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00:00Roman Anthony, of course, knocking on the door of getting to the big league team.
00:04Durant, 28 years old, he's only making $3.75 million this year,
00:07which he had to haggle with the Red Sox over after getting MVP votes last year.
00:12He's only under team control through 2028.
00:15However, at age 28, he's the oldest in the group of Raffaella and Abreu,
00:19and eventually Roman Anthony.
00:21Maybe that would make the Red Sox more willing to trade him.
00:23Now, the question is, what would you want?
00:25I would assume starting pitching from the Padres would be what the Red Sox would want.
00:28And this story seems to suggest that top-catching prospect Ethan Salas
00:33might get the Red Sox to be inclined to make a deal.
00:36So they traded Kyle Teal, so they did have a top-catching prospect.
00:39But they traded him away.
00:40No, I wouldn't do that.
00:40Are you trading Durant for a prospect?
00:42I'm not trading Durant for anything.
00:44Well, I shouldn't say that.
00:45That's way too overboard.
00:46But I'm not trading Durant for almost anything.
00:49He was top 10 in the MVP last year.
00:51He hasn't been as good this year.
00:53But if you were ever going to trade him,
00:55you trade him after last season,
00:57and you get as much as you possibly can because he is a cheap guy.
01:01So even if you have to go to arbitration or even if you give him these slight
01:04boosts, you're going to have him for really cheap.
01:06His production is way higher than what you're paying him.
01:11He's your leadoff hitter.
01:12He plays every day.
01:13You can ping-pong him between center and left.
01:16When Roman Anthony comes up, he can play center.
01:18That's fine.
01:19He isn't having as good of a year as he did last year,
01:23but I would expect him to sort of come out of that at some point.
01:26And you'd be selling a little bit lower, too,
01:29based on the season that he's having.
01:30Agreed.
01:31So if you're so quick to move, if you're going to trade him in June,
01:33or even, let's say, at the deadline in July,
01:36well, what was the point of that for three months?
01:38Like, if it was in your mind to trade him,
01:39you probably could have gotten a ton this offseason.
01:41Well, I mean, let me defend the team on that to a degree.
01:43Like, your team's underachieving.
01:45You thought you'd be better.
01:46You thought your pitching staff might be better.
01:48And so now it's Garrett Crochet and nothing after Garrett Crochet.
01:52Bueller was bad again over the weekend.
01:54How it's been horrible.
01:56Baio can't pitch during the day.
01:57And so, like, what do you do?
01:59And you look at a team like the Padres.
02:02Ironically, Pavetta's having a great year for them.
02:04Yeah.