Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to bat Flips and Nerds, the Baseball
Speaker 1: podcast with a British twist. I am your host Ben Carter,
Speaker 1: here for a trade deadline recap bonanza and joining me
Speaker 1: for the pleasure of doing so. It's Darius Austin. Darius,
Speaker 1: how are you.
Speaker 2: I'm doing all right. I've been enjoying the Olympics, which
Speaker 2: is obviously very on point for this podcast, but you
Speaker 2: had lot lots to actually talk about an ILB two
Speaker 2: this week.
Speaker 1: That has been you know you're saying you've been following
Speaker 1: I know you. Rob was saying flowing the shooting coacy,
Speaker 1: which has been your niche sport of choice so far?
Speaker 2: Darius, Yeah, I think I think probably the kayak slalom.
Speaker 2: It's pretty good fun to watch. I'm alsoll looking forward
Speaker 2: to the kayak cross, which do you remember the snowboard
Speaker 2: cross from the Winter Olympics. It's basically basically that in kayak,
Speaker 2: so I think this can be a lot of people
Speaker 2: smashing into each other in boats. I existed, Yeah, I'm
Speaker 2: really sure I had it last time. Might been new
Speaker 2: for this Olympics, so that's not over the weekend.
Speaker 1: I think keep your rye peeled well. I've spoiled the
Speaker 1: other person joining us for we thought it'd only be
Speaker 1: a trade deadline recap with our resident race fan. Here
Speaker 1: it is Rob Navera Rob, how are you?
Speaker 3: The trades have not made me feel great, but I
Speaker 3: have been also watching some Olympics. The sport I've most enjoyed,
Speaker 3: other than the shooting, is watching the swimmers walk out
Speaker 3: to their blocks, and half of them walk out, you know,
Speaker 3: the standard arms in the air, appreciate the crowd, and
Speaker 3: then half of them are too cool for school, as
Speaker 3: the Polish bloke a couple of days ago. Fantastic, So
Speaker 3: I said that should be the newest sport is the
Speaker 3: We should give medals out for the reactions to people
Speaker 3: walking out for the swimming. Have a look, go to
Speaker 3: watch them swimming and just watch some guys walking out.
Speaker 3: That's that's where the games are at.
Speaker 2: I will say. The other thing that's really entertaining is
Speaker 2: if you saw any of the fencing, how on like
Speaker 2: at least half of the both guys seem to think
Speaker 2: that they've won the touch, Like every single time they're
Speaker 2: both like wheel away celebrating, and then one of them
Speaker 2: turns back like horrified that the judges don't think they've
Speaker 2: got the point, but like not just like once or twice,
Speaker 2: Like I watched it for twenty minutes, and this maybe
Speaker 2: happened fifteen times. It was incredible.
Speaker 4: Algerian blocks that was that was that went viral, didn't it?
Speaker 3: The fencing? He yeah, everyone was shouting all the time.
Speaker 3: But what a wonderful venue that. I mean, Paris is
Speaker 3: look great at it. And there's been some great moments already,
Speaker 3: like genuine sporting moments to just watch some owe biles
Speaker 3: win and she, I mean, that girl is is different,
Speaker 3: you know, she is fantastic.
Speaker 4: But yeah, it's been good.
Speaker 3: But should we talk about baseball rather than than everything
Speaker 3: that some ridiculous competition that doesn't should have.
Speaker 2: Done a baseball shouldn't be really that should have been
Speaker 2: today's man. Next time we.
Speaker 4: Pause and come back. Yeah, it's all right, that's fine,
Speaker 4: it's on for another couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: We got that, We got that.
Speaker 4: It's it's in the bank.
Speaker 1: The French guy who was swimming last night seems to
Speaker 1: be the sort of swimming version of the show. Here
Speaker 1: is Hawney, isn't he? And that he went and won
Speaker 1: gold in the breaststroke. And then half an hour to
Speaker 1: turn around and want and we know it's sorry, wrong
Speaker 1: way around, butterfly, and then turn around an hour later.
Speaker 1: I've won gold in the breastroke, which apparently has never
Speaker 1: ever been done in Olympic history before. So I'll nominate
Speaker 1: him as the two way legend of swimming and we'll
Speaker 1: probably leave the comparisons there. Although exciting to think, I mean,
Speaker 1: I've been absorbed by the Olympics, as it sounds like
Speaker 1: you guys have too. That baseball will be in it
Speaker 1: again soon. I think that is a segway we can
Speaker 1: kind of do to link the Olympics back to we
Speaker 1: talk about today, because I mean, it really is such
Speaker 1: an exciting couple of weeks, and to think, I mean,
Speaker 1: there are a lot of sports in it. I was
Speaker 1: in Nice at the weekend to watch some of the football,
Speaker 1: and I do love football and do love the Olympics.
Speaker 1: For those two things they don't really go together very well.
Speaker 1: So if we can have Olympic football, we can certainly
Speaker 1: have Olympic baseball, which will be an awful lot of fun.
Speaker 1: But let's talk a little bit of trade deadline. Then.
Speaker 1: We were talking before the podcast rather about how we
Speaker 1: do not feel like we've been able to cover the
Speaker 1: trade deadline particularly well, partly because there's been an awful
Speaker 1: lot happening. So we're gonna lean on Darius here to
Speaker 1: be our sage, the person who's coming with a knowledge
Speaker 1: and the wisdom of not only the trades that happened,
Speaker 1: but you know who did a good job at it.
Speaker 1: So maybe we'll kick it off with you, Darius. What
Speaker 1: has been the blockbuster trade of the deadline? What is
Speaker 1: the one trade we should kick this whole thing off with.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think probably the thing about the trade deadline
Speaker 2: is there wasn't a blockbuster trade, But I suppose if
Speaker 2: if you want to pick one out, it kind of
Speaker 2: is tempting to say, and you know, I don't want
Speaker 2: to say this to Rob, but Randy rose A. Yeah,
Speaker 2: getting trade to the Mariners not quite a deadline trade
Speaker 2: in the sense that it happened at the deadline. But
Speaker 2: I think it's either that or Jazz going to the Yankees.
Speaker 2: Feel like they're sort of big. These are star names either,
Speaker 2: guys who could we could really see kids in the postseason.
Speaker 2: They feel like the headlines and we've all seen playoff
Speaker 2: Randy before, you know, wouldn't be a surprise if he
Speaker 2: turns it on in September or shows up for Seattle
Speaker 2: and when they're getting in a wild cud spot or something
Speaker 2: like that. I could believe that, but I do think
Speaker 2: that if you compare this as previous you know, Max Shears,
Speaker 2: a trade turner, these type of trades, we didn't have
Speaker 2: one of those issues.
