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Baseball Analyst 1
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Baseball Analyst 2
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Baseball Analyst 2
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Baseball Analyst 2
Hello and welcome to Wake and Jake. We're going to post game Winter Meetings. See what we missed. I mean on Wake and Jake. We haven't talked since Kyle Tucker is now a Cub. I need to think about that a little more. Devin Williams is a New York Yankee. I've thought about that a lot. The other odds and ends that kind of didn't get closed at winter meetings like Alex Bregman seemed like he was going to sign Christian Walker tho those felt like they were in the winter meetings timeline and now they're in the the post winter meetings abyss. Are you trying to get a deal done before Christmas? Are things going to start to leak? I mean the, the norm, the number Corbin Burns has to want should be above Max Freed and who's going to get there? Uh, so we'll talk about all of that. What remains, what's coming next? Um, I just having a good Monday over here. When I say good Monday I mean that in the bad way. Uh, we had tech monster going on. Went out for lunch and it was like lightly raining. It's like I'll be fine. And then it really started raining and that wasn't as fine. Uh, ordered my lunch from the wrong location. That was a tough break. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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Baseball Analyst 1
That hurts.
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Baseball Analyst 2
So we're in it but we're here Watch a lot of football too. So we'll wrap up with that but let's get into ball talk. We'll call it coming out of the winter meetings they I think it was a standard winter meetings like the signings and trades began we had some good movement.
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Baseball Analyst 1
Felt a little extra juicy because last year was famously. Wow. Nothing happened. Winner meetings.
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Baseball Analyst 2
Yeah I guess I didn't appreciate that because I was, I was down in Mexico and we got the Juan Soto news so that's all I wanted. Selfish and now he's dead to me. Okay. Kyle Tucker is the best Chicago Cub since Fill in the blank. Javi Baez had back to back six war seasons in 1819 I believe but otherwise you're looking at brizzo and like their best season.
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Baseball Analyst 1
Yeah, I guess Bryant's MVP year.
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Baseball Analyst 2
You're not gonna beat that one. This is Kyle Tucker one of the Rizzo years since there but yeah, Kyle Tucker comes in, gives the Cubs a lot of outfield. Ian Hap Gold Glover friend texted him over the weekend cause he played a golf course. I wanna play. He said it was hard, there was a lot of wind. Kind of the end of the combo. It was a choppy one. I was hoping it was going to be a little looser. We'll work on it. It's the off Season, you know, holiday grind.
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Baseball Analyst 1
Everyone's out of rhythm, right?
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Baseball Analyst 2
Yeah, you know, so I maybe I'm going to follow back up on that today. Cody Bellinger, will he be there say a Suzuki. He was rumored to be in trade talks. He's survives our guy Pete Crow. Armstrong is still on that team. So the Cubs have a lot of outfield depth that we will see what their next move is. The rumor is they want to dump belly somewhere. New York Yankees may be interested. We'll see who else would be interested. Right now their lineup lists out as Hap. Good. Kyle Tucker, very good. Seiya Suzuki, sure his numbers ended up in a really good place last year.
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Baseball Analyst 1
Yeah.
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Baseball Analyst 2
482 slug.362 on base, 21 homers, 16 steals. Everyone does a little bit of something on these Cubbies. You slide Dansby down the lineup. Michael Bush coming off his 21 homer campaign and then Nico Horner still involved in the team and we'll see is he going to survive this off season. People thought Matt Shaw was going to take over his spot. Currently they have Matt Shaw listed as the Cubs starting third baseman. So the Cubs have outfield depth. They'll need to turn that into some some more infield their rotation and they signed Carson Kelly. So okay, there's 81 games showed Emanaga Steele, Jameson Tyone, Matthew Boyd and Javier Assad. So they can have work to do on the pitching staff if they roll in with that pitching. It is what it is. They had to move one of their depth pieces to go get Kyle Tucker along with trading the other prospect, Cam Smith. Trev was in on Cam Smith kind of randomly. Sure played like very few minor league games, but why not Hayden Wisneski, former Yankee farmhand he was the depth I was talking about. He had a good ERA in limited action last year and trading a picture to Houston still has a scary I on Houston's end.
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Baseball Analyst 1
I think they're very excited to get Wisneski as essentially a throw in in the trade.
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Baseball Analyst 2
I think that slider slides and then Isak Paredes who they traded for from the Rays. Isak broke out with them after kind of being a bust with the Tigers. ISOC turns on the ball. One of the funnier spray charts you'll look at if you go check out baseball savant. Should play well with the Crawford boxes and we'll see what they do. Could they keep him at third? Could they move him at first, bring back Bregman trade or add someone else? Houston's just joining the party. They currently have Lost Kyle Tucker and Alex Bregman coming off an 88 win season. Like I Houston's Houston and they still won the west last year and they deserve an extra level of respect. But Houston needs to go to work and I do expect them to go to work because their outfield is empty right now. No offense to Chaz McCormick, Jake Myers and I think they were listing our guy, Taylor Trammel.
