1 00:00:01,600 --> 00:00:04,840 Speaker 1: From the berkshears to the sound from wherever you live 2 00:00:04,920 --> 00:00:09,120 Speaker 1: in MLB America. This is Inside the Parker. You give 3 00:00:09,200 --> 00:00:11,479 Speaker 1: us twenty two minutes and we'll give you the scoop 4 00:00:11,520 --> 00:00:15,400 Speaker 1: on major League Baseball. Now here's Baseball Hall of Fame 5 00:00:15,520 --> 00:00:18,959 Speaker 1: voter number seven, Rob Parker. 6 00:00:21,120 --> 00:00:22,320 Speaker 2: Welcome into the podcast. 7 00:00:22,360 --> 00:00:26,400 Speaker 3: I'm your host, Rob Parker, with a spring training edition 8 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:30,040 Speaker 3: of Inside the Parker. And coming up, we'll talk with 9 00:00:30,200 --> 00:00:32,240 Speaker 3: super agent Scott Boris. 10 00:00:32,400 --> 00:00:35,080 Speaker 2: We'll do a deep dive on the off season, the. 11 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:36,960 Speaker 3: Big contracts you were able to get hit, some of 12 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:40,080 Speaker 3: his clients, and some details in that. We'll do that, 13 00:00:40,400 --> 00:00:45,400 Speaker 3: plus getting Robbed, Why baseball is better that and much more. 14 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:46,440 Speaker 2: Let's go. 15 00:00:48,640 --> 00:00:52,639 Speaker 1: Better to lead off it's getting robbed and keep them out. 16 00:00:52,760 --> 00:00:55,640 Speaker 1: Rob's hot take, and the three biggest stories in Major 17 00:00:55,760 --> 00:00:58,640 Speaker 1: League Baseball. Number one. 18 00:00:59,120 --> 00:01:00,960 Speaker 3: All right, I'm just going to go on the record 19 00:01:01,080 --> 00:01:04,800 Speaker 3: and I'm not gonna mince any words. I know on paper, 20 00:01:04,800 --> 00:01:07,360 Speaker 3: the Dodgers look ridiculous. They spend a ton of money 21 00:01:07,400 --> 00:01:11,080 Speaker 3: in the offseason, we know it. Shohel Tani's gonna be 22 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:15,800 Speaker 3: on the mound and hitting this year, and Mookie Betts 23 00:01:15,840 --> 00:01:18,600 Speaker 3: has moved a shortstop they picked up a ton of pitching. 24 00:01:19,760 --> 00:01:22,200 Speaker 2: Blake Snell. I just it's just too many guys to 25 00:01:22,280 --> 00:01:22,800 Speaker 2: even mention. 26 00:01:23,040 --> 00:01:26,920 Speaker 3: Right, they got all the international players that they wanted, 27 00:01:27,360 --> 00:01:30,600 Speaker 3: They filled their roster. I mean, they look like they 28 00:01:30,600 --> 00:01:32,600 Speaker 3: should win one hundred and forty games out of the 29 00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:34,520 Speaker 3: one sixty two just on paper. 30 00:01:35,720 --> 00:01:39,160 Speaker 2: But I got news for you. Baseball doesn't work like that. 31 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:42,560 Speaker 3: And I know they're gonna be the betting favorites and 32 00:01:42,600 --> 00:01:45,119 Speaker 3: everybody's gonna pile up money the Dodgers gonna win. How 33 00:01:45,160 --> 00:01:47,880 Speaker 3: in the world can they not win. I'm gonna tell 34 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:51,800 Speaker 3: you how they're not gonna win. Baseball doesn't work like that. 35 00:01:52,960 --> 00:01:57,000 Speaker 3: The last team to repeat the New York Freaking Yankees 36 00:01:57,040 --> 00:02:00,200 Speaker 3: twenty five years ago when they won three in a 37 00:02:00,280 --> 00:02:05,360 Speaker 3: row ninety eight, ninety nine, two thousand. 38 00:02:05,520 --> 00:02:06,800 Speaker 2: That was a long time ago. 39 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:13,680 Speaker 3: The last National League team to repeat is even more ridiculous, 40 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:19,200 Speaker 3: the nineteen seventy five seventy six Cincinnati Reds, the Big 41 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:22,040 Speaker 3: Red Machine. How has that not happened? With all the 42 00:02:22,040 --> 00:02:26,959 Speaker 3: great teams that were around, think about it. The Atlanta Braves, 43 00:02:28,720 --> 00:02:33,480 Speaker 3: San Francisco Giants, they won three World Series, never repeated. 44 00:02:34,639 --> 00:02:35,839 Speaker 2: We saw it last year. 45 00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:37,600 Speaker 3: Can I give you an example, and this is not 46 00:02:37,680 --> 00:02:43,320 Speaker 3: about repeating, but getting to the World Series. Last year, 47 00:02:44,080 --> 00:02:47,240 Speaker 3: and I said this on MLB Network before the season started, 48 00:02:48,080 --> 00:02:51,240 Speaker 3: that both the Rangers and the Arizona Diamondbacks wouldn't even 49 00:02:51,280 --> 00:02:53,160 Speaker 3: make the playoffs. And they were both in the World 50 00:02:53,200 --> 00:02:55,200 Speaker 3: Series in twenty twenty three. 