Who Won The MacKenzie Gore Trade? | 'Baseball Isn't Boring'

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🗓️ 27 January 2026

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From 'Baseball Isn't Boring' (subscribe here): There were a lot of names flying around in one of the biggest trades of the offseason, the MacKenzie Gore deal, which is why we wanted to call on Sam Dykstra of MLB Pipeline to give us the what's what when it came to the Nationals' return for the starting pitcher. As part of long conversation with Bradfo, Sam offers his perspective on Texas sending minor-leaguers Gavin Fien, Devin Fitz-Gerald, Abimelic Ortiz, Alejandro Rosario and Yeremy Cabrera to Washington. There is also some great Travis Bazzana talk! To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:31.1	First of all, let me just say this. It's five guys is a lot. This is, I always worry when I see
1:39.0	the five guy trade, because a lot of times what that GM is doing and I'll do respect to Paul
1:45.7	de Boni who is on the podcast the day before he makes the trade and five guys what worries
1:54.0	me is the thinking is we're going to hit on a couple of them but you're look but what
1:59.5	ultimately you're looking for is the guy, right?
2:01.7	You're looking for the guy or guys.
2:03.8	Right.
2:04.3	And what's fine?
2:07.0	Feen.
2:07.9	Feen, sorry, sorry.
2:09.5	Gavin Feene, like he's the closer.
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