928 | Mailbag Thursday!

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[SPEAKER_02]: First bet offer today. [SPEAKER_01]: That's it, dude. [SPEAKER_02]: Thursday, August seventh here on the just baseball show. [SPEAKER_02]: That's Arm Layton. [SPEAKER_02]: I am Peter Applen Arm. [SPEAKER_02]: Time to harmonize. [SPEAKER_02]: Come on, do it with me. [SPEAKER_02]: It's time for the, actually, I'll go. [SPEAKER_02]: I'll go high. [SPEAKER_02]: You'll go low because I feel like you could do a mono tone low.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So if you want to talk baseball for the rest of the year, have the best time of your life, you can find the link in the episode description. [SPEAKER_02]: Aren't without further ado, you got anything to say before we get into question number one. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm ready to go. [SPEAKER_02]: Ready to go, let's do, let's move it. [SPEAKER_02]: Question number one, and I love this question.

[SPEAKER_02]: I have been thinking about this question since we started the just baseball show over nine hundred episodes ago. [SPEAKER_02]: Isn't that crazy? [SPEAKER_02]: We're over nine hundred episodes. [SPEAKER_02]: That's so amazing. [SPEAKER_02]: Unbelievable. [SPEAKER_02]: So the question is, if you could go back and have an episode of the show at any point in history, [SPEAKER_02]: where would it be? [SPEAKER_02]: This was asked by Lil DJ, two, two, seven on our discord.

[SPEAKER_02]: It was cool because this was the first question asked in our discord. [SPEAKER_02]: And then everybody was flocking to press the like button on that one and everyone's answering answer this one, answer this one, answer this one. [SPEAKER_02]: The floor is yours. [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I have three. [SPEAKER_02]: I had to narrow it down. [SPEAKER_02]: Would you like me to start away? [SPEAKER_00]: Like to my minor minor gonna be way less like historically impactful.

[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, so I didn't want to include some historical spots in Major League Baseball. [SPEAKER_02]: I didn't want to include any scandals, even though I think it would be wildly entertaining to do the nineteen, nineteen black socks scandal or the Pete Rose stuff. [SPEAKER_02]: But I held those out because I have to narrow it truly to what would be my favorite. [SPEAKER_02]: So I reduced it to a trade, a rule change, and just the coolest thing to happen in baseball.

[SPEAKER_02]: The trade is, if I could be around in nineteen twenty, when the Red Sox sell Babe Ruth to the Yankees for a hundred thousand dollars. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm thinking about that in current terms. [SPEAKER_02]: It would be like the Red Sox sell and this doesn't even do a justice like Garrett crochet to the Yankees for a million dollars. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm not gonna do it. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm not gonna do it. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm not gonna do it. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm not gonna do it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I want to put that in perspective for everybody listening Bob Gibson in nineteen sixty eight. [SPEAKER_02]: Toss three hundred and four innings and two thirds don't forget about the two thirds. [SPEAKER_02]: to a one, one, two, ERA. [SPEAKER_02]: Imagine being so good at your sport, they got to change the rules. [SPEAKER_02]: And I can only imagine now, if there was a certain player in Major League Baseball, that was just too damn good that the rules had to be changed.

[SPEAKER_02]: Now, it wasn't just Bob Gibson. [SPEAKER_02]: Of course, pitching across the league was impossible to hit, but to debate that on this show would have been so much fun. [SPEAKER_02]: And last, but certainly not least, the nineteen ninety eight home run chase between Mark McGuire and Sammy Sosa division rivals two teams going for it and we have to debate every week. [SPEAKER_02]: Imagine the weekend round up. [SPEAKER_02]: We're like McGuire hit four. [SPEAKER_02]: So say it five.

[SPEAKER_02]: And we just keep going back and forth. [SPEAKER_02]: Joe Demogio's fifty six game history could fit into there. [SPEAKER_02]: But those would be my three. [SPEAKER_02]: Babe Ruth getting sold to the Yankees. [SPEAKER_02]: Majorly baseball lowering the mound. [SPEAKER_02]: and the McGuire so it's a home run chase. [SPEAKER_00]: So I was just thinking like which I could just have really had a feel of day on which would just be like a low hanging fruit for me to just kind of go crazy.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I gravitate to this one from twenty fifteen. [SPEAKER_00]: When the marlins traded [SPEAKER_00]: Trevor Williams, who was the second round pick and then their number six overall prospect for a pitching coach in Jim Benedict and in the fire Jim Benedict a year later. [SPEAKER_00]: I just, I just know I would have had the second gen Benedict Scott fired. [SPEAKER_00]: I would have probably been my best episode we've ever had. [SPEAKER_00]: Just, I just know it.

[SPEAKER_00]: I just know, and I know, okay, I know this is a crazy lame thing compared. [SPEAKER_00]: I just was thinking about it. [SPEAKER_00]: And I just, I know that I would have, it would have been my best moment. [SPEAKER_02]: I don't even think I would have talked. [SPEAKER_02]: I don't think I would have spoken that entire episode. [SPEAKER_02]: I would have announced what happened. [SPEAKER_02]: And then just sat back in my chair and just listened.

[SPEAKER_02]: It would be like the prospect report on steroids. [SPEAKER_00]: Could you imagine trading one of your second round pick and one of your best pitching prospects for a pitching coach? [SPEAKER_00]: And like at that point, you're already coping, but you're like, all right, he's going to fix all our guys, right?

[SPEAKER_00]: Like, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, he, [SPEAKER_02]: What was so bad about the year that he got fired, do you remember? [SPEAKER_00]: I have no idea what happened.

[SPEAKER_00]: If I ever talk to David Samson, I would love to ask him about that. [SPEAKER_00]: The other one that ties in with that one is the Marlins in twenty fifteen. [SPEAKER_00]: They were going to fire their general manager, essentially. [SPEAKER_00]: But instead of firing him, they fired the manager. [SPEAKER_00]: And so Dan Jennings was the general manager. [SPEAKER_00]: His contract I think was going to be up at the end of the year.

[SPEAKER_00]: And we don't want to have a different manager. [SPEAKER_00]: Why don't you just go down and manage the team? [SPEAKER_00]: So they put the J sent the GM into the dugout and then he managed team for the rest of the year. [SPEAKER_00]: I think that's one of the craziest things ever. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm pretty sure who was it. [SPEAKER_00]: I think Jeff, not Jeff Mathis.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's another player that just showed up with clown noses because they called it a circus in the clubhouse. [SPEAKER_02]: But to me, that was the same year, both in twenty fifteen, Arm Layton's a junior in high school going through this with his marlins. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it was the same year. [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't even like. [SPEAKER_00]: and you wonder why I was just so like, I don't care what they do for so long.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like that year, I just could you imagine all the fun that you could have around that stuff between training a picture or your top hit one of your top pitching prospects for a pitching coach and then having your GM become your manager as a lame duck to finish the year. [SPEAKER_00]: Alright, you can't make that shit up. [SPEAKER_02]: You actually cannot make it up. [SPEAKER_02]: Do you have any others?

[SPEAKER_02]: I like how we both went around it because I went crazy big historical moments and you went moments that would have hit you personally the hardest. [SPEAKER_00]: Then I just went ahead so much fun with. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm trying to think there was there was a few that I was thinking about that were just kind of like the low hanging fruit ones, right?

[SPEAKER_00]: Like historical world series, you know, the home run chase was also one that got me like really, really excited and thinking about that. [SPEAKER_00]: I was in a recording an episode after the Kirk Gibson walk off. [SPEAKER_00]: Did you imagine the as the kids would say the glazing that would be going on on the podcast after that? [SPEAKER_00]: We'd be like, he was hurt. [SPEAKER_00]: He wasn't even supposed to play. [SPEAKER_00]: And he came in and he went deep.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like, we would, the TikTok at it would go so hard. [SPEAKER_00]: So that was probably the other one I was thinking, I was just like, Kirk Gibson's home run. [SPEAKER_00]: I just, the, just celebration of that on the episode would be so cool. [SPEAKER_02]: Joe Carter walking off the world series, too. [SPEAKER_02]: Bill Mazurowski. [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, there are Bucky Dent. [SPEAKER_02]: There are Aaron Boone in two thousand.

[SPEAKER_00]: Aaron Boone and yeah, I'm glad that we care for that. [SPEAKER_02]: There are so many huge hits like that. [SPEAKER_02]: Kirk Gibson might be up there, but I don't know if anything could be Joe Carter walking off to win the world series. [SPEAKER_00]: I would say the other one that would have been really fun would be just after the the roognito door, uh, Batista situation.

[SPEAKER_00]: That would have been a really fun episode afterwards, uh, that just like all started with some bat flips like I would have had a lot of fun with that. [SPEAKER_02]: There are so many good ones. [SPEAKER_02]: Thank you so much, little DJ for this question. [SPEAKER_02]: I swear, I had, I made a list of like, fifteen and I had to shorten it. [SPEAKER_02]: I was like, all right, I'm going to shorten it to categories or else we'll be here all day.

[SPEAKER_02]: Let's move on to question number two. [SPEAKER_02]: What team that is not leading their division currently has the best chance to make the world series pick one from each league. [SPEAKER_02]: This comes to us from Sean Donahue on Discord chat on Sean absolutely bald-neuer. [SPEAKER_02]: So we'll start in the national league. [SPEAKER_02]: I'll go first just because I've said this about a hundred times already. [SPEAKER_02]: I already gave out the bet on the show.

[SPEAKER_02]: I've been to your word glazing them nonstop. [SPEAKER_02]: The San Diego Podgers and the National League. [SPEAKER_02]: I feel like while they are a great regular season team, this team is built for a short series, postseason run when you have a bullpen as good as they do, when you have three horses at the top, especially when Michael King then comes back, but they can really go for deep. [SPEAKER_02]: with sea starfish and Nick Peveta, and then a line up that just has no brakes.

[SPEAKER_02]: Now, I know Tatis is not having the greatest year offensively, but I expect him to heat back up in the remaining months of the season, and maybe that's just believing in a guy who has it in him, but screw it, I'm gonna believe in a guy that has it in him. [SPEAKER_02]: Right, Machado, you bring it in, oh, her, and you bring a lorry on, and you bring in Freddie for me. [SPEAKER_02]: It's the Padres is the easy answer for me. [SPEAKER_02]: Where are you going?

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, I wanted to try to talk myself into another one, but it would literally just be for the reason of not repeating your answer. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I could talk about the Cubs, but I mean, their acquisition on the count and Mike Seroca just already hit the I.l. [SPEAKER_00]: We can do that a little bit further. [SPEAKER_00]: Why not the Cubs? [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I guess that would be the angle, right? [SPEAKER_00]: Just because when you compare these two teams, right?

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, okay, offense is the strength for the cops, but that offense has actually been spottering a little bit of weight. [SPEAKER_00]: And as you know, in the postseason, even the best of offenses can hit a little bit of a wall. [SPEAKER_00]: What's going to be the separator, I think, is [SPEAKER_00]: who can continue to keep them shoved in that walker with just the litany of tough arms after tough arm after tough arm.

