Talkin' Baseball (MLB Podcast) - Juan Soto TRADED to the Padres! | 521

Episode Date: August 2, 2022

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Hello and welcome to an impromptu episode of Talking Baseball. The big trade has gone down. It has happened. Soto to the Padres. Maybe. Hello and welcome to Talking Baseball presented to you by Seat Geek. My name is Jimmy. Sit next to me is Jake, Trevor, coming you live from California.

I'm producer BBD in the corner. Love us a little impromptu trade episode. Now the deal is not final, final, final. because there's a very fun wrinkle in the process, but we do believe that Soto will end up on the Padres for the rest of this season and the next two. And the whole package is fun to talk about because Bell's included and we have a Hosmer wrinkle.

And I guess first and foremost, this wasn't something that anyone thought three months ago, two months ago was possible. and then we heard the rumors and I was I was saying nah that I'd probably just wait to the offseason Juan Soto generational talent being traded this is once in a decade once in every 15 20 years type trade incredible Jake your initial thoughts of it actually happening James Trevor BBD who it's happening man one Soto to the Padres my first initial thought God So happy for Padres fans. Man, this is a franchise that I don't like saying the phrase irrelevant because it's not a word.

But, I mean, the Padres since that, what, that 98 World Series team, they, you know, they haven't been on the forefront a lot. And then they signed Machado. And I know we even gave them a little guff. Like, all right, Manny, like, I guess see you in like 10 years. And then Tatise's emergence. and now Juan Soto, they have three generational young players on their team, along with a lot of other guys. They got Hater the other day.

They had another team around it. Their starting pitching is stacked. I couldn't be happier for San Diego and Padres fans. Also, this is one of the five smallest market teams doing this. So if you have a small market team, know that your team can very much do this. There's a lot of prospects going over to the national. and Nationals fans, guess what? I'm rooting for you, too.

I hope they click. But just playing the odds on it, a couple of them might. But man, the San Diego Padres, they got Juan Soto. They are instantly thrust into World Series contenders. I don't think there's any argument around that. A little Josh Bell kicker, he's been awesome this year. I'm happy for the Padres. I'm surprised there's not one more, I guess,

superstar, superstar prospect. We'll get into that later. But Trev, T. Payne, you were live with Rosie while this was going down. What do you got? It's, we knew this day was coming, you guys. But like when it's actually here and it's better than you anticipated, this is something that doesn't happen all the time, guys. I was excited about the deal for the Polly Trace, obviously.

I love that Josh Bell is in there as well, but that's kind of been the hiccup. because now you have a guy Eric Hosmer with basically at all the power in this. The nationals are on his 10-team, no-trade clause. Scott Boris represents him. You know what Scott Boris likes? leverage. Hodgemer's got the leverage right now.

I am texting everyone asking, what is Haz going to ask for? That's a whole different side of this. As far as the baseball side, Juan Soto, coming into that lineup. I asked Chris Rose this question. Is there a more fear? some group of three hitters than Juan Soto,

Franon Tatis Jr. and Mani Machado. I don't know if there's a better back to back to back in baseball right now. This is incredible. I'm on that same page as you, Jake. I believe this puts them on par with the Dodgers, the Mets, and the Braves. They are legit World Series contenders. They have Juan Soto for two and a half years.

You've got to be freaking ecstatic if you're a lot of, Padres fan, which is in San Diego is an incredible baseball town. I think this is going to be amazing. I love the wrinkle in it. That's incredibly fun. I also, the prospect package, we can, I can do that for you guys real quick. There's a lot of different ways people look at these. I think, I would hope teams look at like the actual players.

Sometimes teams just say, give me, give me two of your top five, you know. But the Padres do trade four of their top ten. prospect. CJ Abrams is their number one in the org and he got called up a shortstop. He's been playing this year. Robert Hassel, the third outfield prospect, first round pick. Abrams also a first round pick. He's number three in the org. He's in high A. James Wood. He's 19 years old. He was a second round pick. He's number five in their organization. And I don't know how to say this, Jarlane Susana. He's 18 years old in rookie ball, but number eight in their org. So those, and McKenzie Gore, he's not a prospect anymore.

I guess is he still kind of? Technically, they have their graduating rules that you play a certain amount of games. You're not a prospect anymore. I mean, people, if you're a baseball person, you're probably familiar with him. He was a top prospect. Then he wasn't. And then he's actually pitched really good this year. So he's in that prospect bucket of baseball that nobody really knows anything.