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Baseball Analyst 1
I was just about to say seems like at least one infielder, one outfielder coming in.
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Baseball Analyst 2
Mauricio. Mauricio Dubon still on the team and will play a lot and make great plays. But yeah, they're, they're very interesting because they can go a lot of ways with this still. I kind of like Santander for Houston. Kind of short down both lines. You can hide them in left field if you need to. Like Bregman could come back. The Astros, they have pitching right now. Their rotations listed as Framber, Hunter Brown, Ronel Blanco, Spencer, the Luis Garcia. And then like I said, yeah, they got Wisneski in the trade at some point. Lance McCullers Jr. I would expect him to be playing baseball again. I don't know when that is. And they still have hater Abraham Presley on the back end with Taylor Scott who broke out last year. Uh, let's see, let's see. Cause there was, there were some Framber trade rumors. Does Houston operate differently? They don't give out long contracts. Let's see how the rest of their off season goes. I would say let's see where the rest of the pieces fall before we, we see what happens with them. But they have a lot of opportunity. They can go lefty or righty with it. They, they've got options. Whatever falls to them, they can go with the Cubbies. It's a little bit of the same, but the, the talent took a leap with Kyle Tucker. Like it. It's kind of my theory with bullpens. When you add a good guy in the ninth or eighth inning, it takes a little bit of pressure off everyone. And your guy pitching in the eighth inning is pitching in the seventh. And it just the, the ripple effect you can feel. And I think in this lineup Kyle Tucker will be expected to be the man he had the second. What would have been the second most homers on the Cubs last year, but he did that in 339 plate appearances. Happer 657 plate appearances for those 25 home runs. That's nice. No qualms. Gold glove check on it.
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Baseball Analyst 1
That outfield defense is gonna be Crazy.
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Baseball Analyst 2
Do I send him the. I don't know. It was clunky yesterday. Let's see. We'll text. All right, you know what? I'll reveal it. I'll reveal the people. I texted him Friday night a little later than I should have, but I wanted to inquire about the golf and it was like on his story, so I went for it. I started off the convo with Kyle Tucker, period. Nice. He said, very good for the Cubbies. I said, I want to know how the golf was. But I. I also didn't. I said, I also realize it's getting late. The next morning he texted me, dude, that place is special. I set another course record for you. He said, I wish that wind is tough. So I didn't respond to that. So do I.
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Baseball Analyst 1
Cool.
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Baseball Analyst 2
I don't. Yeah, that's. I don't know. I'm just going to leave it. Interested to see what feels like a pivotal off season for the Cubbies. What more did they have in the tank? Can it all come via trade? Like if they do the Bellinger trade, right, if they get Nico Horner involved in it, it feels like they can get to a strong place. You'd. I really would love if they got another starting pitcher you could look at and even of the Nate of all deal who he signed back with the Texas Rangers. 25 mil a year for three years. Keep twirling it Nate. But someone else you could look at and be like, do I big game postseason start. Do I want that? Like, no. No. Shots fired at Jameson Tyone, our friend and he's in the gaming world now. I think we had him streaming over the weekend. Look where J. Mo's numbers landed last year. 3, 2 7.
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Baseball Analyst 1
Okay. 65.
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Baseball Analyst 2
Yeah. Not a ton of strikeouts, not a lot of punches. But I Jamo throws some funk up there. I really enjoyed him as a Yankee more than his stats would tell you. If they could bring in one more high leverage starter trading out of their depth, I would really like that for the Cubbies and I don't know. The NL Central continues to be an exercise because the Cardinals, we were told by Katie Wu are doing nothing if maybe unloading Pirates we're looking for hitting. They're rumored to be listening on Jared Jones. I don't. I don't know Pirates do something. The brewers are just the class even while they're trading people away and they lose Willie Adamus and free agency they train away Devin Williams. They continue to find a way to persevere that these. These Cubs, if they make the next trade properly, it should be go time for the Cubs and I'll, I'll believe it if I like the pieces back. Because Kyle Tucker, there's a lot of different ways you could chop up his stats but I, I think he's got the fifth most war of outfit since he's gotten run and it's like Judge Mookie. I think Jordan counted. So Kyle Tucker is an absolute stud. If you're listening to this program, you already know that and you just subscribe to the channel. Thank you. That this was a big move for the Cubs. I've, I've called them out about not putting the chips on the table. Kyle Tucker for one year, see if the Cubs will roll out the wallet after that. But Kyle Tucker for one year, an impact piece in the NL Central.
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Baseball Analyst 1
Yeah, I mean we, I think coming into this off season for the Cubs would have said like hey, there's no specific spot that this has to come from but they kinda need a new best player. And I don't think it's unfair to say Kyle Tucker is that.