[SPEAKER_00]: And at the same time, if it's a Swagfest, do you have the ability to bang with them too? [SPEAKER_00]: And I think now the Padres do, because they added a L'Oriano who's already swinging it well, and I know her, and all the other guys that give them depth now in that lineup. [SPEAKER_00]: But I just, I think there's too many ways that the Padres can beat you, whereas you look at the cubs right now.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think when they're right, they're going to mash and that's what they do. [SPEAKER_00]: And when Matthew Boyd's on the mound or her shoulder, you got a really good shot to win it. [SPEAKER_00]: But I look over at the bullpen and I just think the Padre's bullpen dwarfs it. [SPEAKER_00]: I think the rotation with them being healthy is pretty comparable. [SPEAKER_00]: And with that murderous row in the pen, I think that is a big separator. [SPEAKER_00]: Mariles heating up.

[SPEAKER_00]: I look at the cubs right now and [SPEAKER_00]: I think there's a lot of ways for them to lose games, especially on the pitching front. [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, Kittridge, that was your big dad. [SPEAKER_00]: I think you gave up a bomb. [SPEAKER_00]: You know, the other day I'm not mistaken. [SPEAKER_00]: But I just, I don't know. [SPEAKER_00]: There's something I think about it. [SPEAKER_02]: Here's the why I think about it. [SPEAKER_02]: I think I can reduce it down.

[SPEAKER_02]: This is a very simplistic explanation, but I think it'll hit home. [SPEAKER_02]: Ty game in the sex is two to two. [SPEAKER_02]: The podgers are taken on the cubs. [SPEAKER_02]: Give cubs home field advantage, sure. [SPEAKER_02]: seventh inning true pomerans versus Jason Adam, eighth inning, Brad Keller versus Robert Swarez, ninth inning Mason Miller versus Daniel Plencia, who you got. [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, if it's a no brainer and extra is your, you're actually screwed.

[SPEAKER_02]: screwed. [SPEAKER_02]: So that's why it's like even if the cubs bang with the podries and I still would probably take the cubs off and so overall I would. [SPEAKER_02]: Again, I think it could be argued, but there's so much explosion there. [SPEAKER_02]: There's so much explosion with San Diego, too. [SPEAKER_02]: But let's just give the cubs that argument. [SPEAKER_02]: And I think their starting pitchers can go toe to toe with San Diego.

[SPEAKER_02]: But again, the cubs would have to outhit the podries when you look from top to bottom. [SPEAKER_02]: It's just a much better staff if so. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, God. [SPEAKER_00]: I was gonna say if it's two one. [SPEAKER_00]: If you're losing two one three one in the fifth. [SPEAKER_02]: Over. [SPEAKER_00]: Even with a really good offense. [SPEAKER_00]: Good luck.

[SPEAKER_02]: And did you see Mason Miller gave up a home run, the Lordy Scurry El Jr. [SPEAKER_02]: We're recording on Wednesday. [SPEAKER_02]: This happened on Tuesday, hundred and four miles an hour, and it went viral, even though the podger is one that game. [SPEAKER_02]: You don't why because it was so amazing. [SPEAKER_02]: Someone hit a ball like that. [SPEAKER_02]: It was like incredible. [SPEAKER_02]: Wow, you actually hit his fastball.

[SPEAKER_02]: That's why it went viral because of how good Mason Miller is. [SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, I think the Cubs would be the next closest answer, but I just with the answers to the offense and with the super pen that they've got going on and maybe they get some reinforcements back, maybe Michael King can throw before the end of this year. [SPEAKER_00]: I think the podries are the answer. [SPEAKER_02]: And remember, for everybody listening, the question was non-division leading teams.

[SPEAKER_02]: So we're not talking about the growers. [SPEAKER_02]: We're not talking about the fillies. [SPEAKER_02]: We're not talking about the Dodgers right now. [SPEAKER_02]: We're talking about the teams in second place. [SPEAKER_02]: But last question for you is on this front that we'll move over to the American League, Metz versus Cubs, where you at? [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, the Metz, I think, you know, with the bullpin additions they made, I think they're right there with them too.

[SPEAKER_00]: But I don't know, there's something about this team that just, [SPEAKER_00]: I can't fully fully fully buy into them being a postseason threat, just watching like Sean Maniah the other day was cruising until he wasn't Clay Holmes. [SPEAKER_00]: It's just been like, I like this regular season rotation. [SPEAKER_02]: I don't go as well.

[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, you'd expect maybe [SPEAKER_02]: you to hope that as Manaya continues to clause way back from injury and sang as well that they'll find it. [SPEAKER_02]: But at the same time, if they don't, the meds are real trouble. [SPEAKER_02]: And if they do, you're still going up against the cubs and the podgers who I think are more sound on both sides of the ball.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I just, and then you're going to the bullpen where you, they've got guys performing and you added, I was wearing Rogers at which I think is really going to help them, but I think this offense is even, even with the three headed monster at the top, I still think it is behind, you know what the other two that we're talking about here. [SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely. [SPEAKER_02]: All right, let's move over to the American League. [SPEAKER_02]: This one's a little bit more wide open.

[SPEAKER_02]: But just another reminder, we are not talking about the Astros, the Tigers, or the Blue Jays. [SPEAKER_02]: So among the rest of the teams, where are you at? [SPEAKER_02]: Because I went first with the Padres. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm curious your answer here in the American League. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it's funny because I think that the obvious answer would be that the Mariners right with with what they what they've done.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think and as much as I wanted to get cute with it and try to try to talk and talk myself into the Rangers that that offense is just not really doing it right now. [SPEAKER_00]: I think you got to go with with the Mariners and and what they've got going on right now just because [SPEAKER_00]: The offense now is at a point where you've got guys from top to bottom, and that line up, which is not something that we've been able to say.

[SPEAKER_00]: And a while, Tom can't zone, it's not even slowing down. [SPEAKER_00]: Their bench is now really solid, because Dylan Moore is more of a bench piece, right? [SPEAKER_00]: And Solano is more of a bench piece, and in Garver's more of a bench piece, and I love what Cole Young brings to the table at the back, and in the line up, and then you've got your your dogs at the top, and you've got Randy. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, you've got the playoff guys.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I think I think this team and with Bryce Miller on the way back to, I tried to talk myself into the upside of the Rangers and I think that they're probably my number two answer, but I think this rotation, this team is just too balanced across the board with Andre's Monios throwing the ball as well as anybody in Major League baseball. [SPEAKER_02]: It's funny. [SPEAKER_02]: The Rangers are behind the Red Sox right now, but I would agree with you.

[SPEAKER_02]: The Rangers would be number two for me. [SPEAKER_02]: And I think a huge X factor. [SPEAKER_02]: And again, I don't want to ruin an answer to a question later, but I will just say right now, before I talk more about it later, is Merrill Kelly getting added to this Rangers rotation is enormous, especially again, in a short series, because [SPEAKER_02]: You know, not always the best team wins in baseball, but some teams are geared better for a playoff series than others.

[SPEAKER_02]: Right. [SPEAKER_02]: I think the red socks are a good example of a team who I think will finish potentially with a better record than both the Mariners and the Rangers in the regular season, but in the playoffs like after Crochet, [SPEAKER_02]: Do I feel really good about G-Lito game too? [SPEAKER_02]: Do I feel really good about Bryan Bale in game three?

[SPEAKER_02]: And then those three guys coming in, or then the bullpen guys coming in after I know Chapman has been unbelievable. [SPEAKER_02]: And I really love Whitlock. [SPEAKER_02]: And I like a lot of the arms. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm just not sold on them yet. [SPEAKER_02]: Now I love the Red Sox offense, but at the same time with the Mariners editions at the deadline, they can bang with them. [SPEAKER_02]: And we know Texas. [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, we've been saying it all year.

[SPEAKER_02]: I feel like this is the most repeated phrase on the just baseball show is that [SPEAKER_02]: If the raiders often gets hot, look out. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: Right. [SPEAKER_02]: How many times have we said that all year? [SPEAKER_02]: And we're still kind of waiting. [SPEAKER_02]: But luckily the pitching has held them afloat. [SPEAKER_02]: But then I docked the Rangers a little bit because similarly to the red socks.

[SPEAKER_02]: Actually much better than the red socks. [SPEAKER_02]: The bullpen has performed great this year. [SPEAKER_02]: But in the ninth in the eighth in the seventh game on the line against these great offenses. [SPEAKER_02]: Who are we going to? [SPEAKER_02]: Robert Garcia? [SPEAKER_02]: I like Robert Garcia. [SPEAKER_02]: I like Mason Miller, better. [SPEAKER_02]: I like Honduras, Munoz, better. [SPEAKER_02]: Right, so. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm in better. [SPEAKER_02]: I like Chapman, better.

[SPEAKER_02]: Right, so I look at, I look at the Mariners and I think they have the best of both worlds. [SPEAKER_02]: They have those starters who can win you a game in the playoffs. [SPEAKER_02]: They have a good enough bullpen, not a great bullpen, but a good enough bullpen. [SPEAKER_02]: And they're offense. [SPEAKER_02]: You know, teams want to lean into the power in the postseason because you need a big swing to change the game with so much great pitching.

[SPEAKER_02]: The Mariners have that with Cal Raleigh and Gino Suarez. [SPEAKER_02]: So the Mariners is the obvious answer and sometimes the obvious answer just has to be spoken about is the Seattle Mariners for me. [SPEAKER_00]: I will say, Gilito, just shot him out, two point, no three, ERA in his last ten starts, but. [SPEAKER_00]: But amazing. [SPEAKER_00]: No doubt about it. [SPEAKER_00]: So it's bail. [SPEAKER_00]: I agree though. [SPEAKER_00]: I got in the postseason.

[SPEAKER_00]: It gets a little bit a little bit more dicey, even with those guys throwing the way that they have been thrown. [SPEAKER_00]: I think, yeah, the mariners are that answer. [SPEAKER_00]: And then like, obviously, and then I could hear Rangers, Red Sox. [SPEAKER_00]: Of course, people are going to want to say the Yankees, but the way they're playing right now is. [SPEAKER_02]: They might just miss the playoffs entirely. [SPEAKER_00]: That'd be pretty funny.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I'm, I'm an agreement with you there though. [SPEAKER_00]: I, I think that's, that's pretty much the order. [SPEAKER_02]: Let's roll. [SPEAKER_02]: All right, question number three, who will be the Evan Carter call up of the twenty twenty five MLB season? [SPEAKER_02]: This was asked by Todi Yoshio on our discord. [SPEAKER_02]: This is an interesting one because we got this question last year too.

[SPEAKER_02]: We've gotten this question now, every single time since Epic Carter did it, right? [SPEAKER_02]: We've got, we've get it in the offseason, because it's really hard to do what Evan Carter did. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm up September, play twenty three games, hit over three hundred, put up a one eighty WRC plus, and then start hitting third in a world series line up and be one of the difference makers and the reason the Rangers hoisted the world series trophy.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's not that simple. [SPEAKER_02]: That comes once in a, I think, ten year span. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, that's rare. [SPEAKER_02]: So, and again, you have to find a guy who hasn't been called up yet, because Evan Carter at this point hadn't been called up yet. [SPEAKER_02]: I'll go first because I think I know my answer is going to be wrong, and I want to hear yours. [SPEAKER_02]: I couldn't find a bat, hopefully you can.

