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We're two weeks into the new year. 15 00:01:32,000 --> 00:01:37,000 Baseball is a month away. Camp starts on February 12th. There's so much to be excited about. 16 00:01:37,000 --> 00:01:42,000 We've got Corbin Burns is making a move. Roki Sasaki is making his decision in a couple days. 17 00:01:42,000 --> 00:01:46,000 So much to get to, and there's still all these big name free agents that are still out there. 18 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:52,000 Pete Alonso, Alex Bregman, Anthony Santander, Jack Flaherty, all these guys that have yet to find a home. 19 00:01:52,000 --> 00:01:58,000 But most importantly, how is my co-host doing on this fine evening? 20 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:07,000 I'm wonderful. Well, not wonderful. As you can tell by my voice, I am a little under the weather. 21 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:16,000 Yes, I had a stuffy nose for the past week or so, but besides that, that's okay. 22 00:02:16,000 --> 00:02:17,000 I'm pretty stoked. 23 00:02:17,000 --> 00:02:20,000 We pushed through. We pushed through on this show. 24 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:25,000 Yeah, we pushed through here. Well, without further ado, we're just going to jump into the first topic. 25 00:02:25,000 --> 00:02:33,000 This happened, I believe, a week, two weeks ago after Christmas, Corbin Burns to the Arizona Diamondbacks. 26 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:37,000 Now, this was a bit of a surprise. We're not going to spend too much time on this. 27 00:02:37,000 --> 00:02:44,000 But as an Oriole fan and as baseball fans, this was really fascinating. It's great for Corbin Burns. 28 00:02:44,000 --> 00:02:49,000 His family's from Arizona. His wife just had twins. So it's incredibly like it's great. 29 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:54,000 They went to the Dbacks and said, hey, if you can come up with a competitive offer, we'd love to stay here at home. 30 00:02:54,000 --> 00:03:01,000 So he gets to be with his family and his newborn babies basically over half the year now because he gets to be there during the season. 31 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:07,000 He has spring training there. His home is already there. So it's kind of a win-win for Corbin and his family. 32 00:03:07,000 --> 00:03:11,000 Stinks if you're the Orioles because you were kind of thinking you were going to get him. 33 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:17,000 But the silver lining at least is that all reports said that they were super aggressive in trying to retain him. 34 00:03:17,000 --> 00:03:23,000 They were up there with the Blue Jays offering him somewhere in the 250 million dollar range, 35 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:26,000 getting really competitive to try and bring him back to Baltimore. 36 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:31,000 So I am pleased with the outcome. Honestly, he didn't go to the Yankees. He didn't go anywhere. 37 00:03:31,000 --> 00:03:34,000 I expected him to. I like Arizona. 38 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:40,000 But without further ado, Kenji, what's your take on this Corbin Burns thing? We've talked about it a little bit. 39 00:03:40,000 --> 00:03:45,000 Those twins are going to be dressed in some nice, nice matching outfits, I can tell you that. 40 00:03:45,000 --> 00:03:51,000 Yeah, he's a future baseman guy. Like, look out for that guy's man cave in a few years. Like, I'm serious. 41 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:56,000 Yeah. I mean, it's an awesome deal. We definitely weren't expecting it. 42 00:03:56,000 --> 00:04:01,000 I don't think we even once. I don't think I heard anybody mention Arizona once. 43 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:02,000 Not once. 44 00:04:02,000 --> 00:04:08,000 So it was pretty interesting. I'd be curious to like know what the breakdown of it all was. 45 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:14,000 So he had an opt out after two years. He has a full no trade clause until the second year. 46 00:04:14,000 --> 00:04:20,000 If he opts back in, then he has a partial trade, full trade, partial trade clause for the remaining four years. 47 00:04:20,000 --> 00:04:27,000 So it's six years, 210. And I think it's fully guaranteed for the first two seasons, like 30 million or something along those lines. 48 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:33,000 And then after that, it breaks it out a little bit more with some deferrals to kind of help the Dbacks a little bit. 49 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:39,000 But again, like you said, nobody expected the Dbacks to be in on this. It was always Orioles. It was always Blue Jays, Giants. 50 00:04:39,000 --> 00:04:42,000 Those were the teams that were in the discussion. 51 00:04:42,000 --> 00:04:49,000 And we're going to touch on the Blue Jays a minute when we get to Roki, because they feel like just a team that's always been on the edge of getting somebody. 52 00:04:49,000 --> 00:04:52,000 Like they're always in the discussions, but they can never land anybody. 53 00:04:52,000 --> 00:05:02,000 And if I let Kenji lose for a minute, he's going to go and hate on the city of Toronto and the country of Canada, because he will. He hates them. 54 00:05:02,000 --> 00:05:08,000 These poor Blue Jays fans are getting the biggest blue ball on earth when it comes to every free agent. 55 00:05:08,000 --> 00:05:11,000 Every free agent, every single one. 56 00:05:11,000 --> 00:05:16,000 Yeah. I mean, if we go back, we go Shohei, Corbin Burns, Juan Soto, Roki Sasaki. 57 00:05:16,000 --> 00:05:21,000 And listen, we don't know the Rokis not going there, but I have to think the Dodgers and Panthers are high up on that list. 58 00:05:21,000 --> 00:05:27,000 If you live in Toronto and you're a fan of them, quit your hope. If he ain't going there, I can tell you that. 59 00:05:27,000 --> 00:05:31,000 If you're listening from Canada, we are greatly appreciative of you. 60 00:05:31,000 --> 00:05:37,000 And I promise I'll keep working on Kenji to be a better, more bipartisan fan. 61 00:05:37,000 --> 00:05:40,000 But he does hate Canada for whatever strange reason. 62 00:05:40,000 --> 00:05:43,000 If they become a part of America, then sure. 63 00:05:43,000 --> 00:05:45,000 If we buy them. Yeah, OK. 64 00:05:45,000 --> 00:05:47,000 Yeah, whatever the world is going on. 65 00:05:47,000 --> 00:05:48,000 All right. 66 00:05:48,000 --> 00:05:51,000 Well, that's enough on Corbin Burns. 67 00:05:51,000 --> 00:05:54,000 But again, we're going to go right back to the Blue Jays, apparently. 