Miz dices LA, All-Star challenge system breaking news, Jazz back to 2B, Bryan Reynolds no-trade list, Junior Caminero is in!

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Speaker 1: The leverage for him to say I'll go to New York or I'll go to the Dodgers. Comes Okay, Well what else can I get? Can I get an extra year? Can I get my player option declined on the end of the contract? Can I get it picked up automatically? Hey?

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Speaker 2: Hey, you want to blow trivia to start the day?

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Speaker 1: Get it? So?

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Speaker 2: You know how there have been a decent amount of firings really this season with managers mid season and then at GM just recently as well. They're all connected to one name in baseball, and he has joined us on the show somewhat recently. He's a somewhat frequent guest on FT. Do you know who it is?

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Speaker 3: Rob Manford.

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Speaker 2: Man mondays.

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Speaker 1: See a player right now currently manager? Former? I mean, but another one Joe Joe Madden.

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Speaker 2: So Joe talked about this on his pod the other day. Derek Shelton was a hitting coach with him in Tampa Bay bench coach bench coach Davy with Cubs and he worked with him in with the Rays. Bud Black was on the Angels staff. Brandon Hyde was part of that Cub's coaching staff and ready for the kicker. Mike Rizzo played for Joe Madden in his first manager gig. I mean that's everyone a Jay, that's everyone that's been.

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Speaker 3: Fired pretty much. Yeah that is you're right.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, get out or it's time for Joe to come back.

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Speaker 2: That might be it start a new web. All right, that's your tribute today, sponsored guy nobody, thank you. Well if you like us, let's all right. The miz is so legit twelve strikeouts over six innings, wan and run in a win over the Dodgers. Otani got to him. But that's all, folks. He's got a two eight one era AJ. He is a deal in. And it's not just the confidence, it's the command. All I remember reading about with Jacob Menzowski for years is how they're super concerned about him consistently finding the zone and working the corners. And that's all I'm seeing from him. So he has clearly figured it out. There were labels on him that he might end up as a reliever, a dominant, high leverage guy, which you totally could see. But you'd rather take what you're seeing now.

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Speaker 3: Oh he's good, Hey kidding me.

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Speaker 4: He I'll do a little legend in Kershaw gave up the leadoff homer and then after that, what twelve punches and six innings?

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Speaker 1: Was that?

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Speaker 3: What it was?

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Speaker 4: I think he was nasty. It was a fun game to watch. Brewers did just an offensively their bullpen. I got a little shaky at some points, but listen, ms was Mis was real. Mis is real if he throws it over the plate. He had the one clunker against the Mets where they jumped him early and jumped on his fastball early. But other than that, this guy's been really good. Man, this kid's been good, and I'm happy to see it because on team Poland, he's going to be the ace.

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Speaker 1: Ah yes, yes, that'll be a n i T tournament that team Poland's gonna make. Or are they gonna be able to qualify? From now until then? We'll see. But to me, people are like, ah, man, you know, command, command, all this stuff. I think young pitchers need confidence, and he showed me a lot of confidence. And you gain command from confidence. He's not afraid to throw the ball in the zone to get outs, which is even more impressive because first at bat, Shoho Tani went deep sauce off off the centerfield batters eye. That'll shake your confidence because you know wait a minute, I got this. This line is legit. I feel like I got this guy two strikes, threw a decent pitch down in the zone and he clipped me. But he wasn't afraid. He wasn't afraid to stay in the zone. If there's a value that you can tell any young pitcher, whatever level it is, throw the ball over the plate. They will not hit it as often and as hard as you think they will. And to me, that's what he's done. He had a few shaky you know, he walked a few guys in a few of his starts. But you gotta attack the zone, no matter if it's the Dodgers or if it's the Marlins.

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Speaker 2: More trivia. Last picture before Mays to record twelve k's against the Dodgers, Corbyn Birds. I'll give you a hint. He's currently on the Dodgers. Blake snow sho hey Otani, Right, that's cool.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Did you see what Clayton Kershaw said about.

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Speaker 1: Man before before or after the game or.

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Speaker 2: Were there were there different quotes?

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Speaker 1: He didn't know who he was. He was like, was he a guy that like tripped and rolled his ankle Like that's that's how Clayton Kershaw knew him, but Clayton Kershaw doesn't need to know. People are throwing shade at Clayton for that. After the game. What he said was cool though. That's a that's a big, big respect.

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Speaker 2: Why does Clayton have to know who he is? He's been in the league forever, is what does he need to know about the opposing picture.

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Speaker 4: He's not pitching against him, He's not pitching against him, he's not facing him. He doesn't care all he's worried about the Brewers' hitters, and that was what he listen. Kershaw had a nice outing too. Let's not forget I mean he he had a nice outing. You know everyone that said Clershaw is done. Kirshaw is having a nice start to this year and he's doing all right. So let's not let's not Barry Clayton yet either.

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Speaker 1: He's always with you, always, So just look at his Baseball reference. There's no blips on the radar. It's unbelievable. People are like, ah, playoff, save it.

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Speaker 2: Where are we are on the Brewers right now? Being that miss is pitching like a one and Freddy Parolt is having a great season, He'll be at the All Star Game.

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Speaker 4: I don't know if they have enough offense to catch the Cubs, but they got a shot out to make the playoffs. For sure, They're definitely gonna probably be in the playoffs, but I don't know if they're gonna catch the Cubs, just because I don't think their offense is good enough.

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Speaker 3: Honestly.

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Speaker 4: Now they're gonna have to make some moves and maybe find a bat or two. And if they do that, we'll see. But right now, I don't think their offense. Their pitching has always been a strength, and Murph and those guys figure it out. Matt Arnold and miss if he keeps doing this and Freddy p are gonna be a tough out because if you go into a three game series of Wildcard series and you get Paralta miz and then whoever the heck they wood he Big Woo's back and he's pitching good Woodrow, that's a pretty tough threesome to deal with a short in a short series.

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Speaker 1: I mean, this is what we've said about the Brewers the whole time. This is the year, because we'll say it every year. Beginning of the year, people are like, I don't no, Brewers probably aren't gonna be able to do it. Well, here we are again two and a half games out behind behind the Cubs. They're they're up in the wild card right now. Don't Matt Arnold, don't let this be another off or another trade deadline where you don't go and get offense. Don't let it be. It's not going to be detrimental to the end of you know, it's not gonna be the end of the Brewers run in the playoffs. They have the pitching again. They're pitching the guy. The dudes are pitching so well, Kingtana's pitching. Well, you know, the miz is gonna you know, it's a lot of nerves pitching in the playoffs. But you can't have another three and out, another two in out. You can't. You gotta make a deep run in the playoffs when you have this type of pitching and with Reese Hoskins going down to me, you gotta make that move. Is Josh Naylor Is he gonna be a Brewer? Is that Is that enough? Because if it's not enough, you gotta make two moves.

