Hey, MoundVisit listeners, this is Gabe coming at you.
Now in the edit, this is future Gabe, and I just wanted to put a little disclaimer here.
This episode was recorded before Anthony Santander decided to sign his five-year, $92.5 million
dollar contract with the Toronto Blue Jays.
We do not go over that in this episode.
This is exclusively about Roki Sasaki and Tanner Scott.
We do touch on the Blue Jays towards the end, but we'll give you a more detailed outlook
on the Blue Jays and this signing with Anthony Santander.
In our next recap episode, but I just wanted to give everybody a heads up before you dive
into it and you're like, what the heck, Gabe, you're an Orioles fan and one of your prized
free agents just leaves for a rival.
Why don't you even talk about it?
It's because we recorded this before that happened.
So we're going to get to that.
Appreciate you guys tuning into the show and welcome to another episode of MoundVisit.
Thank you.
Well, another day, another free agent goes to the Dodgers and this time it's two of them.
Roki Sasaki signs with the Los Angeles Dodgers as of just a couple of days ago as an international
free agent.
And then this morning, Tanner Scott signs with the Los Angeles Dodgers.
They now are in the top threshold of the competitive balance tax.
The Yankees are the only team above 300 million with them.
The Dodgers currently sit at 375 and there's a lot to get into with this.
I mean, the debate around baseball has been, is this good?
Is it bad?
What are the Blue Jays doing?
So we got a good amount to talk about here on a Sunday.
You guys are of course listening to this on a Monday.
But Kenji, let me ask you first and foremost, what do you think about Roki going to the
Dodgers?
I guess it was as simple as we thought that he just wants to play for the Dodgers.
And I'm curious to see why it kind of delayed this long.
Like I feel it seems like if he was really going to go to Dodgers or Toronto, it was
a pretty obvious choice from the beginning.
I mean, I've heard people say that, you know, maybe they like under the table gave him an
offer that's a crazy amount of money because technically you can sign it right now to a
longer extension, which is technically illegal if they brought up any future contracts before
they even signed him.
But I don't know, I mean, he fits in great.
And I don't, I think this kind of gets forgotten is like how great of a staff the Dodgers have.
Oh, I don't think it's forgotten.
I don't know.
Like people just talk about the players, but like the coaching that they have is so good.
Like at every single position, like the pitching coaches are fantastic.
The hitters coaches are fantastic.
Development is great.
They was like, they have a great farm system too, if you really think about it.
Like they got guys just waiting, you know, people just, they just buy players, but they
also develop really talented players and they got so many guys sitting in the back.
It's just, you know, it's like that meme where like you can't keep getting away with this.
It just doesn't make any sense anymore on how it continues to happen.
The Roki thing, it's different money, but you know, the signing we'll talk about after,
but I think it's good for Roki.
I think he fits in great.
I think he'll have the most fun playing in LA.
Just playing with Otani and Yamamoto.
Yeah.
And just being in a great market, but I think it makes sense, but we'll see how it goes.
I think he won't have the best first year.
Yeah.
I mean, I went through some of his stats from the MPB and I don't think he's ever thrown
more than 120 innings in the MPB in a season.
So the workload, we'll be really curious how they manage it.
If you want to talk about rotations, I mean, it might be the best pitching rotation ever
assembled that the Dodgers are going to roll out next year.
There will be a six man rotation because Shohei has to pitch on a six man rotation, but that's
no problem for them because they've got, I mean, do you have legitimately one through
five could be a number one starter on two thirds of the league?
I'll read you the Roki's right now.
Yeah, please.
You got Blake's now.
Yoshinobi Yamamoto, Tyler Glass now, Tony Gosselin, Dustin May.
Now you got Roki Sasaki.
Shohei.
You got Shohei Otani.
You got Bobby Miller, who I think, do you think he'll go back down to AAA?
Like, is he going to, there's no way he can pitch in the, in the majors, right?
I don't know.
Maybe they'll make him a closer or something.
They just, it's crazy.
They have so much talent.
It's not even funny.
Like their AAA rotation would legitimately start for like half the league.