68 00:05:54,000 --> 00:05:57,000 Roki Sasaki has it narrowed down to three teams. 69 00:05:57,000 --> 00:06:02,000 The San Diego Padres, the Los Angeles Dodgers, and the Toronto Blue Jays. 70 00:06:02,000 --> 00:06:05,000 And it feels like the Blue Jays are kind of the odd man out here. 71 00:06:05,000 --> 00:06:10,000 What's always been Padres Dodgers is what the overwhelming sentiment in the media has been. 72 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:17,000 The Padres have this nightmare power struggle going on in their front office with the widow of Peter Seidler, 73 00:06:17,000 --> 00:06:21,000 like wanting power and the brothers are not running the team as she wants to. 74 00:06:21,000 --> 00:06:23,000 It's this whole mess. 75 00:06:23,000 --> 00:06:28,000 However, Padre fans are still holding out hope that he's going to go to the city of San Diego. 76 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:33,000 Kenji, you are our Japanese baseball savant. 77 00:06:33,000 --> 00:06:36,000 I know you love Roki. I know you love Roki. 78 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:42,000 But talk to me. What what what should the Padres Dodgers and Blue Jays expect from Roki Sasaki? 79 00:06:42,000 --> 00:06:45,000 And then where do you think he's really going to go? 80 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:49,000 I mean, he's probably he's got all the talent in the world. 81 00:06:49,000 --> 00:06:52,000 There's no doubt about it. I mean, he's 23 years old. 82 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:54,000 Same age as us. 83 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:57,000 Pucking. 100. 84 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:00,000 I'm just we're sitting here recording a podcast in our apartments. 85 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:04,000 And yeah, he's out there negotiating a million dollar deals. 86 00:07:04,000 --> 00:07:09,000 Yeah. And you know, you don't meet freaks like that from Japan very often. 87 00:07:09,000 --> 00:07:17,000 I mean, most people I'm considered a large human in Japan and I'm like 510, like 170. 88 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:22,000 This guy's like six foot three, six foot four, probably was like two to 10 to 30. 89 00:07:22,000 --> 00:07:25,000 I mean, he's skinny, but man, can he throw the ball? 90 00:07:25,000 --> 00:07:28,000 He's got a nasty splitter and he's got so much more developing to do. 91 00:07:28,000 --> 00:07:31,000 Right. We've talked about it. 92 00:07:31,000 --> 00:07:33,000 I think we talked about it last time, too. 93 00:07:33,000 --> 00:07:38,000 But I mean, he's got his fastballs kind of like Yamamoto's where it's just it's just flat and straight. 94 00:07:38,000 --> 00:07:48,000 And that's the biggest thing for me when it comes to him that where he needs the most development from what I've heard is that he he's got to develop a better a better fastball. 95 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:51,000 He needs some movement on that thing. Yeah. 96 00:07:51,000 --> 00:07:58,000 Besides that, he's he's done everything you probably can in Japan and he's only 23 years old. 97 00:07:58,000 --> 00:08:06,000 It's interesting that he wants to come to the MLB already because it kind of takes away his chance of getting paid in two years. 98 00:08:06,000 --> 00:08:09,000 Or I'm sure he could get Yamamoto type of money. 99 00:08:09,000 --> 00:08:13,000 But it'll be interesting to see what comes out from that. 100 00:08:13,000 --> 00:08:26,000 Yeah, I wanted to ask you about that because so for those that aren't fully aware of the situation with Roki, because he hasn't played enough time internationally, he does not qualify for a major league contract. 101 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:31,000 So a team can only sign him with their international bonus pool money. 102 00:08:31,000 --> 00:08:37,000 And I think the highest bonus pool money in the league is about six and a half million or sorry, maybe six and a half to the lower end upper half. 103 00:08:37,000 --> 00:08:40,000 Yeah, upper half is eight and a half. 104 00:08:40,000 --> 00:08:44,000 And so essentially he's going to get paid eight and a half million dollars. 105 00:08:44,000 --> 00:08:50,000 And that's going to be his pay for the next six years because he's under contract essentially for the next six seasons. 106 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:56,000 He's 23 right now. So he'll be essentially an unrestricted free agent when he's 30. 107 00:08:56,000 --> 00:09:07,000 And I guess I'm curious Kenji because we saw a season ago Yamamoto waited until he was eligible for a big contract and he signed the most lucrative deal for any pitcher in the history of baseball. 108 00:09:07,000 --> 00:09:12,000 And he hadn't even thrown a pitch in the major leagues at any level in America. 109 00:09:12,000 --> 00:09:23,000 And so I'm fascinated maybe some of the intrinsic motivation of Roki to say, you know what, I'm going to forfeit the 300 million that maybe I can get in two years time. 110 00:09:23,000 --> 00:09:31,000 And I'm going to go sign for eight right now and do what? Why would somebody make a decision like that? 111 00:09:31,000 --> 00:09:35,000 I mean, yeah, I'm just going to leave it open ended. Why would he do that? 112 00:09:35,000 --> 00:09:41,000 I mean, I literally have no idea if I had to even try and guess. I mean, I got a couple ideas. 113 00:09:41,000 --> 00:09:47,000 It's it's like he believes that, you know, the MLB system will help him develop into a better MLB pitcher. 114 00:09:47,000 --> 00:09:58,000 But six years is crazy. You know, if he just waits two years is what it is. Right. Yep. He can get this amazing contract until he's age 25. 115 00:09:58,000 --> 00:10:06,000 He would be 25, so young, still so in his prime. And it's probably his body is going to be probably fully formed by then at age 25. Right. 116 00:10:06,000 --> 00:10:15,000 So I don't know if it's that if I had to guess, maybe it's money, marketing money that he just can't make any marketing money when he's in Japan. 117 00:10:15,000 --> 00:10:20,000 But if he goes to the MLB, he's going to kill it. He would kill it. 118 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:27,000 If he goes to the Dodgers, I don't know how much he can get when it comes to marketing just because you already have two Japanese superstars. 119 00:10:27,000 --> 00:10:31,000 But if he wants to San Diego, I really think he can get a ton of marketing. 