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Speaker 2: That's my thing. Aj Can this team pitch its way to a deep position in October? Can they surprise some people, upset them some people. If that's the case, let's go for two bats.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you got you gotta. You gotta score. That's the biggest thing. Yelich, Yelich and Cheerio and those guys.

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Speaker 4: They just don't score enough. Jilly Ortiz. Murf Urth kind of went off on Jilli Ortiz the other day. But I always having a million chances and hasn't taken advantage of it. I mean, yeah, you gotta find some offense somewhere, whether that's I mean, Andrew Vaughan, you're not counting on Hoskins coming back. I mean, you just need to find some offense. Three runs against some of the better teams isn't going to get it done most of the time, especially in the postseason. So you've got to find some offense. I don't know where or who they could trade, but they got to do it.

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Speaker 2: I mean, there are going to be plenty of upgradeable bat opportunities for them if they're that route.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, oh great, but who or do they go third base? Who do they go? Get a third base?

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Speaker 2: Ry? I like man or what about the two for one? Gosh, Naylor and Gino Suarez great Brewers.

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Speaker 4: But who are the Brewers going to have to give up? See that's the problem. The Brewers don't always want to give up. The Brewers usually the guys trading the prospects away or sorry, trading the guy away and getting the prospects back. They're not the team normally that's saying, oh, we want to make a huge splash, so in order to get it, to get Suarez a nailer, they're going to have to give up some prospects, and the Brewers don't normally do that. This would be something interesting to see how it goes.

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Speaker 2: They need to do that, and both of those players are free agents after this season, so it could be much worse. Aja, the asking price will be decent, but it's not going to be an asking price like you're getting Awan Soto or I mean even going a little lower than that's somebody that has multiple years of team control. These are two rentals.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, agreed, but still they got to give up somebody, and the Brewers don't normally do that. They go, they try to they try to buy low and hope for the big win. Right I Frankie Montas whoever, whoever else you want to talk about by we don't sorry about a steamer in the background. Uh, but yeah, they you know, they try to get the high upside rental guys that can come in for two or three months.

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Speaker 3: They can fix and get them right.

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Speaker 2: All right, we're gonna step aside. Did you have something you want to ask us? You want to do it next segment, I'll do it next segment.

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Speaker 4: It's from the Bruce Meyer conversation. I have a question. I'll ask you you think if it's if it's feasible or not. And see what you guys say.

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Speaker 2: No problem. We're back and we're gonna go over some breaking news coming up in a few minutes. So there are some games we won't have time to get to. I'll give you guys three options here. Stuff that I was watching yesterday on Hell Martinez Grand Slam Top ten off of Josh Hater for the Guardians who are on life support. The Padres took away not one but two home runs thanks to Jackson Merrill and Fernando Tatis Junior in a one nothing win over Arizona. He Surris their big power boy with his fifth home run of the year, and aj your White Sox gave the Blue Jays their tenth win of the season in a row.

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Speaker 4: Well the biggest one untd of that is that. Well, first of all, Hater gave up a grand Slam of extra innings. But the other thing is is that the Padres you mentioned on life support, the Guardians, the Padres need to turn it around. So any win they can grab right now is huge. So the White Sox are the White Sox. The Blue Jays might never lose again the way they're playing because they just get clutch it after clutch it. So but yeah, the Padres, they got to win. They got to find a way to win because right now, I mean, if they score one run, it's a rally. So they've got to figure this out quickly because the rest of the division is starting to kind of get a little bit away from them.

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Speaker 1: Some will say, some will say the White Sox are playing like a high school team. They only played seven innings last night, so maybe it's coming true.

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Speaker 2: That's true. They called the game after seven, six to one.

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Speaker 3: It was it was months sooning.

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Speaker 4: By the way, I can't and by the way, speaking of rain, rain killed my lock yesterday because Logan Gilbert was shoving and then all of a sudden, raindo and then he couldn't throw a strike after like sitting for forty minutes a wait to go Yankee Stadium.

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Speaker 2: FT breaking news. I am super excited for this. MLB will use the ABS challenge system in the All Star Game. That means you tap your hat or your helmet and we can do a little challenge. Each team gets two of them and you can keep those challenges if you are successful. Ak A, you are correct and the umpire is wrong. A hitter can do this, a catcher can do this, a pitcher can do this, and that is it. My excitement level is ten. As you can see, Eric Kratz is already practicing his motion for Atlanta will be there. Krats, your thoughts.

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Speaker 1: Have to have it. I love it. It is a showcase game, showcase what's coming next young players, something that Major League Baseball is going to institute next year in the ABS, I don't know, like put some targets in the outfield so people can hit them and like things explode. Like it's a showcase game. Take it seriously. We're still the only We're still the only All Star are still the only major sport that takes the game seriously. It's okay to add some other like cool stuff because these players actually want to win and play defense. And pitch and hit, So we have that going.

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Speaker 4: I hope happens first two pitches of the game pitcher throws them and goes like this, and then they lose both of them. Then we get out. That'd be awesome. They'd be like, oh no, this doesn't work, so good does it?

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Speaker 3: Boom boom?

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Speaker 4: First two pitches, someone does it and then it's over with. But I mean, are they gonna pick who us a judge Raleigh on the other side, who's gonna get the choice show?

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Speaker 3: Hey? I mean, Freddy, everybody gets use these.

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Speaker 4: I mean, if you only have two of them, if you only have two of them and no one gets them wrong early, and it's all over and everyone's whining.

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Speaker 3: So it's gonna be an interesting test system. We'll see how it goes.

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Speaker 2: Hey, Ja, I know someone who's not allowed to do it.

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Speaker 3: Who's that?

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Speaker 2: Andrew Abbott was just selected to the All Star Game, but his manager Terry Francona in spring training told his team, no, we are not practicing the challenge system, so he'll probably tell Andrew before he heads to Atlanta, do not tip your head. We do not want you to do anything that would be different from today's game. Not tomorrow's game, today's game. You think I'm kidding It was actually a true story. Back in spring training. I did not want to.

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Speaker 3: I think I think they were only they only had it on the road.

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Speaker 4: I don't think they had in good years. So Terry didn't want him to get used to used to it. So he's like, why are we going to practice as if we're not using it? It's smart, but.