[SPEAKER_02]: I went with an entrepreneur of the Phillies just because I think if he got called up, he could be a weapon in the bullpen. [SPEAKER_02]: But at the same time, you and I see the same AAA numbers. [SPEAKER_02]: It's only he's pitching all that great lately. [SPEAKER_02]: So that's why I told you my answer was going to be wrong, but that's what I'm left with. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, no, and I think you're on the right track just thought wise.

[SPEAKER_00]: I kind of went with a similar approach and it's Brandon Sprout. [SPEAKER_00]: I look at the meds pitching situation and I'm like, well, [SPEAKER_00]: Do you potentially want to mix in another guy to make some starts down the stretch here instead of maybe a Frankie Montes who's been a disaster? [SPEAKER_00]: And I just wonder if that might be the case for them.

[SPEAKER_00]: And maybe for Clay Holmes who's going to throw a ton of endings now this year maybe skip him in the rotation once or twice. [SPEAKER_00]: And then I think in the postseason, if Sprote is is thrown well for you, you could be in a swing man role, it could be doing a lot of different things for you, but Sprote started the year really slow.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I think really was so just struggling to get acclimated to that AAA ball, which is just, I think one of the dumber things they have going in pro baseball right now is that the AAA ball is different than the AA ball, which [SPEAKER_00]: affects the vert and how you can actually evaluate these players. [SPEAKER_00]: But the last six starts for Sprote is VLO's backup two ticks.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's averaging ninety seven point seven with the four seamer and ninety six point eight on the sinker. [SPEAKER_00]: He's got that patented splinter back that you know, I think it's kind of been the closest thing to you know what Paul schemes has been able to do when I shouldn't say patented because I guess he patented it. [SPEAKER_00]: But that pitch was huge for him last year.

[SPEAKER_00]: And now you're seeing that that change up come back and be a major major offering for them. [SPEAKER_00]: And then he's got the breaking balls as well. [SPEAKER_00]: Over his last six starts, Sprote, thing which did a heat sheet on the collar, but his last six starts, Sprote has a zero point five, five VRA in AAA with thirty nine strikeouts. [SPEAKER_00]: So I think that's a guy that could come up and make an impact on the big league side of things.

[SPEAKER_02]: that improve the standing of from our last question with the maths? [SPEAKER_02]: If that would happen, absolutely. [SPEAKER_00]: But, you know, it's done an alright fully trust in the postseason, but I definitely trust in more than Frankie Montes, can tell you that much. [SPEAKER_02]: If you had to choose a bat. [SPEAKER_02]: would it be? [SPEAKER_02]: And I know you'd probably be scraping against the barrel just to find an answer.

[SPEAKER_02]: I am just curious if there's anybody sitting in the back of your mind. [SPEAKER_02]: And it doesn't even, like, spro, you're probably what, fifty, fifty. [SPEAKER_02]: This guy, you might be twenty five, seventy five, but I'd be interested to hear your twenty five percent call up. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I mean, it's interesting because I think when the position player side, there's not like a lot of clear runway for guys.

[SPEAKER_00]: So like maybe it would be dependent on like an injury, but I think if the cops have an injury, Owen Casey and his power, like he could just come up and mash and just be a lightning bolt for them. [SPEAKER_00]: But I also look at [SPEAKER_00]: maybe the Dodgers and an Alex Freeland, but he just got up so that I kind of a cop out answer.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I guess it would be Casey, if there was an injury, would probably be my best answer, because right now he doesn't fit in anywhere, clearly, but if something happens, I think that could be a guy that gets up and gives them a little bit of lightning and a bottle with his power. [SPEAKER_02]: Maybe that's why the Cubs didn't trade him. [SPEAKER_00]: It's because they're afraid to lose and Tucker.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I hope that's not the answer, but unfortunately it might be the answer. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, do you still put the Kyle Tucker sweepstakes the cups number one? [SPEAKER_00]: They have to be, but like almost by default, but I don't know anymore now, man. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know. [SPEAKER_00]: I think they're the favorite though still. [SPEAKER_00]: They should be. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, they should be. [SPEAKER_02]: Right? [SPEAKER_00]: It should be. [SPEAKER_02]: We'll see.

[SPEAKER_02]: All right, let's get to question number four. [SPEAKER_02]: What pending free agents have the most to gain in the last two months plus October? [SPEAKER_02]: That's to us from Jay Scotch underscore to again in our discord. [SPEAKER_02]: I had a lot of names. [SPEAKER_02]: There are plenty of them. [SPEAKER_02]: And you could go a lot of different directions. [SPEAKER_02]: But the question is, have the most to gain in the last two months?

[SPEAKER_02]: I think Zach Allen is at the top of this list because, you know, he's working with an ERA in the mid-fives. [SPEAKER_02]: Right. [SPEAKER_02]: He had that incredible season in twenty twenty three leading his team to, you know, the world series shoving every start throwing a ton of innings and you could tell the workload weighed on him. [SPEAKER_02]: Twenty twenty four. [SPEAKER_02]: He was good.

[SPEAKER_02]: but he wasn't Zach gallon of twenty twenty three and then this year the wheels have fallen off and I look at a guy like he isn't young right if we look at his age right now I just want to pull it up just to make sure I'm getting this correct he's thirty years old so let's say he puts together right we have about [SPEAKER_02]: six weeks left seven weeks of the regular season.

[SPEAKER_02]: So let's say he puts together eight starts at any R.A. [SPEAKER_02]: below three really regains that now that's asking a lot he hasn't done that and I've no reason to believe that he's going to, but at the same time it's Zach Gallant like we've seen it before we could see it again, but if he really continues to trail off like this looks as bad if not worse for the rest of the season, [SPEAKER_02]: What would you pay a thirty one year old Zach Allen in free agency?

[SPEAKER_02]: If he doesn't get any better, if he doesn't get any better, let's just say he stays the same. [SPEAKER_02]: And then if he turns around and looks a lot like Zach Allen over the final eight starts, I mean, that's tens of millions of dollars may be more put on his back over eight starts. [SPEAKER_02]: So to answer the question, I think he has the most to gain, but I've plenty of other free agents who still have a lot to gain, just I don't think as much as Zach Allen.

[SPEAKER_00]: No, you have because he can put himself in a position where, you know, he gets the QO and he could potentially even turn it down if he throws well enough. [SPEAKER_00]: But if he really, really struggles, he could put himself in a position where he doesn't even get the QO. [SPEAKER_00]: So I'm definitely interested in how that trends for him. [SPEAKER_00]: And it's going to be pretty big. [SPEAKER_00]: I think his big of a swing in terms of finances is just about anybody.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I think that's probably the the the best shout the other guy offensively I'm looking at his is always a rise just because he has to hit right I mean and teams I think it's very clear teams around major league baseball and then just where the game is at nowadays like he's not the type of player that you're

[SPEAKER_00]: valuing is highly, but at the end of the day, if you're hitting three, thirty and you know, you're pushing closer to two war and you're never punching, like still going to be teams that are going to be very interested in and adding you, but if he's more the same as what he's been since the start of last year, which is barely above average offense and and terrible defense, like it's going to be hard to [SPEAKER_00]: To get a lot of teams interested in you.

[SPEAKER_00]: So if he could finish really strong and maybe put together a really impressive postseason and just really flash that he is that best bat to ball guy and the major leagues and the value that comes with that still. [SPEAKER_00]: I think that's a guy that could still make up some money for himself. [SPEAKER_00]: Like if he looks like twenty twenty three a rise, teams are still going to be very excited to add a player like that.

[SPEAKER_02]: I think October is huge for a rise, because I think about it, you know, to put up not all of your eggs, of course, because it's not like Louis Rises going to cost a ton of money, but some of your eggs in that basket, if he is a guy who's coming up in big moments against really good bullpen arms against really good starters with runners on base and he's battling battling battling battling battling and then gets that big single and he does that multiple times in big moments.

[SPEAKER_02]: Teams are going to see that and be like, all right, [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, the defense is in great. [SPEAKER_02]: We hope it's three hundred in the regular season, but that is such a different look for pitchers. [SPEAKER_02]: And he's going to get into the pitch count a little bit. [SPEAKER_02]: He's going to continue to battle. [SPEAKER_02]: And when we need a base hit, like I want that guy at the plate versus if we get to the post season.

[SPEAKER_02]: And he's just grounding out, right? [SPEAKER_02]: The double plays, the weak flyouts, and he really doesn't make that much of an impact. [SPEAKER_02]: Do you want him? [SPEAKER_02]: So I think October for a rise is super, super important. [SPEAKER_02]: A couple more answers. [SPEAKER_02]: I think I'm looking at two blue jays, two completely different scenarios right now. [SPEAKER_02]: Boba shed is your MLB leader in hits.

[SPEAKER_02]: And we remember last year, I got a lot of shit for Boba shit putting him pretty high on my top one hundred and putting up less than one win wins above replacement, right? [SPEAKER_02]: He was one of the worst short stops in baseball. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, but we can't forget that before that. [SPEAKER_02]: It was a four point eight, a four point seven, a three point nine. [SPEAKER_02]: And then this year, he's out about two point eight right now while leading the league in hits.

[SPEAKER_02]: Now the defense is never going to be that great, but if he could just be average with that bat, he could get a ton of money. [SPEAKER_02]: So, and I'm also looking at a guy in October like that. [SPEAKER_02]: Like when the Blue Jays inevitably make the playoffs, or at least I think they will. [SPEAKER_02]: You can have a great October if you can lead the league and hits this off season.

[SPEAKER_02]: He's going to put raw seconds in an uncomfortable spot because Bluji's fans are going to be clamoring for him to return. [SPEAKER_02]: And for good reason, right? [SPEAKER_02]: But you already have arch in the mall coming up. [SPEAKER_02]: So what do they do? [SPEAKER_02]: And then how does the market evaluate Boba shit knowing how bad of a season yet the year before?

[SPEAKER_02]: But how he bounced back and that the history of Boba shit has been one of the better hitting short stops in baseball. [SPEAKER_02]: And we know how short stops, how much they can get paid. [SPEAKER_02]: So that's one Bluji. [SPEAKER_02]: The other one Shane B. [SPEAKER_02]: Now, it's a little bit different because he has a player option, right?

[SPEAKER_02]: He could decide whether or not to take it, but if he comes back and he looks like the Shane Bieber evolved and maybe has a sparkling starter to in the postseason, maybe the Blue Jays go farther and he continues to pitch well. [SPEAKER_02]: That's an ace that everybody's going to want. [SPEAKER_02]: But if he comes back, he doesn't look healthy. [SPEAKER_02]: The Velo is down, but it's not the Shane Bieber shoving with Velo down.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's Shane Bieber not shoving with Velo down. [SPEAKER_02]: He might take the player option and then we have no idea what to expect from him. [SPEAKER_02]: But if he comes back and he's shoving like we know we can, that's the guy who could get four or five years of re-agency. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, no doubt. [SPEAKER_00]: And especially because the Velo is up a little bit from where it was at, you know, with from these rehab outings from art was at before, you know, the injury.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then the other guy I think is still in cease, right? [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, definitely. [SPEAKER_00]: He's got a four six, but he's still striking out nearly twelve per nine, and they need him.

