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Hot stove conversation with Jack McMullen from Just Baseball on deck here and also on deck for the full show coming up at 1:30 Eastern exclusively here on Sports Grid. Let's bring in Jack who's taking some time off now, got a couple of months to breathe here. All the, the Marlins duties are over for now. The hot stove, uh, has percolated to the point now we're, you're getting toward the end of that too here for like the last couple of months, but we still do have free agents to talk about. So, uh, coming up in 10 minutes, Jack and I will look forward to who is still out there. And in this discussion for the next 10 minutes, we'll talk about who has been signed. So, Jack, let's start off since we last spoke about those players specifically, and the ones that are the most current. Probably the most intriguing one of all happened earlier this week, the Philadelphia Phillies poised for another postseason run. Decided to head out to the free agent market and sign Adolis Garcia, the hero from the Texas Rangers World Series run to a 1-year, $10 million contract. It seems like the Phillies wanna feel him out to see how he'll do in Philly. It feels like Garcia wants to feel himself out a little bit to see if he can't go back on the market. After this year and recreate his market. By the way, a player that had no market whatsoever years ago with the Saint Louis Cardinals sort of found glory, uh, by the Texas Rangers, great trade by them. What do you think? Is, is this someone that can actually work Jack on a 1-year deal? Because if there's 100 1-year deals out there, it feels like 90% of them don't. Yeah, I, I, short answer is yes. Short answer is he can absolutely be in the 10% that do work out on a 1-year deal, and they've struck gold on a couple of those guys, and I think that there are a couple of very good organizations in Major League Baseball that fall into these pattern free agent signings, and sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. I wanna bring up the LA Dodgers. The Dodgers, if you remember a few years back, brought in Jason Heyward, who it felt like was at the end of the line, and he was just kind of done and he was close to retirement, but then Jason Heyward had a really good year. The OPS was over 800, and they said, you know what? We struck gold on this one-year deal. Let's try it again. They bring Te Oscar Hernandez in on a 1-year, $23 million dollar contract, and it worked really well. So then all of a sudden, Te Oscar hits the open market, he's back on a three-year deal. They tried it again the following year, going into 25 with Michael Conforto, and it didn't work well at all. He wasn't even on the World Series roster. So, this is an opportunity for them to just try to play the percentages and say, you know what, we feel like we can pay a premium to get a former really good player on a one-year deal. And chances are it'll work out for us and for the Dodgers, it worked out two of the three times they did it. For the Phillies, I guarantee you, they look at the success Max Kepler had in 2025 and say, why can't this guy just be our Max Kepler again? Different thing. Kepler, a left-handed hitter, a Doli. right-handed hitter, but this is another corner outfielder on an identical contract, a 1-year, $10 million dollar deal that they feel like can work out. I, I love the way you phrased Adoli as the, the hero for the Texas Rangers. He was. He, he delivered maybe the biggest swing in their franchise's history. Adoli Garcia was one of the best corner outfielders in Major League Baseball in 2023. Guy hit just about 40 homers, he drove in over 100, he was a Gold Glove candidate in right field. And then what happened? He struck out all the time, he stopped walking, he was hitting the ball really hard, but he wasn't hitting it out of the ballpark consistently, and then all of a sudden, the defense got really bad. I think this is an effort to infuse some life, some new energy into him, and there's no better place to do that than Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Yup, definitely so. The Phillies lineup will be stacked once again. Uh, Turner, Schwarber, Harper, Garcia, that's a very strong 4. Alec Baum toward the bottom, Bryson Stott against righties is a crusher, and obviously JT Rudo is gonna be back there a catcher at some point. I don't know when that's gonna be, but believe me, that'll be the case. Uh, real quick, let's get to this one and then I wanna get to the others. Uh, twins, this was, uh, what, if you wanna say odd offseason, the twins probably right at the top, sending signals. At least through the media, it felt like we're gonna hit a rebuild, we're gonna hit a reset, and then all of a sudden, now we're not gonna hit a reset. So something must have