Yeah.
Even Landon Naack was a great, yeah, he was really helpful for them to play off run.
They have so many dudes.
And I mean, Roki, like he said, he fits right in.
The contract details, he's getting six and a half million was his deal with the Dodgers.
The craziest thing and Kenji, we touched on this in the last episode, he forfeited essentially
millions of dollars to come here early.
He's now no, he won't be eligible for free agency until he's age 30 season.
And so he essentially forfeits his year 24 season to his year 30 season.
And he gets to be on an amazing team.
Sorry.
If he signs early and like avoid arbitration, like how does that work?
Cause I've been seeing that a lot with like Jaren Duran.
Like they signed him so he avoids arbitration.
Oh yeah.
What does that actually mean?
Arbitration is a, is a, is a stipulation in baseball deals where the player can vouch
and say, Hey, I think I deserve 17 million.
And then the team goes back in.
I know we only think you're worth 15 million.
And if they can reach an agreement before then, which I mean, I'm going to back up even
further arbitration.
You're only eligible for arbitration after three years of service time.
So you have to play for three years.
So Roki has to play for three years after his, after his third season, he's eligible
for arbitration.
So then he can go to the Dodgers and they can say, Roki's like, I'm worth 20 million
Dodgers say, we think you're worth actually 17.
And then if they can't agree on anything before a given deadline, then they go to a judge
and they place a case before a judge and the judge rules what the salary will be.
Basically, that's called an arbitration hearing.
So basically the reason you want to be eligible for arbitration is because you can then argue
for your salary.
So do you think they'll do that?
Do you think Roki will do that as soon as he can?
I think so, but again, he won't be eligible until he, after his third season.
And then even then the Dodgers and most teams, they want, they try to buy out some of your
arbitration years.
So they get you after your rookie deal is done.
So like that's what I want the Orioles to do with Gunnar Henderson and Adley Rutchman
is they're about to hit, I think Adley's in his arbitration years and Gunnar's about to
hit his arbitration years is you give them a 10 year extension, you buy out their arbitration
years.
So then they get way more money immediately than they would have otherwise.
And then they get less money maybe in the long term, but over the length of the deal,
it kind of evens itself out.
So the Dodgers, I could absolutely see them doing that.
They're a really smart organization.
But who knows what Roki's plan is?
He clearly is here to win and to pitch at a high level and what better place to do it
than the Dodgers?
I mean, they just, they do it better than everybody else.
I thought, I mean, we're going to touch on the Blue Jays here in a bit.
The Padres were out on him that morning.
It was rumored that the Padres were out and that has to kind of be a sting if you're a
San Diego fan.
It felt like that was the guy to go get this off season.
They didn't and they haven't spent any money.
There's an ownership battle.
San Diego's in a really unique, I would say, I would say bad spot, although they still
have a ton of talent.
Don't get me wrong.
Yeah, San Diego's in a weird spot.
The Blue Jays are in a weird spot.
Blue Jays feel like they're just a silver medal team.
They finish second on every big free agent and every team just uses them exclusively
as leverage.
I'm going to wait because we're both going to go in on the Blue Jays in a second.
But if we're done with Roki, then I want to pivot to Tanner Scott.
Do you have any last bits on Roki Sasaki?
Nah.
What are you most excited to see him do in the big leagues?
Develop a new fastball that moves.
Is that a fastball movement?
Yeah.
I saw his fastball tick down last year.
I know he's having arm problems.
Okay.
Maybe that's why he wanted to come over earlier.
And I think he'll benefit from having many, many more pitchers in the rotation.
Yeah.
But he'll be okay.
Okay.
Well then, Roki's going to be fun to watch.
I'm excited to watch him pitch.
Crazy that the Dodgers have him as a five.
In talking to some of my friends and even to Kenji, we were like the one hole on this
Dodger team might be the bullpen.
You're like, maybe the bullpen stinks.
After they signed Roki, you're like, maybe the bullpen stinks.
Maybe that's how teams can get them.
And then of course you wake up this morning, it's January 19th.
And of course they signed Tanner Scott, the most coveted closer on the market.