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Baseball Analyst 2
Oh yeah, I mean defensively, offensively and yeah, it gives them just a little bit more threat and identity that I think those Cubs were missing. So let's see the next move on both sides of those. I think both those sides are going to get the hype train going the rest of this off season. The other big one that happened while you were sleeping was Devin Williams to the Yankees. Sure. The Yankees get their closer in Devin Williams another one year deal. We did have to send out a couple of sweet princes. Nestor Cortez, who won over Yankee fans hearts in a unique way with his pitching style, his general look and demeanor. Kind of as fun as it gets on a baseball field. So that'll be missed. But he was kind of up and down this year. The season stats landed in a very solid spot and that's kind of what this trade turned into. The Milwaukee brewers ran out of starting pitchers last year. They add nester, Devin Williams goes out, the money's similar. I think they even get some money in the deal and the brewers have a plan for 162. It's we're going to play a ton of defense and we're going to pitch a lot and our bullpen is going to be nasty with or without Devin Williams and it will be because they've figured that part out and it's a huge advantage for them. So to be paying Devin Williams on the back end knowing you're probably going to lose him as a free Agent Devin Williams missed a chunk of last year. He only threw 21.2 innings that they have. The other McGill brother over there saved 21 games for them. And they will fill out that bullpen like they do every year, their rotation. I mean you have to have a little bit of beer goggles on. It's like a, it's a hot beer goggles rotation. Like Freddie Peralta, you're like, oh yeah, I, I like that Brandon Woodruff bouncing back. Let's see what he looks like. But you know Brandon Woodruff at his peak, he was, he was killing it. Aaron Savale, they traded for him at the deadline. He pitched really, really well for them. Tobias Myers was their breakout guy last year. 25 starts, a three flat ERA and Nestor Cortez 174 innings of 377. So it's five guys who have all done it at a high level at different points in the major league season. I don't predict all five of them doing it, but you could say that three are. And again, that would be a big step up for Milwaukee, where the rotation landed by the end of last season. And so not only that is Devin Williams for Nestor Cortez on paper, war wise and how the innings were will sort out. It's a discussion. I mean you'd want Devin Williams, he has an argument to be one of the best closers in the game for Nestor, who you're on his good season. He's going to be a three on.
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Baseball Analyst 1
A, you know, very competitive team.
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Baseball Analyst 2
Yes. Like on a good team.
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Baseball Analyst 1
Yeah.
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Baseball Analyst 2
On a playoff start. On a good team when he's at his best. Nestor's a dog, you know, and almost, I don't want to say worst case, but as like a 5 starter or even swing if you need to. And I think the other thing that's interesting for Nestor, he's going from one of the worst defensive teams in the league to one of the best defensive teams in the league. So that should help out Nestor. Don't be surprised if he becomes a fan favorite in Milwaukee. That, yeah, the beer goggles on that rotation. Okay, Milwaukee. And then they get prospect Caleb Durbin, who would become a fun joke in talking yanks land listed 5, 6, but he's supposedly everything brewers. He plays great defense in multiple positions. The rumor is he's going to get a shot at third, the third base position. Even though he plays pretty much every infield outfield like every brewers player. He steals bases like every brewers player and he has great swing discipline like every brewers player. So he's going to fit in perfectly there. And Yankees fans, whether it's fair or not, a prospect like Caleb Durbin, Yankee fans don't believe in them panning that guy out. And it's, it's a pretty simple mix. Like he's not going to get the opportunity or the leash that probably a young player needs to be successful. Like Bryce Terrang with the brewers is a fantastic example. Bryce Terrang's first season was atrocious and like the Yankees, don't let that happen. Let's get some of the numbers because the people like that Bryce Terrang 137 games his rookie year.218 batting average a.285 on base, a.300 slug,585 OPS. This is over 400 at bats. Like they let Bryce Terrang out there and Bryce Terrang took his lumps the next year. It does suck for Bryce that the numbers came back down earth, but he had almost a five war season because his speed and defense is that valuable. 50 stolen bases from Bryce Terrang in 85 OPS plus and he won the Gold Glove. So that's, that's what the brewers can do that the Yankees don't allow themselves to do. Whether that's good or bad, I don't know. Probably bad that Caleb Durbin has a much better chance of success with the Milwaukee brewers than he did the New York Yankees. And again, maybe that's the Yankees philosophical problem. Maybe that's one of the slight curses of the Yankees being able to sign whatever free agents they want and constantly putting a contender out there. But that's why it was a win for Milwaukee. They get their starting pitching innings next year. They don't have to pay 19mil for a guy in the free agent pool. They get a prospect that could play for them for the next half decade. And the Yankees, the Yankees get a closer. Captain America, he was Team USA's closer. He'll slot in, assumed he'll slot in behind Luke Weaver because Luke Weaver was a great breakout player for the Yankee Yankees last year. But he can pitch multiple innings. The Yankees have had that guy in their bullpen now the past couple years between Jonathan Louisaga who just resigned with the Yankees, Chad Green, Michael King you now see is the number two for your San Diego Padres that I think the Yankees value having that multi inning swing guy. So if the bullpen, if the rest of the guys in the bullpen are down, if you can get 2 out of that guy or 2.1 and reset the whole pen, that's huge. But man, if Luke Weaver looks like he did last year which there were clear changes starter going to the bullpen. He changed his motion. It felt like he. You haven't seen a lot of guys want the role more than Luke Weaver. Him and Devin Williams. 