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Toby Bellringer. Welcome to bat Flip
and Nerds. Hello and welcome to Hi,

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butt Flips and Nerds podcast, a
baseball podcast with a British twist.

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We are back. We have been
away for an extended period of time.

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Sadly we couldn't get together to discuss
the postseason and seeing some team that nobody

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really cared about actually winning the World
Series because as we all know, that

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was a boring World Series because there
was no East Coast or West Coast teams

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involved with it. But we are
here now. We talk about free agency.

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We have hopefully a funky draft to
go through and do that. I

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am joined by, firstly, my
fellow statman Darius. Darius are we doing

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I'm doing well? Coming hit in
hot on the Rangers there, Russ Hey

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like we might as well just like
punch people while they're on the up.

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Yeah, Oh seriousness, congrats to
Texas. Great round. Corey Seeger is

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a beast. Anything else to say? Really? Yeah, phenomenal And to

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hopefully counter mine and Darius is overthinking
of this exercise, we have Rob Nevada

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is, how are we doing wrong? I'm just delighted and surprised that the

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Rangers won the World Series. I've
just found out about that. Now you're

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not Tom Prangle, you are at
least aware of some things that are happening.

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Okay, I was aware of it. Yeah, okay. So what

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we're planning on doing tonight is we're
going to look at the which team we

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think basically is going to draft most
of the top three agents in the postseason

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before we basically the season starts.
So the way we're doing this is we're

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taking MLB trade moomors top fifty players
and we're just looking to basically see which

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teams sign the most of them.
It's not about like who spends the most

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dollars, who kind of picks up
like the most award from this, It's

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just who signs the most of that
MLB top fifty. I think I'm gonna

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in a short time do a quick
run through of all who those players are,

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just so you are aware, but
effectively, there's thirty pitchers, twenty

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starters, to swing men, mate
believers, and twenty position players. Just

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quickly, like Daris, does this
list have any like glaring emissions? I

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don't think anybody's going to be shocked
that it's not the deepest free agent class

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in the world definitely stronger on the
picture side. That's probably going to be

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you know, fans of certain teams
or players who go, why isn't this

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guy in here? But yeah,
if you don't make the top fifty,

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then you're not really a premium free
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Yeah, this is going to work
in a pretty kind of hopefully traditional make

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draft that whoever goes first, then
we go just we'll loop back around.

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We will draft as many teams as
we'd like, obviously, talk a little

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bit about why we're choosing these teams
to start off with, and probably get

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towards a quick fire round at the
end. So just in case you don't

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know and haven't been bothered to go
to MLB trade rumors to look at the

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top fifty, here is as fast
as I can say fifty players' names,

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showy Arni, Courdi Bellingjoe Joshinoo,
Yamamoto, Blake Snell, Aaron Nola,

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Jordan Montgomery, Matt Chapman, Josh
has Sunny Gray, Show to Ima Marga,

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Eduardo Rodriguez, Taaska, Hernandez,
Jim Vandelario, Lordes Couriel, Jong

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Ho Lee, Johe Selaire Lucas,
Julieta, Marcus Stroman Seth Logo, Jad

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Martinez, Jordan Hicks, Jack Flaherty, Mitch Garver, Michael Waker, ken

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To Maida, Rhys Hoskins, Robert
Stephenson, Yariel Rodriguez, Ronaldo Lopez,

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Mike Clevenger, Kevin ki and My
Nick Martinez Andrealis Chapman, Michael Lorenzo,

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shanman Ia Harrison, Bader, Tyler, marhe Gioshela armed Rasario, Whitmerfield,

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Justin Turner, Jason Heyward, u
Kim Atsue, Frankie Montas, Brandon belt

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Hector, there is Jacob Junius,
Lewis, Lverino, Liam Hendrix, and

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Tim Anderson Hey And what are the
possible teams they could go to? Russell

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Well, I'm not going to name
are thirtyeen, but some of you may

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be aware that a few of those
players have already signed. We actually have

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five of that top fifty have already
signed, but each one of those is

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actually we signed for one. Well, each team only has one of those

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signs. So even though Phillys Saint
Lewis, Detroit, Atlanta and the Dodgers

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already have a signing, it's one
apiece, so they are still effectively available

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for our draft. No one is
significantly put out by this, and maybe,

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like you've done a fantasy draft before, after the first weekend started,

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there's some bankers that you can choose
whether you want to take that or go

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with that. Otherwise, I think
we're we're ready to go, Rob Daris,

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do you understand what we are doing
the ones in a draft? Yes?

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I think I do. So you're
not prepared for completely the wrong thing?

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Yes, not this time. No. I have, however, only

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managed to look at five teams and
four of them feature in my bottom ten.

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So I'm really really going to be
clutching at straws here. See the

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thing is here, there's I can't
even quite work out what my tactics and

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theory are here because there could be
teams just going to throw a lot of

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the wall and see what sticks here. We're not we're not really aren't looking

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at like who's good because the bottom
half of that list, once you get

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to sort of Mike Clevenger, Kevin
Kimyer onwards, it's it's a lot of

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a lot of rubbish down there,
isn't it. Yeah, I mean it's

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not the highest quality, a lot, a lot of uncertainty. I feel

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like these players have had good seasons, most of them at some point,

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but there's not a lot of certainty
for sure, and a lot of the

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bar Yeah, either at the tail
end of their careers or coming off big

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injuries. It's uh yeah, very
very light on the certain production. I

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think, Yeah, Kimmeyer, I
think injuries aside is probably the best of

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that budge there. But yeah,
just a lot of you know, Anderson

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and Severino and up Rosario, just
people coming off massive, massive down seasons

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might be good bounce back bets,
but yeah, you don't really know what

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you're getting with. Yeah, we'll
hopefully maybe talk a bit more about the

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free agents people in more detail in
another podcast, hopefully in the next few

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weeks. We'll hopefully also do maybe
a twenty twenty three in review, which

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may have a special twist about can
we convince senor Pringle that things happened or

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didn't happen in twenty twenty three?
So, Rob, I think I will

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give you the honors of the first
free agent team to go for So Rob

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with the first pick in the Backflips
and Nerds Free agent team Draft. Who

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are you selecting. I feel like
there's a right answer here, and I'm

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not of itht of it. There
is a right answer. Okay, well,

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I'm telling you now, I'm not
going to go for that because I

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don't know it. I'm going to
take the Chicago Cubs. Is that the

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wrong answer, isn't it? I
don't think it's a wrong answer. I

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think it's a reasonable answer. I
answer, okay, right, fine,

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Johnny, good, wonderful. Yet, So the Cubs, what I've had

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a little look at is what they've
been doing over the last few years,

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and the Cubs have never been afraid
of recruiting a few free agents, even

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in down years. Now this year, obviously they got close and they're probably

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going to have a look at moving
forward a bit. So I think the

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level of the the free agents they
pick may be slightly higher than the last

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couple of couple of years. So
they've got a few gaps. They've obviously

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lost mister Bellinger, maybe he'll sign
again, we don't know. They got

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holes at starting picture, they've got
holes at first base. So I reckon

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the Cubs are gonna take a fair
few off his list. So taking Cubs

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within the one one overall I like
it. I like it because I think

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that they've shown willingness to sign people
to one year deals as well, which

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I think could be could be a
kind of significant thing in this draft that

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you maybe not talking about the multiple
players. A few players on a big

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deal, but lots of small ones. Yeah, Daris, do you want

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to take, of course, the
second pick. Yeah, I've been back

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and forth on this, but I
think I am going to take my San

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Francisco Giants because if you're looking for
a team that's gonna make lots of little

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moves around the edge, I could
totally buy the Giants doing five or six,

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you know, one two year deals. Obviously, I hope they go

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and get Otani or Yamamoto or something
like that. But to be honest,

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there's a lot of based on this
payroll anyway, you know, they can

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spend a pretty big chunk of change, and I don't think getting one of

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those guys is going to preclude them
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You know, the rotation needs some
help. To be honest, there's

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not a lot of certainty in the
position player group. I just think that

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there's loads of room to add at
pretty much any spot. On this team.

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So yeah, I think I feel
fairly confident that the Giants are going

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to make some moves. Whether the
Giants fans will be happy with them is

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a different issue, But I think
they're going to make several free agent acquisitions.

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If I had picked either of those
two picks, the Giants would have

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been who I would have probably gone
with first. I think they fit this

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draft perfectly of how they've behaved over
the last few years, bringing in some

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older players and trying to get the
best out of them that we've seen in

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the past. So I think that's
a good pick to go for. And

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so now I have two picks.
So now I think I'm going to take

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maybe a little bit of a field
one and a one a bit more of

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a banker. So this three and
four doesn't really matter, as I have

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two picks in a row, but
I'm going to take the Detroit Tigers as

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because well, I'm already banking more
one. I've already got a point there,

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boys, and you don't neither of
you who've got a point yet,

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But no, I think very much. So obviously, them signing Maida gives

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like an idea of like what where
they're at for this offseason already, I

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think there are similar players in that
territory. I think the the al Central

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is eminently winnable that with a few
additional players and how their sequens in the

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latter half of their season progressed,
they can get ahead of Cleveland easily and

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not get far away from I think
Minnesota with a couple of trades and some

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bigger trades, they can actually stand
a chance. So I think they're definitely

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one of those teams that have the
gaps. I think all of that infield

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probably could be replaced, but some
of them are the young players that that

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are going to progress. And yes, I still think that they would probably

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want, not necessarily some starting pictures, but some of that that bottom end

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relief I think would be where they're
going to basically try and beef up their

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squad. So sports from either of
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very tiger Z list in that there's
a couple of biggies on there because they

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will blow some cash on on some
some options. But again, you look

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at that bottom half and you think
a lot of the infielders on there are

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upgrades and what they currently got.
So I think the list plays to the

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Tigers' needs. So I think that
that is a very good shout. Okay,

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and so with my with with pick
number four of my my two picks