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Speaker 2: I thought it was ridiculous. You guys are you guys are so dialed that you can't do a little tap during spring training?

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Speaker 1: Not as not even there half the time? Not I disagree with Tito on that one.

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Speaker 2: Anyway. What do we think about this for the fans? First off, Major League Baseball released that seventy two percent of fans that they pulled during spring training said the impact of ABS on their experience at the game was a positive one sixty nine percent giggity said they'd like it part of the game moving forward, and ten percent expressed negativity towards it. I mean, that is a resounding success and a jay This just furthers the narrative that we are going to have this next year. It's not going to be the full robo I'm calling every ball and strike, but we are going to have the challenge system. And I cannot emphasize enough how this is a no brainer addition to the game for fan engagement.

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Speaker 3: Agreed.

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Speaker 4: The one thing I saw it live and in person, and it was awesome. The fans were into it. Were the thing comes on the scoreboard and everyone's like, oh, strike, ball boo, yeah, right, wrong, whatever it was, it was pretty awesome and it happened pretty quick. The only thing I worry about is the accuracy of it, because players have said the accuracy isn't that great. So we'll see if the accuracy is right. Because they always claim, oh, well, tennis they have the lion things. Well, the line things aren't always right in tennis. Tennis plays over my shoulder here. But yeah, they always say, oh the cyclops thing whatever it's called, isn't always perfect. So as long as the technology is correct. And I'm all for being able to tap your homet you.

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Speaker 2: Know who else is imperfect? Crafts, human beings.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you got.

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Speaker 4: Nothing to argue, Scott. You need arguments, aren't we in the entertainment bism business. Luke Panella coming out kicking dirt all over the plate and throwing his hat in Lloyd McClenny grabbing first base and taking it home with him like a little child, right, Like that's entertaining to people, Like arguments are entertaining.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but you know what else is entertaining? If there's an ump that misses twenty calls in the game, and it happens somewhat frequently, right, I mean I follow Empire auditor, I mean fifteen, eighteen, twenty often the case. It'll be interesting to see how many of those misses are challenged because you have to do it instantaneously. This isn't a let's look back quality control coach in the dugout tunnel. What does he say, relay it back? It's nope, I see this. You're off boom tap, And you know players are going to get pissed. Umpires might have some egos hurt, the ones who like to kick people out of games, or have their own strike zone and not the regulation strike zone. I think you're going to have plenty of dissension aj over something like this. Don't you think there'll still be plenty of ejections, people getting kicked out and really just a battle of what the zone actually is. And it's going to be a uniform zone, not a zone created by an umpire who's got a partial view on a certain pitch.

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Speaker 4: They're so they're so negative, Scott. Umpires don't do that. Umpires don't have personal vendettas against guys on their mean to them. That doesn't happen, Scott. So let's let's let's get back to the news. Please, let's not let's not spread.

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Speaker 1: Who's going to be the first player, who's gonna be the first player to give this one shocked another one? Like, let's let's check in it like the whole like sarcastic, I know you got it wrong, like shocker, you're the one that got another one wrong. Dudes will be thrown out for that, if that's what you're If that's what you're looking for.

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Speaker 2: Are pictures allowed to do this at all?

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Speaker 3: Aj if they're not very good at it because they don't see the ball.

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Speaker 4: They only see where the catcher catches it, because most of them go like this with their head, so they lose sight of the ball when it crosses the plate. They only see it after the catcher catches it. And we saw Max Schurzer do this early in spring just to make a mockery of it and it worked.

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Speaker 3: There we go, well, not.

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Speaker 4: Even close, but Max did it anyways, just to show that, you know, we'll see, We'll see.

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Speaker 3: Mm hm, they won't.

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Speaker 1: They won't.

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Speaker 3: They won't.

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Speaker 1: They're gonna be told to They're gonna be told to stop. They're not going to ruin it. They're just gonna be told to stop. I mean pictures. Pitchers get fooled by catchers mits. You know, catchers moving the ball more than anybody.

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Speaker 3: True, right, Because again, so the fram.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the framing aj by the catchers should notify most coaching staffs that they need to tell pitchers, you're not the one. It's the catcher, and obviously.

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Speaker 3: It's the hitter. M should be a catcher in the hitter.

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Speaker 2: Also, these are two challenges in general, So if whether you're on offense or defense, you have to be smart about this. I'm sure there's all kinds of studying going on already behind the scenes by teams to get themselves prepared for this. During spring training, pitchers were less successful than catchers. That's not a surprise. Catchers had a success rate of fifty six percent, so more than every other call went their way. Pitcher's success rate was forty one percent, so umpires had the edge there. Umpires are probably like, yeah, go for a pitcher, I got you beat.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: True, we'll see, we'll see, we'll see, we'll see if anybody even does in the ulstreaum.

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Speaker 3: Somebody will do it just to say they did it. But that's it.

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Speaker 1: The success rate is going to be right around fifty percent because you're not they're not missing. Umpires rarely miss big ones, rarely miss those big ones. It's the fifty to fifty ball. That's where all the framing metrics come from. Do you get the umpire to call a fifty to fifty ball a strike? And I think the players are going to get better and better as as the system's used.

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Speaker 2: See I agree with that. I think that early on you're going to have safer challenges and they're going to be looking for the blatant misses. You're talking about fifty to fifty balls, krats. If you're wrong on your fifty to fifty ball, it might be the eighth or ninth inning. And there is a brutal call like, Oh, let's let's use a very recent example. Did we not have three consecutive misses two nights ago with Oryan kirkering against the San Francisco Giants. Yep, so cuzy, So it'll be a boom boom boom.

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Speaker 1: We need to save this. It would have been boom strike three.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 1: True, it's gonna change at bats. It's not going to just be like they're not just going to rack them up act back to.

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Speaker 2: Back, right, But my point is you need to be smart early on in a game. You can't look at a fifty to fifty call that's on the borderline and tap your head because if you're wrong, you might need that later for a blatant miss by an umpire. Right AJ, aren't you telling people to be careful early on in a game?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, of course. And you better be real sure who let challenge. Better be real sure who you let challenge. That's it's gonna come down to. There's gonna be some interesting decisions on who's allowed to challenge and who's not.

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Speaker 2: Smart call by MLB to do this right now, Like you guys said, it is an exhibition game and this is an opportunity to highlight something in a sport. Obviously we're highlighting the players. But a J I think this is a cool little wrinkle. You know, it's it's an exhibition game. The winner doesn't get home field advantage in the World Series anymore.

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Speaker 3: Why not try it out?