Speaker 1: No, we didn't feel like we had that one huge
Speaker 1: passam bomb at you know, ten to deadline where a
Speaker 1: huge player gets moved, But there was an awful lot
Speaker 1: that happened. I guess's let's start with the a Rosa
Speaker 1: in trade. I know you don't want to talk about it, Rob,
Speaker 1: but we'll get the pain out of the way for
Speaker 1: you as a Raised fan, I guess what was your
Speaker 1: instant reaction? What do you feel now a few days later? Happy, sad?
Speaker 1: Understanding it? What logical heart? Where are you at at
Speaker 1: the moment?
Speaker 3: I think you just covered all of it. It's typical
Speaker 3: typical raising, if that's a word, which I don't think
Speaker 3: it is. So yeah, the immediate reaction is awful. I mean,
Speaker 3: the Rays don't get characters very often, we don't get
Speaker 3: superstars very often, and Randy whilst his performance may not
Speaker 3: have always been superstars, certainly he's had a down year
Speaker 3: until very very recently when it comes to stars and
Speaker 3: people that everyone of the sports know, Like he had
Speaker 3: the flair he had the postseason. He was a big
Speaker 3: guy and it was it was a really painful one
Speaker 3: to go. Uh and he was just just first of
Speaker 3: the dominoes there. So as they kind of started falling,
Speaker 3: it felt worse and worse and worse and worse. We
Speaker 3: obviously lost Zach Efflin to the Orioles. We also parades
Speaker 3: to the Cubs, Armstrong to the Cardinals, Rosario to the Dodgers,
Speaker 3: add them to the Padres, It on and on it went.
Speaker 3: You know, it was all the good guys, but I
Speaker 3: think the it started bad, but we thought it was
Speaker 3: gonna be an.
Speaker 4: Awful lot worse.
Speaker 3: There were rumors mid game at one point that the
Speaker 3: Pete Fairbanks was gonna be off to the Yankees, Yandy
Speaker 3: Diaz was going to the Dodgers, and sorry to the Astros,
Speaker 3: and then and then Brandon Lau was going to go
Speaker 3: to anywhere like these were these were absolute givens and
Speaker 3: so as it kind of the deadline clothes and those
Speaker 3: guys hadn't gone anywhere. It was like, oh, actually, you
Speaker 3: know what made maybe maybe it's it's not all that bad.
Speaker 4: And if you if you actually really.
Speaker 3: Look at the Rays here, they've sort of done it
Speaker 3: again in that no doubt this team is a worse
Speaker 3: team than just before the trade deadline.
Speaker 4: There is no doubt about that. It is a worse team.
Speaker 3: However, there are some things that have happened. So so
Speaker 3: Zach Efflyn was poor this year, He's not been great.
Speaker 3: He's been shifted on. Jeffrey Springs has just come up
Speaker 3: and replaced him. So okay, all right, we're potentially slightly
Speaker 3: better there. Christopher Morel has more home runs, more power
Speaker 3: than the East Up parades, has been showing and he's just.
Speaker 4: Started to pick it up.
Speaker 3: Randy Rose Arena has not been the Randy of last
Speaker 3: and that guaranteed yet. The last month or so he's
Speaker 3: been absolutely phenomenal, but the year as a whole, he's
Speaker 3: not been brilliant. So you start putting together, actually one
Speaker 3: of the Rays really.
Speaker 4: Really lost here. They are worse. Don't get me wrong,
Speaker 4: I'm saying they are worse. They've got blood. Dylan Carlson
Speaker 4: now playing the outfield, but they are worse.
Speaker 3: However, this team was hovering around five hundred as they
Speaker 3: were really really struggling man for man to match up
Speaker 3: to what they should be doing in a normal year.
Speaker 3: If these guys and there's signs that they are coming
Speaker 3: back to just returning to average, returning to where we
Speaker 3: all thought they can be at the beginning of season.
Speaker 3: If they've done that, we've taken out a couple of
Speaker 3: crap guys. Yeah, we're taking out a couple of good guys.
Speaker 3: I don't think this team is going to do an
Speaker 3: awful lot worse than it has done in the first
Speaker 3: what do I say the first.
Speaker 4: Half prior to the All Star break.
Speaker 3: I think you'll find that this team, as you know
Speaker 3: that usually exceeds and ends up being a ninety five
Speaker 3: ninety nine win team. Perhaps we've dropped to a ninety
Speaker 3: win team now, but I genuinely think they are going
Speaker 3: to do better in this half of the season than
Speaker 3: they have in the first half. And it was a
Speaker 3: disappointing start. But I've come full circle now and I think,
Speaker 3: you know, I think we're still in it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there were certainly one of the fascinating teams out
Speaker 1: the deadline, like you say that they are still in it,
Speaker 1: whether you think the team they've got now is better
Speaker 1: or worse, probably worse than it was going into last week.
Speaker 1: You know, they're above five hundred. It's a very competitive
Speaker 1: American league, but they've got a chance to do it.
Speaker 1: And this is sort of the raise em isn't it.
Speaker 1: I know they've been a very good team for a
Speaker 1: long time now and and sort of have gone very
Speaker 1: well to manage a lot of different trades, a lot
Speaker 1: of different players moving on. They obviously have always been
Speaker 1: a team that have had a small salary overall. So
Speaker 1: I think that this is kind of what they tend
Speaker 1: to do. And there's that kind of ongoing joke I suppose,
Speaker 1: isn't there among baseball fans where you know, love this
Speaker 1: trade for the rais you know, who do they get?
Speaker 1: Who do they give away? Where we just assume they
Speaker 1: operate in a way that is smarter than any other
Speaker 1: baseball teams. But I guess questions to be asked you.
Speaker 1: I personally liked Dylan Carlson pick up feels like such
Speaker 1: a raise move right, like a once top prospect who
Speaker 1: now has flamed out, reclamation guy who will turn into
Speaker 1: a superstar somehow in their hands. And it feels like
Speaker 1: a lot of the prospects they've picked up, whilst maybe
Speaker 1: not at the top of prospect lists, have got intrigue.