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in a row. I don't know
whether this is left field or not,

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but I think it is. I'm
going to say the Red Sox because I

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think I'm not certain that they're going
to I'm still not certain they're going to

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spend the money, but I feel
that they're one of those teams that might

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just dip their toes in in multiple
places to try and kind of work their

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way back up in that division.
I don't know if they're I don't know

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enough about how the Red Sox are
running right now to determine, like if

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they are in regal mode or not, whether that means that they're not they're

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not going to touch this free agent
market or not. But I think that

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they if they were smart, they
should basically get a load of free agents

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on one year deals and if they
do well, flip them for prospects in

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the middle of the season. So
that's why I'm going to go for the

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Boston Red Sox with pick number four. Darness your thoughts, Yeah, they

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have sort of I feel like They
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They spread the money around a bit. They obviously have money, and

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I think that they presumably moved on
from Bloom because they wanted to accelerate this

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getting back into contention. Definitely not
the strongest roster they've had. Yeah,

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you know, there's not a lot
of certainty in that rotation, especially you

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know, guys like Crawford and how
could have been bouncing between the book and

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the rotation. Sale could pitch twenty
innings. Nick Povetter, who knows right

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like you might be an ace.
You might have to put him back in

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middle relief again. So I could
definitely see rotation upgrades. I could definitely

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see something in the outfield. Yeah, there's room for the Red Sox to

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make moves, and I think they've
got the space to do it. So

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Yeah, I like the shelt I
had Red Socks very very high on my

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list for that matter. I mean, looking back at last year, they

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had eight eight free agents signed last
year, again, a lot of them

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wouldn't have made it on this list. But they should be slightly better again

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this year. You know, for
all the all the sackings of mister Bloom,

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he has put the sort of the
foundations of that franchise sort of a

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little bit back on on level footing. He's made some shrewd moves to kind

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of shore up what's coming up in
the next couple of years. So yeah,

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I think that they would be ready
and with the with the media market

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there, they're not going to hang
around. I reckon They're going to go

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straight into it. Okay, Harris, give me an ex pick. Yeah,

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I've bounced back and forth on this, but I'm going to take the

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Dodgers. We've got one on the
board already with Jason Haywood. It's possible

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that they just blow their remaining payer
off space on No Tinney, but that

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rotation is a little bit, a
little bit yikes right now with who knows

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what's happening with Kersher and when he'll
be back. Obviously got Buder coming back

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from Tommy John and then it's yeah, kind of Bobby Miller and a bunch

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of other not very experienced guys.
So I think they could make up grades

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here. Yeah. My concern would
be, yeah, they make that one

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big move and then not a lot
else. But yeah, I think worst

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case scenario, I'm getting two points
here, and it wouldn't shock me if

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there was three or four with a
couple of the starting pitchers coming off here

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as well. Yeah, I think
they might try and pick up somebody from

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the outfield perspective as well that might
fit this list. Yeah, well,

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they're like Dodgers signing like young Holy
and show her Tani and just that's there.

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That was that off season expenditure,
Like that'll be a pretty amazing addition

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to the team. Yeah, you'd
take that with you. I think this

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would probably be okay with that.
Yeah, and it turns out that they

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add like Marcus Stroman and whit Merrifield. It's like you realize that probably two

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of them will actually turn out to
be very good. Rob your turn picks,

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My turn picks, now do it. I could go very safe here.

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There's still a couple on the board
who are sure fire they're going to

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go for a few and then it
gets a bit iffy. But so okay,

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I'm going to start with the New
York Mets. I don't think he

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can hold himself back. I reckon
for all of the Yeah, we're going

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to have a down year. We're
going to slow it down a little bit.

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I don't think he's going to do
that. I think I think he

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just wanted rid of those two big
old contracts I think as a slight thrust

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thrust change for the Mets. But
I'm mister Cohen's not going to stop there.

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I reckon it's it's it's going to
be money flowing out the doors even

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further. And yeah, we're going
to see maybe maybe even you'll do the

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same thing again, get a couple
of old veterans that he can can flip

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at the deadline if it's not going
very well in order to purchase some more

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purchase some more prospects. But I
can't see past. Mister Cohen just sat

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there on his hands. It's not
going to happen. Yeah, I think

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when he came out explicitly and was
just like, well, I didn't buy

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this team to make a profit or
whatever, and after one of a bit

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seasons, I don't think he's going
to really go like, yeah, you

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know what, I changed my mind. It's like, I think, obviously

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they seem to be in on the
market for Yamamoto. Obviously we don't know

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how much that's happening or not.
But yeah, I don't disagree with them

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probably being quite active. They do
have gaps, I think obviously from that

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starting that starting pitching position, and
probably some gaps in the outfield. They

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probably actually have one of the best
infields in baseball, but the outfield,

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and that's starting pitching. Line is
that if you want to win, there's

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some work to be done, agreed, there is? Yeah, yeah,

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I mean you look at after Senger. You know, Quintan has had a

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good career, but he's going to
be thirty five. Didn't get many innings

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out of him last year, Garry
Lakzy, It's like, yeah, they're

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not relying on a lot here.
I think you're gonna want to back up

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Senger with some more reliable innings,
you know, maybe go get a Jordan

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Montgomery. I think that would be
a nice fit here, to be honest,

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some bit of bit of stability and
a rotation that hasn't got a lot

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of innings under its spelt. And
yeah, the money is always going to

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be there. It doesn't matter how
far past the luxury tax they blow,

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does it? So I think you're
probably safe with a few points there,

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thank you. Safety, That's what
I'm after. I'm just trying very much

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not to embarrass myself, and two
picks in I think I've done okay first

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two rounds. Yeah, okay,
right, my next pick then I'm gonna

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in New York and to stay in
New York and take the Yankees for very

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similar reasons in that there's an awful
lot of money going on there. They've

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got a little bit of a bashing
for not spending the way that we would

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think the Yankees are going to spend
in recent years. We've got an aging

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broken gian Carlos Stanton who's not playing
any outfield at this point. We've got

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starting pitching, which really badly let
them down last year. I think the

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Yankees are are going to see this
as a chance to restamp their authority,

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not only on New York with the
with their neighbors, but also in the

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Al East, which they've looked poor
in. So yeah, Yankees are my

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next pick. I don't think they've
got to spend money, like it's not

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even like they can't pretend that,
like they're a team that doesn't spend money,

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like it just doesn't work in their
market. Like obviously the Mets failed

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with spending their money last year.
But if the Mets spend money again,

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this year and are successful, then
the Yankees don't. Cashman's done surely does

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well, you would think so,
but it does seem somewhat invincible in that

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position. Obviously has a great relationship
with the Steinbrenners. Or maybe Boon's done

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if Cashman isn't, Yeah, I
would expect Boone to go first. I

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mean, you know, at the
end of the day, they still had

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a winning record, so it's not
like they cardinalsed it. But yeah,

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you know they're currently I think starting
for Il and Pereira in the outfield,

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not what division winning team is looking
for. Michael King looks great, but

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I don't know how he's going to
hold up over a whole season. Carlos

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Regan again might get nothing, So
there's there's room for upgrades here. And

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yeah, Yankees fans are going to
be mad if they don't sign a couple

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of guys on this list. And
Cashman's got that swagger at the moment as

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well, hasn't he The way he's
being in front of the press right now

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like that, there is a man
who knows he's about to have a huge

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water cash to blow in a minute. So I reckon, I reckon,

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He's got You could see the confidence
oozing out of him here comes from you

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know, he's always already got Tony
one foot through the door. Maybe who

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knows. Yeah, it's one of
those ones where you just like you think

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it's got to happen, but it
hasn't really happened over the last few years,

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apart from obviously resigning Judge. So
Darius your third pick? Yeah,

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a few options here, I think
who do I want to go with?

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So I'm trying not to focus on
teams that I think want to be good,

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because some of them just don't have
that many spots to upgrade. But

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you've also got to focus on the
teams who aren't just going to shop off

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the list, which I'm looking at
a few here and thinking, yeah,

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you're just not going to pick any
of these top fifty, are you?

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Let's have give me Arizona. I'm
going to keep it in our West.

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Pay rolls not very high. They've
obviously nearly got there this season, and

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I think there's obviously some room in
several spots that made the trade for Suarez

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already. But I think this is
still incomplete roster. We said it before

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the playoffs. I think it's still
pretty true. So you know, maybe

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they do that via trades and things, but I think they've got room to

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add starter towards the back of this
rotation. I think they've got room to

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upgrade to the ballpen, and yeah
there's maybe room I think on the bench

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as well. Certainly you could get
somebody who you know, fourth outfielder type

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or something be nice. I mean, imagine if they got Kevin Kim,

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what defensive outfield this would be with
Alec Thomas and Corbyn Carroll. I'd like

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to see that. So yeah,
I think they just need to that little

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push. Got some exciting young players, but I would like to see them

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make them upgrades. And yeah,
maybe they'll go and get a Marcus Stroman

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or something. I think that might
be a nice fit. Oh yes,

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that takes you three for three from
the NL West the Darius obviously knowing your

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knowledge, Well, yeah, there
is a bit of that, like Aurse.

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So we've got this arms race going
on as well, right, you

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know, the Padres are already supposedly
you know, they've got a roster that

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could contend if they don't somehow melt
down. And I think all these teams

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rockies aside of harbor intentions of competing, So I think there is that pressure

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within the division for them all to
do something. Oh yeah, definitely another

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team that I had as like as
contentions for are they wanting to improve on

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last year and knowing that doing that
has to be buying players, which is

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always that difficult thing, Like there's
a couple of teams just have them.

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This is the thing, Like there
are a couple of other teams that I'm

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I'm thinking need to improve on last
year and buying players would do that,

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but I just don't think they'll actually
do it, which is then it's difficult.

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Like there are we'll probably talk about
them as we kind of get to

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them, which we go with that. You've left me with either around the

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conundrum now of like the teams that
I know are willing to spend, but

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I don't think have many gaps or
some of these teams in the middle that

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my aren't willing to spend but could
pick up a few of these players.

