Locked On Mariners - Daily Podcast On the Seattle Mariners - BREAKING: Mariners Land Blake Hunt in Trade With Rays + Mailbag Monday!

Episode Date: November 6, 2023

The Mariners have swung a small deal with the Rays, swapping catching prospect for catching prospect with Blake Hunt coming in and Tatem Levins going out. Colby and Ty dissect the trade then answer some listener questions here on Mailbag Monday!Follow the show on Twitter: @LO_Mariners | @danegnzlz | @CPat11Support Us By Supporting Our Sponsors!FanDuelScore early this NFL season with FanDuel, America’s Number One Sportsbook! Right now, NEW customers get ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS in BONUS BETS with any winning FIVE DOLLAR MONEYLINE BET! That’s A HUNDRED AND FIFTY BUCKS – if your team wins! Visit FanDuel.com/LOCKEDON to get started.FANDUEL DISCLAIMER: 21+ in select states. First online real money wager only. Bonus issued as nonwithdrawable free bets that expires in 14 days. Restrictions apply. See terms at sportsbook.fanduel.com. Gambling Problem? Call 1-800-GAMBLER or visit FanDuel.com/RG (CO, IA, MD, MI, NJ, PA, IL, VA, WV), 1-800-NEXT-STEP or text NEXTSTEP to 53342 (AZ), 1-888-789-7777 or visit ccpg.org/chat (CT), 1-800-9-WITH-IT (IN), 1-800-522-4700 (WY, KS) or visit ksgamblinghelp.com (KS), 1-877-770-STOP (LA), 1-877-8-HOPENY or text HOPENY (467369) (NY), TN REDLINE 1-800-889-9789 (TN) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

The off season is now in full swing, so there's naturally tons of questions as trades of free agent signings can happen at any moment, just like today. Let's answer a few and also talk about the Mariners latest trade here on the Locked-on Maras podcast. Colby, hit it. You are Locked-on Mariners, your daily Seattle Mariners podcast, part of the Locked-on podcast network, your team every day. Ahoy, sailors. It is Monday, November 6, 2023. This is Tyting Gazzal. and Colby Petnode for the Lockdown Marrness podcast brought to you by Fandul.

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But first, chills. We have a trade to talk about folks. Jerry's season is underway. This is now the second trade, the mariner actually third trade the mariners have made this offseason they of course acquired uh i already forgot his name from the from the pirates the reliever from the pirates what was his name cody cody bolton oh gody bolton i do remember his name they also traded riley o'brien to the cardinals earlier today yep and uh and now they have per jeff passin of espn acquired a potential backup catcher

option in Blake Hunt from the Tampa Bay Rays in return for Tatum Levens who was an eighth round round pick back in 2022 for the Mariners. Hunt is a former competitive balance of round B selection all the way back in 2017. Pipeline I believe had him as the 28th best prospect in the race system which is obviously a pretty good system. I know he's somewhere around that range. Yeah, this is a this is a pretty cool deal. It's a small deal but it's a pretty cool deal. Colby, think about it. Yeah, a 69th overall pick of the 2017 draft. Yeah, there's, there's some interesting tools here. He's going to be 25 next week, so not a ton of room for growth traditionally. Sometimes guys are late bloomers, but he's a solid catcher, at least average at just about everything.

Some will say above average. There's some legitimate tools here. He's got a strong arm, but kind of a long release. So some things to clean up. He does have, or he did, have considerable raw power. There were some thoughts that he might be a guy who could pop, you know, 20 home runs from the catcher position. But, you know, he's kind of struggled to get to it a little bit. Had a pretty nice year in, in, across two leagues this year, spent most of his time, well, actually it was about evenly split between double A and AAA. He finished the year 256, 331, 484. He's right-handed hitter. You know, he's on the 40 man now he was going to be Rule 5 eligible. So Seattle just goes ahead and trades for him anyways.