7, 8, 9 is as locked down as the Yankees have had in a while because even when it was Chapman with more of his powers and Zach Britton, there was something. Chapman was wild and Zach Britton was contact that it was like it almost fell out of your control, out of your hands most of the time. This will work, right? This is, this is going to be good. These guys are like. I want to say legendary. Chapman is Britain has legendary season. Yeah. But it was like, okay, Zach Britton. There's going to be two balls in play. These first two hitters. If they get through, we're in trouble. If not, we're fine. And Chapman. It was just. When. When are the strikes going to come that Devin Williams and Luke Weaver should have the ability to shorten the games. The Yankees trade from their pitching depth with Nestor to lock up and we'll see if they add anything in the bullpen. But the Yanks are going to pitch Garrett Cole, Max Freed, Rodan, Luis heel. And then you still got Stroman or Schmidt there. Man, if Jonathan Lewis can come back and look good. And I'm. I'm nervous. I've been hurt by Johnny Laza one too many times. I had him in the Michael King. Wait, this guy throws three pitches. Let's. Let's bring him back to being a starter. But the injury history is just pretty intense at this point.
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Baseball Analyst 1
Big injury history. But his, his nasty is as good as anybody's and I, I think there were teams interested in trying him out like that. I think a lot of them would have settled on man. The injuries probably stick in the panel but that doesn't stop some of these teams. So I don't know. I'm trying to figure out what makes a team like certain guys for move back to the rotation because like Clay doesn't fit that description. But the Mets are planning to do that. I don't know.
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Baseball Analyst 2
The Clay stuff is interesting and I, I don't. I don't know how much we got of that on. On this program yet. But yeah, I mean it's tough because he has a go to pitch. He is a sinker that he throws 50% of the time. That's a pitch that gets put in play and pitch that can get a lot of outs. But Clay secondary stuff always Felt like just filler for the sinker. He threw a sweeper and a slider. So you know, there's some very pitch variety there, but nothing going away from the lefties outside of the sinker. So I'm super interested to see what the Mets do. And like we said, the contract at 3 for 28, like that's less than Jordan Hicks got. So if he just ends up being a reliever, the setup guy for Edwin Diaz, that's still an okay number. Like what's Tanner Scott about to get? And I can't, I can't guarantee you Tanner Scott will be better than Clay. I know he's showing the strikeout stuff and he's left handed, but I mean, Clay's had a decent, a good track record the past couple years. And part of our biggest complaint about Clay, besides them not taking him out of the closer spot, was that the defense the Yankees had didn't help Clay. Um, and we saw that magnified on the biggest stage that all parties should have been slightly offended. Um, and I think they now are. So those were the two biggies since we last spoke. Yankees still need a lot of work to do in the lineup. Probably one free agent, one trade maybe and one more other, whether whatever that means to you or them. Who's on the other side? Milwaukee. I mean, well, it's all.
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Baseball Analyst 1
It all screams brewers move.
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Baseball Analyst 2
They'll sign someone and we'll shrug. Or they'll, they'll trade Reese Hoskins to Houston and then they'll sign Christian Walker and he'll be amazing. It's brew cruel ball. They get to do blind trust. Yeah, they line trust and they deserve it. So for the rest of these upcoming moves, outside of winter meeting, I'm interested to see how they trickle in. We still have game changing free agents out there. Corin Burns, the number one pitcher, believed number one pitcher on the market. Whether it's Baltimore, whether it's the Mets trying to send a message, whether it's, you know, I think the Texas Rangers had a crazy number out there for Max Freed. Washington Nationals looking to make their splash and get in the mix. We will see there will be a Corbin Burns market. I don't see it getting into the ugly. Is free agent or spring training sneaking up on us? I hope not for Corbin Burns because there's no need for that with his resume. I know there's some numbers about his strikeout rate has gone down and a couple other numbers, but a team's gonna go get him. Alex Bregman. Surprised he's Still a free agent. The. The. Willie Adamus, number seven for 182. These are two guys that were supposed to have similar free agencies. Fangrass projected him to get 2 million more for year. I was a little thrown off by that just because I thought Willie. Willie being younger and the ability to play shortstop, I thought that was going to allow him to cash in a little more. And he did with the San Francisco Giants. I guess for Bregman, it seemed like there was a perfect storm. It seemed like we were about to get the tweet at winter meetings. Like Heyman morose, all these guys. The Yankees are interested, the Red Sox are interested. Houston had the offer out there. Like, originally, Bregman was supposed to be the Mets guy. Bregman was going to be like the part of the change in Queens. Bregman is still out there. And all those teams I mentioned are the teams you want interested in you. So let's see the next steps there. Pete Alonzo. Same, same, but different. But we. The rumors haven't gotten there yet. It seemed like there's three or four teams out there that have Pete Alonzo as their plan C and they haven't gotten there yet. Again, Washington Nationals, who we don't know if they're going to get in the mix. But look at that lineup. They're missing a little bit of pop and their young guys are ready to go or do like the Mets. Like, are we just overthinking it? And the Mets are like, hey, we got Soto. Like, bring back Pete and let's break.