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So I think a team I really
don't like many of these options now now,

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No, but there's there's no one
that's jumping out to me, like

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to me like we haven't made them
like a Glaring like mister Glaring team so

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far. So I'm going to take
I'm gonna say the Blue Jays. I

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think that similar to kind of what
Darius is saying for the the NL West,

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there's an arms race in the Al
East as well, Like they've got

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to improve, like I think they
need, they need some better pitching.

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I think it might be come from
a relief perspective. I think they could

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be quite aggressive in that reliever market, which we do have, like some

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one to go here. Obviously it's
only the top of the top, and

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I think they do need to kind
of pick up like another actual decent outfielder

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or somebody more to kind of go
around the edges. Like I would say

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that they would need like a third
baseman obviously do they just try and resigned

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like that would seem to be like
a fairly easy thing to go with.

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So it's not the most not the
most enticing pick, but I will take.

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Yeah, I will take the Toronto
Blue Jays with my third round pick.

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I did consider them. They've got
the big market, they've got the

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holes. It's just something about you
know, they've they've struggled to sign free

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agents in the last few years.
They've been that team where we've heard the

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Blue Jays are in and then they
weren't. I mean other than the Giants

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of course, who'd been the ultimate
team to try and do that Us and

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Judge. But after that, the
Blue Jays, it seems to be a

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lot of them trying to get guys
and then they're not wanting to do it

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because, you know, moving north
of the border apparently is moving to the

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moon. Who knows. So I
didn't have Blue Jays high on my list,

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but I did consider them because there
is some logic to it. Ptstarius,

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Yeah, I don't disagree with you
about the raid spots. To be

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honest, it feels like, yeah, Kleirmyra and Chapman leaving creates a couple

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of pretty clear holes they need to
fill. So it is just one of

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those will they will they shop on
this list or not? I think,

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yeah, they could be a team
the shops further off this list that's hits

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in that like fifty to one hundred
territory and tries to kind of get a

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load of players. Yeah, because
if it's not Chapman, then where are

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they going the third base help?
Yeah, they're not taking timer Candelorio.

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Are they that's just not an upgrade, I do think so then yeah,

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is it is it a trade or
something or do they just go with,

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yeah, the cheap option and try
somebody from the miners, see how it

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goes. Yeah, like a lot
of the top teams as well, there's

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an outfield gap. I think that
could be filled by a few of the

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better outfielders that are available, but
we just don't know where some of those

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are going. Like just hilarious to
bring ti Oscar Hernandez back or whatever I

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have to, But yeah, so
maybe that's a little bit more left field.

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I think I'm just going to take
another team that spends and it is

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hot off success but needs pitching.
So I'm going to take the Texas Rangers

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next. I think obviously they have
potentially one of the best like hitting lineups

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one deny in baseball, but that
pitching looks questionable for another season. So

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if they want to try and to
push this and know that like Houston and

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Seattle or are probably going to be
competitive, and obviously the AL is competitive

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thanks to the East, I think
they definitely need to target these better pitching

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options like this could be all pitching
options and no like positional players been picked

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up here. But I think there's
a lot that can improve from choosing some

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of these ar thing pictures that are
in that kind of thirty to forty like

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region. Give them some more and
some better depth. Yeah, you can,

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you can look certainly if you look
again, you as I said with

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the Tigers earlier, there's there's an
element of this list really working for them.

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If you look at that sort of
lower third of the lso lower half

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really of the of the list.
You got your empty your Clevengers, your

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lorenz Ands, your your Manaias,
and you start thinking those those could could

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kind of fit quite nicely for for
what's going on in Texas at the moment.

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So yeah, I would agree it's
a decent pick. He need DH

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two. Well why why at Langford
is going to be up pretty soon,

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I think, and that's going to
take care of that particular issue. I

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would say, Okay, Darius,
your fourth pick San Diego or Colorado.

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I'm going to be honest, I'm
pretty attempted to take the Padres because a

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free agent signing. There's a lot
of gaps on this roster, a lot

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a lot of gaps, Like I
mean, you look at this, look

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in the financing too, Matt Matt
Waldron, pedro Vela, Jay Grom.

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This is these are guys projected to
be in their starting rotation. Like this

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is not good for the Padres if
they they're trying to keep this contention window

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going. Well, I'm taking the
Padres. I've convinced myself. I don't

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think they're going to go big.
You know, I don't need them to

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spend a lot of money. But
do they go shopping around? Do they

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sign a Maniah or a Junis or
Michael Waker? You know, I could

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see the Padres doing that kind of
thing, because they do. They've got

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more holes to fill than most of
the contending teams, I think. And

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again you look at like this bench. You know that Matt Campeter signing was

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a flop. They don't have anything
really to back up this starting it's not

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even a starting nine. Really,
I think, you know it's Matt Batton

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and Jose as a car. Yeah, it's they traded away all the prospect

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depth. Really, it's apart from
Jackson Merrill. So yeah, I do

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think the Padres need to make three
four additions to this team, and maybe

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they don't all come from this list, but I could see at least a

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couple of the back end, you
know, low cost deals to keep things

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going. And Rob Mains says that
the fifteen million dollar loan might not mean

405
00:30:26.759 --> 00:30:30.160
anything at all. Oh and trust
I trust Rob when he when it comes

406
00:30:30.200 --> 00:30:33.640
to a financial matters. So I
don't think any of that means anything that

407
00:30:33.720 --> 00:30:36.440
they're like they're going to look out
on money. I just think that there.

408
00:30:37.319 --> 00:30:40.319
I think they're raised on debta right
now. Is they've got they want

409
00:30:40.359 --> 00:30:45.079
to flip, seemingly Soto, which
means to and they have to think free

410
00:30:45.559 --> 00:30:52.400
like salary space to get anybody new. So it's kind of obviously reading the

411
00:30:52.480 --> 00:30:57.480
rumors today, it's Tyler Klasnow and
Randia Rose arena for Juan Soto if to

412
00:30:57.519 --> 00:31:03.200
believe the fact that supposedly a Rosa
Rainer is up for trade bait today according

413
00:31:03.240 --> 00:31:10.799
to some of the reporters in the
MLB Rumorville. So I see the Pads

414
00:31:10.920 --> 00:31:15.720
doing these kind of trades instead of
signing players. But I think they could

415
00:31:15.759 --> 00:31:18.359
do the trade and then sign the
players at the bottom of this list and

416
00:31:18.960 --> 00:31:22.759
with like three or four of them, So it could be if it works,

417
00:31:23.559 --> 00:31:27.599
it might not be wrong. I
agree in that I don't think the

418
00:31:27.680 --> 00:31:33.279
financing thing actually means, you know, they have finance issues. I think

419
00:31:33.720 --> 00:31:37.559
that's possible to do with people passing
away. But also I think that the

420
00:31:37.640 --> 00:31:40.440
interesting thing about that is the fact
that we heard about that, because I

421
00:31:40.759 --> 00:31:45.319
would imagine these financing deals happen all
the time because it's about liquidity of funds

422
00:31:45.440 --> 00:31:48.680
rather than actually the value of these
franchises. I think the fact we we

423
00:31:48.920 --> 00:31:52.920
heard about it was was then trying
to play the pr game and oh no,

424
00:31:53.079 --> 00:31:56.680
we need to cut funds. I
think that's where they are prepping us,

425
00:31:56.920 --> 00:32:00.680
soft prepping us for their little teared
down I think that what's happened there,

426
00:32:00.920 --> 00:32:02.160
and I think you're right. I
think you're right. They're gonna they're

427
00:32:02.160 --> 00:32:06.240
gonna trade away to try and get
a little bit of relief on that salary.

428
00:32:08.279 --> 00:32:13.079
The rob the turn is back to
you. Really that was quick?

429
00:32:13.599 --> 00:32:16.359
Good lord? Okay, Right.
I still think there's a couple of teams

430
00:32:16.400 --> 00:32:22.200
here that are genuine picks. Again, looking at what we've got for free

431
00:32:22.240 --> 00:32:25.799
agents this year, very very picture
heavy. Who needs pitching, Nobody more

432
00:32:25.960 --> 00:32:31.599
than the Cardinals absolutely got to hit
some pitching in there. So I really

433
00:32:31.680 --> 00:32:35.759
do think the Cardinals are going to
step onto this list. They're not big

434
00:32:35.880 --> 00:32:39.720
normally on the free agent market,
but they've found themselves somewhere this last year

435
00:32:39.880 --> 00:32:45.200
that they don't normally find themselves.
So I'm all over the Cardinals as my

436
00:32:45.000 --> 00:32:49.880
next pick. What's that number number
twelve so far? I think yes.

437
00:32:50.559 --> 00:32:52.880
My question to that, Rob is, do you realize the Cardinals already signed

438
00:32:52.920 --> 00:32:59.160
three starting pitchers, two of them
that aren't on this list exactly, But

439
00:32:59.200 --> 00:33:01.799
they need they need the relievers too, you know. It's it's it's the

440
00:33:01.880 --> 00:33:07.000
whole, the whole kitten kerboodle there. So I wasn't wear I wasn't wear

441
00:33:07.039 --> 00:33:09.559
a three. I thought it was
only two. But so that's slightly dentedy.

