920 | Trade Deadline Predictions for All 30 Teams

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[SPEAKER_00]: We have a special interview coming on tomorrow. [SPEAKER_00]: and the deadline is approaching, so why not double dip? [SPEAKER_00]: Why not get into some more predictions? [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, there's endless stuff to talk about on this front and we'll still. [SPEAKER_01]: We still probably won't cover every single possibility, so my as well as squeeze out as many as we can.

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[SPEAKER_00]: All right, I'm without further ado, you want to get into it. [SPEAKER_00]: We'll start with the American League. [SPEAKER_00]: And I know you have a couple of predictions yourself. [SPEAKER_00]: But I compiled these thirty so I'm excited to start and throw them at you. [SPEAKER_00]: And we're going to start off real boring. [SPEAKER_00]: Because again, these are not my bold predictions. [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't fully put on the tin foil hat for these.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is what I genuinely think is going to happen. [SPEAKER_00]: So if you disagree, still be nice to me. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm a human being with emotions, right? [SPEAKER_00]: You don't have to get mad at me. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm just trying my best here. [SPEAKER_00]: So these are my predictions. [SPEAKER_00]: The blue jays. [SPEAKER_00]: The blue jays have a boring deadline. [SPEAKER_00]: Potential small moves for a starter or a believer, but nothing that will jump out.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I know that sounds crazy. [SPEAKER_00]: And that might be a tinfoil hat take saying that you absolutely nothing, but more often than not. [SPEAKER_00]: Some teams we think are just going to go full bore at the deadline, often go quiet. [SPEAKER_00]: We end up not having the most exciting deadline humanly possible. [SPEAKER_00]: And I view the blue jays as one of those teams. [SPEAKER_00]: And here's my reason.

[SPEAKER_00]: I look at their team, and I say, okay, yeah, they could use a reliever, but that bullpen has been really, really strong. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think that they're going to go big game hunting for a closer. [SPEAKER_00]: I look at the starting rotation. [SPEAKER_00]: Bassett, brieos, gaussman at the top, and Eric Lauer just continues to shove, plus they have maxures during the five. [SPEAKER_00]: I think if they go after a starting pitcher, it's not going to be a bona fide ace.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then in the lineup, [SPEAKER_00]: Do they really have holes in that line up with Anthony Sonton dared do to return? [SPEAKER_00]: Like you look one through nine and there's not that many holes. [SPEAKER_00]: And then here's the cherry on top of the Sunday. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think that this farm system has the pieces to go all out for somebody, right?

[SPEAKER_00]: Because if a guy like Tray is savage or Argentimala, maybe the bleachers don't want to trade them, then how are they really going to get big pieces out to deadline? [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not saying the bleachers make no moves. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm just saying that the blue jays are adding a big fish like some of these other teams come to deadline, which is really also a testament to how good they've been and how they don't necessarily need to do that.

[SPEAKER_01]: Honestly, we're starting hot. [SPEAKER_01]: I completely disagree. [SPEAKER_01]: Perfect. [SPEAKER_01]: I think they're in a perfect spot to go hard. [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, [SPEAKER_01]: You're three games ahead of the Yankees who you know are going to make moves. [SPEAKER_01]: You have a better farm system than the Yankees, I think. [SPEAKER_01]: And it's probably the strongest farm system they've had in years, which isn't saying a lot.

[SPEAKER_01]: If you don't move margin to mall and you don't move trade use average, Cal Steffin's going to be on our top one hundred update. [SPEAKER_01]: That guy is shoving. [SPEAKER_01]: Then they have [SPEAKER_01]: A few of the, like, Joey Wilper, Fito's playing really well, so maybe an Allen road and is expendable, or Elvis Martinez is probably a guy that they'd love to move off of. [SPEAKER_01]: And then I look at some of the other pieces that are on their way.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I think they could put together a decent package. [SPEAKER_01]: Johnny King is throwing opportunities from the left side at the lower levels. [SPEAKER_01]: They've got some options. [SPEAKER_01]: You look at a team now that I think, front office wise, we were talking about them being on the hot seat. [SPEAKER_01]: I've been very critical of Ross Atkins. [SPEAKER_01]: And I can't, I can't fault the guy right now. [SPEAKER_01]: He's put together a pretty good team.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I look at the bullpen and I'm like, yes, it's been performing all right. [SPEAKER_01]: But who do you trust to leverage right now? [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, you're closer as a four, seven, eight and Jeff Hoffman. [SPEAKER_01]: Of course, you're going to continue to trust him. [SPEAKER_01]: The underlying is way better. [SPEAKER_01]: Yario Rodriguez has been great and Brendan Little has been great.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, I want to try it in true arm there, especially going into the postseason. [SPEAKER_01]: Why not make a push for you on to ran? [SPEAKER_01]: Why not make a push for, you know, one of these established high leverage relief farms. [SPEAKER_01]: I agree on the offense. [SPEAKER_01]: Like, I don't think they need to do much there. [SPEAKER_01]: I think they're really deep and they have a lot of options. [SPEAKER_01]: They also are getting Dalton Varshow back.

[SPEAKER_01]: So I don't [SPEAKER_01]: think they need to do much on the offensive side of things. [SPEAKER_01]: I love their bench as well. [SPEAKER_01]: I think they have a lot of different pieces that work there. [SPEAKER_01]: But I think you could also throw an arm into that fold in the rotation if you could see a clear upgrade and someone that you trust a little bit more in the postseason. [SPEAKER_01]: But I think they could make a huge splash in the bullpen for that reason.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's like, OK, everyone's going to be part in what their top prospects for controllable pitching are just starters in general for big time bats. [SPEAKER_01]: And like you can allocate that all towards some of the best relief arms on the market. [SPEAKER_01]: I look at that bullpen. [SPEAKER_01]: I don't trust. [SPEAKER_01]: And he is because solid as they've been, I need somebody that's been there done that that I trust a little bit more.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I think they need to go get one of those guys, especially with Jimmy Garcia banged up right now. [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know when he's going to be back, but I just think they need another arm in that fold. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I guess I just, I think EMEGARC is going to return and I've just been really, really impressed by this bullpen. [SPEAKER_00]: Brendan Little has been good, Chad Green has been solid.

[SPEAKER_00]: So again, I understand where you're coming from, like the BlueJays are in a position to absolutely go for it. [SPEAKER_00]: I guess I just see this team as constructed as very good and actually still has if they do absolutely nothing, the ability to win this division. [SPEAKER_00]: I think that they're going to, they'll make calls. [SPEAKER_00]: But at the end of the day, I grew with you. [SPEAKER_00]: I think they'll add a bullpen arm. [SPEAKER_00]: Just won't be a major one.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think they'll potentially add a rental starter. [SPEAKER_00]: Won't be a big one. [SPEAKER_00]: And it'll be a relatively lame deadline. [SPEAKER_00]: But again, that doesn't mean I don't think that they can win the division as currently constructed. [SPEAKER_00]: But it'll be interesting to see. [SPEAKER_00]: I love that we're starting off hot. [SPEAKER_00]: I agree. [SPEAKER_00]: I agree. [SPEAKER_00]: I disagree. [SPEAKER_00]: I love it.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think Adkins is salivating right now at the opportunity to want to like buy himself a lot more runway two. [SPEAKER_01]: They've been, [SPEAKER_01]: kind of waiting a long time to get back into this position. [SPEAKER_01]: And I don't even know if you could say they've been in this full-fledged position in a while where your three games up in the division and how well that sets you up for that postseason run.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think also they have the ability to take on some money they always do. [SPEAKER_01]: I think we see them get a little crazy. [SPEAKER_01]: So I'm excited to see a more aggressive Blue JST. [SPEAKER_01]: I'm hoping and I hope they get some of the top relief options on the market. [SPEAKER_00]: What I will say, I hope you're right. [SPEAKER_00]: Because if you're right, that makes for a more exciting deadline, right?

[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm hoping I am wrong on this one, but that is my trade line trade deadline prediction for the Blue Jays. [SPEAKER_00]: Let's move over to the Dior Kianki's. [SPEAKER_00]: I think that the Yankees are going to trade for both Mitch Keller and David Bednar in a big time move.

[SPEAKER_00]: Because I think that the Yankees need both a starter and a reliever, and you could even throw a combine Hayes in there, but I don't know if the Yankees actually had an up trading for a combine Hayes. [SPEAKER_00]: If he does answer some of their defensive woes, but with an OPS under six hundred, I'm sure the Yankees would like to bring in a bat that is a [SPEAKER_00]: At least over a six hundred OPS.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm really looking at the pirates, a team that the Yankees have had a relationship with in trading before. [SPEAKER_00]: And I think Mitch Keller is one of those arms that they might look at and say, I think we can unlock a little bit more from you. [SPEAKER_00]: Now one thing I am worried about with Mitch Keller is over the past two seasons. [SPEAKER_00]: He's pitch close to an all star level in the first half and really tailed off in the second half.

[SPEAKER_00]: But I think that if the Yankees, the pirates are probably gonna ask for a Spencer Jones type prospect in that deal, right? [SPEAKER_00]: He's been unbelievably hot. [SPEAKER_00]: And I think the Yankees would say, we need David Benar and we'll even throw you another prospect because the Yankees certainly could use a bullpen arm and one that actually strikes out guys.

[SPEAKER_00]: Because the Yankees, their bullpen ranks pretty high and strike out right, but it just seems like we could use [SPEAKER_00]: a closer-type caliber reliever. [SPEAKER_00]: As devd Williams hasn't come over and completely taken hold of that job, and Luke Weaver has been solid but I've always felt that Luke Weaver is perfect in these weapon-type roles where he's coming in when you need and out rather than just designating him as the closer.

[SPEAKER_00]: So that's what I think a big package turns into, Mitch Keller and David Benar to the Yankees. [SPEAKER_01]: I like the idea of them bundling because I think that the more individual trades you make, the harder it is to piece together those packages where you can just kind of push it all forward on one big deal and maybe get a little bit more out of the prospect capital because they may only have enough prospect capital to make one really significant move.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I think doing that with two players makes a lot of sense. [SPEAKER_01]: Bednar and Keller, I think fit really well. [SPEAKER_01]: And then also kind of leveraging the fact that [SPEAKER_01]: A killer is not going to command as much of a prospect return to some of these other arms because it's it's not a bad contract. [SPEAKER_01]: It's it's actually a pretty good one, but he does cost money, right?

[SPEAKER_01]: It's not country like it's not Edward Cabrera at one and a half million dollars. [SPEAKER_01]: So I think that's something that the Yankees can can absolutely leverage too. [SPEAKER_01]: I like that shout, and I agree, like I think they need. [SPEAKER_01]: It was nice to see Devin Williams shut it down, but I was like, I was watching the Blue Js Yankees game the other day and I'm like, I don't know about you.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm sure at Doomsday fan is always going to be like, oh, we're going to blow it. [SPEAKER_01]: I have no horse in that race, and I was like, Devin's going to blow this thing. [SPEAKER_01]: And you can't have that feeling. [SPEAKER_01]: You can't. [SPEAKER_00]: And I would like the Yankees at a left hand reliever, so maybe they can do that as part of the deadline. [SPEAKER_00]: But I do think that this package makes all the sense for the Yankees.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I've also seen plenty of articles saying that the Yankees and the pirates have been talking a lot. [SPEAKER_00]: The Yankees have sent scouts to watch Mitch Keller throw. [SPEAKER_00]: And I guess there is helium towards him being the Yankees, like number one starter that they want to add.

[SPEAKER_00]: Of course, they'd [SPEAKER_00]: love to add a Joe Ryan or something, but I think this makes the most sense for the Yankees just because they don't really have the prospect capital to go to Joe Ryan and it's not a guarantee that Joe Ryan gets traded with leads me into my Red Sox prediction. [SPEAKER_00]: The Red Sox trade for Joe Ryan.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, okay, so that from the twins so [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, if Joe Ryan is going to get traded, I think it's going to be through the red socks, or I don't think he gets traded at all. [SPEAKER_00]: I think this is the perfect fit.

[SPEAKER_00]: Because when I'm, when I'm trying to guess what Brezlo is going to do, we've seen those reports, notably from Mark Fine Sand today, saying that a number two in the rotation to put alongside Garacrochet is their number one priority, either at this deadline or in the off season. [SPEAKER_00]: Now, I think that the Red Sox could potentially sell Jared Durant and buy at the same time.

[SPEAKER_00]: So if they're buying at the same time, they're probably not going to go into the rental market. [SPEAKER_00]: They're probably going to go for guys with a little bit more of control. [SPEAKER_00]: Now Seth Lugo could be an option for them, but if you really wanted to develop a rotation with Joe Ryan and Gary crochet at the top, that is dangerous. [SPEAKER_00]: And Joe Ryan is also a data darling, right?

[SPEAKER_00]: Jack was just going over the fact that his fastball is the number one pitch in baseball by run value. [SPEAKER_00]: He's a guy that I think the Red Sox would attack and also the Red Sox prospects that they could trade to twins, right? [SPEAKER_00]: You just made a great video for finlet about the past work. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: Well, position as he play outfield.

[SPEAKER_00]: If they're looking to trade, Jared Duran, you have an outfield prospect who's also been coming up, but the reason you're trading Duran is because you're outfield is Phil. [SPEAKER_00]: Franklin, Areas, right? [SPEAKER_00]: He's another one up the middle guy. [SPEAKER_00]: Right if you have Campbell is he can eventually play second for you, but you have at least have Marcella Meyer.

[SPEAKER_00]: Right so if you make a pack and surrounding those two guys and then you expanded as well, I think the twins are picking up the phone and I think the Red Sox go full bore for Joe Ryan at the deadline. [SPEAKER_01]: I like it.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, because if you deplete the farm system quote unquote a little bit here, like as you mentioned, you can kind of replenish it with adjourned or in move as well as kind of the strategic buyer seller approach here in a year where they've been really hot. [SPEAKER_01]: You want to make a push for this year, but you also want to set the team up long term as well. [SPEAKER_01]: I think that [SPEAKER_01]: I agree. [SPEAKER_01]: I think Joe Ryan seems very unlikely to be traded.

[SPEAKER_01]: And if he is, I think the one of the few teams that can make that happen is, you know, the Red Sox and the password by the way, it to home runs yesterday. [SPEAKER_01]: He looks really good. [SPEAKER_01]: This series has been a lot better in center field. [SPEAKER_01]: And we just had an episode on the call of about blocked prospects. [SPEAKER_01]: The password, Garcia's blocked.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I don't know where you fit him in, especially if you don't move grand, but even if you do move grand, how do you get more consistent reps as soon as next year for Garcia who's torching triple-aid competition here. [SPEAKER_01]: So things a great opportunity to cash in there. [SPEAKER_01]: And then they've got a lot of other prospects that I think teams would have plenty of interest in to put together a really overwhelming package, I think, for the twins.