Four years, $72 million.
As is par for the course with the Dodgers, 20 million of it is deferred.
He gets a $21 million signing bonus.
So Tanner Scott's a Dodger.
They got their back end guy.
Pray for your Padres fans in your life because they thought they were getting Roki.
Tanner Scott they had last year.
Tanner, like he kind of has Shohei's number and now Shohei doesn't have to play him.
So it's great for the Dodgers again.
Everything's great for the Dodgers.
Kenji, where do you stand on Tanner Scott going to LA?
It was shocking.
I can't say I ever projected him to actually go there.
Maybe early on, but I didn't think that they would still push this much money out.
I guess it's impressive and they must have some crazy good accountants to figure out
the logistics of this.
Me and our friends were having a whole thing about it this morning.
I just don't, I don't know.
I don't think anybody understands just how complicated the MLB system is because it just
doesn't make any sense.
I generally don't understand how they keep doing this and I swear I see a new term tossed
around every time they sign somebody of how they made it possible.
Yeah, it's a, I mean good for them, right?
If you can do it, then do it.
But yeah, it's mind blowing.
They have $1.2 billion in deferrals on the roster now, which is almost the franchise
value of the Cleveland Guardians, which is $1.3 billion.
They just keep getting better and better.
They mean this is easily the best roster ever assembled in my opinion.
If you go all the way back to the 1920 Yankees, that might be close, but again, that's over
a hundred years ago.
It's over a century ago or just about a century ago.
This is the best team I've seen ever on paper.
The talent they have top to bottom loaded, bullpen loaded, bench loaded.
They got guys, they got dudes all over the place and they can just sign whoever they
want because everybody wants to play there.
Everybody wants to play with Shohei.
So I mean, I'm happy for Tanner Scott, gets his bag, right?
I'm sad for the Padres because they shipped out all those prospects to get Scott and they
got essentially not that much out of him.
He pitched in that game five and pitched to Otani and that was it.
That was his use.
And I don't know where you go from here, man.
Baseball is in this really, really weird spot we're going to talk about.
Is this bad for the game right after we hammer the Blue Jays?
But any little bits and pieces here, Kenj?
When I first got into baseball, I thought it was pretty simple.
I thought it was simpler.
I came from football, which is in the end kind of simple with the salary cap.
But I swear, I mean, baseball just gets more and more complicated.
And Tom said that there should be a salary cap and everyone says it's a salary cap.
I don't think baseball will ever have a salary cap.
They won't.
Because if the players have to vote on it, then why would you ever limit the amount of
money you can make, especially when it's a growing sport and you see players like Juan
Soto just made $800 million?
You can never make that much money in a career, probably, if you played football, which is
a salary cap.
Yeah.
And so NFL is, I think, what the most popular sport around the world.
And yet they can't compete with baseball money.
And so you can't compete with it.
And I guess it's really different from the perspective you put it on, like from a fan's
perspective.
Yeah, this sucks.
But from a player's perspective, absolutely, this makes sense to do.
To go to Dodgers, you can make so much money.
You're going to benefit from marketing, which means you can make way more money if you defer
some money.
I guarantee that's their pitch.
We have all these companies who can market you, get money that's not from us but from
them.
The amount of money you can make and also to compete for championships, it just sounds
too enticing to players.
And so it's hard to say as a fan who, I'm just a degenerate who watches them, to say
you don't deserve the money that you could potentially make.
And you're an idiot for wanting to win and to play with good players.
Because if I was in their shoes, I'm sure I'd be doing the exact same thing.
You know?
Yeah.
Dodgers have a great case.
It's hard.
But as a fan, I understand where they're coming from.
But I feel like we kind of forget, you got to, the players are the ones that are producing
all this stuff and if they want to do what's best for them, that's kind of up to them.
So it's kind of hard.
Like that argument of they suck, I hate this is kind of just shallow to me.
How much can you really complain as a fan?
I know all these people are saying I'm never watching baseball again.
I know dang well you're watching baseball opening day.
And I know you're watching in the postseason.
It's the same thing with the Chiefs.