So there are, you know, all the, four outside of Gore are number 10 in the Padres organization. Now, I don't really care about organizational rank because you can have a bad organization and then it doesn't matter much. So you have Abrams who's 16 overall, Hassel 55th overall, Wood 81st. So three of them are top 100 overall. Only one is top 50. And a quick shout out to Fangraphs. You know how quickly they change their roster resource page. They already have the guys on the nationals. And Abrams would be their one technically, according to Fangraphs. Hassel 3, Wood 4.

And all of those guys are above Elijah Green, who is just their first round draft pick. So it's economies of scale, and it kind of doesn't matter. Now, that deal makes sense for me, for Soto. When you throw in, they get the rental of Bell as well as having a good year, and they're trying to get Hosmer's money off the books. I don't know.

I like this for the Padres a lot more than like it for the Nationals. 100%. I was expecting the Nationals like to get, I don't know, more. Jim Bowden says if Hosmer is in the Nats trade, Nats would pay this year's salary, but San Diego would pay

the years after whatever that does for you. Yeah. Still some moving parts. The Hosmer end is fluid. I think, yeah, the Hosmer part is fluid. I'm wondering that does Hosmer say, you know what, I have

my contract, I know I got a bunch of guarantee money, but it would also be fun to become the next Bobby Bonilla? Right? Like, can he just say, like, give me a million dollars for the next hundred years? A year. One million for the next hundred years. Like, he could do that, I think. I love that you just tweeted out the

I'm the captain now for Hosmer, because we kind of don't know. We just don't know the rules right now. Can Eric Osmer literally demand anything? We don't know that part, and I wonder if, I mean, we talk about this a lot. Like the people in front offices, there's a lot of smart people. There's also a lot of people that are probably just like you and me, whoever's listening, that you'd love to think they have a side of this figured out if Hosmer drops a hard no,

whether it's another team or it's changing up the package or something. you'd love to think that. And this is the other part, and I don't know how well either of you can speak on it, but Boris is pulling a lot of strings here because he's pretty much everyone's agent involving this trade. So I have no idea where the rules start and stop.

Yeah, it is kind of odd that Boris represents Soto, right? And he can tell Soto say no to that extension or like let's not do that extension. Obviously, he's his own person. By that would be his agently advice. And then he also can hold up this trade by advising Hosmer to decline. He has a lot of power, this guy, Boris. It's interesting because they're going to find a way to do this deal with or without

Haas, I think. I think San Diego would obviously much rather have Haas except the trade, get his money off the books, but they're going to figure out a way to do this with or without him. If he actually says no, and they still get the trade down,

then he becomes like a bench player on that team. Does that make him, he has to think about it. Is he going to be happy there? Like, is that a scenario that happens? If he says no,

they find a way to still make the trade, Josh Bell comes over, takes over at first base, Hodge is relegated to a bench roll. I think there's a scenario where that can happen. Is it going to be happy in that? Like, roll?

I don't know. I mean, you have to, what does he value right now is, you know, got a baby on the way? And he lives in San Diego. And it's three years, not just like a rental, whereas like you're going there for a couple months. It's three years. And also, Treve, like maybe he says no. You're saying in the chat, James, that he said no. He did say no. He said no currently. Yeah, he said no, but. No, but. No, but. Yeah. As of now. Yeah. As of now. But no, but $100 million. Well, paid out over 100 years, one a year. I think right away you say no if you're Hosmer and you see what happens because maybe they get a third team involved now and there's another place that's not on his no trade. Like if you're a team that's not on his no trade clause, maybe you're getting called right now to be part of a three way trade.

Jake, you had a premonition, maybe a half joke, but. No, it's just there's a guy that we give time to up in Boston that, you know, the Padres front office, you have to have backup plans. have to. You have to. Everyone talks about the job of being a general manager being so crazy and difficult. You have to have other plans lined up that, I don't know, like the Boston Red Sox have been looking for a defensive first baseman for a while. I know Hosmer's contract is tough at this point, but we just got some rumors that they were willing to pay part of his contract. Would Boston take Hosmer with a couple prospects? Do they have something figured out with the Nationals if the Hosmer part of this falls through that,

Does the prospect package change at all? You know, Jimmy first said it when this started happening throughout our office. Remember when the Mookie Betts trade was going down? And we, you know, the Gratterol, his starting pitching injury history got brought up and that got held up for like a day, day and a half or something like that. We don't have that kind of time right now. You have to think there's some plan that everyone in baseball has literally just reported that Juan Soda will be going to the point.

