INSTANT REACTION: The $60M Man! Kazuma Okamoto Unveiled as a Blue Jay!

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[SPEAKER_00]: You listen to the Jaybird watching podcast, the official podcast of gdrill.com and fancays.com.

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[SPEAKER_00]: We are the official paul room chat for everything to run a Blue Jays baseball.

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[SPEAKER_00]: From game highlights to rumors and all the stuff in between.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Here is your host Craig Borden with co-host Jason Lyons and Liz McGuire.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Now let's talk to run a Blue Jays baseball.

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[SPEAKER_01]: just like the Toronto Blue Jays this off season.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I am your host Craig Borden.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We are coming in hot.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We got breaking news right here on a, you know, the fun is we're only an hour apparently late to the show, but close enough for this one.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Jason, how the heck are you?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Go, but I get to see you on a random Saturday.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, you know, good man.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I had a big poker night with with some of my baseball dad buddies, Jamie Lawson, who's a dedicated listener to the cast, donated a fair amount of money last night to the cause, which is great.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, we had a great good time kept it on a pretty even keel.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So excited for for a nine or seven night.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And, uh, it

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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, just a good little Saturday now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I know, unfortunately, my sabers are now going to lose finally.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So the shores of principle has been unfortunately proven.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's broken like that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's been broken.

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[SPEAKER_01]: They finally lost.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So by anyway, we have some big news to talk out.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I played on this on our episode last night a little bit.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I'm actually very, very surprised and impressed that this actually came to fruition.

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[SPEAKER_01]: especially on the blue jays fashion because the other fun in this whole thing is I would have assumed that somebody else was going to sign this for wonderful gentlemen, but we are going to have Kazuma Aquamano is a Toronto blue jay and probably at the end of the day Jason our brand new third baseman just like that snap of finger.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, and it's interesting because, you know, I was having a look in our Discord, check it out if you're not over there.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, a number of the people over there made, you know, made a good point, you know, like, what does this sort of do for the J's movie forward offensively?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Like, does it eliminate Barger as being a third basement?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Is it, you know, immediately put him into the outfield, and that's just where he lives now from, from.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And there was a couple of people in there that made really good points about the fact that it does allow for what I think was one of the Jay's strongest points this year, which was flexibility.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, like, let's just hypothetically say that gladi needs a day off.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, I don't know if that's why you're getting them, but you know, if you can have him as somebody who checks in and out with Latte and Marjor at first and third, and then in a dire situation has to play it in anger to about field against somebody who's bad, his bat should make up for that based on what I can see so far because he does like to hit balls pretty pretty dang hard.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, we're going to show off some of that because I got some great footage and if anybody's in on our any of our wonderful chats I just put the link for our discord chat if you would like to join the fun that is our discord chat that is specifically for David watching here and blue jays fans friends of the feather all that kind of good stuff.

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[SPEAKER_01]: make sure you check that out because those links will take you right to the chat that you can join in and talk with Jason Liz and I and all the other wonderful blue jay stands that are in that group right now, but to your point Jason this is a wonderful bat and another piece that is very blue jays from what we saw in this 2025 season.

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[SPEAKER_01]: he can move around.

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[SPEAKER_01]: There's some pieces there, but it seems like he's quite, you know, fond of third base from what I've been reading, what I've been seeing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think that's where the best pieces to this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So the blue jays rush to the line up falls back to, okay, now Ernie Klomet moves the second.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Andres him and Ez is going to definitely be playing in short.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And you get as some barger in right field, which honestly, I love as some bargers are in right field.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And what you want to do in the post season, I think that actually plays up very very well.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And finally gives him a home that he can actually, you know, be good.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, he was a short stop.

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[SPEAKER_02]: when we recruited him so yeah and I mean I saw him play when he was with the Canadians I saw him play at short and I saw him play at first and I interesting I never saw him play at third base and then when he was just about to be sent to Buffalo I actually think he was at the end of the year they had him playing right field and I remember being there for an outfield assist where he I mean he

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[SPEAKER_02]: The guy was probably out by enough that he probably could have turned around and maybe potentially been safe back at third.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He was that far out.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But it's, you know, like, you have to, you know, again, I'll reference my buddy Chris Randall, the best guy I've ever coached with.