And yeah, so he will be on the 40 man all winter. He's going to go into spring training with a shot to be the backup catcher. And that's kind of what his skill set suggests he can be. Not extreme splits as far as I can tell. So it's not like he is a perfect platoon match with Cal Raleigh. And Ryan Divish has already indicated that the Mariners aren't done at the position they would like to add another veteran backup option and kind of let him and, whoever that is and hunt kind of battle it out for that number two catcher spot so there like so there are some tools here there's some bat speed there is some raw power there is a strong arm and he apparently works very well with pitchers uh he's you know good blocker a good pitch framer he is a solid average catcher defensively at the very least uh with some offensive tools i don't think he's going to hit for a lot of average but again we're talking

about a backup catcher here right so if he gives you anything offensively whether it's a 400 slug or a league average, you know, on base percentage, basically any one skill offensively that a backup catcher can give you makes you a valuable piece. And of course, he's under club control for the next six plus years. And he's going to be very cheap. So, yeah, it's an interesting player. Again, he was in the Blake Snell trade. So, you know, former high-ishly touted prospect. We know how much Jerry likes these highly drafted guys and these guys who had big, you know, potential in their draft year. He's not afraid to go after them.

So this deal makes a lot of sense for the Mariners. And, you know, it gives them an option. It's another guy on your 40. It's a quality guy on your 40 man who at the very least is an upgrade over Brian O'Keefe and Luis Torentz at this stage of their careers. So he'll be turning 25 years old on Friday. So happy early birthday to the newest mariner, Blake Hunt. He spent time between AA and AAA this year, two,

53, 42, 455, that's 111 WRC plus, six home runs, 18 ribs in 37 games down in AA, and then in AAA, 263, 317, 518, 100 WRC plus, also six home runs, 23 RBI, and 30 games played at AAA. So he's going to be in the mix here, barring, you know, I think, obviously, if they sign Tom Murphy, he's going to be the backup catcher. but for now, Blake Hunt looks to be lined up to be in the mix

for the backup catcher role in Seattle. Right. And there's a pretty good chance Tom Murphy's going to miss time at some point. I think, you know, as unfortunate as that is, right.

We can feel pretty good about it, but it doesn't have to be, Murph, one guy that I think actually could, actually two guys, who they could bring in, both former Mariners. Mike Zanino is the guy

that you might consider. John J-so. I wish. But, Yeah, and obviously, Hunt has all of his options, too. So you can move them up and down for the next three years. It's fine. But Mike Zino could make some sense.

He traditionally has crushed left-handed pitching, not really the case last year, but Sunino didn't do much last year at all. But you know that he works well with pitchers. You know that he throws pretty well. He's a good defender, and he obviously has power. So that's the guy. One other name I would watch here, he's not a free agent yet, but I'm assuming he will be here in the next week or so.

How about Austin Nola, who was terrible. terrible for San Diego last year and really hasn't lived up to what the Padres gave up for him. But, you know, he's a guy who can catch. He knows this team well. Well, not this team. He knows the city well. He knows the organization pretty well. And he's a guy who also does offer some versatility.

You could play some first. You know, put them in at second or third. Like, there are some options here. So Divich says that the Mariners are going to continue to add to the catcher spot. I just wonder maybe Murphy's looking for starter money and Seattle is just not willing to go there. yet. So they make this move to kind of protect themselves and gives themselves, you know, more avenues to attack that backup catcher spot. There you go. So the Mariners acquire Blake Hunt from the Tampa Bay raise for Tatum Levens. Chills Jerry season has officially begun. Reagency

set to get underway here at 5 o'clock Eastern time, so 2 o'clock Pacific time. So that's an hour and eight minutes away from the time that we're recording this. So it's probably free agency has begun by the time that you're watching or listening to this. So yeah, we're right in the thick of things. Now, obviously, MLB free agency is a slower burn than other leagues. So I don't expect really any action today on the free agency front. But yeah, guys are free to negotiate with teams in about an hour or so. So we are going to be answering some of your questions because the mirrors were so rude.

and had to make a trade today. We were going to have to trim some of the questions that we were going to answer today, but we're going to get to some of them. And just a moment. But first, a reminder, this episode of the Locked-on Marys podcast is brought to you by Fanduel.

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Stephen Vogt, their bullpen coach in 2023, accepted the managerial position in Cleveland. He's going to be replacing Terry Francona. So good luck to Stephen Vogt, and the Mariners are going to have to get a new bullpen coach at some point here over the course of the offseason. So we'll keep an eye out for that. All right, let's get into your questions here on Mailbag Monday. Three foot nine wants to know.

Jerry and Justin said that last season's free agent failings were bad results, not bad process. But the EMS have swung and missed on almost all of their free agent signings in the Depoto era. up. What should they change in their process of evaluating free agents to make it successful? Colby. First of all, I'd like to say, I think we can get through all these questions. So that's our challenge. We have 20 minutes to get through. Lightning around.

