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I was wondering what happened to them.

I'm Mike Lubb ago, the New York Daily News and MLB.com.

Welcome to our Thursday edition of the Sports Reporters podcast.

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Guys, after the national football holiday last Sunday night, something really big happened in baseball. And a lot of

people have been talking about this, has a team as good as the Dodgers, even though they have

not won it all over these last four superlative years that they've had, that won 106 games

ever been able to add someone as good as mooky bets and again there's

there's some questions about the young pitcher that the twins threw into the deal this will get done

and mooky bets you can make a case because of his skill set is the second best all-around player

in baseball after mr trout he is by the Bob, he is one year younger than Mr. Trout.

He and the Red Sox were across purposes about a contract.

He becomes a free agent at the end of this year.

And guys, I just felt this was something that Dodgers had to do because the cost wasn't great and they had

to do something to make their fans and maybe even themselves believe that this will be the

first year since 1988 that they can win the world series and and for somebody that won 106 games

to add a guy who 20 minutes ago was the most valuable

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