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Mike Dearlo with the with the Nationals
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and the G, you know, he's got the interm
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Uh, yep. These positions are all
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interterm. They're that some are more
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interm than others, but they all are
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interm except for Brian Cashman. He's
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been doing this forever. Um, but you
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know, he's replacing obviously Mike
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Rizzo. He's got, you know, a lot of
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pressure here at the deadline to do to
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do some things to try to improve this
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team so that they can start to finally
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win near next year. McKenzie's Gore
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Mackenzie Gore's name keeps getting
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popped up. Now, if I'm if you were a GM
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right now, how many phone calls per day
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would you be uh calling Mike Dearlo to
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try to get McKenzie Gore? Um, and you
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know, for me, this is a this is a tough
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one, right? because I think you're not
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signing him long term
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and you can really I think clean up and
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get should be able to get some some uh
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you know significant talent back in
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return that should help could also help
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you in the next couple years. Uh, but
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you're not getting better even for next
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year if you if you're trying to compete
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and your job's on the line and the the
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the the hall that you get I don't you
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know you're not going to see them impact
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the major league club for two or three
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years. So if you're Mike Dearlo, do you
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trade Mackenzie Gore or do you hold him?
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So, I mean, first of all, if I'm Mike
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Debarlo, and I'm rooting for him, by the
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way, um, you know, I want to be able to
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show the Learner family that I can do
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this job. Now, we keep hearing that the
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Nationals plan on hiring a legitimate
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president at the end of the year, um, of
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both business and baseball from what I
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can understand. Um, but if Darlo has a
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really good trade deadline, there's no,
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you know, even if they bring in a
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president of baseball operations, even
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if they can get say Eric Neander
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um from Tampa Bay or maybe they decide
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to hire Thad Lavine. Um, regardless of
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what they do, Deb Barlo has a chance to
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stay on as GM if he has a good trade
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Um, now what I hear from opposing GMs is
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most of the conversations are around
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Kyle Finnegan and Mike Sroka. They seem
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to be the two pitchers that um teams are
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looking for and that the that the
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Nationals are most likely to move. But
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Mike Dearalo has told opposing general
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managers that he will listen on Gore.
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He's not looking to trade him, but he'll
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listen. And I think it's the right play
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for him because to keep his job, if he
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could make a phenomenal McKenzie Gore
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trade on a pitcher who I agree with you
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with Scott Boris representing him, it's
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going to be hard to get him signed long
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term. And the Learner family getting
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burned by Strawber and Sherzer on the
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books and Corbin on the books. I'm not
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sure the Learner family are ready to go
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back to the well to sign pitchers to
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those kind of deals again. I think they
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regret not signing Bryce Harper and Juan
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Sodto and Trey Turner. They won one
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World Series, but they had to pay a huge
3:07
price after that. They couldn't stay
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competitive the way they spent their
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money. So, the question is what can the
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return be, you know? I mean, that's
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they're in the same boat kind of Miami
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as with Sandy Alcantra. They're not
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necessarily going to trade Alantra, but
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if someone wants to trade for a former
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Sai Young award winner that people
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believe can still do that, you're going
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to have to overpay. But if Alcantra
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doesn't get traded and Dylan CE doesn't
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get traded and Zack Allen's having a
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down year, McKenzie Gore could end up
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being the best pitcher traded. And so
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some of these teams that are chasing
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Alcantra and Cease, etc., they may pay
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the price for a controllable McKenzie
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Gore. It may get to a level where you
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got to consider doing it because the
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Nationals aren't one or two moves away
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from winning and turning Gore into three
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more players certainly at least on the
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surface seems to make sense to me. So
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listen, yeah, will he do it? I don't
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know. But is there pressure? Sure.
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Because let's say that let's say he tra
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he did the Rosario trade and let's let's
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say he does the Sro and Finnegan trade.
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What's that return going to look like?
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Right? It's it's not going to have
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just because you're not trading impact.
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So, it's not going to have impact.
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So, h how do you sit there and show the
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learner family or anyone in the industry
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that that's the job for you? You trade
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Gore, that's that's a job. If he could
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sit there and have the gumption
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to trade Gore for a huge package, he'll
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make a name for himself and possibly
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keep his job in Washington. That's why I
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think he's got to consider it. That's
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that's why I think he will consider it.
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And that's why I think if somebody wants
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to overpay like if you're the Dodgers,
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don't you want to come get Gore? I know
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how much starting pitching you have,
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but I mean you could sit there and start
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the the offer with Shehan, you could
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then put Zire Hope in it. I mean, you
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you could all of a sudden I can get you
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up to four or five names. You could do
5:05
Dalton rushing, who's a backup catcher
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to Will Smith, who's the best offensive
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catcher in the National League, second
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best to Raleigh in the sport. You you
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could do rushing Shehan Zahire Hope. Oh
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boy, now you got Gore.