120 00:10:31,000 --> 00:10:43,000 And if he went to Toronto, if he does go to Toronto, that's where I think when it comes to marketing wise, he can probably make the most amount of money because you literally have two countries worth of fans. 121 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:48,000 Yeah. And probably United States fans, too. And you know, that's what they're pitching him for sure. 122 00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:56,000 Yeah. They're like, you have the unlimited amount. Like, you can be the face of our team because you have the trade flat because you're going to be here. 123 00:10:56,000 --> 00:11:05,000 And he doesn't anybody else, of course, on that team. I genuinely have no idea why when you break it down, he wants to come this early. 124 00:11:05,000 --> 00:11:09,000 Besides the main fact, he just wants better competition and just wants to play ball at the best. 125 00:11:09,000 --> 00:11:15,000 Yeah. I mean, I think that could be definitely part of it. Buster Olney had a tweet earlier today that I thought was interesting. 126 00:11:15,000 --> 00:11:20,000 He said that the sentiment from general managers that have met with Roki is that he's super quiet. 127 00:11:20,000 --> 00:11:36,000 He's reserved like he doesn't want the big spotlight. And so I think that gives hope to the Padres and the Blue Jays that maybe he doesn't want to be in the biggest spotlight of L.A., even though he would be overshadowed in L.A. 100 percent. 128 00:11:36,000 --> 00:11:49,000 But I do think, you know, he instead of being like the sole face of the franchise in Toronto, then I think he can become like a really fun young piece for a Padres team. 129 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:56,000 And I think that Toronto proves that they want to upgrade, that they can re-sign Vlad and add some pieces and maybe Toronto is a fun place to play. 130 00:11:56,000 --> 00:12:04,000 But regardless, it's great for Major League Baseball because they're getting a phenom at age 23 coming over from Japan. 131 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:10,000 And he's actively forgoing hundreds of millions of dollars to come over here early just to play in America. 132 00:12:10,000 --> 00:12:14,000 Like, that's pretty cool. And that shows the international growth of the sport. 133 00:12:14,000 --> 00:12:24,000 Like, dude, like you can like I'm sure he's making great money being the star of the Chiba Latte Mariners. 134 00:12:24,000 --> 00:12:29,000 And whatever. Sorry, Marines, Mariners. 135 00:12:29,000 --> 00:12:32,000 No, you say it. Hold on. We got to get this correct. 136 00:12:32,000 --> 00:12:35,000 It's Chibarote Mariners. 137 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:38,000 What he said. Yeah, I'm sure he's making good money playing for them. 138 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:41,000 I was actually a fan of that team when I lived in Japan. 139 00:12:41,000 --> 00:12:47,000 I've been doing a couple of their games. I can show you a ball actually. 140 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:52,000 This is a Marines ball. It's a beautiful baseball. 141 00:12:52,000 --> 00:12:56,000 Nobody can see it because we are doing audio only. Oh, yeah. 142 00:12:56,000 --> 00:13:00,000 You saw it though. I saw it. It was great. You saw it. Yeah. 143 00:13:00,000 --> 00:13:06,000 But I think it's great for baseball, for the international state of the sport. 144 00:13:06,000 --> 00:13:09,000 But it does make you go like, why? Why is he doing that? 145 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:13,000 Maybe it's like we can kind of move past this after this. 146 00:13:13,000 --> 00:13:19,000 But maybe it's just as simple as he just wants to play baseball with better competition. 147 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:23,000 Because all we're talking about right now is money, right? It's money, money, money, money. 148 00:13:23,000 --> 00:13:29,000 And, you know, especially with the last couple of years, especially with the Juan Soto deal, where it was purely money. 149 00:13:29,000 --> 00:13:34,000 I guarantee it. Right. It was A, who can kind of compete, but who can give me the most amount of money. 150 00:13:34,000 --> 00:13:38,000 Yeah. Like we're so focused. Even with Corbin, it was like, who's going to give him the most money? 151 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:41,000 But he kind of settled for a little bit lower amount of money. He did. 152 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:47,000 It benefited him. Maybe it's not as so complicated as money, but it's more simple. 153 00:13:47,000 --> 00:13:52,000 He just generally wants to play ball in a better place. And he thinks he's done what he can. 154 00:13:52,000 --> 00:13:56,000 He doesn't want to waste any more time playing in Japan. He wants to face the best of the best. 155 00:13:56,000 --> 00:14:03,000 And like, I don't know if that's true. Right. It's a cute story, but it's millions and hundreds of millions of dollars are given up. 156 00:14:03,000 --> 00:14:10,000 There's a chance that he just wants to play ball in the MLB. Right. And just see and really test his ability. 157 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:13,000 And if that's the case, then it's pretty sweet. Yeah. 158 00:14:13,000 --> 00:14:21,000 And I mean, not to say that he won't get a really nice contract when he turns 29, 30 or that the team won't offer him an extension past that. 159 00:14:21,000 --> 00:14:29,000 I just think it is interesting that he's negotiating, knowing that the max teams can give him is maybe eight and a half million. 160 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:37,000 Like, that's it. So it's really fascinating. Now, Kenji, we're going to stick with Sasaki. 161 00:14:37,000 --> 00:14:42,000 Give me a reason why Sasaki would want to sign with each of the three teams that are still in the picture. 162 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:46,000 So we'll start. We start wherever you want. Dodgers, Padres, Blue Jays. 163 00:14:46,000 --> 00:14:52,000 So with Dodgers, I think it's pretty simple. They're the best team in the league. Two Japanese players. 164 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:57,000 So you have an immediate kind of a home. L.A. is a great Japanese market, too. Right. 165 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:04,000 It is kind of like a mini Japan now with the amount of people that live there that watch them. 166 00:15:04,000 --> 00:15:09,000 And you're going to compete for the World Series every single year, probably the entire time he's there. 167 00:15:09,000 --> 00:15:14,000 As long as Shohei is there, they're going to compete, you know. 168 00:15:14,000 --> 00:15:21,000 And so that's probably the biggest reason why he'd want to go there is hospitality championships. It's the most competitive. 