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00:00Call him up or you're not a real team. You're not a real team. You're not serious about this.
00:03You're not a serious baseball team until you call up the top prospect in baseball.
00:07You can't score runs. Your team stinks.
00:09You have the best prospect in baseball.
00:11We can't overemphasize that.
00:12He's not the best prospect in the team, which is still one thing.
00:15He's a pitcher or a hitter, though?
00:16He hits.
00:17He hits rocket ships into the outfield at 120 miles an hour off the bat.
00:21Not like a slap-hitting singles guy.
00:24No, he hits bombs.
00:25He hits moonshots.
00:26And you could use that.
00:27Sure you could.
00:28Interesting.
00:28You scored one run yesterday, and you're trotting out a lineup today that has five guys that don't even own a bat.
00:35Five guys that walk up there empty-handed.
00:38Like, Dice came out to Zaka.
00:39Everyone's like, hey, don't swing.
00:40Five of those guys in the lineup today.
00:43So, yeah, Roman Anthony, he's probably going to hit another rocket ship at Worcester.
00:46He's been doing that nonstop.
00:49And they're like, hmm, not ready.
00:52No.
00:53No spot for him.
00:54There's no spot for him.
00:55There's no spot for him?
00:55Yeah, where could you put that guy?
00:56Put him anywhere.
00:57Have him pick a spot.
00:59So, we said this earlier, Keith.
01:01Cotillo's hinting at, like, a big change on the off day tomorrow.
01:04He says it's not informed.
01:05I'm guessing.
01:05Cora's not in jeopardy now.
01:08That's the wildest thing we've heard all day.
01:09But you wonder if there's something.
01:11Roman, a big coach that could happen before Atlanta on Friday.
01:15If the Red Sox don't do it on Thursday, we may just have to go get the guy, Keith.
01:18We'll go get him.
01:19We'll kidnap him.
01:19We've been to Worcester before.
01:20We were there.
01:21Love Worcester.
01:22Best friends with Marcello Meyer.
01:23First moments on Earth were in Worcester.
01:25Sick brag, bro.
01:28Really good friend of the show.
01:29Yeah.
01:29Our best friend.
01:30Yeah.
01:30Marcello Meyer.
01:31Sure.
01:32Our only friend.
01:33If we're being honest.
01:34Ice may be my best friend.
01:36Well, yeah.
01:37We may have a lot of friends.
01:37We may have to go get Roman Anthony.
01:40If the Red Sox don't do it.
01:41Yeah.
01:41We'll kidnap him.
01:42And then we'll bring him to Fenway Park.
01:43A Red Sox pride situation.
01:44Right.
01:45Is what that would be.
01:45It's a reverse the town.
01:47Instead of robbing Fenway Park, we will be bringing something to Fenway Park.
01:51A drop off.
01:51A delivery to Fenway Park.
01:52We're going to rob Polar Park.
01:54Correct.
01:54Yeah.
01:54Yeah.
01:55This is a not f***ing around crew.
01:57More of a kidnapping.
01:58We're going to be kidnapping a baseball player.
02:00And we're going to bring him to Fenway Park.
02:01Yeah, but it's for the good of the team.
02:02Yeah.
02:02Yes.
02:03Yeah.
02:03Yeah, exactly.
02:04He needs to be playing.
02:05Yeah.
02:05This lineup is comical.
02:10I was thinking about this, too.
02:12I think it might have been after Marcelo Meyer's second hit last night.
02:15It's like, if Bregman doesn't hurt his quad, Meyer's also still in the chair.
02:18No, it's pathetic.
02:19They're both still down there.
02:20The only reason Meyer's here is because Bregman got hurt, which is, like, I'm happy Meyer's
02:24here.
02:25Sure.
02:25But the circumstances are embarrassing.
02:27They should have been teammates.
02:28He should have been his replacement.
02:30They both should have been up like a month ago.
02:32Uh, yeah.
02:32So, anyway, Red Sox stats.
02:34I couldn't remember why I read this.
02:36Well, my guy, Red Sox stats, who I am currently.
02:38Blocked!
02:39Blocked!
02:40Blocked!
02:41Which I swear to God.
02:42I didn't block you.
02:43I swear to God I've not had an incident with Red Sox stats.
02:45That's not what I heard.
02:47I used to read the man's tweets back in the day.
02:49Uh, the gal's tweets.
02:50I'm not even sure.
02:51We don't know.
02:51No, I don't know.
02:52Who's to say?
02:53I don't.
02:54Perhaps this is why they're offended.
02:55No, it's a non-gender Red Sox stats.
02:57Uh, I don't even see gender.
02:59And so, uh, I couldn't remember why I read this last night, but Nick said it was Red Sox
03:04stats, which apparently now you can read people you're blocked by.
03:07Yeah, that's Elon Musk.
03:08Would you thank him for that?
03:09Thank you, Elon.
03:10Because, like, everybody's blocking him.