All of them. So first of all, I would say I disagree with them. I think it was bad process pretty clearly. They kind of waited around for things to fall to them. and they didn't, and they didn't really have a plan B or a plan C. So, yeah, I think the change in their process should be they need to be more aggressive. I would like to see them go get something done, you know, in the next week or so. And, you know, not be afraid, not.

I think we all play with the guy, just, I think we all play with a guy in fantasy football who just like, you get, you know, all the way down the line on a deal. And then they just want to make it a little bit better for themselves. So they just kind of, you know, tack on or they just kind of, you know, maybe they, oh, if I wait, you'll, you'll come down to my price, right? And I think Jerry and they sometimes do that. They have their number. They're very disciplined.

We know that this front office is disciplined. And they say, this is our number. If you want it, come get it. If you don't, we're going to move on. I think you have to be willing to expand yourself, you know, push the boundaries of what you feel comfortable with in order to get stuff done early. And I think you have to get things done early. Otherwise, your process of waiting for the market is going to come back to bite you.

And that's how you're going to end up with Tommy Lestell as your opening day. DH. All right. So I think it's all about being aggressive. Jerry has no issue being aggressive on the trade market. He needs to translate that to free agency. You don't have to do you don't have to be stupid. You don't have to, you know, shell out an extra $50 million. Like that's not what we're asking. But if we're talking about $2 million a year is the difference right now to get a deal done right now, just do it. Just do it. Value comes at the end of the year or at the end of the market because, you know, everybody's gotten their guy already. It's not valuable. to wait and get the least desirable option because everybody else has picked the guy they like more that's not valuable be aggressive go out and get something done early i think that's the change they need to make in free agency right uh while i would agree that the uh the process and their overall approach to the off season was poor the the process with guys like tay oscar colton long a j pollock i like the process behind those moves i understood that i still understand it you know the the the fact that those moves, you know, didn't pan out, well, it doesn't really change that.

It just sucks that, you know, the results were obviously horrific, especially in the cases of Pollock and Wong. But overall, like, again, if there's a, there's a player like that, if there's another player like Wong or Pollock that, that presents themselves to the Marys, then I don't want them to be afraid of taking another chance on someone like that. like it totally like that that's I don't have any issue with that but yes they do absolutely have to get more aggressive here it's really like the process isn't about the guys that they've taken chances on it's about the guys that they haven't right and I feel like a lot of the times especially when we're talking more on the higher end it's about not giving that additional year or two or not being willing to to pitch in you know the extra couple million bucks that'll take the land them like they have to be more aggressive in that front as well not just in terms of jump in the market but also in terms of their offers. So, yeah, it's just more aggressiveness across the board, really, from the Mariners front office that's needed here in order for them to have more success and free agency. Mike wants to know, thoughts on what Merrifield and what kind of contract do you envision? Marrifield is terrible. He is not good. He is not good. However, the Mariners have been interested in him in the past. I expect them to kick the tires on him this off season. But he is

horrible. Like he was really bad. He got off to a nice start this year, but dude, he was first percentile on average X velocity. Second percentile on hard hit rate. Like he's a good base runner. Solid defender can play, you know, second. He can play quarter outfield. That's cool. Like, he can help hit there, but like offensively speaking, like, hitting wise, like, he's, he's, he's, he's rough. He's a rough watch. Uh, I would, like, I think the most I would do is probably like one year and seven mill. Yeah, you're not getting him. That's just what that means.

Which I'm fine with. Yeah. But yeah, I think he's probably older player. I think he's probably looking for two years, maybe three years is what he's going to want. And I think he's going to want, you know, in that eight to $10 million range, which on a one-year deal, fine. But I just, I think Josh Rojas is better. And so I'm not saying no to Merrifield straight up like Ty is. but yeah anything more than one year i'm going to be a little uncomfortable with uh so yeah yeah i

personally i bet he's i bet what he's looking for is three and 36 would be my guess somewhere in that range uh i don't think he's going to get it yeah but this is this is going to be a player's market okay it's a very weak free agent class and there are a lot of teams who think they can compete so he might get something close to that but for me it's it's you know one year like i i would rather take a chance on Merrifield than I would Tim Anderson but I don't really want Tim Anderson either so yeah like what what Marrifield has working for him is he doesn't strike out but he also doesn't walk at done like he's a below league average he's below league average in terms of walks yeah I think you know second guaranteed year anything over eight million dollars a year like I'm probably out on

merrifield but I think he's going to get something close to that yeah and at that point I'm out but I think the Mariners will be interested. All right. Next question here from Max. Eddie Rosario's option didn't get picked up. Do you see him as someone the Mariners should look to acquire? Yeah. To, you know, again, to a certain degree.