169 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:28,000 Padres, you got Yudair Bishiru and talks about it, says like his icon is idol, followed around like a little kid during the WBC. 170 00:15:28,000 --> 00:15:36,000 He's a literal god, a pitching god in Japan. Also a fantastic team, a great roster. 171 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:40,000 Dodgers even said that they that was a team that they had to beat the World Series. Right. 172 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:44,000 And they did. And the rest of the games, honestly, weren't even that close. 173 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:48,000 They were way better than the Mets and way better than the Yankees. 174 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:52,000 I'm kind of going on, but you're OK. 175 00:15:52,000 --> 00:15:56,000 Padres are a great team. They need starting pitching. 176 00:15:56,000 --> 00:16:01,000 I think he has a more guaranteed role of being the guy or in the top of the rotation. 177 00:16:01,000 --> 00:16:05,000 If he goes to San Diego, he goes to L.A. I mean, we talked about it. 178 00:16:05,000 --> 00:16:08,000 They got two full rotations, right? 179 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:13,000 Their second rotation is better than most people's first rotation or just their general rotation. 180 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:23,000 So I don't know how playing time works there. Toronto, it's it's it's a brand new Japanese market pretty much like 181 00:16:23,000 --> 00:16:27,000 he can decide how high the ceiling goes. 182 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:31,000 They have potential. They really do. They do have really good young players. 183 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:36,000 If Ladd signs, right, and if they can get Bo to stay. 184 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:40,000 I think it would really help. Honestly, this just is me thinking about this. 185 00:16:40,000 --> 00:16:45,000 But if if Gosling can teach him a little bit about the stuff that he's got to Roki. 186 00:16:45,000 --> 00:16:48,000 Oh, I mean, that sinker that he's got, the change. 187 00:16:48,000 --> 00:16:52,000 Yes, but he's got fastballs, got some movement, right? 188 00:16:52,000 --> 00:16:57,000 I mean, just even something simple as that of Gosling, I think would be a great person to learn from. 189 00:16:57,000 --> 00:16:59,000 I mean, Bassett still there. He's a vet. 190 00:16:59,000 --> 00:17:05,000 I think it kind of helps him with his development if Toronto keeps all the pieces there. 191 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:09,000 But also, yeah, the upside for Toronto is really big, too. 192 00:17:09,000 --> 00:17:12,000 But in the end, I do think it'll be San Diego. 193 00:17:12,000 --> 00:17:17,000 I would I would have to agree with you. I think I lean San Diego just a little bit. 194 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:21,000 But it's hard to ignore the allure of the Dodgers. 195 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:29,000 Right. I mean, it's like everybody saw how Shohei interacted with the rest of the Japanese players during the WBC. 196 00:17:29,000 --> 00:17:32,000 Like he he was their their leader, their captain. 197 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:39,000 Everybody looked to him. And so, of course, like, is the opportunity to play with that guy in L.A. 198 00:17:39,000 --> 00:17:46,000 and be like a like a a main figure, a mainstay on that staff and a really awesome idea. 199 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:54,000 Yes. But is playing with you, Darvish, in San Diego, my favorite city in the country, one of the most beautiful places ever. 200 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:57,000 Like, is that also really, really cool? Yes. 201 00:17:57,000 --> 00:18:04,000 They have amazing role players, star players in San Diego. Fernando Tatis, Jr., Manny Machado, J. 202 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:09,000 Cronenworth, Jackson Merrill. They got a lot of talent in San Diego. 203 00:18:09,000 --> 00:18:14,000 And not to mention the Toronto Blue Jays. And again, they just kind of feel like this this strange fit. 204 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:21,000 But I will say this about Toronto, Kenji, I know you're relatively newer to following baseball, but when the Blue Jays are good, 205 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:27,000 that place is rocking because they you're absolutely right. They have a whole country behind them. 206 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:31,000 And there's something to be said for that because they pack that place day in, day out. 207 00:18:31,000 --> 00:18:37,000 Playoff games there are impossible to hear. The place is going absolutely bananas. 208 00:18:37,000 --> 00:18:43,000 And I think that that's the sell to rookie is, hey, come be the guy here. 209 00:18:43,000 --> 00:18:48,000 Come like let's let the country back you and then make a name for yourself in Toronto. 210 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:54,000 And I do think the Kevin Gossman comp is really interesting because that's kind of what rookie is. 211 00:18:54,000 --> 00:18:58,000 He's like a fastball split finger guy and Gossman is fastball split. 212 00:18:58,000 --> 00:19:03,000 All of his stuff is so good. Truly, truly disgusting. 213 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:09,000 Last year he was a little bit kind of fell off with some injuries, but two years ago he was so good. 214 00:19:09,000 --> 00:19:15,000 Yeah. Yeah. But that's the Sosaki talk. That's the Sosaki talk. 215 00:19:15,000 --> 00:19:18,000 So now we're going to pivot. We actually had an idea for a tier list. 216 00:19:18,000 --> 00:19:22,000 We're going to do a tier list a different day because we wanted to talk about Roki and Corbin more. 217 00:19:22,000 --> 00:19:27,000 And we want to go into detail on these tiers. But so we have two other topics. 218 00:19:27,000 --> 00:19:35,000 Guardians, Tigers and Royals. All of them came so close to the World Series and close is, of course, relative. 219 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:41,000 Why have they not been more active in free agency? And what's your level of frustration on them, Kenji? 220 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:46,000 Now, as we sit here in the middle of January, a month out from camp, we'll start with the Guardians. 221 00:19:46,000 --> 00:19:53,000 The Guardians. OK. A team that I honestly don't like watching. 