[SPEAKER_00]: And if the podgers are going to do anything, Caesar's probably going to be a big part of that, and if he can go out and shove down the stretch and put together some impressive starts in the postseason, I think Caesar will still, people will forget that he had a four [SPEAKER_00]: five, four, six, y'all right for the majority of the season pretty quickly. [SPEAKER_00]: And they're going to chase that stuff for a guy that still won't quite be thirty until the end of the off season.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I think you could end up getting himself a really nice payday. [SPEAKER_00]: If he does that and a lesser scale, and that's a quartet, as if you can just show that he's healthy and throw a little bit. [SPEAKER_00]: I think you make that case with a lot of different pictures that could probably just by being healthy and performing a little bit help their case.

[SPEAKER_00]: But I think that the biggest one for me is cease because of what he's capable of and what he has been doing. [SPEAKER_00]: late. [SPEAKER_02]: Quickly going back to the Louisa Ria's point. [SPEAKER_02]: Shout out fish, fam. [SPEAKER_02]: Jacob Marcy, the guy who's traded for him, has the same F-IV and Marcy's played what six games.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We got plenty of questions to go, but real quick, just a reminder, if you are enjoying the just space, I'll show the best way to sport without spending a dime is to rate and review, Spotify and on Apple podcasts or wherever you listen to your shows. [SPEAKER_02]: And if you could leave a written review, it would really, really help.

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[SPEAKER_02]: What are some moves that seem just fine? [SPEAKER_02]: Become the postseason. [SPEAKER_02]: Will have a huge impact similarly to the twenty twenty-one Atlanta Braves. [SPEAKER_02]: This was asked by N. J. Bina on our Instagram. [SPEAKER_02]: So if we remember twenty twenty-one the Atlanta Braves won the World Series without Ronner to Coonute Jr. [SPEAKER_02]: How'd they do it? [SPEAKER_02]: Horace Solaire, Eddie Rosario, Jock Peterson.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm sure there are more names that I'm forgetting. [SPEAKER_02]: But it's those [SPEAKER_02]: smaller moves than ended up making a huge impact in the playoffs. [SPEAKER_02]: I got to be honest with with you, Arm, this one I again had a difficult time. [SPEAKER_02]: Do I just pick a great reliever? [SPEAKER_02]: because that was the highlight of the deadline in a way. [SPEAKER_02]: It was so many closers, top and relief pitchers, changing teams.

[SPEAKER_02]: You know, of course, genoswaras is a huge addition, but that's not what the question is asking. [SPEAKER_02]: Right, so I had a little bit of trouble, but I do have one in the nationally, and I do have one in the American League. [SPEAKER_02]: I'll go with my nationally answer first. [SPEAKER_02]: Harrison Bader. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that was my pick. [SPEAKER_02]: In the twenty twenty two playoffs with the Yankees hit five homeruns in nine games.

[SPEAKER_02]: He's got a career one thirty one WRC plus now don't ask met fans what he did last year. [SPEAKER_02]: In their postseason run they don't want to talk about it so this is not a perfect answer he is not a unbelievable postseason performer no matter what but he did catch fire in a way that was. [SPEAKER_02]: unbelievable again back in twenty twenty two. [SPEAKER_02]: So he's somebody that not only with the bat, but with the glove can make a lot of huge moves.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I guess you're aligned with me on the National League. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that was my pick because it was he's also playing the best he's ever played. [SPEAKER_00]: So that side of it's interesting, you mentioned he has still had that success prior in the postseason on the big stage. [SPEAKER_00]: And he can impact the game in multiple ways.

[SPEAKER_00]: If it is that big home run with the power that he's been tapping into this year, but also being able to make that [SPEAKER_00]: incredible catch to save the game. [SPEAKER_00]: I think he's the easy answer on the national upside. [SPEAKER_00]: And then my American League answer. [SPEAKER_02]: One quick one in the national league before you get to the American League. [SPEAKER_02]: I think Willie Castro, like if everything goes well, could he play some sort of benzo brist?

[SPEAKER_02]: type for the cubs right cubs fans will remember that well and I mean I do like the fit of Willie Castro I mean he's given basically everybody on the diamond today off you could put him wherever and he could play defense and you know he hasn't been the greatest header so far but he's been solid enough and I feel like he could make some noise but again that's that was kind of a bigger move to so does that even fit the narrative but I want to do include him Alex Cole

[SPEAKER_00]: could be another one. [SPEAKER_00]: Okay. [SPEAKER_00]: Scrappy player can can kind of do all the little things. [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe he gets he gets hot and also another guy that could just kind of impact the game in a lot of different ways for the Dodgers. [SPEAKER_00]: I thought call could be an interesting answer.

[SPEAKER_00]: I feel a lot better about the beta pick, but it would be one of those classic just all my gosh, the Dodgers got the sky and you know, for for what was almost one of the more under the radar moves and you know, he's he's coming up huge for them, you know, in the playoffs, but [SPEAKER_00]: The American League side, I was just thinking of a guy like who could get hot.

[SPEAKER_00]: Who could get hot and have a stretch that puts him up with some of the best power haters in the mind of the major leagues, even though he's not even that good. [SPEAKER_00]: And it takes you Sanchez for me. [SPEAKER_00]: I think with the Astros, if that guy, when he's dialed, he's crazy. [SPEAKER_00]: Like he will get hot and hold on nuts. [SPEAKER_00]: I can guarantee that that guy's not spooked by the postseason.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't even think [SPEAKER_00]: think it's any different. [SPEAKER_00]: He's just going to go play ball. [SPEAKER_00]: I just think he's going to go out there. [SPEAKER_00]: And if you get taught, you could see him just have one of those crazy stretches, man, where he's producing. [SPEAKER_00]: And that was kind of an afterthought trade to overall, you know, for the Astros. [SPEAKER_02]: I was, you know, watching the assures the other day.

[SPEAKER_02]: And I saw him come up in the lineup. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm like, what? [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: Even though we covered all the moves, there was so many moves that were made. [SPEAKER_02]: That one just kind of escaped me. [SPEAKER_02]: So to see him with a lot of them, like, yeah, I could have matched it in the playoffs. [SPEAKER_02]: Two, two game and hasty Sanchez comes up to the plate. [SPEAKER_02]: Just launches one, four, eighty.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yep. [SPEAKER_02]: And you're like, and everyone watching on TV, who doesn't know much about hasty Sanchez is like, holy shit. [SPEAKER_02]: Yep. [SPEAKER_02]: I thought you were done with hurt. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, like you can do something like that, but the problem with Hasey Sanchez is it could get real bad. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, real bad. [SPEAKER_02]: So I like swing it for the fences without one, both figuratively and literally with the guy like Hasey Sanchez.

[SPEAKER_02]: My answer. [SPEAKER_02]: was Merrill Kelly. [SPEAKER_02]: Again, we talked about it a little bit. [SPEAKER_02]: I think this guy has cold blood in the best way possible. [SPEAKER_02]: Well, you're talking about a guy who the moment is never going to be too bright. [SPEAKER_02]: And that's where Merrill Kelly brings. [SPEAKER_02]: And I just think back to the twenty twenty three playoffs again with the Diamondbacks where he pitched to a two to five year A over twenty four innings.

[SPEAKER_02]: And, you know, you see a lot of hopped up guys on VLO, right? [SPEAKER_02]: Trying to throw his heart as they can across home plate. [SPEAKER_02]: But Merrill Kelly, like, is VLO not really a crazy. [SPEAKER_02]: If you drill, it's not really increasing. [SPEAKER_02]: He is a professional who knows what he has to do. [SPEAKER_02]: And you'll wake up. [SPEAKER_02]: And it'll be the seventh inning and he's a lot of one run and the ranges are in a position of when.

[SPEAKER_02]: So I think Merle Kelly, again, not only just because of the player he has, but how much impact it is on the Rangers, right? [SPEAKER_02]: They know they have the utmost confidence to Jacob to ground. [SPEAKER_02]: You know, you have the most utmost confidence in Nathan E. Evaldi. [SPEAKER_02]: Obviously, we're going to talk about him. [SPEAKER_02]: We got another question about his Zion Chase. [SPEAKER_02]: And then you put in Merrill Kelly in that three spot.

[SPEAKER_02]: That is a incredible three-headed monster in the playoffs, incredible. [SPEAKER_02]: So again, we're looking for bats here, but I just think the Merrill Kelly edition was so big, even though it was a rental, not a huge trade, I think that could be massive for Texas if they make the playoffs. [SPEAKER_00]: I agree.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think I think that was a huge get for them and in a huge difference maker for a guy that I'm going to trust you know with with just about anybody that they've got and DeGrom obviously is DeGrom but in a vaulty is a vaulty but he's you you feel really confident that Maryles is going to give you a shot almost every time he's out there [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, Merrill Kelly was in a lead to for a team that went to the world series. [SPEAKER_02]: Now he's an even better three.

[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, right, because Merrill Kelly's now going against your three, not against your two. [SPEAKER_02]: So that's huge for the Texas Rangers. [SPEAKER_02]: All right, let's get to question number six, who is set up to have the most interesting off season? [SPEAKER_02]: Teams that are in the middle ground that can really propel themselves into contention. [SPEAKER_02]: This was asked by Ryan in our discord. [SPEAKER_02]: There's a lot of teams that I could come up with.

[SPEAKER_02]: Because you also have to look at spending habits, right? [SPEAKER_02]: Like the reds are right there. [SPEAKER_02]: Are they going to make huge moves in the off season? [SPEAKER_02]: Probably not. [SPEAKER_02]: I want to say the braves. [SPEAKER_02]: But is it in Alex and Toppels is DNA to really make huge moves? [SPEAKER_02]: So, exactly. [SPEAKER_02]: So, we could just say those teams, they're in a good position to do it.

[SPEAKER_02]: They absolutely can, but to predict that, you're just wishing. [SPEAKER_02]: So, a team that I think is in a great position to do so because we've seen that their GM likes to be really aggressive. [SPEAKER_02]: Is the San Francisco Giants? [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: I want to see what Buster Posey does, right? [SPEAKER_02]: He already brought in William Domest. [SPEAKER_02]: And the Giants have had real difficulties lowering these free agents over to San Francisco.

[SPEAKER_02]: But then he takes hold. [SPEAKER_02]: And here comes William Domest. [SPEAKER_02]: And now you bring in Rafael Devers. [SPEAKER_02]: But the thing is, the Giants right now are tenth in payroll. [SPEAKER_02]: And the projected next year by spot track to be eleventh. [SPEAKER_02]: And you know the giants can get up there into the top five. [SPEAKER_02]: They have the money. [SPEAKER_02]: They've been trying to give it out.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's just about who's going to take it when they're offering cray three hundred plus million when they're offering Aaron Judge four hundred plus million. [SPEAKER_02]: They have that in the back could Kyle Tucker. [SPEAKER_02]: If the cops aren't the favorite, could he be going to San Francisco. [SPEAKER_02]: So for me, a team that is in the middle ground, a team that has proved that they can develop pitching.

[SPEAKER_02]: early somewhat, but they have pitching in the fold and you assume they're going to go back out and get some bullpen arms, but to make real splashes on offense, I think the giants of the team to watch next year are next off season. [SPEAKER_02]: Excuse me. [SPEAKER_00]: I think that the most likely to be busy and make some some things happen. [SPEAKER_00]: So without a doubt and and [SPEAKER_00]: Good.