Everyone says I'm not watching the Super Bowl if the Chiefs are then.
I know you're watching the Super Bowl.
It's the freaking Super Bowl.
You're watching it.
But I don't know.
It's hard.
It's just the way it is.
I do hope that there are some restrictions that are going to be put on to prevent just
deferring money.
Like there's just a way to at least balance it out a little bit because it is getting
a little bit crazy with the amount of talent they have.
But that's the beauty about baseball, right?
Is that all it takes is for your team to get hot.
Right?
Yes.
That is all it takes.
They're beatable.
Yeah.
And we saw last year the Dodgers had a great rotation and they kind of they fell apart
before the postseason.
But I mean they still played great.
They got hot and they won the whole thing.
And that's the scariest part about them loading up this year.
It's the beauty of baseball.
I would love if baseball got a salary cap.
It never will because the players will never agree to it because it would mean less money
for the players and the players association will never do it.
I do, however, think that at the next CBA negotiation, which here we go, we're going
to be like this is like a legal pod now.
At the next negotiation, I do think there will be extensive talks about deferrals and
international free agents because it's abundantly clear that the Dodgers have a substantial
advantage to international free agents.
I don't know if there will be a limit imposed.
I don't know if there will be more transparency involved.
I have no idea because there's no way to enforce like say the Dodgers had an under the table
deal for Rokey the whole time.
There's no way to like find out if that was the case or to enforce anything bad on the
Dodgers.
Say that they just want to defer everybody.
I mean, listen, it's in 10 years time, the Dodgers financially, in theory, are in a lot
of trouble because the one point two billion dollars deferred is a lot of money to have
to pay out at any point.
That's a lot of money.
Like I said, almost the same value as the Cleveland Guardians franchise.
That's a lot of money to have to pay out.
But I mean, if we're going to get into finance time value of money, a dollar a day is worth
more than a dollar tomorrow.
If they just invest enough over time, the money they're making from sponsorship deals,
they should be able to reasonably afford paying that out.
And the reason deferrals have been fine in contract talks in recent years is because
it's stupid as a player.
Let's be really honest.
If you're a player, you want your money guaranteed now.
You don't want to wait five, 10 years to get your money because that's just not smart because
a dollar today is worth more than a dollar tomorrow.
So these players are all taking up small sacrifices to join this team, this super team.
I'm going to call it what it is.
This is a super team.
And make no mistake about it, this Tanner Scott deal is absolutely a team friendly deal.
There's a reason that 20 million is deferred.
There's a reason there's a $21 million signing bonus.
That's because they're trying to lower the average annual value against the competitive
balance tax and while also loading up on the best closer on the market.
So good on Tanner for getting his money and great on the Dodgers because they continue
to like just do it better than everybody else because I'm sure teams came to Tanner Scott.
I mean, you want to tell me four years, 72 million, no other team was willing to offer
him that that's BS.
Tanner was willing to go to the Dodgers because he probably he probably took less money or
was willing to do the deferrals or take the big signing bonus to play with the Dodgers.
That's what he's willing to do.
So I'm I'm a fan of baseball.
I love baseball.
Love it.
Love it to death.
This is I think this is tough on for most fans of the sport and even casual fans to
look at and say this is good for the game.
The team loading up like this.
I think it's tough for somebody to say that.
I don't know where they go from here.
I think the CBA talks in a couple of years time will be crazy.
I just don't know where what they do from here and we're going to we may as well go
into is this bad for baseball.
You're relatively new in being a fan of this, Kenj.
I am indeed.
Do you like what do you see happening here in the future now and in the future for the
sport and I guess the international aspects of the sport?
Is this good for the game?
All these all this kind of the stacking of a roster?
I personally don't have a problem with it.
I know when like the Golden State Warriors were really really good.
Like I wasn't I didn't watch basketball but I would watch basketball just to watch them
because it was entertaining right and baseball has been kind of the same when I first started
watching and now you know I enjoy watching all kinds of teams play but the world.