222 00:19:53,000 --> 00:19:55,000 It's a boring brand of baseball, I'll be honest. 223 00:19:55,000 --> 00:20:03,000 Yeah, it's not that's not doesn't sell the crowd. I don't know. You know, they. 224 00:20:03,000 --> 00:20:09,000 I don't know how to explain the Guardians. It's just I was surprised whenever I watched the Guardians play. 225 00:20:09,000 --> 00:20:13,000 I'm never wowed. But they but they win these games. Right. 226 00:20:13,000 --> 00:20:18,000 When I look at their pitching staff, I'm not wowed, but they find a way to win games because they do. 227 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:24,000 Bolpin was fantastic. And J.R.M. had a great year. I mean, he did. He almost had a 40 40 season. Right. 228 00:20:24,000 --> 00:20:30,000 Like, yeah, it was like thirty nine forty or something. Yeah. Josh, nearly had a hundred RBI's. 229 00:20:30,000 --> 00:20:37,000 Stephen Kwan, the first half of the season was hitting like 400. I mean, they had a lot of good pieces. 230 00:20:37,000 --> 00:20:41,000 But yeah, in the playoffs, they were just. 231 00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:45,000 I didn't they didn't stand a chance. I mean, against Detroit. Yes. 232 00:20:45,000 --> 00:20:47,000 But Detroit, nobody expected to be there against the Yanks. 233 00:20:47,000 --> 00:20:50,000 It was pretty obvious who was the better team. Right. Yeah. 234 00:20:50,000 --> 00:20:57,000 And I can't say that they got better this offseason. They traded with Josh Naylor and Andre Samenez. 235 00:20:57,000 --> 00:21:02,000 Yeah, no, just a man is right. So. And what did you bring in? Arms. 236 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:07,000 That's it. All they brought in was pitching. He brought in pitches like I'm literally looking at who they brought in. 237 00:21:07,000 --> 00:21:13,000 It's Carlos Santana, the only impact player that I see on the hitting side. 238 00:21:13,000 --> 00:21:18,000 Like I, I just don't understand. 239 00:21:18,000 --> 00:21:24,000 And I know these teams have money, right? You have money. If the dog billionaire owners, you got to have money. 240 00:21:24,000 --> 00:21:29,000 I don't care if you're a millionaire or billionaire, you have money somewhere. Yeah. 241 00:21:29,000 --> 00:21:35,000 And the city wants to win. So I don't know. It's been disappointing. 242 00:21:35,000 --> 00:21:37,000 I personally don't care for the Guardians. I don't care. 243 00:21:37,000 --> 00:21:45,000 But it is kind of shocking just how little the Guardians have done when honestly they won the amount of games that they won. 244 00:21:45,000 --> 00:21:48,000 You know, they had the bullpen that they have. 245 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:54,000 Like if they can just get a couple more bats and solid pieces around that team, even just a little bit. 246 00:21:54,000 --> 00:22:00,000 And I think you could have done that this off season. You could actually contend for a World Series maybe. 247 00:22:00,000 --> 00:22:04,000 But I, yeah, I agree. I see them contending. 248 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:09,000 I think the Guardians have had a really interesting off season. They always find a way to compete in the AO Central. 249 00:22:09,000 --> 00:22:12,000 I will say that. Like they always are just kind of hang around. 250 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:18,000 But that was their problem last year. I mean, when everybody's watching them in the playoffs, everybody's like, well, can they score? 251 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:25,000 And long story short, no, they couldn't. They just couldn't compete with that of the Yankees. 252 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:31,000 I mean, and they have an amazing bullpen. But you can't ride those guys every single game. 253 00:22:31,000 --> 00:22:35,000 This is not going to win you a title. 254 00:22:35,000 --> 00:22:40,000 So I would be a little frustrated if I was a Guardians fan, although I do think they're kind of used to this. 255 00:22:40,000 --> 00:22:44,000 This is kind of the status quo. They don't really go out and sign big free agents. 256 00:22:44,000 --> 00:22:49,000 The J-Ram contract is like the best contract in baseball, in my opinion. 257 00:22:49,000 --> 00:22:54,000 Like I think that the value they're getting for the price is phenomenal. 258 00:22:54,000 --> 00:23:01,000 I don't know really why. I mean, Andres Jimenez was below average hitter, so maybe you improve it by trading him away. 259 00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:10,000 I thought bringing in Horowitz and then flipping him immediately was interesting because I thought Horowitz was actually a good fit. 260 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:15,000 They trade away Josh Naylor, who was kind of the other piece to that offense besides J-Ram. 261 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:21,000 And now and he's now in Arizona. You traded him away for a pitcher and you already have a lot of pitchers. 262 00:23:21,000 --> 00:23:24,000 So I don't really know what you're doing if you're the Guardians. 263 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:28,000 And I know the Guardians, you know, they don't necessarily get all the clicks on the Internet. 264 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:32,000 But I mean, you made the ALCS like do something. 265 00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:36,000 Like pitching wasn't your problem, I don't think, last year. Not at all. 266 00:23:36,000 --> 00:23:42,000 Like yeah, Colossi had a pretty interesting playoffs. Yeah, he sure did. 267 00:23:42,000 --> 00:23:49,000 It was electric that Kerry Carpenter home run was electric, but it wasn't your pitching. It was just your offense. It's just empty. 268 00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:57,000 Yeah. And they haven't addressed it at all. So I think that's the that's if anything, they've actually gotten rid of offensive pieces. 269 00:23:57,000 --> 00:24:00,000 They got worse in my opinion. Yeah, they did. I think the offense got worse. I agree. 270 00:24:00,000 --> 00:24:05,000 Who else is going to hit besides J-Ram? Carlos Santana is like 42 years old. He's not doing that for you. 271 00:24:05,000 --> 00:24:10,000 Yeah, he's they need some young guys to come up and do something. Kyle Manzardo, maybe. 272 00:24:10,000 --> 00:24:14,000 I don't know. They're in an interesting spot. And then so are the Detroit Tigers. 273 00:24:14,000 --> 00:24:21,000 I think there's more optimism in Detroit than in Cleveland. However, they also haven't done anything. 