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From the Quantum Fiber Studio, this is Brock & Sock on Seattle Sports. Brock Ewerd is my hero. James Heuter just punched me in the kidney. We're going to see you on morning. That really worked that way, Sherman. This is a show that has my name on it. It's kind of tough. Now here are your hosts, Brock Ewerd and Mike S. Hello! So glad Josh Naylor's deal is done.

It needed to happen.

It was a foundational piece that allows the rest of this offseason to now function for Jerry DePoto, Justin Hollander, and the rest of the Mariners.

Love it.

We've talked about it a lot over the last three days.

We played a lot of the sound from him this morning.

He was amazing in his press conference.

They gave us a great kind of window in to, you know, what it meant and who he is.

And then eventually it becomes the next story, which is what comes next?

Now what are you going to do?

Because at this point, Polanco is still a free agent.

Eohaneo Swares is still a free agent.

And that's just getting back to the team you were before you start thinking about how you want to get better, where you want to improve, and where there are going to be young guys that are going to start to mix in as well.

And it's why I ended up writing last night, Brock.

And I started this conversation, I think, earlier in the week with you and Shannon saying, look, he may be, or Nailer may be the foundational piece.

But Polanco for me is the pivot.

Because depending on what you do with Polanco, it changes the way everything else, I think, goes for the rest of this offseason. And as we start to dig into it, let me play you this sound from Justin Hollander yesterday, Mariners GM saying, here's what's next for us. You know, the off season doesn't always unfold in sort of a linear. You get to check your boxes in the order that you want to check them.

We would like to add another bat to the club at least one if we can do that. You know, we've talked pretty openly about, you know, being interested in a reunion with Jorge Polanco and a reunion with Gino Suarez. Can we make that happen? That would be great if we could. and then I think the need for pitching depth specifically in the bullpen is something that we want to accomplish over the course of

the next several months. And that could come in a bunch of different shapes and sizes. It could

come in young guys like Robinson Ortiz, who we just traded for over the weekend in a trade

that's maybe a little of the smaller variety. It could come in high leverage guys signed by

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