Dave Dr one, Justin Turner, a leader of
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come through Justin Turner news heading north of the border
. Tell me more. Good morning Lauren. He
is indeed a one year deal for Justin Turner with
the Toronto Blue Jays. The expectation is he is
. Yes, thank you, Harold. Uh But
we expect he will be the Jays everyday DH with
potentially some starts mixed in at first base and third
base and Lauren, he is an excellent fit for
this team for a couple of reasons. Number one
, they wanted to get a veteran leader on and
off the field, all of us. So that
is Justin Turner in every way. He is also
someone who's relatively platoon split neutral. He's been able
to certainly hit right handed pitching very well during the
course of his career. And there's the belief that
with the Jays, he will have a tremendous impact
on some of their younger players and certainly glad and
bo as they near some really crucial years of their
careers as they approach free agency. After 2025 we
do have word that this one is done. Shocker
. Jerry Dipoto engaged in another roster swap. He
has acquired Jorge Polanco in exchange for four players.
Now you forget sometimes how good Polanco is the last
couple of seasons. He's only played in 100 and
eight games because of injuries, especially last year,
only playing in 80. But the last season that
he was healthy, he went for 3398 an all
star. So I think the three additions that they
added, Jerry added this winner is going to be
great for that lineup. Luke Raley, which is
uh underground. Uh getting him, uh Mitch Garber
, of course, who had a good year with
the Texas Rangers world champion. And now in the
middle of that lineup, of course, Polanco plays
second base which maybe makes a platoon for them at
third with S and uh Garcia Corey Seager underwent uh
a surgery today for a left sports hernia repair.
Uh It was something that was um manifested towards the
end of the season. Um The original uh thought
was that with rest. Um It would hopefully subside
over, of course, the off season in the
winter, it became clear that um there were gonna
be kind of two options into the season. One
, just continue to manage it and hope it doesn't
get worse or two just to proceed and fix it
. Now, before he decided along with our medical
staff that the most prudent course of action was to
fix it. Now, I'm not going to commit
to a hard time line. But, you know
, we'll miss the majority of spring training, but
if I need, they'll have resumed baseball activity historic
year. Um, it's a young group of guys
that are hungry that play the game the right way
. Uh, the coaching staff seems like, uh
, incredible that maintains a standard throughout, throughout the
whole 1, 62. So I don't think it's
any fluke of what happened. Just I'm really excited
to, to be a part and try to try
to help out in any way that I can with
uh a lot of their young talent. I mean
, everyone says you just want to win the World
Series, but there's a lot of steps that it
takes to get there and um they got as close
as you could get and uh when you lose,
I think it adds to the hunger of wanting to
leave it more. This is a group that is
very capable of doing that. And I mean,
it'd be nice to help them push it over,
but, uh we got a lot of work to
do. Didn't look right in the wins and loss
columns last year for the Royals, but they really
a hard nosed team and a, a tough team
to compete against. So, um, you,
you see the young talent that is on this team
and how tough they are to play against. And
uh you know, it's, it's something I'd look
, you know, was interested in joining, to
go with the opportunity to be able to play a
lot of second base in some corner outfield and like
in the off season signings that they've already had,
I think this team is in a great position to
, to compete. And that was something I wanted
to be a part of the thought of, you
know, having a long term extension with the big
league club was just, um, it was just
overwhelming joy. I just was glad that we're even
having these talks. Um, you know, it
really showed what, you know, Scott Chris Ilich
and, you know, baseball as a whole saw
as me as a player and, you know,
a as it went on, you know, it
was, there was a bunch of emotions but most
of them were positive. I mean, it was
just, you know, we're talking about this sort
of money and this sort of, you know,
time frame and, and this sort of future with
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