don't know, Ralson was they didn't like them enough to keep them. Ralson was their hitting coach. I mean they signed him an extension and fired them, so they didn't like them that much. Roson was the someone. Yeah, Rolson was their hitting coach for a while.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 3: I mean Scott Servis, what did he do to deserve it? I mean he got fired from his best friend. I mean, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: It's it's an interesting names.

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Speaker 3: You would think you would think the twin, like I know Nick Punto was on this list, but he didn't make the cut.

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Speaker 1: I mean, Ryan Flaherty might be nice. He's a new guy.

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Speaker 3: He's been around, he's been on winning teams, and I like Ryan Flaherty, So I don't know, maybe try him.

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Speaker 1: Try something different.

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Speaker 3: You got a team that's not going to probably compete, right because I'm not gonna spend money, So why not?

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Speaker 1: I don't know, what do I know?

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Speaker 2: Hey, Ryan Ripton joins us right now, CEO of Ryan Ripkin Media, and he's live Tuesdays through Thursdays on his own YouTube show. I catch it frequently for a little dose of what's going on with Baltimore. First time on here, Ryan, great to have you on. How you doing.

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Speaker 5: I appreciate you guys having me on and always with news.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 5: I wish that this news of the new manager broke, you know, between nine to five, But that's not how this works in the baseball world, right.

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Speaker 2: Oh, don't get me started. For many off seasons you get the same situation. Ryan, I'll let you in on a little secret. Okay. Owners like to have cocktails late at night on weekends. Often we see the trades, and not trades, it's more signings that happened. Like last offseason. You can look, half the signings happened at like twelve thirty on a Friday or Saturday night, East Coast time. So you're catching the owners at nine to thirty West Coast, maybe having a cocktail or an East Coast guy like that. So anyway, look for that. It's something that bothers us frequently. But let's get into that news story that broke late Sunday night. Craig Albernaz is going to be the new manager of the Orioles at age forty two. What do you know and do you like the move?

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Speaker 5: Well, definitely, it wasn't on anyone's Bengo card when you got the news last night late that the Orioles were in the agreement, are finalizing the deal. Now, if you take a step back, fans reaction is going to be, well, who is Craig Albernaz? You know, where is this veteran presence manager or why haven't we heard anything from him? Now? If we continue to roll it back the baseball side of it, understanding Craig's background, a guy that came from the Rays obviously with the Guardians, and in between that with the San Francisco Giants, and a guy with an organization that is focused on little things and yes, metric based with the Rays and has a great reputation. You know, that was the things that were jumping off the page to me. Everyone I've talked to about him really likes him as a communicator, but as well as a guy that they believe is kind of that next up and coming manager. And so when I was talking about this for the last weeks here on my show was the Orioles could have gone a couple different ways. I didn't see the veteran manager just because completely old school. You gotta let then that manager, the old school veteran manager manage how he wants to, and I wasn't sure if that was going to be a fit for the front office. And then it was up and coming next manager, or you stay with Tony Manzolino, And we got that answer last night. And now it's going to be a wait and see. There's gonna be a lot of pros and cons, but those were all kind of my initial thoughts and reactions.

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Speaker 3: Well, why not go old school, Brian? Why not go you kind of had the new school guy in Brandon Hyde. We saw how that ended up. They didn't win a playoff game. Why not go old school?

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Speaker 1: Why not?

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Speaker 3: I mean, they're not going to bring back Buck Showalter, but somebody that's been around and managed before and has the experience a little bit that can give a little pushback to michae Elias because Michael Olias, as you know there in Baltimore, has taken some heat for some of the things that have happened.

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Speaker 1: So is this a case of, hey, we don't want to go old school.

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Speaker 3: Craig will be on the same teams as Michael Olias and they can work together and try to figure this thing out how to make this team good again.

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Speaker 5: Well, it's an interesting question, you know, and because you're looking at what was the questions around this team this past year was how does this young team take that next step? Do you need a guy that's in there that's going to help show them the way or to get quote unquote more of the old school baseball guys that can be there and create that experienced, been there before type of feeling. And I just we know this now with front offices, when it comes to the management in the clubhouse, in the locker room, it's different than it was five years ago, a decade ago, two decades ago, where there can't be as much contention as there once was. You got you kind of have to be aligned philosophically.

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Speaker 1: Now.