Padres that they can figure that part out. I do love that Eric Hosmer is in the captain's seat. I know he's a guy that you've always loved, Trev. And I think that was the other thing that we started laughing at. Like someone asked, I forget if it was Joe's was like, are Padres players going to be mad if Hosmer just shoots a hard no? And me and Jimmy kind of landed on a firm like, no, because I think Hosmer has so much respect from players because,

A, he got the bag, which only so many players truly get. And he's got a no trade clause, which is part of the dream of becoming an elite player. And he's got a 10-team trade clause in one of those 10 teams is the Washington Nationals, which you got to wonder why that is. Is it just he's a left-co's guy? I don't know. I don't know the other nine teams on that list, but some pretty good funny business here. Look, I'm on Twitter.

Guys, we're reacting to this live, okay? So Bob Nightingale just put out a tweet 18 seconds ago. The Juan Soto deal is done with the Padres and does not include Eric Cosmer. Awesome. Okay. So I wonder if anything changes there. Or if it's straight up just like, nope.

And I mean, how badass would it be if Hosmer does stay becomes like bench utility Hosmer and they win the title? And he's like, screw you guys. I wanted that ring too. I was thinking like another way around it would be to add another team who's not on his no trade list. Like a three way, like Jake loves to do. Like this is something that they, I guess,

don't have to figure out anymore. I'm so confused right now. Twitter is just banging right now. Yeah. Let's talk about the Padres lineup now. I mean, if, if Tatis, he's on his way back, you got ProFar, Soto, Tatis, Machado, Bell,

Cronworth, Voit, Alfaro, Grisham? Is that what it is? I mean, is this kick Myers? Mizarro's been playing a little bit. When Tatez comes back, does that kick Kim? Or does he go somewhere else? I guess that's a question for Padres fans that follow much closer than I do.

But that's a crazy little lineup. And don't sit, don't let it overshadow Bell too much. It should, because you're getting soda for two and a half years. Josh Bell is having He has a 3-01 batting average He has 14 home runs I think an 800 OPS

He's having a good season That is a nice piece on its own That's why I'm surprised the nationals Traded them together Because it felt like Bell was going to be able to fetch you Sopton On his own I think they like the Major League talent they were getting back

I think they really like Gore and Abrams You know, they knew they were going to get some prospects back. But I think when you're trading away guys like this, like you at least want, who at least want to be able to compete quickly again. You know what I mean? Like you don't want to sell everyone and then have a five year abyss. Right? Like that is a way to absolutely lose your fan base.

If you can say, hey, we traded away our guys. It's for the betterment of our franchise. Is that a word betterment? Sure. sure sounds like one. I don't know. But if you have guys, I mean, look, you got Ruiz up there from the Dodgers deal last year,

Josiah Gray, Abrams, Gore, you're seeing the fruits of the trades on the field. I think that helps a little bit with the psyche of your fan base. And then you say, okay, we also got these prospects. They'll be up there. I think that's, it makes it a little bit more palatable. But I don't know, man.

The nationals have lost a lot of really good players of the last three years, four years. It's kind of shocking, to be honest with you. It's going to be a meme. There's going to be a picture of all those guys together. And they're going to say, remember when the nationals had all these guys? I told C. Rose, if they hadn't have won the World Series in 2019, this is like riots in the city for them fan base.

But I think because they won in 2019, like, people are like, all right, got our World Series, rebuilding a little bit. I think that is a major factor here for the nationals that, we're not talking about. Trev, you bring it up a lot, and I think sports fans just move past it because we don't, in our nature of being sports fans, we don't care about the owners.