[SPEAKER_00]: The fact that so many of these teams that are right on the edge, the answer is kind of, they probably won't do much is disappointing. [SPEAKER_00]: Like the Cardinals, I'd love to shout them out. [SPEAKER_00]: They're not going to do shit. [SPEAKER_00]: That's the frustrating part of it. [SPEAKER_00]: I look at the Oreos. [SPEAKER_00]: And I don't anticipate them to do too much, but I at least you can't rule it out with them. [SPEAKER_00]: What is your plan?

[SPEAKER_00]: Because [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, they sold at the deadline, right? [SPEAKER_00]: And they may recoup a ton of prospects. [SPEAKER_00]: I thought they did a really good job in terms of bolstering that farm. [SPEAKER_00]: But are you just going to punt another year with a core, a controllable core of Jackson Holiday, Jordan Westburg, Gunnar Henderson, and now Adley's back. [SPEAKER_00]: Kobe Mayo's starting to come alive now, too.

[SPEAKER_00]: Are you really gonna just, yeah, just let it go and just say, hey, another rebuild here? [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think you can't. [SPEAKER_00]: I think it would be kind of weird to do that. [SPEAKER_00]: You assume that you'll have a healthy grace and I'll read you guys, Trevor Rogers, all the sudden looks like a guy for you, which has been nuts to see, you know, I'm pumped on that.

[SPEAKER_00]: But you have pieces there, like you still have Zach F. [SPEAKER_00]: I would love to see them go make a signing and try to do something different than just signing Tyler O'Neill. [SPEAKER_00]: And remember, this is the same team, the same organization that their owners say, hey, we don't really have payroll limitations right now. [SPEAKER_00]: So I just want to see that.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just interested to see what they do because they could just wait into the quote unquote rebuild. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't see why you would do that. [SPEAKER_00]: Given all the controllable pieces you have right now, and it makes sense for them to spend, especially in a free agent market that's going to have some arms available. [SPEAKER_02]: I think you make a good point there, you know, because they have the offense.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's not like you have to add Kyle Tucker or anything. [SPEAKER_02]: What can you add from her? [SPEAKER_02]: Can you add a Michael King? [SPEAKER_02]: Can you add any of these guys? [SPEAKER_02]: Because Grayson is now out for the year with with arms surgery. [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know what his timeline is. [SPEAKER_02]: I guess you're hoping he could be back next year. [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if you have a clear point on what Grayson's.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think he should be back next year because I think it was like a to predament, meaning like they're just getting like those bodies out. [SPEAKER_02]: Okay. [SPEAKER_02]: So hopefully he's back, but and Trevor Rogers has been unbelievable, but this rotation is pretty bare. [SPEAKER_02]: Michael Ias, we can't do more Toma Yuki Sigano and Charlie Morton signings. [SPEAKER_02]: We just can't. [SPEAKER_02]: Right. [SPEAKER_02]: News, you also use the term weird.

[SPEAKER_02]: If they don't do it because I think in your mind, you're thinking like very questionable decision, I'm going to go with step further. [SPEAKER_02]: I think it's malpractice. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, if they don't. [SPEAKER_02]: Just waste his Dave Rubenstein said he was going to spend money. [SPEAKER_02]: And we already didn't get that. [SPEAKER_02]: Are we not going to get that again with what you already laid out with their offensive core?

[SPEAKER_02]: How do you not capitalize on that? [SPEAKER_02]: But the reason I didn't include them is because I don't trust them. [SPEAKER_02]: Now, again, I didn't trust the Mariners to go get Genos Wars and Josh Nailer and they did it. [SPEAKER_02]: So I'd love to be wrong. [SPEAKER_02]: I love being wrong on those things. [SPEAKER_02]: I can't stress that it off. [SPEAKER_02]: I hope the Orioles prove me wrong. [SPEAKER_02]: But at this point in time, I have zero confidence in Elias.

[SPEAKER_02]: No, I have confidence in Elias to get back good prospect returns when he's selling. [SPEAKER_02]: I have faith in him drafting. [SPEAKER_02]: I've faith in him in a lot of stuff, not in this realm. [SPEAKER_00]: It's crazy. [SPEAKER_00]: They don't really have to do anything offensively like your stuck with Tylenol who's actually playing better ball of late. [SPEAKER_00]: So like you got him out there. [SPEAKER_00]: You've got cows are in the outfield.

[SPEAKER_00]: Dylan Beaver is just going to get called up second after. [SPEAKER_00]: He can't exceed rookie limits. [SPEAKER_00]: He's been fantastic and triple A. Samuel Bassayo could be teaching and catching a little bit for you. [SPEAKER_00]: He is one of the best hitters in the minor leagues. [SPEAKER_00]: Like you have this offense pretty pretty fortified. [SPEAKER_00]: Just go spend some money on pitchers and [SPEAKER_00]: You've got a chance again next year.

[SPEAKER_00]: You can just forget how ugly this season was. [SPEAKER_02]: Another team that I'm looking at, and this team I really don't know, but I am optimistic that they're going to buy heavily is the Diamondbacks. [SPEAKER_02]: Another team that just sold the deadline, but Ken Kendrick has shown. [SPEAKER_02]: He's willing to spend. [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, it just sheld out all that money for Corbin Burns, but now you're getting players off the books.

[SPEAKER_02]: Do you bring back Chino Suarez? [SPEAKER_02]: What do you do? [SPEAKER_02]: Because similarly to the Orioles, I don't think it's robust with young talent, but it's still stacked. [SPEAKER_02]: Is this Diamondback's offense? [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, he's still got a lot of really good young players. [SPEAKER_02]: You assume Burns is going to come back next to your right Nelson is taking a huge step. [SPEAKER_02]: You still have Brandon fought.

[SPEAKER_02]: You know, Kelly and Galen will likely be gone. [SPEAKER_02]: So are you the team to go get the Fromber, the Michael King, or the Dillon C, or all these different names? [SPEAKER_00]: I think they've got to spend two and I think they've got to do that, right? [SPEAKER_00]: Like I think they will be, you know, you can, you don't need to do too much. [SPEAKER_00]: As you mentioned, the offense is pretty freaking good.

[SPEAKER_00]: You could bring Gino back and I, that wouldn't surprise me at all. [SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, go get a reliable arm. [SPEAKER_00]: You have, as you mentioned, fought, controlled and cheap for a long time. [SPEAKER_00]: You're stuck with the rod, but sure, just make him your five. [SPEAKER_00]: You hope that burns comes back as you mentioned. [SPEAKER_00]: Like, they've got a ton of controllable bullpin arms now.

[SPEAKER_00]: They have a lot of pitching, you know, in the upper miners now that they, that they traded for. [SPEAKER_00]: So the pitching situation, the organizational situation is a lot healthier now. [SPEAKER_00]: And they still are querying some money to your point. [SPEAKER_00]: So I do think we could see them, you know, spend a little bit and make some things happen. [SPEAKER_00]: Or at least just bring, bring genome back. [SPEAKER_00]: And I am just fascinated to see what they do.

[SPEAKER_00]: But I doubt they just sit on their hands. [SPEAKER_02]: I agree and adding AJ Puck and Justin Martinez back to this bullpen is enormous. [SPEAKER_02]: Those were two of the best bullpen arms in baseball. [SPEAKER_02]: And a lot of both, right? [SPEAKER_02]: No, one of the airs on the backspole pen has been such a whole. [SPEAKER_02]: Imagine every fan listening, take your two best out. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, just your bullpen.

[SPEAKER_02]: Then look like that's what happened to Arizona this year. [SPEAKER_02]: Right. [SPEAKER_02]: Imagine also taking out your best starter and Gordon Burns. [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, they've just been dealt with a horrible hand this year, but they still have it. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, they're still catchers been out all year. [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, Morano's been hurt for most of the season, too. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, lose your best two bullpen arms, your best starter and your best catcher.

[SPEAKER_02]: What is your baseball team going to look like? [SPEAKER_02]: That's what happened at the Diamondbacks this year. [SPEAKER_02]: And they're still not about team. [SPEAKER_02]: No, that's how good they can be. [SPEAKER_02]: Any other teams come to mind? [SPEAKER_02]: For me, it was the Diamondbacks, the Orioles and the Giants. [SPEAKER_02]: So it's a lot of teams that we don't know. [SPEAKER_00]: That's how I'm starting in the middle ground.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just I can't wait to see what they do this off season. [SPEAKER_02]: You're just going to be unconscious. [SPEAKER_00]: I just want to know what they do with their crowded situation and a Christian cost us coming back off injury and there's so many wrinkles that I am fascinated by. [SPEAKER_02]: So many. [SPEAKER_02]: All right. [SPEAKER_02]: This is another good one. [SPEAKER_02]: Question number seven, which young outfielder would you take to start a franchise right now?

[SPEAKER_02]: Pichrom shrunk, Kyle Stower's or Roman Anthony. [SPEAKER_02]: Zed asked to us by Joey can't play on Twitter. [SPEAKER_02]: So would we collect it all of these? [SPEAKER_02]: Kyle Stower's is an incredible story and maybe he becomes the answer one day. [SPEAKER_02]: But to me, and I think you agree with this, this is a battle between Roman Anthony and P. Carl Armstrong.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: And before we get into the the pre-ARB extension that he just got our next question kind of answers that. [SPEAKER_02]: So without diving into his new extension, congratulations by the way, Roman Anthony, where you at PCA versus Roman. [SPEAKER_00]: it's so hard. [SPEAKER_00]: It's because I think offensive upside is, you know, higher with Roman Anthony, which is crazy to say when you have PCI who

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, as twenty seven home runs already this year and as a one thirty three WRC plus but Roman I mean he's doing the same thing that he was doing in AAA which is crazy to me where it's okay he's still getting comfortable elevating the ball more consistently and he's getting his feet wet so he's not really getting into the home run power yet but he's hitting the ball so hard so consistently with great play discipline that he is two homers and forty six games and he is a one thirty three WRC plus and getting up to the big leagues

[SPEAKER_00]: And over the last couple of weeks, it's been even more insane. [SPEAKER_00]: And he still, he doesn't need to leave the yard to be insanely productive. [SPEAKER_00]: And then you also factor in that Roman is a good defender in the corner. [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, like, he's already four outs above average at the corner, five defense front save.

[SPEAKER_00]: I still think that the politically correct answer has to be the guy that's an MVP candidate and is going to amass like seven war the season and PCA. [SPEAKER_00]: You have a generational defender and center field and dual war generational gets thrown out way too much. [SPEAKER_00]: It's fairly applicable here.

[SPEAKER_00]: There are some concerns about the fact that he's hyper aggressive and in all that good stuff, but [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, dude, even if it's a two ninety OB piece of years, if he's going thirty, thirty, with the best center field defense, maybe you've ever seen, it's really hard to pass on that and the impact that that that he can make. [SPEAKER_00]: And in some years, it could still fifty, sixty bags.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I think there's going to be seasons where Roman Anthony is as a far more productive bat, but I do think that if we look at the total war, the end of their careers, [SPEAKER_00]: It could be edged out by PCA. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think there's obviously a wrong answer here. [SPEAKER_00]: And if I'm just thinking about the hitter, I'd run with Roman, but you can't do that in a Roman versus PCA conversation.