[SPEAKER_01]: So I like that shout because I do think [SPEAKER_01]: The Red Sox have the farm system to be able to do it. [SPEAKER_01]: If you start, John Stinson Garcia and as you mentioned, like, [SPEAKER_01]: even just some lower-level guys that have huge upside, but a frank one, Arias and García together with some other complimentary pieces, it's gonna be really hard to say no to that. [SPEAKER_00]: I agree.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like, that's a great prospect package, and it doesn't kill the Red Sox out there, and I love that shot of potentially trading, deran, replenish the farm system a little bit, we're actually gonna talk about a potential gerund deran trade later. [SPEAKER_00]: So, good foreshadowing arm. [SPEAKER_00]: Tampa Bay Race. [SPEAKER_00]: going back to boring arm. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think they do anything. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: I can get behind that.

[SPEAKER_00]: Um, I look at the rotation. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, all right, we're good. [SPEAKER_00]: I've seen Tosh Bradley's name flowed it like I kind of get it kind of don't because you know, we doesn't have a ton of years of control and you know, the ratios sprout these starters if they feel like Joe Boyle is good to go. [SPEAKER_00]: I could see it. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think so. [SPEAKER_00]: I think they're competing. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think they want to trade Taj Bradley.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then I look at the lineup. [SPEAKER_00]: Not a lot of holes to go then go add. [SPEAKER_00]: Would you trade Haseon Kim? [SPEAKER_00]: Haseon Kim? [SPEAKER_00]: No, probably not. [SPEAKER_00]: And then I look at the bullpen. [SPEAKER_00]: Would they trade Pete Fairbanks? [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe. [SPEAKER_00]: I just keep them. [SPEAKER_00]: Look, let's go for it. [SPEAKER_00]: The American League East, like the Blueja has been playing really good baseball.

[SPEAKER_00]: The Yankees have been playing [SPEAKER_00]: Baseball, the red socks nobody knows. [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, though would tether to rather the lose for like nobody knows. [SPEAKER_00]: So the race can still compete here. [SPEAKER_00]: But at the same time, I don't see them adding any big pieces. [SPEAKER_00]: I think they just stand patting. [SPEAKER_00]: Do nothing.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, the only move I could see them making is that Taj Bradley move, but you don't even have to with with him being a free agent. [SPEAKER_01]: I think he's and four years. [SPEAKER_01]: So I just the lettals seems like [SPEAKER_01]: That would be the guy that makes more sense for them to move based on the way they operate. [SPEAKER_01]: Of course, what tell is going to bring you in less, but they're so deep with arms. [SPEAKER_01]: They could do that.

[SPEAKER_01]: And as you mentioned, you have Joe Boyle, you have you and see more. [SPEAKER_01]: You have several others that I think are very intriguing that are on the way, but yeah, I don't think they do

[SPEAKER_01]: much at all because offensively there's not much I'd change I want to get most of these guys reps even the guys that aren't playing at the eyes level and I think came in someone you look at and say okay the further he gets away from his injury and just returning I know he's already been banged up a couple times since returning that could be your deadline acquisition is is coming that's kind of what you signed him to do to your deal that you knew he was going to miss the front end of the season here

[SPEAKER_01]: The only move I could see is maybe a catcher, but are they going to give up the assets necessary to upgrade Danny Jansen who's not bad. [SPEAKER_01]: So I think they do, yeah, I think they do nothing. [SPEAKER_01]: If anything, they're more likely to sell and maybe just pick up. [SPEAKER_01]: They kind of made their move, right, Brian Baker. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that might have been their move. [SPEAKER_01]: Jumpstarting the, the deadline with that, like that might be it.

[SPEAKER_00]: That might be it. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm sorry, Ray's fans. [SPEAKER_00]: I want to bring cool stuff for you. [SPEAKER_00]: But again, I'm not putting on the tin foil hat. [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, maybe I have a little piece of tin foil under the hat, but it's not fully covered. [SPEAKER_00]: I got to tell you what I'm thinking, and I'm thinking you guys do absolutely nothing. [SPEAKER_00]: But with that said, you can still compete when this division or even make the playoffs.

[SPEAKER_00]: The Baltimore Orioles. [SPEAKER_00]: So my trade deadline prediction for them is nobody trades more big league pieces at the entire deadline than the Orioles. [SPEAKER_00]: And I feel like this is the Michael highest deadline. [SPEAKER_00]: Like, he doesn't want to buy. [SPEAKER_00]: He wants to sell. [SPEAKER_00]: This is his Super Bowl, Arab. [SPEAKER_00]: He gets to sell. [SPEAKER_00]: He gets to sell these, these expiring deals, and they have so many of them.

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, he's Sedrick Mullins going to be on the team. [SPEAKER_00]: Is Ryan O'Horn going to be on the team now? [SPEAKER_00]: Charlie Morton. [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, how many more rumors do we have to hear until he's like, actually God? [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, he might be gone by the time we're finishing this episode, right? [SPEAKER_00]: I could see Dean Cramer getting moved. [SPEAKER_00]: I could even see them trading off serenity to Mingaz or Gregory Soto or Andrew Kittridge.

[SPEAKER_00]: Or even if someone offers them a hall for Felix Batista, I don't think he gets moved just because, again, he has three years of control, but you never know what to deadline. [SPEAKER_00]: If Michael is on the phone and somebody's talking and he gives him a good package, I mean, why not, right? [SPEAKER_00]: I think the Orioles, they might sell six or seven big leaders. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, because they don't hold other teams.

[SPEAKER_01]: I did the only team that could probably beat them as the D-backs. [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe. [SPEAKER_01]: But there's so many like replacement, slightly above replacement level players that the Orioles would look like Luriano's probably gone. [SPEAKER_01]: Although they may want to keep him because he is an option for next year. [SPEAKER_01]: That's he's also the best player on their team. [SPEAKER_01]: I know. [SPEAKER_01]: which is why they might have to cash in there.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, I'm looking at even when you potentially get Gary Sanchez back, you will get a lottery ticket maybe, but they're going to move them. [SPEAKER_01]: If this is based on your prediction here in terms of just total big leagueers moved, I think they very easily could move six. [SPEAKER_01]: Sugano could easily be an exeater moved. [SPEAKER_01]: I think I take over five Orioles are traded at the deadline. [SPEAKER_01]: I would take over five.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think, yeah, I agree with you. [SPEAKER_00]: I think the D-backs will definitely compete with them, but I also feel like, and we'll talk about the D-backs. [SPEAKER_00]: The D-backs have like four pieces, right? [SPEAKER_00]: And those four pieces feel very likely to be moved. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't see really anybody else getting moved. [SPEAKER_00]: Where would the euros? [SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, [SPEAKER_00]: Could I leave and get moved?

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, if they have beside coming up, like, I think everyone is on the table, except for Jackson holiday, Gunnar Henderson. [SPEAKER_01]: Couser. [SPEAKER_01]: I don't think we'd go any more. [SPEAKER_00]: House, there's not getting moved. [SPEAKER_00]: Westburg, I'd be shocked. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah, Westburg ain't getting moved. [SPEAKER_00]: And that's ever Rogers. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think I've ever. [SPEAKER_01]: Tyler O'Neill, if anyone was dumb enough.

[SPEAKER_01]: There you go. [SPEAKER_01]: Trevor Rogers now like that Elias is [SPEAKER_01]: reveling in the victory now. [SPEAKER_01]: It's not even a victory, but just like evening this thing out a little bit. [SPEAKER_01]: Somebody like almost extend them, not actually give them that. [SPEAKER_01]: They probably should. [SPEAKER_01]: But no, I'm with you. [SPEAKER_01]: I don't think there's going to be a team much more active than they were.

[SPEAKER_01]: I took the Marlins last year, like they traded every single player with any sort of value. [SPEAKER_01]: And it worked out. [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, again, people weren't [SPEAKER_01]: talking about Trevor Rogers is an exciting trade chip and all of a sudden it netted them their their best players. [SPEAKER_01]: So I think I think the Orioles are going to be doing something similar which is just trying to maximize and throw as many irons into the fires possible.

[SPEAKER_00]: And again, we give shit to Mike Elias pretty consistently on this show. [SPEAKER_00]: But this is where I like it. [SPEAKER_00]: All right. [SPEAKER_00]: This is where you expect him to do pretty well. [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, yeah, I think the Orioles are going to have a good deadline here. [SPEAKER_00]: And I trust my Elias in these scenarios. [SPEAKER_00]: So when I say they're going to trade all these guys, I don't think they're going to get pennies on the dollar.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think they're going to do a really good job. [SPEAKER_00]: And I think also because the Orioles have never really been in a contention window to kind of make Elias second guess. [SPEAKER_00]: I think he's been planning this for a while and he's going to clean up. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: You know, one part of they won't get anything for his Jacob stallings. [SPEAKER_01]: Holy shit. [SPEAKER_01]: Have you seen Jacob stalling stats? [SPEAKER_01]: Can't win them all.

[SPEAKER_01]: Forty games. [SPEAKER_01]: He's slashing one thirty four one ninety eight one seventy good for a negative six WRC plus and defensively. [SPEAKER_01]: He is negative three, I think, in terms of fielding around value, negative three. [SPEAKER_01]: So that is good for a negative, one point three F-war. [SPEAKER_00]: And so my next prediction is that the Rocky's traded top-on-hunter prospect for chicken stallings. [SPEAKER_01]: He's on, he's on pace on a one-sixty pace.

[SPEAKER_01]: So he would be on pace for like a negative five-war season, no? [SPEAKER_01]: It's not good. [SPEAKER_01]: That would be incredible. [SPEAKER_01]: That would be incredible. [SPEAKER_01]: I hope they can just find a key way. [SPEAKER_01]: I just want to see what he can do. [SPEAKER_00]: Is he better than Adley? [SPEAKER_00]: No, that was too deep. [SPEAKER_00]: That was too deep. [SPEAKER_00]: That was too deep. [SPEAKER_00]: Adley's definitely back.

[SPEAKER_01]: He homer on his rehab game the other day. [SPEAKER_01]: Yes or no. [SPEAKER_00]: Just a joke. [SPEAKER_00]: Just a joke, Orioles fans. [SPEAKER_00]: Just poking fun. [SPEAKER_00]: All right. [SPEAKER_00]: Let's go over to the Detroit Tigers. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know how the Tigers are going to operate the deadline, but I do have a pretty sizable piece going their way. [SPEAKER_00]: And this is my prediction that they trade for Ryan Hellsley from the Cardinals.

[SPEAKER_00]: I look at the tigers and what made them so good last year. [SPEAKER_00]: Chaos in the bullpen. [SPEAKER_00]: Bullpen's taking a step back though. [SPEAKER_00]: They currently ranked twenty first in ERA and they also ranked twenty ninth in Shrekouts per nine in the bullpen. [SPEAKER_00]: Who strikes out guys who's a very dependable closer that throws gas. [SPEAKER_00]: And then you can put will vest back in that kind of weapon role.

[SPEAKER_00]: And you kind of just downgrade everybody again, which makes the bullpen deeper. [SPEAKER_00]: I actually think that the Tigers might make multiple bullpen moves. [SPEAKER_00]: But I don't think Ryan Hellsley is going to be as expensive. [SPEAKER_00]: Also, I'm thinking about this. [SPEAKER_00]: Will the royals trade a step as will the twins trade to ran? [SPEAKER_00]: Will the guardians trade? [SPEAKER_00]: Class A or even Smith or any other bull all in division?

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: So I'm thinking myself, they got to go outside of it. [SPEAKER_00]: Who are the relievers that are not going to cost them a big prospect hall? [SPEAKER_00]: I think Helzley's kind of that perfect fit for them. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: I was in it. [SPEAKER_01]: I like to Helzley shout that the the indivision thing is tough for them because it's like that their need is what their division has probably the most of.

[SPEAKER_01]: So you got to go outside of that, which I think makes it more likely for this specific prediction to go right. [SPEAKER_01]: I think that they go that route or like a David Bednar.

[SPEAKER_01]: We're a bed and not to be another one that makes a lot of sense, but being that they have to go outside of the division and they're probably going to want to impact form and their farm system is so freaking good that they don't even have to tap into their top five and could still get one of the better reliever arms on the market. [SPEAKER_01]: I think it's yeah, Hell's Lee, which would be so fun there or or bed and all I think are two of like the slam dunk tonight.

[SPEAKER_01]: I agree. [SPEAKER_01]: I think they go high leverage on. [SPEAKER_00]: Any other relievers that you could think of that potentially the tigers could get that are like big town closers because I was also thinking about Kyle Finigan from the nationals and I was like I don't even want Kyle. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's like I'm I'm okay. [SPEAKER_01]: I'm trying to think I mean. [SPEAKER_01]: Not, there's no one else that really jumps out.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think you look at the Oreos and the Batista thing. [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe that could be like the tin foil cap move where they make the just an offer that the Oreos can't quite refuse. [SPEAKER_01]: But other than that, I think it's going to be hard to find that established high leverage arm that you really trust that's going to be available. [SPEAKER_01]: There's just not a ton out there.

[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe Ryzella Glacius, if they believe he can kind of get rolling all the way down, but I'd rather have the other chance. [SPEAKER_00]: That's why I feel like Hellsley is just the fit. [SPEAKER_00]: Bednars perfect though. [SPEAKER_00]: But he's already on the Yankees. [SPEAKER_00]: Sorry. [SPEAKER_00]: He's he went to the Yankees. [SPEAKER_01]: I can honestly see him as the Yankees. [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know. [SPEAKER_00]: We already went through the predictions.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's gone. [SPEAKER_00]: He got traded. [SPEAKER_00]: He's gone. [SPEAKER_00]: All right. [SPEAKER_00]: My next prediction is pretty lame. [SPEAKER_00]: And you know what it does, Arm. [SPEAKER_00]: because my mind changes. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm pouring water on my own, cool, on my own take. [SPEAKER_00]: My own take that I brought up a month and a half ago. [SPEAKER_00]: I brows a raised. [SPEAKER_00]: Everyone thought I was crazy.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then I was where approaching the deadline, Emmanuel Class A, more and more likely that he's going to get traded. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going the opposite direction army and get in traded. [SPEAKER_00]: And neither is Stephen Kwon. [SPEAKER_00]: That is my prediction for the Guardians. [SPEAKER_00]: Because what I will say is, too, we're talking about a lot of closers being available. [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm thinking about if I'm the guardians.

