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Bob Nightengale: Things will start heating up around 72-96 hours from the trade deadline

USA Today MLB columnist Bob Nightengale joined the show to discuss things around the MLB as we inch closer to the MLB trade deadline. He talks about when he expects things to heat up, what the Orioles will, why the NL is tricky because of the standings, and much more.

Duration:: 10m
Broadcast on:: 08 Jul 2024
Audio Format:: mp3

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It's the USA Today major league baseball column this long time and we'll be insider. It's Bob Nightingale and Bob, thank you as always for joining us. We appreciate your time. So a question that we've been tossing around here for a couple of weeks now. I'll throw it at you. How aggressive do you expect the Orioles to be over these next three weeks? Hopefully they are aggressive. Hopefully you'll get a nurse starter and another arm laid in the arm without wolf and it windows open now. I mean, not just trying to make the playoffs but kind of win a world series. And with this team, it's just got a chance to do that. And they have so many prospects like, you know, they can afford it, you know, give up a prospect or two, you know, went out and coming back to Harlem. Bob, you reported earlier that it sounds like the Rangers are going to be open for business in particular with their pitching staff. Would Mack Scherzer make sense for the EOS? He could, but he's gone away. He's got a full note rig loss. So he may not, you know, he may say I'll do it if I get an extension, you know, that sort of thing. I think I got like native balding, he might make more sense. I mean, he's like Scherzer's got the postseason experience, you know, a workhorse and then he could, he could do everything. So I would think a, either one of those guys would be, you know, a wonderful fit for the level fifth Orioles. I'm talking to Bob Nightingales inside access here on the film. Bob, in your mind, like Jackson Holiday, probably untouchable, Kobe Mayo, maybe untouchable. Like, are there, is there anybody that is off the table when they're talking to the Orioles? Yeah, I'm sure a holiday is, you know, Mayo would have to be a high price. You know, for him, you better get a guy like a crochet from the White Sox and maybe someone else with them, you know, to give up, give up a bat like that. So, you know, I know they don't want to give up any prospects, but, you know, they've been great drafting people and developing them. So, you know, they're going to get some more people in the upcoming draft. So you'd rather, right, if it gives up a prospect and hurts later, that's fine. If you've got to roll a series flag and you don't hang in it in the right field. Bob, we've been talking a lot today. The All-Star rosters, they were announced yesterday, just three All-Stars for the Orioles who have the most wins in the American League. How surprised were you with that? Yeah, I mean, it could easily add, you know, two or three others, you know, position players, you know, Kim Vollner, starter, for sure. Look at Taylor Mariners. I mean, they're in first place in the ALS and they have one starter only because they may all be picked up. So, it should be hard to make the All-Star team. There's still 67 guys that made it. And there's always 10 or 12 new All-Stars here, you know, injury replacement, skies you don't want to play, that sort of thing. Bob, are you concerned? I want to go back to you were talking about crochet, like his innings, and he's converted into a starter from being a reliever. Like, if you're talking to the White Sox, and I know this is easier said than done, would you want to make a deal where you get Fettie as well and maybe put crochet in the bullpen because of the concern on his innings? Well, that would be, yeah, that'd be a wonderful fit because then you got Fettie for next year, too. And the All-Stars these starters after this season, and crochet for two years. And you know, I'm making money. He's going to make it 800,000 right now. You know, Brandon Ville will jump up to five or six million in arbitration. But still, yeah, the total crochet is the X factor. You still know what you have. You know, the White Sox plan to limit him severely in the second half, and they don't want to burn anybody else. So for someone to say, okay, I'm just going to keep riding him as a starter. You better be sure here because the White Sox know him very well, and they don't want to put that stress in his arm. He's already pitched 50 more innings he has in his entire career. Bob, the Yankees are in a bit of a free fall right now. How concerned are you and their ability to write the ship and how aggressive could Brian Cashman be at the deadline? Well, it needs to be aggressive, too. I think they'd be very disappointed, you know, not to get to the World Series, or at least, you know, flight deep in October, ALCS, you know, with that lineup and that payroll. So, yeah, I think they got to go get another reliever. And probably another another infielder. You know, they would love to have, you know, a guy like McMahon for the Rockies. I don't think he's available, but someone like that played third base, too. We'll see if Rice can handle first base and so, you know, and so Rizzo gets back. But yeah, they got some questions for sure. It's a big drop off after that first few guys in the lineup coming to Dodgers and that's a drop off after this first four or five guys. Baba, is the National League starting to clear up a little bit about who the buyers and the sellers are because for a while it was Miami and Colorado selling everybody else thinks they're in it. Do you see a couple other teams that may be looking to sell? Not yet. Still bunched up. You know, teams like Arizona don't know what they're doing. San Francisco. I don't think San Diego will sell. But no, it's still bunched up. Cincinnati, you know, these got swept by Detroit. That might be a team that keep a Ryan because if they fall out of it, they got some nice, they got some nice trade shifts to be had. So I think they can be very active at the deadline if they don't start bringing some games here. When do you expect things to heat up on the trade market, Bob? Yeah, that's usually the last, you know, 72 and 96 hours. You put a deadline with the July 30th this year. You know, nothing really happens before the draft. The draft is a Sunday, Sunday, Monday, I guess Tuesday too. But once the all-star breaks over, then I think you'll have teams, you know, on the phone a lot more and talking trades then, you know, it's a movement done. But usually nothing happens until the last few days. Bob, do you like the, they got rid of the second deadline, the waiver deadline? You got the one deadline now. It's July 30th this year. Do you like where it is? Do you like the system the way it is? I do. I mean, that wouldn't mind if it was moved back a week or two, but you know, still the same rules were just one trade deadline. Some of you always released somebody, but before it was just too much. It's like everybody's making big contracts. They're trying to sneak in through waivers. You know, when Justin Berlin went through the Astros, you know, that sort of thing, anybody could have had them. So I think they, I think it's makes it more fun that they're just one, you know, big, real, real deadline. But they want to move it back, you know, at least a week or two, and what might make more sense, you know, at least teams but no have a better idea whether in or out. Now, a lot of people are guessing. We're speaking of Bob Nightingale. It's inside access on the fan. Bob, I want to get back to the A. L. Easter. Are you buying the surging Red Sox? I'm finding they make the playoffs. I think I mean, I think they'll stay in it. You know, maybe add a little bit. It was only not because it attracted the deadline. So I don't buy them to win the A. L. A. So I think, you know, Baltimore is still too good. But I think they can get a wild card spot. You know, you're talking about, you know, Yankees, Minnesota. They got the first spot. I think they're just as good, not better than Minnesota. And we'll see about the Yankees. He's the columnist covering Major League Baseball for USA today. Bob Nightingale, Bob, always great. Thank you so much for your time. We appreciate it. Sure. My pleasure. Thank you guys. Thank you. So he says, uh, it's probably going to be what then the last week trying to figure out what to eat for dinner yet again with North sides and bullion as you're not so secret ingredient, you can skip the drive through and do dinner at home. Nor taste combos provide a menu of delicious, affordable and well-balanced meals that you can prepare in 30 minutes or less. Visit nor.com to get quick and easy recipe ideas for your home cooked weeknight dinners. It's not fast food, but it's so good. I'm Anna Garcia with True Crime News, the podcast. 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