July 28, 2023 • 32 mins
Jason Smith and Mike Harmon tell you why Jets at Broncos in Week 5 is now must-see TV. MLB Insider Jon Paul Morosi swings by for all the latest on Shohei Ohtani and the trade deadline. Plus, the Mets are trading David Robertson to the Marlins.
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
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(00:50):
Heyo Tani a few minutes ago, and we're gonna we're
gonna get into back into the biggest story out of
the NFL in a couple of seconds. But we have
John Paul Morosi coming up at about two twenty minutes,
and it looks like the Dodgers could be moving towards
another trade. They make a good trade bringing back Keike Hernandez,
who always played well in LA. They make a better trade,
(01:12):
giving up basically nothing for Amed Rosario, who's gonna help
the Dodgers, yeah right away, as a solid player. They
gave up a guy that they could have waived and
no one would pick up in Cindergarten.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
I do feel bad that this is where we're at
with Cindergarten.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Like, I don't feel bad. The guy's staying because he's
throwing seventy two miles an hour now and that's his fastball.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Come on, that man has a family. Come on, just
like that baseball that was hit the other day. Come on,
you know, let baseball had a family.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Hey, I'm old enough to remember Noah Sindergard saying, oh,
I'd be very happy to get the Mets qualifying offer
and take it for eighteen million dollars, and as soon
as the Angels came with twenty million, he said, nope,
I'm going to the Angels. Dude, you know what, you
made that decision, and the team that had the most
invested in you you decided to walk away from. Yeah,
you basically just shorten your Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Yeah, no, that's you, bitter Mets fan. I'm talking to
me as as a human humanitarian. I'm a man of
the people. I wrap everybody in a big hug and look,
obviously he's not you do I do too.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Stop with that, I do too.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Sometimes your hug is like a bear where you squeeze
a life out of people just to get that back.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Watch wrestling growing up. That's you really have to feel it,
you feel the love. But no for cinder Guard, the
fact that you were able to make a deal, I mean, look,
that's wizardry man. We're talking about aliens the last couple
of days and stuff. I mean, that's just absolute sorcery,
Jedi mind tricks.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
I don't understand how the Guardian said, yes, we want
no Syndergard. I don't get it. But now they could
be making another move and we'll find out just the
possibility of this, as that the Dodgers and the Cardinals
have been talking about Nolan Arenado, the Cardinals having a
horrible season, Ronado has doing a lot of money for
(03:01):
the next few years, and I see this trade happen,
and you know, you and I have actually talked about this.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
In the long time.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Weeks.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Yeah, you know about Hey, Aronado would be a great fit.
He's someone that the Dodgers would sign and he would
be their their third basement for the next five years.
They would take on his money, no problem, Yo, you
do that. Yeah, that's fine. By the time, with thirty
five thirty six, your contracts.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
A little bit lower.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
But Aronado has done nothing but continue to rake. Even
as he left Colorado. You all the dogs he nr.
Can he still do it in Saint Louis. He's not
in Quartsfield anymore. No, the guy is still hitting. The
guy is still one of the best third basemen you've seen.
He would fit right in. The Dodgers have a couple
of prospects. I'm sure if they want this deal to happen,
this deal will happen, and you could slot him in
(03:44):
there at third base next be like getting Freddy Freeman. Hey,
this is terrific. He's thirty two years old. We're gonna
slot him there for the next three or four years.
Same thing will happen with Nolan Ronado, and the Dodgers
should make this happen hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Yeah, I mean we remember all the talk here locally
right broadcasting from LA Hello, everybody five to seventy LA
Sports with us tonight, Because I mean Certainly everybody gets
excited when the big names start getting bandied about all
the expectations because they're still waiting for a parade to
just bring Otani and his stuff up the five this offseason.
(04:15):
But in the interim, all right, what else is out there?
What else is available in what looks to be a
bit of a seller's market because you have so many
teams still contending, the Cardinals going through one of the
rare disastrous seasons given the history of this squad. But
remember when it looked like he was headed to free agency,
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before he signed that monster deal to stay in Colorado,
and we were seeing the mockups of jerseys for him
here already. Right, people were excited he's coming to town
like Santa Claus. And now that may actually come to fruition,
and for many fans pundits, now it's a question of,
all right, what is a trade that makes this happen?
(05:00):
Because you see Bobby Miller's name mentioned, and I've seen
some reaction. I've seen it in the blogs and then
the messageboards. Uh that folks are a little excitable not
wanting to see him be part of a deal. It's like, hey,
you know what, take take the other young pitchers that
you've seen glimpses of this year, some guys that have
been part of what this team has begun to build
(05:22):
here as we get towards the stretch run. But to
think about Aaronato joining this already loaded roster and Freddie Freeman,
Mookie Bleeping Bets, who we celebrate every chance we get,
you know, throwing guys out and what he does at
the plate. Yeah, it's it's exciting stuff. And for the
Cardinals just a rare, rare circumstance of all right, you
(05:45):
got you gotta swallow a little bit of pride and
recognize this is better for your long term.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Yeah, I mean it should happen.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
The Dodgers have enough, they will take the contract, They
have the prospects, whatever.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
I mean, they have enough. It should happen.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
But we'll find out from John palmerro coming up in
a few minutes where things are at. Last time, we
get talked to JP before the trade deadline, so we'll
get the latest on here and what could happen with
some other teams making moves.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Michigan suspending Jim Harbaugh.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Hey, JP may be the head coach of the football
team for the first four.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Now PJ. Fleck is trying to deflex stuff. The Conference
of Problems, the Conference of scandals. It's nothing Conference of
champions or anything like you.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
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to go to the Big Tech.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
No, no, no, no, we'll go to the Big twelve.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
We'll go well, I mean, look a lot lots of money.
Dion's a calling card, and look we can do a
deep dive on the PAC twelve Media rites deals signed.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Yet, No, do we need to do a deep dive
in the pack two? I mean, really, do they deserve
a deep dive?
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Well they don't.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
They have last team standing.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
They deserve a shallow I can dip my feet in
the pool, and that's where I bring the little kids
because they're in no danger in the water because the
water is only like six inches.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
This is why, Now this is where we keep That's.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Is this your homework?
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Larry Scott, Is this your homework? Yeah, all the university
presidents and Larry Scott, that's not there.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
You go.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
This is not my fault.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
But the biggest story in the NFL today we watch
Sean Payton go on a rant, ripping former Broncos head
coach Nathaniel Hackett and the New York.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Jets in a.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Diatribe in which he wanted to make sure everybody knew
that everything the Broncos were doing is one hundred and
eighty degrees different from last year. And he took on
everybody from the public relations department all the way up
to the top, even some people who are continuing to
work with the Broncos. He said, yeah, things weren't run great.
And he went on to say that watch what happens
to the Jets. They tried so hard to win the
(07:59):
off season. Now they're doing hard knocks. I've seen it happen.
He has decided to just take a blowtorch to the
former head coach, the team he's coaching, and the Jets
for no particular reason other than the fact he's probably
jealous that Rogers the Jets are getting the attention he
and Russell Wilson.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
But they also have Hackett. So if he's going to
attack the shoddy workmanship that you had and the shambles
that he found it, because right, this is this serves
a lot of purposes. It puts Russell Wilson on notice
because he absolved him of any of that stain. The
stink is gone, right, it's it's it's it's not you,
it was them. It was everybody running everything in the
(08:38):
in the building. All right. He's going to say that publicly.
