Do not be surprised if Jaron Duran is wearing the Old English D by opening day.

Go on.

It's John Morosi.

Not just any D, Keith.

We're wearing the old English D.

What channel is that on?

I actually don't know. Was that the MLB Network? Cinemax baseball coverage? You know they did that. Duran might smack around if he hears that. He snapped to people for less. Oh, way less. I'll be wearing the old English D. We'll see about that. He'll holler at you. He gets hot. Yeah, he... Careful. There, Marosi. So that was, I believe, on the MLB Network. How about that, though? Yeah. Well, your read on this, Keith, I think, was spot on. Thank you. It's our two, Jones and Keith. Here on a Would You Rather Wednesday, we'll get to some would you rather's coming up. Less than a half hour from now. At 1130, we have the hashtag Dork Minute, 1145. Pure Hoops with Terp at high noon. Like, what a busy middle of the program we have. Never mind. You'll hear Mike Vrable live at 1 o'clock here on Jones and Keith. But your read on this, I think, was spot on.

We got the email yesterday from the Red Sox. Yeah. Oh, you got the email. I didn't know what the hell happened there. I got the email, brag. I'm not on the email list. And in my inbox, I'm like, a one-year deal with Duran. That's weird. Like, what the hell is that? and your read on it was, well, they're avoiding arbitration now to come to an agreement with him now so that the numbers locked in,

there's no questions when they trade him. Because a team like Detroit or Minnesota or

whomever, whoever would be acquiring Jaron Duran, they don't want to get him, not have a full

read on the parameters of... And then negotiate with him and tell him why it's not worth it or whatever. Yeah. And I think there was a buyout in there as well, potentially. So, like, I think just some of the unknowns with Jaron Duran and his negotiation now are known for this year. He's locked in at a number, which I think makes him easier to trade. It's not a sign that they're locking him in to keep him. No. And Morosi, I think, is reading it the same way. In fact, he even has a prediction. Ooh. He'll be wearing the old English D. Well, I could think of somebody who currently wears the old English D that you could get. So wearing the old English D as part of a little trade package. So perhaps. He did not. Sorry, I had Nick trim this out. But at the, he trimmed up the old English D. At the winter meetings or GM meetings or whatever's coming up, he mentioned that Tark Skoubel is going to be a massive talking point. So you think Duran could get rolled into a larger deal for Scoobie. Yeah. I mean, a much larger deal. Like nobody's crazy enough to think that it's anywhere close to a one for one. But I mean, but I have another name to suggest based on something that happened yesterday. I just think you get a player like that. So somebody for Scoobel and big big time trades happen all the time. People would never trade Scoobel. Why not? They would. If they got enough of a trade. You heard of the GM talking about Scoobel. That didn't seem like they were locked in at all. I didn't think Scoobel had a chance to get traded. He's going into his contract year. And I listened to this tech bro baseball ops guy. and I couldn't believe it. He basically told you schoolboy was going to get dealt.

So school, going into his contract year and I listen to this tech bro baseball ops guy. And I couldn't believe it.

He basically told you school bowl was going to get dealt. So school bowl's moving, I think. So it's going to happen. Maybe not for Duran and maybe not to the Red Sox. But they're listening on him because he's going into a contract year and they're probably not going to pay him. Right. I mean, you know, Garrett Crochet got traded. Chris Selelt got traded, both here, two guys that,

you know,

the White Sox never should have traded or, you know,

whatever.

So they moved on from those guys.

I think there is a chance

Scoobble gets dealt. But I think if you're Detroit, and you weren't like a bad team like the White Sox were when they traded those guys. You're a pretty good team.

The only way to really make a deal,

you can't just trade Scoobel for a bunch of prospects,

which other teams would do.

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