happened. Jack, not really knowing the dynamics, maybe it's the general manager, Derek Falve, I'm not sure. Maybe it's part of the ownership group, no clue. But they decided to sign Josh Bell, so this signals to me that it's not. A full rebuild at the very least, we're gonna at least try and pivot and try and play a little bit for this year. Bell probably hits what, uh, 8 to 1015 home runs with Minnesota. They find a trade partner at the deadline if they're not in it. And if they are in it, Bell helps them out with what, 2 of the 5 unbelievable months, and then the rest pretty pedestrian. That's his career, pretty much. Yeah, he, he's already won bingo a couple of times. I think people at the bingo hall wanna kick him out for winning too much bingo. Like he's, what, 7 teams in 7 years? He's getting close to Edwin Jackson level where you're just checking boxes of like every team that you could possibly play for. I've heard nothing but amazing things about Josh Bell, the guy, so this is interesting that The twins who are in a pretty tumultuous situation right now with, you know, pump fake ownership change and are we gonna rebuild, are we not gonna rebuild that whole deal. Um, it's nice to bring in that steady veteran presence who you know is one of the good dudes in Major League Baseball, so they do that on a one-year deal, but in terms of a fit, I, I found it pretty interesting, but this guy did club over 20 homers. Uh, to your point, there's production there, but like, Is Byron Buxton gonna be on the team? Is Joe Ryan gonna be on the team? Pablo Lopez on the team? Uh, the answer was no until it was yes, and it really didn't make sense why the answer was yes, but you know what, um, good luck to them and good luck to Josh Bell. Yeah, definitely so. And it does seem like ownership in, uh, some sort of situation here with some purchasing going on too. A story for everyone out in the Twin Cities. Uh, Braves, uh, continue their pseudo spending spree. Haven't, uh, uh, spree, I haven't seen the Braves do this in a while. It's been a lot of internal extensions. Now it's getting external free agents signing relievers, and now Hassan Kim is a perfect fit for the Braves. Uh, Jack, he'll play shortstop for them. Their second base is locked. Their third base is locked. And so Kim really just plugs the one hole they had in the infield. Yeah, Hassan, I, it seems like it's been a couple of years now that Atlanta has been hunting a shortstop really since Dansby Swanson left, and I think a lot of people were surprised that Atlanta did let Dansby Swanson walk. You remember the two head scratchers, it was Dansby Swanson, then it was Freddie Freeman. Like those two guys, everybody was like, oh, you're just an Atlanta Brave for the entirety of your career. Not so fast, and Atlanta got younger, they got a touch cheaper, and they got I don't wanna say just as good, but they got pretty darn good at first base with Matt Olsen. At short, they've been trying to plug and play. And at first it was Orlando Arcia on a 2-year, $9 million extension. And then it was Vaughn Grissom for a minute. And last year it was Nick Allen, who was one of the best defensive shortstops in baseball, but He was one of the very few guys, I think the only qualified hitter in Major League Baseball without a single home run. They've had no offensive production from that position since Dansby Swanson left. They found it at the end of the year with Hassan Kim, at least in partial amounts, and they just wanna do that moving forward. And I don't blame him one bit. I thought this was a match made in heaven last year when they go and get him from Tampa. And I thought this reunion was a match made in heaven. The other one, they moved Nick Allen to Houston for Mauricio Duban in a trade about a month ago. I love the idea of Mauricio Duban in Atlanta as that super utility guy. He can fill in in the outfield, he can fill in short, he can fill in, uh, at 2 if need be, if Albee goes down with an injury. Um, uh, it, it seems like Atlanta is positioning themselves, I think, pretty darn well on the free agent market. I agree, and I, not just if Albee's goes down. Albee's gotta hit a little bit more this year. I think that, you know, he's gonna be looking over his shoulder a little bit like Dubo can play this position if you, if you're done hitting. I don't know why it's happened to Alby's, but it has. Uh, the Diamondbacks are gonna lose Zack Allen and Corbin Burns is out for the season, so they needed consistency. They jump right back to the Merrill Kelly market, who, of course, was, uh, traded by them at the end of last season. He is back. I would expect him to throw another 170, 180 innings and be the number one, the number 2, or number 3 for the Diamondbacks. That's what this is about, isn't it? Death, taxes, and