274 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:25,000 The rumor is, you know, they're in on Bregman talks. They're not going to give him more than what they've offered. 275 00:24:25,000 --> 00:24:30,000 They've been in on a couple guys. I'm sure that they're probably talking to Flaherty a little bit. 276 00:24:30,000 --> 00:24:35,000 Where do you stand if you're the Detroit Tigers, if you're their fans? How do you feel about this? 277 00:24:35,000 --> 00:24:40,000 Because you have this amazing second half. You make the playoffs. You make it to the ALDS. 278 00:24:40,000 --> 00:24:47,000 You're within a game of making the ALCS. You've got the best pitcher on the planet, in my opinion, right now. 279 00:24:47,000 --> 00:24:53,000 How do you feel as a Tiger fan? Gleyber Torres isn't the answer. I can tell you that. 280 00:24:53,000 --> 00:25:00,000 I can tell you that. Sending him to a one year contract is not the answer. I don't understand the contract. 281 00:25:00,000 --> 00:25:07,000 Like, Gleyber Torres was not going to help you get over the hump last year at all. 282 00:25:07,000 --> 00:25:15,000 It's the fact that you can't win a World Series without stars. You just need them, right? 283 00:25:15,000 --> 00:25:21,000 The Diamondbacks a couple years ago, maybe they weren't as star heavy, but Corbin Carroll was. 284 00:25:21,000 --> 00:25:25,000 I mean, he was probably the top three outfielder. Yeah, and they have Catel Marte still. 285 00:25:25,000 --> 00:25:29,000 Catel Marte was great that year. Zach Gallans, phenomenal. 286 00:25:29,000 --> 00:25:34,000 Zach Gallans great in the playoffs. Eric Kelly, all right. Decent bullpen. 287 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:41,000 Van Ginkle. That guy was electric in the playoffs. 288 00:25:41,000 --> 00:25:45,000 And the Diamondbacks with the best offense in the league, right? 289 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:51,000 But the Tigers aren't. The Tigers win with grit. They just barely hang on. 290 00:25:51,000 --> 00:25:56,000 It's all about pitching. It's using the bullpen in the perfect situation, which is great and all. 291 00:25:56,000 --> 00:26:00,000 But at the end of the day, you got to hit the baseball to win the games. 292 00:26:00,000 --> 00:26:04,000 That's why Dodgers just beat the brakes off on everyone, to be honest. 293 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:08,000 It's because they could just out hit you. That is the method. It's cute. 294 00:26:08,000 --> 00:26:14,000 It's cute baseball what the Short Tigers are doing, but you're not going to win a World Series. 295 00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:20,000 It is not championship baseball. And you have, like you said, the best pitcher in the league, but you're wasting him. 296 00:26:20,000 --> 00:26:24,000 They don't have a number two. Who's their number two? 297 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:28,000 Could you tell me who the Tigers number two is right now? Reese Olson. Oh, gosh. 298 00:26:28,000 --> 00:26:36,000 Alex Cobb. Oh, boy. Oh, you got to go get somebody, man. 299 00:26:36,000 --> 00:26:40,000 I mean, even if it's an Alex Bregman, you reunite A.J. Hinch and Alex Bregman. 300 00:26:40,000 --> 00:26:44,000 Like you spend a little money, guys, like take advantage of this window. 301 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:48,000 Alex Bregman and Jack Flaherty, you really do contend, in my opinion. I think so, too. 302 00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:50,000 I think you contend for the A.L. Pennant. Yeah. 303 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:55,000 And maybe trade Spencer Torboson because he doesn't have any space on that. He has no value, though. 304 00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:59,000 I don't know. I mean, he is no former number one all pick last year. 305 00:26:59,000 --> 00:27:03,000 He had a great year in the second half. I mean, he had like thirty seven homers this year. 306 00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:07,000 But he's still young enough if you get him behind a good hitting coach. 307 00:27:07,000 --> 00:27:10,000 I think he still has potential, but the 308 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:16,000 Spenser Torboson. I was. I was because I had him and that got to your Linsanity run that he had last year. 309 00:27:16,000 --> 00:27:20,000 You sure did. OK. Detroit is disappointing. 310 00:27:20,000 --> 00:27:23,000 Detroit isn't. Yeah, is an interesting spot. We're going to keep going with the A.L. Central. 311 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:26,000 Now to Kenji, what he would describe as his favorite team. 312 00:27:26,000 --> 00:27:30,000 We're trying to maintain some semblance of of non-biased. 313 00:27:30,000 --> 00:27:36,000 But the Kansas City Royals also have been really quiet this offseason. 314 00:27:36,000 --> 00:27:39,000 Kenji, I'm just going to leave the floor open. 315 00:27:39,000 --> 00:27:42,000 Where I talk about him, you talk. You want me to talk about the Royals? 316 00:27:42,000 --> 00:27:46,000 Yeah, because I'm going to get upset. I. 317 00:27:46,000 --> 00:27:54,000 The Royals are in a weird spot because they have aging stars and the best young player in the sport. 318 00:27:54,000 --> 00:27:57,000 The reason that they were contention last year is because Bobby Wood Jr. 319 00:27:57,000 --> 00:28:01,000 was the best player on the planet, not named Shohei Otani. 320 00:28:01,000 --> 00:28:06,000 I mean, well, Aaron Judge had a great year, too. Sorry, Aaron Judge. 321 00:28:06,000 --> 00:28:09,000 Besides Shohei and Judge, Witt was the best player in baseball. 322 00:28:09,000 --> 00:28:13,000 And Salvador Perez had a career year, which he seems to have all the time. 323 00:28:13,000 --> 00:28:16,000 Salvador Perez just continues to hang around. He plays great defense. 324 00:28:16,000 --> 00:28:21,000 He can hit the cover off the ball and he just continues to do it at a high level. 325 00:28:21,000 --> 00:28:25,000 When Vinny Pasquentino was in there, they were great with scoring runs. 326 00:28:25,000 --> 00:28:28,000 And they just kind of scrapped it together with pitching. 327 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:33,000 Paul Reagan's is amazing. Seth Lugo is amazing. Michael Walker held it down back there. 328 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:39,000 However, it feels like they're they're kind of just squeezing every last ounce out of these old guys. 329 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:43,000 And I don't know how viable it's going to be in the future. 330 00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:47,000 Salvador Perez will inevitably drop off in production. 