Thursday: MLB Hot Stove Update

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
And I remind people that there was a time for
those who are a little bit older than me but
not much, that there weren't a lot of teams that
were west of the Mississippi River. Saint Louis was the
National League team that was the furthest West until the
late fifties when the Giants and Dodgers went west, and
then they went all the way to Los Angeles, so

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there was basically nothing between Saint Louis and the West coast.
And CBS used to own the New York Yankees, so
there's still a lot of people who are transplanted New
York Yankees fans. And I've got so many things that
I've looked at, and AI knows where I'm at, so
they follow me with all kinds of videos and stuff.
And the New York media is absolutely having a massive

(00:44):
conniption fit as to what the Yankees roster is going
to look like this year.

Speaker 2 (00:48):
Now.

Speaker 1 (00:48):
I bring this up because we're only six weeks away
from pitchers and catchers reporting some of the best words
in sports right oh, undoubtedly, And for baseball fans like
Sam and I, we look forward to those days coming,
and the baseball season basically starts now at the end
of March. But because the Cody Bellinger talks have stalled,

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there's two more players on the Yankees radar that are
not gonna set well with Astros and Rangers fans, and
those are the former Astro Kyle Tucker and the Blue
Jays Bo Baschett. Each would be a very good role
for them if they cannot land Cody Bellinger. So keep

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those two guys on the radar. And for those of
you that are Astro fans that were disappointed that he
spent a year in Chicago, you're likely to be more
disappointed if he ends up in New York.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yeah. I think the more likely of those two, unfortunately,
would be Tucker. It seems like.

Speaker 1 (01:44):
He's a little cheaper.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
He's a little cheaper. Well, we'll see about that.

Speaker 1 (01:47):
Not a lot park.

Speaker 2 (01:49):
You might get him for less years, but an overall
higher yearly average. The bashett one. It sounds like the
Phillies might have moved in to this.

Speaker 1 (02:00):
Yes, they're in the mix too.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
Yeah, and they're giving a meeting with him.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
But here's the thing that's aggravating the New York media.
The Yankees gave a qualifying offer to Tran Grisham of
twenty two million dollars, and Trig Grisham almost feinted when
it was offered to him because he didn't think it
was It was pretty shocking, and he was like, yes,
where do I sign? And there's a lot of speculation
that we will not have a season in twenty twenty
seven if the players aren't going to agree to a

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salary cap, twenty twenty seven may not exist because I
think the majority of owners in Major League Baseball are
willing to shut it down for a year, and so
that will set back baseball even further. But he's getting
one year and twenty two million dollars and there may
not be anymore. He said yes, if he had turned
it down, the Yankees would have gotten a fifth round
draft pick. They gambled twenty two million dollars on potentially

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getting a fifth round draft pick, and Trag Gresham's not stupid.
He took the twenty two million. All right, We got
the Trey Young and the NFL games to talk about
next five fifty six on the ticket