[SPEAKER_02]: You said the politically correct answer would be PCA and I assume that would be most people's answers, but I'm not going to be politically correct here. [SPEAKER_02]: Give me Roman Anthony. [SPEAKER_02]: And the way it comes down to me is, you know, you laid all of it out and you didn't say anything that I disagree with. [SPEAKER_02]: You more just said things that are more important to me.

[SPEAKER_02]: And to me, especially with young hitters where anything can happen, approach at the plate is so important. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm looking at a guy with Roman Anthony who's putting up a four hundred on base percentage already at twenty one years old, because that's also start your franchise. [SPEAKER_02]: PC has really, really young Roman Anthony's two years younger. [SPEAKER_00]: And now that's the other crazy part. [SPEAKER_02]: And PCA is an unbelievable defender.

[SPEAKER_02]: hundred percent and he always will be until he's thirty seven years old that his legs aren't the same anymore. [SPEAKER_02]: But you said to yourself Roman Anthony is also a brilliant defender in a corner. [SPEAKER_02]: Right now remember that when he first got called up that error right when the ball went under is what went under is glove and we're like, uh, he's young. [SPEAKER_02]: I don't think he's made a mistake sense. [SPEAKER_02]: Right.

[SPEAKER_02]: So. [SPEAKER_02]: I look at him and I also think, all right, you are by WRC plus about the same header that PC has been all year. [SPEAKER_02]: And you haven't tapped into any power yet. [SPEAKER_02]: Any real in-game power. [SPEAKER_02]: You talked about him hitting the ball hard. [SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely. [SPEAKER_02]: But these balls haven't been leaving the ballpark yet. [SPEAKER_02]: It's got two home runs, right?

[SPEAKER_02]: He's putting up a one sixty one WRC plus since July with one home run. [SPEAKER_02]: So I think about it like that, there is so much to unlock offensively for Roman Anthony. [SPEAKER_02]: Is there more to unlock for PCA? [SPEAKER_02]: Maybe, I don't know. [SPEAKER_02]: This could be his best offensive season he ever has. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it could be. [SPEAKER_02]: With PCA, there's just so many peaks and valleys. [SPEAKER_02]: And, you know, I almost think about it like that.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's the year two, [SPEAKER_02]: Like in the NFL with quarterbacks, like a guy like Jayden Daniels where he takes the world by storm and he's so unbelievable. [SPEAKER_02]: And then you have a whole offseason film to figure him out. [SPEAKER_02]: Like I wonder if coming in the next year, are they just like, why are we ever going to give you a fastball?

[SPEAKER_02]: We're just going to spin you absolutely to death and maybe they're doing that right now, but there will be adjustments made. [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know what the adjustment is to Roman Anthony. [SPEAKER_00]: They're raising his like with PCA, you think you would have made that adjustment by now, right?

[SPEAKER_00]: April, nine fifty three OPS May eight eighty eight OPS June seven seventy one OPS July nine eighty four OPS [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm like waiting for him to regress, but it just won't happen yet. [SPEAKER_00]: But I would sleep more soundly as weird as this house with Roman Anthony, because I just know he's always going to be a productive bat. [SPEAKER_00]: But there is just a level of the value that you get with the PCA that I just don't think you can go wrong.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I think it's almost impossible to pick it as two very interestingly different [SPEAKER_00]: players. [SPEAKER_00]: If you go by how I evaluated them prior to debut, I mean, Roman would be the runaway answer. [SPEAKER_00]: Even though I loved PCA as a prospect, I think we skewed higher on him. [SPEAKER_00]: But he's going to hit close to to forty home runs this year. [SPEAKER_00]: So it's just, it's wild. [SPEAKER_00]: It gives me a headache trying to figure it out.

[SPEAKER_00]: But I think there's a world where Roman's offensive ceiling is just so, so, so, so good that [SPEAKER_00]: It can almost nullify some of the defensive stuff. [SPEAKER_00]: How much one soda just got paid? [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not saying he's going to be one soda, but I think there's a chance that Roman can be one of the best hitters in the game period. [SPEAKER_00]: So it's kind of, what do you prefer and what do you need?

[SPEAKER_00]: And I think that's what makes it a fun conversation. [SPEAKER_02]: But here's the thing. [SPEAKER_02]: I'm going back to your original prospect rankings as well. [SPEAKER_02]: That's ringing in the back of my head. [SPEAKER_02]: When you were evaluating them in this prospects, like we see the production right now, but we're starting a franchise. [SPEAKER_02]: We need these guys for ten years. [SPEAKER_02]: Roman Anthony was your clear cut number one prospect for a reason.

[SPEAKER_02]: We're seeing how good he looks offensively at twenty one years old. [SPEAKER_02]: Righty slotted in. [SPEAKER_02]: He had like a [SPEAKER_02]: first bat like what, fifteen, twenty at bats. [SPEAKER_02]: It's since then he's been an absolute monster. [SPEAKER_02]: He's only going to get better and he hasn't even tapped into the power yet. [SPEAKER_02]: That's what I keep saying as well. [SPEAKER_02]: And defense is already there and he's two years younger.

[SPEAKER_02]: So I think about it like this. [SPEAKER_02]: If you were to even knowing what you know right now, like still evaluating them as prospects, you still see some of the holes in PCAs offensive game compared to Roman. [SPEAKER_02]: You're seeing the defense already like [SPEAKER_02]: I think the answer, even yours is Roman, but the thing is why I think it's tough, and even for me, too, is PCA.

[SPEAKER_02]: When you combine center field defense with what he can do on the base pass, and if the power comes, you're just thinking to yourself, well, you're just an auto seven wind player. [SPEAKER_00]: Well, the thing in the power is here. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: So, did I say something I might have missedpoke by that? [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, the power is here.

[SPEAKER_02]: Like what you're seeing the results right now is, [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, there are some concerns, but those concerns aren't happening right now, though, which is my point. [SPEAKER_02]: I feel like we both know it's going to eventually hurt him, right? [SPEAKER_02]: Even though it hasn't. [SPEAKER_00]: It hasn't, though, like that's the crazy thing. [SPEAKER_00]: So that's where I almost like, [SPEAKER_00]: as much as out wonder and he literally leads the league in oh swing percentage.

[SPEAKER_00]: With the other guys being the irony as Saburo Perez, Michael Harris a second, one in so sad on Rafael. [SPEAKER_02]: But think about Yiner Diaz and Michael Harris. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: They seem like camp miss guys. [SPEAKER_02]: And now Yiner Diaz is having a really downier. [SPEAKER_02]: Michael Harris. [SPEAKER_02]: has been steadily declining since his rookie, but if you said, Michael Harris, right, you've said some glowing things about Michael Harris at the bath.

[SPEAKER_02]: There's no way that he could create a, I don't know, it's like stick with your original point on PCA. [SPEAKER_02]: That makes sense. [SPEAKER_02]: Like, I know. [SPEAKER_00]: I know. [SPEAKER_00]: I know. [SPEAKER_00]: And I think that's probably why Roman is the, the, weirdly like, safer answer as bizarre as that sounds because [SPEAKER_00]: of like the it's weird because you have a larger sample size of success for PCA needs an MVP candidate.

[SPEAKER_00]: But Romans offensive profile and aspects to his game. [SPEAKER_00]: I think make him a lot safer of a consistent offensive threat, but then you get that hedged by the fact that if PCA is a. Ninety WRC plus is probably still a three to four one player. [SPEAKER_00]: So you can't go wrong in any which way. [SPEAKER_02]: So let's move over to question number eight, and it ties into this last question.

[SPEAKER_02]: Now that Roman Anthony just got paid, who are your top three pre-arb extension candidates that are not yet in the league, asked us by eight in underscore herf youth on Instagram. [SPEAKER_02]: Now let's talk about the Roman Anthony extension. [SPEAKER_02]: For anybody who didn't know Roman Anthony in the Boston Red Sox are finalizing an eight year, one hundred and thirty million dollar contract extension. [SPEAKER_02]: sources tell ESPN.

[SPEAKER_02]: I'm just reading off Jeff Passons tweet. [SPEAKER_02]: The deal which is pending a physical includes a club option and will keep Anthony under team control through twenty twenty four deal with the Red Sox is going to start in twenty twenty six includes significant escalators that could take the maximum value of the deal to two hundred and thirty million. [SPEAKER_02]: Depending on where he finishes in AL Ricky the year voting, it could buy out three or four years of free agency.

[SPEAKER_02]: Before we answer the question about potential pre-arb extension candidates, overall your thoughts on the extension. [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I love it, man. [SPEAKER_00]: It was all the things we just talked about, right? [SPEAKER_00]: You're getting a guy that is going to match for a really, really, really long time. [SPEAKER_00]: And could be a perennial MVP candidate, could be one of the best hitters in the sport.

[SPEAKER_00]: And the fact that his last thirty games, I think they saw enough in those last thirty games, right where you see a guy hitting three, forty eight with a nine, forty seven OPS. [SPEAKER_00]: And the fact that he's doing that with one home run in that span, [SPEAKER_00]: I think says a lot about what he's able to do in terms of being able to be productive without leaving the yard and how much more is still in the tank.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's a fifty-six percent ground ball rate in that span and he's still. [SPEAKER_00]: OPS in nearly nine fifty. [SPEAKER_00]: Imagine as he starts to and he's had that adjustment period at every level. [SPEAKER_00]: Imagine as he starts to get more comfortable elevating how much more can be in the tank there. [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it is rockets to all parts of the field at sixty three percent hard hit rate in that span.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's a monster and any pair of the fact that with the defense being good in a corner, either corner. [SPEAKER_00]: I've always said I thought it could get by and center in a pinch. [SPEAKER_00]: It's really, really awesome to see. [SPEAKER_00]: And I think if you're a Red Sox fan, you've got to be just absolutely thrilled. [SPEAKER_00]: So it's a lock up a player like this for that long. [SPEAKER_00]: It's, I'm surprised honestly.

[SPEAKER_00]: I thought because of how good he is, I thought we might have a similar situation where Boris might as well be his agent, but that's what makes it. [SPEAKER_00]: I think all the more exciting. [SPEAKER_02]: An arm is in this a total fleece. [SPEAKER_00]: Every PR of extensions of fleece, you know, I think the people that said the same thing about the Christian Campbell Accenture price in and out too, but this is a lot different.

[SPEAKER_00]: I do think you have a much better chance at maximizing value here, but any PR of extension is never going to be a fleece in my eyes. [SPEAKER_00]: Because if you go, if you model it out, I don't know what the exact numbers would be in terms of like [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, Realman's gonna have three years of making the minimum. [SPEAKER_00]: And there's gonna have three arbitration years, depending on maybe it'll be a super two guys, maybe four arbitration years.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm guessing that would come out to about thirty-ish million dollars before he, maybe forty if he's playing out of his freaking mind like we think he can, before he hits free agency, before his entirety of his team control is up. [SPEAKER_00]: He has no leverage. [SPEAKER_00]: He's absolutely no leverage.

[SPEAKER_00]: So to get a hundred and thirty guaranteed with the ability to make two hundred and thirty given that you're in a position where if you stand pat, yes, you could make more and for agency, but you're going to have to sit for six years and guarantee yourself significantly less in the meantime. [SPEAKER_00]: It just it doesn't make sense that the team would give him three hundred million dollars. [SPEAKER_00]: You know, it's like, that's just the way it is.