Speaker 1: There could be something someday for the Rais Christopher Morel
Speaker 1: again a guy who and the Cubs fans have derived
Speaker 1: at times for his performance both at the play and
Speaker 1: in the field, but can't deny has got tools and
Speaker 1: could be someone who could be kind of star if
Speaker 1: given the right instruction. Darius did. Did the Rays win
Speaker 1: all these trades? How did you feel about the hole
Speaker 1: they got back but for the sort of core they
Speaker 1: ended up giving away?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean Ray's turn former Cardinals outfielder into good
Speaker 2: player is like not going to be a story we
Speaker 2: haven't heard for us familiar.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I think the thing I always think about the Rays is,
Speaker 2: you know, it's not quite the Orioles, but you do,
Speaker 2: as somebody who thinks about, you know, who's going to
Speaker 2: play on each team in anordinate amount of time, you
Speaker 2: look at as like Jonathan Randa and Curtis Meade and
Speaker 2: Junior and Arrow and think, hey, these guys are supposed
Speaker 2: to be like really good prospects. Are able to hit,
Speaker 2: and like the Rays have too many pieces to fit
Speaker 2: them onto the team without cutting a bunch of other
Speaker 2: guys who are also valuetball players. So I don't I
Speaker 2: think that's right. I don't think they are going to
Speaker 2: be a great deal worse if they are worse at all,
Speaker 2: And you know, maybe some of these guys to show
Speaker 2: up and make the team better. You know, they they
Speaker 2: do start hitting, and do you know the Raids are
Speaker 2: going to match them up, right? So yeah, it's tough
Speaker 2: as a fan, I think, but you've got to trust
Speaker 2: the process with them. I guess more than anybody else
Speaker 2: that they are going to make the right moves here.
Speaker 2: And you know, they're not going to win one hundred
Speaker 2: percent of trades, but they win a hell of a
Speaker 2: lot more than they lose. So yeah, I wouldn't be
Speaker 2: surprised if we turn around in two three years time
Speaker 2: and we're like, oh, hey, you remember that raised trade
Speaker 2: at the deadline. Now they've got like three really valuable,
Speaker 2: above average big leaguers out of it, and the guy
Speaker 2: they traded is, you know, out of the majors. That's
Speaker 2: entirely plausible to me.
Speaker 1: I guess on the flip side of it then looking
Speaker 1: at the Mariners, particularly as the guys who acquired a
Speaker 1: Rosorina that I feel like last time we talked they
Speaker 1: had about an eight game division lead. Since then it
Speaker 1: has been completely eradicated by the Houston Astros, who now
Speaker 1: sit top of the Al West, as seems to be
Speaker 1: tradition in that division of late they obviously seem a
Speaker 1: little bit desperate for some offensive help. They got a
Speaker 1: Rose Raina. They also Justin Turner, do we feel like
Speaker 1: the Mariners have got the pieces there to make a
Speaker 1: run at the playoffs at one point that like they
Speaker 1: would be competitive for that division. They still, on paper,
Speaker 1: are right up there with a chance to do it,
Speaker 1: although momentum would suggest they're going to fall away a
Speaker 1: little bit. These additions enough to make them a better team.
Speaker 1: Are they one that they're going to push for the
Speaker 1: playoffs or is this another example of the Mariners going
Speaker 1: quote all in only to end up all out of
Speaker 1: the playoffs.
Speaker 2: I think it's the arena is a bit more of
Speaker 2: a proper move. It feels like Justin Turner feels like
Speaker 2: them doing the same thing again, like what piece can
Speaker 2: we get? What's marginal? What's not going to cost us
Speaker 2: very much, which is the same thing that they've been
Speaker 2: doing for the last couple of years, and we've sat
Speaker 2: here going, hey, why don't you make a bigger move
Speaker 2: and make your team better by a meaningful amount instead
Speaker 2: of like, oh, we're going to trade for these fringier
Speaker 2: pieces and we don't want to spend a bunch of money.
Speaker 2: You know, they've got the worst strike up rate in
Speaker 2: the majors by a couple of percentage points, is not
Speaker 2: particularly close. Their OBP is basically three hundred. I think
Speaker 2: you know that's they're like fifth worst in the majors.
Speaker 2: So yeah, it's definitely going to move the needle because
Speaker 2: both Turner and Arena are going to be better than that.
Speaker 2: Can they get to like league average line up with
Speaker 2: the pitching they've got and make a run? I think
Speaker 2: it's possible with the three world cars, I think they
Speaker 2: should get one of those wild guns. But it still
Speaker 2: feels a little bit like this was a team that
Speaker 2: you know, basically needed like a total offensive superstar or
Speaker 2: two or three to actually raise them into a team
Speaker 2: that you're worried about. You're still not scared of this
Speaker 2: lineup because they are added a rose Arena and Turner.
Speaker 2: You know, there's some real dross in this lineup, and
Speaker 2: they strike out a hell of a lot, which I
Speaker 2: think is going to get exploited in the playoffs as well.
Speaker 2: So I'm lot scared of the Mariners lineup, but I
Speaker 2: think teams have got to be a bit more concerned
Speaker 2: about them than they were before, which is saying something.
Speaker 1: It feels like a team that could be a bit
Speaker 1: scarier come October if they do sneak into the playoffs
Speaker 1: that recipe of elite rotation, good enough bullpen, and maybe
Speaker 1: some hitters that can get streaky. I mean, adding playoff
Speaker 1: Randy never hurts when you're talking about a team looking
Speaker 1: scary in October. But it does feel like that that's
Speaker 1: maybe their plan is just sneak in any way we
Speaker 1: can and then hope that someone gets hot in October,
Speaker 1: that we know the rotation is elite and we can
Speaker 1: sort of fumble our way through from there, which I
Speaker 1: mean is not the worst idea, right, It feels like
Speaker 1: something that could work for them, But it does feel
Speaker 1: like that, yeah, they needed to do something. I think
Speaker 1: the raise raining move is good, is positive. Let's talk
Speaker 1: about the other I guess blockbusterish trade from the deadline,
Speaker 1: or certainly one that got people's attention. Jazz Chisholm from
Speaker 1: the Marlins to the Yankees. I think we on this
Speaker 1: podcast have repeated many times how much we love Jazz
Speaker 1: for a lot of reasons, not least because he's sort
Speaker 1: of one of our own. What do we think of
Speaker 1: this move from the Yankees' perspective. Obviously a big name,
Speaker 1: someone who's got personality. He seems to have fit in
Speaker 1: reasonably well at the base, a new position for him
Speaker 1: so far in his time in New York. Robert was
Speaker 1: your instant reaction to this move?
Speaker 3: Instant reaction is it's fantastic, brilliant move for the Yankees,
Speaker 3: brilliant move for Jazz as well. He's he's got that,
Speaker 3: he's got the swagger's he seems to have a big
Speaker 3: enough personality to deal with the big town, you know,
Speaker 3: the big, big side of it all. And it was
Speaker 3: it wasn't it was really sort of I had the
Speaker 3: feeling he's been mismanaged in Miami a little bit. They've
Speaker 3: not done well recently. You know, they were supposed to
Speaker 3: be flying high by now, and it's not gone great.
