Will Shohei Ohtani Get Moved Before Trade Deadline

We’re going around the bases in our first stop is in Cooperstown , New York where a pair of New Hall of Famer’s got, they’re moment in the sun. Congratulations. Two Scott Rolen and Fred mcgriff and Scots said in his speech, speeches were sow wonderful. Scot said it wasn’t on my radar and, and spoke two, the writers , I’m glad was on yours. Played against Scott. What was it like, ultimate gamer , ultimate professional, um played third base is good as anybody I’ve ever seen in my life. Actually, I would ask him a ton of questions

defensively. He said, Billy and I don’t know , he said he used to almost pigeon toe his feet a little bit at third base to kind of clear his hits to make plays the left or right something I took from him. Just both of these guys are exactly what you want. You want to ballplayer, Fred mcgriff the same. So, and I loved Scott Roland giving his, his dad that kind of commitment with his dad. What was that? What was saying? He said yesterday, do that, then , then do that. Yeah, that was in your era.

I tell you what I go back. So I’ll date myself because playing an old exhibition stadium in Toronto, Argonauts played football Fred mcgriff to this day still has the far,

this summer and ball I’ve ever seen and it was Oswaldo Peraza little split key and my mann goes and Eddie’s at first base knows something about hitting home runs that screams when Fred hit it, he runs around second base and I’ve seen the video of this junior looked at him, my brother never looked at anybody like this. Mickey Tettleton was the catcher when he crossed home

plate and Fred started walking back to the dugout and Mix said something to him. And to this day that I see Fred mcgriff, I start and he goes, I know Oswaldo Peraza. He said, you’ve told, told it to me enough. But Fred the crime dog, this man just hit homers and when he stepped in the batter’s box, you paid attention when you were playing defense. And I think to me that’s what the hall of famer is. You pay attention, took way too long for him to get in. And I think so bring up this bored

real quick just to kind of do justice for Fred mcgriff. We all think Freddie Freeman is on the Hall of Fame Highway 1st 14 seasons. Look at the bombs Fred mcgriff hit. I mean, pretty spot on both of them. Yeah, I mean, look at unbelievable. This peak came just before the steroid era. So then his numbers got kind of dwarfed and almost forgotten and in a sense that it wasn’t fair and I think it correct me if I’m wrong, he finished mcgriff like seven homers shy of and, and that’s right. He was involved obviously in

the 19 94th strike. So, congratulations to both of those gentlemen for their spot at the baseball Hall of Fame. Meantime, the Baltimore Orioles , congratulations for them. They take three or four from the Tampa Bay Rays, Bill. It felt like a playoff atmosphere there in ST Petersburg, two good teams and the Orioles. What statement, if any did they make their real? That’s the statement they made. Look, when you go down into the trop and win three out of four, it’s a big home field advantage. Now they’re not playing quite the way they were to start

the season. But who would’ve thought after that start that the Rays had the Royals will be sitting there two games clear them when, when you’re looking at the situation? So I think it’s a big statement because just two years ago, I think they went one in 18 Tampa Bay Rays and now they’re went down there and just won three out of four in the trough and they said, okay, this might be ours to just run away with, run away with hard work. This might be, ers just they completely believe now, especially when you have that

absolute mutant in the ninth inning two of them. He’s really, yeah, he’s unhittable right now. I mean, he’s north of it, of 100 miles an hour with the split the whole skit and, and I’m going to say something. I’ve got a man crush. Gonna Henderson is the real deal. I think there’s a line that point point 52, a for Bautista over his last 30 games. You think they were going to be? How close two This did you think? I definitely saw another step forward, just a natural progression but their elite and I thought the best

thing this weekend was Grayson Rodriguez. He’s a star together because they, I mean, everything is under the prism of the trade deadline this time of year and obviously thats another team that could use help and starting rotation. But there’s your help internally. If he starts to be the guy, the Orioles system is so good that they can afford to giveaway some very productive pieces and still have a system that has plenty of talent left over. I always think of what Thairo said you owed to the boy’s at some point to have someone walked in the

