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I'm curious how that conversation goes, because I think Aaron Judge, now is there in the right where I believe he sits down and he goes to Tampa ahead of

pitchers and catchers and he's doing his you know his office house down there no in Tampa yeah probably and he I think he sits down with hell so I'm curious as to how that goes like if you don't you think judge is like disappointed like we need to do more I. I think if... How could he not be? I think if the only off-season answer is Trent Grisham's qualifying offer, yeah, I think it's going to be a bit of a odd conversation. There's no way they can just do Trent Grishol. I would agree. The more I think about it, though, I think the more I recognize is, yeah, the Dodgers have a tremendous amount of upper,

like upper echelon talent, right? I mean, you look at the first three, then you look at the starting

pitching and everything else. But I mean, even the Yankees, when Gary Cole gets healthy, Cole,

freed, Redan, like, that's pretty, I mean, Schlittler emerged, that's pretty solid. But as far as,

like, everyday players or, you know, starting lineup, like, there is definitely less of a gap between their best players and everyone else than with the Yankees. Do you know what I mean? It's like, it'd be like... Well, yeah, they don't have really any Ryan McMans on their roster. Right. Like when you look at the Panthers, right?

Like the secret sauces, yeah, they got the upper echelon guys. They got the Kachukes and they got the Barkovs and they got Bob. But like the drop off from line one to line four isn't drastic. You know what I mean? Like they're line three with Brad Marshaun. And it's all interchangeable, right? Well, like Brad Marshall

could be, I mean, he could play first line.

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