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I'm Brian -- pleased to be joined by foxwoods dot com's baseball analyst -- bode well mapping out some story lines to watch as we -- in the spring training Jim let's start in the -- always a lot conversation about the Yankees how do you think the rotation is going to come together.

you're right that's gonna be the story line is now it's not gonna go away between now and spring training three weeks because. Any parent hasn't come out and publicly said he himself that he's retiring so we always get these sources saying this there's a 5050 chance of coming back. All we know as a Brian Cashman says he's been told. That he's supposed to make plans without them but it's gotta be a storyline until you beat pat -- were podium and says he's gonna retire. And if he doesn't come back the storyline is gonna be. Is the rotation good enough for the Yankees to get the playoffs CC sabathia yes he's he can -- twenty games again. Phil uses solid number two but he look at 345 what -- AJ Burnett and beat in the new pitching coach Larry Rothschild picks I don't know. The young kid nobody ready for the big -- we don't know that yet. And it's going to be number five Sergio MITRE or are they gonna get Kevin Millwood done. The starting rotation the Yankees is a story line today and it will be in three weeks when they get the spring training how about the bullpen and Joba Chamberlain what his role going -- you -- the seventh -- the Steinbrenner apparently made sure that. They said no way we're sunny rap field Soriano to get to Rivera so Chamberlain is now what he and Robertson a pitch the sixth and seventh. I wonder if he doesn't end up in the rotation if they don't make a trade or Andy -- doesn't come back. You know the best thing probably Bryant is to listen to trade offers for Joba Chamberlain because right now he's hidden in the yankees' pitching staff.

Let's move from New York to Boston the Red Sox really upgraded their lot of -- on the spot how good is his team really going to be. How Long Will take for them to come to get the.

Blood Columbia under win baseball team and align its gonna come together as soon as they get the spring training this lineup is. -- ridiculous you know the Q the Red Sox in spring training is make sure Pedroia is sport is okay. Make sure Jacoby Ellsbury is ribs are okay if they're helping this team is gonna went on to baseball games there the team to be in the American League. Carl Crawford and Adrian Gonzales are gonna wear out the Fenway Park left field wall they need extra green -- But that wall in right field a pesky -- might as well they've got to go past people has goggles got hit a bunch to right field this lineup. Is sick. It's silly and oh by the way to watch cropper and Ellsbury steal 5060 bases a piece along with a Big -- and -- goal line -- it is some Carolina.

You are fired up and we're still in the wintertime -- at the National League now and spotlight the Phillies they add Cliff Lee but they lost Jayson -- what you take on Philly.

Oh my god in the Phillies rotation it's the best we've seen a baseball since the Atlanta Braves rotation with Maddux Glavine smoltz -- the best -- seventies but you Baltimore's only real sport guys -- twenty games Bryant I mean. What is this is the ability they got five guys are gonna win fifteen to twenty games five of them. The question for them is gonna be their lineup that's the story line going in the spring because Dominic brown going to be in right field the young rookie. They're not sure that he is ready. Ben Francisco the only right in the outfield with a can do some damage and we don't know what they're gonna put -- Dominik are we gonna split time between right and left. The Phillies lineup is -- left handed and that's going to be the story line going into spring training. Can they find a way to get better balance in the lineup and is Dominic brown ready. Let's wrap it up Albert -- the Cardinals going to write him I huge check it you know it is this field gonna get done I'm glad that they Amazon now. The agent for Albert Pujols Bryant put a deadline on it and said let's get it done on the next three weeks before spring training. And then we don't want talk about it again because there have to be ended its. This is what we now. He's gonna be the highest paid player in baseball history in terms of AAB. The question what's the no Morgan and up 2829. We don't know. Here's where the biggest problem is the Cardinals only wanna go seven years. That's not gonna get it done if Jayson Werth gets seven years from the national trust me -- get nine or ten years that's gonna be the biggest barrier but at the end of the day. Albert wants to be a cardinal the Cardinals want him they're gonna take the checkbook they're gonna write it it's gonna be gone.

It is very good to beat the machine in the gateway city Jimmy as always we appreciate your -- more baseball videos catalog on the foxsports.com. For Jim O'Brien. We'll see next.