331 00:28:47,000 --> 00:28:50,000 And when that happens, it's solely based. 332 00:28:50,000 --> 00:28:55,000 It's basically entirely on Witt and Pasquentino and no disrespect to Vinny, 333 00:28:55,000 --> 00:29:01,000 but he was hurt in the second half of the year and so you can't really bank on him being around a full 162. 334 00:29:01,000 --> 00:29:08,000 So you look around and you're like you have one of, if not the best young player in baseball in Bobby Witt Jr. 335 00:29:08,000 --> 00:29:12,000 And you really haven't added any pieces around him to help him succeed. 336 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:19,000 The Cole Reagans I love, but that bullpen Lucas Ersegg, aside from him, who do you have in the back end of the bullpen? 337 00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:23,000 That rotation, you don't really know. I mean, I don't know what your confidence. 338 00:29:23,000 --> 00:29:31,000 One guy I don't know. I don't know what your confidence level is on Michael Walker going into this season or Seth Lugo doing the same thing again. 339 00:29:31,000 --> 00:29:36,000 I don't know, man. There's just so many question marks with the Royals. 340 00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:42,000 And it's a shame because I mean, Witt is the best young player in baseball, in my opinion. 341 00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:47,000 Yeah, absolutely. Without a doubt. 342 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:51,000 Go ahead, rip him a new one, Kench, rip him a new one. 343 00:29:51,000 --> 00:29:55,000 It's just I don't I don't get it. I don't get it. 344 00:29:55,000 --> 00:29:58,000 Kansas City should be like the hottest market in the world. 345 00:29:58,000 --> 00:30:03,000 You have like two of like the greatest athletes. 346 00:30:03,000 --> 00:30:12,000 You have Patrick Mahomes playing literally 10 feet away from your stadium, bringing in Super Bowls back to back, maybe a three-peat. 347 00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:14,000 And then you also got Bobby Witt Jr. 348 00:30:14,000 --> 00:30:21,000 Who I would say is, yes, the top three player in the league. Yeah, probably the player with the most potential in the league right now. Right. 349 00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:27,000 What is he? Twenty three, twenty four. He's twenty four. Yeah. And he's got a ridiculously good contract. 350 00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:31,000 Yeah, his contract. We're not going to get into that. 351 00:30:31,000 --> 00:30:35,000 Not a contract pod. Live changing money. But, you know, come on, Soto. 352 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:44,000 But, yeah, it's just it hurts because I didn't expect the Royals to be as good as they were last year. 353 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:46,000 And it was great to see them go on this run. 354 00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:51,000 And honestly, I do think we could have beat the Yankees if Witt would remember how to hit a ball. 355 00:30:51,000 --> 00:30:56,000 He just forgot. So did Aaron Judge. So it kind of equaled out. 356 00:30:56,000 --> 00:31:04,000 And it kind of exposed both teams, really exposed the Yanks and the Royals that without these two guys, they are literally nothing. 357 00:31:04,000 --> 00:31:08,000 Yankees as good as you are, they are so reliant on Aaron Judge. 358 00:31:08,000 --> 00:31:14,000 And yes, Juan Soto was there, but I mean, he probably just I don't know. 359 00:31:14,000 --> 00:31:17,000 It's just it's upsetting to be a Royals fan. 360 00:31:17,000 --> 00:31:20,000 There's free agents that I think would really change our team. 361 00:31:20,000 --> 00:31:23,000 Yeah. So then let me ask you this of the guys still out there. 362 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:26,000 Who would you like to see the world realistically? Who do you want to see the Royals go grab? 363 00:31:26,000 --> 00:31:29,000 I mean, I've had it before, but I would love Jerks and Profar. 364 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:34,000 Again, even if he's 75 percent what he was last year, I think it's a good thing. 365 00:31:34,000 --> 00:31:39,000 I'd like I'd like I would say dump your whole money for Tanner Scott. 366 00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:43,000 Give me a lefty bullpen guy. You know, really? Oh, yeah. 367 00:31:43,000 --> 00:31:47,000 I think it's great. But I want a lefty. I want a lefty bat. 368 00:31:47,000 --> 00:31:54,000 And you think is that important that they would forego some you would rather have Tanner Scott than an offensive piece? 369 00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:56,000 I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. 370 00:31:56,000 --> 00:32:00,000 I don't know. I don't know because I don't think they're going to do it. 371 00:32:00,000 --> 00:32:07,000 But yes, Tanner Scott would be great. I think you just go all in this year. 372 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:10,000 I think you have to because like I said, those guys are aging. 373 00:32:10,000 --> 00:32:14,000 These pictures are old. It's they're going to have to reset. 374 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:22,000 And honestly, I was thinking about this today, but I wouldn't be against if. 375 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:25,000 I would. I can't. I'm going to hurt myself. 376 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:29,000 There you go. No, please. I thought about this crazy scenario today. 377 00:32:29,000 --> 00:32:34,000 Oh, boy. Yeah. So so the Blue Jays need to trade their superstar. 378 00:32:34,000 --> 00:32:38,000 So I was thinking, well, why don't they trade them to the Royals? 379 00:32:38,000 --> 00:32:45,000 You know, give me a give me a nice Vlad Jr. Bobby, what junior junior combo in Kansas City? 380 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:48,000 And we can send we'll give you Michael Garcia. 381 00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:52,000 We'll give you Vinny Pasquantino and whatever other prospects you want, 382 00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:57,000 because apparently they all suck in this organization because not a single one of them has ever been called up. 383 00:32:57,000 --> 00:33:03,000 Or do I ever hear a single name from any of our organizations or farm system? 384 00:33:03,000 --> 00:33:06,000 So how's how you really feel? Just trade them all. 385 00:33:06,000 --> 00:33:09,000 Trade them all for Vlad and then give him whatever money he wants. 