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Baseball Analyst 1
I was sort of surprised. I was listening to John. John Heyman and Joel Sherman, and they both agreed emphatically. They're like, well, signing Soto makes it much more likely they keep Pete. I was like, all right. I believe that I had been thinking is a situation of like, you know, Yankees, Houston. There's a few of those teams out there that are like, if his market comes down and he's ends up in a spot where he's taken like the belly structure of a deal, if he's willing to do that, Mets probably just give him that same deal and he would go back. Oh, that's where I keep landing on it. But who knows how negotiations go and feelings happen and all of that.
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Baseball Analyst 2
Yeah, and I guess I'm not gonna bail from the Pete boat yet. I think some team is gonna pay for those homers. Cause every team wants to hit homers, and Pete hits homers. That's what he does.
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Baseball Analyst 1
He'll give you those homers.
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Baseball Analyst 2
He hits Homers Hey Oscar's still out there I'm starting to in my head that felt like easy LA wondering where his market is at cause again a couple of those teams that keep coming up Houston, Boston especially with those short left fields like Tasker doesn't have the most range arms pretty good that those those would be nice those are nice hitting environments for TE Oscar and limiting his defensive I don't say liability but it's not a strength in Houston and Boston Boston really needs a right handed hitter and that's what this guy does. Houston has a couple ways they can go in the outfield that he is going to have a big market I believe Santander is too I think the switch hitting is so underrated he hit so many home runs last year and I don't think I think people are scared of the on base percentage that it's probably not going to be a longer contract that why wouldn't you you know if he's going to land at Those if it's four years he's probably not getting 100 million Juan Soto got 800 obviously different players whole different story but Santander can still change alignment back into the pitching mania Flaherty both have a lot of upside mania breaking out in his age 32 season Jack Flaherty bouncing back his age 28 season expect both of those guys I think the mania market is hot I want to be surprised if he's one of the next free agents to go down Seems like every team has a spot for Sean Maniah and then the other one that I can't believe hasn't happened yet is Christian Walker that was another one the winter meeting smoked seemed very clearly.
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Baseball Analyst 1
There it got very hot in the streets for that one night so yeah.
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Baseball Analyst 2
You I I don't know if that's rumor mill I wonder if our team starting to get cold feet about the age because I've been having cold feet about the age like does Alonzo have to happen first like it was kind of a great debate like Christian Walker everyone was kind of conceding he was the plan A at first base which offensively and defensively for one year I think people agree three but like I, I wonder did these contracts skew his market? Is he looking for a fourth year Because I'm, I'm scared to give the guy three and I know that's rude but it's just being honest I, I've seen too many guys fall off and.
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Baseball Analyst 1
And like seeing you know everywhere you look that does any sort of contract projection every single One of them has 3 in the 60 to 66 ish range. And usually when everywhere agrees that it's 3, whichever team gets goes to 4 is who gets them. So I, I have no idea where that's gonna land. I'm guessing when the market got hot on him for, for a night, I think other teams were like, oh, you're ready to negotiate and right. Hops back in the mix. And then they created a little bidding war and some more teams dropped and, and some jump back in excite, excited to hear whenever it does happen for him.
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Baseball Analyst 2
But Paulie Goldschmidt, an emergency option, forever loses out on Walker and Pete, my guy Glabor's out there. There's then the depth pitching who. These guys are all gonna get paid. Paid. Pavetta, Walker, Bueller. I think the market is out there. We'll see if Charlie Martin does whatever he wants to do. Hasan, Kim, I can't tell if a smart team or a dumb team is going to sign jerks and Profar. I have no clue. You could talk yourself into both sides. Like did a breakout happen at age 30? Because across the board, his numbers look good, his savant looks good, the defense leaves you lacking a little bit. Again, a lot of the same teams I've been mentioning, Boston and Houston, I think those are two teams to keep an eye on the rest of the way. One of the Braves, they signed Brian De La Cruz. We don't know the number on it yet. He currently slots in to be their right fielder, which. Okay, I don't know. I don't know what that does for the Braves. Maybe they've got something to tap into. But I wanna, I mean, they just lost Max Reed. Like the Braves are gonna be back next year. Ronald Acuna, Strider, maybe later in the year, like the. The Braves can't be done. But I don't know. Philly's been awfully quiet.