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Speaker 4: I mean, you know what else they should do, Scott, They have a soft offense up in the truest park.

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Speaker 3: They should try that.

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Speaker 2: See you guys, you guys with your with your other ideas are a little well.

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Speaker 4: I mean everyone, you know, once it once a game or twice a game, you can get the soft offense brought out and if the guy hits a homer of the soft offense, it's a home run.

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Speaker 3: Let's try that.

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Speaker 2: I want to make sure that. I want to make sure I clarify. So AJ wants a softball fence and Kratz wants dynamite markers that you hit. Do you guys actually want that at the All Star Game? Do you do you really want that in the All Star Game? And selfware Game's right? I mean I'm looking at the soft offense right out my window right now. I mean it's like two hundred feet.

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Speaker 4: Think about take a the fun if you if the National League was like, we have Shohey and whoever else coming up, but we're gonna we're gonna tap our helmet. We want the softball fence, and they roll out a two hundred foot fence and then if he hits it over it, Let's say they're down five, it counts as five runs or something.

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Speaker 3: Wouldn't you be excited?

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Speaker 2: I think that's a little much.

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Speaker 1: Okay, extreme, that's probably extreme, But I like I like the I like the way you're going. I did all. I really want the only thing I want. If you're not gonna have explosions and fire and stuff, I want the challenge. I want the challenge like fastest run or hardest throw or farthest throw, all that stuff. I want all of it. Put the ball on the t see if you can hit the farthest. Like we already have the Home Run Derby, and that's what everybody's excited about. They're willing to put a million dollars into that. Let's have the Major League Baseball Challenge games like where they're doing that stuff around the Home Run Derby too.

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Speaker 3: Never happen. Now, that'll never happen.

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Speaker 1: I agree with you, it won't. But I want to see it. I don't want to see it.

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Speaker 3: Two.

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Speaker 4: Yes, we think about You got to make a decision. Do I pitch the show here? Do we intentionally WelCom right because he might hit a five run homer? I don't know, thoughts.

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Speaker 2: Maybe it's for a homer that's a certain distance. If you hit a four to fifty plus.

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Speaker 3: Make it fun. Let's think like young people. If you can hit a ground ball into a bucket, you get an extra run. I don't know. Something cool. Let's change it up. You want to get crazy, Let's get crazy?

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Speaker 2: Scott Okay, Well, we'll ask Carlos Mendoza, Mets manager, about this little news, and also remind everyone that we will be in Atlanta to witness this the fourteenth and the fifteenth, which is the big days Monday and Tuesday, Derby Day and All Star Day one to three Eastern foul Territory, Atlanta takeover live from the Truest Community Corner. We got a bunch of replies yesterday when we put this out there, many of them from Braves fans asking if AJ and Kratz couldn't come out of retirement and help the Braves current lineup. The answer I gave of them was maybe anyway, we'll see y'all one to three Eastern Monday and Tuesday Live. It's open to the public, so you can stop by, hang out. There's gonna be some VIPs stopping by in addition to the ft Fam, some pretty big guests, so we're excited about it. Hey, we had a walk off inside the park home run from a catcher. Aj Patrick Bailey gets a fortuitous little bounce off the top of the wall. They're down three to one, bottom nine, one out. I was watching this one live, three run homer walk off for three win for San Francisco.

00:27:31
Speaker 4: You see some crazy, crazy bounces off of that wall in right center. I don't think Romano had this on his bingo card when he threw that pitch. Okay, maybe a double, maybe a tie game, but the bounce it took was insane.

00:27:43
Speaker 3: And I get Brandon Marsh's credit.

00:27:45
Speaker 4: Although people can say he wasn't in the right place, he actually was in the right place. He just didn't expect it to bounce that hard and that far to the who's left. He was backing up. He was in the right spot, So just a wild, wacky bounce. We saw this in the All Star Game when Ichiro hit it inside the park, home hit one of those weird crevices and bounces somewhere where it's not supposed to go. I don't know physics, but maybe not in San Francisco.

00:28:08
Speaker 1: Triples are the most exciting play in baseball, just because you're like, is he gonna make it? Is he not inside the parker for a walk off? Just he clips that? For me, I mean to see the fans bouncing around and like they were in that entire run around the bases with Patrick Bailey, and like how he didn't pass out after running that far, Like you know, he wasn't breathing the entire halfway halfway from second to home like crazy bounce tough. Oryan Kirkering probably should have been in the game, but I guess they put Jordan Romano in because they need to figure something out with that bullpen. But hey, unbelievable inside the park walkoff epic.

00:28:53
Speaker 2: Former Cy Young winner Dallas Kichel and the Royals agreed to a minor league deal this According to Jeff pass In, he's thirty seven years old. Kykele not passing and Kaiko held a workout last week. He got himself up to ninety two miles an hour. He's going to start in Triple A. If he gets to the big leagues, he would make a pro rated version of two million dollars. So we're a little past halfway point, so I guess a million or less for Dallas Kaykeel.

00:29:16
Speaker 3: I didn't realize before, what haven't we seen this skit before? Though? Hasn't he been doing this like the last three years?

00:29:22
Speaker 4: Or he goes and he doesn't start with the team, and then he goes and throws a bullpen, and so team signs that he comes up for like one or two starts, and then he's gone, and then he does it again the next year.

00:29:31
Speaker 2: That's my point. My point was going to be that it feels like it's been years since he pitched in the big leagues, but it's been years since he pitched consistently in the big leagues. He's actually made appearances every year since his rookie season in twenty twelve. So aj I mean he's suddenly going to be thirteen maybe another year, two, fourteen, fifteen year career where where really it was during about a nine or ten year stretch. Right last year he made four starts.

00:29:58
Speaker 4: Yeah, part we have a saying you have this many years parts right, so he has parts of them many years.

00:30:04
Speaker 3: But I mean, yeah, cool.

00:30:05
Speaker 4: If the teams keep signs like Richill, teams keep signing them, they keep calling them the big leagues, why would you stop playing?

00:30:10
Speaker 3: But I don't know.

00:30:11
Speaker 4: At some point you got to say enough is enough? Is it really worth going through all this to get four starts in the big leagues? I guess there some people it is who signed rich.

00:30:18
Speaker 1: Hill earlier this year the Royals. The Royals and he hit ninety two. That's my favorite part. Kaiko went to like the drive line before and they were like, oh, he got his velocity up and then it comes out in the games in just regular Dallas Kaile, which is all he needs to be. What's up? We're back? All right?