Behind the scenes, I would guess it's a different tale,
not to Russell directly, but in the well the swirlings
and imaginations of his own own head. But he's also
propping himself up of like, way, do you see how
different it is the way we do things here and
how great we can turn this thing around. But yeah,
(08:59):
the Jets hired Hackett, so he's got to get them.
I mean, they're just collateral damage in the rant, like
they were terrible. It's like, oh, and they hired him,
so they're gonna stink. Yeah, and we're gonna get to
watch it on hard.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Heart Knocks and doing not yet know he decided I'm
gonna go and make enemies because hey, I want people
to talk about me more because people are talking about me.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Hey, he wanted to show he could do a fifteen
minute monologue after his year in the media, like he
was gonna get a grade, like it was a test
or something.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Did you hot take enough?
Speaker 4 (09:30):
But let's take this in a little bit of a
different direction.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Maybe the more most fun direction is that, look, does
he have a thing against Aaron Rodgers and the Jets.
You can't say he doesn't, because why would he take
on the Jets unprompted like this? Right, he has talked
about how he's felt about Rogers's body language, all different things,
comments he had when he was in the media for
the last year. But if you need another reason to believe, hey,
(09:54):
I think Aaron Rodgers is gonna have another elite level
season at quarterback. Let me just throw this at you
an angle of the the pay cut he took that
we didn't really get into a lot yesterday. Right, took
a thirty three million dollar pay cut to stay with
the Jets the next two years. Probably will make that
money back some way, shape or form over the course
the next two to three years. Right, what's the biggest
(10:15):
thing that's happening as a direct result of that, Dalvin
Cook is coming to visit the Jets this weekend, all right,
which doesn't make me feel great about Breese Hall. But
here comes Dalvin Cook and we talked about him. Hey,
for the next two years. Dalvin Cook a three down
running back. He can help a lot of teams. Now,
he's a tough guy to root for. You know, I'm
not gonna I'm not gonna deny it's a tough guy
to root for, with the with the the the domestic
(10:37):
situation he's got, and the story's coming out the last
few days.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
But this is this is a.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Situation that that is more about Aaron Rodgers than it's
about bringing in Dalvin Cook, because, like I said, be Hod,
he's a tough.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Guy to root for.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
But here's Rogers, right, what does he do. I'm gonna
take a pay cut so we could go get more players.
How incensed is green Bay right now?
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Going? Oh, so now you'll take a pay cut.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
You hold us hostage for all that money for the
last couple of years, and now you tell the Jets.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Hey, man, it's easy.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
I'll take a pay cut so we could go sign
more guys and go win championships. If that doesn't tell
you how unplugged he was in green Bay.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Nothing.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Will you look at the year he had last year
and say, oh man, look Aaron Rodgers falling off the cliff. No,
Rogers was at the point where he was done with
green Bay.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
He was done.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
And I'm sorry, when you're done and you're done with
a team, you don't do the things you need to
do all the way through to win. You're punching the
time clock waiting for something else to happen. So, yeah,
all of a sudden, Rogers shows up with the Jets
and everything is sunshine, lollipops and rainbows, and here's some
players I want and I'm staying through. I'm not leaving
for OTAs. I'm coming in early. Everything is good. I
(11:46):
love being here. I'm taking less money. He is reinvigorated.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Right. Things just hit.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Things hit a really bad time and it was a
three year downturn for him and the Packers. No, I'm
not saying this is Aaron Rodgers' fight was all the
Hacker's fault. But for we're talking about Rogers, and Rogers
was definitely done. So the last year when he had
a bad year last year, Yeah, was that really because
the skills fell off a cliff, right, he really fall
off a cliff or was he just done?
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Now?
Speaker 1 (12:12):
This tells you about motivation, and this tells you about
where he's at when things do get to that point.
But right now, it's a honeymoon with the Jets, and
the Jets do whatever he wants.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
He loves it.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
He's got a team around him that can win. He's
got a great team where he's got a great defense,
he's got a lot of weapons on offense, and things
are awesome.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Right.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
This doesn't tell you Aaron Rodgers ready for bounce back.
And you think last year was a bet, you don't
need to know anything else. And Packers fans right now
are going now he's taking less money.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Now he's taking less money. This is just so awesome
on so many different levels.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Yeah, I mean, you look at last year and number
of interceptions were tip balls, So how much of that
is timing that could have been established with some extra
offseason workouts heading in Because the receivers did get better
as the year went on. You can talk about a
couple of MVP seasons all of that, but the team
not the same level as success, and certainly the playoffs
(13:03):
have not been his friend. Look, this just extends my
theory of either he's a scroll like Gazoo or it
goes back to the all right, my year a here
going to the Jets is a complete rehabilitation of everything.
I'm gonna show that I'm still motivated to win, and
I'm gonna shut up at all of these and you
(13:23):
and you and you and everybody that was hot take theater.
I'm going to shut up all the people that said
they were tired of me in Green Bay, the folks
that wanted to attack me for off field issues everything else.
And I'm gonna be the best tourist and teammate I
can possibly be. Maybe maybe found that moment of clarity
in that darkness retreat. I don't judge, you don't do
(13:47):
Even at the time right everybody's having laughs. I'm like,
I don't know what goes on in there. If you
find someplace that's gonna give it, It's like, you know,
people go to services, people go meditate, people go sit
on the beach and stare at the ocean. It brings
you some level of comfort piece that you can go
into your life go get It. Seems like he's found
that and it's wrapped in a Jets' logo.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
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Speaker 4 (14:15):
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Speaker 1 (14:16):
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(14:36):
for all the latest on the trade front and the
day that was for Sho Heo Tani. He was there
in person to see one of the greatest days in
MLB history. He's on Twitter at John Morosi. That is
at John Morosi, MLB Network insider John Morosi, who very
soon will be starting his new job as interim Michigan
football coach for the first four games of the season.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
JP, congratulations, Well, thank you very much. We are going
to attack the first four games of the season with
an enthusiasm unknown to mankind.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Here we go.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
I'm actually done, Jasus.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
Smith, I've got a question for you tonight, my friend
who's got it better than.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Us, just remember no Hamburgers, right, no hamburger I am.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
I had a thought, and I will admit there are
still I am very much an MLB trade deadline universe
right now. But I am wondering if, if the if
the venerable restaurant called the Little Brown Jug on South
u and An Arbor is going to maybe name some
new Hamburgers an occasion to this and and perhaps add
(15:44):
even some new revenue streams. So all the name of commerce,
my friends, helping the help of the local economy.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Yeah, it'll certainly be on a menu as a cheeky
item somewhere in Columbus.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
I'm sure well.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
That that is certain. The support of the Columbus business
community for this burger in question is very strong. Indeed.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
All right, well, JP, as you know, as you are
getting ready to moonlight coaching Michigon, and it's a very
easy four games, I think you'll be fine.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
You were there today.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
You covered game one of the doubleheader Otani with a
complete game, shutout, two home runs in the second game.
You know, when I was a kid, I used to
read baseball books all the time. That would take you
back to certain days in history that you just can't
believe happened, Like Joe Adcock eighteen total bases in a game.