We like watching the people play the sport normally. But man, circle both of these teams. The San Diego Padres do not need to be spending and going out and getting players like this. But their owner wanted to. Remember, he had some kooky quotes. a couple years back. He said if we don't compete next year,

heads will roll. And then they completely tanked the second half. And they fired the coach and they make some other changes as well. Maybe just firing Tingler was the heads rolling. But, you know, and now look at the Washington Nationals. They're trying to sell the team. They're basically clearing out the books and resetting the franchise after they won the World Series that, man, ownership is so important.

to your sports franchise. And yeah, man, if you're a Nationals fan, I mean, God, you got to be nervous about who's going to answer that phone because that's going to dictate your next, like, 30 years of fandom. You hope you get the Mark Cuban type or maybe a Steinbrenner Light or someone who wants to go. I mean, those Tigers teams, Trev, I know you were super familiar with them. Wasn't it Illich in some of his later years? and he was basically like, I will do anything to win. So that changes the tone of your franchise so much.

And the Padres have that right now. And I'm starting to look at the lineup in their roster after getting Hater yesterday. I think they might add a little bit more sugar on top, man. Because why wouldn't you? All right, this is what's going on. I'm on Twitter right now, and I'm thinking of all the scenarios

because this Hosmer thing is a big deal, people. I know we're talking about Juan Soto, and people are mad at me because I forgot Trey Turner, Freddie Freeman, Mookie, Betts, very good threesome. I was going to say that. I was going to counter with that, but I respect it. It's two very good

threesomes. Yeah, very good, okay? Let's just get the as the expert in the field, I think the Padres, Treve used a great word, maybe a bigger threat. Maybe a bigger threat trying to get through those three hitters.

But those Dodgers guys can burn you're pretty good and in a lot of ways. Soto counts as mental exhaustion as well. Yeah, he's like dancing. Yeah, he's in your face. Are you going to get into this ad reader? Can I do my point? Oh, I'm getting hard just thinking about it.

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in this get roman.com slash talking. Okay. I don't have low T. You're just the oldest... You're the oldest statesman on here, so you've got to keep track of it. A couple things on the Hosmer front. I just can't wrap my head around this.

I'm going to give a couple scenarios. One, I talked about another team could trade for him. That's not on his no trade clause, right? He goes to somewhere else where he'd be more happy. He's going to be miserable in D.C. Eric Hosmer, let me tell you something. Not into politics.

He doesn't want to live in D.C. I can promise you that. The other scenario is, and this is far-fetched, but I'm going to throw it out there for people. Osmer's got three more years after this, I believe. He's got 23, 24, 25, where he's making $13 million a year.

What if he's just like, DFA me? I thought about that. The Alesbury, just like doesn't want to go anymore. I will go home. I got a baby coming. I got all the money I'll ever need in the world and I can just move on with my life. Look, people, being a major league baseball player

is so fun. It's amazing. Probably one of the best jobs in the world. There's no doubt about it. Hawser's got 10 years of service time. He's got his ring. He's got money. He's got.

a baby on the way, like that is an appealing option at this point in someone's career. Can I can just go home? And you're going to pay me all that money? Like, I'm not saying he wants to do that. This guy has a dog. He likes playing baseball. Like, I'm thinking about it out of the box a little bit because we do have to figure this thing out.

Would you rather do that or sit and kind of like be on the bench for the next three years? I hated being on the bench. After being a starter for that long, it's very, very hard to go to the bench. you think the nationals will play you into a trade and no one's going to trade for his contract. Unless he's really, really good in the last year. You get to play like in a no pressure environment and try to build up something. I get the things we don't know. That's what he was doing with the Padres and they were supposed to build around him and then they did and now he's gone.

BPD mentioned it like what were the Padres truly willing to pay on his contract? Because that changes a lot of a lot of different things. Trev, I appreciate it, and maybe it's true, but like, this guy was in the middle of a playoff race this year coming to work every day and playing. Like, I don't think he's like, oh, we got Soto and Bell. Well, best of luck, fellas, and retires. I don't know Haas that well. I know you guys have a lot of mutual respect, nice beards, corner infielders,

hot wife's, if you don't mind me saying that. I don't know if Hosmer reminds me saying that. that yeah man i i don't know the resolution if i had to place a bet right now it would be that hossamer doesn't end the day on the Padres i mean think about everything he's already been through he's already been through a bunch of trade rumors they've tried to trade him a bunch of times that now that it's out there and on the table and if they were willing to pay some of it to go to the gnats because the gnats didn't want hossmer then they should probably be willing to trade him elsewhere. So I assume that is the next step. If he does end up on the bench, I mean, that

