Felger & Mazz: Red Sox Trade Options, Marcus Smart’s Contract, and the Final Word (Hour 4)

Felger & Massarotti

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🗓️ 19 July 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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In the fourth and final Hour, Felger and Mazz reset the day’s topics and continued to take calls on everything discussed. The guys talked about the Red Sox trade options, Marcus Smart’s new contract, and Danny Amendola’s comments. To wrap up the show, it’s the Final Word with Jim Murray.

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0:00.0	This, what are you doing that stupid trickery crap for?
0:04.1	Is Felger in Mass?
0:05.2	The continued issue, uh, on 985.
0:08.0	I just want to see what the fuss is about.
0:09.5	Sports Hub.
0:10.4	I'll probably hate it.
0:15.1	So here's the development on the trade market.
0:22.7	A really good player that you could have really used.
0:27.5	Moved today to a direct competitor to you in the American League.
0:31.3	Brad Hand, the left-handed reliever with the Padres.
0:34.7	He can close and go multiple innings.
0:36.8	He's in the prime of his
0:37.7	career at 28 years old. He's on a great contract. Three years, 19 million. Call it 20, just under 20. First
0:45.3	year of a three-year deal worth just under $20 million, so under $7 million a year for a guy
0:51.8	who, again, pitches from the left side can go multiple innings and can close. And has been one of the best relievers in the National League, well, at least this year anyway, 24 saves to this point for a team that blows. How do you get 24 saves in San Diego? I can't believe they had 24 save opportunities. Well, so what happens is the few games they win, they're winning three to two. So you're going to always get those. I'm telling you, there's been a lot of good closures on bad teams. So he goes to Cleveland for a prospect, a catching prospect, who ranks 15th in one scouting service and 23rd in the other. Baseball America had him 24th. You said? 23rd? 24th. okay, 24th. The MLB pipeline had him 15th. Baseball America had him 24th. Simply, he's a top 20 prospect. That's a way to look at it. So Cleveland gave up a top 20 prospect for this reliever. And so a couple things here. One, you don't have a top 20 prospect to give up.
1:48.2	In fact, you don't have anyone in the top 100 of that baseball America list.
1:50.2	You don't have anyone in the top 100.
1:55.3	And guys who might have been, or just on the periphery of it, are either coming off of steroid suspensions or are hurt.
1:57.8	So hurt is groom, suspension is Chavis, the third baseman, right? Yep. So you can't match
2:04.3	that even if you wanted to. But what also strikes me is just how dangerous Cleveland now looks
2:10.7	with this guy in their bullpen. If you believe, as I and many baseball do that, you can get away
2:14.6	with shaky starting pitching if you've got a great bullpen. And bullpens are more important than starting pitchers.
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