Speaker 3: You know, and and the fringy guys they've gone have
Speaker 3: all failed, and it's pretty ugly in Miami right now.
Speaker 3: And I think Jazz getting out there was great. I
Speaker 3: think it's fantastic for him and for the Yankees, who
Speaker 3: themselves have really started to falter offensively recently. To have him,
Speaker 3: he's almost sort of like kind of like the third
Speaker 3: guy on the lineup already. You know, you've got you've
Speaker 3: got Soto, Judge and Jazz now and and he's fit
Speaker 3: right in there, like people are. People are saying the
Speaker 3: three he doesn't quite obviously deserve to be in that
Speaker 3: category of hitter yet, but he's fit straight in there.
Speaker 4: That's the way people are talking about.
Speaker 3: It's those three guys bang Bank Banks, Soto, Judge, chisholm
Speaker 3: uh And. I think he's strode straight into it, and
Speaker 3: I think it's fantastic for them. It's exactly what the
Speaker 3: what the the Yankees needed, exactly what he needed was
Speaker 3: change the scenery, all those cliches there. But but you know,
Speaker 3: he steps straight up and he's been he's been very
Speaker 3: good since he's since he's got there, so you really
Speaker 3: can't fault the trade. I think it's exactly what everybody needed.
Speaker 3: There are no losers here rather than potentially the Miami
Speaker 3: Marlins and specifically Pete.
Speaker 1: Pratt Mami Marlins losing out. That doesn't sound right. You know,
Speaker 1: you're right to say that the Jazz has been good
Speaker 1: so far, and I think he had four home months
Speaker 1: in his first three games, right, and Yankee fans have
Speaker 1: endeared themselves to him very quickly. I didn't closely follow
Speaker 1: the whole dynamic where it sounded like Labor Torres refused
Speaker 1: to move off second and she said he's happy to
Speaker 1: play it anywhere, and now he's playing third. And again,
Speaker 1: I've not been following Yankes games place, but it seems
Speaker 1: like he's been playing weez and b well there. I
Speaker 1: don't know if there's a whole other internal thing going on,
Speaker 1: but if he's able to add that to what was
Speaker 1: already quite an impressive array of defensive positions that he
Speaker 1: can play competently, then another bow for shrugging the bow
Speaker 1: sorry for Jazz, which is impressive, Darius. What's going on
Speaker 1: with the Marlins that they've sort of torn it all
Speaker 1: down again? Is this another new rock bottom for them?
Speaker 1: Is there any light out there for Pete and another
Speaker 1: Marlins fans.
Speaker 2: Yes, this is like, what year is it?
Speaker 1: Like?
Speaker 2: Haven't we seen this story not just once before, but two, three,
Speaker 2: four times? It is obviously depressing. I think we could
Speaker 2: probably have seen this coming given their record, given the
Speaker 2: state of the farm system as well, which was not good.
Speaker 2: Bad combination with the Marlins having a bad big league
Speaker 2: team and a bad farm, So I think I think
Speaker 2: Peter Bendix has done pretty good job here getting what
Speaker 2: he could. For the most part, I'm not convinced that
Speaker 2: the trade specifically is the one that fans will be
Speaker 2: delighted with the return on. But they made a lot
Speaker 2: of moves and I think he got a lot back for,
Speaker 2: you know, some relievers who are probably likely to, yeah,
Speaker 2: be those guys who in a couple of years we're
Speaker 2: going to be like, why did anybody trade for those
Speaker 2: relievers that are deadline? You know? So yeah, you know,
Speaker 2: they shipped out Josh Bill just to save the money basically.
Speaker 2: But I like the Trevor Rodgers Hall a lot, you know,
Speaker 2: getting connin norby getting carst Ours, both guys who could
Speaker 2: potentially be above average big league is that's exactly what
Speaker 2: the Marlins have needed for a long time. So yeah,
Speaker 2: I think I think Bendix has done a good job.
Speaker 2: And I think some of these guys that either you know,
Speaker 2: have already been in the majors like in Norby and Stours,
Speaker 2: or close enough to it that we might not have
Speaker 2: to wait forever to see them having an impact on
Speaker 2: the team. The other question with the Marlins, as always,
Speaker 2: of course, are they going to bother to do anything
Speaker 2: in the off season instead of you know, signing the
Speaker 2: broken husk of Tim Anderson to play short stuff for them.
Speaker 2: Did this last year when you know, I'm not going
Speaker 2: to promise promise anything, Tom Marlins fans. I think Bendix
Speaker 2: is a Raise guy. I think he does what he's doing.
Speaker 2: And I think Marlins fans, if there is going to
Speaker 2: be a chink of lighters that I think they've probably
Speaker 2: got quite a few guys who can be part of
Speaker 2: a future core that hopefully they will do something to supplement.
Speaker 3: Speaking of Bendick being a Raised guy, the Marlins were
Speaker 3: playing the Rays on the night of the trade deadline,
Speaker 3: and I seem to not and it's something I've noted
Speaker 3: here for this point, the Marlins seemed to trade away
Speaker 3: three full bullpens worth of guys I genuinely didn't know
Speaker 3: who was actually going to turn up to throw the
Speaker 3: baseballs that night, because it just seemed to be an
Speaker 3: endless stream of relievers leaving Miami. There seem to be
Speaker 3: so bloody many of them, and like and men, I'd
Speaker 3: never heard of.
Speaker 4: Brian Hoeing? Who's he? Who knows? Do we ever know? Again?
Speaker 4: I don't know?
Speaker 3: But off he went, you know, and they just kept
Speaker 3: going then kept going, kept going. So I mean, where
Speaker 3: did the Marlins find all these guys from? And who
Speaker 3: is now in the Marlins ballpen? Some blok called kitchen?
Speaker 4: I hear.
Speaker 2: That did sound like a sort of you know, automatically
Speaker 2: generated named in Austin Dichin's got his first big League
Speaker 2: strikeout for the Marlins. Like that that's made of? That's regent.
Speaker 1: Well, hopefully, yeah, we don't end up back here in
Speaker 1: the same situation in two time, asking why the Marlins
Speaker 1: tore it all down again? But it does feel like,
Speaker 1: as you say, Darius, that is the repeating storyline of
Speaker 1: Major League based wayver the last few years. But hey,
Speaker 1: you know, Lisha, not the Rockies who didn't even have
Speaker 1: any good pieces to trade away. Let's talk a little
Speaker 1: bit about the Oreoles. Then you mentioned that they acquired
Speaker 1: Trevor Rodgers for seemingly one of the larger halls that
Speaker 1: a team managed to get back over the course of
Speaker 1: the trade deadline. That wasn't the only move they made
Speaker 1: over over the course of the trade deadline. They also
Speaker 1: went out and picked up I think it was Dominguez
Speaker 1: and Pasche from the Phillies in exchange for Austin Hayes.
