Jason La Canfora has some choice words for the Orioles as the MLB Trade Deadline Approaches
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00:00All right, we got to squeeze in some Oreos.
00:01Would you trade Jackson Holiday for Scooble?
00:04Yes, absolutely unequivocally.
00:07But Gunnar Henderson and Jackson Holiday
00:09are both represented by Scott Boris, and only one of them
00:12can play shortstop, and that's Gunnar Henderson.
00:14So these people talking about seven years of Jackson Holiday.
00:17Jackson Holiday, if you get five years out of him,
00:20that's going to be it, because you're
00:22going to have to trade him with two years left
00:23if you want to get true value.
00:24And I got news for you.
00:26Boris and Matt Holiday are not going
00:27to be super happy about this kid playing second base, where
00:30you earn a whole hell of a lot less than short.
00:34They're overloaded with infielders.
00:37They are ridiculously redundant at so many positions,
00:41yet they have no pitching under contract for next year
00:44that's any good, besides Grayson Rodriguez.
00:46I'm not even talking about this year's playoff run.
00:48I'm talking about next year.
00:50And I don't think Michael Ives wants to go out and spend
00:52real money on pitching.
00:54And they don't have any in the high minors
00:56other than Povich and McDermott, who are already dabbling now,
00:59who were really thought of very highly.
01:01So I would absolutely do it.
01:03There are no sure things.
01:04There are no guarantees.
01:05But I'll take my shot at three playoff
01:07runs with Tarek Skubal versus whatever the best three
01:11or four seasons you get out of Jackson Holiday,
01:14when or if he gets over this sort of learning curve
01:16that he experienced his first 10 games here.
01:20Will they do it, though?
01:24They've shown no inclination to do anything that ballsy.
01:27They are pragmatic and prudent and measured.
01:30Like, there is concern about 2027 and 2028 and 2029
01:35as they are this pennant race.
01:37That's what all of their actions to this point have indicated.
01:40Now, will the GM get a pulse?
01:42Like, will he sack up?
01:44Will he finally dip into his treasure trove of prospects
01:49who are so awesome and they're so crazy?
01:51He doesn't want to call any of them up.
01:52He didn't want to give Jackson Holiday more than 10 games.
01:55They won't call Kobe Mayo up.
01:56Like, they've F'd Kyle Stowers over a million times.
01:59Like, Heston Kerstad barely gets in the lineup now.
02:02But they're all so awesome.
02:03Will he actually part with a couple of them
02:06to get a sure thing?
02:07I don't know.
02:08I don't know.
02:09If someone gives him a burst trade, a complete no-brainer,
02:13of course he's going to do that.
02:14Will he make a trade that hurts him,
02:16that drops him to eighth in the Baseball America franchise?
02:19Like, ooh, we've only got the eighth best farm system now.
02:22I don't know how I'm going to sleep at night.
02:24I mean, we might win a World Series,
02:25but, geez, a whiz, we're out of the top five.
02:28I don't know. I don't know.
02:29I hope he does the right thing.
02:31I hope he meets the moment.
02:32He certainly, if he doesn't do it now, he'll never do it.
02:36If he doesn't do it now, he'll never do it.
02:38This is exactly what we came here for.