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00:00Jaron Durant, does he finish the season with the Red Sox?

00:03I think so, but I think that everyone knows that the Padres really love him.

00:08I mean, that's the love.

00:09Oh, my God.

00:09Every day there's a new article about how much they love him.

00:12And this goes back to before last year.

00:15And so the wild card is that the GM of the Padres

00:19is a much better basketball-playing version of Dave Dombrowski, A.J. Prowler.

00:24He is legit.

00:26Good basketball player.

00:26He is known throughout baseball as a guy he –

00:29basically he says – he grabs reporters and say,

00:33do you know where I can play basketball at 6 o'clock in the morning on the road?

00:36Guy's just a gamer.

00:37He's a gamer.

00:37But he also – he's not afraid to make trades.

00:39All right.

00:40And so that's the wild card in all of this.

00:43I will say this is that Jaron Duran – and I've heard – I've had players say this.

00:48If they trade Jaron Duran, there's going to be damage control in that clubhouse.

00:52Yeah, it's not worth it.

00:54This isn't Devers.

00:54I don't think it's worth it if they like him.

00:56But then the next question would be long-term, Duran, Anthony, Rafael, Abreu.

01:02How do you go about that?

01:04I think for this season – yeah, right.

01:05For this season, you can do it.

01:06But beyond, you can't.

01:07And I don't know if you know.

01:09These things have a way of figuring themselves out.

01:11They do.

01:11Sadly, someone's getting hurt.

01:13But to start next year, you don't want to have one of those guys not in the lineup.

01:17No, they have to make a move.

01:19Yeah.

01:19I don't think there's any question.

01:21And think about it, you know, when it comes to the Devers thing, if they had Devers, you

01:25can make the argument, Rafael doesn't do what he's doing.

01:28Like, it's – because they're tying themselves in the knots trying to figure out where to

01:32play guys.

01:32Well, even Roman Anthony's DH'd a bunch of games already.

01:35Yeah.

01:35I mean, Roman Anthony has been – if you talk about the most – if you want to power

01:40– I love a good power ranking.

01:41Oh, Sam.

01:41If you want to power rank the most important things that have allowed them to do what they're

01:46doing recently, Roman Anthony is near the top of that list.

01:50They had to have a good Roman Anthony because they basically put him and said, go be Rafael

01:54Devers.

01:55Let's go.

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