[SPEAKER_00]: Class A has years of control. [SPEAKER_00]: Right? [SPEAKER_00]: It's not like if you don't trade him now, you're never going to get a big package for him. [SPEAKER_00]: Could he be available during the winter? [SPEAKER_00]: Of course he could, right? [SPEAKER_00]: We may be teams want to build that way. [SPEAKER_00]: And then I think about the Stephen Kwan. [SPEAKER_00]: No. [SPEAKER_00]: No. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know. [SPEAKER_00]: What makes no sense?

[SPEAKER_00]: It's not like, okay, Stephen Kwan is years of control, but oh no, he's making twenty mil. [SPEAKER_00]: It's making four, extend him, honestly. [SPEAKER_00]: Four. [SPEAKER_00]: He hasn't been extended yet. [SPEAKER_00]: He's not expensive and who are the guardians going to backfill? [SPEAKER_00]: And so they might be their only other competence in hitter besides J. Ray. [SPEAKER_00]: Exactly. [SPEAKER_00]: So you're going to trade from your bats for what?

[SPEAKER_00]: You better get the most amazing deal you've ever seen. [SPEAKER_00]: And who's going to give the Guardian some amazing deal they've ever seen for Stephen Kwan, right? [SPEAKER_00]: When you when you rather spend so much less on Haseu Sanchez and just hope he can run into some homers. [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, there's plenty of other guys like Jaren Duran. [SPEAKER_00]: If you're going big fish hunting, the Red Sox at least feel like they could trade him.

[SPEAKER_00]: I just don't, I don't like, that's, this is more Steven Quanna hundred percent to me is not getting traded, but I just, I don't think Class A gets traded, I don't know. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, God, the other direction. [SPEAKER_01]: It's funny, because I think, I was sent on the other episode, like, a day or two ago, like, I just think Steven Quanna's more valuable to the Guardians than he is anywhere else. [SPEAKER_01]: Where's your point?

[SPEAKER_01]: We have Roman, or not, Roman Anthony, you have Jared Durran, who is prime more valuable to every other team than he is to the Red Sox, so like correct. [SPEAKER_01]: You don't have to wow them as much. [SPEAKER_01]: Stephen Quantz a really, really good player, but not the kind of player I want to have to wow a team and like pry away. [SPEAKER_01]: Like he's a really, really good piece, but he's not the kind of player that I think sends your team over the top.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think that's a no-brainer for them to keep him, especially if they have any plan to contend in the next couple of years. [SPEAKER_01]: I think it's going to be interesting to see Quassex agree with you. [SPEAKER_01]: Like, unless they get absolutely overwhelmed, there's no reason to. [SPEAKER_01]: But maybe there's an opportunity for a team to overwhelm, for a player with control the way that he has. [SPEAKER_01]: But I do kind of lean towards neither happening.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm with you. [SPEAKER_01]: And they just kind of trim off some of the other small pieces. [SPEAKER_00]: Some expiring deals. [SPEAKER_00]: Like, I just don't think the Guardian's do much. [SPEAKER_00]: I can also play great baseball right now, who knows. [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe the body. [SPEAKER_00]: No, I don't know. [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, they're five hundred all of the sudden, which is kind of nuts.

[SPEAKER_01]: And they have, I think by fan graphs, the sixteen percent chance of making the playoffs, that might be enough to just say what's right and out this year. [SPEAKER_01]: And then if we suck next year, well, maybe we'll consider moving class A then, but it gives you at least one more run with him.

[SPEAKER_01]: And as you mentioned, I don't know you're going to get any less for class A next year, if he has the same numbers, then you would this year because it's still so much control for so cheap. [SPEAKER_00]: I also want to reiterate this because the more I was doing this deadline research, I'm like, there are so many closers available. [SPEAKER_00]: Like so many. [SPEAKER_00]: So if class A was really the only, like it was class A in Finnigan.

[SPEAKER_00]: Then I'm like, all right, somebody's going to blow you away. [SPEAKER_00]: But as the market is just developed, my opinion changes. [SPEAKER_01]: When the market is developed in a sense where there's tons of closers, and you won't have to pop, you'll still have to put it together crazy halls, but it won't be as crazy for a deran with control, a Batista with control. [SPEAKER_01]: It's going to be insane, but I say it's going to be on a different level.

[SPEAKER_00]: of taxes and even a closer and I would love to add him and like you're talking about a glacius Mason Miller's name has been thrown out there bought east uh it's just in a market like that. [SPEAKER_01]: I ain't trained classic are any teams a little spooked by the postseason to I don't think it's [SPEAKER_01]: I wouldn't totally be, but if all of the sudden you're starting to ask me for like my number one prospect.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to start thinking about every single way it can go wrong. [SPEAKER_01]: And then maybe now I'm worried about it a little bit more. [SPEAKER_01]: I wouldn't be as worried about it when it's my number three and my number five and my number eight prospect for when it's my number one. [SPEAKER_01]: Now all of the sudden I'm just starting to probably overanalyze and think about all the ways it could go wrong.

[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe teams don't operate that way, but that's where I would kind of start going. [SPEAKER_01]: My mind would start to go. [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it doesn't have a high strike, right? [SPEAKER_01]: He posted his rings and all of his, he posted all of his awards. [SPEAKER_01]: After he like, we win other posts he's insane. [SPEAKER_01]: I would just start. [SPEAKER_00]: I would just start to think why the greatest closer the last five years isn't actually that good.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I would talk myself out of it. [SPEAKER_01]: Like, it's not what Joel Ryan just called. [SPEAKER_01]: You know what? [SPEAKER_01]: I don't even want him. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, they're just thinking to hang up and be like, I actually hate him. [SPEAKER_00]: And then just hang up because they'll get so scared. [SPEAKER_00]: No, they have to trade like their best prospect for a for a reliever. [SPEAKER_00]: It's tough. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: If you're gonna do it.

[SPEAKER_00]: Seems like he's the guy, too. [SPEAKER_00]: So moving on to the Minnesota twins. [SPEAKER_00]: Again, just kind of lame. [SPEAKER_00]: But the twins have been kind of lame. [SPEAKER_00]: So why do they deserve like this crazy to the already said that they'll possibly trade Joe Ryan? [SPEAKER_00]: I think they'll trade Willie Castro and I think they'll trade one of if not both to ran and jacks.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think they'll get good returns for those guys and have a solid deadline, but [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, what else are we talking about here? [SPEAKER_00]: They'll probably find someone who will take on like Christian Vasquez or any of these expiring deals like Bader. [SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, I think they could really have a great deadline though if they trade those guys. [SPEAKER_00]: But I think crazy. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, and there's a real chance of they don't trade those guys.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, Castro gets just sneaky decent return, but he's expiring, you know, Bader kind of same story.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm I'm very interested to see what they do because if they do trade to ran slash jacks and Joe Ryan I mean they will bring in the most significant hall I think of of the deadline maybe maybe the Diamondbacks could edit out just what if you accumulate all of the players that they move but [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know, I think you're looking at the twins who could have a couple of the most valuable pieces that are available.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what I want to see them do, but I'd probably say I want to see them move those guys just because it makes for more fun. [SPEAKER_01]: But I could also see them. [SPEAKER_01]: I know one of the predictions is him going to the red sucks, but that was what the caveat, if he gets moved. [SPEAKER_01]: Correct.

[SPEAKER_01]: I could see them being boring and just not especially with like the impending sale like they could just stand back and just purgatory themselves even harder, which would not be great. [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not saying you have to trade guys, but you you gotta I think have some sort of clear direction because I still don't see this team. [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know you might feel different. [SPEAKER_01]: How does this team get good next year?

[SPEAKER_00]: They're not gonna spend that much run it back. [SPEAKER_00]: This roster right now is legit. [SPEAKER_00]: You run it back and you win the division next year. [SPEAKER_00]: God, can we be any more wrong of the twins? [SPEAKER_00]: All of us. [SPEAKER_00]: We've all just felt we can't time it up. [SPEAKER_00]: We can't time it up. [SPEAKER_00]: But if I told you before this year. [SPEAKER_00]: What do you mean, can't type it? [SPEAKER_00]: We do it every year and it never happens.

[SPEAKER_01]: So what do you mean, tie it up? [SPEAKER_01]: Because I think some years I've said, I hate them. [SPEAKER_01]: They're good. [SPEAKER_01]: And then they're good. [SPEAKER_01]: Other years, one of us loves them and then they're terrible. [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know. [SPEAKER_01]: But if I told you Byron Bucks and was going to play a full season this year and being all star and have a nine thirty OPS, you say, oh my god, the agenda finally is fulfilled.

[SPEAKER_00]: Korea stays healthy for most of the year. [SPEAKER_00]: Joe Ryan has a two six. [SPEAKER_00]: Durant and Jackson Gray. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, Durant. [SPEAKER_00]: I think this is my pitch at the beginning of the year. [SPEAKER_00]: It happened. [SPEAKER_00]: They just don't win. [SPEAKER_00]: They just don't win. [SPEAKER_00]: It's just brutal. [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, Lopez going down. [SPEAKER_00]: Let's move over to the royals. [SPEAKER_00]: And this is one that I have.

[SPEAKER_00]: State consistent on and I'm standing to it. [SPEAKER_00]: I think Seth will get straighted. [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm going to bring the team later to who he gets traded to. [SPEAKER_00]: So for now, we'll just talk about the fact that. [SPEAKER_00]: I look at the Royal's rotation. [SPEAKER_00]: Noah Cameron has come up and really helped. [SPEAKER_00]: Michael Walker's signed for a few years. [SPEAKER_00]: Boobitch is solid.

[SPEAKER_00]: And Rich Hill, I mean, he's a hundred years old. [SPEAKER_00]: He's going to be pitching for them next year. [SPEAKER_00]: No, not actually. [SPEAKER_00]: But the Royals, they're going to be plenty of free agents next year to sign on the mound. [SPEAKER_00]: Reagan's you think is going to be back. [SPEAKER_00]: Right, if he's not back this year, you just shelving, say, get back fully healthy for next year. [SPEAKER_00]: I think he returns back and is very solid.

[SPEAKER_00]: Right. [SPEAKER_00]: So then you got four guys. [SPEAKER_00]: Why actually really like Reagan's boobitch, walk a and Cameron. [SPEAKER_00]: It's a great four. [SPEAKER_00]: Spend your fridge and money on a picture. [SPEAKER_00]: And right now, recoup assets for a guy in Seth Lugo who's underlying metrics are not great. [SPEAKER_00]: He's only getting older and he still is a year and a half of control, and Sonic is cheap either.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's not expensive by any stretch of the imagination, which is why the Royals should get a pretty solid package for him, but it just feels like with the Royals four games under five hundred, and a division where the twins and the Guardians haven't been any good, and they're still above you. [SPEAKER_00]: feels like it's time to sell and this is a really good piece to do.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I've definitely come around to it a lot more, especially with the chance that Seth Hugo could turn down his his player option for next year, right? [SPEAKER_01]: So if he does that, then he'd really be kicking yourself for, you know, not not moving him and cash in in because then you're going to have to try to pay him more anyways and for agency to bring him back and then he still have other holes to fill.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think Glugo, if you're moving in, it's got to be for upper minors talent. [SPEAKER_01]: You've got to get some bats that can be up there and help you soon. [SPEAKER_01]: But I'm with you. [SPEAKER_01]: I think with the emergence of Noah Cameron, the established men of Kyle Berg of Chris Boobitch, excuse me, and then walk is just a walking salad, mid-three, mid-three ZRA. [SPEAKER_01]: It seems like every year. [SPEAKER_01]: I think they could justify it.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's probably one of their only assets that they're really going to move at this deadline. [SPEAKER_01]: Aside from maybe a step as or maybe one or two other, obviously, I think you kind of want to keep that bullpin intact and try to be competitive next year. [SPEAKER_01]: Given that he may be their only significant asset that could be moved, I think it makes a lot more sense now.

[SPEAKER_00]: When you had a tiny brain fart right there and accidentally said Kyle and said a crispy bitch, I think I know it was on your mind. [SPEAKER_00]: You're thinking about potentially Kyle Wright, twenty game winner helping this team. [SPEAKER_00]: And I agree. [SPEAKER_00]: You got it. [SPEAKER_00]: You got to gear up for the Kyle Wright return as well. [SPEAKER_00]: Wins. [SPEAKER_00]: We want to win games and that's what Kyle Wright does. [SPEAKER_00]: All right.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let's move over to the Chicago white socks. [SPEAKER_00]: Kind of mean. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm being kind of rude here, but I think it's fair. [SPEAKER_00]: Nobody takes Luis Robert. [SPEAKER_00]: Arm, I've come around. [SPEAKER_00]: I put them on my top on a hundred. [SPEAKER_00]: I got ready to kill to for it. [SPEAKER_00]: I stood my ground. [SPEAKER_00]: I had some good takes on that thing. [SPEAKER_00]: This was not one of them.

[SPEAKER_00]: I wouldn't give up anything valuable for it. [SPEAKER_00]: Even with the last eight games, I wouldn't give up anything valuable for it. [SPEAKER_01]: Would you define valuable and depends on my team? [SPEAKER_00]: Because think about if you're the white socks, you just give me giving them away for a top one fifty-prost bet. [SPEAKER_00]: Like, right, and then, if you're the white socks, like, why even trade them then? [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, what's the point?

[SPEAKER_01]: I think literally the only way is if he has, like, he's so his last eight games. [SPEAKER_01]: It's just such a small sample. [SPEAKER_01]: He's eleven for his last twenty eight. [SPEAKER_01]: He's only struck out five times. [SPEAKER_01]: He's walked four times. [SPEAKER_01]: He's two homers. [SPEAKER_01]: It's eleven twelve OPS. [SPEAKER_01]: If he does that for another eight games, he'll write up to the deadline. [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe AJ Prower just says, like, fuck you.

[SPEAKER_01]: Nebraska's like, I'm getting old. [SPEAKER_01]: Let's try it. [SPEAKER_01]: But I'm with you, like, because it's this, it's this combination here of like, are you willing to give up that much for Robert who's not cheap either? [SPEAKER_01]: Like, oh, all the sudden it's sixteen million next year. [SPEAKER_01]: I think in and for the white socks, you see him playing well all the sudden. [SPEAKER_01]: You're still not getting the offer.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's like, let's watch him finish this year really well and maybe we move him in the off season or maybe we'll move him during the season next year. [SPEAKER_01]: I don't hate that tick. [SPEAKER_01]: I think it's a full fledged coin flip just because of this week that he's at and assuming he keeps it going. [SPEAKER_01]: because I think there's a lot of confirmation bias for teams that are desperate to add somebody that where they might just say, oh, he's back.

