Jared Carrabis talks Roman Anthony extension & Red Sox run

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Speaker 1: Jared crabbis perfect timing and you can hear him, of course on his underdog pods and everywhere else you can follow him one of the best follows in baseball at Jared underscore crabas.

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Speaker 2: But really, Jared, we nailed it on timing with you.

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Speaker 1: So your instant reaction to the Roman era continuing now for a very long time for a very team friendly looking deal, what do you think?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, man, I was surprised by it. I didn't hear any little birdies talking about this one. This kind of came out of nowhere. I think out of all the big three prospects, Roman was expected to be the most difficult to sign. They already signed Christian Campbell coming into the year. Marcello Meyer kind of looks like someone where it's like, there's some injury concerns here. So out of the guys that you would want to give the bag too, hell of a job by Craig Breslo, And I heard you guys talking about the deal before one hundred and thirty million, It's like, could he have made more if he had waited to free agency?

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Speaker 4: Absolutely?

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Speaker 3: Is he going to be struggling to find Actually, no, he's going to be just fine, like it's it's the biggest pre armed deal in baseball history. So yeah, they identified the player, they said this is who we're going to commit to, and they paid the player.

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Speaker 4: Like it couldn't have worked out better.

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Speaker 5: Jared, when you were twenty one years old, if Carabas would have come to you and said change your name from Carabas to Carabas, would you have done it for one hundred and thirty million and for eight years? Would you have done that?

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Speaker 4: I would have done it for one hundred and thirty bucks. Aj. I would have been like, thank you, thank you, thank you. So yeah.

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Speaker 5: So for all the people out there complaining, there's nobody on earth that would have said no to this deal at twenty one years old, you can't say no to this. I am sorry. I don't care who you are. It's a great deal for the Red Sox. It's a great deal for Roman Anthony and now, Jared, as you've been saying, you have the Roman Empire.

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Speaker 3: No doubt, and I think that's a big piece of it. I'm glad you brought that up. Is that it's exciting that the players are seeing what the future can look like. And I know that you know, at the end of the day, you can buy someone's friendship for five hundred million dollars. I'm sure it's up for drabs, But I think Roman's sort of looking around saying, I see the vision, I see that I'm the piece of this. I'm looking around and it's a very young team. A lot of the guys are locked up long term, and it's you know, what do you want your legacy to be? Do you want to be the guy that makes five hundred million dollars?

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Speaker 4: Cool?

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Speaker 3: Now that that's great and it's a huge accomplishment, But do you also want to be the guy that builds something special and is a cornerstone of a cores A championship corps. That sounds pretty cool to me too, all while having over one hundred million dollars, Like, yeah, I'm signing up for that.

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Speaker 4: What has impressed you the most of Roman so far?

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Speaker 2: Early on?

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Speaker 4: I think is it is plate discipline? Is it like he kind of has.

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Speaker 3: That almost feel in the box already to where he's just not swinging at bad pitches and he kind of makes a picture come at him.

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Speaker 2: What's impressed you so far the most?

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Speaker 3: Also, before I answer that, shout out April. Third birthday boys in the house.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm man. Yeah, both both ample third birthday boys.

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Speaker 3: What's impressed me most is the kid turned twenty one year and I got to meet him when he was in Double A, talked to him again in person when he was in Triple A, and I've checked in a few times now he's in the big leagues. Same dude, like, not overwhelmed. He had a walk off the other night and moment wasn't too big for him. He was like, I'd like to do that again, you know, like I want the guy that has labeled a superstar, that wants the big moment. And you know I didn't play in the big leagues. I'm sure you guys can speak to this. There are guys that don't want to be up in that spot like I get the spotlight. No, no, I'm all set with that. He wants the spotlight, he wants the big market.

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Speaker 4: His approach. I think even when even when.

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Speaker 3: He started off a little slow, he never abandoned the approach that got him there.

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Speaker 4: He stuck with it.

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Speaker 3: All the numbers under the hood were suggesting like the Baseball Savant page was pretty bloody.

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Speaker 4: A lot of red on that page.

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Speaker 3: Even when the surface level numbers weren't looking good, he stuck with the approach that got him there. He wrote it out and now like the surface level numbers, like, yeah, that's a dude that I want here long term.

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Speaker 5: Jared, all right, First of all, you were a heavy critic of the DEVAS trade. How does it look now? And we are including us, were heavy critics of Craig Breslo at the trade deadline not doing a lot? How does that look now? Have you changed your mind on both those things?

