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Gresh & Fauria: Lou Merloni on James Paxton
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7/26/2024
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The news that has just broke is that it looks like the Red Sox
00:04
are going to get James Paxton, who was DFA'd by the Dodgers.
00:09
I'm assuming this is a pretty simple transaction, cash,
00:13
or it's just, hey, we'll take him off your hands.
00:15
This doesn't cost the Red Sox really anything, does it?
00:18
Yeah, we'll see who's available, I mean, who they gave up for him,
00:21
if anybody.
00:22
It's like a million and a half dollars, basically,
00:24
they take on.
00:24
It's nothing big.
00:25
But that was really more of a paper transaction.
00:28
The Dodgers knew that he had some interest from other teams.
00:32
They also knew that they DFA, and they have seven days
00:34
to trade him, which takes them right to the deadline.
00:36
And they needed to activate Glasnow and Kershaw,
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and they had a couple other guys coming off.
00:40
So it's more of a roster crunch.
00:41
So it's not like he's just free, because they released him.
00:44
They released him knowing they were
00:45
going to be able to trade him, and there
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would be competition for him.
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But listen, we saw him the other day.
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He looked OK in that game.
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But this isn't going out there and getting a front line
00:55
guy here for the stretch.
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To me, this is kind of getting some depth in the hopes
00:58
that he can kind of fill a fifth spot.
01:00
And I think you continue to look in the starter market.
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Lou, I'm sure we'll get into the Cora in a minute.
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But everybody now, I think, with Cora signing an extension
01:10
assumes that means he believes the team is invested
01:12
in the present and the future, and that
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means they're going to be buyers.
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This does not qualify as buying, right?
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This is dipping your toe in it.
01:22
This is sort of like, well, we need something.
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Let's start now.
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And this is what I'm saying.
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Sometimes you're like, if you're working on something,
01:29
maybe bigger, maybe a starting pitcher that's
01:31
got control for the next two or three years,
01:33
and it doesn't work out, and you're sort of left with nothing.
01:37
I mean, Fresno comes out, and he's like, yeah,
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we're going to try to improve this team.
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Well, the minute you say that, that
01:42
puts heat on yourself to go out and actually do that.
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So this, to me, is sort of dipping your toe in it
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and getting a body, getting a guy that
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can start every fifth day, and you just sort of go from there.
01:53
But hopefully, there's more.
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