[SPEAKER_01]: I'm thinking the same thing with Sanity after he just went six endings of no earned runs like evidence. [SPEAKER_01]: Seven. [SPEAKER_01]: Seven. [SPEAKER_00]: Four hits four k's look good. [SPEAKER_00]: I think it's a coin flip. [SPEAKER_00]: So I don't have a strong take one way or another. [SPEAKER_00]: This is another one I hope I'm wrong about because I hope what you said comes true puts together another eight games.

[SPEAKER_00]: One of these GMs who's a little bit desperate gives the white sucks what they want like the white sucks deserve what they want for the least Robert like somebody helped them help them. [SPEAKER_00]: You put to Martian, Robert. [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, come on, come on. [SPEAKER_00]: Good to nasty. [SPEAKER_00]: Good to be kind of nasty. [SPEAKER_00]: So yes, I hope I'm wrong about this.

[SPEAKER_00]: I just think GMs are going to be calling GM Chris gets and being like, what's it going to take for for Luis Robert? [SPEAKER_00]: They're going to mention a top hundred prospect and other teams are just going to hang up. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: And then it won't go anywhere and the white sucks will trade. [SPEAKER_00]: There are other pieces and just keep Luis Robert. [SPEAKER_00]: All right, let's move on to the American League West. [SPEAKER_00]: The Astros.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to go boring here. [SPEAKER_00]: I think they stand pat. [SPEAKER_00]: I look at their farm system and it's not very good. [SPEAKER_00]: But we just saw Bryce Matthews debut, but here's the thing about the Ashoes. [SPEAKER_00]: There's still one of the best teams in baseball and half their team is injured. [SPEAKER_00]: So their deadline is going to get back, hopefully you're done, Alvarez at some point.

[SPEAKER_00]: Parades is going to come back after hurting his hamstring. [SPEAKER_00]: Jeremy Pena is going to come back. [SPEAKER_00]: And then in the rotation, Luis Garcia, Christian obvious. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: Lance McCuller's junior has a blister right now. [SPEAKER_00]: He's going to come back. [SPEAKER_00]: Eric Getty is going to come back. [SPEAKER_00]: They have so many pieces on the dead are on the I. L. Excuse me.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: And they don't have a great farm system. [SPEAKER_00]: And there's not like a hole that isn't going to be plugged by a guy coming back from injury. [SPEAKER_00]: So I just don't think they do anything. [SPEAKER_00]: And that's not a bad thing because they're getting back an unbelievable hall on their injured list right now.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, Christian Havier through a three three endings of rehab and double a on V-eighteenth and you know, Fastball was at ninety four. [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, just to put that in perspective, like he was average in ninety three last year before he went down. [SPEAKER_01]: And I mean, the year before that, even I don't think he was average in ninety four.

[SPEAKER_01]: So if Christian Havier is sitting in the mid nineties, with that vert, he could not have the feel for the secondaries and still be a really solid arm to add to the equation. [SPEAKER_01]: I'd love to see them go get a bat. [SPEAKER_01]: because I think Yordon's situation is bizarre and the extras are so murky with injuries. [SPEAKER_01]: We didn't know Kyle Tucker had a fractured shin until like, thank you. [SPEAKER_01]: The fracture was healed.

[SPEAKER_01]: And now the Yordon stuff, it's just like, [SPEAKER_01]: the only time we're hearing anything is like you're done telling us himself like yeah which is just bizarre and he doesn't even he's not a doctor and he's just saying like yeah it's in a weird spot where they can't do surgery but it hurts and I don't like and they might not want to do surgery and I'm just like okay I really hope he gets back but

[SPEAKER_01]: You mentioned all, I mean, their IL situation is crazy when you look at it. [SPEAKER_01]: So they do have a lot of pieces coming back. [SPEAKER_01]: I do think they do almost nothing. [SPEAKER_01]: I think cheap rental bat is maybe it, right? [SPEAKER_01]: Like, mold ones might be the most expensive rental bat, and I think that would be a fun one. [SPEAKER_01]: But I don't see them mortgaging the future or anything like that. [SPEAKER_01]: I think they like their team as is.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think they can, you know, rest on the walls of their reinforcements coming in. [SPEAKER_01]: You don't need to add to the bullpen. [SPEAKER_01]: I, I, I, I'm with that. [SPEAKER_01]: I think they don't do much, but I do think maybe just one expiring bat, like, but Randall Grichucker or something like that, that like, no, maybe. [SPEAKER_01]: But it agrees. [SPEAKER_01]: And I speak to that.

[SPEAKER_00]: But then I'm thinking to myself, too, you just mentioned such a, what, said Rick Mullins a name that I didn't even mention that's going to come back from the I.L. [SPEAKER_00]: Jake Myers. [SPEAKER_00]: You can play center. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: It's like it. [SPEAKER_00]: What did they even, what did they even need? [SPEAKER_00]: Like, [SPEAKER_00]: Like, so you're right, they might just add a bat at a position of somewhat need, and it's really small.

[SPEAKER_00]: And they could still get out of the American League without doing anything. [SPEAKER_00]: No, getting the guys back. [SPEAKER_01]: It's not looking at all the injuries. [SPEAKER_00]: Holy shit. [SPEAKER_00]: It's unbelievable. [SPEAKER_00]: All right, let's move over to the Seattle Mariners. [SPEAKER_00]: This team deserves this. [SPEAKER_00]: The Mariners make the trade for Genoswars. [SPEAKER_00]: Yes. [SPEAKER_00]: They have to. [SPEAKER_00]: This is perfect for them.

[SPEAKER_00]: What's the one hole in the end field? [SPEAKER_00]: As coldly young is looked better and better, I heard you talking about that in the discord. [SPEAKER_00]: And I couldn't agree more. [SPEAKER_00]: There's a much more in control. [SPEAKER_00]: Just looking more like settled in, right? [SPEAKER_00]: I'm sure you can speak on it a little bit more than I can. [SPEAKER_00]: They need a third baseman.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's, like Jack said, be the first rental to be traded, who's head at least, thirty five homeruns by the deadline. [SPEAKER_00]: So he's going to be expensive, but at the end of the day, he is a free agent after the year. [SPEAKER_00]: And the Mariners, they're not trading those armontas. [SPEAKER_00]: We saw them at the future's game. [SPEAKER_00]: Peter Vision guy. [SPEAKER_00]: Holy crap, that guy. [SPEAKER_00]: It's missiles. [SPEAKER_00]: He's huge.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's not going anywhere. [SPEAKER_00]: Cool. [SPEAKER_00]: Young's obviously not going anywhere. [SPEAKER_00]: And so I feel like their pharmacism and again, correct me if I'm wrong, is like, set up for the most expensive rental at the deadline. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: I do agree. [SPEAKER_01]: I think it's, it's incredible. [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, you don't need to move code Emerson. [SPEAKER_01]: You don't need to move Farmella.

[SPEAKER_01]: You don't need to move Las Montes. [SPEAKER_01]: And you can still, I think [SPEAKER_01]: make a really significant offer for you any of swars. [SPEAKER_01]: I think, and you have the familiarity there, a guy that knows what it's like and see at also, maybe a little bit more comfort with whatever creates the invisible there, though it does seem like it's not happening as much this year. [SPEAKER_01]: Fans love them there. [SPEAKER_01]: It's a great clubhouse guy.

[SPEAKER_01]: still some guys with familiarity on the team like with him there like I think there's there's a lot to like their fit wise and a lot more reason for the Mariners to go all in on a rental I agree if there's a rental that you're gonna go all in on it's it seems like it should be him and he's a guy that can catapult this offense him and Cal Rally like they can leave the yard at any moment I mean you they're gonna combine for like a hundred home runs this year

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, that that's a game changer and think about how much pressure that takes off of who you're out Regus who all of a sudden now with with what arose arena is doing

[SPEAKER_01]: Who you could be like the fifth bat you're really thinking about here and and that I think is going to be great for who will you who's already starting to put it together as you always does in the last couple months of the season so I love it and I really hope this one happens like I don't generally root for a specific trade to specific team but this one just would make all the sense in the world and hell they could bring them back [SPEAKER_00]: I agree.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like, even as a Yankee fan, I'm hoping for this. [SPEAKER_00]: It's just such a perfect fit. [SPEAKER_00]: Like there couldn't be a better deadline fit. [SPEAKER_00]: I personally think Joe Ryan is an unbelievable deadline fit for the Red Sox. [SPEAKER_00]: Yes. [SPEAKER_00]: And we're going to talk about one for the podries. [SPEAKER_00]: That's an unbelievable one. [SPEAKER_00]: But this is right up there. [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, [SPEAKER_00]: go check out the Marine layer pod.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think they're last twelve podcasts have been just about Gino Swords. [SPEAKER_00]: They do an incredible job, but I just see all the clips coming from them, all the different angles, all the guys that they can trade, definitely Mariners fans, remember to go check out the Marine layer podcast with TJ and Lyle. [SPEAKER_00]: They do such a great job, but again, Gino Swords to the Mariners, please get it done, Jerry DePoto.

[SPEAKER_00]: And DePoto and Hayson have a lifeline that made trades before, right? [SPEAKER_00]: Because you never know what DePoto. [SPEAKER_00]: Like, he could just get really scared, sub-typed. [SPEAKER_00]: But at least he invasions appeared to be friends after the deals they've done in the past. [SPEAKER_00]: Let's move over to the Rangers. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm sorry, I got to go lame. [SPEAKER_00]: Some teams make big splashes. [SPEAKER_00]: Others don't.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think the Rangers trade Patrick Corbin and nobody else. [SPEAKER_00]: Nobody else. [SPEAKER_00]: And here's my thinking with this. [SPEAKER_00]: I think if you're Chrissy Young, you're just this one hurts. [SPEAKER_00]: This season hurts. [SPEAKER_00]: It was all right there in front of you. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's nuts. [SPEAKER_00]: And yet, you've all these been good. [SPEAKER_00]: I know he's been hurt, but when he's been on the mountain, he's been unbelievable.

[SPEAKER_00]: And maybe he gets moved. [SPEAKER_00]: But I think the Rangers, I don't think you sell. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think you really sell because you could still hypothetically compete. [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, the lighter looked great in this last outing. [SPEAKER_00]: They're playing well. [SPEAKER_00]: It's been looking better. [SPEAKER_00]: I agree. [SPEAKER_00]: They're playing ball right now. [SPEAKER_00]: But again, are you adding big time?

[SPEAKER_01]: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no

[SPEAKER_01]: I think you can justify keeping the group together because who are you really going to to move for a significant return anyway? [SPEAKER_01]: It's like if you do trade a pat Corbin like do you even care that much? [SPEAKER_01]: No, I almost would rather you're game and a half out.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't most rather just stand pat and go like you have enough talent as is but I don't think you [SPEAKER_01]: I don't think this team is necessarily earned the major buyers designation yet, but this is a team though. [SPEAKER_01]: If they rattle off another five or their last six, going into the deadline, I'd lean more towards them buying than selling, but I'm with you. [SPEAKER_01]: I think you just sit. [SPEAKER_01]: This team has all the talent to make.

[SPEAKER_01]: Not only make the playoffs, we've talked about it. [SPEAKER_01]: They're sealing is still [SPEAKER_01]: to make a run in the playoffs if everything is going right. [SPEAKER_01]: Corey Seeger is really swinging it. [SPEAKER_01]: I think that helps a lot. [SPEAKER_01]: Marcus Semion is back to swinging it. [SPEAKER_01]: And then you mentioned what you're getting from the ground and then some of these other young arms.

[SPEAKER_01]: You can still with the team that you have make a run. [SPEAKER_01]: I would be boring. [SPEAKER_01]: And I think boring is good. [SPEAKER_01]: I think for this Rangers team, I agree. [SPEAKER_00]: I agree. [SPEAKER_00]: I grew with myself and you. [SPEAKER_00]: Alright, let's go into the angels. [SPEAKER_00]: This one is my least confident one and it's a pure gut pick. [SPEAKER_00]: Just something is talking to me. [SPEAKER_00]: Who's going to trade for Sandy?

[SPEAKER_00]: And I think to myself, who's a team that would make a move for the big time name, who maybe some other teams are not so sure about? [SPEAKER_00]: the angels. [SPEAKER_00]: I think the marlins trade sandy to the angels. [SPEAKER_00]: They might be the angels are gonna buy. [SPEAKER_00]: I think the angels are gonna buy. [SPEAKER_00]: Right. [SPEAKER_00]: They have been competitive. [SPEAKER_00]: They're near five hundred. [SPEAKER_00]: The offense has so good.

[SPEAKER_00]: Mike Trout is healthy. [SPEAKER_00]: And you look at their rotation. [SPEAKER_00]: They have four guys. [SPEAKER_00]: And one of those guys is Kyle Hendrix. [SPEAKER_00]: Now, Kyle Hendrix has them in horrible. [SPEAKER_00]: It's been fine. [SPEAKER_00]: But they realistically have four guys. [SPEAKER_00]: And also, [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know how many players are looking to sign with the angels in free agency. [SPEAKER_00]: You get an opportunity to have Sandy for multiple years.

[SPEAKER_00]: And they don't care about the money. [SPEAKER_00]: And they don't care about the money. [SPEAKER_01]: I think Sandy's an angel. [SPEAKER_01]: It's funny. [SPEAKER_01]: I saw Jeff Passen and his article actually feel like he did really good deadline preview. [SPEAKER_01]: It was like biggest need pitching.

[SPEAKER_01]: Will they really add was the question and then best fit for him was Sandy as well and oh really thinking about it because I'm like, [SPEAKER_01]: I was wondering if you were going to say it too, because I didn't even cross my mind. [SPEAKER_01]: And then now once I heard it, I can't unthink it, because it's like, it makes so much sense.

