00:00Well, you can't replace someone like Rafi.
00:03He's just, you know, as an individual exceptional hitter.
00:08So we got to find other ways.
00:10What?
00:11We can't replace him?
00:12Or you didn't replace him?
00:14Could you maybe try?
00:15Like, I would just say, maybe try next time, even if you couldn't, which I reject.
00:19I reject that.
00:20We got Suarez.
00:21He pitches.
00:23The idea that you can't replace Devers.
00:26Let's even say that's true.
00:27I know a lot of people in the Twitch chat feel that way.
00:29It's not true, first of all.
00:30People think Devers and Mookie Betts are the same.
00:32And Devers is such a fraction of what Betts was as a player.
00:36It's not even funny.
00:36Do you know that he was never top 10 in the MVP?
00:38I've heard that.
00:39Yes.
00:39I don't even think Devers is Bregman.
00:41So, like, I think you did replace Devers a year ago and you upgraded.
00:45And how do I know you were better without him than you were with him?
00:47So I reject that you can't replace him.
00:50But, okay, fine.
00:51He's such a good bat that he can't be replaced.
00:54Could you maybe try?
00:56Could you make some kind of effort to replace his production?
00:58There was nobody available besides Pete Alonzo, Kyle Schwarber, Bo Bichette.
01:03Bregman again.
01:04Isak Paredes.
01:05Sure.
01:06Eugenio Suarez.
01:07Bregman again.
01:08Yeah, right.
01:09You could just double down on Bregman.
01:10Could have closed the trade.
01:11I know he didn't move, but could tell Marte.
01:13Sure.
01:13All those guys seemingly were available.
01:16Many moving teams.
01:17In fact, some of them joining the AL East, for God's sake.
01:19So, yeah, they bungled that.
01:21Maybe he's in a tough spot there because he doesn't want to rip Devers because Devers isn't here anymore.
01:24And now you're stabbing players in the back when they leave.
01:26Like, I'll give Sam a little bit of that.
01:28Like, how do you answer that one without sounding like you're trashing Devers on the way out the door?
01:32If you trash Bregman, you might as well trash Devers.
01:34Devers deserves to be trash more than Bregman does.
01:36I was just going to say, I think Devers is a player that actually deserves to be trash because of
01:39how lousy he was as a teammate when he was here.
01:41Go ahead.
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