You know, he's an average hitter. He doesn't get on base much. Pretty good defender this year. I think he was like 80th percentile and outs above average. Not a good arm, though. But he's a solid player. He's a fine player who, you know, brings, you know, veteran qualities he's been a part of a championship ball club you know all that stuff if you

care about that stuff uh he has that and um you know he's he's a fine role player at this point in his career yeah i wouldn't take at bats away from kelmick to give to rosario um and he's not really a fourth outfielder like risario to me is a guy who needs to sign with like the nationals like a team that or you know just a team that's like if everything breaks right they could be in the playoff race and if not they could trade the guy at the deadline kind of like what the nationals did with the candelario like i think that's kind of um what i would say for rosario but yeah he's just kind of an average hitter above average uh average like batting average skills but he's not going to walk uh you know he's he's a hacker uh he's got good pop but it's not elite pop um yeah it just kind of league average strikeout rates

this last year he's fine he is a 100 w rc plus type of bat and and you know depending on what you do the rest of the winter it could totally work if he's your third best bat that you bring in okay like i could see it um but he's like a very specific fit uh for the mariners like the first two guys have to fill very specific needs and if they don't then risario doesn't make a ton of sense so i like i like risario i think he's a nice role player for even a good team i mean like the braves uh but i i don't think that he's somebody you target right away. I think he's kind of a fallback option.

Right, right. Next question here from Campbell. How much y'all think Willie Adomas would cost? He'd only be one year, I think, so he shouldn't be too expensive. Yeah, he's on the last year of his club control. I think MLB trade rumors projected him to make 12.4 mil in arbitration, so he's expensive.

We know that the brewers don't really want to spend money like that on guys like that. obviously coming off of a down year offensively with still like a three win player because of his defense I can't imagine that he's going to cost a ton like he's going to cost you something that like you'll like you'll be aware of like he'll cost you a prospect that you're aware of but um or maybe even two

but I don't think it's going to be anything too prohibitive I like it he's you know he's not my first choice there you know if we're going to address the middle infield but um if they ended up you know acquiring bullet Adamas, I'm cool with it because I think there's still a lot of upside in that bat and obviously he's a great defender. Now, the thing with that is like, optimally, like let's remove like emotions and all that, you know, from the equation for now. Like optimally speaking, like JP should probably be the second basement and bully Adama should be the shortstop if you were to acquire Adomas. Now, would they actually do that for just a year of a guy that's probably if I had to guess, like unless he pops? probably not going to be a part of this thing beyond 2024.

I don't know. I don't know. But optimally speaking, he should be the shortstop instead of JP and JP should play second. Right. And by the way, if you acquire Adomis, he doesn't have much of a choice, but do you want, is he okay with playing second? Because if he's not, you don't want that, you know, potential friction point into coming into the clubhouse.

Domus wasn't very good last year offensively. I mean, he wasn't terrible. He was like a 96 WRC plus or something like that. Yeah, I mean, he can't hit 90 home or 90. He can hit 30 home runs in the year. Wow, he can hit 90 home runs. Yeah, like sign by JP. But no, he can hit 30 home runs in the season.

Like you said, it's really above average a defense, maybe even plus. And, you know, before going to Milwaukee, he was running really good, solid, slightly above league average on base percentages, just the last few. years that's cratered. He's a little bit like JJ Hardy, if you guys remember him from Baltimore. So I think he's going to cost you maybe like a Jonathan Clossay and another like top 20ish prospect, depending on what what the brewers want to do, obviously. Maybe they don't want a fire sale or whatever, but I think he's going to cost you a notable prospect, but he's not going to cost you Cole Young, Colt Emerson, or even, I don't even think like Tyler Locklear. I think, I think,

you're the tier prospects below that even so they wouldn't be too too much but it's going to cost you a little something and it's not a perfect fit you know so uh something to consider it's a player i'm interested in particularly if he's willing to move to second base because i'm i'm not going to ask jp crawford who just posted a five-win season to move off a short stop so uh if he's going to have an issue with second base then i'm probably going to look elsewhere and there are going to be teams who want to acquire him to be a short stop and so they're probably going to be willing to pay a little bit more than Seattle. Now, if JPM's open to it, great. Like, even if it's just in the short term, awesome. Sure. Because again, if we're talking about trying to optimize the roster, then yeah, that's how you would want to line things up.