00:30:40
Speaker 2: So do you want to see the little trade that was made between Bryce and Stott and a fan who probably just put a baseball in the mccubby cove took it out and said, oh, look what I've found. So apparently Schwerber hit one into the cove and now he joined Stott, Harper and Kody Ashy is the only Phillies to do it in twenty five years. According to back Gelp covers, the team for the Athletic Scott said he recently secured the ball from his splash hit in twenty twenty three. A man in a kayak had been hanging on to it. And while Scott Stott was skeptical that the dude that just plays the baseball in the water, he traded two signed baseballs for us, it for it and he will cherish it forever. I mean, there's no way to really authenticate that. I don't think if the baseball enters the water. So you got to just have trust and say it's real.

00:31:27
Speaker 1: As long as he believes it's real, who cares if I mean, my I don't even know if I actually have my real first home run ball because it went into the bushes in Citizens Bank Park, and so did like twenty five other baseballs during batting practice every day. So they crawled in the bushes and they were like, sure this is the one authenticated. There you go, and don't don't even get twisted. He put that ball in a sink in his in his hotel room or in his It wasn't even don't need to put it in McCovey cove. It's not like Stott's testing it for McCovey cove water.

00:32:08
Speaker 4: Why does it matter. I mean, as long as he thinks it is. As long as Bryson Stott thinks it is, then who cares. It's a memory as Yeah, who cares? I mean, he can hang it on his wall and that's it.

00:32:17
Speaker 3: Who cares?

00:32:19
Speaker 2: What if I think I have it?

00:32:20
Speaker 1: Aj then you want it for money. It's the only reason you want it.

00:32:25
Speaker 3: You think a lot of things that they're not right.

00:32:27
Speaker 2: No, I'm just believing in conspiracy theories and fairy tales. And if I have a baseball and I can say, oh, well, actually I got it from a guy who went underwater and found it.

00:32:37
Speaker 3: Scott stopped. You're stop stop Scott.

00:32:39
Speaker 1: Balls float, they don't go they don't go down.

00:32:42
Speaker 3: Stop. That just proves that you don't have it, Scott.

00:32:47
Speaker 2: I actually do have something that is related to our next topic, the bibble behind me here, show me for a sec. The next topic is all about that guy me. So when we're back in twenty seconds, we're going to talk about how this day just got way better for him and I think for everyone. Yeah, that's what he said, That's what he said.

00:33:11
Speaker 1: That's what he said, that's what he said.

00:33:16
Speaker 2: Junior Cameranaro said, I'm in for the home Run Derby and he was just named as a replacement for the All Star roster, so he will be out there in a big way in Atlanta. First off, he takes over for Alex Spragman. Bregman was voted in by the players even though he hasn't played in a long time. Junior Kamenara deserves to be in Kratz. He's got I believe, the most home runs among the third basemen. He just turned twenty two years old, by the way, and this season he's two fifty two, two ninety four, four ninety six with the slugging percentage, and yes, he leads all major league third basemen with twenty one home runs. Perfect candidate for the home Run Derby. So we get to see a guy who is one of the best in baseball in exit vlow max, exit V low, batspeed, the whole deal. These are the guys that you want in there. Young can put on a show. Does it in BP.

00:34:18
Speaker 1: Flash. He even came on here and said he would love to do it a few weeks ago. To me, this is what you need, but you also need to have guys who, like aj said yesterday, can hit the ball out of the ballpark in all directions Atlanta. The ball flies, and I know the wall on right field is a little bit high, but Junior can hit the ball out there, he can pull it, he can go to center field, and you need to be able to do that as you get tired, you know you're not all all the balls are just going to go directly down the line. To me, I think possibly people don't really know about Junior Cameron Arrow. I don't think they know what kind of of juice he has without without you saying that, Scott, I don't think people know where he's at exit velocity. You look up his Baseball Savant page, there's a lot of red. This dude hits the ball hard, and people are gonna be like, well, you know, there's twenty one home runs. Twenty one home runs at the All Star Break is ridiculous for any player that's really just getting his feet wet in the big leagues this year for the first time.

00:35:26
Speaker 4: Well, here's one thing I'll say about this. We're on a lot today because the race game got pushed back, so we're all over the Tampa Bay TV right now. So people in Tampa, in the Tampa Bay area, they know Junior Cameranio. Most people don't. But I am so happy for him because one, he deserved to be in the All Star Game, even without Bregman getting hurt. But two, he wants to do the home run Derby, So why what even took so long for him to be considered for this. He came on Foul Territory and said, I want to do the home run Derby and I'm gonna put on a show that should be like automatic rub Manfred calling him up and MLB saying, oh man, we got a guy that wants to do this. Check Junior, you're in. I mean, O'Neil Cruz is in. He's on an All Star But Junior Cavanaro had to wait. I disagree with that. So good for him. Good that he's on this team. He deserves it. He's a great player. He's going to be a star. And even if even in Tampa Bay, but people in Tampa Bay know about Junior Camanaro.

00:36:21
Speaker 1: I got a question. I mean what aj just said. We got to wait for Rob Manford, we got wait for the league. The All Star Game is about what the players or the league. Why can't why can't the players make these decisions? Why can't the players Association be like, you know what we want to We want the best product out there, because this showcase is junior Cameranaro, who is in Tampa. And that's nothing against Tampa. It's not a big media market. And I don't think people know the extent of his power prowess. And to me, like, why do we need to ask? Why couldn't the players get together and be like, whoa, there's no way we can have a home run derby without the best, the most powerful dudes and the only way. And the other thing I think they haven't they didn't ask him because I think they're just now going through the guys who weren't voted into the All Star Game is how I feel like it went down.

00:37:21
Speaker 2: I'm down for that if we take away the player vote for the All Star Game and just give it to the fans or to someone else, because they're losing me on that.

00:37:33
Speaker 1: True, like like I don't see how. I don't see how, and I always forget his first his first name, but McClung, who wins the who wins the dumb contest? The last few years. Matt McClung, Mac mac Okay, there you go. So that shows you how much I know. There's no way. There's no way that the commissioner of the NBA is like scouring the d League going, Hey, any of you guys want to do it? Like there's there's definitely a collaboration there that I feel like could happen. It doesn't have to just be a league, like, hey, the league is inviting you to do the home run derby. Have a sign up, have a sign up, have like a I don't know, have a have a get in tournament, you know, a playback tournament where other dudes are doing home run derby stuff to be able to get into the home run derby. I don't know. Maybe maybe I'm putting a home run derby up on too much of a pedestal.

00:38:25
Speaker 2: I think you're just over complicating things, you know. I feel like they do a pretty good job.