Speaker 1: They got Zakkathlyn as we already mentioned of the off
Speaker 1: the Rays, and I think eloi him andz made his
Speaker 1: way over to Baltsmore as well. So fairly active deadline
Speaker 1: for the Orioles. He obviously one of the best teams
Speaker 1: in the league, seemingly on a coleasion course with the
Speaker 1: Yankees to fly out for that division, but almost certainly
Speaker 1: going to make it to the playoffs. To any of
Speaker 1: these moves particularly moved the needle for you, Darius, as
Speaker 1: far as how luckily they are to win that division,
Speaker 1: how they are to take this you know, playoff run
Speaker 1: further than how far they made it last year.
Speaker 2: I think you know they needed to address the rotation.
Speaker 2: Since Bradish went down again, it's continued to be their weakness.
Speaker 2: Obviously the training for Burns earlier in the year, that
Speaker 2: was a big deal for them. They have their ace.
Speaker 2: So I think Eflyn was, you know, a kind of
Speaker 2: guy they needed somebody they could just say, you know,
Speaker 2: we can count on him to throw some innings here.
Speaker 2: You know they're going to be good, solid things. We've
Speaker 2: got a great lineup. We don't need him to be
Speaker 2: an ace. You still don't look at this rotation and think, wow,
Speaker 2: there's three guys that I'm terrified of in the front three.
Speaker 2: You know, maybe Rodriguez couldn't get up to that level.
Speaker 2: He's been up and down. You know, he's had a
Speaker 2: pretty good year, but he's still not a finished product
Speaker 2: or anything. But then behind him and Burns, you still
Speaker 2: have that question of, well, you know, are you that
Speaker 2: worried about the eros rotation. They may say we don't care,
Speaker 2: have you've seen our lineup, But I think that that
Speaker 2: remains the concern for them, and certainly the ballpen could
Speaker 2: be a bit of a ride. I think, you know,
Speaker 2: we've all seen the later years great Kivall experience. The
Speaker 2: mingas can be a bit wild at times as well.
Speaker 2: You know, he's been a good reliever but he's not
Speaker 2: been consistent. Same with Gregory Soto. So yeah, they improve
Speaker 2: the team. I think be interesting to see if they
Speaker 2: can get anything out of Eloy. Maybe just keep him
Speaker 2: on the field would be a good start. But again
Speaker 2: kind of yeah, we're we're tweaking around the margins. For
Speaker 2: the most part, I think I would have liked to
Speaker 2: see them, you know, it would have been great fun
Speaker 2: to see them get a scuball and then you really
Speaker 2: would have been scared about that rotation. But I don't
Speaker 2: know what it was taken to get the Tigers to
Speaker 2: give them up.
Speaker 4: Yeap, y boring, boring, boring.
Speaker 3: I mean take it back to go back to the Olympics,
Speaker 3: if we take taking an analogy from there, like you know,
Speaker 3: they they're they're sat there staring at you know, potentially
Speaker 3: the gold medal and rather than doing like a triple
Speaker 3: axels seven flip dive into the pool, they're they're pencil jumping.
Speaker 3: You know, they got the prospects, like blow them, throw
Speaker 3: someone away, get someone big in. You know, they they
Speaker 3: just about managed to sign a proper free agent in Burns,
Speaker 3: you know, pre season, but like come on, come on,
Speaker 3: like you're in the division. You got the Yankees on
Speaker 3: the ropes. Where is the knockout blow?
Speaker 4: They pick up? Jazz Chisholm, what have you done?
Speaker 3: Absolutely soddle like, Okay, maybe Greg Risotto's and gay pick up,
Speaker 3: but realistically that lot, I mean, where is the game changer?
Speaker 3: As you said, but where is the game changer in
Speaker 3: that lot? There isn't one. I think they've been boring,
Speaker 3: and I think the boring Orioles are starting to get
Speaker 3: themselves a little bit of a name for this and
Speaker 3: they're starting to deserve it. So yeah, I wanted way
Speaker 3: more from the Orioles.
Speaker 1: I don't know that I agree, but I will say
Speaker 1: that being able to call them the Boreals is quite tempting.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to lean into your your narrative here, Robin,
Speaker 1: and run with it. You mentioned Trek Scuball there, Darius,
Speaker 1: that he was obviously a name coming into the deadline
Speaker 1: that was maybe the biggest we thought might get moved,
Speaker 1: given ability, given team control left. It sounds like in
Speaker 1: the end the Tigers decided that he basically wasn't for
Speaker 1: sale or they was going to take something extraordinary to
Speaker 1: move him. But we did see some pretty big holes
Speaker 1: of starting pictures and we mentioned Trevor Rodgers. I think
Speaker 1: Yusa Kakuci returned a pretty good haul for the Blue Jays.
Speaker 1: It sounded like when he was traded to the Astros.
Speaker 1: Whether Tiger's right to stand pat with Scooball and say
Speaker 1: that he him and you know, when you have a
Speaker 1: picture that good, do you do you let him walk
Speaker 1: for any price? Or did they miss a trick not
Speaker 1: not cashing him or would have been probably a fairly
Speaker 1: large all of top level prospects if they've moved him
Speaker 1: to the competitor.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it sents a really bad message to
Speaker 2: your fans. I have my doubts about whether the Tigers
Speaker 2: have actually got enough here to compete, you know, with
Speaker 2: talks and doesn't look like he's going to pan out.
Speaker 2: You do look at that lineup, you know, Buyers has
Speaker 2: been a total bust, and have they got can they
Speaker 2: build around you know, Riley Green? Is there enough there
Speaker 2: for them to really meaningfully put together a team? Are
Speaker 2: they going to go out and spend the money. But
Speaker 2: at the same time, if you are saying that you
Speaker 2: are trying to compete, you can't go away and trade it.
Speaker 2: Arguably the best picture in the league, certainly on the
Speaker 2: top five who's done the control for the next couple
Speaker 2: of years, and then still earnestly say to your fans, yeah,
Speaker 2: we're we're here, we're trying to compete. You know, that's
Speaker 2: a that's a Marlins move, isn't it. So I get well,
Speaker 2: they didn't do it, and as much as they could
Speaker 2: have got a big, big horn for him, I'm sure
Speaker 2: I think it would have been a really difficult pill
Speaker 2: for their fans to swallow. So, you know, I'm glad
Speaker 2: for the Tigers fans that they didn't do it, and
Speaker 2: we'll see whether they can do anything this off season.