[SPEAKER_01]: Because ultimately, who is going to be the team that gives up the package that the more, it's similar to the conversation we're having with like Luis Robert, but not as extreme, because you, I think you feel a little bit better with the Sandy, especially after this last start, [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, the Marlin still need to be wowed. [SPEAKER_01]: I think, at least, like, slightly wowed to do it. [SPEAKER_01]: Otherwise, just run it back next year.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: I can't unthink it now. [SPEAKER_01]: I do wonder what that would look like, but this is also the same team that was not even really in it and traded Edgar Carroll for a rental, you know, a rental geolito. [SPEAKER_01]: So I'm trying to think of like the angels farm system and what they could put together, but I still think even if they just [SPEAKER_01]: mixed pieces together, they could still put together something decent enough.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like I know the marlins would be, even though he said it down here would love the opportunity to add like a George class in who could help them soon rather than later. [SPEAKER_01]: They have some intriguing, you know, lower level bats. [SPEAKER_01]: It would be fascinating to see how they, what kind of package they could put together, but if they could, I think it makes a lot of sense. [SPEAKER_01]: And it just seems like they would be the team to do it.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what, how else to describe it. [SPEAKER_01]: So I'm all in on that prediction too. [SPEAKER_01]: I'm kind of sad now, though. [SPEAKER_01]: Passing ahead of before me. [SPEAKER_01]: Well, why did you first? [SPEAKER_01]: Can you give me a timestamp on your idea? [SPEAKER_01]: Thought? [SPEAKER_01]: Because he just put this out today. [SPEAKER_01]: You might have had the idea first. [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe he, he might read minds, dude.

[SPEAKER_00]: This was like three hours ago. [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, as I was prepping for the show, [SPEAKER_00]: Damn, I thought this was like a sick gut pick. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, exactly. [SPEAKER_01]: I should have just kept it to myself. [SPEAKER_00]: Dang. [SPEAKER_01]: But I was wondering, because I was walking into a guest spot, I was doing today in Miami, and I'm scrolling through these. [SPEAKER_01]: And I'm like, okay, that makes sense. [SPEAKER_01]: That makes sense.

[SPEAKER_01]: And then that one just jumped at me. [SPEAKER_01]: I was like, oh my gosh. [SPEAKER_00]: That fits like a glove. [SPEAKER_00]: I see, I wanted to blow your mind, but it's okay. [SPEAKER_00]: It's still, is your mind half blown. [SPEAKER_00]: I'll give it. [SPEAKER_00]: I'll give it half to you. [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you. [SPEAKER_00]: Thank you. [SPEAKER_00]: I appreciate that. [SPEAKER_00]: All right. [SPEAKER_00]: Let's move over to the A's. [SPEAKER_00]: I got a spicy one.

[SPEAKER_00]: Mason Miller gets traded from all. [SPEAKER_00]: because the team views him as a starter, and I'm gonna bring him, oh my gosh, this is nuts. [SPEAKER_00]: This is my tin foil hat, take. [SPEAKER_00]: Because I've seen this rumor already floated before by multiple people that teams are calling the A's and asking about Mason Miller because they think he can be a starter. [SPEAKER_00]: I know that was reported. [SPEAKER_00]: So I'm thinking to myself, who would do that?

[SPEAKER_00]: And now I don't want to give it away. [SPEAKER_00]: because we are going to talk about it on the nationally side. [SPEAKER_00]: So I'm just going to leave it at that. [SPEAKER_00]: Do you think there's any, you probably see those reports, do you think there's any chance the A's move Miller? [SPEAKER_00]: Because they're going to move expiring pieces. [SPEAKER_00]: I've heard about some of their starters. [SPEAKER_00]: That's great.

[SPEAKER_00]: But I wanted to come with something spicy with I think if they get absolutely not Oakland.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think if they get absolutely blown away, especially for a team that may be thinking about transitioning him back into a starter, I do think it's kind of crazy that you wouldn't [SPEAKER_01]: push forward, like the most significant package possible, then take the asset that you acquire and then make it even more volatile by risking the health and experimenting with something new. [SPEAKER_01]: But teams clearly want to do that.

[SPEAKER_01]: So like, I just, I would be apprehensive. [SPEAKER_01]: people that a lot more qualified than I am are are in on it and I get it off the talent and you see a clay home doing what he's doing, but it doesn't have the injury history that that Mason Miller has, but also Miller has overcome some things and now has been healthy sense for the most part, so it's it's it's fascinating. [SPEAKER_01]: I'm eager to hear what team you're thinking of, but I don't think it's a bad idea for them.

[SPEAKER_01]: At the end of the day, this a team that still needs a lot of pieces and [SPEAKER_01]: He's really going to throw his one in. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, you can, you can make it. [SPEAKER_01]: He can be answering talent. [SPEAKER_00]: And I just think that if the right team gets a hold of him and is able to unlock what he is as a starter, I mean, we're looking at kind of a misarrowsky again. [SPEAKER_00]: You have a crochet art potentially, right?

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[SPEAKER_00]: Hmm, what do the fillies need? [SPEAKER_00]: They need a closer. [SPEAKER_00]: And I think they could use a switchheader who could play a bunch of different positions. [SPEAKER_00]: Who has both? [SPEAKER_00]: Minnesota twins. [SPEAKER_00]: I said that the twins are likely going to trade Joe Ryan, Willie Castro, and one of Jackson Duran, if not both. [SPEAKER_00]: Who's the perfect team? [SPEAKER_00]: I think the fillies.

[SPEAKER_00]: right because Willy Castro can play all over the diamond for this team. [SPEAKER_00]: And now you hope at Munno's so sick and do that, or maybe even a Western Wilson, but Willy Castro was a starting caliber guy that you added this lineup. [SPEAKER_00]: And then if you're able to add a bullpen piece as good as a deran, as good as a jacks. [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe both, I'm just kidding, that would be too much.

[SPEAKER_00]: But you add that guy to the back of their bullpen and then backfill some other bullpen arms, but the headline really is to ran. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm sure Dumbarowski would like the name value with to ran. [SPEAKER_00]: And who knows, maybe Jackson's better. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, but I see a pack could steal Willie Castro and let's say you want to ran to the Phillies. [SPEAKER_01]: I have no notes on this one.

[SPEAKER_01]: Actually, just was on the pitch clock, which every Tashay over it. [SPEAKER_01]: Dan Lepertard Studios, every other metal art, media, the sickest studio ever. [SPEAKER_01]: It was really fun to go in there. [SPEAKER_01]: That was he asked for some deadline predictions. [SPEAKER_01]: I didn't attach Willie and I'm kind of pissed. [SPEAKER_01]: I didn't know. [SPEAKER_01]: But like the fillies, I don't think they're going to go like super super, super crazy.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think they make that one punch move. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: And if you can get a rental position player thrown in there, like if you're getting the ran, [SPEAKER_01]: I don't think you have to give up that much more to also get Willie Castro. [SPEAKER_01]: And I mean, that is a really, really good all in on the season without going all in, right? [SPEAKER_01]: You don't have to move it in Miller to do that.

[SPEAKER_01]: I love them because they still, I need, I need in this bullpen, just one, one arm I trust a little bit more. [SPEAKER_01]: I add high leverage and, and Doran is perfect. [SPEAKER_01]: And the Castro shots great because [SPEAKER_01]: whether you're, you know, struggling to find somebody at third base, depending on how it bones health and just his performance in general anyways. [SPEAKER_01]: And then I got the compug into center field.

[SPEAKER_01]: And then it's certain matchups against the left, you're whatever it may be. [SPEAKER_01]: Like, Bryson stops not swinging at that well. [SPEAKER_01]: You can plug in there too. [SPEAKER_01]: Help. [SPEAKER_01]: Max Capers not swinging at that well. [SPEAKER_01]: You can plug him in left. [SPEAKER_01]: Again, the post season.

[SPEAKER_01]: you're playing your best lineup and will we cast choking help you do that in a myriad of ways so it fits really well here um and this is a farm system that we've talked about it this is the strongest farm system Dave Dumbrauski has had so even if they don't want to fully mortgage the future [SPEAKER_01]: He's always wanted to make those big trades. [SPEAKER_01]: He hasn't done it as much with the fillies, and he's got his strongest farm system. [SPEAKER_01]: He's had.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think they could absolutely make a competitive offer. [SPEAKER_00]: I think this might even be too much, but I think Crawford and Abel get this done immediately. [SPEAKER_00]: And that might be too much for Duran and Castro. [SPEAKER_01]: I think he got a, no, I don't think it's too much. [SPEAKER_01]: I don't really. [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, the table is thrown has been great, but that's what I think helps you a lot.

[SPEAKER_01]: But like I honestly, I think you may have to throw in another, but the things they could do that, right, Crawford, able, and even if they moved a runesca bar, who's the top one hundred guy, that's so don't really feel it. [SPEAKER_01]: You still have Andrew Painter, Aiden Miller, Eduardo Tite, [SPEAKER_01]: And then your first rompick from this past year in Nori, bulk bur colder as well, you get for a shot money too. [SPEAKER_01]: Like they still have a really good farm system.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think that's too much. [SPEAKER_00]: Able, Crawford, and another top one hundred guy. [SPEAKER_00]: I think they could even go even lower. [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe if that we need to meet in the middle with Crawford able and then like a top twenty prospect for them. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, and to the point of they still would be fine farms.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: And I think that's a good haul for the twins and trades like that like a reliever and a rental bat. [SPEAKER_00]: You're getting a young starter with years and years of control. [SPEAKER_00]: Plus trust and Crawford. [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, tons of upside there. [SPEAKER_00]: No doubt. [SPEAKER_00]: No doubt. [SPEAKER_00]: All right, let's move over to the New York Metz. [SPEAKER_00]: And I think I found the perfect arm for them.

[SPEAKER_00]: Meryl Kelly gets traded to the New York Metz. [SPEAKER_00]: Because I'm thinking, if I'm, if I'm Dave Sternson, I'm looking at our rotation right now. [SPEAKER_00]: Sean Manaya is awesome. [SPEAKER_00]: Still working his way back from an injury. [SPEAKER_00]: Typical innings eater, I feel good about him, but he's still building up. [SPEAKER_00]: Clay Holmes, how many innings is he gonna consistently throw for the rest of the year and his first real season as a starter?

[SPEAKER_00]: Not that he's bad, and he's great. [SPEAKER_00]: Just how many more. [SPEAKER_00]: He's probably gonna go four or five innings a piece, moving forward. [SPEAKER_00]: Code I Sangal, working his way back from injury. [SPEAKER_00]: David Peterson is really your innings eater. [SPEAKER_00]: Whatever the hell you get from Frankie Montos, I want a reliable guy with postseason pedigree. [SPEAKER_00]: I get him. [SPEAKER_00]: He ain't afraid of the Dodgers.

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, he might be the Dodgers are very good. [SPEAKER_00]: The Dodgers have actually had his number, but you know what I'm saying. [SPEAKER_00]: Face these lineups plenty of times. [SPEAKER_00]: Know what he's doing. [SPEAKER_00]: A veteran in the locker room. [SPEAKER_00]: I think this is, and he's not going to cost much because he is a rental. [SPEAKER_00]: So Dave Stearns doesn't really have to trade a bunch of pieces outside of this farm because the mats are still really good.

[SPEAKER_00]: And they're going to make a number of moves. [SPEAKER_00]: But I do think that this is the biggest move that the mats make of the deadline is adding Merrill Kelly. [SPEAKER_01]: Well, and what's fascinating is, you know, I think the Diamondbacks really want arms back from this in this deadline. [SPEAKER_01]: And they've got a lot to offer. [SPEAKER_01]: Right.

[SPEAKER_01]: even if they don't have to trade in all of them a claim like it or a Jonah tongue who's been incredible you can trade Jonathan Santucci who has thrown the ball really really well they've got a bunch of random like I don't want to say random that's like mean but they've got a bunch of like pop up prospect arms who have been shoving this year that I think the diamond backs would be happy to acquire so I think that's a really good match up and and

[SPEAKER_01]: I think makes a lot of sense for the men who probably don't want to fully fully, not now that it's turns in charge, fully mortgage the future. [SPEAKER_01]: I don't see a jet Williams going anywhere. [SPEAKER_01]: I don't see a Carson bench going anywhere. [SPEAKER_01]: So going and getting a rental arm like that, I think makes a lot of sense. [SPEAKER_00]: I just don't think they're going to add much to the offense.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think they add Merle Kelly and then I think they add a few solid bullpen pieces and then call it a deadline. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: Without really mortgaging much of the future, but still getting better in the now and then trying to go win a world series, which they can do. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: I'm with you. [SPEAKER_00]: All right, let's move over to the Atlanta Braves. [SPEAKER_00]: I've kind of done a one, eighty on this team.

[SPEAKER_00]: Similar to my take on Emmanuel Class A. I was mentioning all those guys that they could sell. [SPEAKER_00]: I actually think he only player they sell of relative value is Marcello Zuna. [SPEAKER_00]: And maybe you could throw a Rosso glacis in there too? [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what teams are really going to give the brave's much form, so maybe, again, throw them in, sure.

[SPEAKER_00]: But I think the guy who, of all the names that we've potentially mentioned between Sean Murphy, between Ozzy Alby's, between Chris Sale, the list goes on. [SPEAKER_00]: I think the only one moved is Marcelo Zuna, because if I'm Alex and topless, like, oh, if we're looking at this roster next year, what are we saying? [SPEAKER_01]: They bounce back. [SPEAKER_01]: Look how much talent they have. [SPEAKER_00]: Right?

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, so I don't really think it makes sense to completely tear this down after one bad season. [SPEAKER_00]: Alex sent Opel. [SPEAKER_00]: It's knows what he's doing. [SPEAKER_00]: He knows he has a good team. [SPEAKER_00]: If you ask any Braves fan, they're like, blow it up. [SPEAKER_00]: We hate this team. [SPEAKER_00]: I understand. [SPEAKER_00]: It's it's been the most disappointing season and baseball by far watching the Braves breaks your brain.

[SPEAKER_00]: because like how were these guys with all this talent not doing anything. [SPEAKER_00]: But what they do, you put Drake Baldwin at TH Sean Murphy's your catcher when Murphy needs an off day, put him at TH and then you have Drake Baldwin. [SPEAKER_00]: So they don't skip a beat. [SPEAKER_00]: And I think Marcelo Zuna, like I think you guys, I thought you guys were actually a little bit for lack of a better word wrong on Marcelo Zuna.

[SPEAKER_00]: And the reason I say that is [SPEAKER_00]: I think he's underlying data still looks good. [SPEAKER_00]: He's still hitting the ball hard. [SPEAKER_00]: Not quite to what it was last year, right? [SPEAKER_00]: It's not the same Marcelo Zuna who was hitting forty home runs and hitting close to three hundred, but he's still walking at a sixteen percent rate. [SPEAKER_00]: He's not the same guy, but basically what I'm saying is I don't think it's a glorified salary dump.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think they actually retain decent value form. [SPEAKER_00]: Nothing crazy. [SPEAKER_00]: And again, that's why I said a lack of a better word wrong because I don't fully disagree. [SPEAKER_00]: I just think it's more than a glorified salary dump.