But I think it's just, I think, I think JPs are in the right, though, you know, to say like, yeah, I'm not cool with that. So, no, I mean, like, if JAPE's like, no, I want to be the shortstop. Okay. That's what being a five-win player gets you. Okay, get you a little bit of leverage. Yes, Captain. So if JP doesn't want to move, then I guess either Adomas has to or you're looking elsewhere. You're listening to the Lockdown Mariners podcast. Thank you again for making us your first listen here on Mailbag Monday. We've got a few more of your questions to answer.

Let's go to Momo here. For Colby, what's the opinion regarding the Mariners that you don't agree with personally, but respect the most? And for Ty, why are the Mariners your team? And what's the best place to get Poutine in Canada? So Colby, I'll kick it to you first. I have a question. Okay. What does respect mean?

The answer is nothing. If you disagree with me, you're an idiot, clearly. Yep, that's the answer that I was expecting. That's the real answer. Now, what I'll say to appease some people now. I think honestly, like a lot of the times, like, when people bring up, like, specific players that, like, acquisitions or stuff like that, I'll say, like, no, I don't want to do that or whatever. whatever, but like, of course, I totally respect that, like, you bring them up, like, yeah, fine. Like, for example, there are some people who are like, do whatever it takes to acquire

Shohei Otani. And I'm like, I don't know about whatever it takes, but obviously, yeah, like, I want showy Otani. Like, if somebody out there is going to be like, they should spend $250 million on Cody Ballinger, I'm going to be like, I don't know, they should spend $2.50, but like, I get it. You know, and so there are some questions. Like when, when, probably not when people say, like, fire. Scott's service.

Like, that's probably a step too far, but like, I understand it. I understand why people are frustrated with Jerry Depoto right now. I totally get it. I just think that, you know, oftentimes we frame the conversation incorrectly. And the opinion that is being expressed gets turned into something that it's not. And so that's, I'm just there to kind of try and turn it back because, like, I think not the idea that you should fire Jerry DePoto, but the idea that Jerry Depoto deserves criticism for what happened the last two acquisition periods. Yeah, absolutely. So I just think that, you know, a lot of

the times, um, a lot of player acquisition things like, for example, when we do fan fiction Friday, which might be coming back if Ty doesn't think of some new ideas, um, when you do fan fiction Friday and we throw out like 20 grade trades or whatever, that's not personal for you guys. Like, I appreciate that you took the time to think about, you know, a player or something like that. And also, we're not like thinking about what grade we're going to give those trades. until we actually get to them in the show. Like we're not thinking about it beforehand. And like,

it's just like the quick reaction. It's just snap reaction on the show. Like whatever. Yeah, but mostly if you guys are interested in a player or something that I'm not interested in, it's not that I think you're an idiot for wanting that player. Okay. It's just like,

I just like the Nolan, the Nolan, the Nolan's stuff, right? Yeah. I don't, I don't think that that's proper value for Bryce Miller or like that's the ideal return for me when I think of an ideal Bryce Miller trade.

I don't think of Nolan Gorman. But I get, why people want Nolan Corbyn? I totally understand that. Yeah. I, the same thing with like the Baltimore guys, right? Like I don't want any of their prospects for my pitchers.

Sure. I want major leaguers. Can I understand why somebody would look at Colton Couser and Connor Norby and be like, ooh, like I want, yes. Right. I can absolutely see that. But yeah, just for me,

it's different. So mostly player personnel moves. I pretty much respect all of those, except when it's like, you know, fire this guy. because, you know, he didn't run out the ground ball to first base every single time. And it's like, okay, like, that's being silly.

But for the most part, yeah, player acquisition stuff, I mostly respect pretty much all those ideas, unless they come from a certain somebody and you know who that is. It's me. Yeah. Why are the Mariners my team? I was born in Washington, live there for the first 12 years of my life. So that's very simple. My dad was a fan of the team since they're.