Speaker 2: I mean, you know they're not they're not out of
Speaker 2: it officially, but it's tough. You know, it's actually tough
Speaker 2: to think you put in the al central for once
Speaker 2: and they look much worse than the three teams above
Speaker 2: them to me. So I think it's going to be
Speaker 2: a case of, yeah, what can they do this offseason
Speaker 2: to build around those few core pieces that they seem
Speaker 2: to have finally landed?
Speaker 1: A central is good? Who would have thought? But no,
Speaker 1: I'm inclined to agree. The issue I have with trades
Speaker 1: like this is always you end up trading away Tarik
Speaker 1: Scuoball in the hope that you get back a player
Speaker 1: who might date turn someday turn into Tarrek's Scooball Right,
Speaker 1: like you've already got the guy, why I've traded him
Speaker 1: away for the hope you might get a guy similar
Speaker 1: in three or four years time. And again this is
Speaker 1: just me, but I tend to think teams fans massively
Speaker 1: overvalue prospects. However, can't miss they might and you know
Speaker 1: that allure of a guy who might be under team
Speaker 1: control for seven years, who will be amazing and you
Speaker 1: turn your franchise around. But I mean, these guys are
Speaker 1: They're so hard to find, so hard to predict that
Speaker 1: when you have a guy as good as Scoopable, when
Speaker 1: he's as popular as he is, when he's you know,
Speaker 1: under team control. Yeah, it would have been crazy to me,
Speaker 1: regardless of the hole they got back, to give someone
Speaker 1: like that away. So I agree with the Tigers not
Speaker 1: making a move as far as he's concerned, even though
Speaker 1: they did make a couple of others running fingers, and
Speaker 1: I mean one of the moves they did make. Let's
Speaker 1: talk a little bit about the Dodgers. I guess that.
Speaker 1: It always seems like they for the most part, stay
Speaker 1: quiet around the trade deadline, but end up somehow getting
Speaker 1: good players without really ever giving much up. I don't
Speaker 1: know if you would call Jack Flatty a good player
Speaker 1: these days, or necessarily Tommy Edmond for that reason, but
Speaker 1: it does feel like there's the two guys who have
Speaker 1: got upsides that the Dodgers went out and got without
Speaker 1: making a whole lot of noise, Rob, do you feel
Speaker 1: like they did a good job this deadline? The Dodgers
Speaker 1: and quietly managing to eight and some sells, some to
Speaker 1: a freeway trade they had no business being involved in
Speaker 1: as far as I can tell to to pick up
Speaker 1: Edmond and then sneaking at the deadline to grab Lassie
Speaker 1: for a bit of rotation depth as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they've they've done okay, I mean they picked up
Speaker 3: a bunch of off old guys, because they've also picked
Speaker 3: up Ahmed Rosario and Kevin Kiirmeyer, who were.
Speaker 4: A little you know, they sort of fit for the needs.
Speaker 3: I get that, but they don't seem overly dodgersy sort
Speaker 3: of sort of trades.
Speaker 4: Did they get Michael Kopek as well? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 4: that that.
Speaker 3: For me, I think is probably the key trade here.
Speaker 3: Kopex seems exactly like the guy that the Dodgers are
Speaker 3: in a turnaround in a couple of years, he is
Speaker 3: going to be an absolute world beater, because I do
Speaker 3: remember him as he was coming up a couple of
Speaker 3: years ago. He had all the signs, he looked like
Speaker 3: he was about to be and then he got white socked.
Speaker 3: So honestly think that that that might be the trade
Speaker 3: that we look back on in a couple of years
Speaker 3: and say, Wow, look what the digit did with this guy.
Speaker 3: I've got feelings about him. The rest of them, they're
Speaker 3: twiddling around the edges. But you know, conversely to the Orioles,
Speaker 3: who I think that's a problem for the Dodgers.
Speaker 4: I mean, it isn't a problem. They need some pitching.
Speaker 3: God, God knows they need some pitching, and you know,
Speaker 3: they got a couple there if they can do a
Speaker 3: little bit with Fantastic, but they're already going to the postseason.
Speaker 3: These guys are just bits around the edges, and they've
Speaker 3: got a couple of guys who can run, a couple
Speaker 3: of guys who can spell them defensively. You know, if
Speaker 3: they make the postseason roster or not, who knows, But yeah,
Speaker 3: they did fine.
Speaker 4: It was what they needed. They picked up a little
Speaker 4: bit of insurance.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it feels like they're going to be canterying to
Speaker 1: a division title once again. Here, Darius, what's new with
Speaker 1: the Dodgers. But does this make a difference to you
Speaker 1: as far as the outlook for them come the playoffs?
Speaker 1: It again, it feels like Kope's a great addition, as
Speaker 1: you say, Rob, like, that's exactly the kind of player
Speaker 1: who inter your's time. Will just be the new Joe
Speaker 1: Kelly or whoever it might be that they turn into
Speaker 1: a real weapon in the bullpen. But yeah, this this
Speaker 1: doesn't feel that they went out and made a splashy
Speaker 1: move more just sort of small additions here or that
Speaker 1: that might help them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, flat is you know, having a great season.
Speaker 2: He's really kind of recaptured a lot of what people
Speaker 2: thought he might be before all the injuries, before the struggles.
Speaker 2: You know, he has been one of the better pictures
Speaker 2: in the league this season. We'll see whether there's any
Speaker 2: trace to the reports that the Yankees turned down a
Speaker 2: deal because of medical issues. He did have a bit
Speaker 2: of a back issue, a few weeks ago. That didn't
Speaker 2: seem to linger very long. But we'll see if there's
Speaker 2: a problem. But yeah, they desperately need the picching. They've
Speaker 2: had so many injury issues. They've basically been relying on
Speaker 2: a bunch of rookies and Tyler Glass now, who has
Speaker 2: never been the picture of health, but then normal's flatter.
Speaker 2: You know, he hasn't thrown. You know that he started
Speaker 2: since twenty nineteen, so there's every child staying. He was
Speaker 2: joining them on the aisle at some point. So yeah,
Speaker 2: I think I think they desperately needed that. And Edmond
Speaker 2: is the kind of that you know, It's very Dodgers,
Speaker 2: isn't it. It's another Chris Taylor type. If anything happens
Speaker 2: to I line up here or here or here or here,
Speaker 2: we can go and stick him in that position. Obviously
Speaker 2: he has been hurt too, so I suppose it could
Speaker 2: go wrong, but I understand he's best to be back soon.
Speaker 2: So you know, we could be looking at this Dodgers
Speaker 2: line up with a fully functional monkey, Bets and Otani
Speaker 2: and Freeman and all these guys that they've added around them,
Speaker 2: and you know, if playing Kershew can get anything back
Speaker 2: to close to it's best for the playoffs, then yeah,
Speaker 2: obviously you're you're really worried about them.
