John Becker

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602 appearances 7 recordings 1 series first heard May 2025 last heard 17 Aug

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Blue Jays Talk · JTP: How Sweep It Is + Hello to the Halos · 4 Jul 2025 podcast

His top priority is clearly moving up that all time leaderboard and saves.

Um so they they have some interesting guys.

I you know, they're would I expect them to trade Taylor Ward or

Do I, you know, expect any actual entertainment and trading Mike Trout beyond, you know, the sort of clickbait fodder that people always do?

No, not really, but I think that um they're in that sort of diamond back-y position, maybe not quite, but close to having some really interesting rentals that other teams would love to have.

Yeah, you know, I think the thing with them last year was they had literally the best bullpen since the nineteen fifties, and to expect that to sustain itself was

Just not it it wasn't something that was going to happen.

So it's not to say that this was predictable, but

You know, they traded away Josh Naylor, replaced him with Carlos Santana.

That's, you know, at best a lateral move, and Santana's been worse than Naylor's.

So a lot of what they've gone through this season has been somewhat expected.

I do think that, you know, could they call up their top prospect, Chase Delauder, and he hits immediately and they surge?

Sure.

But I think that they at minimum have to

Think about, you know, Chase Delauder cannot be our savior.

The AL Central is a pretty s solid division now.

And yeah, maybe doing that sort of soft sell reset, see if you can get Lane Thomas and Carlos Santana out the door and maybe, you know, give Kyle Manzardo more time against lefties, call Delauder up and see what he can do and retool for next year.

I I'm definitely not advocating for them to blow it up, but they have to.

take a step back and say, okay, what are our actual chances of making the playoffs?

And then there's also the secondary consideration of well

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