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really I just here's the deal right he's probably gonna get at least based on what I'm reading something close to the Yoshita deal which was I think five and 90 remember remembering correctly if I had to pay this guy

a hundred million dollars to get him to come here. And I'm not convinced he's going to be a plus bat for at least a couple of years, and I'm not. I just feel like I can do better for the $100 million bucks. Because one thing we have to understand with Lee is that he's a slap hitter. You know, he's got some pop,

but that takes a while to translate. I mean, you look at Hassan Kim, it took him probably about two years to fully kind of integrate. Now every player's different and all that. I understand that. But am I willing to take the risk that I'm going to give this guy $20 million a year? right 20 million dollars and he's going to come in and he's going to hit 270 with you know a 330 on base and the 380 slug it's fine it's acceptable for a rookie but it's not great it's not a hundred million dollars worth so i just think i can do better for that money i like the player uh i just i don't i want to put a lot of value on 2024 and 2025 and i don't want to bet on players who are highly i don't want to say highly unlikely but players who are not highly likely to produce above average output at the big league level.

And I just don't trust Lee to do it. I like the player. I like the profile just fine. And I think if Seattle had, you know, another core player in its, you know, and its actual core,

then I think Lee makes a lot of sense. But like, like if you go get Cody Bellinger, right, or you go sign Joe Ha'Otani, then yeah, bring me Lee. Lee's a perfect compliment to that.

But he's not those guys. He doesn't have that punch. And I'm looking for some more punch. if I'm going to spend $100 million on a guy, particularly guys that I need to be good in 24 and 25. And that's, I just don't feel that comfortable that Lee's going to beat that guy. Wouldn't be mad if they did it.

But like I just, I think I'm lower on him than most people. Right. And it's just so hard for us specifically to assess Lee because, you know, we, I've never watched Young Klee play. Like aside from clips here and there,

uh, he played in the WBC, right? So I probably watched him. during the WBC, but I wasn't like, you know, watching him, watching him. So I don't know. I really don't know how to, how to assess him to the point where I'm like, yeah, they should go get that guy.

I believe in him. I think that he's going to be worth that $100 million or whatever it's going to take to bring him here. I just, I don't, I don't really have enough information to say that. If the mirrors feel that way, then cool. All right. I'll trust them on that, at least to a certain degree. And we'll see how it plays out.

But overall for me personally, I just, I don't know enough about the guy to say that he's worth that kind of money and that kind of contract. So I, I, yeah, it doesn't mean that he's not. I just like, with the information that I have, I would prefer that they just go with what I know, right?

But, hey, if they, if they think that he's worth it and it pans out, awesome. Great. I would just say this. Lee can't be the big, like, offseason acquisition. Like, he can't be the guy. Right. Yeah. Yeah. No, if he's the second guy, maybe if he's the third guy, okay, now we're

cooking. Perfect. Yeah. Yeah. If he's the guy like, oh, look at what they added Junghuli. He's the guy who's going to carry them to the division. Probably not. Probably not. Yeah. All right. Last question.

This one should be pretty quick. D. Panky wants to know. The Mariners traded for Tayasker and in his last year on November 16th. What odds do you give the Ems making a trade by that date this year? Or do you expect the trade market will likely take time to develop this offseason for the ends? 100%. Is Blake Hunt not good enough for you, D. Panky? I mean, he is for me 100%.

They made a trade before November 16th. Yep, yep. Yep. Already happened. Somebody's not paying attention. They've actually made three trades. I mean, like, I don't know what you're talking about, man. But, uh, no, like an actual major league trade.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think, I mean, they seem like they're already pretty active on the phones right now, um, more than the most teams right now. So they're probably cooking up something, you know, bigger. And I think are the GM meetings this week? Today.

Or they're today? Okay. So, you know, that's where conversations that occurred during the deadline get picked up. That's where discussions that are going to continue on into the, you know, winter meetings and all that start to get going. So. But yeah, I think they do. Seattle traditionally will make one, you know, pretty major announcement or acquisition before Thanksgiving. so which is why Ty loves it so much did you know that I love Thanksgiving right so yeah I haven't

had an opportunity to put that in an ad so you know I do think that they they will make a a sizable trade in the next 10 days that would be my guess agreed agreed yeah Randy a Roserana works for me yeah all right also the rays don't have a GM right now so perfect to strike. Yeah. Didn't prevent them for making a trade. New, new,

new regime. You know, maybe they don't like Radio Rosarano over there. Maybe they, you know. All right, what's the question today

for, uh, the listeners, Chloe? Were they on a break? If you don't know what we're talking about, screw you anyways. Shame on you.

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