Yes we'll enjoy watching baseball probably more watching the Dodgers and their the time
zone right where they play is really beneficial to the world and it's you know like in the
end you hear players say it's a business right and the MLB is going to do what's best for
them and how they can make the most money.
Like why does Roger Goodell keep upping up the amount of games you play?
It's not because the player safety because every player is saying no we're not playing
we don't want to play more games but it's because it makes some more money right and
he keeps spreading it all over the world.
Yep.
Baseball is the same thing opening games were in Korea next year it's in Japan.
Like they're going all over the world and so I mean the commissioner doesn't care I
don't think I mean for him he's making more money his sport is growing and if you're going
to have a couple unhappy American fans but the rest of the world loves baseball more
than I think he's willing to take that because there are so many untapped markets around
the world that baseball can reach now right and so many more players that can be exposed
to MLB now because you saw Dodgers just signed like a guy from was it South Sudan or something
this morning the six foot seven pitcher yeah it was 95 yeah like that's pretty cool all
right you wouldn't seen that 10 years ago and so I mean baseball is growing I guess
having a super team in a market like that with a lot of international players benefits
them financially but I guess as a long long-term fan of baseball for some people I can see
why it's it's frustrating to see that I think this is a turnoff for some fans I think it's
it's good for some fans and I think it's bad for others I mean I had a friend of mine co-worker
who doesn't follow the sport at all but when Roki signed he texted me and he's like how
did how does this even work how do they keep doing this and you have to explain to him
international free agents and bonus money and all this stuff and that Shohei deferred
six hundred and eighty million so that he could play with the super team and it's I
think for the casual fan it's tough I think if you're a Dodger fan you love it you're
gonna watch every game I think for somebody trying to get into the sport like say yourself
and you don't have a bunch of friends that play fantasy baseball or that love this stuff
it like you you just read headlines and it's Dodgers Dodgers Dodgers Dodgers Dodgers Dodgers
like they just get everybody and then they win the win the World Series they sign everybody
everybody takes pay cuts to go play there I don't know I feel like if I was a fan like
just coming into the game you're either a Dodger fan or you're just kind of like that's
a lot like there's no parody in that but there's a reason the NFL is as popular as it is Jaden
Daniels heck last night Jaden Daniels was a he's playing he's playing at LSU last year
the commander stunk last year and then they drafted wins in the first yes and they draft
him in the first round and then now they're in the NFC Championship game that does not
happen in baseball rebuilds take decades in baseball because of this because of these
kinds of moves because of organizations that can do this because there's no salary cap
that's why this takes so long and I mean the O's had a decade where they were the bottom
feeder of the of the baseball world they were the butt of every joke and now they get maybe
five years of a competitive window because they're not going to be able to retain all
their talent and because the Dodgers the Yankees the Mets are just going to keep buying them
up and so I do think for small market teams this is just kind of a slap in the face I
think for owners everywhere I mean Tom said this this morning I think for owners everywhere
it's a it's a bit like well now our organization looks worse you're making you're making every
organization look bad and the Dodgers are like that's not our problem like start forking
out more money but every organization looks bad so I don't think the owners can be happy
I think fans of 29 teams aren't happy I think GM's of 29 teams aren't happy because I mean
those rumors about him having an under the table deal those are there's probably something
there I don't know how like I don't know how they'd risk it though like like the Dodgers
have leverage on players they oh they have unbelievable amounts like yes I don't I can't
imagine like the Dodger being like we're gonna do something illegal to get you here like
they're gonna win without they would have won without Tanner Scott they could have won
the World Series without Roki Sasaki they probably could have won with even without
even Teo yeah right but they're getting to play in LA with that team with Shea Ohtani
and Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman probably the most three likeable baseball players on
the planet I know that's what makes it crazy is that you can hate the Dodgers but the players
that they have are just such great people you know like it's not like they're just scummy
attitude like I know you can't hate on the nicest players I know watch Mookie and Freddie
interact you're like I can't hate these guys you know like they're just Freddie Freeman
donated like a million dollars to the to LA for all the fires I showed you know like