03:11The rest of the website doesn't work, but you can do that.
03:13Yeah, that's true.
03:14You can see my stuff anyway.
03:15Shout out, Elon.
03:16Yep.
03:16Uh, he wrote a whole thing or cited a whole thing here.
03:20So, basically, the 172-day deadline where you keep these guys in AAA and they don't accrue
03:28enough service time towards a free agency year.
03:31So, that used to be the only rule in the CBA.
03:34And so, you'd have guys held out until the beginning of May.
03:37And we've seen all these prospects called up.
03:38We talked about Jordan Lawler with the Diamondbacks.
03:40The Cubs have called up a few different guys.
03:42The A's have called people up.
03:43So, all these teams around baseball are calling people up.
03:45And you go, well, why the hell is Anthony still down there?
03:47You're not really manipulating service time.
03:49I was wrong about that.
03:50What they're trying to do is they're trying to prevent Roman Anthony from accruing enough
03:54stats, Keith, to be first or second in the rookie of the year voting.
03:59Okay?
03:59He's too good.
04:00God forbid we use him now and the guy wins the rookie of the year.
04:03That'd really backfire.
04:04A player who finishes first or second in AL or NL rookie of the year is awarded a full
04:10year of MLB service no matter when the call update happens.
04:13So, they can call him up in August.
04:14And if he somehow wins rookie of the year in that short amount of time, he would accrue
04:18a year towards free agency.
04:20Players who accrue one year of service time by this method are ineligible for the PPI.
04:25I don't even pretend to know what that is.
04:26PPI?
04:27So, here are examples of players who do this.
04:29Michael Harris, rather, won National League Rookie of the Year.
04:32He didn't make his Major League debut until May 28th that year.
04:34He was retroactively awarded a full year of MLB service time.
04:37The others, Nick was right.
04:38Adley Rutschman finished runner-up in 2022.
04:41Tanner Bybee in 2023.
04:43Neither of them were on the opening day roster.
04:45They both came up later in the year.
04:47They finished second in Rookie of the Year.
04:48They accrued a year towards free agency.
04:51It was what the Red Sox were trying to manipulate and circumvent.
04:53So, Marcelo Meyer, already, he's played in four games.
04:58He has the ninth best odds to win Rookie of the Year.
05:01Right?
05:02So, it feels like, on the one hand, you're like, oh, the guy hasn't...
05:04We haven't seen him.
05:05He should have been up sooner.
05:07It's still May.
05:08And I know they're, what, coming up on a third of the way through the season.
05:12But it's not like, you know, a football rookie class or even a basketball rookie class where you know there's already, like, X number of guys that are out there playing every day and starting.
05:21Like, that's not the case.
05:22Like, Christian Campbell, even with his massive slumps and his just...
05:26The guy's been a mess at the plate.
05:27I think he has the seventh best odds.
05:30You know what I mean?
05:31Like, he's not been very good.
05:32So, Roman Anthony does get called up.
05:33And they're not worried about it with Campbell because Campbell played ball on a contract.
05:36He already has his money.
05:37And so, they're not worried.
05:38But I'm just saying, like, he's not having...
05:39They're like, Greg Christian Campbell won Rookie of the Year.
05:41We don't care about that.
05:42Roman Anthony, Marcelo, Mayer.
05:43Ooh!
05:43Yeah, yeah, yeah.
05:44No, no, no, no.
05:44Like, imagine if they finish 1-2.
05:46That's the Red Sox nightmare.
05:47That is.
05:47That's the Red Sox worst case scenario is that Anthony wins Rookie of the Year and Mayer wins his runner-up.
05:52And it's in play.
05:52And they produce for the team and they win games, but they get one less year of control.
05:58Yeah.
05:58So, I'm pretty sure if they win, they get a first-round pick back because they called him up.
06:02Yeah, there's all these stupid things.
06:04I didn't read that far.
06:04But, okay, I'll take your word for that on that.
06:06But Rookie of the Year favorite right now is Jacob Wilson, the shortstop for the A's.
06:09He's sitting 348.
06:10That guy's smoking it.
06:12Six dongs.
06:12Yeah.
06:12So, he's the favorite right now, but whatever.
06:14It just needs to be top two.
06:15A's, you idiots.
06:17Call him up and have him win Rookie of the Year, you dummies.
06:20That's why you guys never win anything.
06:21They play in Sacramento.
06:22That's a good point.
06:23Yeah.
06:23What were you telling me Alex Bure wrote today?
06:25Basically, according to Craig Breslow, they're having daily conversations.
06:32The Red Sox are daily conversations about when to bring up Roman Anthony.
06:37How do you think I know?
06:38Every day.
06:38Hey, guys, do you think we should bring up Roman Anthony today?
06:40No.
06:40He just hit another home run.
06:41No?
06:42Oh.
06:42Yeah, okay.
06:43No.
06:43Let's just go with what we have.
06:44Great.
06:45Yeah, yeah, yeah.