[SPEAKER_00]: So that's forty games one eighty one two sixty eight two ninety nine from a game is going to a horrible stretch and the hip hip might be a bigger problem but we look at the full season stuff and he's just proven it too long for me to just think he's just falling off the cliff and he's not going to net them anything he'll get something I think [SPEAKER_01]: I would, I would like to see them consider, you know, shopping sale.

[SPEAKER_01]: It's just because like, how many more years to sale? [SPEAKER_01]: I've left. [SPEAKER_01]: I want to see him kind of throwing some important games. [SPEAKER_01]: But if they feel like they can get right back to it next year and I doubt sale wants to bounce around. [SPEAKER_01]: He's got, you know, a family and he's already, I think moving once and once to the brave. [SPEAKER_01]: So you think about retiring before that, he said.

[SPEAKER_01]: So I got he wants to make another move. [SPEAKER_01]: So part of it for him, maybe I want to stay here. [SPEAKER_01]: But like that guy just threw, [SPEAKER_01]: He's already hurt too. [SPEAKER_01]: So it's like, that's the other side of it. [SPEAKER_01]: You're strong. [SPEAKER_01]: So well, though, and like his last out and we summed to a hundred sixteen pitches in June mid June. [SPEAKER_01]: And I think with the injury though, teams will probably be last likely to to to.

[SPEAKER_01]: move mountains to get them. [SPEAKER_01]: So I can understand why that just kind of makes it even more clear to the whole pat. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think a glaciest in Ozuna might be it. [SPEAKER_01]: And you know what, I think boring might make sense for the brave. [SPEAKER_01]: So are you going to run it back with this core? [SPEAKER_01]: At least one more year and then go from there. [SPEAKER_01]: But I do think they should listen on Albeys too.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think that might be the surprise. [SPEAKER_01]: They need to change something. [SPEAKER_01]: I think a little bit of something. [SPEAKER_01]: And maybe Albeys is a spot they do it. [SPEAKER_00]: I could see that. [SPEAKER_00]: I just [SPEAKER_00]: I'll be so cheap, too. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: I think a team would have to blow Alex and Thoplas away. [SPEAKER_00]: And I think to myself, who's going to blow Alex and Thoplas away for Aussie hobbies?

[SPEAKER_00]: He doesn't mean good for two years. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: So it's like, sure. [SPEAKER_00]: I bet you're right, though. [SPEAKER_00]: They will listen. [SPEAKER_00]: I just, you're selling guys at lowest value possible. [SPEAKER_00]: Just doesn't make sense. [SPEAKER_00]: It doesn't feel like an Alex and Thoplas way to move at the deadline. [SPEAKER_00]: All right. [SPEAKER_00]: Let's go over to the Miami Marlins.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think Edward Cabrera is gonna get traded, but that's not my prediction. [SPEAKER_00]: My prediction is he gets traded for a weirdly large haul. [SPEAKER_00]: And you're like, whoa, fans of other teams like we traded. [SPEAKER_00]: What for Edward Cabrera? [SPEAKER_00]: Newsflash. [SPEAKER_00]: Arm, am I crazy for getting excited about him? [SPEAKER_00]: What have we said for years with Edward Cabrera? [SPEAKER_00]: Stuff is outrageous, but he's walking everybody.

[SPEAKER_00]: The command is not there. [SPEAKER_00]: And he gets hurt. [SPEAKER_00]: Well, now he's healthy in the commands there. [SPEAKER_00]: And the underlying numbers point to more future success where I work abroad than his current ERA would say. [SPEAKER_00]: He's young. [SPEAKER_00]: He's got three years at control. [SPEAKER_00]: I think he nets potentially to so cheap a larger package than Sandy gets them. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: I agree.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think he's going to get a weird, not weird. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't mean weird as if he doesn't deserve it. [SPEAKER_00]: That's what I'm saying is that they deserve it. [SPEAKER_00]: I just think the reaction is going to be shock with how well the marlins do when they eventually trade at work, bro. [SPEAKER_00]: You have to.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think because there's the health, the health concern too, and I think he's going to eclipse [SPEAKER_01]: more earnings this year than he has in any season of his professional career. [SPEAKER_01]: I think pretty comfortably. [SPEAKER_01]: But you talk about how many pictures can really go out there and dominate for you that are available in the market with control outside of the top top names that we figured are may not even be available. [SPEAKER_01]: There's not a ton.

[SPEAKER_01]: And I think it's pretty tangible how different Edward Cabrera is. [SPEAKER_01]: new pitching philosophy, new pitching coaches working with him. [SPEAKER_01]: It seems to have worked for him a lot better. [SPEAKER_01]: He's just throwing his shit down the middle that moves in four different directions and letting it eat. [SPEAKER_01]: And I mean, that curve ball has been one of the best pitches in Major League Baseball. [SPEAKER_01]: Like that's a tangible improvement for him.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's letting it first strike, sixty eight percent of the time over his last twelve starts and opponents are six for fifty three against it with twenty eight strikeouts. [SPEAKER_01]: It is just been other worldly dominant. [SPEAKER_01]: I think, and then you factor in the cost side. [SPEAKER_01]: I think they have to move him because they're going to get so overwhelmed. [SPEAKER_01]: But they still have the leverage of like he's so cheap. [SPEAKER_01]: We can keep him if we want.

[SPEAKER_01]: We interest you in Sandia, Contra, team says. [SPEAKER_01]: And then you're going to come back and you're going to have to really, really overwhelm them. [SPEAKER_01]: So I think the Marlin's end up doing it. [SPEAKER_01]: And I do agree. [SPEAKER_01]: I think it's going to be a really significant haul. [SPEAKER_01]: And my prediction is actually, I think, Sandy stays.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think they move Edward keeps Andy because that's that's seventeen million that they like technically like half to pay. [SPEAKER_01]: It'll be so egregious for a potential grievance if they trade Sandy they'd have to reinvest that money and who do you put that into like Carlos Santana next year like you might as well have it on Sandy if Sandy was a free agent you say oh that's a great bounce back by low candidate for them just do that so I think they trade Edward and keeps Andy

[SPEAKER_00]: Here's the thing though, you got me thinking, if they sign Colis Santana next year for like nine million, we're all gonna be like not about move. [SPEAKER_01]: No, not about move, but I'd rather, I'd rather have Sandy at sixteen seventeen and see what he can do. [SPEAKER_00]: You're right, I could totally see that. [SPEAKER_00]: All right, let's move over to the Washington Nationals. [SPEAKER_00]: I gotta get mean arm. [SPEAKER_00]: There's always a loser at the deadline.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's gonna be the Nats. [SPEAKER_00]: I think the Nats have a really, really sour deadline. [SPEAKER_00]: And here's what I mean by that. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't want Josh Bell. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't want Nate low. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what you could get from Jacob young, but shout out Jacob young for that at home run robbery on Wednesday. [SPEAKER_00]: What a catch. [SPEAKER_00]: Seroca should net the M a piece if they even trade them. [SPEAKER_00]: Jacob Irvin.

[SPEAKER_00]: Do teams want him. [SPEAKER_00]: Kyle Finnigan. [SPEAKER_00]: Do teams want him all of their expiring pieces. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't want. [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe other teams do? [SPEAKER_00]: I wouldn't. [SPEAKER_00]: So I'm thinking about it is, well, they're certainly not going to buy. [SPEAKER_00]: They're in a seller's market, but they don't have actually any pieces that are going to actually net them that value.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think they're going to have a really tough deadline, which is why I think we've seen the Mackenzie Gore thing floated and let me be clear. [SPEAKER_01]: What a terrible decision. [SPEAKER_01]: If the nationals trade Mackenzie Gore, it's the biggest fuck you to the nationals fan base I can imagine. [SPEAKER_01]: You are rebuilding a rebuild trade as you're getting closer to being bad.

[SPEAKER_01]: I know it's been a bad year, but you can still look at the core and say, hey, this, this is a team that's going to be good. [SPEAKER_01]: This is a picture you've been coveting and you get in that one, so to deal. [SPEAKER_01]: And then you're going to cash in on that already again now, too. [SPEAKER_01]: Build around him. [SPEAKER_01]: Make him one of your building blocks. [SPEAKER_01]: That would be I think embarrassing. [SPEAKER_01]: It would be extremely disappointing.

[SPEAKER_01]: He's he's under control until twenty twenty eight. [SPEAKER_01]: What a ride. [SPEAKER_01]: So I agree, like, and I get it because I think they're not going to be able to bring in a ton of talent. [SPEAKER_01]: You have a decent core here. [SPEAKER_01]: You have some decent prospects. [SPEAKER_01]: Dylan Cruz is going to come back. [SPEAKER_01]: Just spend some money and compliment there's a team.

[SPEAKER_01]: Don't trade your one, but the only arm that has a reasonable shot at being a front line arm. [SPEAKER_01]: The only arm that I think has a reasonable shot at being more than the three. [SPEAKER_01]: I think it's going to be tough for them. [SPEAKER_01]: I think they're going to be dropping players for essentially nothing. [SPEAKER_01]: I think other than Kyle Finnegan, a man who is already on my get them their best return. [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe. [SPEAKER_00]: I think Seroca would.

[SPEAKER_00]: But they might know trade them. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, we're talking about they need to keep arms. [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, he is he was a one year deal guy. [SPEAKER_01]: So Seroca's going to be their best return. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: If they unless they trade Gore, but even then, still fine with that. [SPEAKER_01]: Fine with that. [SPEAKER_01]: You have enough [SPEAKER_01]: Young talent here. [SPEAKER_01]: Don't trade your best picture by a mile.

[SPEAKER_00]: Then they're definitely the loser at the deadline. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh my god. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't even care what they get. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't have what they got. [SPEAKER_01]: It would have to be so stupidly insane with a bunch of players that are right knocking on the door for me to be okay with it. [SPEAKER_00]: I get just two teams not going to do that. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't, I don't think. [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you never know.

[SPEAKER_00]: Right, if you're right to try to forget the gore though, you know, the other side, it would be sick. [SPEAKER_00]: It would be sick. [SPEAKER_00]: No, he's not getting moved. [SPEAKER_00]: And I just, I see the nationals and I'm like, I wouldn't trade anything for any of these guys. [SPEAKER_00]: So how are they going to operate in a seller's market? [SPEAKER_00]: I think they're going to try and sell. [SPEAKER_00]: I think they're going to be calling teams.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: Being like, interest you. [SPEAKER_01]: What do you think, though? [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: And they're like, no. [SPEAKER_00]: And then what? [SPEAKER_00]: So I'm there in for a rough go. [SPEAKER_00]: All right, let's move over to the Chicago Cubs. [SPEAKER_00]: Cubs need to start or who's available. [SPEAKER_00]: Zach Allen. [SPEAKER_00]: Zach Allen goes to the Cubs is my prediction.

[SPEAKER_00]: Gowns been floated to any team that is a contender with a pulse. [SPEAKER_00]: But when surveying the market, I think to myself, all right, the cubs are really going for it. [SPEAKER_00]: And gallon has looked better lately, not perfect, but better. [SPEAKER_00]: And it's still Zach gallon at the end of the day. [SPEAKER_00]: And I also think it definitely has to be a righty, right? [SPEAKER_00]: You got Shota and you got Map Boyd.

[SPEAKER_00]: They need a guy who I feel confident in a playoff series. [SPEAKER_00]: And I feel confident in gallon in a playoff series. [SPEAKER_00]: And I also think that the cubs would prefer not to [SPEAKER_00]: trades so many prospects like Owen Casey, maybe that's even too much for a rental gallon, but it just feels like Casey who is wasting time there in AAA is the perfect type of prospect to get moved to the Arizona even though Arizona wants all of this.

[SPEAKER_00]: more from the D-backs. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, Casey for rental gallon. [SPEAKER_00]: No shot. [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. [SPEAKER_00]: You tell me, you tell me, but it just feels like gallon is a good fit in Chicago. [SPEAKER_01]: I like that as a buy-all. [SPEAKER_01]: I almost would have gallon and somebody else. [SPEAKER_01]: Like cool. [SPEAKER_01]: You won't even feel it with what you could probably get gallon for.

[SPEAKER_01]: And then I want to see them make a bigger, a big, big splash. [SPEAKER_01]: That's going to be my one pushback here. [SPEAKER_01]: Because I think they shouldn't move Casey. [SPEAKER_01]: And I think if you are moving Casey, I want somebody better than Zach gallon. [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know who that would be. [SPEAKER_01]: That's the thing who's better with control. [SPEAKER_01]: Edward Cabrera. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: Do it.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't want Owen Casey to be a Marlin personally just because like he plays the same position as Griffin and has a lot of the similar things into what Griffin going on does. [SPEAKER_01]: But I mean from a just an objective like viewpoint. [SPEAKER_01]: That's a no brainer for the marlins. [SPEAKER_01]: You get a potential a thirty five home run, plus bad. [SPEAKER_01]: It's playing out of his mind, who you can, the marlins are playing good ball right now, right?

[SPEAKER_01]: You're going to trade Haysu Sanchez. [SPEAKER_01]: And if you're, if you're trying to continue to convince fans to buy in, which they actually kind of are a little bit, which has been fun to see like the crowds have been north of ten thousand, which is hilarious to say, but like it's, it's honestly an accomplishment for them of late.

[SPEAKER_01]: acquire someone that you can plug right in right away and say look it's like stowers again we did it again right so like I think that makes a lot of sense [SPEAKER_01]: and Edward, the biggest thing is for whatever fucking reason the cubs are so cheap. [SPEAKER_01]: I know their payrolls high, but they should not. [SPEAKER_01]: I'm just so tired of hearing about budget with with with with with the cubs Edward is very cheap Edward is very very very cheap.

[SPEAKER_01]: So I think it I think it's a great fit, but Galen would make sense if they don't want to tap into the prospect capitol as much. [SPEAKER_00]: I think we're aligned that the cubs are going to make [SPEAKER_00]: a big move at the deadline for a starter. [SPEAKER_00]: I think it's just about finding who that is. [SPEAKER_00]: It could be Edward with control. [SPEAKER_00]: It could be Lugo. [SPEAKER_00]: It could be Galen. [SPEAKER_00]: It really could be anybody.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I think we're both aligned. [SPEAKER_00]: They're adding a starter. [SPEAKER_00]: I think there's a little name. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: And I think they had a reliever too. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, like they'll add one as well. [SPEAKER_00]: And they're plenty of relievers available. [SPEAKER_00]: I just felt like gallon big name. [SPEAKER_00]: I just feel like the cubs. [SPEAKER_00]: It may be I'm wrong about this.