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Baseball Analyst 1
Yeah, there's been very little there.
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Baseball Analyst 2
They signed Jordan Romano.
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Baseball Analyst 1
Yeah.
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Baseball Analyst 2
Who. You know, we've seen him be an impact reliever. I think between him, Strom Kirkering, Alvarado, that would be your. If he's healthy and looks like himself, that would be their closer. So that could be significant. But again, this was supposed to be a potential AL trade. This was potential Alec Bregman signing spot. Luis Robert has been rumored there for two years. Now that our the fighting Phils need to get in the mix of all this. Nobody knows what the Padres doing. Supposedly Dylan Cease would be available. I guess that's what I'm interested To find out we talked ourselves into an exciting trade market. Tampa Yandian Low. Will Toronto move someone like Boba Shet? Texas is up to something. They added Jake Berger for Schlitz and Giggles.
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Baseball Analyst 1
Seems like they want at least one more bat in and which I'll tell you what they could use a bat going out to do.
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You look at their lineup and they can be. They're more than comfy. Their bench right now is Zeke Duran, Josh Smith and Leoti Tavares. Which that's like a dream bench.
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Baseball Analyst 1
The. The one I heard for them is that they're. They'd be a good jock team.
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Baseball Analyst 2
Jock dh. And then I get it'd be.
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Baseball Analyst 1
It'd be figuring out what the Nate Low trade is. Your first baseman. He's their piece that's easiest to trade that you could like get the most from. Two years left.
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Baseball Analyst 2
If the Yankees could do that one, I'd like it that. Yeah. Texas is up to something. They were supposedly in on max free to the end. So are the Red Sox before they got crochet the last time we spoke with you. Yeah, I don't know what they've got. And then will Seattle actually trade one of the pitchers? Will, how desperate is Minnesota to dump money? Does Kansas City have a deeper pocket than we like to think? And they can add a like Pete or Santander or someone that was. That was someone they're rumored to but doesn't like fit their organization. The sleeping Detroit Tigers. I think they can sleep Alex Cobb. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. And the team everyone's talking about, the Athletics, Sevy and Jeffrey Springs.
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Baseball Analyst 1
They're at least adding some amount more money.
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Baseball Analyst 2
Jolly likes them. It's a young prospect team. It's a video game team. If you like prospects. If you don't.
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Baseball Analyst 1
They're nice like blank canvas team.
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Baseball Analyst 2
My snakes have been awfully quiet. Erod Monty. Can they move off one of those? They need to replace Jock Peterson.
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Baseball Analyst 1
And Christian Walker.
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And Christian Walker.
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Baseball Analyst 1
And they get back in the mix for either of them.
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Baseball Analyst 2
You're removed from the World Series. So interested to see the next step. I don't know if the trade market is going to continue to pick up steam like we've seen. Is it just going to be a trickle the rest of the way? We will find out together. And if there's a big one to break with you guys, let's all do it together.
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Baseball Analyst 2
Let'S talk a little foosball because I watched like whole day soup to nuts forwards and backwards because why not? I also have an announcement to make. Went to the Yukon game Saturday night. Yukon and zag at the Garden. That place with UConn was worth 10 to 15 points. That place was going nuts. I was making some jokes that were getting my buddies just because they I walked up to the game or I got off the train and this is 5:30, this is an 8:00pm game. You know, the fellas were, we're gonna have, we're gonna grab one drink and then we're gonna get head in because our, our tickets supposedly had food. So okay, might as well do that. And we're getting old. So you get one, you get away from the crowd. I got my buddies. I said I knew Yukon won. I got off the train. There was some dads. We all have the dad image in our head wearing those, you know, those fake Nike dad shoes and all that. They all had on their old Connecticut gear, you know, like sick swaggy jackets if you're in college that dads were wearing. And then one dad was wearing like full under armour like neck and they were just looking at buildings. Like not specific New York City buildings, but just any building that was a building and that's a sign that the good people of