The guy had four home runs in a double it's
a major League record, and certain things you can't believe happened.
(16:37):
I don't know that this isn't isn't one of the
greatest days in the history of the game.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Who's had a day like this?
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Complete game shutout in Game one, of a double leader
and two home runs in Game two. You gotta go
back to, like in the late eighteen hundreds, if someone
did something like that, be.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
Right and remarkable. Man. Certainly from my perspective, very grateful
it happened in in Michigan. I was there for Game
one to see it, and just my goodness, I mean,
for him, for Otani to throw the shutout the first
of his career, and then yeah, let's just hit a
couple of homers before we call it a day. Matt Manning,
the starter against me at the homers in Game two said,
(17:17):
and exactly expressed what you're just saying. That had to
be the greatest day anyone has ever had on a
baseball field. And again, let's whenever we talk about his
historical achievements, and I love the history of the game.
The game has never been better than it is right
now in terms of the level of competition, the quality
(17:37):
of the pitching, the inclusiveness of the best players in
all the world playing it. So not only is he
doing this in a way that's never quite been done before,
but he's doing it against the very best competition, and
that to me is as important as anything else to
mention that he is doing this in the best league
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in the world, in the best version of the best
league in the world, and he is dominating it the
way that the best fourteen year old in your town
who was just a head taller than everybody else was
able to do it back in Pony League or senior league,
and Showay is doing it in the best league in
the world. Simply remarkable.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
So JP one, I'm really disappointed in myself for not
at least reaching out so you can go finagle me
some ticket stuffs. But the second part to this is, well,
I mean, look, I'm a collector and this is history
stuff we're looking at here. I mean with Shoho Tani,
and it's good that he's staying down the five in
Anaheim a little while longer, and Jason and I were
(18:39):
talking about it last night, JP, and I'm like, well,
now will they be buyers further having made a couple
of small moves, and then well they're minutes later speaking
it into existence. The White Sox make that deal with
the Angels. Are they done?
Speaker 5 (18:54):
I don't think either team is done. And then, as
you know, the White Sox still have some dealing to do.
Get to that in the moment. But the Angels, I
was told last night, even after the deals went down,
that they're still trying to acquire Jamber Candelario or another
corner infielder to help. Of course, they've had the Tray
Cabbage has come in and done a really good job
(19:16):
as a corner infield guy. And I think to your point,
if they're going to leverage yourself all in and obviously
they had the chance to potentially move Otani based on
where things were going, they would have had multiple chances
to take an acceptable offer. But the whole idea of
the organization Mike, is to make the playoffs with him,
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and so if that's the case, you go for it.
And when you decide to go for it, you keep
that foot down on the accelerator. That's exactly what the
Angels are doing. I give them credit because this has
become a time in the game's history where gms are
relatively cautious, they are relatively risk averse. Not fair him
(20:00):
and Aussie, and especially not with the owner Ardi Morino
endorsing the move. So I think it's great for the game,
great for the fans there. We've heard time and time
again the fans there want to see show a in
the playoffs. Now they get the chance. Actually, this morning
before the first game, I was in the visiting dugout
of co America Park. There was one player there and
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that player was Mike Trout. Trout was talking to me
about just how excited he is and the way that
there's such an energy around the team, knowing what that
trade meant last night, knowing what it means to have
showing for the long term. So this team sweep today.
They're playing such great baseball. They've won what now, nine
of eleven games, and so the Angels might now be
(20:43):
the best version of themselves. And it's good for the game,
good for the game to see them playing better. And
now the rest of the American League West is certainly unnoticed.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
All right, JP, Well, let's head up the five Freeway
a little bit to the big story today, speaking of
Trey deadline.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
Now that Otani's off the.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Market, the Dodgers and Cardinals have had conversations about Nolan Arenado.
The Dodgers clearly have everything they need to make this
move happen. It probably should happen. They will pay him,
He'll be their third basement for the next five years.
They'll give the couple of prospects the Cardinals want. Are
the Cardinals going to pull the trigger? That's the big question.
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What are you hearing about this potential trade?
Speaker 5 (21:20):
That is the big question. And certainly the Dodgers still
have some pitching needs, and I want to make that
clear that I do think there's an acceptable deal to
be had there in a compromise, because the Dodgers do
have such tremendous depth of prospects to get this deal done.
So I think the Dodgers' willingness is there. Nolan, I'm
(21:40):
pretty sure, with a high degree of certainty, will will
approve this deal and take the move to LA. It's
his favorite team as a kid. It's a no brainer
for him. But I think the Cardinals have to look
at the big landscape here and see if there's a
way that they can improve their pitching on a level
that they feel comfortable without having to do this deal.
(22:03):
I believe the Cardinals will try other avenues to upgrade
their pitching by moving other baths, but if they can't
get the pieces they need, the Dodgers are the best
team to go to get pitching. And I think, with
a high degree of certainty, this deal and this possibility
will be in play until the final hours on Tuesday,
(22:23):
And do not be surprised if by six pm Eastern time,
Nolan Arnotto is back home as a Dodger and Mike Goodness,
what a lineup that would be, joining Freddie Freeman, Mookie Bets,
Will Smith and all the others.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
All our rumor conjecture, speculation, the dartboards and photoshopping of
jerseys has begun. JP and Earnest Jason's trying to give
everybody away from the Mets. He's been wearing a sandwich
board for the last several weeks. How much activity do
we see with those extra wildcards, Because we've got some
terrible teams like my White Sox, but beyond them and
(22:58):
Tim Anderson actually hitting the ball. Well, well, so if
you're going to sell sell high hitting three ninety five
or so since the All Star break. But how many
big trades can we really see or or are a
lot of teams going to take the Angels approach of
trying to cling to what playoff life they have.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
Well, it's a great question, and I think one team
to watch very carefully in one that's been on the
border of buying and selling the San Diego Padres, and
reports increasingly today that they're actually open minded to moving Snell,
potentially open minded to moving Hater and even Juan Soto.
So if that's the case, that opens up a whole
(23:36):
other layer of possibilities to where Showy stays put. But
if Arnatto and or Soto move all of a sudden,
it becomes a really active deadline. There are a handful
of teams that I think are very clearly sellers. Pierpoint
the White Sox is definitely one of them.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
As Ian wants to give everybody, including the parking lot attendon.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
I saw that, and by the way, I I saw
Ozzy this week on the South Side, and let's put
it this way, that was a version of that statement
was also offered to me, so with some exactly I
will I will not. So so as we're what you
(24:17):
saw in the air was the redacted version, I would
I would describe that, but I would say this that
the Tigers will move some pitching. Michael Lorenzen is going
to move likely, the White Sox will move in, probably
Tim Anderson, Aaron Bummer, Joe Kelly. They'll move some pieces.
But I do think those teams that are on the
borderline still have an advantage. And in fact, because it's
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such a seller's market, it incentivizes those teams like the
Padres to make that decision to put Wan Soto out there,
to put Blake Snell out there, and Josh Hader because
as as the Angels move into the by column, and
even potentially the Cubs because they've played better of late,
it incentivizes those teams, those other teams to become legitimate sellers.
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So I think you're going to see a lot of competition.
It's probably going to remain a seller's market until the weekend,
and then of course it becomes that pivot point where
on Monday and Tuesday GM starts saying, wait a minute,
I can save my owner some money by moving this reliever.