Merrill Kelly putting together a pretty solid year for the Arizona Diamondbacks. Like, that's exactly what you're gonna get. This has been such a steady face, and I guarantee you, Ken Kendrick and Mike Hazen, the president of baseball operations there, they absolutely saw that and said, we cannot take this for granted. So, I love the idea of Merrill Kelly just being in the fold here, uh, for the next 2 years and Yeah, I, regardless of what happens with Corbin Burns in the long term or who else they go get, maybe it's via trade, you know that you have Merrill Kelly near the front of that rotation. More work to be done if Arizona wants to contend, but this was a good start. And I always think it's funny when a player is traded at the deadline and then goes right back. So, Arizona still holds the prospects that they got from Texas, and oh, by the way, they got Merrill Kelly back. Definitely so. Uh, 30 seconds to go. Tyler Rodgers, I thought would get a 1-year deal. He got paid big, 3 years, 27 million by the Blue Jays. Like he gets got, he gets right, he's out like cakework, but he, but he doesn't even face lefties. It's a strange signing for me. Come on, man, this guy's been amazing. It's a sub 2 ERA last year, and he's, his arm is made of rubber. Good for him. All righty. No, I know he's fantastic. All right, so we just hit on all of the signings this past week. I will say, a lot of times I'm very cynical with the hot stove, and I know some people are complaining. It has actually been acceptable for me this offseason with the trickle that we've had cause like every day or every other day, somebody else has signed. So it's gone better, Jack, than I thought that it would go. I really thought, because of the new CBA looming and everything else, that we may wait until February to get everybody signed. That is definitely not been the case. And in particular, the bullpen market. It's been the big surprise to me. I just mentioned, uh, Rodgers who signed a 3-year contract with the Blue Jays, and again, all, all good things for him. I'm sure his brother's gonna get a new contract soon too. But there are still some big names and multi-year deals to be out there. So I wanted to ask you about those. Here are some of the bigger names that are out there, not including Kyle Tucker, who I think we both agree is not gonna sign for another month or two. That guy's gotta wait till the bitter end until he could get his 400 million. Uh, Bo Bechette. Alex Bregman, absolutely getting multi-year deals this time. Bregman's not gonna wanna do another one and done, I know that. Uh, Cody Bellinger. Who just seems to be a good fit for the Yankees again. Maybe they were just waiting on something, I'm not sure. And then Eugenio Suarez, who I know is searching for a multi-year deal, kind of tired of being moving around a lot. Seattle, Arizona wants to stay, or the Reds wants to stay in one place as well. So, I don't know that all 4 of these guys end up signing quickly and not taking that one-year pillow, but I would imagine 3 out of the 4 get multi-year deals. Who intrigues you the most here as we move forward? Yeah, honestly, I think it's Bechette. Um, Cody Bellinger would have been my knee-jerk answer, but Cody Bellinger, it seems like his market is pretty defined at this point. He's gonna end up in a borough. He's gonna end up in Queens or the Bronx. I just have no idea which one it's going to be. The Mets, according to SNY a couple of minutes ago, are reportedly. very in on Cody Bellinger, which makes a lot of sense, uh, pivoting away from Brandon Nimmo, it feels like Bellinger is the younger version, uh, of Brandon Nimmo in a certain sense, but the Yankees, that's plug and play, you know exactly what that fit is. The reason I say Bechette is because he's gonna get paid a lot of money. And is the question, or the question is, is he getting paid a lot to be a shortstop or is he getting paid a lot to be a second baseman? There are teams that are gonna look at him and say, listen, We see the advanced metrics defensively, and you are not very good at shortstop, but your bat is special. And I just wanna know what the difference in price tag is for a really good hitting shortstop and a really good hitting second baseman. If a team viewed him as a shortstop, I bet you he can get $180 million. I bet you he can pass what Willie Adamas got from San Francisco last year. But if they view him as a really good hitting second baseman, The price tag probably isn't 180, it's probably closer to 120. So, for me, I, I see the pendulum swinging a couple of different ways for Bobachette, where he can either get paid like a top of the line second baseman or a top of the line shortstop, and I have no idea what the right answer is or what's gonna happen. So, uh, let, let's pivot over