Dodgers & Orioles Assembling Trade Packages For Skubal
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00:00Unnamed Texter is regarding a Scooble trade, which Tom Verducci is saying the Orioles and
00:03Dodgers are putting together packages filled with prospects to get Tarek Scooble.
00:08Unnamed Texter says, just look what happened every time we traded away an ace.
00:11We got burned every time.
00:13Has nothing to do with what Scott Harris does.
00:16That's like the most scared text ever.
00:18That's don't ever make a trade because think of all the times it didn't work.
00:23That was literally James Shields for Fernando Tatis Jr.
00:26The Padres.
00:27I know this.
00:28I'm a Padre fan.
00:29Fernando Tatis Jr. was a prospect for an elite, really, really, really good starting
00:33pitcher in James Shield.
00:35So you would never have made that trade.
00:38Hey, don't go outside, Doug.
00:40It rained one time.
00:41Yeah.
00:42I mean, it'd be like, I guess maybe they're saying it's Seattle.
00:46It rains a lot.
00:47Don't go outside.
00:48It rains a lot.
00:49But it doesn't mean it's going to rain on this trade.
00:52Let Scott Harris F this up first before we start saying over trade.
00:55Yeah, exactly.
00:57I have no idea who the players are that we will receive and whether they'd be any good.
01:00We know how good Scuba is.
01:02That's from an unnamed texter.
01:03We have a pitcher who's putting Verlander numbers, Verlander level numbers, and we're
01:08stringing together wins.
01:09And you want to blow it up and restart a rebuild?
01:12Why?
01:13Well, the fact that they are stringing together wins, I mean, seriously, is a good week and
01:21a half enough reason to try and go for it?
01:29These are long seasons.
01:30These are ebbs and flows.
01:31I am usually at the front of the line saying, trying to figure out how it could work out.
01:36And if they don't trade these guys, I hope they surprise me.
01:41And I won't give up on the season.
01:45But first of all, you don't have to make a decision on these players for another 14 days
01:51Secondly, you're going to have more data, more games that get played here to help shape
01:58your decision.
01:59But secondly, and maybe most importantly, do you really think this team is a contender?
02:09I don't yet.
02:11I'm open-minded to maybe they'll stay hot out of the break.
02:14Maybe the Colt Keith and Riley Green and Kerry Carpenter bag start providing some punch offensively
02:20Pitching holds up and they play themselves into this.
02:24But I think it's too early to say that.
02:28What if I told you that, and fans and everyone listening, that you would get the equivalent
02:32in return for Scooble, Colt Keith, Kerry Carpenter, Jackson Jobe, and then in sum?
02:39If that was like the equivalent return?
02:40Yeah, yeah.
02:41Like the type of prospects.
02:42That sounds pretty good.
02:44Sounds pretty good, right?
02:45Now none of those guys, like Colt Keith, feels like he's on an ascension to be even better
02:52than he is right now.
02:53I mean, it's his rookie year and he's just gotten better and better and better.
02:57So what's the ceiling?
02:58How high does he go?
02:59How good does he get?
03:02If you're saying, I need a player, I need a player to be as good as a hitter as Scooble
03:07is as a pitcher, then you're probably not getting that.
03:10But if you're getting three players that can help you win, Ty and Holly, you don't get
03:18better by trading your best players.
03:20It's a stupid concept that is outdated.
03:23I mean, you're going to see good players traded for prospects.
03:28Now, can they keep, the thing is they can keep Scooble.
03:33But we're also talking about godfather offers.
03:35We're not accepting low ball offers.
03:38I'm not, I'm not bending here.
03:40That's a godfather offer or no deal.
03:44And it just so happens that the teams that are reportedly involved, one gets hyper aggressive
03:49all the time than the Dodgers.
03:52And the other should be aggressive because they have been on a drought forever in Baltimore
03:56and they have got material to trade.
04:00Mike in Grand Rapids.
04:01And what happens if Harris trades him away and we get a poor return?
04:04That's my fear.
04:06I mean, these people won't even listen, apparently.
04:10They won't even listen.
04:12Yeah, what happens, can I ask the opposite?
04:16What happens if Harris gets a great deal in return and we're set up for the next decade?
04:20What happens if we keep Scooble and he gets hurt?
04:24What happens if we keep Scooble?
04:25He's great, but the team still sucks.
04:27What if we keep Scooble and he's never as good as this ever again?
04:32We could do this all day.