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Speaker 4: Yeah?

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Speaker 3: I don't think you or I AJ would ever sit here and be like we're smart people, you know, like we make smart sometimes.

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Speaker 5: I make a lot of mistakes, but I'm still smart. I'm a smart ass and I'm smart.

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Speaker 3: I think when with the DEVS trade, I approached that as what would the room feel about this? And I was just off, Like I I thought for sure that the room was going to be pissed. We just swept the New York Yankees and you traded the best hitter in our lineup, Like what the hell? So I was pissed too, But then you sort of ask around, You talk to people as part of the job. You get the full context and you come back down the earth and it's like, if they're not up in arms about this and they're not.

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Speaker 4: Upset about this, why am I upset about this?

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Speaker 3: So it was a quick eighteen hour window where you're piecing together what the information that you need to have the correct stance on it. And yeah, I was fired up at first, but then it didn't take long for me to be like, all right, if you're not mad, I'm not mad.

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Speaker 4: Let's move on. Like, let's move on with the group we got.

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Speaker 5: No.

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Speaker 2: I actually picked them to win the division. But do I think that they have the October pitching staff to match up against some of what the other teams did?

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Speaker 6: I do not.

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Speaker 2: That's just real talk. What do you think.

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Speaker 3: So as it kind of relates to the trade deadline. I gave in f you know, like you.

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Speaker 4: You were all in on Joe Ryan. You didn't get Joe Ryan.

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Speaker 3: But the same similar to the Dever situation, you need the full context what happened. I look at it two ways. I don't think the Twins had any interest in actually making the move. I think that they were gauging interests seeing how far the Red Sox would go.

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Speaker 4: Would you include Peyton Toley.

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Speaker 3: I think the Red Sox got to a point where they said, you tell us, dude, like, you tell us what you want and we'll make it work, and the Twins just didn't reciprocate.

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Speaker 4: That was number one.

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Speaker 3: The number two part of the context is there's not a controllable starter that moved at the deadline. Like if you want to throw JP Sears in there, you could have up until yesterday, but they just optioned him down to Triple A yesterday.

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Speaker 4: So and he wasn't the headline.

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Speaker 3: All due respect to JP series, I like the player, but he was not the headliner of the Mason Miller trade.

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Speaker 4: So no team.

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Speaker 3: It's entirely I feel much differently about it if someone else acquired Joe Ryan or someone else got Sandi al Kintara or a Cabrera from the mall something like that.

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Speaker 4: No controllable start removed at the deadline.

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Speaker 3: I still give it an F because I think that if there's a will, there's away. But it's not as bad when it's you know, another team didn't swoop in and get the guy that you were focused on.

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Speaker 5: No, you're a Red Sox Homer. Dude, you can't use other teams to justify your madness. Okay, so let's just say that. Okay, they're the Red Sox. They want to get a guy. That go get a guy.

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Speaker 2: But here's my question.

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Speaker 5: Since the trade deadline, I think the Red Sox are seven and zero.

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Speaker 4: Is that right?

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Speaker 5: Since the trade deadline or around there, they're yeah, ninety one their last ten so are they? Is it the Red Sox being good or the Yankees being crappy? Why the Red Sox have just smashed past the Yankees in the last ten days.

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Speaker 4: It's both.

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Speaker 3: I mean, it's it goes beyond just the seven game winning streak. They've been one of the best teams at home. They won sixteen of eighteen at home. I want to say for the whole year. I think they have the second best winning percentage at home in the American League, So I mean that's.

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Speaker 4: Big part of it is they take care of business at Fenway.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, the yank has been awful. That's been really fun to watch. I mean it's been hard to watch, is what I said. It's been That makes you happier?

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Speaker 4: What makes you happier?

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Speaker 3: I love the Red Sox more than I hate the Yankees, But I mean it's a nice little like so like the Red Sox winning is the steak dinner, but the Yankees always like when they're on Central Time and they lose after a Red Sox win, that's like the that's the chocolate cake, that's the espresso martini, that's the you know, let's cap off a nice dinner with a little treat at the end.

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Speaker 2: That's good. I like that. What did you want them to do?

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Speaker 6: Though?