442
00:33:10.559 --> 00:33:13.480
But uh yeah, they've got to
get a big one on there as

443
00:33:13.519 --> 00:33:14.880
well. I'm sure of it.
They've got too. They've got to go

444
00:33:15.039 --> 00:33:22.720
up to Darius. I don't think
I'm starting in real stars, but I

445
00:33:22.759 --> 00:33:27.839
could see I could see a reliever
from the lower reaches of this list going

446
00:33:27.920 --> 00:33:32.519
on there. Yeah, maybe they
get like a like a junius guy,

447
00:33:34.000 --> 00:33:37.000
somebody who can be the swing man
for when Steven Matts gets injured, because

448
00:33:37.000 --> 00:33:40.440
Steven Matts will get injured that that
could that could be a fit and you

449
00:33:40.519 --> 00:33:45.680
get a point already for that episodes. Yes, yeah, yeah, it's

450
00:33:45.759 --> 00:33:46.680
not going to be the worst pick
because there are going to be ones that

451
00:33:46.680 --> 00:33:51.039
they are going to get zero.
So yes, absolutely a fourth round pick

452
00:33:51.119 --> 00:33:53.160
picking up one point. I imagine
there's going to be something in this some

453
00:33:53.279 --> 00:33:57.680
one of these top twelve teams that
actually does nothing shock of horrors, but

454
00:33:57.759 --> 00:34:01.000
maybe does a trade which answers like
most of their things. Just on a

455
00:34:01.079 --> 00:34:05.519
side note, we do we think
that Sat Louis might put out the oldest

456
00:34:05.599 --> 00:34:09.440
rotation in baseball history or I don't
know the numbers, but I have to

457
00:34:09.559 --> 00:34:12.719
imagine it's going to be a I
don't know the numbers either, but it

458
00:34:12.840 --> 00:34:17.039
just crossed my mind of like the
fact that what they've signed average age thirty

459
00:34:17.079 --> 00:34:22.519
six. That's still young. There'll
be like some dead ball ever where it

460
00:34:22.599 --> 00:34:27.280
was like three guys and there were
all forty four or something like they always

461
00:34:27.280 --> 00:34:30.880
three three hundred and thirty innings.
Yeah, to say post segregation, just

462
00:34:30.960 --> 00:34:36.199
to to kind of give us some
sort of mod Yeah, maybe like the

463
00:34:36.280 --> 00:34:42.719
oldest opening day rotation is something to
throw back. But obviously rather. I

464
00:34:42.760 --> 00:34:45.360
don't know if you're mini googling that, but you do have another choice to

465
00:34:45.800 --> 00:34:51.639
okay around, I was trying to
look clever and then then yeah, rabbit

466
00:34:51.679 --> 00:34:55.079
holes. No, okay, So
I'm going to take the Orioles for very

467
00:34:55.119 --> 00:35:00.320
similar reasons. The Orioles are there, they are big, they they've got

468
00:35:00.440 --> 00:35:04.360
that light. The light is great, it's fantastic. It's a it's a

469
00:35:04.440 --> 00:35:07.840
it's a done, done system.
What we need is some pitching for for

470
00:35:07.960 --> 00:35:10.320
Baltimore. Again, we needed the
front and we needed the back end of

471
00:35:10.400 --> 00:35:14.920
the games. So the Orioles have
got to spend some money at some point.

472
00:35:15.039 --> 00:35:16.239
Got to got to got to spend
some money at some point. So

473
00:35:16.480 --> 00:35:20.280
I reckon, I reckon, this
is the year finally they're going to have

474
00:35:20.360 --> 00:35:23.079
to do it. I think they're
the Rais and not the Astros. I

475
00:35:23.199 --> 00:35:27.320
just don't think. I think that
they're the raisindetra Is not to spend.

476
00:35:27.519 --> 00:35:30.440
I think we've they've they've they've talked
up that like it's not the time for

477
00:35:30.480 --> 00:35:31.920
them to spend. It's not the
time for them to spend. And then

478
00:35:32.320 --> 00:35:36.039
they've got a young team that's doing
it without them spending. And now they

479
00:35:36.079 --> 00:35:38.119
can say, oh, we didn't
need to spend, So you're not wrong

480
00:35:38.360 --> 00:35:42.679
in what you're suggesting they shouldn't do. Rob. I just don't think the

481
00:35:43.079 --> 00:35:49.519
front officip front off this is and
the ownership have that mentality. I can

482
00:35:49.559 --> 00:35:52.400
see Junius going there. You can
see that Hector Nearis could back, I

483
00:35:52.440 --> 00:35:59.159
could buy I could buy juniors.
Yeah, Frankie Montask potentially. Yeah,

484
00:35:59.280 --> 00:36:00.960
this is this is the end of
the market where the Oriols could shop.

485
00:36:01.079 --> 00:36:05.800
Yeah. Yeah, I've I've stayed
away from them because of all the teams

486
00:36:05.880 --> 00:36:08.719
that I did, the death shots
for the Oriols were the hardest to fit

487
00:36:08.800 --> 00:36:15.119
their existing position players into the playing
time available. Yeah, because I was

488
00:36:15.199 --> 00:36:17.199
like, I just I cannot find
like Jackson Holidays coming up, and Kobe

489
00:36:17.280 --> 00:36:20.400
Mayo is going to come up,
and it's like where the hell are they

490
00:36:20.440 --> 00:36:23.320
going to play all these guys.
So I just don't think they actually are

491
00:36:23.400 --> 00:36:27.639
going to have any room to add
any position players. They're already sorted,

492
00:36:28.559 --> 00:36:31.119
so that it is like, yeah, you hope that they add two or

493
00:36:31.159 --> 00:36:36.400
three pictures, which they need,
and they're not going to be spending on

494
00:36:36.480 --> 00:36:39.440
the field, so you know,
they they you know, the picture in

495
00:36:39.480 --> 00:36:44.360
baseball right, So, yeah,
there is their space. But do you

496
00:36:44.400 --> 00:36:47.000
think that they might trade some of
those younger that is that is the downside,

497
00:36:47.679 --> 00:36:51.559
and to get the pictures instead of
like paying for it. In the

498
00:36:52.239 --> 00:36:55.920
free agent world, yeah, but
yeah, we're running out of teams to

499
00:36:55.960 --> 00:36:59.199
pick here that are very attractive options. No, no, no, no,

500
00:36:59.480 --> 00:37:02.760
definitely they've dropped this far from a
like contender. Yes, payroll room,

501
00:37:04.000 --> 00:37:06.880
yes, need, Yes, they've
got all the things you want,

502
00:37:07.079 --> 00:37:10.960
except for the GM who actually wants
to spend the money. I'm more inclined

503
00:37:12.000 --> 00:37:15.119
to think that they'll trade for Shane
Bieber giving up hitting prospects than they will

504
00:37:15.159 --> 00:37:20.559
buy your free agent. But that's
now more proyabe my idea of what Cleveland

505
00:37:20.559 --> 00:37:22.960
will do than maybe an idea of
what Boston will do Boston Baltimore will do.

506
00:37:23.119 --> 00:37:30.000
Okay, Darius, your fifth round
pick? Yeah, starting to get

507
00:37:30.079 --> 00:37:38.280
harder. Now I am going to
take someone not in the NL West the

508
00:37:38.400 --> 00:37:46.800
shocking move. I'm going to take
the Miami Marlins to do like a range

509
00:37:46.920 --> 00:37:55.440
of those stupid low costs Where are
you going with this Marlins type moves where

510
00:37:55.519 --> 00:37:58.840
we all say, was you know, not really actually going to make you

511
00:37:58.920 --> 00:38:01.519
any better? You know, we
had the Gene Tigura move last year.

512
00:38:02.679 --> 00:38:07.800
Who else they signed that was a
waste of time? Yeah, you know

513
00:38:07.920 --> 00:38:10.920
the type of Marlins move anyway,
Yes, there's there's not a lot of

514
00:38:12.000 --> 00:38:14.760
this Rossy. You're not looking up
and down this going and while he's blocking

515
00:38:15.440 --> 00:38:21.400
an acquisition being made, the bullpen
could do with work. They definitely need

516
00:38:21.440 --> 00:38:25.119
a couple more heres if they're actually
going to standard a chance in hell of

517
00:38:25.280 --> 00:38:29.400
competing in this division, which they
don't really, but I've got to assume

518
00:38:29.519 --> 00:38:32.280
they want to try. So yeah, I don't think they're going to be

519
00:38:32.760 --> 00:38:38.440
splashing out on Otani or Bellinger or
Snail or anything. But I could buy

520
00:38:38.480 --> 00:38:43.000
them, you know, ten million
here, twelve million there, shopping at

521
00:38:43.000 --> 00:38:46.280
the bottom of this list. That
makes perfect sense. It'll be interesting to

522
00:38:46.280 --> 00:38:52.880
see what the new like front office
team does, like how they fit is

523
00:38:52.920 --> 00:38:57.760
a raised background. So maybe that
was a foolish pick. But yeah,

524
00:38:57.880 --> 00:39:00.800
that's it's the only reason why did
go for ball more earlier. Like you're

525
00:39:00.920 --> 00:39:05.519
they're perfect fit, but like the
ownership that doesn't go for me. Okay,

526
00:39:05.800 --> 00:39:09.079
so we're now really down to two
teams. I have two teams that

527
00:39:09.119 --> 00:39:14.440
I think spend money, but I
don't know if they're really going to spend

528
00:39:14.599 --> 00:39:20.119
more money, and then we're just
into like a whole world of who is

529
00:39:20.199 --> 00:39:24.199
actually going to in that mid territory
take a gamble. So I would say

530
00:39:24.320 --> 00:39:28.239
at this point we've done an awful
lot of saying that the bottom end of

531
00:39:28.280 --> 00:39:30.559
the list is going to they're going
to shop at the bottoment of the list.

532
00:39:30.719 --> 00:39:32.039
We haven't really pointed anybod who's gonna
shop at the top end of the

533
00:39:32.119 --> 00:39:36.519
list. So these guys are going
to fall somewhere, and maybe it's one

534
00:39:36.559 --> 00:39:38.719
of these these iffy teams are going
to take one big guy rather than a

535
00:39:38.760 --> 00:39:44.760
lot of these little guys. Yeah, So I don't know, like there's

536
00:39:44.960 --> 00:39:47.039
there's that they're not to know.
I might as well name names because it's

537
00:39:47.079 --> 00:39:50.039
not really going to change too more
of things. Basically, to me,

538
00:39:50.079 --> 00:39:52.760
the asteris in the Phillies. I
think I've got one big signing in them.