500k like I mean they're active in their communities they're sweet they're caring but then yeah
on the surface of what's it's I completely understand why people can be totally upset
at this end now let me let me pose you a question if you're a fan of any of the other 29 teams
what do you have to hope for and listen we're not gonna hope for injuries here that's not
as a Royals fan yeah but like like what do you like what do you do like you can't the
Royals and the Dodgers roster stacked against each other like it's not even comparable it's
not I mean even like the Orioles who you could you could argue can contend for the AL against
the Dodgers roster like there's you can't compare you can't there's MVPs all over the
place on the Dodgers you just can't you can't do it so what like but why why watch sorry
this is and that's that I wasn't gonna say why watch the game because you watch the game
because anybody can win on any given night that's a beauty of baseball yeah that's what
I was gonna say but is that is that the only thing that like fans can hold on to is maybe
like we get hot at the right time we can beat him like is that is that it I don't know I
mean if we get in like a game of failure right like they're like these players that they
have fail less than the majority of the players yes but I mean time and time again you see
people just have bad years or have bad games like it's destined to happen as the game of
baseball is that not every single one of those players are gonna be at the best of their
time and I guess honestly like getting the number one seed is probably just out of the
picture for most teams yeah like if you're in the Dodgers division you're playing for
a wild card spot and you're and you're hoping to get hot at the right time which is rough
but I mean it's been done before right like I mean the Diamondbacks is a perfect example
they barely made it to the playoffs and then they honestly outplayed the Phillies who were
a way better team in a way more complete roster and they almost won the World Series but the
Rangers were just really good that year I guess I think you have to play the long-term
game like you have to realize baseball is a long season you've stressed that time and
time again to me is that the baseball is it's a long season right and the Mets for in fact
like last year at halfway through point of the season they were like one of the worst
teams in the league they made it to the they almost made it to the World Series last year
right there were a couple games away and so I think it's just about remembering what baseball
is about that it's a long season it's about error and failure and oh so you have to hope
for a little bit of luck because you need that you need a little bit of luck but it's
not impossible to beat the Dodgers right they're gonna lose probably 40 50 30 games you know
do you think that they could beat the record of 116 wins I think they could I think they
could and I think it'd be cool to see it I think it'd be cool to see it you know because
records are meant to be broken what is success for the Dodgers that look like like when when
two out of the next four World Series I would say so yeah and I was a failure anything less
than that's a failure two out of the next four five in the next five years if you're
doing because a lot of their contracts are three four years I'll say four years you have
four years of because I think everybody's contracts will start to run out yeah the next
four years I think the one at least two of them you have to get the be in at least three
of them and then maybe you can get away with having one bad year but for the most part
excuse me you have to pretty much be competing at the World Series every single year but
I am fascinated to see what Dodgers look like in five years yeah because they have prospects
you know like at the end when these players are at the end of their contracts they're
just gonna trade them right and just probably get more prospects for them or get more players
for them and they're gonna figure this out so I have Blake Snell until 2030 yeah I guarantee
he's probably gone at like 2028 or 2029 2029 but yeah I'm fascinated to see what in five
years what the Dodgers look like because the young core is gonna be there I mean it's probably
just gonna be the Japanese WBC team at this time at this point but we'll see unreal man
unreal okay well here we're gonna we're gonna tee up the Blue Jays for a second I'll be
in Toronto for opening day and I have to admit I was excited that the Blue Jays would sign
somebody that I'd be excited to watch hey maybe Anthony Santander man I that would be tough
to watch the Blue Jays watch my old guy play against us what I mean the Blue Jays are just
being used just being outright abused by every every ownership group every agent is just
going and saying Blue Jays what do you guys an offer oh you guys can offer six and a half
okay hey Dodgers the Blue Jays just said they can do six and a half can you do six and a
half okay cool you got six and a half sweet we're Dodger like that's that's what they're
doing and it was kind of a scumbag move in my opinion to make them go out and trade for
Miles straw and his horrible contract to get two million extra the Guardians from from
Cleveland they go out and they trade for Miles straw who is a horrible offensive hitter above