06:45David Hamilton's back in the lineup.
06:47Yeah.
06:47I think Sogar's in the lineup.
06:48What are you doing?
06:48He didn't hit another home run today, did he?
06:50Oh, please.
06:51He hit another home run.
06:52He did.
06:52He socked another one.
06:53Crap.
06:54We look like clowns for keeping him in Worcester.
06:57Damn it.
06:57All right, we'll meet again tomorrow.
06:58Hopefully, he doesn't hit one tonight, guys, right?
07:00You don't think he's going to hit another home run, do you?
07:01Yeah, probably.
07:02He's really good.
07:04So, yeah, daily conversations.
07:06We don't know how long the conversations last, but the answer so far has been no.
07:10Our guy Brad Foe today, we'll talk to him tomorrow, his weekly appearance at 11.
07:14That's right.
07:14Baseball isn't boring, weei.com.
07:17You can check it out all over the Odyssey app as well.
07:19So, he says, there isn't a human being in the baseball world who doesn't think Anthony
07:24is ready for his big league introduction.
07:27Well, that's not true.
07:29The Red Sox, whoever's, like, Breslow, Cora.
07:32No, no, no.
07:32They know he's ready.
07:34Yeah, well.
07:35They're just doing it, again, for the business and not for the baseball team, and they're content
07:39to lose games in the meantime.
07:40So, that's a lot of fun.
07:42Ay, ay, ay.
07:43617-779-7937.
07:45George is in Warwick.
07:46Hello, George.
07:47Hey, hi, guys.
07:48You know, I hope one of the things that they're not trying to finesse here is this compensation
07:53pick.
07:54If you're a top 100, listed on the top 100 players coming into the year, and you end up
08:00first or second in Rookie of the Year, you get an end-to-first-round pick.
08:04That's what Nick was just talking about.
08:05Yeah, and I hope they're not manipulating Roman Anthony's time, because, you know, what would
08:11they do?
08:12Push him out until July, so he still is considered a rookie.
08:15I think midpoint July sometime would still have him retaining his rookie status next year.
08:20I don't know.
08:20That's what they're trying to do, but it's not smart.
08:23Look, I really, I don't blame ownership for much.
08:25I mean, I blame ownership for extending Cora.
08:27That was dumb.
08:27And I said that in real time.
08:29Like, they shouldn't have extended him.
08:30I didn't want him to stay the manager.
08:31You're stuck with him now.
08:32So, that was dumb.
08:33I'll blame ownership for that.
08:34And I blame them for this.
08:36This, I blame them for.
08:37And maybe this is Breslow, too.
08:39But my guess is, when you're worried about years of control seven years down the line
08:43and big-ticket contracts, which Anthony and Meyer both could be in store for, that's what
08:49you're concerned about.
08:49This is the kind of stuff I'll blame ownership for.
08:51Most of the blame is on Cora.
08:53I blame Breslow for some of it.
08:55I mean, I mostly think Breslow had a pretty good offseason.
08:57I got a Breslow quote you're going to like.
08:59Oh, let's hear it.
09:00All right, so Breslow spoke with Alex Spear of the Globe.
09:02And why has Roman Anthony not been called up yet?
09:06Okay.
09:06Pretty simple question.
09:07Yeah.
09:07Well, the Red Sox, they hate wins, and they don't want to be successful, and they only
09:12care about their bottom line.
09:13I mean, is that the answer?
09:14What do you say?
09:14But here's how Breslow answered that question.
09:16Quote, those are a few development opportunities that we want to make sure we lock in.
09:22Those are things the minor league schedule and training environment afford.
09:26Oh, good.
09:26He does all these things well, but that doesn't mean there's not a chance to try to improve.
09:31It kind of sounds a bit like we're overly scrutinizing the performance, but he has a really
09:36high demands of himself.
09:38Okay.
09:39You're not saying anything.
09:40You brought up Christian Campbell.
09:42No, no.
09:44Campbell started the season, and you have him playing three different positions right now,
09:48and he's hitting in like eight different spots in the order.
09:50And that guy barely played in AAA.
09:51He was fast-tracked more so than Anthony.
09:53If anybody wasn't ready and hadn't developed enough and wasn't seasoned enough, that's
09:57Campbell.
09:57It's insane.
09:58Nonsense.
09:59It's ridiculous.
10:00You have all these examples on your own team this year.
10:03We called this out in real time.
10:04Campbell, maybe the third out of the three prospects, although coming into the year,
10:08I think he was ranked ahead of Meyer on a lot of these websites.
10:10Yeah, maybe.
10:10But certainly not above Roman Anthony.
10:12Okay.
10:13But the reason Campbell was here on opening day and those two guys were in AAA is because
10:17Campbell played ball on a contract and they didn't.
10:19And so it's all about manipulating service time, which is pathetic.
10:22Which is great because that helps wins.
10:23No, it's good.
10:24It's going very well for the big club right now.
10:25Keep doing that, guys.
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