Let's do that. So there will usually become that pivot point.
But that's why it's it's going to be a day's
(25:26):
long staring contest. And I really think the two names
to watch in the market if you want, if you're
rooting for a blockbuster, talk about Soto, talk about Arnatto.
Those are the two names that I think could really
move a lot of prospects and get a lot of
excitement going on in the industry now that we know
the show is going to stay put.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
All right, JP, let's finish here. If I said to you,
complete the sentence. The big name that you wouldn't be
surprised to see dealt by the deadline, the big name
that maybe we're not talking about Pho, the big name
that you wouldn't be surprised to see moved by the deadline.
Who would that be?
Speaker 5 (26:02):
Justin Verlander? And there's been at least some talk, and Jason,
I think you've almost spoken this into existence because you
have been talking to me about this. I've been saying
no chance, no chance. But the giants have some interest
in them. And the big question, and this is where
I wonder about things. Jason how much of the forty
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three million, yes, forty three million due to him next
year is going to be div beat up potentially if
the Giants are the team, do they do the Mets
pay half and then get themselves a decent prospect? Or
do the Giants say no, way, no how, You're gonna
have to do the Giants they have to pay even
(26:44):
more than that if you're depending on what kind of
prospect quality you give back and forth. So that to
me is the big thing. And the Giants of the team,
guys that remember they were in there on Judge, they
were in there years ago on Harper, they were in
there on Korea didn't work out. They've got the ability
to add payrolls. So I'm watching the Giants very carefully.
They needed like an eighth level starting pitcher could be
(27:05):
Justin Verlander if he's runny to waive that no trade
clause and move west.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
You can follow on Twitter at John Morosi. That is
at John Morosi MLB Network Insider and if I get
Verlander moved, dominant insider too. JP is always buddy appreciated.
If something breaks, we'll talk to you and then let
us know how The Michigan football team is looking as
you coach them as we get into the season.
Speaker 5 (27:26):
Well, I think Donovan Edwards Heisman Trophy candidate this year.
Mark it down. And if you get Verlander moved, you're
not just a good insider, You're the executive of the year. Wow.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
Look at that taking that. Oh, thank you so much, JP, appreciate.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
It all the best guys, thank you.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
Yeah, oh, look at that. Look at I'm the executive.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
No, no, no, moved.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
I got fun.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
That already happened by getting a deal made for sending
hard we talked about.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
That is true. That's true.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
And if that's already won, that that award is already
being printed and raped.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Yeah, but how about Frostburg now going, No, we don't
want Verland. Oh wait, need go to the giants. Oh no,
we'll get for Lander. We'll get for Lander.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
Then we'll get it. We'll get it, we'll get it,
We'll get it. So they go.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Great stuff there by John Paul Morosi on o'tani on
the trade deadline, Verlander, the possibility of Nolan Ronado.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
It looks good man. Some big, big stuff from JP.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
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Speaker 1 (28:30):
Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike
Harmon obo live from the ti rack dot Com studios,
where the trade season has officially begun a week before
the deadline. And oh boy, is this fine. We had
keithk a Hernandez. That was a nice trade. Amed Rosario
was a pretty good trade. Now we're getting the Nolan
(28:51):
Aronado rumors. We had Lucas Gialito going to the Angels
last night, and now the Mets have announced our season
is over. We are now selling. They have traded David Robertson,
who came in to close this year after Edwin Diaz
got hurt celebrating h in the World Baseball Class.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
We haven't brought that one up in a while. How
everything changed in that moment. All the hope, all the expectations,
the efficiency of your bullpen all went to hell in
that moment.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
But Robertson came in did a pretty good job closing. Yeah,
and he look, he was in the last year of
his deal, a one year deal. And it looks like
from what I'm getting reports, the Mets are getting back
the eighteenth and twentieth rated prospects for the Marlins. One
is a big riser that people seem to be high on,
that the Mets are getting back.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Look, hey, look, look, I don't know a lot about
I'm just getting last names that are on.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
I'm going, oh, okay, this is who is? This is there?
Who's there?
Speaker 1 (29:51):
They're they're getting one of the prospects, Marco Marco Vargas,
who supposedly rookie league player but is pretty good. The
other one could be catcher Ronald Hernandez, because all I've
seen from the check marks is that it's gonna be
Vargas and Hernandez. But I've not seen other names other
than that. But I'm looking at the top prospects of
the Marlins list. They're eighteen and twenty on the list.
(30:12):
So the Mets say goodbye, and I'll tell you this much.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
They have said we're open for business. They're making the
right decision. They have not won enough. This is not
a good team, right, They're just not good. It just
hasn't worked out. And Verlander and Surser have been pretty good.
Verlander's been really good the last few starts. He's pitched
extremely well. The last two starts have been great. I
told you last time that could be the last time
(30:38):
we see him as a Met. And if a team
like the Giants, these are the best starting pitchers that
are out there.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
Are you gonna have to give up a lot?
Speaker 1 (30:45):
No, you'll cover The Mets will cover a little bit
of the money, and they will make a move and
go for next year. I'm telling you Steve Cohen will
say this didn't work with We don't want to trust
thirty nine and forty year old guys because it took
him too long to get going this year. Are pitching stunk.
Verlander and Schurzer are not only available, I would think
now it's more likely than not that they get traded,
(31:06):
especially Verlander, who put him in a pendant race. A
lot of scouts say he'll gain a couple more miles
now are on his fastball, the adrenaline from being able
to pitch when he's when the team needs him, and
he's independent race. Verlander's gonna go man better option than Shuser.
I think both of them, but Verlander definitely, I think
he's gonna be traded.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Yeah, also think that your owner should just option the
licensing to seth Rollins theme song burn it Down, But yeah,
Verlander shed the salary. Look, when we ever we start
talking about the prospects, it's rare that it's a name
that pops off unless you're really deep into the prospect world.
(31:46):
You're in deep dynasty fantasy leagues that include the prospect,
or you're just super fan. Look, I love the White Sox,
I have a love hate relationship with him. But do
I know their top prospects off the top of my head? No?
Speaker 4 (32:01):
Not generally.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
I'm not digging that deep because they're always used as
trade chips to try to do something. So same situation here,
but for your Mets, unfortunately, that's that's where you're at
in the season, right at some point you realize you're
sunk costs and see if you can't start building because
guess what, he has the wallet to go by the
(32:24):
next great starting pitcher horizon.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
That's what we're gonna do.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
We're gonna reset next year and get younger guys who
may be better exactly, but the Mets have started. Make
your phone, I can negotiate on Steve Cohen's behalf. Oh,
by the way, more in the MLB trade deadline and
a huge story out of the NFL.
Speaker 4 (32:41):
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Heyo Tani a few minutes ago, and we're gonna we're
gonna get into back into the biggest story out of
the NFL in a couple of seconds. But we have
John Paul Morosi coming up at about two twenty minutes,
and it looks like the Dodgers could be moving towards
another trade. They make a good trade bringing back Keike Hernandez,
who always played well in LA. They make a better trade,
(01:12):
giving up basically nothing for Amed Rosario, who's gonna help
the Dodgers, yeah right away, as a solid player. They
gave up a guy that they could have waived and
no one would pick up in Cindergarten.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
I do feel bad that this is where we're at
with Cindergarten.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
Like, I don't feel bad. The guy's staying because he's
throwing seventy two miles an hour now and that's his fastball.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Come on, that man has a family. Come on, just
like that baseball that was hit the other day. Come on,
you know, let baseball had a family.