00:38:31
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think you do a pretty good job. By the end, you have to understand how many people say no to this?

00:38:35
Speaker 2: So yes, a lot of nosy, a lot.

00:38:39
Speaker 1: They've asked a lot already you're saying yeah, yeah, I mean they want to make sure even though he's pretty much a lock.

00:38:45
Speaker 2: You always want to make the phone call. Hey, judge, not in cool, got it? Obviously, you got to make the phone call to see if Pete's in for the derby. He's won two of them. He declined this year, and you go down the line to some of the big boys and make sure that you're not missing out on anyone. But I do agree, I want to go back to where we started here. Regardless, I think that Junior Camonaro, as the most home runs among third basemen and the stat cast metrics that he brings to the table, deserve to be in the Home Run Derby. He made it to the All Star Game, which is great. He deserves that too, But I think even if he didn't, the league should have put this invite out there at least a week ago. And here's what he said on our show about a month ago.

00:39:31
Speaker 3: All Star Game Home Run Derby.

00:39:34
Speaker 4: You get to the All Star Game, which would be awesome for you, would you do.

00:39:37
Speaker 3: The Home Run Derby?

00:39:39
Speaker 2: No?

00:39:46
Speaker 5: If I get selected and they give me the opportunity, yes, you know, I'm not gonna say that I'm gonna win, but I'm gonna put a great show for the fans and it's gonna be entertained.

00:39:59
Speaker 2: There you go, and he got in there. And remember later in the conversation he was like, please call me. I want to be in. So now he's in, so we're excited. We'll see him out there. There are two spots left. I butchered it yesterday at one point because I was essentially hungover, not sleeping, with twelve hours of flight delays and a couple of fans. Let me know that I missed out on not knowing what the whole Derby field was looking like at the moment you got me. Thanks for watching. Anyway, let's get to Wan Sodo's comments. So AJ asked Carlos Mendoza live about a half hour ago about Sodo's incentives. He gets one hundred thousand dollars if he makes the All Star team, and so it was like, yeah, that's a lot of money. He was asked if he would have liked to make it. He's like, what do you think. I think it's a lot of money on the table if I make it. At the same time, AJ, one hundred thousand dollars for a guy who is going to make close to eight hundred million dollars. Actually, in his total career, he's going to make close to a billion dollars. That's chump change.

00:40:58
Speaker 3: Great, this is this is not a lot. That's why I was joking with Mendy that he should write him a check.

00:41:04
Speaker 4: So you know, because most people is going, you man, you're making seven hundred and sixty million and you're talking about one hundred grand. So listen, it's still one hundred thousand dollars. But yeah, I mean, I think it was more about the fact that he didn't make the All Star team. The players didn't vote him in the the money.

00:41:18
Speaker 3: Let's be serious here, m hm.

00:41:21
Speaker 1: Would you go? Aj? Would you go if you were him and he wasn't selected in? But now he gets selected in like as like a spiteful thing. Would you spitefully say no, I don't want to go, you don't want to vote?

00:41:35
Speaker 4: Why would I not? Why would you not go? We still still get to go. What's the point? What you can't just not go? Did he just look like then you just look like a I don't know.

00:41:46
Speaker 2: He just looks like There's a lot of players that do that. Guys, over the last five years, there are a lot of no's that are fake nos, and in my mind, something has to be written in where you must attend, even if you're hurt or whatever it is, you must go. This is for the fans. Fans mostly voted you in, right, you should be going. We don't have to go through that list, but it is a very long list of guys who essentially don't give a crap, and I think that there needs to be repercussions for that. Maybe it's okay, you're saying no and you're not going to show up unless you have a very legit excuse, like you know, wife's having a baby, super family, a medical emergency, something crazy, which obviously we're human beings, we understand that. If it's just eh, don't care about it. I want to take some time off. I think there should be some type of penalty, including maybe that you can't be voted in again after that. Right, if you don't care enough, then you don't want to be part of the All Star festivities. Oh well, but I don't know. I don't think we're ever going to get there. Just wanted to throw it out there while we have one more minute. This was put out there by front off of Sports, so though they probably got it from somewhere else. Only three of the ten highest paid players in Major League Baseball are named All Stars this year, so this game features many many people. Did they give a number? I don't know how many under twenty six years old, but heavy, heavy, young crew on the All Star roster this year. Money cannot buy you happiness confirmed, just like we heard yesterday. AJ Mets usually towards.

00:43:20
Speaker 3: Included in that though is show hey included in.

00:43:22
Speaker 1: That great question? Numbers is cooked? These numbers might be cooked a little bit like is that including everything Max is making? Like Max is making more than everybody because he's getting fifteen from the Nets, fifteen from the Mets fifth like, oh.

00:43:37
Speaker 2: No, hey, let's do a little player spotlight thanks to Arena Club. AJ give me a player this season that you think is underrated and you might want to try and grab his card.

00:43:46
Speaker 3: James would.

00:43:47
Speaker 4: I don't know that he's underrated, but Washington National's superstar in the making, and the first slab pack I ever opened had him in it, his rookie card, and the value is only going to go up and up and up. And I'm not gonna sell it Kwi yet, Scott. I'm gonna hold on to because after if he continues to hit big homers and put up the stats make All Star teams, it's gonna get more expensive for someone to buy for me.

00:44:07
Speaker 2: This is his first full season in the majors. Keep that in mind. I think he's underrated.

00:44:11
Speaker 3: He's on a.

00:44:11
Speaker 2: Nationals team that's may getting enough attention.

00:44:14
Speaker 4: He might underrated when he makes the All Star team this year, They're not going to be underrated.

00:44:19
Speaker 2: That helps. He's been intentionally walked four times in a game. Anyway, if you want to try and find a wood rookie card, go check out slap packs on Arena Club and right now you can get twenty percent off your first slab pack. Or if you just want to go with a card purchase, go to Arena club dot com. Slash foul, use code foul. If you buy, sell, trade, collect, go.

00:44:37
Speaker 1: For it.

00:44:42
Speaker 2: Hopcorner fired by next Playground. You got to get the console and check it out. We'll talk more about it coming up. They've got a new home run Derby game, but let's start with Jazz Chisholm. Moving back to second base, Aaron Boone said, it's done. You played third for a while since he was by from the IL he was training all off season for second base, which is a more natural position for him. Played a lot of third last year. It was okay, the athleticism was shown, but the inexperience was also there, and again this year. He's a negative defender by metrics. So he's very vocal. He likes to talk aj and he did say that he was expecting to be a second baseman this year. So now they place him back over there, and I will say this, chances are high the Yankees get somebody at third base to make this official and permanent for the rest of the year.