becomes a really interesting story. And maybe that ties in more to your like, maybe Eric Osmer then does take a step back and is like, hey, you know, I am in the latter part of my career. I do have a baby coming in a couple days. Like, maybe I'm going to kind of enjoy this a little differently and also everybody on a playoff roster has an opportunity at some point. Maybe Eric Cosmer knows that and waits for that and supports that. But I don't know. I mean, that's somebody else's headspace that's got to be really tough to get into right now. If he, I mean, if he's not part of this trade, what is there, the Padres have to move

him, right? Because otherwise who gets screwed, void? I have no idea. Or I guess they have to. time today to move void he's a rental you can't have bell void and osmer i mean you got a dh and bench but one of your you can't a bench person that can only play first base isn't a great bench person when your dh can play first base and when you already have two first base dh guys yeah so if he gets diffade he becomes a free agent i believe yeah i mean they can then there's another no

they can't trade him. They can't. The DFA him to have some time to trade him again. Ten days. Does the deadline still affect that? Does the DFA deadline? I don't think so. Isn't that what Jose Glazey was just not be eligible for a playoff roster for the new team?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think he just wouldn't be out. Because didn't Jose Iglesias still with the Red Sox last year? I think you need to be on the team's roster a month before the playoffs start. Yeah, I thought that was September. I thought that was like August 31st. So did it change with? Like the new deadline.

Do you want me to call him on this? Let him know. Let him know he's being recorded. Or mute yourself and get some info. I'll meet myself all I ask. I think we have some questions for an agent. I think they could be useful for our show. You guys keep going.

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So what if Eric Hosmer does at the end of this, the solution is he just gets DFA'd or he's a free agent. You know who could use a nice little lefty bench piece? The Dodgers. Dodgers Padres stir the pot a little bit. That's what, well, so what happened with Jose Iglesis last year was that the dog, the angels released him in September. So just DFA, no waiver wire trade.

And then the Red Sox signed him as a free agent. But because he wasn't on the 40 man a month before. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I'm just saying they can still DFA, Hosmer, and he can get picked up somewhere. He can sign somewhere. They just wouldn't be able to trade him, I guess. I don't know.

They'd have to straight release him. The straight release. Yeah, I guess DFA is out. Yeah. It's just release. Yeah. Which means they'd have to pay him. So we're going to get a Hosmer.

So Hosmer has to go somewhere. Because if they're already willing to pay part of it, Yeah. Then he's going to go some. They were already willing to pay Hosmer to not be on the team so Voight, Bell, and the bench can exist. Voight and Bell. That's a lot of meat. Yeah.

That's a lot of meat. Yeah. I think there's a chance they could, like some team will give something for Void. Obviously, he's expiring. But I think they want them. I think they want them. They're paying to not have Hosmer. So they're not going to just turn around and now get rid of Boise.

It's not what they want to do, but I could say. see it happening if that's what they have to do. You'd rather have Bell and Soto. Well, the deal's going through. Yeah. It's not holding up the deal. Right. It's just they're stuck with Hosmer.

They need to figure out a way to get Hosmer out. So it's DFA or find a trade partner. Well, it doesn't seem like they're going to find a trade partner unless it's another huge deal. I don't think so. I mean, I guess, so if Hosmer is officially out of the deal, which, It sounds like he is from Nightingale Who has some ups and downs on the beat Does it concern you that Passan hasn't

Reported this at all? I mean like half I mean I'm sure he's working on I know he just did a TV spot Good job Jeff Jeffie P My guy on the Big Tube A pass nine minutes ago Said like the deal will happen

You're right have iterations with or without Hosmer. He just hasn't said anything since that. You'd like to think that then when they were talking about this whole deal, they had a plan if Hosmer said no. And maybe the amount of money the nationals were willing to eat on Hosmer would have made it net neutral so it didn't change the prospect package at all. If you do that calculator thing, right, I never do.

Actually, Hosmer makes it lopside and you take them out. It's more fair, I think. So yeah. So it's funny if they do it and the same exact prospects, everything else is the same, just Hosmer's out in it. And then Nats are like, oh, we were about to, oh. Yeah. Our bad.