Speaker 1 (01:39):
Hey, I'm old enough to remember Noah Sindergard saying, oh,
I'd be very happy to get the Mets qualifying offer
and take it for eighteen million dollars, and as soon
as the Angels came with twenty million, he said, nope,
I'm going to the Angels. Dude, you know what, you
made that decision, and the team that had the most
invested in you you decided to walk away from. Yeah,
you basically just shorten your Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Yeah, no, that's you, bitter Mets fan. I'm talking to
me as as a human humanitarian. I'm a man of
the people. I wrap everybody in a big hug and look,
obviously he's not you do I do too.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
Stop with that, I do too.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Sometimes your hug is like a bear where you squeeze
a life out of people just to get that back.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Watch wrestling growing up. That's you really have to feel it,
you feel the love. But no for cinder Guard, the
fact that you were able to make a deal, I mean, look,
that's wizardry man. We're talking about aliens the last couple
of days and stuff. I mean, that's just absolute sorcery,
Jedi mind tricks.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
I don't understand how the Guardian said, yes, we want
no Syndergard. I don't get it. But now they could
be making another move and we'll find out just the
possibility of this, as that the Dodgers and the Cardinals
have been talking about Nolan Arenado, the Cardinals having a
horrible season, Ronado has doing a lot of money for
(03:01):
the next few years, and I see this trade happen,
and you know, you and I have actually talked about this.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
In the long time.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Weeks.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Yeah, you know about Hey, Aronado would be a great fit.
He's someone that the Dodgers would sign and he would
be their their third basement for the next five years.
They would take on his money, no problem, Yo, you
do that. Yeah, that's fine. By the time, with thirty
five thirty six, your contracts.
Speaker 4 (03:22):
A little bit lower.
Speaker 1 (03:23):
But Aronado has done nothing but continue to rake. Even
as he left Colorado. You all the dogs he nr.
Can he still do it in Saint Louis. He's not
in Quartsfield anymore. No, the guy is still hitting. The
guy is still one of the best third basemen you've seen.
He would fit right in. The Dodgers have a couple
of prospects. I'm sure if they want this deal to happen,
this deal will happen, and you could slot him in
(03:44):
there at third base next be like getting Freddy Freeman. Hey,
this is terrific. He's thirty two years old. We're gonna
slot him there for the next three or four years.
Same thing will happen with Nolan Ronado, and the Dodgers
should make this happen hundred percent.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Yeah, I mean we remember all the talk here locally
right broadcasting from LA Hello, everybody five to seventy LA
Sports with us tonight, Because I mean Certainly everybody gets
excited when the big names start getting bandied about all
the expectations because they're still waiting for a parade to
just bring Otani and his stuff up the five this offseason.
(04:15):
But in the interim, all right, what else is out there?
What else is available in what looks to be a
bit of a seller's market because you have so many
teams still contending, the Cardinals going through one of the
rare disastrous seasons given the history of this squad. But
remember when it looked like he was headed to free agency,
(04:36):
before he signed that monster deal to stay in Colorado,
and we were seeing the mockups of jerseys for him
here already. Right, people were excited he's coming to town
like Santa Claus. And now that may actually come to fruition,
and for many fans pundits, now it's a question of,
all right, what is a trade that makes this happen?
(05:00):
Because you see Bobby Miller's name mentioned, and I've seen
some reaction. I've seen it in the blogs and then
the messageboards. Uh that folks are a little excitable not
wanting to see him be part of a deal. It's like, hey,
you know what, take take the other young pitchers that
you've seen glimpses of this year, some guys that have
been part of what this team has begun to build
(05:22):
here as we get towards the stretch run. But to
think about Aaronato joining this already loaded roster and Freddie Freeman,
Mookie Bleeping Bets, who we celebrate every chance we get,
you know, throwing guys out and what he does at
the plate. Yeah, it's it's exciting stuff. And for the
Cardinals just a rare, rare circumstance of all right, you
(05:45):
got you gotta swallow a little bit of pride and
recognize this is better for your long term.
Speaker 4 (05:50):
Yeah, I mean it should happen.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
The Dodgers have enough, they will take the contract, They
have the prospects, whatever.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
I mean, they have enough. It should happen.
Speaker 1 (05:58):
But we'll find out from John palmerro coming up in
a few minutes where things are at. Last time, we
get talked to JP before the trade deadline, so we'll
get the latest on here and what could happen with
some other teams making moves.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Michigan suspending Jim Harbaugh.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Hey, JP may be the head coach of the football
team for the first four.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Now PJ. Fleck is trying to deflex stuff. The Conference
of Problems, the Conference of scandals. It's nothing Conference of
champions or anything like you.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
Wow.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
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to go to the Big Tech.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
No, no, no, no, we'll go to the Big twelve.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
We'll go well, I mean, look a lot lots of money.
Dion's a calling card, and look we can do a
deep dive on the PAC twelve Media rites deals signed.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Yet, No, do we need to do a deep dive
in the pack two? I mean, really, do they deserve
a deep dive?
Speaker 4 (07:00):
Well they don't.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
They have last team standing.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
They deserve a shallow I can dip my feet in
the pool, and that's where I bring the little kids
because they're in no danger in the water because the
water is only like six inches.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
This is why, Now this is where we keep That's.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Is this your homework?
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Larry Scott, Is this your homework? Yeah, all the university
presidents and Larry Scott, that's not there.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
You go.
Speaker 4 (07:23):
This is not my fault.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
But the biggest story in the NFL today we watch
Sean Payton go on a rant, ripping former Broncos head
coach Nathaniel Hackett and the New York.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Jets in a.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
Diatribe in which he wanted to make sure everybody knew
that everything the Broncos were doing is one hundred and
eighty degrees different from last year. And he took on
everybody from the public relations department all the way up
to the top, even some people who are continuing to
work with the Broncos. He said, yeah, things weren't run great.
And he went on to say that watch what happens
to the Jets. They tried so hard to win the
(07:59):
off season. Now they're doing hard knocks. I've seen it happen.
He has decided to just take a blowtorch to the
former head coach, the team he's coaching, and the Jets
for no particular reason other than the fact he's probably
jealous that Rogers the Jets are getting the attention he
and Russell Wilson.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
But they also have Hackett. So if he's going to
attack the shoddy workmanship that you had and the shambles
that he found it, because right, this is this serves
a lot of purposes. It puts Russell Wilson on notice
because he absolved him of any of that stain. The
stink is gone, right, it's it's it's it's not you,
it was them. It was everybody running everything in the
(08:38):
in the building. All right. He's going to say that publicly.
Behind the scenes, I would guess it's a different tale,
not to Russell directly, but in the well the swirlings
and imaginations of his own own head. But he's also
propping himself up of like, way, do you see how
different it is the way we do things here and
how great we can turn this thing around. But yeah,
(08:59):
the Jets hired Hackett, so he's got to get them.