[SPEAKER_00]: And especially given that he's in the first year of his, of his, you know, control, he has so much leverage against him that anything starting with with nine figures, like he's going to be a really, really good for your arbitration extension. [SPEAKER_00]: And I think for Romney, he's very happy with this situation. [SPEAKER_02]: And speak to the fact of, you know, because a lot of people are going to hear that answer and still say, a hundred and thirty million, I get you arm.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's a hundred, you know, it's a nine figure deal with escalators up, but he's still worth more. [SPEAKER_02]: Like he's Roman freaking Anthony. [SPEAKER_02]: It still is a fleece at just a hundred and thirty million. [SPEAKER_02]: What's say you? [SPEAKER_00]: Well, he's playing the way that people expect him to.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's two thirty and then they're going to pick up all the options and and he's going to hit all his escalators and it's two thirty and I mean, that's against a lot of money for you know, we're talking about we're comparing him to free agent deals will free agent deals guys have proven that in the big leagues over a handful of seasons.

[SPEAKER_00]: Also, they aren't leveraged against them to have raw Romans make three years of the league minimum if he doesn't sign this deal and then he's going to make moderate salary in our one. [SPEAKER_00]: decent salary in our two and then probably make a good amount of money in our three or it'll be a twenty million dollars if he's one of the better you know hitters in the game.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's just not even close so it's just the way it's structured that's why players really fought hard for less years of control so they weren't leveraged so hard against and [SPEAKER_00]: But it's just the way it goes. [SPEAKER_00]: But also teams will point towards other deals and say, hey, they don't always go well and players are guaranteeing themselves money right now. [SPEAKER_00]: And a lot of things can go wrong in the next six, seven, eight, nine years.

[SPEAKER_00]: So it's one of those things where it's a risk for the team. [SPEAKER_00]: And that's why they get a little bit of a discount. [SPEAKER_00]: But on the other side, it's still a lot of money for a player who has played not even half a season at the major league level to guarantee himself with the still upside to get to north of two hundred million dollars.

[SPEAKER_02]: So I don't mean to continue to press you on this, but I do think it's really interesting, like where you when you found out the number, one, thirty to two, thirty potentially. [SPEAKER_02]: Like where you surprised at all, are you like based on what you think? [SPEAKER_02]: Does that feel like good value? [SPEAKER_02]: Like is this just a really well done pre-arb extension?

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I think it's it's pretty much the standard now of like what the top top notch guys are going to get right you look at Corbin Carlin. [SPEAKER_00]: Twenty twenty three he got a hundred and eleven million but he got less escalators too like Corbin Carils deal which and I think he [SPEAKER_00]: It was probably some more amount of output games wise. [SPEAKER_00]: His escalators only took him to one thirty four.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I think with the escalators that he's getting there too, I think it's a pretty damn good deal. [SPEAKER_00]: Like Bobby White had a larger sample size under his belt. [SPEAKER_00]: I think given the circumstances and everything, I think it's pretty equitable. [SPEAKER_02]: He has only played forty six games and he is two home runs. [SPEAKER_02]: And he just potentially decided to deal that could get it up to two hundred and thirty million dollars.

[SPEAKER_02]: So the reason I wanted to ask you so many questions on that is because there is so much discourse on social media surrounding this deal. [SPEAKER_02]: And it feels like seventy five percent of the discourse. [SPEAKER_02]: It just flat out against what you're saying. [SPEAKER_02]: And I think you're right. [SPEAKER_02]: So again, for anybody listening, I feel like that's the best breakdown you're going to find.

[SPEAKER_00]: If I think it boils down to this, if all, what do you think is more likely? [SPEAKER_00]: All of these players are taking bad deals. [SPEAKER_00]: Or the general public just may not have a complete understanding of what's fair and what's not in these situations. [SPEAKER_02]: All of these players are taking bad deals. [SPEAKER_00]: Yes. [SPEAKER_00]: All of these players in their agents are taking bad deals. [SPEAKER_02]: All idiots working with different agents across history.

[SPEAKER_02]: They're all dumb. [SPEAKER_02]: Yes. [SPEAKER_02]: And the guy coming to God, Instagram. [SPEAKER_02]: He's got it. [SPEAKER_00]: Well, actually, yeah, him and Scott Poros will agree with you, too, probably. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, probably will. [SPEAKER_02]: All right, so let's get actually back to the question.

[SPEAKER_02]: So again, the question is, now that Roman entity just got paid, who are your top three pre-ARB extension candidates that are not yet in the league, asked by Aiden underscore her first. [SPEAKER_02]: Excuse me, on Instagram. [SPEAKER_02]: Not debuted yet. [SPEAKER_00]: Kevin McGonagall take my money. [SPEAKER_02]: If you want to say caught a griffin, even though the pirates would rather die, I didn't give many money.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, I mean, Griffin, I want to see him play in double a little bit. [SPEAKER_00]: But yeah, Kevin McGonagall, then you can take my money tomorrow. [SPEAKER_00]: That guy's going to play for a very, very, very, very long time and be very good weather halt, man. [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think he's going to be a superstar, but I feel really good about him being a really good player for a very long time.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I think JJ Weatherhold with the Cardinals is another one where he is such a natural hit or he is bludgeoning AAA competition. [SPEAKER_00]: The power is continuing to creep up, like it is such a complete game that he has there going for him. [SPEAKER_00]: You know, a lot of these other prospects right now could go in this tweeter spot at the top one hundred. [SPEAKER_00]: A lot of them are barely preaching AAA or our well-we're level guys.

[SPEAKER_00]: So it's hard because you're not really going to want to give a pre-ARP extension to a guy that's, you know, not even at the upper levels yet, but I think you're looking at it. [SPEAKER_00]: Connor Griffin and saying, okay, the second he's knocking on the door, the big leagues, I think you could, you could definitely get excited about that and see that as, you know, potential option. [SPEAKER_00]: Couple other guys that I just didn't kind of fit the bill.

[SPEAKER_00]: I would go super it would be really cheap, but I would feel good about it is like Luke Kishall who just hit his first career homer and the big league's the other day. [SPEAKER_00]: No, he debuted technically, but he just got back. [SPEAKER_00]: I think Kishall would be an easy [SPEAKER_00]: You would say it would be cheap and you'd feel really good about it.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think for a long time, but of the non-day view guys that I think would trend in that direction, but silos to that alone is not good. [SPEAKER_00]: I think he's going to be good for a long time, even if he's not catching, he's going to rake, but I think you'd want more clarity on that deal, and that's why you'd probably wait. [SPEAKER_00]: So I think my ultimate answer is McGonagall and Weatherhold.

[SPEAKER_00]: and then Colt Emerson's a guy that's not far off just got to double a with some with some good performance in double a I think he's a really strong candidate in that regard as well. [SPEAKER_02]: So Luki Shaw with the twins Samuel Bassayo with the Orioles and sorry, I'm just blanking on the last category. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna go with the Tigers, JJ, whether or not with the Cardinals, those guys. [SPEAKER_00]: No problem. [SPEAKER_02]: No problem. [SPEAKER_02]: Any pictures.

[SPEAKER_00]: That haven't debuted. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: No. [SPEAKER_00]: No. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't really believe in the pre-ARP extension for pictures unless there are a couple years into their career. [SPEAKER_00]: Like, Yuri, I think at this point, I feel comfortable doing it. [SPEAKER_00]: But pictures, I don't think there's one I would do that hasn't debuted yet. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think so. [SPEAKER_02]: It is interesting.

[SPEAKER_02]: I like, what are the burrs do with Mizurowski? [SPEAKER_02]: Because you see how electric it is, but again, another injury and you still have command issue problems. [SPEAKER_00]: I think you have something. [SPEAKER_00]: I think, though, a, even thing in a couple years, it could still probably buy out a couple years of, of course. [SPEAKER_00]: Like the Marlons of with Sandy. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, it's just, guys, get hurt. [SPEAKER_02]: All right, so that's our answers.

[SPEAKER_02]: And question number nine in our final question of the male bag is Nathan E. Evaldi has the fifth best ERA through a pitcher's first night teen games in a season in the history of baseball. [SPEAKER_02]: What's the case against him winning this sai young? [SPEAKER_02]: So that's by Jay Merchant on on our discord. [SPEAKER_02]: Well, the easy answer is innings. [SPEAKER_02]: He's sort of one hundred and eleven innings to a one-freaking three-week ERA. [SPEAKER_02]: It's unbelievable.

[SPEAKER_02]: Every single time he steps foot on the mountain, it feels like he is throwing a shot out. [SPEAKER_02]: And the numbers basically replicate that. [SPEAKER_02]: Here's the thing. [SPEAKER_02]: What do you do? [SPEAKER_02]: How are you going to vote even the biggest Texas Rangers fans? [SPEAKER_02]: When Nathaniel Valdi finishes the season with a hundred and fifty innings at a one, five, five ERA.

[SPEAKER_02]: Let's say he has one or two more six inning two run outings, which is not even that bad, but it's probable when going over the rest of the season. [SPEAKER_02]: Versus Taric Scoople is going to be over two hundred innings. [SPEAKER_02]: He's going to be over two hundred and fifty strikeouts. [SPEAKER_02]: He's going to have an ERA to one.

[SPEAKER_02]: And then Garrett Crochet is also on top of that who's also going to be over two hundred innings who's also going to be over two hundred and fifty strikeouts who's also going to have an ERA in the low two. [SPEAKER_02]: I love what he have all these doing so far. [SPEAKER_02]: It's been unbelievable. [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, he just obliterated my Yankees. [SPEAKER_02]: We didn't have a shot.

[SPEAKER_02]: A shot we had none, and he might still pitch to a one four ERA for the rest of the year. [SPEAKER_02]: But would you rather have a guy who's made twenty four starts to a one four or a guy who's made thirty two to a two one with all that production? [SPEAKER_02]: It's gonna go to the guys with all of that production as much as Evaldi has had such an incredible season at thirty five years old. [SPEAKER_00]: It's not, though. [SPEAKER_00]: It really is nuts.

[SPEAKER_00]: What would the ERA have to be at fifty innings less for him to win this eye on in your eyes? [SPEAKER_00]: Is it going to be fifty innings less? [SPEAKER_00]: He's at one eleven. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: I think it would be about fifty innings less. [SPEAKER_00]: Forty fifty innings less. [SPEAKER_02]: Okay. [SPEAKER_02]: Fifty innings less. [SPEAKER_02]: Like what's there like precedent for this like I'm thinking about trying to look right now.

[SPEAKER_00]: I like any of the sub two ERAs because we're burns. [SPEAKER_02]: Did you have a hundred and sixty eight innings since two thousand. [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going minimum a hundred and fifty innings and an ERA sub two. [SPEAKER_00]: You had Blake's now in twenty eighteen at a one eight nine Roger Cummins in two thousand five at a one eight seven all these guys through a ton of things now through one eighty. [SPEAKER_00]: All these guys through two hundredings.

[SPEAKER_00]: The only guys that didn't throw two hundredings was for a lander in twenty twenty two through one hundred seventy five innings at a one seven five year. [SPEAKER_00]: And twenty fourteen Kershaw hundred ninety eight innings at a one seven seventy all right. [SPEAKER_02]: Let's go to the verlander sion voting real quick. [SPEAKER_02]: I want to see who is going up against because again I just don't even think that. [SPEAKER_02]: You have all these going to get to one seventy five.