average defense but horrible offensive player and they got they trade for him and they get
two million in international bonus pool money in return and they take on his big contract
fifteen million a year for straw and they get two million in bonus pool money in return
and then two hours later Roky goes to the Dodgers so they make this deal to take on
an ugly contract so they can even make a run at Roky just for him to go right across town
two hours later and say hey I'm gonna go to the Dodgers like that just doesn't feel very
I don't know it doesn't feel very good to me and the Blue Jays have been the butt of
every joke they were in on Shohei he was on the plane on the way over there Juan Soto
I heard that was a lie yeah it was a lie it was one of the shark tank guys was just on
a plane but like there was rumor that he was on the plane so Blue Jays fans are getting
blue balled and they're thinking hey we're about to get our guy they're think they thought
they were in on Soto they thought they've been in on all of these free agents they thought
that they've they they can compete and they just are used for leverage so let me ask you
like what what do you do next to the Blue Jays you have to sell you have to sell like
there is nothing you have nothing to be proud of the players that you have to be proud of
don't want to be there you have to sell and you just have to pray that the amount of prospects
that you can get for Vlad jr. which I think will be a pretty good amount and I mean I
would trade everyone like trade Alejandro Kirk trade Vlad trade Boba Shet I think you
can hold on to Dalton Varsho because what you gave up to get him he hasn't he he shows
flashes and wow he's a great defensive outfielder and I think if you trade him you got to trade
Gosman Gosman's got a market now Bassett's got a market Barrios probably has a market
Barrios however you say his name like they have players that they can trade and if they're
smart they'll trade away their vets and try and restart that's the only way and it just
be hopeful that you can develop players and you know have a good enough relationship with
them to where they will want to sign and sign them early I I still don't understand why
they didn't sign Vlad early a lot earlier you know yeah if the rumors are true that
Vlad turned down his turned down the extension then I think you have to ship him off I know
the rumor was that the Mets were building up some sort of offer to go get Vlad jr. and
that would be a fun lineup in Queens Soto Lindor and Vlad jr. I just like the Blue Jays
are what I fear the Orioles are going to become where you have all this young talent and they're
like the up-and-coming team they're so exciting they have maybe money to spend and then they
just don't put it together and then you're blowing it up years later because you're like
they got nothing they got nothing I I don't know what to do if you're the Blue Jays I
think they're gonna go out I think they're gonna overpay for somebody whether that's
Santander whether that's Alonso they're gonna go overpay because they're desperate to sign
anybody and then they're gonna be in trouble because they'll be stuck with a bad contract
and everybody else in the AL East has only gotten better I don't know what to say I mean
maybe the Orioles have gotten a little bit worse but Red Sox have gotten better the Rays
will be healthy the Yankees have probably gotten maybe marginally better I don't know
yet so I don't I don't know man the Blue Jays feel right now like the last place team in
the AL East yeah like it's just it I think it is the worst team like functionally wise
not roster wise but just they're just the worst team in the league right now in the
league I mean AL East oh in the league like morale wise oh yeah okay like the butt of
the joke wise and yes you have talent but if they don't want to play for you then that
makes you a really bad team so I don't know man the Rockies have a case Rockies have a
case there's nothing to look for I forget the Rockies are an actual MLB team because
of how big of a joke they are they got to get that team out of there they just I don't
know what do you get well maybe we'll do that later how do you fix the Rockies but that's
a question I can never I don't think I don't think we'll get any viewers on that episode
how can we fix the Rockies but I I don't know what the Dodgers are doing is bad for baseball
only time will tell as a fan of a small market team it is frustrating because the O's certainly
I feel I can't compete with this aside from drafting extraordinarily well and bringing
up beyond talent but it will make it the bigger they are the harder they fall it will make
it all the sweeter if and when some team can knock them off next year but I mean the odds
are stacked against them I don't know how big of a favorite they are to win the World
Series but I would if it's plus money I would take the Dodgers right now so anything else
you got for the people before we let them go go Dodgers I guess I guess so well thanks
for listening everybody we will be out with our tier list episode here soon but we had
to drop and talk about the Dodgers abusing free agency so we appreciate you guys listening
I hope you all have a great week and we will catch you guys next time.