I mean, they're just collateral damage in the rant, like
they were terrible. It's like, oh, and they hired him,
so they're gonna stink. Yeah, and we're gonna get to
watch it on hard.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
Heart Knocks and doing not yet know he decided I'm
gonna go and make enemies because hey, I want people
to talk about me more because people are talking about me.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
Hey, he wanted to show he could do a fifteen
minute monologue after his year in the media, like he
was gonna get a grade, like it was a test
or something.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Did you hot take enough?
Speaker 4 (09:30):
But let's take this in a little bit of a
different direction.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Maybe the more most fun direction is that, look, does
he have a thing against Aaron Rodgers and the Jets.
You can't say he doesn't, because why would he take
on the Jets unprompted like this? Right, he has talked
about how he's felt about Rogers's body language, all different things,
comments he had when he was in the media for
the last year. But if you need another reason to believe, hey,
(09:54):
I think Aaron Rodgers is gonna have another elite level
season at quarterback. Let me just throw this at you
an angle of the the pay cut he took that
we didn't really get into a lot yesterday. Right, took
a thirty three million dollar pay cut to stay with
the Jets the next two years. Probably will make that
money back some way, shape or form over the course
the next two to three years. Right, what's the biggest
(10:15):
thing that's happening as a direct result of that, Dalvin
Cook is coming to visit the Jets this weekend, all right,
which doesn't make me feel great about Breese Hall. But
here comes Dalvin Cook and we talked about him. Hey,
for the next two years. Dalvin Cook a three down
running back. He can help a lot of teams. Now,
he's a tough guy to root for. You know, I'm
not gonna I'm not gonna deny it's a tough guy
to root for, with the with the the the domestic
(10:37):
situation he's got, and the story's coming out the last
few days.
Speaker 4 (10:40):
But this is this is a.
Speaker 1 (10:41):
Situation that that is more about Aaron Rodgers than it's
about bringing in Dalvin Cook, because, like I said, be Hod,
he's a tough.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Guy to root for.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
But here's Rogers, right, what does he do. I'm gonna
take a pay cut so we could go get more players.
How incensed is green Bay right now?
Speaker 4 (10:57):
Going? Oh, so now you'll take a pay cut.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
You hold us hostage for all that money for the
last couple of years, and now you tell the Jets.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Hey, man, it's easy.
Speaker 1 (11:06):
I'll take a pay cut so we could go sign
more guys and go win championships. If that doesn't tell
you how unplugged he was in green Bay.
Speaker 4 (11:15):
Nothing.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Will you look at the year he had last year
and say, oh man, look Aaron Rodgers falling off the cliff. No,
Rogers was at the point where he was done with
green Bay.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
He was done.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
And I'm sorry, when you're done and you're done with
a team, you don't do the things you need to
do all the way through to win. You're punching the
time clock waiting for something else to happen. So, yeah,
all of a sudden, Rogers shows up with the Jets
and everything is sunshine, lollipops and rainbows, and here's some
players I want and I'm staying through. I'm not leaving
for OTAs. I'm coming in early. Everything is good. I
(11:46):
love being here. I'm taking less money. He is reinvigorated.
Speaker 4 (11:51):
Right. Things just hit.
Speaker 1 (11:52):
Things hit a really bad time and it was a
three year downturn for him and the Packers. No, I'm
not saying this is Aaron Rodgers' fight was all the
Hacker's fault. But for we're talking about Rogers, and Rogers
was definitely done. So the last year when he had
a bad year last year, Yeah, was that really because
the skills fell off a cliff, right, he really fall
off a cliff or was he just done?
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Now?
Speaker 1 (12:12):
This tells you about motivation, and this tells you about
where he's at when things do get to that point.
But right now, it's a honeymoon with the Jets, and
the Jets do whatever he wants.
Speaker 4 (12:20):
He loves it.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
He's got a team around him that can win. He's
got a great team where he's got a great defense,
he's got a lot of weapons on offense, and things
are awesome.
Speaker 4 (12:27):
Right.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
This doesn't tell you Aaron Rodgers ready for bounce back.
And you think last year was a bet, you don't
need to know anything else. And Packers fans right now
are going now he's taking less money.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Now he's taking less money. This is just so awesome
on so many different levels.
Speaker 3 (12:42):
Yeah, I mean, you look at last year and number
of interceptions were tip balls, So how much of that
is timing that could have been established with some extra
offseason workouts heading in Because the receivers did get better
as the year went on. You can talk about a
couple of MVP seasons all of that, but the team
not the same level as success, and certainly the playoffs
(13:03):
have not been his friend. Look, this just extends my
theory of either he's a scroll like Gazoo or it
goes back to the all right, my year a here
going to the Jets is a complete rehabilitation of everything.
I'm gonna show that I'm still motivated to win, and
I'm gonna shut up at all of these and you
(13:23):
and you and you and everybody that was hot take theater.
I'm going to shut up all the people that said
they were tired of me in Green Bay, the folks
that wanted to attack me for off field issues everything else.
And I'm gonna be the best tourist and teammate I
can possibly be. Maybe maybe found that moment of clarity
in that darkness retreat. I don't judge, you don't do
(13:47):
Even at the time right everybody's having laughs. I'm like,
I don't know what goes on in there. If you
find someplace that's gonna give it, It's like, you know,
people go to services, people go meditate, people go sit
on the beach and stare at the ocean. It brings
you some level of comfort piece that you can go
into your life go get It. Seems like he's found
that and it's wrapped in a Jets' logo.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
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Show with Mike Harmon weekdays at ten pm Eastern, seven
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Speaker 4 (14:15):
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(14:36):
for all the latest on the trade front and the
day that was for Sho Heo Tani. He was there
in person to see one of the greatest days in
MLB history. He's on Twitter at John Morosi. That is
at John Morosi, MLB Network insider John Morosi, who very
soon will be starting his new job as interim Michigan
football coach for the first four games of the season.
Speaker 5 (14:58):
JP, congratulations, Well, thank you very much. We are going
to attack the first four games of the season with
an enthusiasm unknown to mankind.
Speaker 2 (15:09):
Here we go.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
I'm actually done, Jasus.
Speaker 5 (15:11):
Smith, I've got a question for you tonight, my friend
who's got it better than.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Us, just remember no Hamburgers, right, no hamburger I am.
Speaker 5 (15:21):
I had a thought, and I will admit there are
still I am very much an MLB trade deadline universe
right now. But I am wondering if, if the if
the venerable restaurant called the Little Brown Jug on South
u and An Arbor is going to maybe name some
new Hamburgers an occasion to this and and perhaps add
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even some new revenue streams. So all the name of commerce,
my friends, helping the help of the local economy.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Yeah, it'll certainly be on a menu as a cheeky
item somewhere in Columbus.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
I'm sure well.
Speaker 5 (15:56):
That that is certain. The support of the Columbus business
community for this burger in question is very strong. Indeed.
Speaker 1 (16:07):
All right, well, JP, as you know, as you are
getting ready to moonlight coaching Michigon, and it's a very
easy four games, I think you'll be fine.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
You were there today.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
You covered game one of the doubleheader Otani with a
complete game, shutout, two home runs in the second game.
You know, when I was a kid, I used to
read baseball books all the time. That would take you
back to certain days in history that you just can't
believe happened, Like Joe Adcock eighteen total bases in a game.
The guy had four home runs in a double it's
a major League record, and certain things you can't believe happened.
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I don't know that this isn't isn't one of the
greatest days in the history of the game.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Who's had a day like this?
