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Zack Scott

👤 Speaker
408 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

Baseball Isn’t Boring
The Realities Of No-Trade Clauses, Opt-Outs And Free Agency, With Zack Scott

Those are really difficult decisions.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
The Realities Of No-Trade Clauses, Opt-Outs And Free Agency, With Zack Scott

I think it was necessary.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
The Realities Of No-Trade Clauses, Opt-Outs And Free Agency, With Zack Scott

And now he's tasked with

Baseball Isn’t Boring
The Realities Of No-Trade Clauses, Opt-Outs And Free Agency, With Zack Scott

I think part of it was they were a little fortunate.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
The Realities Of No-Trade Clauses, Opt-Outs And Free Agency, With Zack Scott

Everything kind of went right a couple of years ago, which sets expectations kind of like the 21 Red Sox, right?

Baseball Isn’t Boring
The Realities Of No-Trade Clauses, Opt-Outs And Free Agency, With Zack Scott

Like have everything go right.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
The Realities Of No-Trade Clauses, Opt-Outs And Free Agency, With Zack Scott

And people think they should be better than they probably were.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
The Realities Of No-Trade Clauses, Opt-Outs And Free Agency, With Zack Scott

That could be a difficult thing to manage.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
The Realities Of No-Trade Clauses, Opt-Outs And Free Agency, With Zack Scott

So we'll see what he does if they sign Tucker, if they add a pitcher, if they add a couple of guys, they're pretty good team still.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
The Realities Of No-Trade Clauses, Opt-Outs And Free Agency, With Zack Scott

But yeah, that's a hard transition.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
The Realities Of No-Trade Clauses, Opt-Outs And Free Agency, With Zack Scott

And I think it makes a lot of sense that they're doing it.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
The Realities Of No-Trade Clauses, Opt-Outs And Free Agency, With Zack Scott

It was something that was obviously, I think anyone in that seat would have realized this has to happen at some point.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
The Realities Of No-Trade Clauses, Opt-Outs And Free Agency, With Zack Scott

And it's especially justified because it's not like they were really winning.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
The Realities Of No-Trade Clauses, Opt-Outs And Free Agency, With Zack Scott

Yeah, and I think Soto is young enough when you sign them that you can actually take that chance that you can retool.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
The Realities Of No-Trade Clauses, Opt-Outs And Free Agency, With Zack Scott

I don't think it's a rebuild.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
The Realities Of No-Trade Clauses, Opt-Outs And Free Agency, With Zack Scott

I think they're better than people think.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
The Realities Of No-Trade Clauses, Opt-Outs And Free Agency, With Zack Scott

It's emotional to see all this change and feel like they're, I'm not saying they're necessarily better off for these moves, but I don't think they're a terrible team.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
The Realities Of No-Trade Clauses, Opt-Outs And Free Agency, With Zack Scott

I think they got some interesting young, especially arms that you mentioned.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
The Realities Of No-Trade Clauses, Opt-Outs And Free Agency, With Zack Scott

with Christian Scott also coming back to like, they've got some, they've got some depth there.

Baseball Isn’t Boring
The Realities Of No-Trade Clauses, Opt-Outs And Free Agency, With Zack Scott

They, I think they're pretty clearly don't like spending a lot of money on, on aging, starting pitchers.