Major League Baseball Trade Deadline 6pm, and you can talk about that all day long here on Boston Sports Original W.EEEI. Boy, Curtis, I don't know if you're paying attention to the Subaru of New England text line, but the Duran heads are coming for you.

Oh, gosh. After that statement earlier this morning.

Are they coming at me faster than he got to third on the pop-up?

It's like they're dragging you worse than Sidney Sweeney.

Oh.

So the outrage that you would actually trade Jaron Duran for a rental in the form of Dylan Cease, as some infuriated

around here.

You know, there's a certain thing that we forget, and that is pitching in October is what

separates good from great.

And we all believe Crochet is the ace, right?

I mean, he is legit.

There is not every team has an ace.

Everybody has the number one.

He is a legit ace.

And he is going to be bumping up against his innings for the season.

If they're making the playoffs, he will be slowed in the second half to be preserved for an opportunity to be performing in the playoffs.

So you need pitching more than that.

I trust the people that play positions that are coming up here to do the job

while maybe not as well as Duran's been doing it.

I don't expect Duran to continue this pace.

If you get a guy that becomes a legit number two,

that will be far more powerful for your roster than having Duran continue without adding pitching. And you're not sure, like others, I guess, that you can count on Lucas Gialito and I can't count Ryan Bayo and. You can count on him? Brian Beio more than Gioledo. Yeah, I would say Bayo more than Gialito, but even with Bayo, bail it's still kind of they're perfect if you're

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