Mike Dearlo with the with the Nationals
and the G, you know, he's got the interm
label.
Uh, yep. These positions are all
interterm. They're that some are more
interm than others, but they all are
interm except for Brian Cashman. He's
been doing this forever. Um, but you
know, he's replacing obviously Mike
Rizzo. He's got, you know, a lot of
pressure here at the deadline to do to
do some things to try to improve this
team so that they can start to finally
win near next year. McKenzie's Gore
Mackenzie Gore's name keeps getting
popped up. Now, if I'm if you were a GM
right now, how many phone calls per day
would you be uh calling Mike Dearlo to
try to get McKenzie Gore? Um, and you
know, for me, this is a this is a tough
one, right? because I think you're not
signing him long term
and you can really I think clean up and
get should be able to get some some uh
you know significant talent back in
return that should help could also help
you in the next couple years. Uh, but
you're not getting better even for next
year if you if you're trying to compete
and your job's on the line and the the
the the hall that you get I don't you
know you're not going to see them impact
the major league club for two or three
years. So if you're Mike Dearlo, do you
trade Mackenzie Gore or do you hold him?
So, I mean, first of all, if I'm Mike
Debarlo, and I'm rooting for him, by the
way, um, you know, I want to be able to
show the Learner family that I can do
this job. Now, we keep hearing that the
Nationals plan on hiring a legitimate
president at the end of the year, um, of
both business and baseball from what I
can understand. Um, but if Darlo has a
really good trade deadline, there's no,
you know, even if they bring in a
president of baseball operations, even
if they can get say Eric Neander
um from Tampa Bay or maybe they decide
to hire Thad Lavine. Um, regardless of
what they do, Deb Barlo has a chance to
stay on as GM if he has a good trade
deadline. Right.
Um, now what I hear from opposing GMs is
most of the conversations are around
Kyle Finnegan and Mike Sroka. They seem
to be the two pitchers that um teams are
looking for and that the that the
Nationals are most likely to move. But
Mike Dearalo has told opposing general
managers that he will listen on Gore.
He's not looking to trade him, but he'll
listen. And I think it's the right play
for him because to keep his job, if he
could make a phenomenal McKenzie Gore
trade on a pitcher who I agree with you
with Scott Boris representing him, it's
going to be hard to get him signed long
term. And the Learner family getting
burned by Strawber and Sherzer on the
books and Corbin on the books. I'm not
sure the Learner family are ready to go
back to the well to sign pitchers to
those kind of deals again. I think they
regret not signing Bryce Harper and Juan
Sodto and Trey Turner. They won one
World Series, but they had to pay a huge
price after that. They couldn't stay
competitive the way they spent their
money. So, the question is what can the
return be, you know? I mean, that's
they're in the same boat kind of Miami
as with Sandy Alcantra. They're not
necessarily going to trade Alantra, but
if someone wants to trade for a former
Sai Young award winner that people
believe can still do that, you're going
to have to overpay. But if Alcantra
doesn't get traded and Dylan CE doesn't
get traded and Zack Allen's having a
down year, McKenzie Gore could end up
being the best pitcher traded. And so
some of these teams that are chasing
Alcantra and Cease, etc., they may pay
the price for a controllable McKenzie
Gore. It may get to a level where you
got to consider doing it because the
Nationals aren't one or two moves away
from winning and turning Gore into three
more players certainly at least on the
surface seems to make sense to me. So
listen, yeah, will he do it? I don't
know. But is there pressure? Sure.
Because let's say that let's say he tra
he did the Rosario trade and let's let's
say he does the Sro and Finnegan trade.
What's that return going to look like?
Right? It's it's not going to have
impact
just because you're not trading impact.
So, it's not going to have impact.
So, h how do you sit there and show the
learner family or anyone in the industry
that that's the job for you? You trade
Gore, that's that's a job. If he could
sit there and have the gumption
to trade Gore for a huge package, he'll
make a name for himself and possibly
keep his job in Washington. That's why I
think he's got to consider it. That's
that's why I think he will consider it.
And that's why I think if somebody wants
to overpay like if you're the Dodgers,
don't you want to come get Gore? I know
how much starting pitching you have,
but I mean you could sit there and start
the the offer with Shehan, you could
then put Zire Hope in it. I mean, you
you could all of a sudden I can get you
up to four or five names. You could do
Dalton rushing, who's a backup catcher
to Will Smith, who's the best offensive
catcher in the National League, second
best to Raleigh in the sport. You you
could do rushing Shehan Zahire Hope. Oh
boy, now you got Gore.