Hello and welcome to Talking Baseball. The trade deadline is looming and it's all I can think about it's all I want to talk about so that's what we're doing. Let's do it.

Hello and welcome to Talking Baseball presented to you by Seedgate. My name is Jimmy. That's Jake. That's Trevor. We're all wearing

hats today. BBD is in the corner. Hatless. A white hats to did someone sneeze in the middle of the song. I know what you heard. Oh, is that my bat speed maybe? Yeah. Oh, maybe maybe it was your bat speed. Maybe we we we had some topics lined up to talk about and then we said let's just do trade deadline talk because it's all I want to talk about. So Jake looking good in your visor and your shirt. I have compared you to the other

white hat to Paul Rudd in forgetting Sarah Marshall and I still like that. And then I said you look like John Grootin in the coaches picture that they do during the Hawaiian Pro Bowl and I still like that comp. So how are you?

We're canceled so we're keep it Paul Rudd all time movie scene do less. Okay, now you're doing nothing. Yeah, you know, we're like, all right, what should we yuck about? There's stuff going on and then we said screw it. Literally we're all thinking about the deadline. We got some big fish on the pond and excited to see what goes on.

All of our teams are daydreaming Trevor Ploof has sources that know where every player that's getting traded is going. So we'll reveal that towards the end of the episode for now Trevor my good man. Oh, are you speaking a good man. I gave all my sources of Jeff passing. Yeah, when we became best friends at the draft. So just know that all of his tips came from my sources. I'm doing great. You guys know I had an excellent morning. And I tried to get this to be a lot of fun.

I think we'll sprinkle a little bit of labor pop before we get into the trade discussion. I know that's hot in the streets. We got one week left less than a week. And that's it. Your rosters, your rosters. A lot of good names out there.

But most importantly, I need to ask one question. James, O'Brien, how are you bro? I'm good, man. We are as always crunching a ton of recording on Monday and Tuesday. Those are our we front load our weeks. We have a fun.

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Let's get into the trades. Trev start off with the labor pod point that you want to make because I do think it will play a role for some players in this deadline.

Like I said, we're going to sprinkle this is we're not going to go in depth. If you remember, when we sign the CBA, okay. This pod brought you through all the labor negotiations. We signed the CBA, but there's a caveat says hey.

We're going to get rid of the qualifying offer, but only only if we can come to a resolution on the international draft by July 26th.

Well, that kid that day is coming on. They did not agree to terms on the international draft because they were never going to agree to terms on the international draft. It's too polarizing.

There's too many moving parts. This whole thing was a sham to get this document signed. We all know that. Okay. How does that affect the trade deadline? There's no waiver period. I keep saying that people remember this.

There's no waiver period. So the deadline is the deadline. Now, there are some guys who would be considered rentals because of their contract situation. There'd be free agents at the end of the year, whether they're strict free agents or they can just opt out.

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