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Jon Morosi

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649 total appearances

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Blair & Barker
Brewers Scouting Report + Vancouver Wants an MLB Team

The success in having an entire country, multiple provinces, obviously, being a home market is incredibly beneficial from a business standpoint.

Blair & Barker
Brewers Scouting Report + Vancouver Wants an MLB Team

Now, certainly the Jays will have, I'm sure, their own thoughts about marketing-wise what that all looks like.

Blair & Barker
Brewers Scouting Report + Vancouver Wants an MLB Team

But you look at the map and you see where all the teams are.

Blair & Barker
Brewers Scouting Report + Vancouver Wants an MLB Team

Vancouver especially, there's no more NBA there.

Blair & Barker
Brewers Scouting Report + Vancouver Wants an MLB Team

There seems to be a lane and a spot to Vancouver being a major league city in a way that hasn't always been obvious in the past.

Blair & Barker
Brewers Scouting Report + Vancouver Wants an MLB Team

Yeah, the one point, Kevin, on that note, talking about more jobs and more high-end baseball players having a chance to play, we just saw Justin Turner sign with the Mexican League.

Blair & Barker
Brewers Scouting Report + Vancouver Wants an MLB Team

The Mexican Summer League, this is related to the point that you're making, the Mexican Summer League, if you talk to people around it who see that league often, they will tell you there are more high-end players who are of Major League caliber in that league now than ever before.

Blair & Barker
Brewers Scouting Report + Vancouver Wants an MLB Team

And what that says, and that is...

Blair & Barker
Brewers Scouting Report + Vancouver Wants an MLB Team

affiliated with Major League Baseball, but not directly.

Blair & Barker
Brewers Scouting Report + Vancouver Wants an MLB Team

And what that tells you in general is that the playing population of Major League Baseball, we see it as well in the World Baseball Classic, guys on different teams, whether it's Puerto Rico, Mexico, Venezuela, come

Blair & Barker
Brewers Scouting Report + Vancouver Wants an MLB Team

Coming in throwing 95 and 96.

Blair & Barker
Brewers Scouting Report + Vancouver Wants an MLB Team

You look at your roster.

Blair & Barker
Brewers Scouting Report + Vancouver Wants an MLB Team

Where does the guy play?

Blair & Barker
Brewers Scouting Report + Vancouver Wants an MLB Team

The answer is either AAA, Mexican League, in Asia.

Blair & Barker
Brewers Scouting Report + Vancouver Wants an MLB Team

You're saying to yourself, there are so many great players right now.

Blair & Barker
Brewers Scouting Report + Vancouver Wants an MLB Team

More than enough to fill out rosters.

Blair & Barker
Brewers Scouting Report + Vancouver Wants an MLB Team

The pitching is, I think, has always been the question of the past.

Blair & Barker
Brewers Scouting Report + Vancouver Wants an MLB Team

Kevin, you remember expansion happened around the time you were playing pro ball.

Blair & Barker
Brewers Scouting Report + Vancouver Wants an MLB Team

The question was always, is there enough pitching to sustain it?

Blair & Barker
Brewers Scouting Report + Vancouver Wants an MLB Team

The answer right now is a resounding yes.