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Speaker 5: One thing I want to say for michae Elias is I do believe this past year he sat there and went what we have done hasn't worked, and we need to try to be more open minded. And the number one thing that the Orioles need, and it didn't matter who the manager was gonna be, was you philosophically, in my opinion, had to get better at developing these young guys and then teaching them how to go and win the games. When things get tough, and I think that's a philosophical thing, whether you bring this manager in or it's being taught. But what's happening is there were so many guys in the Oriols it felt like they didn't have the exact role. There was a lot of the same type of hitters we know in a lineup. You need the boppers, you need the guys that get on base, and above all, you need to find a way. And I think that there was a little bit of confusion. I think that there was a little bit of uncertainty with a lot of the guys because the one thing this Orioles team does not lack, it does not lack talent, but I think philosophically it lacks what do we need to do to take the next step. So I think they're taking the bet that Craig Albernaz, young coach that is coming from the Guardians, who all they do is find ways to win, that he's going to connect with these young guys and help Michaelias in this front office get the most out of them going in the twenty twenty six.

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Speaker 4: So you say that about Michaelias, does that mean Michael Oias expects this team to score seven runs a game to win? Like did Michaelias look at himself and say, oh, shoot, we had some injuries. There's just no way that we can or is he going ah, whatever, you know, we got Chicano. I really thought he was going to be an all star, like he had money to spend, and in my opinion, he flushed it.

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Speaker 5: So, yes, you can go back and look at it. Did the Orioles do a good job of bolstering their pitching staff? I think we know the answer in twenty twenty five emphatic No, I think last year. What I want to at least point out ownership's first full off season was this past year. Yes, they took over and everyone was excited in twenty twenty four, but they didn't even get the look at it all. Right, well, what do we have to do?

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Speaker 1: You know? Now?

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Speaker 5: The pressure and even the one thing going back to that manager talk of why I was wondering who it was going to be. I think job is in Michael isaa's decision on who he hires. The pressure really is on the front office because the expectation for this Oriols team now in twenty twenty six, right, it's not to oh, well, let's just let's develop these guys and let's get better. No, no, no, it's you got to compete to win the AL East again, because you did it in twenty three. You were a top team in twenty four where you were holding on for dear life and made the postseason. You got to find a way to get over the hump. And I do believe that they are looking at all different components, and I think the one thing that they have to no matter what, is they have to over expect, you know, all the injuries that can have happen in the pitching world. And I do believe they're going to be extremely aggressive in the pitching department. What that looks like, you know, I wish I had the crystal ball that that's gonna say they're gonna go out and get a top end guy, They're going to make a trade. But the reality is there are three guys right now in that staff that for me, on the Oriols you can count on or who you expect. Kyle Bradish is gonna be there if he's healthy. Trevor Rodgers looked really good. You hope he can implement that. And then Dean Kramer, because he eats innings, he's been there. You can remove the month of April for Dean Kramer. His numbers look insanely better. And then I know that they have Wells and you have Grayson Rodriguez and I love Grayson. Unfortunately, the biggest thing Grayson's got to be healthy. So you can't expect that Grayson's gonna be ready. So you got to go and get three or four arms. So this offseason, the most pressure is on Michaelias, but also this Baltimore Oriols team, Craig Albernaz has to be ready for this team is expected to win, and not just we're gonna get over five hundred, no, no, no, you got to make some noise and get a postseason victory on top of it.

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Speaker 3: Ryan, you mentioned the pitching. The guy who leads that pitching for years we thought would be Adley Rutchman. They signed Basaio Basalalo to the contract extension and he's a catcher. Is he a catcher long term?

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Speaker 1: We don't know.

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Speaker 3: But you mentioned development, like the biggest thing. When I look at the Orioles, they had Mayo, they had er Said, they had Retchman, they had Henderson, they have Holiday, they have all these guys Westbird, but none of them have become a gunner.

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Speaker 1: Probably is the exception of this.