00:45:37
Speaker 4: I think the bigger news in this is, yes, Jazz is back at second he's happy. He can say he's happy at second base. But DJ Lemayhew what Aaron Boone said about DJ Lmayhew. He basically said, Nope, he ain't gonna play third base for sure, and we don't know where else. So that to me is almost a bigger story than Jazz chism moving back to second base. Yeah, I mean, I know he wants to play second. He's been a second baseman. Remember the Marlins moved him to center field for a time, the Yankees to third base. He said all the right things now he's back at second. Let's see if he can hold down the four, but third base as a hole. Now for the Yankees, we'll see who they go out and get.

00:46:10
Speaker 1: Does he play third in the All Star Game? I mean, that's what I made you feel like, that's okay, just one game. Even though he's super focused on just being a second basement.

00:46:27
Speaker 2: I feel like he'll live. That's okay, he said. You know, I'll give you one or two of the quotes. Everybody knows I'm a second basement. Of course I want to play second base. But whatever it takes to help the team win, if that's what the team chooses, that's what I got to do. I don't write the lineups.

00:46:41
Speaker 1: You feel me.

00:46:42
Speaker 2: I'm playing every day, so it's hard to be upset. Yes, I know I'm a second baseman. I know him better at second base, but at the end of the day, still have to play third. I just have to deal with it. You know this was in the past what week or so leading up to the change here? Do you think that he privately started to express that he didn't want to play third base anymore? Aj? I mean he is by metrics, by eye test, by everything else. A second basement over a third baseman. I think that's obvious. Plus yeah, I mean, he hasn't spent a lot of time at third base. He has been pretty good for the most part, saying he'll do whatever it takes. But I could see him behind the scenes being like, hey, dude, I'm better there, so that helps the team. Plus for him Selfishly, he gets looked at with defensive metrics, with wins above replacement and those kind of proprietary metrics that teams hold to try and sum up a player's value, and he gets hurt when he's playing a position that he's not as good at.

00:47:40
Speaker 4: Yeah, well I think, yeah, I think, yeah, sure, all the things you just said, Scott. Yes, if he's come more comfortable at second base, and stick him at second base and hope that he goes out and does the best he can. But again, just brings back the hole. It's the third base for the Yankees. Who do they get.

00:47:53
Speaker 3: Arnatto, Suarez?

00:47:55
Speaker 4: I mean there's a list McMahon, There's a whole list of guys that they could go out and try and get. So that's what's interesting here is who fills this hole when they go out and make a move and.

00:48:03
Speaker 1: Him coming out and saying this, do you think they wanted to kind of keep this under wraps a little bit? Because isn't aren't trades anything at the reps, he can't keep anything. But I'm saying, like, if you're Brian Cashman, trades and acquisitions and the trade deadline is all about negotiations. That's really one of the reasons it doesn't happen until the trade deadline because everybody's like, oh, you want our third baseman, we want all nine of your last first round picks. No, okay, we have thirty seconds left to do it. Okay, we'll give you your We'll take your tenth best prospect. This really puts Cashman in the Yankees in kind of a trade acquisition like negotiation corner because now they're like, you don't even have a third baseman. Hi were the Rockies. We know you love Ryan McMahon. We want the world for him even though he's hitting two twelve this year.

00:49:02
Speaker 2: How about key Brian Hayes.

00:49:06
Speaker 1: If you want defense and the Pirates ain't paying anything back, so the Pirates would have to buy back, they would have to buy the other prospects because the Yankees is gonna be taking on a lot of contract, and I get it, it's defense, But one of the Yankees made I mean, is is that the move bolster your offense by bringing in Key Brian Hayes.

00:49:28
Speaker 2: No, I mean, that's not going to bolster the offense unless you think he needs a change of scenery and you can unlock something. He is an elite defender. But I'm just playing to your point of the Yanks not having to give up much. I mean, you'd be giving up money. They are no short supply of that. So can't you make a case aj that the Pirates would take practically nothing to dump the contract.

00:49:53
Speaker 3: I would.

00:49:54
Speaker 4: You definitely could make that case. I don't know if they'll do it, but you could definitely make that case that the Pirates would like to maybe move on from that.

00:50:01
Speaker 3: I don't know how would Pirates fans react to that. That's why always my question.

00:50:04
Speaker 4: They would probably not be very happy if they said they were training Key Brian Hayes for a whole lot of nothing.

00:50:10
Speaker 1: I know, I know he's not doing well, but his contract is going the other way. Though a lot of these contracts are back laden, this one is shorter in the back end. He's making less every year. Yeah, substantially less every year. I think he made ten his first year. So cost certainty, cost certainty for the Pirates, I don't know. I don't know where that where that threshold is. Obviously they would always love to get money back for anything.

00:50:40
Speaker 2: Keep on hunting, right, I mean, if you look at the numbers this year now, we're deep into the halfway point, what are we ninety ish games in sixty four ops plus for Key Brian Hayes.

00:50:55
Speaker 3: Not very good. I don't know if that's that's not.

00:50:58
Speaker 2: A major league back for the last two years now aj again, unless you think you can resurrect it. You know, he's all defense.

00:51:08
Speaker 4: Is definitely for the Yankees. Maybe they're hoping that he brings back some of that. You know, he did catch you out last out in ninety six or ninety eight World Series, one.

00:51:15
Speaker 2: Of them, Charlie, Yeah, ninety six. I think sixty one ohps plus the year before that for Key Brian. I mean some Yankee fans might be watching right now screaming. I think Pirates fans would be okay at this point because they have to play the budget game. They have to go okay if we can clear some of that money, even though the contract is more backloaded, it's a win. He's not been a winning player for the team for the past couple of seasons in terms of what he's able to contribute. I mean, it's really below average contributions. If you add up what he's doing on offense.

00:51:49
Speaker 3: Well, they're not getting Brian Reynolds. We know that.

00:51:52
Speaker 1: Well, let's go to that.

00:51:54
Speaker 2: So Brian Reynolds has a no trade list, and some people don't understand how no trade lists work. It's a short list for him. He is allowed to put six teams on that list. And those six teams per sources from Noah Hailes, who covers the team every day, Yankees, Mets, Blue Jays, Dodgers, Giants, Padres. Why does this make total sense? Eric and people should shut their trap.