the state of Connecticut were out in the city and they were ready to take this game and they did. The crowd was nuts. I when anyone, anyone ever asked my favorite sporting event to go to, well, I say the home run derby is fun. But my favorite one, I've been to Yukon, Michigan State, Madison Square Garden, Elite 8 game, Draymond on Michigan State, Yukon wins. But I was like, it was the perfect balance. It was like, it was like 70, 30 Yukon to Michigan State. So when Michigan State would go on a rally, like the crowd would still pop. It was probably 80, 20 buck Gonzaga. They still had enough pop to them but they were just in the wrong place at the wrong night. I highly recommend even if you're not a Yukon fan, that fan base really brings it. I'm not saying I said things to Gonzaga fans I regret. I did ask a few of them why you even bothered to come. Knew what was going to happen here today. You know, thought about throwing out. You guys are a team teemu Yukon but just don't need that in the stands. So that was Saturday night. That was a blast. Go Huskies. They're back. You could sprinkle a little on them for the title. I haven't yet. I need to see a little more completely different team. And they had the two best players in college basketball last year. The football weekend the niffle if you will start off Thursday. Barn burner 12 to 6. We got duped before the game. The reports were 60% chance of rain. The first half was a monsoon. Nobody could move the ball. It was a disaster. So they go in at halftime, things clear up. But it was still a slog type of game. 12 to 6 the Rams beat the 49ers as the 49ers sadness continues. The Rams 8 and 6 tied atop the division with Seattle who lost last night. God, that's an ugly box score. Looking back at it Niners man, my guy Debo. You know for the longtime waking Jakers a I always thank you. But you guys know I'd rave about Debo. The way he run, his style of play. He became my favorite player to watch in the NFL. There's a reason why those guys become your favorites because not a lot of guys can do that and it's not sustainable. Debo. Maybe he's hurt and I'd love to be wrong next year but man, it has been a fall from grace of sorts for my guy Debo. I do hope he bounces back, but it's not looking good. That leads us to Sunday. Chiefs Browns. Are the Chiefs going to slip up or is Jameis this Jameis Judy connection. Is it real? It wasn't the Browns. Jerome Ford try to carry them late after Chubb gets hurt again. Judy and James hooked up a lot. 11 catches, 108. But Chiefs pulled ahead in this one. 21 to 7 is your final. Mahomes gets banged up late. Let's see what it is. They're saying he could miss a week. He could not. People were laughing. This is the Chief's first non one score win. It's against Cleveland. It's in Cleveland. They still look okay, just not really losing. They'll be there come the end. Bangles, Titans. Not really ugly one early. One of my buddies in fantasy was getting ripped for starting the Bengals defense because they were getting lit up by Tennessee early, and then they should have had two scores. They had one of the first dropped balls while about to score a touchdown of the day through the end zone. So instead of six, you give the ball back. Jonathan Taylor, Broncos. No, I mean, Bangles put up a ton of points. Their defense is sus. Giving up 27 to Tennessee is still very bad. Chase Brown looks good. His stock going up for next year. Commanders almost blow it to the Saints. They go up 17 to nothing. In New Orleans, the Saints had sexy Jake Haydner running the show. His pictures were making the rounds on the Internet. Those were tough. I think he openly admitted those are tough and he regrets them. So, like, good for him. But Spencer Rattler comes in and the Saints get a little bit of juice, including a free play at the end that brings them down one point. They go for two because their season doesn't matter, and they. They don't get it. So Washington walks away with a win. Yeah. Sexy Jake Hayner. I don't know. I don't know. That's too sexy. That one is criminal. You can't have that for the YouTube. Golly. Camara made a 6. 6 catch in this game. Washington couldn't run the ball. Washington just got Lattimore back from the Saints and he's supposed to kind of change their past defense. I don't know. I'm. I don't want to say. Everyone. Football loves fraud. Watch. I don't think the Commanders are fraud. I just think they're a little above average. And they've won a couple close ones that have them at 9 and 5. But, you know, they came close to losing this one. They should have lost to the Giants. Like, it's. It's not pretty. Jaden bounced back and looked pretty good. They'll take a win on the road in the NFL. Ravens blow at the Giants. Just no Lamar for five touchdowns.
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Baseball Analyst 1
Giants fan wanting the tank. Spent too much of my week being nervous that they would just somehow win that game. And, yeah, thank you to the Ravens for quelling that quick.
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Baseball Analyst 2
Yeah. DeVito leaves.
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Baseball Analyst 1
It's fumbled. The third play of the game.
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Baseball Analyst 2
Yeah.
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Baseball Analyst 1
Then it was fine.