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[SPEAKER_02]: He said be a baseball player first position player second.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And I mean, that's what ends Addison Barger's

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[SPEAKER_02]: then put him anywhere and he's going to give you a lot.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But, yeah, I mean, I feel like just looking at what this guy can do.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And, you know, sorry, where he's been and, you know,

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[SPEAKER_02]: I feel like this is a steal.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I kind of felt like that as well.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And we were talking down the discord chat and whatnot.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And just to put the numbers in front of everybody, our, you know, our statistician Colin, that's been on the show a few times.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It comes in hot here with the comment of four years, sixty million dollars.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Apparently, this is new news to me, to the no opt-out part in a five million dollar signing bonus.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So to that point, Jason,

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[SPEAKER_01]: They don't have a problem with this and your brother saying that it's, you know, 15, you know, average annual value, not what you had to deal at all.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I really do, I'm having trouble poking holes in this whole thing from any level in seeing anything that I don't really like about it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But, and he produced a three-war basically,

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[SPEAKER_01]: every year in Japan and he's been hitting home runs.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's the 3040 home run guy, then 270 to 80 in those leagues or even a year.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It was a little bit of an outlier, 143 games right back at 309, yeah, 2025 this year, though, between two different teams, two different leagues, bad 32 in the 77 games.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So it was a little short for him this year, but

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[SPEAKER_01]: Tis what it is.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I thought that was really interesting to see what he did, but he's also shown up at the World Baseball Classic a couple times and, you know, he's one of those guys who was on a number of teams radars.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I know that the San Francisco was interested in land to was in.

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[SPEAKER_02]: There was a few teams out there that were definitely interested in this guy.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You know now let's go to the tape.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I got the tape here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So this is him and this might be the winning run Eventually the winning run for the World Baseball Classic Is this the he crushed this.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Look at that.

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[SPEAKER_01]: See you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't seem like it goes that far over the fence But anybody that's seen with this Miami my field looks like it is not a little ballpark there.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, it's huge huge

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, and as our wonderful friends on Reddit and mentioned in this, he bet it's 333 with a 1.278 OPS in the world baseball class.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Wow, just.

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[SPEAKER_01]: obnoxiously wild and let's just talk really we'll quick on one other thing here because I have it's still in front of me now I just messed up all the way out.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Hey, I'm a bitch.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So live show anything cap.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So on this note, you want to know another wonderful, you know, he's obviously played all these guys that are need newcomers to the major leagues and one of them being Rokey Sasaki.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And in the midst of this one, this one I'm just gonna turn the an audio on too because why not because it's just fun to hear the Tater here from a tomato That's rookie sack, folks.

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[SPEAKER_00]: There's a big snowstorm in Buffalo Oh yeah He cute

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[SPEAKER_01]: Just to say, he might have got a hold of that one, Jason.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That was extra squid night.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And uh, but the fact that, you know, it's like, okay, he's faced Roki Sasaki, he's faced Yohei Otani, he's faced Yamamoto, that the Blue Jays had no any clue of how to solve.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Our newest signee will have some inside tape on him on what might be what gets it done.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe maybe and see what happens on that Avenue, but that could be the difference in the world sometimes.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You never know.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, one little thing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's a great swing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I love that little weird like kind of like old Cal Ricken thing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's does where he's got the bat all the way out here and it just kind of gets it going.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But it's a very I find it interesting some of these guys actually most of them.

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[SPEAKER_02]: They come over with a traditionally 80s based American baseball players swing like you know, early 90s.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You can see where they learned it.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You can see you know, sort of what they've been taught in the different

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[SPEAKER_02]: different hand positions and pushbacks and foot forwards and it's, you know, it's it's it's amazing, you know, to see the the copycat styles of certain guys and it just it makes it makes it fun, it makes it I like this invasion that's coming from from all the other leagues right now

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[SPEAKER_01]: There you go.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I was talking about that with Eric Rosenhack in our discord chat earlier, too.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's like, it just shocks me that it's taking this long for them to sign some way directly out of the Japan baseball league, just because of the fact that we have had a lot of great chat.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And including the best interview in baseball, which is more nori kawatsaki.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And all these other guys.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This was a nice way of them playing the flags and hey you know what this is a great place to come play baseball why don't you all come up here Toronto is a great city to have all the culture and that you can humily think of and just watch these guys play really really well in a place that they can feel comfortable in

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[SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, it's, like I said, I think it's a lot of fun, you know, baseball is an incredibly worldly game.

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[SPEAKER_02]: They have really embraced that worldly part of it over the last couple of years.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And our good friend, Brooke Noesball, she's down in just, she's down in the DR right now.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I don't know who everybody is down there, but whoever did, I'd love to go to the DR.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm, you know, it was a movie thing.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I think it probably was, but yeah, I mean, it's, you know, it's, I was watching someone her footage from today and it's just, it's so interesting to watch the diversity between, you know, between all the different

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[SPEAKER_02]: fair, I don't think we know enough about the Japanese or Korean or any of that, those leagues players until we, you know, they're put in front of us.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And so I think it would be interesting this year if the MLB and I think it would be smart.