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Complete game shutout in Game one, of a double leader
and two home runs in Game two. You gotta go
back to, like in the late eighteen hundreds, if someone
did something like that, be.
Speaker 5 (16:53):
Right and remarkable. Man. Certainly from my perspective, very grateful
it happened in in Michigan. I was there for Game
one to see it, and just my goodness, I mean,
for him, for Otani to throw the shutout the first
of his career, and then yeah, let's just hit a
couple of homers before we call it a day. Matt Manning,
the starter against me at the homers in Game two said,
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and exactly expressed what you're just saying. That had to
be the greatest day anyone has ever had on a
baseball field. And again, let's whenever we talk about his
historical achievements, and I love the history of the game.
The game has never been better than it is right
now in terms of the level of competition, the quality
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of the pitching, the inclusiveness of the best players in
all the world playing it. So not only is he
doing this in a way that's never quite been done before,
but he's doing it against the very best competition, and
that to me is as important as anything else to
mention that he is doing this in the best league
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in the world, in the best version of the best
league in the world, and he is dominating it the
way that the best fourteen year old in your town
who was just a head taller than everybody else was
able to do it back in Pony League or senior league,
and Showay is doing it in the best league in
the world. Simply remarkable.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
So JP one, I'm really disappointed in myself for not
at least reaching out so you can go finagle me
some ticket stuffs. But the second part to this is, well,
I mean, look, I'm a collector and this is history
stuff we're looking at here. I mean with Shoho Tani,
and it's good that he's staying down the five in
Anaheim a little while longer, and Jason and I were
(18:39):
talking about it last night, JP, and I'm like, well,
now will they be buyers further having made a couple
of small moves, and then well they're minutes later speaking
it into existence. The White Sox make that deal with
the Angels. Are they done?
Speaker 5 (18:54):
I don't think either team is done. And then, as
you know, the White Sox still have some dealing to do.
Get to that in the moment. But the Angels, I
was told last night, even after the deals went down,
that they're still trying to acquire Jamber Candelario or another
corner infielder to help. Of course, they've had the Tray
Cabbage has come in and done a really good job
(19:16):
as a corner infield guy. And I think to your point,
if they're going to leverage yourself all in and obviously
they had the chance to potentially move Otani based on
where things were going, they would have had multiple chances
to take an acceptable offer. But the whole idea of
the organization Mike, is to make the playoffs with him,
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and so if that's the case, you go for it.
And when you decide to go for it, you keep
that foot down on the accelerator. That's exactly what the
Angels are doing. I give them credit because this has
become a time in the game's history where gms are
relatively cautious, they are relatively risk averse. Not fair him
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and Aussie, and especially not with the owner Ardi Morino
endorsing the move. So I think it's great for the game,
great for the fans there. We've heard time and time
again the fans there want to see show a in
the playoffs. Now they get the chance. Actually, this morning
before the first game, I was in the visiting dugout
of co America Park. There was one player there and
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that player was Mike Trout. Trout was talking to me
about just how excited he is and the way that
there's such an energy around the team, knowing what that
trade meant last night, knowing what it means to have
showing for the long term. So this team sweep today.
They're playing such great baseball. They've won what now, nine
of eleven games, and so the Angels might now be
(20:43):
the best version of themselves. And it's good for the game,
good for the game to see them playing better. And
now the rest of the American League West is certainly unnoticed.
Speaker 1 (20:52):
All right, JP, Well, let's head up the five Freeway
a little bit to the big story today, speaking of
Trey deadline.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
Now that Otani's off the.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Market, the Dodgers and Cardinals have had conversations about Nolan Arenado.
The Dodgers clearly have everything they need to make this
move happen. It probably should happen. They will pay him,
He'll be their third basement for the next five years.
They'll give the couple of prospects the Cardinals want. Are
the Cardinals going to pull the trigger? That's the big question.
(21:18):
What are you hearing about this potential trade?
Speaker 5 (21:20):
That is the big question. And certainly the Dodgers still
have some pitching needs, and I want to make that
clear that I do think there's an acceptable deal to
be had there in a compromise, because the Dodgers do
have such tremendous depth of prospects to get this deal done.
So I think the Dodgers' willingness is there. Nolan, I'm
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pretty sure, with a high degree of certainty, will will
approve this deal and take the move to LA. It's
his favorite team as a kid. It's a no brainer
for him. But I think the Cardinals have to look
at the big landscape here and see if there's a
way that they can improve their pitching on a level
that they feel comfortable without having to do this deal.
(22:03):
I believe the Cardinals will try other avenues to upgrade
their pitching by moving other baths, but if they can't
get the pieces they need, the Dodgers are the best
team to go to get pitching. And I think, with
a high degree of certainty, this deal and this possibility
will be in play until the final hours on Tuesday,
(22:23):
And do not be surprised if by six pm Eastern time,
Nolan Arnotto is back home as a Dodger and Mike Goodness,
what a lineup that would be, joining Freddie Freeman, Mookie Bets,
Will Smith and all the others.
Speaker 3 (22:35):
All our rumor conjecture, speculation, the dartboards and photoshopping of
jerseys has begun. JP and Earnest Jason's trying to give
everybody away from the Mets. He's been wearing a sandwich
board for the last several weeks. How much activity do
we see with those extra wildcards, Because we've got some
terrible teams like my White Sox, but beyond them and
(22:58):
Tim Anderson actually hitting the ball. Well, well, so if
you're going to sell sell high hitting three ninety five
or so since the All Star break. But how many
big trades can we really see or or are a
lot of teams going to take the Angels approach of
trying to cling to what playoff life they have.
Speaker 5 (23:15):
Well, it's a great question, and I think one team
to watch very carefully in one that's been on the
border of buying and selling the San Diego Padres, and
reports increasingly today that they're actually open minded to moving Snell,
potentially open minded to moving Hater and even Juan Soto.
So if that's the case, that opens up a whole
(23:36):
other layer of possibilities to where Showy stays put. But
if Arnatto and or Soto move all of a sudden,
it becomes a really active deadline. There are a handful
of teams that I think are very clearly sellers. Pierpoint
the White Sox is definitely one of them.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
As Ian wants to give everybody, including the parking lot attendon.
Speaker 5 (23:57):
I saw that, and by the way, I I saw
Ozzy this week on the South Side, and let's put
it this way, that was a version of that statement
was also offered to me, so with some exactly I
will I will not. So so as we're what you
(24:17):
saw in the air was the redacted version, I would
I would describe that, but I would say this that
the Tigers will move some pitching. Michael Lorenzen is going
to move likely, the White Sox will move in, probably
Tim Anderson, Aaron Bummer, Joe Kelly. They'll move some pieces.
But I do think those teams that are on the
borderline still have an advantage. And in fact, because it's
(24:42):
such a seller's market, it incentivizes those teams like the
Padres to make that decision to put Wan Soto out there,
to put Blake Snell out there, and Josh Hader because
as as the Angels move into the by column, and
even potentially the Cubs because they've played better of late,
it incentivizes those teams, those other teams to become legitimate sellers.
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So I think you're going to see a lot of competition.
It's probably going to remain a seller's market until the weekend,
and then of course it becomes that pivot point where
on Monday and Tuesday GM starts saying, wait a minute,
I can save my owner some money by moving this reliever.
Let's do that. So there will usually become that pivot point.