to something that we haven't had a chance to talk about since I saw you last week. It's not a recent signing, and they've already introduced Pete Alonso. Uh, and, and it's not really the Baltimore question for me at this point, cause I think I know where Baltimore is headed, and I think that they're gonna add another pitcher before it's all said and done and call it a wrap for the for the offseason, which is a great offseason for the Orioles who didn't wanna do anything the last few years and are totally all in now. Let's go to the Mets here for a minute. And Jack, I would ask you specifically about this dynamic that the Mets have going right now with their owner, Steve Cohen, who is the wealthiest owner in, in Major League Baseball by leaps and bounds, can really do anything that he chooses, versus the uh president of baseball operations and general manager, who to me is one of the very best in the game in David Stearns. Just look what he did for Milwaukee and that tree is incredible. Matt Arnold's gonna get another job whenever he wants it, if he wants to leave and go somewhere else too. What is going on there, do you think, in New York? Because we, we really haven't seen the Mets outbid for anyone since Steve Cohen, uh, bought the, the Mets. Like he basically could go to any player, an agent say, no, I'm gonna do this or I'm gonna do that. It feels like he got outbid for Pete Alonso here. and, and what, what do you make of that moving forward? So the only thing I'll say there is, it is a half-baked offseason to this, to this point. And one of my favorite tweets during the Alonzo Edwin Diaz saga came from Ian Rapoport, the NFL reporter, who said, I will not judge an offseason until it's finished. I will not judge an offseason until it's finished. He wrote it 10 times like Bart Simpson in detention in The Simpsons. Um, I, I, I love that aspect because the counterpoint to all of this, the counterpoint that I guarantee you David Stearns is seeing and probably has effectively communicated to Steve Cohen is, if we run back the same cast. Characters, what happened last year? We didn't make it to the dance. We had a $350 million tax payroll. We paid an $86 million tax bill, and we didn't even get invited into the front door of the dance. We didn't even get to the wildcard series. So, they're changing things up and I guarantee you David Stearns went to Steve Cohen and said, Listen, I, I appreciate what Pete has done for this city, for this franchise. I appreciate what Nimmo has done for the city, for this franchise, but there were glaring deficiencies here. Defensively, Pete couldn't play first. Nimmo struggled in the corner outfield spot. We need pitching. Maybe they spend money on pitching, maybe they spend money on the rotation, maybe they spend money on the bullpen. I do think that you're seeing a reallocation of assets for the New York Mets. And I'd be curious to go back and look at Andrew Friedman's first year or two in LA because this guy came from Tampa to LA. Financially, he was swimming in a kiddie pool and then transitioned into the Pacific Ocean. That's the David Stearns deal too. He was in Milwaukee. That he's in New York. I think there is still a couple of years for David Stearns to feel really comfortable being the GM of a team with an unlimited budget because he was working for years, his entire professional life under strict financial constraints. I just wonder what the pattern is there for an acclimation uh of getting used to one of these major market jobs. Yeah, I mean, Chaim Bloom, I, I thought did a really good job in Boston, but never, you know, certainly got used to that. But I think that the point that you make, uh, or that you made at the beginning is the most fair point of all, and I think it's a good message for all of the fans that are enduring the baseball offseason as it's presently constructed, which is, it's December, it's not February, and the Mets could get school Bowl or do some crazy stuff that we are just completely unaware of right now. And we'd be just wasting our time and what have you done for me in the last 32nd TikTok moment. And I think that that, Jack is really what I, what I try to go by here having done this for so long to wait till the end. Uh, but anyway, Jack, what's coming up on the show here today in uh 10 minutes? Yeah, we're checking a whole bunch of boxes, dissecting all of the recent deals. We talked about Adolis Garcia, we'll go in depth a little bit on that. Um, Robert Suarez, his 3-year deal with Atlanta, we go in depth on that. The Kansas City Royals, they've been a really interesting Mish, so we'll hit that as well. Yeah, they have big trades. I forgot to include that in the show. All right, we'll do it next week, Jack. Thanks again.

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