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[SPEAKER_02]: If the MLB started selecting some of the top games to have them played, you know, nationally in Canada and the US.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So,

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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, you could start to get to recognize some of these people and, you know, the other thing that it creates as well as it creates the opportunity for a kid who, you know, maybe only gets an offer to a D3 school and doesn't really want to go to, you know, Rhode Island tech.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But, you know, would go over and play in Japan or play in Korea and start playing professionally while going to school.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I agree with you flat out and I do think that we've seen just as many cut like a cutty ponds the other gentleman We just signed from the KBO Lee who was a monster over there like literally So it's it's great to see so we got some fun going on the chat here I just want to make sure we happen because we're gonna just do a quick 15 minute or here or so today guys So thank you very much for everybody jumping in and talking with us So first things first, you know Apparently Troy is also on our marketing team.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We must make sure everybody gets those like here on the payroll

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, and apparently he also did, oops, right, it was not the one that was going to grab.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's also telling me, make sure that I don't tell too much about to do anything because I'm not really as dad.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, thank you for telling us what to do, and I told you about the discord.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think we're all even there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, and then our buddy Colin is in the wonderful fun that is, you know, always here as our

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[SPEAKER_01]: Are we going to see any different types of Poutine at the sky?

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I might be able Japanese inspired.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Little Kim Chi, Kim Chi Poutine or sushi.

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[SPEAKER_02]: We have a thing out here called Japa Dog.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And they've got all kinds of fun Japanese toppings on hot dogs.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And I was a little weary the first time I went.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I have gotten many times.

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[SPEAKER_02]: They are delicious hot dogs.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And it's always a surprise.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And you know, Colin, I knew there was a D1 college in Rhode Island.

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[SPEAKER_02]: That's why I was.

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[SPEAKER_02]: that I knew you were there and I knew you would pick that up.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yep, there you go, good deal.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So in the midst of these other fun things I had it, I'm getting flooded with comments.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So I'm trying to get through a few of these people.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So the first things first that we want to wrap up the show is what's, is this still door open for Michael Tucker?

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[SPEAKER_01]: Really you get Boba Sheth still?

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[SPEAKER_02]: I think we get the Sheth still, but you know what?

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[SPEAKER_02]: I have never been, I've never been fully in on the Tucker thing.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And I don't think, I don't think that this signing, you know, this certainly isn't Kyle Tucker.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Let's not, let's not try and fool everybody into thinking that this is just a different Kyle Tucker.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Obviously, this guy's never played in the majors before.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I have no idea what, but I feel like Bishat is a much more critical piece to get signed.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I feel like over the next two, three years there will be a lot of outfielders that hit the similar to

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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, like all the guys that are out there right now, like even the bellengers and the other guy like I mean, there's lots of those guys are a dime a dozen.

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[SPEAKER_02]: In fact, we have a ton of them on our team.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And so to think, you know, we're, we may be, you know, going to throw another, whatever, however, many 30 million a year, 35 million a year or whatever, talk or once.

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, that's a catch.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And, um, I could be part of the whole point with the other.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Could barge, I don't think you're.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, but I don't think it's going to hurt barger if he does come here.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's going to hurt the back up so that we have because barge is back needs to be lined up.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think it's, I think if you sign Kyle Tucker with now what you just done with Akamoto, you are going to send waves through this roster.

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[SPEAKER_01]: The outfield is going to be fair game for trade and it's going to be trading for pitching, which is not a bad thing.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Because the only other thing you could do here, maybe barge or play short stop again.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, I mean, I don't know.

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[SPEAKER_02]: There's worse things.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And Mike Mike B makes a good point.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, like we're also pretty much just counting whether it's whether I'm in as and and and Ernie just play to or Ernie play short and bow and I'm in as play to or Ernie is a short stop.

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[SPEAKER_01]: He's not every year about that.

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[SPEAKER_02]: It's one of those things where you have to figure out the right combination for all those things.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And Bo has proven that the strength of his bat is well worth keeping him in almost every situation.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Even half a bow hit a massive home run in game seven.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You know, it's like I like I love Amenas and I love his defense, but again, he would be very attractive as a trade piece.

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[SPEAKER_02]: There's lots of teams that need to sure hand it in fielder that can basically play two or short.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Can we have an embarrassment of B outfielders and I'll just say with Amenas, you have an extra short stop if you end up getting bow a shet or

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[SPEAKER_01]: any of these flashes or you it's a little crazy happens.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, it's a little crazy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I said all those pieces can move around though.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Yes.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And I just don't want to lose a shit for nothing.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Like, let's call a space bed.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Like, if even if we have to sign them and get him do it agreed to something shorter and just be like, you know, we're going to pay a max dollar, but it's going to be three years rather than eight or six or whatever.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And then you'll look for

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[SPEAKER_02]: And then, you know, you have to be able to get some value, especially for for for a guy that that we have brought up, like you can't let someone go through.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Oh my loss you.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So.

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[SPEAKER_01]: anyway.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Is that near you?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think I might lost you if I don't know either way 50 50.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So anyway, let's talk the last thing out.