clubhouse. I feel like Grayson Rodriguez gets a division start the way he the Baltimore Sun the title. They’re no longer rebuilding. I think we can all agree on that. The Rangers getting the Dodgers , they now lead the A L West by three games. And Antony, I heard u in the last segment with Luis Robert saying the Astros, our starting to kind of find it and put it together the most talented team in that division. Who is it? Oh, man. Oh, boy. I still think the Astros probably, I mean, they have the pedigree, they know

how to finish off a season. Do the Ranger’s know how to finish off a season and I expect both of these clubs two be really aggressive in the next week or so because it’s right there for the taken for both of them. And um you know, the Astros might be two starters away from being the World Series type Astros we expect, but Rangers might be as well. Um Yeah, so they both have question marks in that, in that area, Yordan could be coming back as soon as tonight and Jose Altuve is obviously coming back. Who

knows what is going on with Michael Brantly? But that could be interested, always say to be the man. You got to beat the man and I’m the jet flying limo simeon 200 homers, congratulate, congratulate you are been a beast since you come over and I know we’re talking about the trade deadline. Kris Young pulling off the Aroldis Chapman trade weeks before the actual deadline. He has been phenomenal exactly what they needed. He threw a ball of Bucco three yesterday. I saw his numbers for the Yankees against right now. It’s unbelievable. It is the last year

of his. What happened how did that happen? How you just lose it and then come back like that Kansas City , we were all like, what, how is that going to work? It worked out with him for him. Speaking of the Texas Rangers are good friends, Joel Sherman and one of his columns in the New York Post had an interesting element. Little blurb if you will that people around the game, outside officials think that the Rangers would be players in the Otani market if Otani was made available for trade. Now, Anthony, I’m not sure that

Otani is going to be made available for trade because the Angels are playing better. They are in the playoff mix. You can’t trade them right now. I don’t wanna step on anybody’s Clickbait because there’s a lot of that out there right now. Division rival. Yeah. Well, the thing about that is then you’re hurting the division rival in years forward if there in the cachet of prospects. But, um, they have won six of eight, therefore, games back of wild cards, but they traded from Mike Moustakas, they traded from Eduardo Escobar. You think they’re all of a

sudden? Never mind. Um, they got Mike Trout coming back sometimes. I just think they’re gonna keep them and take their chances and listen ownership when they, when they, when they unveiled the All Star logo because the All Star game will be held at Arlington next year. Ownership said, look, we’re gonna make everything in our power. So that Bruce Bochy is managing the American League all Star game uh for the American League next season, which obviously, if that happens, it’s because he’s either one, the World Series or they’ve made it to the World Series. Bill Ripken.

Is there something else in their power? They, I just don’t see how tiny moving um the hall that they would have to get back for a short term rental because I don’t think Texas is in the mix for locking him up long term. I just don’t. So I’m ruling Texas out on that side of it, not saying he’s not gonna move somewhere, but I just can’t see if the four games back your, your in your, with the Angels, your trying to make this push, you get the best player in the game right now and your

team , how do you move that? And the Angels would be asking for just going to say we’ve had this conversation forever. Are we even late to this conversation with? I just feel like at the end of the day, the owner runs the ship and if he doesn’t wanna trade them, he’s not going anywhere. That and I agree with U. Is it a Max Scherzer trade Toerner package that you have to get back and who’s got the ability to do that? I feel like Juan Soto, that was the template last year. I was sitting there

last night kind of going through it. I think the Cubs make a monster run at him in the off season. I think it makes a ton of sense that say a Suzuki him being that franchise player, spring training still in Arizona because he likes the west coast. I think they could be in. Well, the interesting thing is, is that soto of course, wasn’t a rental is theoretically for all intents and purposes of rental.