539
00:39:52.840 --> 00:39:58.039
I don't imagine them like lots of
lots of small things to add to

540
00:39:58.079 --> 00:40:00.800
their team. I think they're more
gonna like Philly's a sap I think from

541
00:40:00.840 --> 00:40:05.599
a pitching position, which is a
bizarre thing to say, but I think

542
00:40:05.639 --> 00:40:08.880
there's definite work for that outfield at
least two, but I think they're more

543
00:40:09.000 --> 00:40:14.920
likely to go big than go like
multiple on the small. But I think

544
00:40:14.960 --> 00:40:17.719
they're still more likely than the Astros, who I think could actually still need

545
00:40:17.760 --> 00:40:22.119
a couple of pieces. So I'm
going to take the Phillies with my first

546
00:40:22.159 --> 00:40:24.519
pick, as I think they might
just do a couple of they might do

547
00:40:24.679 --> 00:40:30.800
multiple deals. And obviously there's been
some willingness to spend money, which is

548
00:40:30.840 --> 00:40:37.079
always makes a massive difference. So
I'm still not certain how much they're going

549
00:40:37.119 --> 00:40:39.840
to add. I kind of think
that almost all of that outfield could or

550
00:40:39.840 --> 00:40:46.000
should be replaced, so I think
they could make at least two free agent

551
00:40:46.079 --> 00:40:50.039
signings there. So for a fifth
round pick, I'm probably happy if that

552
00:40:50.360 --> 00:40:55.239
turns out to be true. Fair
enough, I mean, Kim I to

553
00:40:55.280 --> 00:41:00.440
Philly has been rumored year after year
after year, and it it's still a

554
00:41:00.559 --> 00:41:06.360
very good fit. So there's a
good chance. Yeah, platoon inm with

555
00:41:06.480 --> 00:41:12.119
Rojas and center. That would be
a good defensive move here. Well,

556
00:41:12.159 --> 00:41:16.480
I think then what is potentially the
first fully left field move. I'm going

557
00:41:16.519 --> 00:41:22.599
to take the Cincinnati Reds next.
I looked at them, and then I

558
00:41:22.679 --> 00:41:27.679
thought about Castelini, and I was
like, no, this is more on

559
00:41:28.039 --> 00:41:31.960
that pure bottom end of that,
like pitching like Jacob Junis, like Frankie

560
00:41:32.000 --> 00:41:37.199
Montas or whatever that like, this
is what they could do. I see

561
00:41:37.559 --> 00:41:43.400
Heimer Candelario or armed Rosario being being
a Cincinnati Red. It was like,

562
00:41:43.840 --> 00:41:49.440
I just I don't know, like
every other team, I don't think they're

563
00:41:49.440 --> 00:41:52.639
signing an infield there. That's that's
the one thing they don't need to know.

564
00:41:52.000 --> 00:41:57.760
Absolutely not. But there's not a
lot of them out there. Yeah,

565
00:41:57.880 --> 00:42:00.840
it's probably I think they probably need
to catch it. Are they signing

566
00:42:00.480 --> 00:42:06.920
in this top list? Is Mitch
Garver? Probably not. Now at more

567
00:42:06.960 --> 00:42:08.719
of this, I realized he's a
catcher who you want to play eighty percent

568
00:42:08.760 --> 00:42:14.320
at the time at the age,
so yeah, could be. But yeah,

569
00:42:15.880 --> 00:42:17.760
well I've made your bed now,
I have made my bed in it.

570
00:42:19.519 --> 00:42:21.239
The more I look at it,
the more I think that's wrong.

571
00:42:21.480 --> 00:42:23.639
But I don't like. I don't
like any of them that have left.

572
00:42:23.960 --> 00:42:30.800
So I don't think there's any nice
picks from here until Darius says something and

573
00:42:30.880 --> 00:42:32.239
I realize how much of an idiot
I've been, Darius, who is your

574
00:42:32.320 --> 00:42:37.559
expert? One left? As far
as I'm pre saying there's one left it's

575
00:42:37.599 --> 00:42:44.480
Atlanta because A you get a point
already, and B they've got nine spots

576
00:42:44.840 --> 00:42:49.760
on the forty man after they've made
those deals shipping off for the Dross to

577
00:42:50.679 --> 00:42:53.280
the White Sox, et cetera.
And yes, maybe they just put a

578
00:42:53.360 --> 00:42:57.840
bunch of prospects or they go mad
in the raw five draft. But I

579
00:42:57.960 --> 00:43:00.400
got to think that one of those
forty one spots is going to go to

580
00:43:00.480 --> 00:43:05.159
a free agent siding. And they
don't need a lot, but I think

581
00:43:05.199 --> 00:43:08.559
they could do with something on the
bench, to be honest, that would

582
00:43:08.920 --> 00:43:14.360
probably be a spot they could upgrade. And you know, maybe that's that

583
00:43:14.440 --> 00:43:21.559
Tim Anderson rehab, you know,
something like that, just somebody low costs

584
00:43:21.599 --> 00:43:24.599
towards the bottom here. Maybe they
go out and get I don't know,

585
00:43:24.800 --> 00:43:29.159
somebody. Maybe they go and get
Brandon Belt to take the d h at

586
00:43:29.239 --> 00:43:32.559
bats against writing something. You know, they could they could do something like

587
00:43:32.639 --> 00:43:35.079
that. I know it's not a
great fit with those, you know,

588
00:43:35.199 --> 00:43:38.760
but I could buy them just doing
one more thing, one more starting picture

589
00:43:38.920 --> 00:43:44.360
to sort of solidify that rotation,
which is kind of their only real starting

590
00:43:44.440 --> 00:43:47.840
week spot. And I've already gotten
a point, and you know it's my

591
00:43:47.920 --> 00:43:53.159
fifth round pick, so that's fair. Yeah, I mean there's probably space

592
00:43:53.239 --> 00:43:57.320
for one of the big boys in
the starting pitchers to go in there as

593
00:43:57.360 --> 00:44:00.480
well, somewhere, I guess.
But yeah, the starting line off is

594
00:44:00.519 --> 00:44:05.119
locked and loaded, and they are
spending a decent chunk of money already.

595
00:44:05.320 --> 00:44:09.360
But we also never hear anything out
of Atlanta until it's done. So Anthopolis

596
00:44:09.480 --> 00:44:13.360
is going to be working on something. Maybe that's a trend to fill some

597
00:44:13.440 --> 00:44:15.360
of these forty month spots. But
he's up to something, is what I'm

598
00:44:15.360 --> 00:44:20.559
saying. And maybe that's something is
signing more free agents. Yeah, I

599
00:44:20.679 --> 00:44:22.800
just don't. I don't know if
I just don't see them as a free

600
00:44:22.840 --> 00:44:28.599
agent signing team, whether that's like
no, I don't. I don't think

601
00:44:28.639 --> 00:44:32.840
they're going to land Yamamoto or Batania
or anything. But they just signed Lopez,

602
00:44:34.559 --> 00:44:37.760
so yeah, they could go out
and get somebody else. No,

603
00:44:38.480 --> 00:44:42.679
They're they're definitely like I had them
as spend It's I just basically though,

604
00:44:43.679 --> 00:44:46.280
I know that they have that gaps
on the roster, but I think they

605
00:44:46.320 --> 00:44:51.880
already have one hundred win team,
Like, yes, so agreed, do

606
00:44:52.480 --> 00:44:57.199
they need to spend like I don't
think they do, which obviously this is

607
00:44:57.239 --> 00:45:01.119
always the point of how teams operate
is the Yes, I think that reserve

608
00:45:01.280 --> 00:45:07.960
might be there, but I was
more hoping for a Rule five kind of

609
00:45:10.440 --> 00:45:15.239
yeah, Rule five mania where they
pick people and try and flip people to

610
00:45:15.800 --> 00:45:21.679
other people to get some people that
aren't Rule five dependent. But yes,

611
00:45:21.880 --> 00:45:25.039
that is the pick, Rob,
Do you have two on the turn again?

612
00:45:27.239 --> 00:45:30.719
Well, so we are scraping the
barrel now, so that that caveat

613
00:45:30.840 --> 00:45:32.840
in mind when I'm now picking these
these are not teams I think are going

614
00:45:32.920 --> 00:45:35.960
to do much. I think these
are teams that are probably going to do

615
00:45:36.159 --> 00:45:40.320
one and I think I think the
best option on there at the moment is

616
00:45:40.360 --> 00:45:45.880
the Twins, who I think are
going to be shopping middle to upper middle

617
00:45:46.039 --> 00:45:52.679
range starting pictures. I can see
a Yearlito or a Stroman going there,

618
00:45:52.760 --> 00:45:57.519
something like that. So I reckon
the Twins. They've got to replace Gray,

619
00:45:59.159 --> 00:46:01.719
So I think, you know,
I think there's there, there's there's

620
00:46:01.760 --> 00:46:06.559
something in the Twins. The Twins. The Twins are sitting on top of

621
00:46:06.599 --> 00:46:10.079
that division. There's a lot of
the teams clipping at their ankles now,

622
00:46:10.159 --> 00:46:14.280
so I think the Twins need to
do to do one more one more picture.