[SPEAKER_00]: That name value might be important to them. [SPEAKER_00]: And it'd be like this ever in the first. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I mean, they definitely want a little bit more name. [SPEAKER_01]: But maybe control how some more when they're trading a Casey. [SPEAKER_00]: We'll see, we'll see. [SPEAKER_00]: All right, let's move over to the Milwaukee Brewers. [SPEAKER_00]: Brewers are a fascinating deadline team and I know I'm gonna be wrong. [SPEAKER_00]: I know I'm gonna be wrong.

[SPEAKER_00]: So might as well just do something that I think is fun because I have, they could sell and then win more games. [SPEAKER_00]: They're perfect. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what they're gonna do. [SPEAKER_00]: Nobody does. [SPEAKER_00]: So I'm gonna have fun. [SPEAKER_00]: Josh and Taylor feels like a good fit for this. [SPEAKER_00]: Because if I'm the Brewers, right? [SPEAKER_00]: You're not adding starters. [SPEAKER_00]: You have forty. [SPEAKER_00]: You're not adding bullpen.

[SPEAKER_00]: You have a hundred. [SPEAKER_00]: What could you add? [SPEAKER_00]: It would probably be a bat. [SPEAKER_00]: And I look at this Brewers team and I look at their current roster and I say to myself, well, Andrew Vaughn, they just traded for to play first base. [SPEAKER_00]: It's great. [SPEAKER_00]: Is he going to be your first basement for the entire year? [SPEAKER_00]: Or could you make an incredible platoon with Nailer and Andrew Vaughn? [SPEAKER_00]: And then who's your DH?

[SPEAKER_00]: Anthony Seagler? [SPEAKER_00]: Right now, you know, Reese Hoskins is on the shelf, but he hasn't been very good. [SPEAKER_00]: Jake Bowers has a shoulder and pinchman. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know what's going on with him. [SPEAKER_00]: Doesn't feel like they're going to add to the outfield, right? [SPEAKER_00]: If you got yell at she got choreo, you got Isaac Collins, and then you have Freela coming back.

[SPEAKER_00]: The short stop market doesn't look good, and it's like, I'd rather just roll with Joey Ortiz. [SPEAKER_00]: So if they're going to do something, I think they add a bat. [SPEAKER_00]: It's not going to cost much. [SPEAKER_00]: And I think Naylor would come in and compliment this offense really well. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, my gosh. [SPEAKER_01]: It's a good fit. [SPEAKER_01]: You could help springboard it.

[SPEAKER_01]: You know, and I know they don't love to do the rental thing, but here's the fascinating part is the diamond backs. [SPEAKER_01]: They want arms, as we've talked about, and the brewers are so deep with arms that they could make a weird trade here where they end up moving, let's say, like a Chad Patrick, who actually I think came up with the Diamondbacks funny enough, but just for sake of argument, Chad Patrick.

[SPEAKER_01]: And the Diamondbacks could end up setting another prospect over. [SPEAKER_01]: I don't think they would rule that out. [SPEAKER_01]: I know they're, they're sellers, but this is a team that still wants to compete next year too, the Diamondbacks. [SPEAKER_01]: So like, if it allows them to get a Chad Patrick who plugs into the rotation tomorrow and years beyond that, [SPEAKER_01]: They could send nail or and a prospect or something like that.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like, I don't, or maybe it's an even swap. [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know what the value of Chad Patrick is, but he shoved this year for ninety-four and two-thirds innings. [SPEAKER_01]: And he's like, the number two starter on their AAA team right now. [SPEAKER_01]: So I don't really know, but I think that makes a lot of sense too. [SPEAKER_01]: I think we could just see. [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, we see like one of the weirder trades.

[SPEAKER_01]: If by the brewers is kind of my prediction because they so much pitching, they don't have to deplete the farm. [SPEAKER_01]: But like if they trade one of those pitchers, you're not trading him for just a rental because he's proven to have success at the big level with five years of control. [SPEAKER_01]: Like we saw what they just gave up for prester. [SPEAKER_01]: So maybe repackaging that for a rental and then some other prospects.

[SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if they're going to do it. [SPEAKER_01]: But knowing that they're going to get so many other assets from other trades. [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe they do. [SPEAKER_01]: And then the brewers just keep replenishing the farm system and get a guy that helps them this year. [SPEAKER_01]: Moving over to the reds. [SPEAKER_00]: I gotta be honest, I'm confused by the reds, so this is another team I'm gonna be wrong about.

[SPEAKER_00]: Because I think, you know, I don't know who exactly to add besides just a good bullpen arm. [SPEAKER_00]: Because it's like everyone in their lineup, it's like pretty good, but I just wanna bat. [SPEAKER_00]: I just want a batch. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't care if he's right here left you. [SPEAKER_00]: I know they'd probably prefer a lefty. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't care. [SPEAKER_00]: I want a bat in the lineup. [SPEAKER_00]: That's it.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I want a guy who can hit for some power because this team right now rings. [SPEAKER_00]: Eighteenth in home runs. [SPEAKER_00]: Marcelo Zuna to the reds is my prediction. [SPEAKER_01]: That's a good shot to take because you don't have to they don't want to trade major prospect. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, capital. [SPEAKER_01]: It's not that much money at the end of the day for the rest of this year.

[SPEAKER_01]: Like maybe you can get the braves to pay it down a little bit and you give up an okay piece. [SPEAKER_01]: But [SPEAKER_01]: If there's something that's going to get you going, it's calling great American ballpark your home. [SPEAKER_01]: That's what I'm saying. [SPEAKER_00]: So I like that jump start again. [SPEAKER_00]: Reds fans might be like, well, we need a lefty battle a little bit more. [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe then nailers the option there.

[SPEAKER_00]: But again, you'd have to move around some pieces, but again, you'd have to move around some pieces for [SPEAKER_00]: Marcel Luzina, but I'm just thinking to myself, you sent down CES. [SPEAKER_00]: It didn't really go well. [SPEAKER_00]: Just let him be your way better CES this year. [SPEAKER_00]: And let him hit some bombs at Great American, and hopefully he gets hot. [SPEAKER_00]: And if he gets hot, he can be a bat that propels you to the playoffs.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I agree with you. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think that they're going to massively buy. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think they're going to trade for a starter, obviously. [SPEAKER_00]: They don't need to. [SPEAKER_00]: I think they're going to add a bullpen piece. [SPEAKER_00]: They don't need to add a major one. [SPEAKER_00]: And I think this is their big get in the deadline. [SPEAKER_00]: And this is a good get in my opinion. [SPEAKER_00]: Not the best get in the world.

[SPEAKER_00]: But I like the fit. [SPEAKER_00]: Marcella Zuna. [SPEAKER_01]: I was doing, yeah, I think, I think that helps, I like the tandem of just a by-lawish bat and then a reliever. [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe they can get them to throw in a glaciest too, and the package is a little bit more significant, but I think that's where the money becomes fascinating.

[SPEAKER_01]: But yeah, they're so set rotation-wise, and they're still close enough to where I think you should buy, but I don't think you buy with crazy, crazy aggression. [SPEAKER_01]: I can't, I struggle to figure out the exact move. [SPEAKER_01]: So I'm in on that.

[SPEAKER_01]: There are a team that I have no idea what what it looks like for them to be honest because I don't know how they feel about some of these pieces that are buying okay, but they could probably upgrade from at the same time. [SPEAKER_00]: So my next prediction will head towards the St. [SPEAKER_00]: Louis Cardinals. [SPEAKER_00]: So like I already said, I think the Cardinals are going to trade Ryan Halsley, but I think they trade one more piece and that's it.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think they trade Nolan air and auto to the Yankees. [SPEAKER_00]: I think that's the piece of the Yankees pick up a third. [SPEAKER_00]: I like Eranato. [SPEAKER_00]: He's not having a great offensive season, right? [SPEAKER_00]: He's got a ninety-one WRC plus, you don't love that. [SPEAKER_00]: But you know he's going to play elite defense and he's striking out less than ten percent of the time. [SPEAKER_00]: That's crazy. [SPEAKER_00]: That plugs in for the Yankees.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's not going to be very expensive for them. [SPEAKER_00]: And the reason why is because no one Eranato has a very famous, no trade clause. [SPEAKER_00]: I think he'd wave it to good in New York. [SPEAKER_00]: I think I could be wrong. [SPEAKER_00]: feels like if you are going to get traded, I could go rock the pin stripes and play third base and try and go win a world series. [SPEAKER_00]: Feels like that would be the way he waves it.

[SPEAKER_00]: And because Thomas and Jason could just play a third right now and they really don't skip. [SPEAKER_00]: Like that's the thing too. [SPEAKER_00]: It's like they're tri- I'm not saying the Cardinals do a full [SPEAKER_00]: You know, they sell off all these pieces. [SPEAKER_00]: Shout out Patrick Lyons. [SPEAKER_00]: He was at John Mosellox press conference, and it was basically from what I read on Patrick Lyons article, which you can find on just baseball.com.

[SPEAKER_00]: To me, it felt a little bit sad, but at the same time, like, I do think there's an element that Hein Blume wants to take control if he really wants to sell. [SPEAKER_00]: So it's going to be a soft sell for the cardinals. [SPEAKER_00]: And I think that's healthily, and I think that's aeronato, and that's about it, but I have aeronato going to the Yankees. [SPEAKER_01]: My bold prediction is they surprise with a Wilson Contreras train.

[SPEAKER_01]: Just because I think he's become really underrated at this point. [SPEAKER_01]: I know he didn't get off to a great start, but that's almost part of the reason why. [SPEAKER_01]: I think he's a great acquisition, and I know he's just playing first base now, but we're talking about so many different teams that could just use a power bat. [SPEAKER_01]: And over his last forty games, Wilson contraris is no PS over nine hundred. [SPEAKER_01]: He's proven he's a vet.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, I don't know if he could still kind of go back behind the dish, but I'm sure if you needed to in an emergency, he'll get back there. [SPEAKER_01]: I don't think you do it this year, but you have him with years of control. [SPEAKER_01]: I believe he's under contract until [SPEAKER_01]: I want to say through the twenty twenty seven season. [SPEAKER_01]: It's not like he's extremely expensive. [SPEAKER_01]: It's a twenty twenty eight club option as well.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's a pretty favorable contract given that he's just a solid player. [SPEAKER_01]: You'll get the last three years four years hundred thirty four WRC plus twenty nine one forty and one twenty one this year and that's with the slow start. [SPEAKER_01]: I do wonder what you mentioned high in bloom kind of adjusting. [SPEAKER_01]: Maybe they want to clear that money up even though it's not significant and go younger and focus from there.

[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe they like their catching situation with with Iván Herrera playing a little bit of first base and catching. [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know. [SPEAKER_01]: I'm interested to see, but I think contraris they may they're going to listen and they might get some decent offers. [SPEAKER_00]: I like that take one last thing on air and auto to the Yankees and why again it just makes even more sense to me.

[SPEAKER_00]: Aaron out of then gets to go play with this former teammate, Paul Gulchman, and Volpi is not being a defensively this year. [SPEAKER_00]: He's trying to help me to prioritize defense at third base, and there's few better than no one Aaron ought to. [SPEAKER_00]: He's still playing excellent defense. [SPEAKER_00]: And with how hot Cody Bellinger got, with how hot Paul Gulchman got. [SPEAKER_00]: There's something about the veteran going over to the Yankees and unlocking something.

[SPEAKER_00]: So if you feel that the bat can still be unlocked, he's not striking out, he's playing great defense. [SPEAKER_00]: And that's a name also for all the casual Yankees fans out there, which there are plenty. [SPEAKER_00]: They'll be over the moon. [SPEAKER_00]: They'll be over the moon, arm, arm, or not. [SPEAKER_00]: And I would be happy about him too.

[SPEAKER_00]: as a somewhat non-casual, but I am kind of a casual Yankee fan in the sense of I freak out the same as all that they've do. [SPEAKER_00]: But I would be happy with Aronado coming over. [SPEAKER_00]: I feel like that's a good fit. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: All right, let's move over to the Pittsburgh pirates. [SPEAKER_00]: Here's my hot take. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, it's not really hot. [SPEAKER_00]: Pirates have a sneaking great deadline.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I talked about the nationals having like a tough deadline. [SPEAKER_00]: I think the pirates are gonna have like a pretty good one. [SPEAKER_00]: Like I said, I think they'll get a pretty good return in that Yankee's package that I imagined for Mitch Keller and [SPEAKER_00]: and David Bednar. [SPEAKER_00]: And then I think about a couple of their relievers, like I think Dennis Santana is gonna net them a pretty solid return.

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, Dennis Santana has been unconscious this year with a one, four, nine ERA. [SPEAKER_00]: I also think that Bailey Falton, Andrew. [SPEAKER_00]: He also tried to net someone unconscious. [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, he did. [SPEAKER_00]: I could also see like a Bailey Falton, Andrew, he knew like getting them a decent prospect returned, right? [SPEAKER_00]: Like Brian Hayes, if somebody buys in that they can fix the bat.

[SPEAKER_00]: and he ends up getting moved and you're like, oh, that's a pretty good return. [SPEAKER_00]: I think we're going to be on August second or first. [SPEAKER_00]: I know the deadlines, the thirty first, but whenever everything ends up coming through and we're talking winners and losers, I think we're going to say the pirates kind of crushed it. [SPEAKER_00]: That's my that's my prediction for them. [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: That's my prediction for them.

[SPEAKER_01]: Okay, I hope, because you're like no offense and watchable. [SPEAKER_01]: I hope that's all. [SPEAKER_01]: That's all I got to say. [SPEAKER_01]: Just what the Tigers just swept the Tigers by the way, just like they did sweep the Tigers. [SPEAKER_01]: They also traded real prospects for Brian Noah Cruz. [SPEAKER_01]: So I did do my real. [SPEAKER_01]: I just mean like they exist. [SPEAKER_01]: I'm just saying think about it. [SPEAKER_01]: Now they're due.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: I'm running out of faith, but I hope you're right, because this team has, has the so much pitching and they have, they have the ability to control the, the reliever market to a degree between Cincinnati and Bednar. [SPEAKER_01]: Just saying, don't let Cherington get hot. [SPEAKER_00]: He needs not letting himself. [SPEAKER_00]: Let's move over to the Los Angeles Dodgers. [SPEAKER_00]: Here it is. [SPEAKER_00]: Mason Miller.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, this is the team. [SPEAKER_00]: What do they all, we don't care about any risk. [SPEAKER_00]: They don't. [SPEAKER_00]: They really don't. [SPEAKER_00]: Like, think about it like that. [SPEAKER_00]: What team would you trust to turn Mason Miller into a starter? [SPEAKER_00]: They're like three of them. [SPEAKER_00]: Damn, the bruers, the guardians. [SPEAKER_00]: So, and who's a team with a monster load of prospects? [SPEAKER_00]: And Tanner Scott might be hurt.