Speaker 4: They do seem to have a lot of roster spots, though,
Speaker 4: do they do?
Speaker 3: They have more than everyone else because they've added a
Speaker 3: lot of guys here. I don't really see much leaving,
Speaker 3: so I just, yeah.
Speaker 2: I think I think it's just that they've got so
Speaker 2: many guys on the injured this it's like just creating
Speaker 2: extra roster spots or the guys in the sixty day
Speaker 2: il they've actually got like a fifty man roster at
Speaker 2: the moment.
Speaker 4: Are they in trouble for for fiddling with the I L?
Speaker 4: As well?
Speaker 2: Like in terms of phantom ile since yeah, it was
Speaker 2: the main I can't.
Speaker 3: I can't see why you would phantomly put, oh it
Speaker 3: was the Mets. You're right, sorry, Yes it was Mets.
Speaker 3: Of course it was Mets. Yeah, why would you phantom
Speaker 3: I L Mookie Betts. That makes absolutely no sense.
Speaker 1: Hmm.
Speaker 2: Somebody in the Mets front office was obviously disgruntled and
Speaker 2: I think actually provided in controversial evidence to that they
Speaker 2: had bunched and ils and so that was why they
Speaker 2: got in trouble. But yeah, I don't I don't think
Speaker 2: the Dodges are under an actual investigation to that, as
Speaker 2: far as I'm aware, they.
Speaker 4: Invented it, though I did.
Speaker 1: Yeh right, Well, there are a lot of a lot
Speaker 1: of other trades that that took place. I don't think
Speaker 1: we have times cover all of them, but I guess
Speaker 1: now it might be a nice time beach us to
Speaker 1: maybe pick out a trade or a team that we
Speaker 1: particularly liked what they did at the deadline, or a
Speaker 1: trade that we thought was particularly interesting. I saw a
Speaker 1: few different versions of players returning to former teams, which
Speaker 1: I always find fun, but I will be interested to
Speaker 1: hear Russ's take. I quite like the deadline that the
Speaker 1: Guardians had, if only for acquiring Lane Thomas, who I
Speaker 1: think is a really good player who has sort of
Speaker 1: quietly shone with the Nationals for a couple of seasons now,
Speaker 1: and he feels like again a guy who will be
Speaker 1: quite useful for the Guardians to get on board. Obviously,
Speaker 1: hits lefties really well, is fast, plays a good outfield,
Speaker 1: has got upsides on the team control I think for
Speaker 1: another year after this, so this feels like a nice
Speaker 1: addition for them. I like that move, and they also
Speaker 1: picked up Alex Cobb. First question, who had any idea
Speaker 1: Alex Cobb was still in the major leagues. But for
Speaker 1: as long as he is, I'm always gonna like a
Speaker 1: team to pick him up. I've just got a soft
Speaker 1: spot for the player that he is and how I pitches,
Speaker 1: and it again, it feels like a low risk move
Speaker 1: that if he can turn out to be healthy, turn
Speaker 1: out to throw some innings for them, then it's quite
Speaker 1: a nice sort of player to bring on board and
Speaker 1: help post them towards the playoffs. So again, a team
Speaker 1: that didn't really make any huge, glamorous moves, but it
Speaker 1: feels like help their their core when it comes to
Speaker 1: closing out that division lead that they've got and maybe
Speaker 1: making a run when it comes to playoffs. Was there
Speaker 1: a team or a move rob that caught your eye
Speaker 1: over the course of the deadline.
Speaker 4: I quite like what the Cardinals did, If I'm honest,
Speaker 4: I think they did that.
Speaker 3: They they didn't really give much up and they made
Speaker 3: themselves pretty pretty much better than than they were beforehand.
Speaker 4: They reunited with Tommy Fam. Of course, there's a little
Speaker 4: bit of bad blood.
Speaker 3: There from first something who hasn't Tommy Fam had bad
Speaker 3: blood with but he didn't leave the Cardinals in a
Speaker 3: particularly happy way. But he's gone back there and he's
Speaker 3: still a very serviceable outfield. I think his his temperament
Speaker 3: may have have got the better of his career a
Speaker 3: little bit. I think he currently plays a lot better
Speaker 3: than someone who was, you know, picked up as a
Speaker 3: free for the White Sox not too long ago.
Speaker 4: I think he's better than that.
Speaker 3: So I quite like that speaking of the White Sox
Speaker 3: head and it's sort of this this flips like the
Speaker 3: what the hell of the White Sox doing? Yeah, picking
Speaker 3: up Eric Ferdy for in the three team deal, which
Speaker 3: really seemed to to do much for the White Sox.
Speaker 3: That was a good pick up for them, and and
Speaker 3: Charotte short Armstrong, which was, you know, a decent piece
Speaker 3: for the bullpen, which which is something they needed. So
Speaker 3: I quite like the Cardinals because they didn't really give
Speaker 3: anything up and they have.
Speaker 1: Got better, Darius, any team move you liked.
Speaker 2: I think we just got to give credits to the
Speaker 2: Blue Jays because what they got out of the asterrois
Speaker 2: for KOUCHI was they like robbery. I think I mean
Speaker 2: maybe the Fido and bloss and I can't remember the
Speaker 2: third guy now Wagoner. Yeah, maybe that will turn out
Speaker 2: to be nothing, but you know it was, you know,
Speaker 2: two months of usay Ki for three pretty well regarded
Speaker 2: young players. Obviously been a disappointed season for the Blue Jays,
Speaker 2: but I thought that was pretty pretty clearly the what
Speaker 2: what they're doing in Houston deal of the deadline, Like
Speaker 2: we don't get many of those trades anymore where you're
Speaker 2: just like one side, like what on earth is happening?
Speaker 2: You know, the glass now trade, glass trade where everyone's
Speaker 2: like Pittsburgh, you are off on one, and they were right.
Speaker 2: But yeah, I think Oblige did a great job there,
Speaker 2: and honestly, I kind of liked, you know, the Pirates
Speaker 2: didn't do anything exciting because it's the Pirates, but I
Speaker 2: think they added some interesting pieces. I know John was
Speaker 2: pretty high on Nick York when the Red Sox traded
Speaker 2: him away and thinks he's made aners this year. They
Speaker 2: obviously need some help at the second base there. Having
Speaker 2: kind of Fleffer is just a good utility piece to
Speaker 2: have around. So yeah, it was, you know, not super exciting,
Speaker 2: but I think they you know, upgraded Brandon a Cruz
Speaker 2: as well. A lineup that is not very exciting so
Speaker 2: that the bar was low for improving, but I think
Speaker 2: they didn't enough. And they're obviously still well in it
Speaker 2: in the n L Central right now, so anything can happen.