623
00:46:16.320 --> 00:46:20.440
Yeah, Like I think I don't
know, this is probably my al

624
00:46:20.519 --> 00:46:22.920
central pessimism coming in, but I
don't think they need to do anything to

625
00:46:22.960 --> 00:46:30.639
win the division, so that means
they won't. So if Detroit start to

626
00:46:30.679 --> 00:46:37.119
do things, they might react.
But yeah, that's I think. I

627
00:46:37.159 --> 00:46:38.840
think you're right that, like they
do have some elements to kind of do

628
00:46:38.920 --> 00:46:44.000
in they hand showed some relatively reason
to spend obviously career or whatever. But

629
00:46:44.679 --> 00:46:47.719
is that offset I mean, they're
not going to jump into that market again

630
00:46:49.000 --> 00:46:53.480
thor stereous. Yeah, we saw
them, you know, not really do

631
00:46:53.599 --> 00:46:59.880
much at the deadline and get proven
right because nobody else had anything. I

632
00:47:00.079 --> 00:47:04.360
agree with Rob that there are places
that they could improve here. But do

633
00:47:04.519 --> 00:47:08.679
they just see this as will walk
to the division? It's possible, I

634
00:47:08.800 --> 00:47:13.480
do, like you know a lot
of their rotation, but I think you're

635
00:47:13.719 --> 00:47:17.239
probably in trouble if you're like counting
on Chris Paddick to pitch thirty games,

636
00:47:17.280 --> 00:47:22.159
for example. So and there's a
couple of pretty effie ballpen arms in there

637
00:47:22.760 --> 00:47:25.800
as well. I think they could
do with an upgrade there. Buxton is

638
00:47:27.159 --> 00:47:34.079
who knows, So yeah, agree
with the need and also agree with the

639
00:47:36.000 --> 00:47:38.639
will they actually bother because they just
might get into the playoffs and see what

640
00:47:38.679 --> 00:47:46.239
happens, right right, I think
I think there are literally two left on

641
00:47:46.320 --> 00:47:52.599
this list that you would think might
actually do something, and then I think

642
00:47:52.639 --> 00:47:59.800
the rest is all off the bottom
of the list. So I am garner

643
00:48:00.199 --> 00:48:07.840
go with the Astros. H Yeah, I mean it's tough to point exactly

644
00:48:07.880 --> 00:48:10.039
where it is they're going to do
that upgrade, but you know, they

645
00:48:10.719 --> 00:48:14.039
do have a bit of a bit
of cash in that team to burn when

646
00:48:14.079 --> 00:48:16.159
they need to so, and they
are getting a bit old, so yeah,

647
00:48:16.320 --> 00:48:21.320
maybe maybe something will happen there.
This isn't this isn't. The Astros

648
00:48:21.360 --> 00:48:23.639
are crap and they never spend.
It's just sort of what would you do

649
00:48:23.800 --> 00:48:28.199
with the list that is open to
them? So yeah, I think,

650
00:48:28.760 --> 00:48:32.239
you know, maybe Snell could end
up wearing wearing orange. They could probably

651
00:48:32.360 --> 00:48:37.519
stand to use another Top of the
Ranger starter in there. But other than

652
00:48:37.519 --> 00:48:40.039
that, I mean, Mitch Garver
is not going there. He's the wrong

653
00:48:40.079 --> 00:48:45.199
guy for that team. So they
do need to catch her, but probably

654
00:48:45.239 --> 00:48:47.840
not off this list. That's going
to be through trade. So yeah,

655
00:48:47.920 --> 00:48:54.280
I'm gonna go with the Astros for
lack of a better option. Yeah,

656
00:48:54.639 --> 00:48:59.039
we're at that point of the draft. We'd discussed at some point whether we

657
00:48:59.039 --> 00:49:00.639
wanted to draft the whole team,
but I think we might as well because

658
00:49:00.679 --> 00:49:04.719
it's it's fun to kind of really
talk about the worst of the worst as

659
00:49:04.760 --> 00:49:07.639
well as the best of the best. But yeah, I think they'll do

660
00:49:07.719 --> 00:49:15.400
something which is more than I would
say, very good team then, Darius,

661
00:49:15.440 --> 00:49:19.360
who are going to get a You're
going to get them. It's interesting

662
00:49:19.440 --> 00:49:23.719
what Rob thinks that one more good
team is that should be spending one more

663
00:49:23.760 --> 00:49:32.119
team I'm going to take because it's
on brand the Angels. They've got a

664
00:49:32.159 --> 00:49:36.960
bit of power of space. They're
claiming that they're not throwing the towel in

665
00:49:37.079 --> 00:49:43.159
just because Otani's left, And by
god, do they need some pitching as

666
00:49:43.239 --> 00:49:49.039
it ever, the Angels need some
pitching. They'll need some cover when Mike

667
00:49:49.119 --> 00:49:54.280
Trout gets hurt again. Sad face, And yeah, I just you know,

668
00:49:54.679 --> 00:49:57.800
you don't look at this Angel's roster
and go, oh, there's no

669
00:49:57.880 --> 00:50:01.280
where to upgrade here. So yeah, you know, I think I think

670
00:50:01.320 --> 00:50:07.159
they could spend forty fifty million,
might not being very good players, but

671
00:50:07.199 --> 00:50:13.039
yeah, I don't see why not. They've tried boom and bust, haven't

672
00:50:13.039 --> 00:50:15.719
they. And then they finally did
what we all thought they should do and

673
00:50:15.800 --> 00:50:16.960
tried go for a bit more middle
of the range, and that didn't work

674
00:50:17.039 --> 00:50:22.320
either. So I think they should
just just stand away and leave free agency

675
00:50:22.360 --> 00:50:25.800
alone. It's clearly not working for
them. They're obviously bringing their own prospects

676
00:50:25.800 --> 00:50:30.320
through good clearly as and working for
them. How are you And if you

677
00:50:30.360 --> 00:50:34.280
don't have a good players to trade, how can you trade this pig?

678
00:50:34.400 --> 00:50:38.239
Is basically I'm assuming that Perim hasn't
just given up, which he may have

679
00:50:38.400 --> 00:50:43.519
done. I can't. I can't
be sure at this point after this season,

680
00:50:43.760 --> 00:50:46.599
I would feel like giving up a
miserable year in Itinese left, you

681
00:50:46.679 --> 00:50:51.880
know, has got that vibe.
But and sort of if you remove the

682
00:50:51.960 --> 00:50:53.480
context of them being and the Angels, I think you would look at this

683
00:50:54.119 --> 00:50:58.840
team and pay roll and so yeah, they need to make some free agent

684
00:50:58.840 --> 00:51:04.800
scytings. So yeah, Like I
think they fit in the same position as

685
00:51:04.840 --> 00:51:06.719
the team that I'm going to say
next, which is going to be the

686
00:51:06.760 --> 00:51:09.840
Seattle Mariners. Like they basically if
they want to compete, they've got to

687
00:51:09.880 --> 00:51:15.239
spend like they're at that position where
they didn't do that last year and they

688
00:51:15.480 --> 00:51:19.039
failed to make the postseason because of
it, as far as I'm concerned,

689
00:51:19.880 --> 00:51:25.199
So I think they're the last team
that kind of fits that perspective, that

690
00:51:25.400 --> 00:51:30.760
kind of like outlook compared to kind
of what we have left otherwise. So

691
00:51:31.519 --> 00:51:37.199
that's where I go with my first
one of my two picks. I don't

692
00:51:37.239 --> 00:51:40.480
think from Rob's nodding and maybe harm
I think that was his last team that

693
00:51:40.679 --> 00:51:45.000
like should be pity. Yeah,
it gets really ugly after this. Yeah,

694
00:51:45.639 --> 00:51:50.159
I just don't. I don't trust
them because we've the last offseason saying

695
00:51:51.119 --> 00:51:52.840
make some moves, upgrade your lineup, Jerry, and it was like,

696
00:51:53.000 --> 00:51:57.079
no, I'm not going to do
it, and then they missed the playoffs

697
00:51:57.119 --> 00:52:01.880
by game what So the complete counter
to that, like this might I don't

698
00:52:01.880 --> 00:52:05.920
know if this will be weird pick
or not, but I think the Royals

699
00:52:06.000 --> 00:52:08.400
will sign one or two of these
free agents because I think they've shown that

700
00:52:08.480 --> 00:52:14.559
they're willing to spend on a few
players and flip them in the summer in

701
00:52:14.679 --> 00:52:16.400
like halfway through the season if they're
doing well. So I'm going to take

702
00:52:16.480 --> 00:52:21.119
Royals next, just because I think
they could end up with one or two

703
00:52:21.159 --> 00:52:22.840
of these people and flipping them.
Not that they're trying to win anything or

704
00:52:22.880 --> 00:52:27.599
do anything like that, but they've
been obviously, they've been shown to be

705
00:52:27.679 --> 00:52:34.280
willing to spend some money, Bennett
Endy and take a contract that maybe nobody

706
00:52:34.360 --> 00:52:37.760
wants or like to do somebody to
flip them. So I'm going to take

707
00:52:37.840 --> 00:52:44.280
the Kansas City Royals for my I
think that would be my third to last

708
00:52:44.719 --> 00:52:52.719
pick, the twenty second pick of
the draft. Yikes, Darius. Just

709
00:52:52.800 --> 00:52:55.760
to people, if they've not been
concentrating and listening in briefly, give an

710
00:52:55.800 --> 00:53:00.960
idea of what is left. We
have the Tampa Bay ray we have the

711
00:53:00.039 --> 00:53:06.760
Chicago White Sox, the peven Guardians, the Oakland Athletics, the Washington Nationals,

712
00:53:06.880 --> 00:53:12.920
the Milwaukee Brewers, the Pittsburgh Pirates, and the Colorado Rockies. Darius,

713
00:53:13.559 --> 00:53:16.960
who's signing a free agent? This
is surprisingly easy for me, or

714
00:53:17.000 --> 00:53:22.440
maybe it's not surprising. I'm taking
the Nationals because of these teams. The

715
00:53:22.840 --> 00:53:27.199
I've got the reputation of like a
team that actually spends some money, and

716
00:53:27.639 --> 00:53:30.760
I think you can see there's some
chinks, you know, some light at

717
00:53:30.800 --> 00:53:32.280
the end of the tunnel. There's
a long way off, I think still,

718
00:53:32.440 --> 00:53:37.079
but you know, they've got some
exciting prospects coming up. I think

719
00:53:37.280 --> 00:53:42.079
maybe they do a bit of a
Texas and they sign somebody maybe a bit

720
00:53:42.280 --> 00:53:45.440
higher than you're expecting, and everyone
goes to what are they doing, and

721
00:53:45.519 --> 00:53:47.599
then in a couple of years,
when that guy's like two years into his

722
00:53:47.679 --> 00:53:50.960
seven year deal and they're actually decent, you go, oh, yeah,

723
00:53:51.000 --> 00:53:54.800
that was actually a pretty good idea. So I think they've got the room.