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[SPEAKER_01]: What's next?

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I just wanted to make sure I said this because through the point what you were just talking about.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I think the what next is going to be trades.

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[SPEAKER_01]: If you're guessing Bo or Kyle Tucker, you're going to have to trade somebody.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And I think this is how Mason Miller happens.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And that is going to be what is wild, Jason, because if they are able to trade some of these major league ready assets,

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[SPEAKER_01]: that is where this is going to get really crazy because right now they don't have the major leg assets that trade because they need them but you all have some scympo or Tucker in addition to what you just do with acamado.

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[SPEAKER_01]: This looks like some pieces move around a little bit easier to the point where you can all my god lose mild straw or

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[SPEAKER_01]: somebody like that that would be a nice throw into a sweetener for a majorly ready team that needs to trade somebody and I have no idea what the San Diego Padres are doing, but they are not when a baseball team on the field.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And the other thing that's that's become, you know, a little more interesting this off season is, you know, like a team like the white socks stepping up and actually making a couple of moves like are they now prepared maybe.

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[SPEAKER_02]: they have nothing but money at this point.

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[SPEAKER_02]: They have gobs of money and so they can make big trades where you, you know, maybe you're getting draft fix back or even you're just getting cash back.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, cash helps especially with a deal of a roster or a payroll like the jazzer going to have.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, I mean, you know, you

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[SPEAKER_02]: And of course, Oakland isn't going to want to go to Vegas and not have more stars than they have.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, they are going to to get hungry and go after some of these guys.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And I mean, it, it, it, when does Vegas go to Vegas two years from next year?

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[SPEAKER_02]: I think I thought it was the last year coming easily.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

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[SPEAKER_02]: Oh my god.

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[SPEAKER_02]: So, I mean, what makes a bigger splash, like a guy like Boba Shet being signed as your marquee player for, you know, when they become the Vegas team.

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[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, his dad's from down there, their family's all down in the sort of Nevada, Arizona, all that, you know, area.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And so, I mean,

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[SPEAKER_01]: You know, you've got a lot of that stuff, you know, there's some other outside regular baseball tangibles to your exact point that are playing into a lot of this.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Yep.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's going to be very interesting to see where those pieces move because it's to your point.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's going to be crazy.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And then you've got also teams that are just like I've been sitting here going, why the hell aren't we looting the St. Louis Cardinals right now.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Brandon Donovan would be a great addition.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Jojo Reyes would be a great addition.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Those pieces that would be very easily and now I've known trade scenarios that was alluding to there.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That might be kind of a little bit sweet.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So, but anyways, is there anything else that you would like to finalize and add on here, Jason?

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[SPEAKER_01]: I know we went out really in a minute, Mark, but there were some great stuff going on on our chat.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I had to make sure I gave everybody a chance.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And I, you know, again, you know, like just just so you guys all know and girls all know, I mean, like we greatly appreciate the fact that, you know, over 80 of you now, like just in that little 15 minutes fan hopped on, you know, the one thing I will say is you guys, you guys see us on our socials and all the rest of that stuff and we love the comments and stuff.

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[SPEAKER_02]: But let's get more coming in like if you guys have players you want us to try and effort to get all players or or anything like that if there's stuff you that you guys want to hear see all of that you know very open to that and chasing those things down And just you know thank you guys for you know like even a little sign or assigning like this where you know people are sitting around and busy on their weekends, you know, thanks

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[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, agree with you, man.

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[SPEAKER_01]: That's right.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I know I'm super stoked about it.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So until I guess we meet again, Jason,

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[SPEAKER_01]: or we have further news.

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[SPEAKER_01]: We're going to have Joanne from Babes Babes Media to talk all ALEs rival on Wednesday.

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[SPEAKER_02]: You guys should go check her out.

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[SPEAKER_02]: She's smart and knows her stuff.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And it's going to be a good one because she's a die hard Yankees fan.

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[SPEAKER_02]: And there's nothing we like more than ripping apart die hard Yankees fans.

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[SPEAKER_01]: It's going to be a fun debate back and forth.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I can tell you she's going to be very, uh, well, she's Canadian.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So she's a nanomateritorial already.

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[SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, as far as the BlueJ fan him goes.

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[SPEAKER_01]: But it's going to be a fun time.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So we'll talk to that her and then we're going to have exactly to talk all things little league and the wonderful fun that is, you know, coaching youth sports and whatnot, the following weeks.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So those are the next two weeks.

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[SPEAKER_01]: And any other crazy news that comes up apparently Jason Lizzer, I will be

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[SPEAKER_01]: Rounding it up.

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[SPEAKER_01]: I don't want up here and we'll have some fun.

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[SPEAKER_01]: So thank you very much everybody and we hope you have a great rest of your weekend.

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