Speaker 1: Like Cocuchie trade did feel weird, Like you said, it
Speaker 1: felt like we'd gotten past the point where Rental's got
Speaker 1: that kind of a hallback. And I would usually consider
Speaker 1: the Astros one of Baseball's smarter teams, and he's not
Speaker 1: even been very good this season. And I know Cokuchie's solid,
Speaker 1: he's a regular, he's a left he maybe that adds
Speaker 1: a bit to his value, but as someone he doesn't
Speaker 1: necessarily know that the value of the prospect that the
Speaker 1: body has got baptically well. I was still somewhat shocked
Speaker 1: to see quite the hall that that Toronto was able
Speaker 1: to get back for him. So that was that was
Speaker 1: a puzzling move. I guess we probably should mention the
Speaker 1: Red Sox in some way or John will get upset
Speaker 1: with us. But they made a ton of sort of
Speaker 1: small moves that York trade I thought was interesting, kind
Speaker 1: of almost a challenge trade, I suppose, in terms of
Speaker 1: swapping former first round is right and giving them both
Speaker 1: a change of scenery and a new place to the player.
Speaker 1: I quite like that for both teams. James Paxson made
Speaker 1: his way back to the Red Sox, which is a
Speaker 1: nice story if nothing else. And then I think there
Speaker 1: are a few other sort of additions around around the
Speaker 1: edges that they made, Lucas Simms and some extra relievers,
Speaker 1: but any thing that moves the needle few significantly from
Speaker 1: the Red Sox rob As a team in the same
Speaker 1: division as them, or are they still who we thought
Speaker 1: they were?
Speaker 3: Fiddling around the edges, I don't think makes much of
Speaker 3: a difference whatsoever. I think it's all for the for
Speaker 3: the documentary. They needed a bit of bit of guys
Speaker 3: in Guy Now, So there you go. For the cameras,
Speaker 3: that's what that was for. But a makes a little difference.
Speaker 3: They are as the Rays are a middling team who
Speaker 3: may struggle into a playoff or majors disappeared down down
Speaker 3: the run. But nothing major happened with those trades.
Speaker 1: Even considered the Netflix element. You're so right, they've obviously
Speaker 1: been told that we need something interesting to put in.
Speaker 1: It's the middle of the season, nothing's happening. Can you
Speaker 1: make a few trades that we can you know, do
Speaker 1: the behind the scenes of in sticking a documentary and
Speaker 1: pretend that you know, this is some huge deal when
Speaker 1: this this, this, this show comes out. That seems to
Speaker 1: explain it all the way, doesn't it, Darius.
Speaker 2: I mean, I can't wait to see the segment on
Speaker 2: the Reese Maguire over this. Oh my god, my goodness.
Speaker 2: I don't know that we can talk about it on
Speaker 2: this productually. We'd have to sell out the explicit tag
Speaker 2: on it. Need to bleep out Google Google, Reece Maguire
Speaker 2: Rockies and have a good time because it was very
Speaker 2: interesting story. And then he probably got DFA once they
Speaker 2: traded for Den Janson, So from isn't it.
Speaker 1: But that was probably the best night the Rockies have
Speaker 1: had in the last five years of the franchise existing.
Speaker 1: I think they scored twenty runs and dished out one
Speaker 1: of the best insults, slash sledging, whatever you want to
Speaker 1: call it of the season. So I'm counting that as
Speaker 1: the biggest winner of the year for the Rockies that
Speaker 1: will not be bested. So yeah, do such that one
Speaker 1: out if you if you haven't seen it already. Well,
Speaker 1: I think that's just the biggest edition.
Speaker 2: It's going to be getting drist and casts back from
Speaker 2: the IL obviously.
Speaker 1: So oh of course, yeah, most interesting man in baseball.
Speaker 1: Bord of the stick just hit already. That won't really
Speaker 1: popular with John anyway. I think we've probably covered most
Speaker 1: of the big ones. Anything that I'm missing, Rob, you
Speaker 1: mentioned we need to mention GB bloke to Brewers. I
Speaker 1: don't even know what you're referring to you there, but
Speaker 1: is there something that we should mention as far as
Speaker 1: GB Bloke's concerned.
Speaker 3: Heb bloke Jack Steppings, he's a hope saying that right,
Speaker 3: Jack Steppings, he's a pitcher of her team GB. He's
Speaker 3: been on that roster there and he's just signed an
Speaker 3: undrafted free agent deal with the Brewers, which it is
Speaker 3: great to see another GB guy h in a in
Speaker 3: a big league system. So yeah, fingers crossed the shoots
Speaker 3: through that that organization and we see him in the
Speaker 3: big leagues one day. But it's a it's always good
Speaker 3: seeing another guy moving through there. So yes, absolutely, Jack
Speaker 3: Seppings to the Brewers.
Speaker 1: Very good work keeping her eye out on the on
Speaker 1: the wave of a wife for that one. That one
Speaker 1: parking by completely. Yeah, good luck to Jack at Milwaukee well,
Speaker 1: if there's nothing else to add trade wise, then then
Speaker 1: we'll leave it there. I think we're planning to be
Speaker 1: back again with more of a sort of baseball ley
Speaker 1: chat next week. We've obviously slacked a little bit on
Speaker 1: our pods lately, and we didn't do our usual trade
Speaker 1: deadline live stream live reaction piece this year, which we
Speaker 1: apologize for. There obviously wasn't a ton that ended up
Speaker 1: happening from a rob doesn't and we know Darius goes
Speaker 1: to bed at half past eight anyway, so he would
Speaker 1: have been useless as it stands.
Speaker 2: But I think it has been earlier because I've definitely
Speaker 2: usually is the reaction. But yeah, this year it was
Speaker 2: like we're staying on TI eleven thirty was hard fast,
Speaker 2: hard fast.
Speaker 1: I'm out the Olympics have done by then. But yes,
Speaker 1: we will be back with more normal baseball chat hopefully
Speaker 1: next week. We apologize to not covering the deadline live,
Speaker 1: but maybe we'll be back next year. I know Ross
Speaker 1: was keen to do it. Happy birthday to us, by
Speaker 1: the way, the reason he's not joining us tonight is
Speaker 1: because he's celebrating being I don't know, twenty five of
Speaker 1: something fifty somewhere in the middle. So yeah, do join
Speaker 1: us again next week when we come back. There is,
Speaker 1: of course, as usual, some really great content going up
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Speaker 1: trade deadline. Pieces form from fans on reactions to how
Speaker 1: their team went and what it felt like. We've got
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