386 00:33:09,000 --> 00:33:13,000 Give him 400 million. Sure. And then maybe we can actually have something against city. 387 00:33:13,000 --> 00:33:20,000 But until then, I think we're never going to win a World Series. 388 00:33:20,000 --> 00:33:24,000 For a while. I'm ready to get hurt again this year. 389 00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:29,000 I think the Royals are really fascinating team because they have I mean, 390 00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:33,000 you can't ask for a better player than Bobby with Junior and they've got cool Reagan. 391 00:33:33,000 --> 00:33:38,000 So you have an ace, you have a superstar shortstop and you have a decent closer. 392 00:33:38,000 --> 00:33:44,000 I would say Ersegg is OK. So you have essentially like three really solid pieces with Reagan's Ersegg. 393 00:33:44,000 --> 00:33:51,000 And now it's just your job to spend a little bit of cash and go build around that core. 394 00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:56,000 And they have it and they're just kind of letting their old veteran guys. 395 00:33:56,000 --> 00:34:02,000 Where's all the money? Where's all the money? I don't know. Show me the money. 396 00:34:02,000 --> 00:34:06,000 I listen. Baseball is better when the central is good. 397 00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:10,000 And the three teams we just talked about all reside in the same division. 398 00:34:10,000 --> 00:34:20,000 And the other two are the White Sox who won 40 games and the Twins who seeming seemingly just don't want to ever make a move ever. 399 00:34:20,000 --> 00:34:25,000 So I don't know what to do with the central. I don't know what to do. 400 00:34:25,000 --> 00:34:32,000 There's a reason that people call the AOMid people called the AOMid because it's just a lot of average. 401 00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:40,000 Like I said, it's the question like do teams actually want to win the World Series or do these owners just want to make money themselves? 402 00:34:40,000 --> 00:34:47,000 Do they understand that the reason why the Yankees can continue to spend all this money is because not all the reason, 403 00:34:47,000 --> 00:34:53,000 but it's because they make it to the World Series. Right. When you go to the World Series, you make money. 404 00:34:53,000 --> 00:34:58,000 You get so much money for going to the World Series. And if you win one, oh my gosh, you get more money. 405 00:34:58,000 --> 00:35:03,000 You get more brand deals. You get more people wanting to work with you. 406 00:35:03,000 --> 00:35:07,000 But if you're just doing if you're just being mid, nobody's going to want to work with you. 407 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:12,000 Basically, I'm going to give you money. So you might as well go all in as an owner. Right. 408 00:35:12,000 --> 00:35:16,000 Like at least I can respect what the Mets owner is doing because he doesn't care. 409 00:35:16,000 --> 00:35:19,000 He understands that money money grows on trees. Right. 410 00:35:19,000 --> 00:35:23,000 It's just going to come back and he's expecting Juan Sutter to make him more money than he's paying him, 411 00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:29,000 which honestly he might because New York's a great market and they'll win a lot of games. 412 00:35:29,000 --> 00:35:35,000 But these teams, I just don't know. Like, are you just? 413 00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:40,000 Why do you own a baseball team if you don't want to actually win the World Series? I don't understand. 414 00:35:40,000 --> 00:35:47,000 Like, they're just so dumb. If I had crazy if I had the money they had, 415 00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:54,000 even if I was like a like in the bottom five bottom ten of the richest owners, 416 00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:59,000 I would still spend whatever I have to win games. I love baseball. 417 00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:08,000 And I know that if I can get one good year, I would make so much money that I can continue to spend more money to make more money. 418 00:36:08,000 --> 00:36:11,000 Owner Kenji in the building. Owner Kenji. 419 00:36:11,000 --> 00:36:18,000 Obviously, it's probably not that simple, but I don't know, quit being cheap and open up your wallets. 420 00:36:18,000 --> 00:36:24,000 They should. I mean, the Dodgers keep opening theirs up and they seemingly just find there's a little evidence of how it works. 421 00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:26,000 It literally works. Yeah. 422 00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:35,000 Well, over the three of the four teams that made the ALCS last or the championship series last year were the top three high spenders. 423 00:36:35,000 --> 00:36:37,000 Yeah, they were top three high spenders. 424 00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:41,000 It's just how it kind of works. And the Guardians. 425 00:36:41,000 --> 00:36:46,000 Listen, they played the Tigers in the first round. Nobody's that excited about the Guardians. 426 00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:50,000 I'm sorry. No, but that's that's it for our show today. 427 00:36:50,000 --> 00:36:54,000 We're right about half an hour. So hopefully this is a good amount of time for everybody. 428 00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:57,000 Easily digestible. We're going to tease. 429 00:36:57,000 --> 00:37:02,000 Next episode we're going to do is a tier list using dating and wedding. 430 00:37:02,000 --> 00:37:06,000 What do you want to metaphors to describe where these teams are at? 431 00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:08,000 So we are walking down the aisle. 432 00:37:08,000 --> 00:37:19,000 We have meeting the parents and you're going to have to watch the next episode in order to find out exactly where every team lands and then what the last category is, because I'm pretty proud of the name of the last category. 433 00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:23,000 But that's all our content for today. We appreciate you guys listening to the show. 434 00:37:23,000 --> 00:37:30,000 Happy New Year. Happy one month until spring training. Kenji, any last thoughts before we let the people go? 435 00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:32,000 We are all ready to get hurt again. 436 00:37:32,000 --> 00:37:36,000 We are all ready to get hurt again. 437 00:37:36,000 --> 00:37:44,000 Only one month, baby. Only one month to get my hopes up. Yep. Prepare for a fantasy baseball. That's right. 438 00:37:44,000 --> 00:38:03,000 All right, everybody. Thanks for your time and we'll catch you next time. Bye.