Bret and Rich share some quick thoughts on what transpired at the trade deadline, including the Mariners additions and why the Blue Jays should have looked into trading Vladimir Guerrero Jr. for a big haul.
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Don't go down the rabbit hole with me, just rapid fire so I get through everything. Did New York and the aforementioned Mariners do enough at the trade deadline? I think the Mariners did enough. Yankees, they got Chisholm, and obviously he's in his first two games hit four home runs, so, and they've won five in a row. Right. I don't think they needed to do that much. They just needed to shake up. Sometimes it gets a little stale, it's good to see DJ LeMayhew hit a grand slam yesterday. He's really been struggling, and they put a lot of, you know, they rely on him quite a bit. I don't know if they necessarily needed a ton. Got five healthy starters yet. It's always nice to get a boost, but we've talked about it on previous shows. It's just the inventory isn't out there. The scoobles and the crochets weren't available, so I think New York is fine. The guys that did, well, I think the Mariners did well for themselves. We got a Rosarina Turner Garcia is an untawked about guy. He's going to be a real help in the pen with Matt Brash, Miss, and the entire season with Tommy John, and the Mariners are playing a lot better. A Rosarina, not having a great year as a lady swinging the bat. Well, Justin Turner, 39 years old, well-traveled, really good baseball player has been for a long time. A lot of winning teams. I think the personalities are going to play more than the skill set that they just traded for. Rosarina, we all know his personality, he's out there, and I think that's going to push a young Julio Rodriguez a little bit in that capacity. I think a Turner is a well-respected throughout the game of baseball by everybody. He's 39 years old. He's been there, done that, been on, been to a lot of postseason, and he's almost a father figure in a clubhouse full of young players, if that makes sense. He's almost an Edgar Martinez at the end of his career. Just that calming influence that sits at the end of the day. If you have anything to get off your chest, you go to Daddy, and I think Turner's going to be that type of guy. I think a real win for the Mariners, and I also think the Padres did really well for themselves. They gave every bit of their minor league system away. They gave well their top pocket. I'll tell you what. They go all in. Well, I thought with the Padres, I thought they were going to address the starting rotation with Musgroves and Darvish missing so much time, but they went the other way, and they bolstered that bullpen, and they've got now probably the best bullpen in baseball. That's what plays in the postseason in 2024. One surprising thing, Rich, that I saw, the franchise that never fails to impress me is the Tampa Bay Rays. They're three and a half out in the wildcard. They gave away every player they have. But you know what? They're the one organization. I don't question them, and I don't question them making the postseason. It wouldn't shock me because they've shocked me for the last decade. Eric Meander, who's the general manager. He was actually roommates with one of my interns when I worked there, and I think Eric's brilliant. He and Jeff McQueen were roommates, so I got to know both of them fairly well, and now that he's gone on to take over. The interesting part was the Rose Reyna was going to get too expensive with arbitration. So with Tampa Bay, they either buy out your arbitration in your first couple of years of free agency, or they let you walk. I think that Eric was listening to our podcast, and he heard what Jim Bowden was saying because I stole this. I've been using this line all week on the network, that somebody could have made a Jerry Jones type of move. I remember Jerry Jones and Jimmy Johnson had Herschel Walker for the Dallas Cowboys. They traded him to Minnesota and got a King's ransom back in return. So Eric got a bunch of prospects back. The Blue Jays who didn't move Vlad Guerrero in a seller's market, they could have pulled off a Dallas Cowboys type of deal as much as they had there. Take their big boys, package them because there wasn't a lot out there. There was not a lot of movement because there were no big names that you could get. There were going to be aircraft carriers. Vlad would have been one, and I think JB was right. The Blue Jays could have got a King's ransom back in return. Yeah, Jim Bowden, who's on the podcast Monday, he said, "Boonie, I told you a year ago the angels should have traded Shohei Otani at the deadline. They could have rebolstered their entire roster." And he says, "Now we're sitting here, and they're not going to trade Vladimir Guerrero." He told me that, and he said, "And they're going to regret it." Time will tell. I look at the Blue Jays, too, and they've got a Gossman and a Barrios and a Basset. They move Kukuchi. But I thought it was the point. I didn't believe the Toronto Blue Jays when they said they weren't going to sell their big guys. They were going to keep Vladi in the Boba Shets and make one more run. I didn't believe them. But that deadline came and went, and they're still sitting there in Toronto. Could you imagine what you have got for Basset Vlad? I could have taken half your team. I could have taken every prospect. I could have reloaded with you, and that's how the Dallas Cowboys won all the Superbowl. So there's an opportunity, and I think that Jim Bowden will be right. We're going to see it sooner rather than later. Some team is going to just wave the white flag early. He talked about the Chicago White Sox. They did it in 1997, waved the white flag. Everybody got mad. A couple of years later, they're world champions, so I get it. We'll see what happens. Pays Rob Bradford. 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