724
00:53:55.039 --> 00:54:00.199
They've got loads of room, and
they're not a team where I'm just

725
00:54:00.320 --> 00:54:04.199
like, no, they don't actually
make free agent signings, which is true

726
00:54:04.239 --> 00:54:09.480
of at least three of the remaining
on this list. So yeah, I

727
00:54:09.559 --> 00:54:14.199
think it would have been probably one
of the next ones. So they're not

728
00:54:14.360 --> 00:54:19.679
in my bottom tier. So no, no, no, same Rob.

729
00:54:19.960 --> 00:54:25.480
You get two before your team,
These are going to be pretty okay.

730
00:54:25.880 --> 00:54:32.840
I'm going to take the Pirates.
The Pirates do, for right or wrong,

731
00:54:34.280 --> 00:54:40.400
sign occasional free agents. It feels
like the year after someone's stopped being

732
00:54:40.480 --> 00:54:45.039
good, they have a year somewhere
and then they go to the Pirates afterwards

733
00:54:45.039 --> 00:54:49.480
to kind of finish their career.
So you know, maybe Tim Anderson ends

734
00:54:49.559 --> 00:54:52.559
up in Pittsburgh, you know,
something like that, you know, or

735
00:54:52.920 --> 00:54:55.599
somebody right at the very end of
their career. There's a chance. So

736
00:54:57.320 --> 00:55:01.239
Merrifield a Merryfield destination. Bang on, Absolutely, yeah, I can see

737
00:55:01.480 --> 00:55:06.599
I can see him there. Brandon
Belt like, that's got that's got Pirates

738
00:55:06.599 --> 00:55:09.000
written all over it. So yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna go for the

739
00:55:09.119 --> 00:55:15.880
Pirates. That's that's like the Carlos
Santana signing of this. Yeah, exactly,

740
00:55:15.239 --> 00:55:20.159
Brandon Belt to the Pirates and they
need the first base d H as

741
00:55:20.159 --> 00:55:25.480
well. Okay, Yeah, there's
not much to say about these teams,

742
00:55:25.480 --> 00:55:30.239
so I think it's it's a reasonable
they spend money, which is better than

743
00:55:30.320 --> 00:55:35.000
I think three of these teams.
So yeah, that's there's nothing to go

744
00:55:35.079 --> 00:55:37.840
with there. So with your second
to last pick, rob before what it's

745
00:55:37.880 --> 00:55:45.719
basically your last pick because you're getting
thirty team raise. Yeah, oh man,

746
00:55:45.039 --> 00:55:49.280
this sucks. Like I've got a
choice now between team that should have

747
00:55:49.360 --> 00:55:53.519
been good or team that occasionally does
backshit crazy stuff and might just turn up.

748
00:55:53.559 --> 00:55:55.559
Yeah, I'm good, I'm gonna
do it. I'm taking the Rockies.

749
00:55:57.199 --> 00:56:01.559
I'm taking the Rockies because occasionally they
do iculousness. So yeah, it's

750
00:56:01.639 --> 00:56:06.920
it's an out there but you know, we've seen a couple of big names

751
00:56:07.000 --> 00:56:09.719
go that way for reasons unknown,
and you know, maybe they'll just have

752
00:56:09.960 --> 00:56:20.679
another toke and awake will come a
new interesting free agent, somebody famously Colorado

753
00:56:20.840 --> 00:56:27.480
it is legal to smoke marijuana.
And look at this now looking up and

754
00:56:27.480 --> 00:56:29.639
down the list though, I mean, they're quite famous for it, and

755
00:56:29.679 --> 00:56:31.840
there might be some players on the
list who have some infamy for it too.

756
00:56:32.000 --> 00:56:36.159
So hey, you know what,
maybe that's my my bold prediction is

757
00:56:36.199 --> 00:56:40.199
that a very high ranking outfielder we
will go to the Rockies. Was that

758
00:56:40.719 --> 00:56:44.280
the Rockies will be like, we
won't sign any free agents, or they'll

759
00:56:44.320 --> 00:56:49.000
give like Jelaire, like six years
that kind of thing exactly. Yeah,

760
00:56:50.280 --> 00:56:52.840
could be the Rockies. I can't
throw them away. I want to quickly

761
00:56:52.880 --> 00:56:57.119
double back, Rob Was it pun
intended when you said a high ranking player?

762
00:56:57.480 --> 00:57:04.079
But many many ways that works actually, So yeah, I mean it'd

763
00:57:04.119 --> 00:57:07.280
be great to see Beninger in course, wouldn't it. Nobody said Bellinger,

764
00:57:07.320 --> 00:57:12.760
I don't know what you're talking about. That's very liable. What isn't in

765
00:57:12.840 --> 00:57:16.360
the States. It's fine, So
I'm the only reason why I'm disappointed you

766
00:57:16.440 --> 00:57:21.239
made that pick because you took it
away from Darrius Dorius. Darius having the

767
00:57:21.960 --> 00:57:27.559
entire als to himself, he might
have gone for that in his next pick,

768
00:57:27.639 --> 00:57:29.440
but if you wanted to bank that, he should have taken them over

769
00:57:29.519 --> 00:57:35.079
the Nationals. So he missed out
on the opportunity. So Darius left with

770
00:57:37.159 --> 00:57:45.159
Famous five. Ye famous five.
I'm taking the Brewers. They are boring

771
00:57:45.239 --> 00:57:52.079
as hell in their free agent signings, But will they find somebody on this

772
00:57:52.280 --> 00:57:59.239
list who fits somewhere as a platoon
guy or you know, Bryce Hoskins like

773
00:57:59.519 --> 00:58:01.880
they've Jake Bowers is their first basement
right now, like the British and Simon

774
00:58:01.960 --> 00:58:07.880
Skins for sure, loot Dingers in
that park. To be honest, they

775
00:58:07.920 --> 00:58:10.800
might be in a like we need
to flip guys at the deadline situation as

776
00:58:10.840 --> 00:58:14.239
well. I could buy them,
like let's sign this guy for a year

777
00:58:14.280 --> 00:58:15.639
and if we're in contention, then
we'll keep them and if we're not all

778
00:58:15.719 --> 00:58:21.239
trade him. They're in that position. Obviously they always figure out with the

779
00:58:21.320 --> 00:58:25.800
pitching, but right now the rotation
does not look great without Woodruff, So

780
00:58:27.320 --> 00:58:30.679
yeah, they've obviously got room in
various spots to add, and they're not

781
00:58:30.719 --> 00:58:35.079
going to spend a lot of money, but I could buy them making the

782
00:58:35.119 --> 00:58:38.960
little tinker moves around the edges and
trying to compete in what is still quite

783
00:58:38.960 --> 00:58:45.880
a winnable division. Okay, so
yeah, I don't think there's anything more

784
00:58:45.000 --> 00:58:49.960
to say with that. I think
I'm going to quickly say that with my

785
00:58:50.199 --> 00:58:55.880
second to last pick, I'm going
to take the Chicago White Fox. I'm

786
00:58:55.920 --> 00:59:00.719
not certain why I'm really picking these
over the other three teams, but I

787
00:59:00.760 --> 00:59:05.880
genuinely believe they are more likely than
the other three teams to sign someone.

788
00:59:07.280 --> 00:59:10.920
So, and this really comes from
a Cleveland fan, the White Socks,

789
00:59:10.920 --> 00:59:15.039
who basically shown that they want to
flip maybe their best players and do nothing,

790
00:59:15.480 --> 00:59:19.559
are more likely to sign somebody than
the Cleveland Guardians are. I think

791
00:59:19.599 --> 00:59:24.079
it's more around me disliking the other
three teams more so. Cleveland signed a

792
00:59:24.079 --> 00:59:28.639
couple of free agents last year they
basically bombed. I just don't think it's

793
00:59:28.679 --> 00:59:31.360
what they're gonna do. I think
they're gonna flip Biber to try and and

794
00:59:31.440 --> 00:59:36.519
they're perfectly happy with their young pitching
prospects. They're going to come through.

795
00:59:36.760 --> 00:59:42.639
So I don't think Cleveland are going
to do anything Tampa Bay. When's the

796
00:59:42.719 --> 00:59:45.239
last time they signed a free agent
that was like more than like ten million?

797
00:59:47.000 --> 00:59:52.199
Last Yearlin is like, so that
was that was weird? Odd?