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Speaker 3: I'll leave Gunner out of this, but none of these guys have taken that next step to be the superstar that the Orioles for years. We're not trading this guy. We're not gonna trade this guy. We're not gonna trade that guy. And it's all been position players. Is Craig the guy to help him say, hey, this is how we take the next step? Is there somebody else that are gonna bring in to help these guys, because to me, yes, you can look at the pitching, but the position player wise hasn't taken the next step. And kind of the face of that to me is Adley Rutchman, because I thought he was gonna be an absolute superstar. And now they have Asaiyo who they brought in as a catcher and they signed him. What's Adley's future and how can they get these guys to take the next step position player wise?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean that that is probably the biggest headline if we're gonna to really focus on and be specific. And I said this last year going into twenty twenty five, with all of the question marks around the pitching staff, how would they hold up? And we know, you give up five six runs a game, you're probably not gonna win a lot of games. That's just the nature of the business. But My motto last year was you go as far as this young core takes you, and the oriel strength last year needed to be their offense, and it was too inconsistent. Whether it was guys being injured, which are things that you can't control, or just in the moment situationally having to carry your team. No one stepped up in that manner. You know. I'm still very bullish on a lot of those guys, you know, Gunner Henderson. I'm not worried about Gunner at all being around him. I got an opportunity in the minor leagues to play with Wan Soda in the Nationals organization, and then I got to be around Gunner and spring training, especially six weeks coming out of COVID, where you can just watch a guy and you kind of have that oh crap moment. I had that moment for Juan Soto. I still have that moment for Gunner Henderson. So I think he's going to elevate his game going to the next year. But as far as Adli Rutchman's concerned, you know, and a lot of these young guys, you know, when you come up through the system and you're told how great you are, and the Oriols didn't have any hiccups until the midway through twenty twenty four. For this young nucleus, it tests you, and I think for these guys, how do you handle that adversity. I'm buying Adlei Rutchman that he's going to be able to be that backstop. I think Sam Besillo is going to play a lot of first base and he's going to catch as well. But that's a securit or it's an insurance policy if that's the case an Adlee doesn't work out. But the biggest thing, you know, Adley's got to stay healthy. I thought, if he didn't get hurt in June, we were going to see that resurgence, But for two years in a row, he's been banged up, So I'm watching that. I do think, above all, though, when you're looking at this Orioles team, do you have a veteran guy in that lineup that you can depend on? Because right now, when I mentioned earlier, there's a lot of guys in this lineup that are trying to figure out who they are. You know, we can go to the Guardians since Craig Albernaz just came from there. What's Stephen Kwan's role Stephen Kwan, He's a tough out, he's gritty, knows how to put the ball in play, makes things happen. And then Jose Ramirez, what's your job? Get him in?

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Speaker 1: Do that?

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Speaker 5: The Orioles don't have their their RBI guys, and they don't have the guys that can make something happen. So I think it's a lot of these young guys figuring it out. But I think they do need one more big bat in the middle of that order that can help stabilize them because there are still so many question marks and so many young players that are trying to figure out who they are.

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Speaker 4: I agree with you that I think Gunnar Henderson is a superstar can still be a superstar. Is there any way that he doesn't play shortstop for the next three years? Is there any way that the Orioles have enough because I've heard it from scouts, I've heard it from different people in baseball. Maybe he's kind of miscast as a shortstop and maybe their best shortstop is Holiday. So is there any way that the Orioles have enough, have enough gunction to say he's not our shortstopper? Are they fully committed and I'll lose my job to Gunner Henderson playing short.

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Speaker 5: I think Gunner Henderson is the shortstop of the future for the Baltimore Orioles, you know, and I know that there's that conversation around could you have a better fit, could Gunner Henderson profile better at third base? And with that help in that conversation, sure, I think you saw a lot of strides from Gunner at the end of this past year of what he can do and what he can do really really well. I mean defensively, you can argue that last stretch he was the best defensive short stop down the stretch. I'm not saying that he is, but you can argue of how well he was playing down the stretch. And Gunner physically, you know, I come from a family where I had a family member that was a pretty large individual and a lot of people didn't think that he could play the position because of his size and his quote unquote abilities. You'd have to move Gunner Henderson. I think is in that conversation where where Gunner gets in trouble is not because of his physical ability. It's continuing to learn how to play the position. And I would rather take the most physically gifted infielder and that is still Gunner and continue to work with him because he can make the most spectacular plays. But now the goal for him moving forward is can you make those in between plays more routine? Can you take the pressure off of the rest of the group in the infield? And I think that's the evolution of the young player. But again, I believe the Gunner Henderson should be the guy, and I think the Orioles are looking at him and they think he's just scratching the surface of how good he could be as the future shortstop for the Baltimore Orioles.

