Chapter 1: What are the initial thoughts on Josh Naylor's signing?
it's made up a reason to talk to them. That was it. I just said, here, here's a reason. Can you come on the podcast? And really it was all big, just a big guys just to see their faces and talk to them and say, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello. I am, I am, I am just like so happy that,
To be sitting in a chair behind a mic in the baseballs and boring studio talking to you guys instead of running around a smoke-filled casino, you know, going from, I don't know, bobbing and weaving all over the place, listening to Scott Boris's quips. Like all of that. So, yeah, I'm just so happy to be back in some normalcy. Thank you. Thank you, guys. Our pleasure.
Are you kidding me?
Can I tell you this? So we are getting ready. We take the red iron Thursday night. Obviously, we sit in the sports book. I order, you know, my trademark drink. Tito's and soda. But I'm tired, so I have the rare. I'm going to do the Red Bull. What do you call it? Cotillo told me this. What was the abbreviation for this?
RBV?
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. So I'm going to have that. I'm going to put Red Bull in my vodka. $22 plus ice cubes, an extra two or three.
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Chapter 2: Which teams are predicted to sign Pete Alonzo?
So one thing that you just said that I really appreciate is you said Red Bull in your vodka, not vice versa. So I really enjoy that. But that's insane. Yes.
Guess what you got more of. Here's ice cubes. Ice cubes. Well, OK, if we're going to power rank or do a pie chart of of this drink of like what was in it, it would be. It would be a 75% Red Bull. It would be 20% Ice Cubes. And then what's that leave?
5%.
5% Vodka.
Wait, hold on, hold on, hold on. Red Bull Vodka cost how much? It was 22 bucks...
If you want to ask you if it was 24.
No, I've been to Vegas. I get that. That's crazy. And then the, oh, my God, I would have been so angry. I would have been inconsolable.
Well, the thing is, as all the reporters, as all the baseball scribes will tell you, a lot of people stayed at the Lexor and they stayed at the, what's the jousting place?
MGM, Flamingo.
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Chapter 3: What are the expectations for Alex Bregman in free agency?
So you're like, oh, this is great, right? And then you go down and get the trademark core power shake. five-hour energy, and maybe perhaps like a one bar, $25. It's crazy. It's crazy. So, yeah. Welcome home, Rob. Yes, thank you. It's an office. That's Gordy's way of like, let's get this going.
No, I'm happy you're not wasting your money on $22 watches.
what a what a what a that was by gordo well we started talking about baseball i'm just happy for you you know how innocent how innocent gordo is gordo just said to someone who came back from vegas i'm so glad you're not wasting your money listen man it's an expensive city gordon do you know how to play blackjack do you know how to do any of that i i do know how to play blackjack i don't know how to count cards
I didn't expect like the play Tessie guys to go over there and be like the MIT card counting team.
I'm the king of playing roulette twice, winning money and stopping.
Okay. All right. sure that sounds like a lot of fun uh like if that wasn't in a wedding speech what a missed opportunity yeah i bet i bet those are thrilling 12 minutes at the casino gordo there was a double entendre i just watch all my friends lose their money um what was before so what we're gonna do today and we can cruise through this i know you guys did the play testy podcast
We're going to cruise through this. We have Alonzo Bregman, Tucker Burchette, Valdez, Seas, and Amai. Amai? Boris said it like 50 times, I should know. Amai, right?
Correct, yeah, Amai. Yeah, Amai.
Amai. So we're going to predict the landing spots for each. But before we do that, really quick, you know, I'm in the belly of the beast. What was each of your takeaways from this past week of the GM meetings? Pat, you go first.
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Chapter 4: How might Kyle Tucker's landing spot affect team dynamics?
The tongue twister with Pete Alonso. I can't even remember it, but it was like a plethora of pursuers for the power bat that is the polar plot. Just incredible. He still got it. That's my biggest takeaway.
You know what? The bizarre thing about that Boris session. I think it went 45 minutes. There wasn't any news that came out of it. No. Nothing. Not even close. There barely is. No. No, that's not true. Sometimes there is. But now it's defaulted into really just like a stand-up comedy routine more than anything. So, yeah.
But the only thing was he said something I thought pertinent about gambling, which is now every time anyone throws a 55-foot pitch, everyone's going to say, did they do it on purpose? That was fair. Good point by them. But other than that, player-wise, no news. Anyway, Sam, he was your takeaway.
My biggest takeaway is that has there ever been a big-time agent, a big-time mover and shaker of money who has been low-key likable like Scott Boris? I feel like you're not supposed to like a guy who has his job and has his power. But with his quips, I'm kind of coming around on the guy. He's funny. He's genuinely funny. So that was my biggest takeaway. I might be a fan of Scott Boris.
Chapter 5: What are the predictions for Bo Bichette's future team?
I love a good funny villain. I'm all in on that.
I had one unnamed player who was there said, if that was my agent, I would have fired him on the spot.
No, you wouldn't have because it's Scott Boris.