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Speaker 1: If they if they couldn't pull off Joe Ryan, Like, do you think they could have pulled off a Meryl Kelly or I know that it was tough to pry one of these other controllable starters, but even the Shane Bieber and taking a chance on someone like him, which the Blue Jays did.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Merril Kelly was the guy for me. I think Joe Ryan was in a tier of his own, and I think once you start, no disrespect to Meryl Kelly, I think he's awesome. Like he was the guy that I wanted if they didn't get Ryan, but he's a rental. I think the Sox had the pieces to go out and get a controllable guy. But if no controllable starters moved, then you look at the rentals and yeah, Melrill.

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Speaker 4: Kelly was the guy I want. I want a guy that has.

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Speaker 3: Postseason experience that can come over and talk to O'Brian Bao who hasn't been there. He's having a great year as he's like three zero three coming into today. Crochet obviously has has no postseason experience coming from the White Sox. Jilid Yeah, uh, no offense, no offense. You know Gilido, he he has some postseason experience with the White Sox. That's there as well. But yeah, that would have been a nice pickup. Also first base, uh, I can tell you the Red Sox did try to upgrade at first base, but the ask was we want big league players in return, So I don't think that they were trying to make any big leaguer for big leaguer deals. I think they were trying to trade from their prospect pool and they just didn't get something done.

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Speaker 5: All right, Jared, we got about thirty seconds left, so take us to break in your Craig Breslow voice. I hear you have a great one, So take us to break in your Craig Breslow voice.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, hey, Jay, I got a great Breslow voice. And you know why. I'll tell you something right now, Present Ski. Every single time I come on this show, you promised me a steak dinner and you always say that I'm gonna pay for it. But you're paying for it next time you're in Boston.

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Speaker 2: That's amazing. Everyone's favorite muppet.

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Speaker 4: Thank you. Creig Breslow is aware of it now.

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Speaker 3: I've been doing cameos making fun of him on cameo and he said he wants to cut if I want to continue doing it.

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Speaker 4: So twenty percent to Craig Breslow.

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Speaker 2: Done deal, amazing, amazing.

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Speaker 1: All right, we just the Marquis Cubbs audience just left for commercial break, perfect timing to get to their pregame show. We've got two minutes left with Jared. That's really good stuff. Appreciate that, love that. And then last one for me here.

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Speaker 5: Hey hold up, you know, hey, hold up, hold up, we have two minutes. So wait, what do you mean you're gonna give twenty percent to Craig Breslo for this? How about you kick me ten percent for just giving you the plug on National TV?

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Speaker 3: Oh, then plug my cameo then, AJ, I mean earn your money club.

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Speaker 5: I plugged Jared all the time my cameo.

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Speaker 3: All right, deal, all right, we have to do a collaborative effort on cameo, A little combination effort on cameo me and A.

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Speaker 2: It's the socks for one deal.

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Speaker 1: If you like the red or the White Sox, then we've got a combo for you on cameo.

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Speaker 2: I played.

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Speaker 3: I was gonna say, I just did some content with Eric Red Sox legend Eric Hosmer. I mean he has you know, it's kind of the same tenure as AJ. When when are you back here with Fox?

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Speaker 5: I don't think this year. I don't think so.

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Speaker 4: See now you playoffs, definitely playoffs market Town.

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Speaker 3: When you're here for the playoffs, there's a content opportunity there.

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Speaker 4: We have to do some cross some cross content there.

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Speaker 2: And yeah and gives.

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Speaker 1: Me a good time here on the way out to plug what Jared's got in the mix here?

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Speaker 2: Do you want to do it?

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Speaker 1: I mean, you got too many jobs, but I mean I personally love the little nesson.

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Speaker 2: I forget what it's called, but you have a lot of deals going on.

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Speaker 3: Yep, go ahead, Yep, that's that's a lot of foul territory right there. So Mi and Alana Rizzo, Jonathan papavon unobstructive views on nesson three sixty tonight, baseball is dead. As the podcast section tends the Red Sox Podcast, I'm on the sports sub I'm.

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Speaker 4: On and that will be network.

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Speaker 3: I'm on We're Everywhere Cameo with aj Prasinski. You can book us on Cameo and that's it.

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Speaker 1: That's it, and you'll definitely get much more insight on this Roman Anthony extension from Jared on his pods coming up.

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Speaker 2: So Jared, we'll let you go do that.

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Speaker 1: Thanks for hopping on with us with the breaking news and good timing by our guest booker.

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Speaker 4: Thank you very much. I'll see you guys very soon.