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Speaker 3: Right, And first of all, I want to make sure that people know I did say that Gunner was the exception to this question of not being developed, because I think he's a star. So I want people to understand that I did not say that he was. I did say the Gunner was the one guy that has taken that next step. But before we let you go, what's the one move you'd like to see him make? Is it starting pitcher, is it veteran position player? Is it back end bullpen guy? What's the one move? And I know you're gonna say starting pitcher, So then I'm gonna ask you to give me a name. Would they make a trade for Trek Scouble? Would they make a trade for someone of that level and give up some of these guys that have possibly been untouchable for so long.

00:29:44
Speaker 5: Well, I think every team would say starting pitching, you need it, you know, So I think the Oriols are no exception there. I don't see a move for Schooble. I don't think the Tigers should move him unless it's a king's ransom. But that's a whole other discussion, because the Tigers they should be competing next year to try to go out and win this whole thing. But for the Orioles, trade partners make sense. I know the Pirates, you know, when you look at them for their needs compared to what they have in the pitching staff, would they finally be willing to give up a guy with control? I know, Mitch Keller was a name that's been thrown out. I love his stuff, you know, And it makes sense. Sandy down in Miami looked like a prime candidate. But now the Marlins they look like they're turning things around a lot quicker. So I just don't know if they're gonna go out and get the top end free agent. You know, Ranger Suarez is a guy that I really like because I like guys that know what they're doing and they can pitch to what they have. The power guys are great, but you got to know guys that can go out there and make pitches. So do they target a guy like that in free agency? And lastly, though outside of pitching, I think they'd need a veteran bat. And actually, before now or in the past, you felt like they had an idea of who their outfield is, and you really don't. You know the infield set. You're gonna have Westburg, Holiday Gunner and then probably Kobe Meyo Sambasaio and see what happens with Ryan Mountcastle. You don't know who's gonna be in your outfield. Tyler O'Neil has the option, which I expect him to pick up. I think you need a guy, a veteran bat that when things go wrong, he writes the ship. I really do. And I can't sit there and think that they're gonna go after a guy like Kyle Tucker, but they need they need someone to anchor down that lineup because so many times last year the team would get in a funk and no one helped them get out of it. So I would say prioritizing two veteran bats, not just one, can help this Orioles team hopefully take the next step because if not, oh goodness in Baltimore. Here hasn't been pretty this year. If you've been an Orioles fan Ravens fan, I don't know if the city can take the Orioles having another down year so to speak, well last.

00:31:58
Speaker 2: One, yes or no they sweep the front office if they don't make the playoffs this year. I mean, they were the super Tankers and then took an unacceptable in my mind, step back two missus in a row. After all the pain in the city had to go through for the Orioles to get to be the Astros. This is not what the Astros did for twelve years. Do they sweep the front office? It sounds like they're not going to hire a GM under Elias this year, maybe waiting to see how the year goes.

00:32:25
Speaker 5: I would say, unless it's a embarrassing year, I'd say no. Even if they missed the playoffs, I would still say no. I think it depends on how it goes. Now, if they're worse than this past year, then all bets are off and it could definitely happen. But I think it would have to take something so embarrassing for the Orioles to make that move. That's just my gut right now.

00:32:49
Speaker 2: Five hundred team, which would be better than this past season. You think they keep rolling with the group.

00:32:55
Speaker 5: I think they roll with the group and then the seat gets hot.

00:33:01
Speaker 2: Oh we're gonna have to bring them back on to get into that. Yeah.

00:33:04
Speaker 3: By the way, speaking of I know you've murt it up. Have you seen the Doctor Pepper commercial where they have the coach and they're like hot seats sit on and they turn on the flame. It was all over college Football's hilarious. So that's the That's when I when you said that the seed will get hot. That's all I could think about when you said that, right, is that commercial?

00:33:21
Speaker 5: Well, now now I have a good visualization as well. Now that's all I'm gonna think about the rest of the day, to be honest, talk about it any any time more. Hopefully it's not the case and the birds are back. Maybe they pulled the Toronto Blue Jays. Well, if they did this year.

00:33:36
Speaker 1: Why not?

00:33:36
Speaker 5: You know, I think that'd be that that's the best case in Baltimore. But we'll take it day by day. Let's win, let's win, Let's win eighty five games next year and go for it.

00:33:44
Speaker 1: They better find their vlag guerrero then.

00:33:47
Speaker 2: That's right, not a core. Yeah, yeah, that would be nice. Yes, well this was great Ryan, great insight. Great to have you on here for the first time. Appreciate the time and everyone that was asking in the chat to check out his channel much more on this Tuesday through Thursday Live.

00:34:02
Speaker 5: Thanks Ryan, I appreciate you, guys.