00:52:23
Speaker 1: Because they're all good teams. Some of these lists you can make them. You can change them part way through the season, halfway through you can change them. Usually can change them at the beginning of the season. It's because all they're they're all good teams. This gives him the leverage to say, yeah, I'll go to New York. It's not that Brian Reynolds doesn't want him play in the playoffs. He wants to play in the playoffs, but the leverage for him to say I'll go to New York or I'll go to the Dodgers comes Okay, Well, what else can I get? Can I get an extra year? Can I get my player option declined on the end of the contract? Can I get it picked up automatically? It gives him so much. It gives him, so you don't put You don't put crappy teams on there because you're not blocking a trade to a crappy team because the crappy team's never trading for Brian Reynolds.

00:53:18
Speaker 4: Yeah, the guys used to do this all the time. Ten teams plus Brian Reynolds is from you know, he's from the Nashal area. So if you notice he wants to stay in the middle. He doesn't want to go to the coast. Fine, he doesn't want to go Cleveland, don't want to go to California, and he doesn't want to go to New.

00:53:33
Speaker 3: York and Toronto. I get it.

00:53:35
Speaker 4: Guys have no trade clauses, and they picked teams for all kinds of crazy reasons. Teammates would pick it because they didn't like the city. They didn't like the hotel, they didn't like the food, they didn't like this, they didn't like that. I mean, guys have all kinds of crazy, but if they're smart about it, they picked the teams that could possibly trade for him, and then they get something back.

00:53:51
Speaker 3: And that's exactly what Crawts is saying.

00:53:53
Speaker 4: They can get money, they can get this, they can get that, and then it's all new negotiation when those things come up. Look at Nolan R and he has the no trade clause. Guess where he still is. He's still in Saint Louis because he has the full note trade and he's not waving it.

00:54:06
Speaker 1: To go to Wait.

00:54:09
Speaker 2: So I'll put this out there. I believe that Brian Reynolds would give a resounding yes to all six of those teams on the no trade list if they covered the tax dollar difference.

00:54:22
Speaker 3: Yes, that's it.

00:54:23
Speaker 1: Negotiation.

00:54:24
Speaker 2: That's it, because okay, I'm going to explain it nice and simple, and this is the job of the agency. Brian. You play in Pennsylvania, Kratz, Do you not off the top of your head or should I make up a number for the state tax rate.

00:54:37
Speaker 1: Plus the city tax? They have the Pittsburgh city tax.

00:54:39
Speaker 2: So let's say it's eightish for his local tax number. Okay, eightish percent. Do we know what it is in New York City? And in Los Angeles about double that. We're close to it. If you're in that tax bracket, cool fifteen yeah, okay, and then Toronto's same story. You get taxed, hardcore. We are not telling you this to be pufy bougie.

00:55:06
Speaker 3: Oh.

00:55:06
Speaker 2: Here's how money works, and this is how guys get around taxes. No, no, no, he signed a contract with a team in Pennsylvania. They do the math on how much income he will make post tax. If he gets traded to one of those teams, which if he didn't have a no trade clause could happen, he can lose millions of dollars. This is just common sense business. Anyone that's trying to maximize their value during a short playing career would do the same thing. He can then go to his organization Pittsburgh and say, okay, I will go to that team. I'm happy to go to a team that is a contender. You need to pick up the tax numbers. I agree to a certain number here. So let's say it's a few million bucks for the rest of the contract. You need to pick that up for me and then I will happily waive that. It is that simple. He picked teams that tax you hardcore, right, both New York teams LA. San Francisco's in California, so is San die and Toronto's in Canada. Boom. He picked the high tax brackets. He's that's what pisses me off, and I think you felt the same way, Kratz. He is not trying to avoid going to a contender. I think he would be happy to get himself out of Pittsburgh. He has been part of losing his entire career.

00:56:19
Speaker 1: At this point, right, yep, one hundred percent. Okay, So I.

00:56:24
Speaker 2: Think it could happen. And if a team does want him and thinks that, you know, this has just been a little bit more of a down year for him, but he's a really solid all around player with all the tools, then then they go for it.

00:56:35
Speaker 1: All right.

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00:57:31
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00:57:39
Speaker 1: Real quick. Diamondbacks. I mean it just it pops everywhere. I didn't wear it to the Red Sox game last night because I think that's weird when people wear different teams uniforms to games or hats to games, like neither of those teams are playing, So don't wear a different hat. There you go, AJ, you're up all right.

00:57:57
Speaker 4: So yesterday we had a conversation with Bruce Meyer and of mine text me this about a signing deadline. What if they incentivized teams by saying, if you sign a guy before Thanksgiving, let's say you don't have to pay fifty percent of that towards the competitive competitive balance tax. It gets to Christmas, it goes down to seventy five percent, you know, and then etcetera, etcetera. And by the time you get to, like, you know, February first, and one hundred percent goes towards competitive balance tax.

00:58:22
Speaker 3: I think that's kind of a good idea.

00:58:23
Speaker 4: Incentivizes smaller market teams to sign guys earlier in the free agent thing, and plus it gives them a reason to sign guys. Bruce passes On he raised that the other day. They absolutely said no, they said it was da on arrival. But I thought that was kind of a cool idea.

00:58:39
Speaker 2: Wait that would help big market teams, not small market teams.

00:58:43
Speaker 4: But it also gets signings. But also helps small market teams too, because small market teams could jump in maybe a little bit later when there's some guys, or jump in early if they want.

00:58:51
Speaker 3: I thought it was a good idea.

00:58:53
Speaker 2: I don't think it's a good idea. I think incentivizing teams to sign early with draft picks is fair for all. If you're saying it's going to help you with the CBT, that only helps the teams that dance around the CBT that get be.

00:59:07
Speaker 3: Okay.

00:59:07
Speaker 4: I just thought it was an inventive idea, something that both both sides could agree to, but apparently it was shut down by the owners d OA.

00:59:14
Speaker 2: Well, think about it. Most of the owners are cheap, so they're not going to do anything that's going to prevent Basically, it hurts their soft salary cap, which is their CBT, which punishes the big market teams. The picks is the way to go. Hey, if you sign guys early, we'll give you comp picks. Teams love picks. That's the way to do it. But again, they'll never do that because they only want it to be created to punish, not to incentivize. Punishes. Nothing can happen after this point. Incentivize is let's promote these things happening beforehand. It's that simple. They just don't want it to be for the good of the game.

00:59:49
Speaker 3: True, agreed. I just thought it was a cool idea.

00:59:52
Speaker 2: Sorry, Scott, Well, do you like the picks better?

00:59:56
Speaker 4: I mean, I like anything that incentivized teams to sign guys yes for more money. I like anything that incentivizes teams to spend their money that they're just putting in their pocket.

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