Ross Atkins

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316 appearances 4 recordings 1 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 4 Aug

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You did not expect a team like the blue days to head into this trade deadline and move arguably their number one prospect.

And you, you know, you mentioned Jose Soriano really talented guy.

He can get ground balls.

He can miss bats.

He's kind of always playing with

whether he's more of a sinker bowler or he wants to get strikeouts.

And I don't know if he's ever fully found that balance.

He's been unhittable at times out of the gate this season.

He was hearing the Cy Young conversation at the beginning of the year.

He's been inconsistent at times.

So the Jays have had success at this type of pitcher.

I don't want to necessarily be too disrespectful, but I feel comfortable being slightly disrespectful of the Los Angeles angels.

in terms of their ability to handle pitching and develop pitching.

And so if you want to guess, like, are the Jays going to do a better job with this talented player than the Angels did?

I think that's a reasonable thing to assume.

The thing that kind of got me about this deal, I mean, I think highly of Namal as a prospect.

I really like guys who are very young but are performing at high levels.

Like, he was doing very well at AA as a 20-year-old, and to me, he looks like an everyday player in the major leagues.

It's tough to give up guys of that caliber when you're talking about just a couple years here, right?

Because the end of this season...

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