798
00:59:52.320 --> 00:59:55.400
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that was a Yeah. I shot

799
00:59:55.440 --> 01:00:04.039
myself in the foot there, but
yeah. And then Oakland obviously they signed

800
01:00:04.039 --> 01:00:06.760
Trevor May last year, which was
like he probably would have maybe just about

801
01:00:06.800 --> 01:00:08.000
made the bottom of this list last
year. I don't know, he probably

802
01:00:08.239 --> 01:00:10.880
actually might have been outside the top
fifty last year. So I don't know

803
01:00:12.480 --> 01:00:15.679
other than that. So obviously I'm
going to take the White Sox first,

804
01:00:15.280 --> 01:00:22.760
and then I am sat here with
the Rays, the Guardians or the A's

805
01:00:23.000 --> 01:00:28.760
and what I might as well back
my own team and hope that something good

806
01:00:29.000 --> 01:00:31.880
comes off it, Like I might
as well take Cleveland and if we sign

807
01:00:31.960 --> 01:00:37.800
people, I'll be happy on multiple
pot guards that at least like we did

808
01:00:37.920 --> 01:00:42.800
okay on this. So there we
go, Darius. Now you have the

809
01:00:42.880 --> 01:00:47.480
last decision. While you're going to
take the Oakland or the Tampa Bay Rays

810
01:00:50.039 --> 01:00:53.280
a top fifty free agent, give
me the I'm surprised Oakland are even bothering

811
01:00:53.320 --> 01:00:57.320
to put out a baseball team anymore. To be honest, that's where we're

812
01:00:57.320 --> 01:01:00.000
at. Maybe they bring back like
Montasse, try and get some sort of

813
01:01:00.119 --> 01:01:05.239
you know, return to the club
vibes. I don't know, Like he's

814
01:01:05.239 --> 01:01:07.719
not going to spend any money,
is he? Why would he spend any

815
01:01:07.760 --> 01:01:10.400
money? That's not the point of
this exercise anymore. And yeah, the

816
01:01:10.519 --> 01:01:15.760
Rays are actually still trying to win
baseball games. Maybe they won't do it

817
01:01:15.840 --> 01:01:17.159
with any of the guys on this
free agent list, but I at least

818
01:01:17.159 --> 01:01:21.000
believe that they are trying to win
baseball games. The only way the aai's

819
01:01:21.039 --> 01:01:24.199
signing anybody on this list is if
we get to like February and somebody's unsigned

820
01:01:24.239 --> 01:01:27.840
and they're like, yeah, I'll
take five million to come and play for

821
01:01:27.920 --> 01:01:30.840
you for a year. But you've
got to believe that that player would have

822
01:01:30.880 --> 01:01:35.360
to be absolutely desperate with no other
options, because why would you want to

823
01:01:35.400 --> 01:01:44.119
drop yourself into that situation? Okay, so Rob, justify what I actually

824
01:01:44.280 --> 01:01:47.280
I actually can in that the Athletics
last year, despite being absolutely terrible,

825
01:01:47.360 --> 01:01:52.440
did sign seven free agents in the
run up to the season. Now,

826
01:01:52.599 --> 01:01:55.719
they were not high quality free agents. That is very very clear. So

827
01:01:57.159 --> 01:02:02.000
read that list job. I didn't
know any of them other than Trevor May.

828
01:02:05.480 --> 01:02:07.880
But there were seven free agents,
so you know what, maybe maybe

829
01:02:08.039 --> 01:02:12.559
something on here drops really really low. No, no, they're not going

830
01:02:12.639 --> 01:02:14.039
to go on the list. I'm
not going to get a point for the

831
01:02:14.519 --> 01:02:17.880
for the Athletics, but I might. I mean it take them over the

832
01:02:17.960 --> 01:02:24.679
Rays. Jace Peterson, led Mis
Diaz was on there. Yeah, I'm

833
01:02:24.679 --> 01:02:30.920
trying to think who else they signed. They're solidly sort of seventy five people.

834
01:02:30.119 --> 01:02:36.159
You know, it's like somebody like
Jacob Junis on the Oakland A's is

835
01:02:36.199 --> 01:02:40.039
not like it's something that is like
out of the they could sign like the

836
01:02:40.079 --> 01:02:45.320
forty seven. I assume the front
office is still trying to put out a

837
01:02:45.400 --> 01:02:47.960
baseball team. It's not their fault
that John Fisher is John Fisher or a.

838
01:02:49.000 --> 01:02:52.199
Theyre going to get their revenge this
year. Now they've got we've got

839
01:02:52.239 --> 01:02:55.719
the last Vegus money. Here's like
they go out and spend one hundred and

840
01:02:55.760 --> 01:03:00.159
sixty million. Yeah, they need
to have a good team when they it's

841
01:03:00.239 --> 01:03:02.360
Las Vegas, so you know,
maybe it starts here. But they have

842
01:03:02.480 --> 01:03:06.920
also already like filled out a couple
of their lineup spots. With Abraham,

843
01:03:06.960 --> 01:03:09.800
Toro, Miguel and Deha Like I
think if we had a top eighty three

844
01:03:09.840 --> 01:03:13.480
agents list of the aides would still
be like, no, let's go let's

845
01:03:13.519 --> 01:03:21.400
go down. That's fair, okay, So what hey, that's how we've

846
01:03:21.480 --> 01:03:24.440
got our lists. So what I
can tell you right now is that Darius

847
01:03:24.480 --> 01:03:30.039
and I are leading with two points
and Rob hads one points based off how

848
01:03:30.079 --> 01:03:34.800
we are based on the free agent
signings that have gone on so far.

849
01:03:36.960 --> 01:03:39.159
Well, obviously, try and continue
to maybe chat about this as we do

850
01:03:39.320 --> 01:03:43.159
the podcast over the next few weeks
and maybe some of these things progressed to

851
01:03:43.159 --> 01:03:46.480
see who's actually performing best. But
yes, we'll get back to you when

852
01:03:46.679 --> 01:03:52.079
we get to the start of the
season. So before I say thank you

853
01:03:52.239 --> 01:03:55.400
to Darius and Ron for joining me
today, I would be it would be

854
01:03:55.480 --> 01:04:00.239
remissive me if I didn't remind our
listeners to have a look on the website

855
01:04:00.320 --> 01:04:03.599
right now. There's been some great
work being done by Brett Sewan, Charlie

856
01:04:03.639 --> 01:04:06.719
and Ash as well as others.
We're starting to run a series out on

857
01:04:08.880 --> 01:04:13.039
my Favorite Player, so there are
already some things out there looking at people

858
01:04:13.159 --> 01:04:16.599
like Brandon Crawford and ANDREDN. Simmons
and a few others. Obviously, we're

859
01:04:16.599 --> 01:04:21.760
coming into twenty twenty four when the
London series is Mets versus Phillies. We

860
01:04:23.119 --> 01:04:28.079
would love to have contributors for both
of those on the site posting stuff regularly

861
01:04:28.159 --> 01:04:30.719
as we kind of go through that. So that would be if you are

862
01:04:30.760 --> 01:04:33.039
a fan of either of those teams
and you want to do that, please

863
01:04:33.079 --> 01:04:39.840
do come and join us on the
site. Otherwise, Darius, you've mentioned

864
01:04:39.880 --> 01:04:44.199
that you've been doing some work for
BP. Is there anything that's in the

865
01:04:44.280 --> 01:04:46.079
works or is it more going to
be part of the VP annual. Yeah,

866
01:04:46.119 --> 01:04:49.079
it's all going into the annual.
I'm just going to tell people to

867
01:04:49.440 --> 01:04:54.400
pre order their Baseball Prospectives, Anuel, Yeah, my depth charts work will

868
01:04:54.400 --> 01:04:58.440
be part of the precactive projections that
go into that. But as usual,

869
01:04:58.480 --> 01:05:01.159
we'll have a great essay for every
time and a bunch of fantastic comments from

870
01:05:01.199 --> 01:05:04.679
all our contributors. And yeah,
if you just want a book that basically

871
01:05:04.840 --> 01:05:08.440
come as everything you need to know
about every team in the run ups of

872
01:05:08.440 --> 01:05:11.920
the season, written by some truly
excellent writers, then go by the annual.

873
01:05:12.119 --> 01:05:16.559
It's great and which uh, which
which teams. Have you been given

874
01:05:16.599 --> 01:05:20.400
the chance of trying to I'm not
actually doing the comments this year. I'm

875
01:05:20.480 --> 01:05:27.920
just doing depth charts because it's my
favorite. Just obviously, Rob, is

876
01:05:27.960 --> 01:05:31.440
there going to be any posts from
you in the Man that made me follow

877
01:05:31.519 --> 01:05:35.559
that? Jesus Well, he's writing
a whole damn book. Yeah, great,

878
01:05:35.599 --> 01:05:41.440
fantastic, Rob. I'm not writing. I'm just I'm just like this

879
01:05:41.559 --> 01:05:44.400
guy will play that. That's all
I'm doing. Well, Actually, I

880
01:05:44.440 --> 01:05:45.559
did write some stuff. There's a
couple of bits up in the last few

881
01:05:45.639 --> 01:05:49.239
days. I did the one half
of the part of the rivalry series that's

882
01:05:49.320 --> 01:05:53.519
being pushed out on the website at
the moment. That's well worth of read

883
01:05:54.480 --> 01:05:59.559
all the rivalries MLB. So I
contributed towards the Rays against the Marlins one.

884
01:05:59.840 --> 01:06:01.760
So yeah, there are some bits
out there. So yeah, I'll

885
01:06:01.800 --> 01:06:05.960
keep doing bits like that, hopefully
awesome. I didn't write in that series

886
01:06:06.000 --> 01:06:10.800
because I don't think Cleveland have a
rival Me and Gav very quickly discussed should

887
01:06:10.800 --> 01:06:14.559
we do a Reds and a Guardian's
one, And there isn't a rivalry because

888
01:06:14.599 --> 01:06:17.880
basically they haven't played each other in
a competitive game really ever until the Interleague

889
01:06:17.880 --> 01:06:23.079
and so if you do Jose Ramirez
versus Tim Anderson, is that all?

890
01:06:24.199 --> 01:06:27.239
Maybe we'll have to work out where
Tim Anderson signs and then that will become

891
01:06:28.199 --> 01:06:32.480
the rivalry team for the next season. But obviously, as you've said,

892
01:06:32.559 --> 01:06:36.320
like you can find stuff on bat
flips and nerds dot com, you'll finders

893
01:06:36.760 --> 01:06:45.159
on x atlips, Underscore Nerds,
and on Twitter and on Twitter is Twitter,

894
01:06:45.480 --> 01:06:49.519
and on Instagram and all of that
stuff. Obviously, thank you Rob

895
01:06:49.559 --> 01:06:54.639
and Darius for joining me today on
this little escapade. Hopefully we will be

896
01:06:54.760 --> 01:06:59.440
back with the podcasts more frequently than
we have been recently, and so probably

897
01:06:59.480 --> 01:07:03.800
some more fun things are going to
happen in the next few weeks and months.

898
01:07:04.000 --> 01:07:08.880
So I hope you have enjoyed this
and we'll speak to you next time.