Hey, I'm just telling you what the guy said. I don't put words in their mouth. All right, Gordo, what was your takeaway?
My takeaway was that there was a lot of GM speak. Like we talk about all these pictures available for trades and every single one of those GMs went on record or their owner went on. It's up. Nah, we don't need to do that. We're probably not going to do it. We expect the guy to be here. So, well, I will listen, but yeah, don't not probably not happen.
I will say this, that tone that you're talking about, like from Falvey and like, That was not the tone of Chris Getz a year ago. Chris Getz a year ago was like, we're trading this guy, pretty much. He didn't come out and flat out say it, but that was insinuated. So my takeaway was, along those lines, it was when I talked to Breslow and Getz about Crochet...
about that deal, how, you know, because I'm interested in like, okay, where do these guys go from here? Is this the t-shirt gun that launches them into the off season? And Breslow reflected and said, it was really right after the GM meetings I started feeling like we're going to get a deal done, right? Like he said, right after the GM meetings.
And then you talk to Goetz, and Goetz said, I basically erased the Red Sox off the board the night before. Like, I did not think that we were going to get a deal done. So why I say that is because... It's one thing to think something. It's another thing for both sides to be thinking the same thing.
And that's the dangerous thing because as soon as I heard that, I immediately thought a trade deadline where, okay, you know, well, we hear such conflicting things about Minnesota, about how they were acting, and the Red Sox and the other teams, how they were acting. So that was my takeaway.
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Chapter 6: Where do the hosts see Frambois Valdez signing?
I was very in-depth, very thoughtful takeaway from it. So, yeah, you're welcome.
I just feel like with Getz, like the White Sox were in such an obvious position where he needed to get traded. Whereas, at least with the Twins, you can make a reasonable argument, and Falvey did it. You can make the argument, yeah, it's the AL Central, and we believe in this and that and the other thing, and that's why we can actually compete in this division.
And the Marlins, they had a really good second half, so yeah, we can see ourselves keeping Sandy. And the Brewers came off a 95-win season. They definitely don't need to trade Freddy Peralta if they don't want to. There's no reason for these teams to tip their hand, and none of them did.
So some of them I'm sure are very hell-bent on keeping these guys, but I don't think it's going to – like every single one of these GMs was saying the same thing, and I would be very surprised if we got through this offseason and like none or one of these guys was traded.
My other takeaway is that the golf course that the MLB Open was played on, Shadow Creek – That Dustin May played on? That Dustin May led the charge on, that it's the most expensive green fee in the world. What was the grades for you? I think 1250. God. Whoa. Whoa. And you do stay at a property. Yeah. So anyway, that was another takeaway. All right. Let's go through these.
I will call on each of you. I will say the name. And then I will call on each of you. And you can give me the team you think they're going to sign with. Ready? Yeah. Okay. I see you.
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Chapter 7: What are the insights on Dylan Cease's potential destinations?
I'm going to go in order as I see you, as people who have got on the call. You're rewarded for promptness. Congratulations, Gordo. You go first. Gordo.
All right. Pete Alonzo. Oh, you're starting me off with a Red Sox one. I think Pete Alonzo leaves the Mets and joins the Boston Red Sox. The Boston Red Sox. I don't think that precludes them from doing anything else either.
We didn't ask you that.
Pete Alonzo.
Pete Alonzo is the Red Sox. And I'm not being a homer. You are being a homer.
Pete Alonzo first. I'm not being a homer.
Sammy.
Pete Alonzo, you're starting me off with the Red Sox. I think Pete Alonzo leaves the Mets and goes to the Red Sox. I was trying to remember exactly what Gordo said, but yeah, same take. I feel Alonzo to the Red Sox.
All right. Oh, you forgot. You say I'm not being a homer. Say that.
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Chapter 8: How do the hosts view Kyle Schwarber's future with the Phillies?
I'm not being a homer. That sucks that we all have the same one, but it just feels right. I don't see him going back to the Mets. There's a natural fit. To me, it's the Sox. I floated a couple others, but. Please don't go Bregman second.
Oh, go Bregman second. Hold on. Let me do mine. Can I do mine? Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Give me crickets. Pete Alonzo. Pete Alonzo to the Red Sox. I mean, I don't think he goes back. The Mets, like, writers, they're really almost trying to put square peg round hole. I don't think the Mets, I don't know, unless Steve Cohen steps in, and if he doesn't go back to the Mets, I don't know where he goes.
So I say Red Sox.
Who's that weird team that keeps getting brought up into this? Oh, was it the Nationals?
By the way. Diamondbacks have been floated a little bit. You know who I know it's not going to be? Who? Seattle Mariners. I buried the lead on this. I should have said. We're doing this podcast after the biggest signing of the offseason so far. Josh Naylor. Has the terms come out yet?
Five years, no money yet. I'm looking right now. I'll let you know when it comes out.
Josh Naylor. Good for the Mariners. Good for them.
Josh Naylor always the first off. He was the first off the board at the trade deadline too.
He's such a, like, no BS guy. He probably knows where he wants to go, and he just picks it.
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