Yeah. So I don't know. I mean, Hosmer has to go. Hosmer has to go somewhere by the end of today. IMO. What, uh, would you, would you pick up from, uh, our agent correspondent expert, Trev? He didn't really want to come on. I think he just doesn't want to like overstep

and talk about somebody else's client. But he told me that you can, if you do get DFAed after the trade deadline, there is still like a trade option. Oh, okay. So that's the way you can skirt the deadline. You can still make a trade of sorts. I think,

I don't know how DFA stuff first. Didn't that go away this year? Didn't that go away? I think last year went away. There hasn't been a waiver wire deadline, yes. I guess if he gets DFAed, he's technically like not on a 40-man roster and those trades are fully allowed in August.

Well, because you'd have to, like, after your DFA, you get 10 days to clear waivers. So wouldn't there have been a DFA deadline then, if that was the case? Like, wouldn't it still move them? 10 days ago, reporters would have been like, this is the DFA deadline if you want to still move them

after their DFAed. I don't know, man. Getting dizzy. I don't know what's going on either. I just had like some tweet up talking about like the what's going on. Like I want to be like in the house, bro. I want to see what the reactions are in the clubhouse and up in the front office and stuff like that. This is crazy.

You have to wait for a documentary. They are 12 games back behind the Dodgers, the Padres. They have 12 games left against the Dodgers. So you're a Padres faith. you just take Soto, Bell, go 12 and O against the Dodgers, you're back in the division. No, they're trying to get the number one wild card. That's the only thing they can do because you want to have those games at home.

I think right now it would be them versus the Braves. They'd have to go in the Truest Park and play three games against them. That doesn't sound fun, dude. No. I don't care who you have on your team. Like this is so I think right now, they're not going to catch the Dodgers. I'm sorry, man. The Dodgers don't do epic collapses.

They just don't. So that's their number one hope now is to be hosting the Wild Card series. Three games set and you go Darvish or Musgrove, one, two, and then you have Cleve, I think. They're four and a half back. They're four and a half back of the Braves. I know Sneller's been up and down,

but that dude also has some big-time playoff performances in the tank. So if he's a guy that gets hot around, September. The Padres have options, man. It's why I've really loved their, pitching from the start of the year. I've been saying for a while, Tatis is going to come back. What else are they going to add? If you told me Josh Bell, I would have said, ooh. And Juan Soto and Josh Bell. This team is a problem, man. And remember, remember the weird COVID year when the San Diego people were partying in the streets and we were half excited, half like guys? Man, bring that energy. Because,

I mean, these guys are going to love it. Dude, three, all of them are Dominican, right? I think Joe's, Joe's is recording in the other room right now. He's all excited. Like, this has a chance to just be awesome energy for these San Diego Padres. And I don't know if we, do we want to do a little gnats? Do we want to do a little like, you know, the Cardinals were supposed to be a real team in on this? Do we want to do some of the ripples?

No, no, they still might make trades. we're coming back later today to wrap up the rest of it. Like a question I've had on my head that I don't want to answer now and do it later is what have the Blue Jays done or are doing? Cardinals. Rodgers. Well, there's still players out there. There's a lot. We plan on being.

Five hours left or whatever. We plan on being live at 3.30 Eastern. And as trades come in, recapping anything that happens in between now and then and then going. And I think we should go a little bit like those teams. Like what's going on? where there's going to be a lot more that happens teams need stuff uh all the big names are gone now castillo montas montas soto bell there's going to be more there's the there's going to be a flurry of trades

because we were sort of waiting for the juan soto ball to drop and then everything kind of gets rolling after that we have some good trades this morning to talk about but we'll save those save those those yeah we'll do a little a whole recap later today this this warranted its own big reaction and I do think the Nats probably put so much mental energy into the Soto trade and they were like, let's just fucking make Bell part of this.

Take them. And then just wash our hands and enjoy our deadline and go to sleep. If you're a Nationals fan, just lie to yourself for two and a half years and say you're going to resign Soto then.

Hmm. Because he wants back now. For sure. Problem solved. Yeah. All right. We'll be back later today to recap the other, the other trades that have happened, trades that are about to happen, and maybe be live for trades that happen as the bell rings.

Thanks, appreciate you. Love you. See you later. 3.30 Eastern. That's the goal. Goodbye. Oh, there's the music. I was waiting for the music.

My face was stuck. Your face was stuck. See you guys in a little bit. How is Rosie on baseball today, Treff? Juiced up. Boned up. Bired up. Hi, too.

You had a boner of the entire episode. We had to blur it out. Michelle. It was all it took. Michelle, it happened.