[SPEAKER_02]: That's the thing. [SPEAKER_02]: Right. [SPEAKER_02]: So right now I'm going into the Google machine. [SPEAKER_02]: Baseball reference. [SPEAKER_00]: Twenty sixteen Kershaw two. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, see. [SPEAKER_02]: All right, let's, again, I'm still clicking. [SPEAKER_02]: It's not great podcasting, but I really want to nail this. [SPEAKER_02]: So in twenty nineteen or excuse me, twenty twenty two, he won this sign on the hundred seventy five innings.

[SPEAKER_02]: Like you've all these not getting to one seventy five. [SPEAKER_02]: And that year he beats cease.

[SPEAKER_02]: who pitched to a two to two zero over a hundred and eighty four innings alchemino a two to four to one ninety six show haotani two to three or two three three ERA to one sixty six innings like all of them were not that far away but of crochet in school or both over two hundred years here's here's the crazy thing though since two thousand [SPEAKER_00]: We have not had a star, just a picture period, throw a hundred and thirty plus innings with an ERA below one five.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I don't think give all these going to do that, but I just, just for the sake of the conversation, he would be doing something. [SPEAKER_00]: I want to see how far back we could go to where the last time this happened. [SPEAKER_00]: Would it be orthoss? [SPEAKER_00]: Old house like I agree like I think the guys that go two hundred and things in a low-toes with off-the-chart strike out numbers probably get it.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just like are we gonna get a season here where it's almost unprecedented like we haven't had a sub one five you all right, and I don't think he bought his going to do it, but I think if he sub one five you might just have to do it Yeah, because if there's a hundred and forty six and things to a one four one [SPEAKER_00]: That would be the best season minimum from an ERA perspective.

[SPEAKER_00]: Best season minimum, a hundred and thirty innings since nineteen eighty five do I couldn't. [SPEAKER_00]: By just by near a perspective. [SPEAKER_02]: It would be a hundred and thirty innings last and it's crazy because you don't look at the underlying metrics and you're like, oh, this is going to come crashing down. [SPEAKER_02]: See, he's got a twenty seven percent strike. [SPEAKER_02]: I rate four and a half percent walk right opponent's rating one eighty four against him.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's really doing it. [SPEAKER_00]: I really hope he puts voters, brands in the blender. [SPEAKER_00]: If it's a one four one five, if it's a one seven, it's crazy, but at that point, you know, you go to the two, but I would just, I would love if you could somehow maintain this, it would be really fun. [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, since, nineteen eighty, dude, [SPEAKER_00]: minimum, one hundred and thirty innings.

[SPEAKER_00]: We've only had twenty five seasons of an ERA sub two, but you know what really does hurt the case. [SPEAKER_00]: One of those is ran auto Lopez at a hundred and thirty five and two thirds innings at a one nine nine ERA last year. [SPEAKER_02]: But I think it's he's probably going to be a lot better than a one nine nine. [SPEAKER_00]: I think the way we'll be like at a one four. [SPEAKER_00]: When it's in this like theoretical, but like even if it's one seven five.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's, that's one of the best seasons we've seen in a long time, even if you just make it minimum, one, thirty. [SPEAKER_02]: If he gets to one, fifty, and it's a one, four, and scooble and crochet are both over two hundred, the strikeouts are crazy, but it's a two, four, two, five. [SPEAKER_02]: That's a fun conversation. [SPEAKER_02]: That is a fun conversation.

[SPEAKER_02]: But again, to me, it's just the durability of being a pitcher is so important that and especially in this day of baseball, where it's like those guys are just few and far between. [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, how many guys are going to throw two hundred innings this year at that level? [SPEAKER_02]: Not a lot. [SPEAKER_02]: Just throwing two hundred innings in general is really hard. [SPEAKER_02]: So again, it's like, [SPEAKER_00]: I, I really hope it happens.

[SPEAKER_02]: Let's break some brains. [SPEAKER_02]: And it could happen, too. [SPEAKER_02]: Again, this is not a guy who we expect to. [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, my gosh. [SPEAKER_00]: He's incredible. [SPEAKER_00]: He doubled to you, Jay, to do what he's doing. [SPEAKER_00]: He's in my book, given the circumstances, using my, by like all time great in terms of just double TJ, both season performance, doing what he continues to do at his age.

[SPEAKER_00]: He won't be all familiar, but to me, he's he's one of those guys. [SPEAKER_00]: Just gonna be in a special. [SPEAKER_00]: It's not even Hall of Very Good, like he's in a special, just like, [SPEAKER_00]: He's got his own little area for me. [SPEAKER_00]: I think you've already incredible. [SPEAKER_02]: Absolutely. [SPEAKER_02]: So then I'll do it for this episode of The Justice Baseball Show. [SPEAKER_02]: Hopefully everybody enjoyed.

[SPEAKER_02]: Before we end it, I do have a question for you, I'm moving to Chicago soon. [SPEAKER_02]: And you're the perfect person to ask about things you hate about Chicago that I should avoid. [SPEAKER_02]: I want to tee you up. [SPEAKER_02]: What's been pissing you off in your week in Chicago? [SPEAKER_00]: Oh, man. [SPEAKER_00]: I was going to save this for Jack. [SPEAKER_00]: Why do they pretend that Mallorque? [SPEAKER_00]: And no one even pretends Mallorque tastes good.

[SPEAKER_00]: What's the point of Mallorque? [SPEAKER_00]: And why is it a Chicago thing?

[SPEAKER_00]: it's the grossest drink I've ever had in my life ever and they like oh this is our this is our thing why and why is it everywhere and like why is it like something that like you you feel like you have to drink when it is disgusting why do I am sure there's history behind it or whatever but I don't understand why like I wanted to get like a drink and it's just like oh you should try our melodic no [SPEAKER_00]: I don't want it. [SPEAKER_00]: It's disgusting.

[SPEAKER_00]: Why are we forcing a terrible drink on people? [SPEAKER_00]: Because it's like their thing. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't understand why that's become like a Chicago identity thing. [SPEAKER_02]: Here's what I don't understand about that, too, because when we did our nationally central stadium tour, I was under the impression that the Lord was like a troll. [SPEAKER_02]: for visitors of Chicago.

[SPEAKER_02]: Like people in Chicago been living there with the whole lives, know how bad it is. [SPEAKER_02]: And almost would trick a visitor into trying it and then laugh at their face. [SPEAKER_02]: That's a great joke, right? [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, but I'm at this Chicago house with Colby and one of his brothers best friends, or maybe his best friends brother. [SPEAKER_02]: I forget kind of the relation there. [SPEAKER_02]: Great guy though. [SPEAKER_02]: And he's with his wife.

[SPEAKER_02]: And they say, do you guys want to do a shot on the Lord before we go to the Cubs game? [SPEAKER_02]: And I'm like hell, no. [SPEAKER_02]: Colby's, of course. [SPEAKER_02]: Yes. [SPEAKER_02]: Can't wait to do it. [SPEAKER_02]: Love Colby. [SPEAKER_02]: Crazy person. [SPEAKER_02]: Discuss? [SPEAKER_02]: And then, but again, I was under the impression that I thought it was a troll, but then he does two of them. [SPEAKER_02]: Not Colby, the guy lives in Chicago.

[SPEAKER_02]: And he's like, yeah, it's horrible, isn't it? [SPEAKER_02]: Look, what are you doing to yourself? [SPEAKER_02]: Why? [SPEAKER_02]: I thought this was a troll, but he was also doing it so that you lose the lore of it being a troll. [SPEAKER_02]: And then I think you just like it. [SPEAKER_00]: It's, it's one of those things where it's like you would gaslight yourself into liking it. [SPEAKER_00]: Here's the history of it.

[SPEAKER_00]: Carl Jefferson, a Swedish immigrant to Chicago, invented Malor. [SPEAKER_00]: He first began to sell it door to door as a medicine in the nineteen twenties, so as to avoid then the prohibition on alcohol. [SPEAKER_00]: According to legend, Jefferson preferred the strong taste because years of smoking had dulled his taste buds.

[SPEAKER_00]: Attorney George Broad purchased the original receipt from Jefferson and created the Jefferson's Mallort testimonial that once appeared on every bottle. [SPEAKER_00]: So during prohibition, it tasted so much like medicine that they were able to sneak it around. [SPEAKER_00]: Guess what? [SPEAKER_00]: Prohibitions over. [SPEAKER_00]: Don't need to drink literal garbage. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't get why this is like an identity of Chicago thing.

[SPEAKER_00]: And it's gross, absolutely disgusting. [SPEAKER_00]: And I see like paintings of it everywhere. [SPEAKER_00]: It's like, it's like a quirk. [SPEAKER_00]: We have this, it's like our terrible drink. [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know. [SPEAKER_00]: That is the one thing that I don't want anybody offering me more ever again. [SPEAKER_00]: And Jack was like four, but I didn't know what it was. [SPEAKER_00]: I wish I never did. [SPEAKER_00]: I wish I never did.

[SPEAKER_02]: So funny, when you go all over the country, like skyline chili isn't great, I'm not a big fan of it. [SPEAKER_02]: That's really a Cincinnati thing. [SPEAKER_02]: And they may like it. [SPEAKER_02]: They might don't, but it's nowhere near as bad as Mallorque. [SPEAKER_02]: You go even crazier, Rocky Mountain Oysters and Denver. [SPEAKER_02]: It's bold testicles. [SPEAKER_02]: It sounds horrific. [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_02]: Not bad. [SPEAKER_02]: I've had one before.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's not bad. [SPEAKER_02]: Mallorque is genuine gasoline for no reason other than [SPEAKER_02]: You're all psychos and boxes. [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, this is our thing. [SPEAKER_00]: Known for it's extremely bitter taste, Mallort has been described as infamous and the worst booze ever.

[SPEAKER_00]: It can be found in some Chicago area bars and liquor stores and is growing in popularity with the sales of Mallort shots increasing from zero point four million in two thousand seven to seven point nine million in twenty twenty two. [SPEAKER_00]: However, it's rare to find it elsewhere in the United States. [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, because they fucking have brains. [SPEAKER_00]: What are we doing? [SPEAKER_00]: I don't understand.

[SPEAKER_02]: It's almost the equivalent of like intentionally getting bit by a rattlesnake and suck in the poison out of your park. [SPEAKER_02]: But we do that in Chicago. [SPEAKER_02]: We do that in Chicago. [SPEAKER_02]: We just suck venom. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah. [SPEAKER_00]: You literally does taste like a rattlesnake venom. [SPEAKER_00]: So I love Chicago. [SPEAKER_00]: Awesome place. [SPEAKER_00]: Especially this time of year. [SPEAKER_02]: I mean, I'm moving there.

[SPEAKER_02]: I can't wait. [SPEAKER_00]: But just. [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, did you should get ready to stock up the bar with Mallorque, man? [SPEAKER_02]: No, no, we'll not be doing that. [SPEAKER_02]: Anything else that piss you off? [SPEAKER_00]: No, I can't believe you asked me that. [SPEAKER_00]: Now I had that one ready for Jack. [SPEAKER_00]: I was going to put him on the spot and I still am going to. [SPEAKER_00]: I want to hear him try to defend this garbage.

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