[SPEAKER_00]: So even if Mason Miller's just a closer for this year. [SPEAKER_00]: And then in the off season, they get him cooking and then turn him into a starter. [SPEAKER_00]: Be like, right now, you're our closer. [SPEAKER_00]: You're one of the best in baseball. [SPEAKER_00]: We need you. [SPEAKER_00]: They need a bullpen arm. [SPEAKER_00]: And then who do you trust more to turn into a starter? [SPEAKER_00]: And who also has the farm system in order to do it?

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: Now do you see where I'm coming from here? [SPEAKER_00]: Yes. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: God would that piss people off. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: Be sick, though. [SPEAKER_01]: Jeez. [SPEAKER_01]: All the people that said, why don't even bother playing the season and then forgot about the fact that the Dodgers would be third in the NFL Central right now.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yep. [SPEAKER_01]: Are going to go right back to why do we even play the season? [SPEAKER_01]: That would be nuts. [SPEAKER_01]: They could absolutely overwhelm the A's and they are probably the best teams. [SPEAKER_01]: I would say the match right there too, but the match would never do that. [SPEAKER_01]: I like this is this is some good tin foil right here. [SPEAKER_01]: You like that tin foil?

[SPEAKER_00]: I think that I wonder what they're going to do at left field because I was like, should I make a prediction of them stealing Doran for the podries? [SPEAKER_00]: They can overwhelm the red socks too, but the thing is I think I think the pod rays again were about to get to in a second can line up a perfect perfect package. [SPEAKER_00]: They've been all over to ran.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think they end up getting him, but I guess when I'm looking at the Dodgers offense, I see left field as a whole right now with Michael Conforto. [SPEAKER_00]: They need to add bullpen arms. [SPEAKER_00]: They need to add starters, but I think you're just running with this offense and just like, yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: So I think Mason Miller is their big addition.

[SPEAKER_01]: And you're like, Whoa, they gave us that because you can internally adjust to you could call up Alex Freeland. [SPEAKER_01]: You could move mooky back to a corner. [SPEAKER_01]: Uh, you could you could do a few different things there. [SPEAKER_01]: Um, yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: So, but yeah, that would that would be insane. [SPEAKER_00]: Mason Miller to the Dodgers. [SPEAKER_00]: Next up, San Diego Padre is my prediction. [SPEAKER_00]: Sharon Durand does go to the Padre.

[SPEAKER_00]: They finally do it. [SPEAKER_00]: And I think the way they do it is. [SPEAKER_00]: I could, you know, it's so funny. [SPEAKER_00]: I think I saw this trade, so I'm gonna steal it by Brad, our graphics guy. [SPEAKER_00]: I think it could be something like one of these elite Padre's bullpin arms, like a Jeremiah strata, and an Ethan Solis. [SPEAKER_00]: You get your catcher of the future, and you get a lightning rod bullpin arm that can help you right now.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, because the red socks do need to add to this bullpen, [SPEAKER_00]: And if they traded prospects for Joe Ryan, but now then you insert potentially an Ethan solace into it. [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe he's not too much. [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe Ethan solace and one of their great relievers because the podgers again, they have so many relievers. [SPEAKER_00]: That's why this trade just makes all the sense of the world.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's what I've been saying in terms of that the only way I could see them doing it is by moving one of those elite relievers. [SPEAKER_01]: And they have more on the way. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, if the farm system is, then you're not going to move to freeze for Doran. [SPEAKER_01]: If they would, I think Doran would already be a podray. [SPEAKER_01]: So you move as Trotte. [SPEAKER_01]: David Morgan has been phenomenal. [SPEAKER_01]: So he just bumps up his spot.

[SPEAKER_01]: Adrian Moore at home is arguably the best left handed reliever right now on Major League Baseball. [SPEAKER_01]: Jason Adams unhittable. [SPEAKER_01]: Swars is still swars, and then they've got more guys on the way. [SPEAKER_01]: When you look at the minor leagues, by the time you can get to next year, I love Tyson neighbors. [SPEAKER_01]: I like Bradley Rodriguez.

[SPEAKER_01]: There's other arms that I think are fascinating and Brian Hulling's getting healthy and maybe could still be a guy that fills in for you. [SPEAKER_01]: So I think they could not feel it that much in the bullpen, not [SPEAKER_01]: have to trade Leo de Vries and be able to upgrade their lineup for the next several years. [SPEAKER_01]: I think that's the best way for them to pull it off.

[SPEAKER_01]: The only reason why I'm going to disagree with you is we've heard about it so much that now makes me think it's not going to happen. [SPEAKER_00]: That's what if anyone's going to buck that, it's it's prelar. [SPEAKER_00]: That's why I thought [SPEAKER_00]: to almost send him to the Dodgers. [SPEAKER_00]: Because it's the team that you all hear about the Padre's.

[SPEAKER_00]: And it's like those old Yankees Reds likes, wherever he's, where they take players from each other at the deadline. [SPEAKER_00]: And they, you know, inflate the market, they get on the phone, be like, we'll take to ran. [SPEAKER_00]: And they do need a left field or anyway. [SPEAKER_00]: But it's just, they've been on the phone for so long. [SPEAKER_00]: I feel like Pralor is just going to wear out Brasla. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's something like fine. [SPEAKER_00]: Just take them.

[SPEAKER_00]: Just shut up. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, just leave me alone. [SPEAKER_00]: Leave me alone. [SPEAKER_00]: We'll take your best reliever. [SPEAKER_00]: We'll take Ethan Solis. [SPEAKER_00]: Leave me alone. [SPEAKER_00]: And that's a great trade for the Red Sox. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, they can wait for Solis, you know, they can develop him. [SPEAKER_01]: You've gotten our VIAs, but the upside of Solis is so exciting.

[SPEAKER_01]: And then you, you jolt that bullpint to try to help you now and later. [SPEAKER_01]: I think it makes a lot of sense. [SPEAKER_00]: Because they don't really have a catcher in the waiting, right? [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, well, they have Narvaya's obviously, but who does that mean in a trading cocktail? [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, exactly. [SPEAKER_00]: So, yeah, they liked someone like Ethan Solis. [SPEAKER_00]: All right, let's move over to the giants.

[SPEAKER_00]: Remember when I said Seth Lugo? [SPEAKER_00]: Here's the team. [SPEAKER_00]: Seth Lugo to the giants. [SPEAKER_00]: The giants I think are going to add a starting picture. [SPEAKER_00]: Hayden Bird's song in his last outing. [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, walk, walk, walk, double, pit, walk. [SPEAKER_00]: So right now, you have web and you have Ray, solidified. [SPEAKER_00]: Len Rupert has been great. [SPEAKER_00]: He's shoved off somehow. [SPEAKER_00]: Then who?

[SPEAKER_00]: because you could say Verlander, you just had to start against the braves with one of the weirder stat lines I've ever seen with tons of walks, but really didn't give up many runs. [SPEAKER_00]: But at this point, I'm watching Justin Verlander and I'm just thinking about how amazing your career is. [SPEAKER_00]: And what I think about that, that means I'm never going to say Verlander is washed. [SPEAKER_00]: But what I am going to say is a diminished version of him.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then who do you have? [SPEAKER_00]: Because you gave up Hicks. [SPEAKER_00]: You gave up Harrison. [SPEAKER_00]: You actually kind of need to starter with some control. [SPEAKER_00]: And maybe you can convince Lugo to not take up that player option and stay in San Francisco. [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe not. [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe then lose him. [SPEAKER_00]: But I feel like this is the team to make the Lugo trade. [SPEAKER_00]: Let's say you.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm interested just [SPEAKER_01]: how they'd pull it off because the system, oh my gosh, I just wrote it up. [SPEAKER_01]: It was so painful. [SPEAKER_01]: It's not. [SPEAKER_01]: But Lugo is, it's Lugo really going to get the voice. [SPEAKER_02]: It's so good. [SPEAKER_00]: He's so good. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if he's so good. [SPEAKER_00]: Brother, I don't know if he's so good moving forward. [SPEAKER_01]: He, the last three years now.

[SPEAKER_01]: Why know what he's done in the past? [SPEAKER_01]: What about what he's doing? [SPEAKER_01]: He's a two nine four. [SPEAKER_01]: I know. [SPEAKER_01]: He's lost four hundred and sixty innings. [SPEAKER_01]: He has a three one seven. [SPEAKER_01]: And he throws two hundred andnings every year. [SPEAKER_01]: I know, I just stopped the ERA to actually to, you know, it's, it bumped up. [SPEAKER_01]: Actually, I have to say is out into two nine five.

[SPEAKER_01]: I mean, they could, they could probably find the way to piece it together. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know I think he's good. [SPEAKER_00]: and would be a valuable addition. [SPEAKER_00]: I just don't know if it's going to cost a ton, which is why I felt like he was good for the giants, especially with that player option potentially not being picked up. [SPEAKER_01]: I did that that definitely, the fact that he's probably a rental, I think definitely adjust things.

[SPEAKER_01]: I do want to, since they were put together a montage of Devers catching balls at first base, you move him to first, Dom Smith to the bench. [SPEAKER_01]: Elliot Ramos has been a liability in the corner outfield. [SPEAKER_01]: So maybe he starts teaching more. [SPEAKER_01]: And then you go get a corner outfielder as well. [SPEAKER_01]: That's just another. [SPEAKER_01]: That's why I feel like a haste Sanchez or something like that.

[SPEAKER_01]: I think people aren't really because I think you hear about the Giants and you just it's pitching and you look at the team and you think pitching. [SPEAKER_01]: But I do think with a potential shuffle corner outfield could make a lot of sense too for for the Giants. [SPEAKER_00]: I like the shot about Ramos. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, gosh. [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, there was a ball the other day. [SPEAKER_00]: It was just a liner at him runs in over his head.

[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, that was a really struggles. [SPEAKER_01]: He brings the offensive struggles out there. [SPEAKER_00]: It seems like to me, but I still think raw muscle is a good player. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, he's great, but. [SPEAKER_00]: And I grew with you. [SPEAKER_00]: I love that shout. [SPEAKER_00]: I just didn't want to say the giants get haste you Sanchez. [SPEAKER_01]: No, I mean, that's boring. [SPEAKER_01]: I'm trying to think of another corner out, fielder.

[SPEAKER_01]: That's not going to break the bank, though. [SPEAKER_01]: But I think there's a fair amount of those out there that they could go get. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and again, they just, we'll people say, well, what about Steve and Quant? [SPEAKER_00]: He ain't getting traded. [SPEAKER_00]: Him and Gore, they can't get traded. [SPEAKER_00]: No. [SPEAKER_00]: Now, I could see the Guardian's trading class there. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think that's insane.

[SPEAKER_00]: I just don't think it's going to happen. [SPEAKER_00]: Guardians cannot trade Quant and the Nationals cannot trade Gore, but Seth Lugo to the Giants call it now. [SPEAKER_00]: Rockies, Jake Bird, Ryan McMahon get traded. [SPEAKER_01]: I think that's a hot take just because I don't even know who the hell would take Ryan McMahon. [SPEAKER_01]: They might buy. [SPEAKER_01]: They should. [SPEAKER_01]: They should drink stallings home.

[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: As you mentioned, I'm much on them. [SPEAKER_00]: Do you have much on them? [SPEAKER_01]: No, and then the D-backs, they bring in, I think, I think the D-backs bring in, let me say, five top one hundred prospects is my board prediction.

[SPEAKER_00]: five top one hundred prospects it actually I was focused so much on trading diamond back skies I didn't even put them down on my notes completely forgot about them so I but I guess my trade line trade deadline predictions for them is all of the guys I've named are getting traded yes I think I think four to five top one hundred prospects by our rankings I agree and like they're gonna have a serious deadline and who knows I love that brush out then they might get a controllable starter that can throw for them tomorrow yep

[SPEAKER_00]: I think they're going to crush the deadline, but my sneaky winner is Pirate sneaky loser nats. [SPEAKER_01]: I think the loser nats for sure. [SPEAKER_01]: Sneaky winner pirates is crazy hot take. [SPEAKER_01]: I have no faith anymore, but we'll see. [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, some of these guys are just way better at tearing it down than they are building out. [SPEAKER_00]: Before we say goodbye, what's your favorite take of mine and your least favorite?

[SPEAKER_01]: Blue jays, police favorite, right off the bat. [SPEAKER_01]: Perfect. [SPEAKER_01]: You're going to do some, do some shit. [SPEAKER_01]: Favorite. [SPEAKER_01]: Which was the one that I got pumped about? [SPEAKER_00]: Well, Sandy to the angels. [SPEAKER_01]: Sandy to the angels. [SPEAKER_01]: But can't count because that's passing count. [SPEAKER_01]: I don't even get credit. [SPEAKER_01]: No, you only get half credit for that one. [SPEAKER_01]: I'm credit.

[SPEAKER_01]: Mason or the Dodgers, but also screw the Dodgers. [SPEAKER_01]: So you liked that one though. [SPEAKER_01]: At one was fun. [SPEAKER_01]: There was one other one. [SPEAKER_01]: I was really pumped up about. [SPEAKER_01]: Now I forget. [SPEAKER_00]: Um, I don't like to share it. [SPEAKER_01]: Positive things. [SPEAKER_00]: I shared the Google Doc with you. [SPEAKER_00]: Do you have that potentially pulled up? [SPEAKER_00]: You can scroll through now. [SPEAKER_00]: Right now.

[SPEAKER_00]: But you're like the red socks trade for Joe. [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, you know, Swara is to the Mariners. [SPEAKER_01]: I think it has to happen. [SPEAKER_01]: It has to happen. [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_01]: I need that. [SPEAKER_00]: Well, that'll do it. [SPEAKER_00]: One trade deadline prediction for every team, hopefully everybody enjoyed it. [SPEAKER_00]: And if you did the best way to support, rate review, Spotify and Apple podcasts, five stars.

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