But that's why it's it's going to be a day's
(25:26):
long staring contest. And I really think the two names
to watch in the market if you want, if you're
rooting for a blockbuster, talk about Soto, talk about Arnatto.
Those are the two names that I think could really
move a lot of prospects and get a lot of
excitement going on in the industry now that we know
the show is going to stay put.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
All right, JP, let's finish here. If I said to you,
complete the sentence. The big name that you wouldn't be
surprised to see dealt by the deadline, the big name
that maybe we're not talking about Pho, the big name
that you wouldn't be surprised to see moved by the deadline.
Who would that be?
Speaker 5 (26:02):
Justin Verlander? And there's been at least some talk, and Jason,
I think you've almost spoken this into existence because you
have been talking to me about this. I've been saying
no chance, no chance. But the giants have some interest
in them. And the big question, and this is where
I wonder about things. Jason how much of the forty
(26:24):
three million, yes, forty three million due to him next
year is going to be div beat up potentially if
the Giants are the team, do they do the Mets
pay half and then get themselves a decent prospect? Or
do the Giants say no, way, no how, You're gonna
have to do the Giants they have to pay even
(26:44):
more than that if you're depending on what kind of
prospect quality you give back and forth. So that to
me is the big thing. And the Giants of the team,
guys that remember they were in there on Judge, they
were in there years ago on Harper, they were in
there on Korea didn't work out. They've got the ability
to add payrolls. So I'm watching the Giants very carefully.
They needed like an eighth level starting pitcher could be
(27:05):
Justin Verlander if he's runny to waive that no trade
clause and move west.
Speaker 1 (27:10):
You can follow on Twitter at John Morosi. That is
at John Morosi MLB Network Insider and if I get
Verlander moved, dominant insider too. JP is always buddy appreciated.
If something breaks, we'll talk to you and then let
us know how The Michigan football team is looking as
you coach them as we get into the season.
Speaker 5 (27:26):
Well, I think Donovan Edwards Heisman Trophy candidate this year.
Mark it down. And if you get Verlander moved, you're
not just a good insider, You're the executive of the year. Wow.
Speaker 4 (27:38):
Look at that taking that. Oh, thank you so much, JP, appreciate.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
It all the best guys, thank you.
Speaker 4 (27:44):
Yeah, oh, look at that. Look at I'm the executive.
Speaker 3 (27:47):
No, no, no, moved.
Speaker 4 (27:48):
I got fun.
Speaker 3 (27:49):
That already happened by getting a deal made for sending
hard we talked about.
Speaker 4 (27:53):
That is true. That's true.
Speaker 3 (27:54):
And if that's already won, that that award is already
being printed and raped.
Speaker 1 (28:00):
Yeah, but how about Frostburg now going, No, we don't
want Verland. Oh wait, need go to the giants. Oh no,
we'll get for Lander. We'll get for Lander.
Speaker 4 (28:06):
Then we'll get it. We'll get it, we'll get it,
We'll get it. So they go.
Speaker 1 (28:09):
Great stuff there by John Paul Morosi on o'tani on
the trade deadline, Verlander, the possibility of Nolan Ronado.
Speaker 4 (28:17):
It looks good man. Some big, big stuff from JP.
Speaker 2 (28:21):
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Speaker 1 (28:30):
Radio The Jason Smith Show with My best friend Mike
Harmon obo live from the ti rack dot Com studios,
where the trade season has officially begun a week before
the deadline. And oh boy, is this fine. We had
keithk a Hernandez. That was a nice trade. Amed Rosario
was a pretty good trade. Now we're getting the Nolan
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Aronado rumors. We had Lucas Gialito going to the Angels
last night, and now the Mets have announced our season
is over. We are now selling. They have traded David Robertson,
who came in to close this year after Edwin Diaz
got hurt celebrating h in the World Baseball Class.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (29:10):
We haven't brought that one up in a while. How
everything changed in that moment. All the hope, all the expectations,
the efficiency of your bullpen all went to hell in
that moment.
Speaker 1 (29:22):
But Robertson came in did a pretty good job closing. Yeah,
and he look, he was in the last year of
his deal, a one year deal. And it looks like
from what I'm getting reports, the Mets are getting back
the eighteenth and twentieth rated prospects for the Marlins. One
is a big riser that people seem to be high on,
that the Mets are getting back.
Speaker 4 (29:43):
That's it.
Speaker 1 (29:44):
Look, hey, look, look, I don't know a lot about
I'm just getting last names that are on.
Speaker 4 (29:47):
I'm going, oh, okay, this is who is? This is there?
Who's there?
Speaker 1 (29:51):
They're they're getting one of the prospects, Marco Marco Vargas,
who supposedly rookie league player but is pretty good. The
other one could be catcher Ronald Hernandez, because all I've
seen from the check marks is that it's gonna be
Vargas and Hernandez. But I've not seen other names other
than that. But I'm looking at the top prospects of
the Marlins list. They're eighteen and twenty on the list.
(30:12):
So the Mets say goodbye, and I'll tell you this much.
Speaker 4 (30:14):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (30:16):
They have said we're open for business. They're making the
right decision. They have not won enough. This is not
a good team, right, They're just not good. It just
hasn't worked out. And Verlander and Surser have been pretty good.
Verlander's been really good the last few starts. He's pitched
extremely well. The last two starts have been great. I
told you last time that could be the last time
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we see him as a Met. And if a team
like the Giants, these are the best starting pitchers that
are out there.
Speaker 4 (30:43):
Are you gonna have to give up a lot?
Speaker 1 (30:45):
No, you'll cover The Mets will cover a little bit
of the money, and they will make a move and
go for next year. I'm telling you Steve Cohen will
say this didn't work with We don't want to trust
thirty nine and forty year old guys because it took
him too long to get going this year. Are pitching stunk.
Verlander and Schurzer are not only available, I would think
now it's more likely than not that they get traded,
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especially Verlander, who put him in a pendant race. A
lot of scouts say he'll gain a couple more miles
now are on his fastball, the adrenaline from being able
to pitch when he's when the team needs him, and
he's independent race. Verlander's gonna go man better option than Shuser.
I think both of them, but Verlander definitely, I think
he's gonna be traded.
Speaker 3 (31:24):
Yeah, also think that your owner should just option the
licensing to seth Rollins theme song burn it Down, But yeah,
Verlander shed the salary. Look, when we ever we start
talking about the prospects, it's rare that it's a name
that pops off unless you're really deep into the prospect world.
(31:46):
You're in deep dynasty fantasy leagues that include the prospect,
or you're just super fan. Look, I love the White Sox,
I have a love hate relationship with him. But do
I know their top prospects off the top of my head? No?
Speaker 4 (32:01):
Not generally.
Speaker 3 (32:03):
I'm not digging that deep because they're always used as
trade chips to try to do something. So same situation here,
but for your Mets, unfortunately, that's that's where you're at
in the season, right at some point you realize you're
sunk costs and see if you can't start building because
guess what, he has the wallet to go by the
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next great starting pitcher horizon.
Speaker 4 (32:27):
That's what we're gonna do.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
We're gonna reset next year and get younger guys who
may be better exactly, but the Mets have started. Make
your phone, I can negotiate on Steve Cohen's behalf. Oh,
by the way, more in the MLB trade deadline and
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