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Baseball Analyst 2
Yeah. Cowboys. Panthers. This was a fun one for sports gamblers. The Panthers favored the first time in 34 games. Cowboys came in and they were the better team. They went 30 to 14. Bryce Young with a step back game after he'd been chipping away and climbing the ladder up. Cowboys 6 and 8. Technically not eliminated, but they are. Jets beat the Jaguars. No, it was, it was ugly early on and I kind of told you guys this. I was like, if you need to miss the 1:00 because I mean, we had Mac Jones out there slinging it. Everyone for the Saints, the Giants, the Titans, the Browns. Yeah, it wasn't a murderer's row for a while. The kind of fun one. Texans, Dolphins. Texans end up winning 20 to 12. They improved to nine and five. Miami, they just. The over 500 team, under 500 team for them is insane. And it just continues to go on. And Tua, sometimes he looks absolutely brilliant and other times it's shockingly bad that they are. That franchise in general is just in a weird spot of what are they going to do? So the 1pm slate, if we're being honest, 4pm, couple big ones. One that wasn't the big one. Broncos Colts. Battle of the horses. The Colts are dominating. They're about to go up 20 to 7 with the Broncos offense looking ugly. And Jonathan Taylor, the second one of the day, scored what should have been a touchdown, almost sealing the game. I mean, not really, but close to the way the Broncos looked and said the ponies get the ball back and they just ran away with it. 31 to 13. Colts run a trick play pass back to Richardson that just gets intercepted. That if you're playing backyard football everyone would be really sad about this was in the pros. The fact that Colts lost this game 13 to 31 is disgusting all around. Hey, Broncos, it's the NFL. You're going to have ugly halves, you're going to have ugly quarters. It was an ugly first half for them. They bounced back and they had a strong second half and they're looking like a lock for the playoffs. So Bo wasn't pretty, but they found a connection late with him and Sutton. I'm watching, I'm watching. Broncos, let's persevere. The games that everyone wanted to watch, Eagle, Stillers, the Battle of Pennsylvania. In this one, you know, people were starting to get the, hey, you know, Sirianni. And these Eagles are starting drama. It's kind of the opposite of the Steelers, right? Like, Tomlin's the man, he controls everything. These are two different teams. I mean, the Steelers are an average team with a good coach. The Eagles are like a great team with maybe a good coach. And the thing I used to yell about the Eagles was get back to rushing the ball. I think they showed. In their last 13 games they've rushed the ball more than they've passed it leading up till yesterday there. They did technically call more pass plays, but they win 27 to 13. AJ Brown and Devontae Smith both with big games through the air. Jalen Hurts come to the mic. Is that what you wanted to see? The Eagles have their swag and I really don't know how you stop it because when they need a fourth down conversion, it's instant. When they need a third down conversion, it's instant. No team is built to stop them. Everyone's built to stop the pass that I Nothing's talked me off of the Eagles just yet. The other one Bill's Lions highly touted. Let's go Golf God in the guys Josh Allen Bills jump out to a 14 nothing start and that changes the game. Like the Lions fought back late and made it kind of close for a fun Jake Bates onside kick. But The Bills went 48 to 42 back to back weeks with 40 points for the Bills. Golf throws for four 94, five touchdowns, zero interceptions. First quarterback with that stat line to lose. Little sign of today's NFL. Amon Ra is a beast and can't be stopped. I love him, he's so fun. And the Bills, they just got this weird thing man where everyone's a weapon but nobody's the weapon. Ty Johnson had five catches for 114 out of the backfield. Keon Coleman one catch 64 yards. Dawn Kincaid four for 53 on his first one back. Shakir is a problem, only six for 39 but that guy has some shifty speed to him that I really like. James Cook, Dawson, Knox, Ray Davis that Josh Allen can just put it where he wants that. He threw for 362 two touchdowns. He also ran for 68 and two on the ground. James Cook getting seven and a half yards per rush, 100 yards on the ground. The Bills are nicey John Gruden those videos what the hell man I I gotta dolly what man? Patriots. Cardinals. Not really Cardinals. They beat the now 3 and 11 patriots. Kyler got banged up but James Connor running the ball well and Trey McBride's good. That's that's the update there Bucks a little bit of the LOL same. Bucky Irving 117 on the ground. Mike Evans 159 two touchdowns. It's unreal what he does regularly. They shut out the Chargers in the second half. The Bucks are going to the Bucks could upset on that first playoff weekend. They are one of the more fun teams in football to watch. And speaking of, if you're looking for a Super bowl hype team to sneak in and I mean, this isn't something that's going to surprise you, but what the packers did last night, talk about just a bunch of options that feel the same. We're going to punish with you with Josh Jacobs on the ground. Sure. Christian Watson and Romeo Dobbs. Okay. Whichever one's open, give them a chance and they there's a good chance they'll make the play. Dobbs has two scores in this game, one insane catch. Watson had a crazy sideline catch. And then Jaden Reese. Kind of the let's do everything. You might get a screen, you might get a handoff on Tavian Wicks. I feel like you could put him in a similar boat that they are. They love their targets. Tucker Kraft has earned some fantasy love this season. The packers are going. All their losses are to really good teams. Eagles, Vikings, Lions. I could put that in a good boat and a bad boat if I needed to. But they are good. They play a fun brand of football. Jordan loves. Really good. It's crazy that the packers get quarterbacks. Bears, sorry about you, but they play tonight against the Minnesota vikings. That's at 8pm and then Falcons Raiders at 8:30. Done getting hurt by the Falcons. And I don't know if the Vikings can do anything that'll make me actually believe in them, but they're another team that whole division, man. Lions, Vikings, packers and Bears. Oh my. So let's tune in tonight. Let's see if we get any breaking baseball news. Until then, we thank you. Make sure you're subscribed and you'll definitely hear from us Wednesday.
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Oh yeah.
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