51 00:02:55,280 --> 00:02:55,600 Speaker 2: Guess what. 52 00:02:57,360 --> 00:03:01,639 Speaker 3: Neither team made the playoffs forget about returning to the 53 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:06,040 Speaker 3: World Series. Didn't even make the playoffs. So it looks 54 00:03:06,080 --> 00:03:08,600 Speaker 3: like it's gonna be Dodgers all day. They won a 55 00:03:08,639 --> 00:03:11,600 Speaker 3: lot of games, but that's just not how it works. 56 00:03:11,720 --> 00:03:15,160 Speaker 3: Remember last year, that Dodger team that won the World Series. 57 00:03:16,320 --> 00:03:18,840 Speaker 3: They were this close from being beat by the Poddres. 58 00:03:19,919 --> 00:03:23,440 Speaker 3: Padres had them up three to one. They choked. Padres 59 00:03:23,440 --> 00:03:25,960 Speaker 3: went like two and a half games without scoring a run. 60 00:03:26,400 --> 00:03:28,679 Speaker 2: It was unheard of with that lineup. 61 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:32,639 Speaker 3: Do you remember in Game four they bludgeoned the Dodgers 62 00:03:32,639 --> 00:03:33,520 Speaker 3: at Dodgers Stadium. 63 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:34,880 Speaker 2: It was like a softball game. 64 00:03:36,440 --> 00:03:39,560 Speaker 3: My point is in the series, five game series, seven 65 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:42,080 Speaker 3: game series, you can get beat. 66 00:03:42,520 --> 00:03:43,720 Speaker 2: That's why it's so hard. 67 00:03:43,880 --> 00:03:46,040 Speaker 3: Even he could be the best team in the world. 68 00:03:46,840 --> 00:03:49,600 Speaker 3: The Dodgers won a ton of games the last ten years, 69 00:03:50,120 --> 00:03:50,480 Speaker 3: and they. 70 00:03:50,400 --> 00:03:52,040 Speaker 2: Have two World Series to show for it. 71 00:03:52,640 --> 00:03:55,800 Speaker 3: How many times have we seen disappointments in the postseason 72 00:03:55,840 --> 00:03:59,680 Speaker 3: by the Dodgers A ton? But Washington Nationals were down 73 00:03:59,720 --> 00:04:03,520 Speaker 3: two on twenty nineteen to the Dodgers won the next 74 00:04:03,560 --> 00:04:05,160 Speaker 3: three games, including Game. 75 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:05,880 Speaker 2: Five in LA. 76 00:04:06,280 --> 00:04:10,000 Speaker 3: They went on to win the World Series. So that's 77 00:04:10,040 --> 00:04:13,120 Speaker 3: why I'm saying to you, I'm not convinced that the 78 00:04:13,200 --> 00:04:16,040 Speaker 3: Dodgers are going to win the World Series. I'm not 79 00:04:16,120 --> 00:04:18,320 Speaker 3: making my prediction yet. We still got a little time 80 00:04:18,360 --> 00:04:22,480 Speaker 3: and I'll do that, but mark my words, the Dodgers 81 00:04:22,480 --> 00:04:25,120 Speaker 3: will not nt win the World Series. 82 00:04:25,600 --> 00:04:26,359 Speaker 1: Number two. 83 00:04:26,960 --> 00:04:29,360 Speaker 3: The Angels have a plan. They've always had a plan. 84 00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:31,200 Speaker 3: It doesn't always seem to work out for them, but 85 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:35,840 Speaker 3: they have a plan. Mike Trout is moving from centerfield. 86 00:04:36,279 --> 00:04:39,720 Speaker 3: The three time MVP is moving from centerfield to right 87 00:04:39,800 --> 00:04:43,200 Speaker 3: field in a move they believe that will help them 88 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:49,200 Speaker 3: stay healthy and help them have a long career. Trout 89 00:04:49,240 --> 00:04:53,359 Speaker 3: is thirty three now, which is amazing. Was limited to 90 00:04:53,560 --> 00:04:58,640 Speaker 3: just twenty nine games last season, had his left knee 91 00:04:58,680 --> 00:05:00,120 Speaker 3: surgically repaired twice. 92 00:05:00,800 --> 00:05:05,240 Speaker 2: You know, so it was bad. It was just another injury. 93 00:05:04,839 --> 00:05:07,960 Speaker 3: Play gear for Trout, who played in only thirty six 94 00:05:08,040 --> 00:05:10,400 Speaker 3: games in twenty twenty one. That was because of a 95 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:13,640 Speaker 3: calf injury. He did play in one hundred and nineteen 96 00:05:13,680 --> 00:05:17,919 Speaker 3: games in twenty twenty two and eighty two games in 97 00:05:18,640 --> 00:05:23,600 Speaker 3: twenty twenty three because of a fracture. So it has 98 00:05:23,720 --> 00:05:26,479 Speaker 3: been a bumpy road. He's done so much in the 99 00:05:26,480 --> 00:05:29,479 Speaker 3: beginning of his career that he's going to be good 100 00:05:29,800 --> 00:05:31,800 Speaker 3: legacy wise long term. 101 00:05:32,320 --> 00:05:34,480 Speaker 2: But it's a shame. And I don't know. 102 00:05:34,720 --> 00:05:38,279 Speaker 3: I mean, sometimes guys become injury prone and it doesn't 103 00:05:38,320 --> 00:05:40,720 Speaker 3: matter where you put him. You know, you could make 104 00:05:40,800 --> 00:05:43,080 Speaker 3: him just be a DH and he still can wind 105 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:46,640 Speaker 3: up getting hurt. He's been hurt so much it's hard 106 00:05:46,680 --> 00:05:49,720 Speaker 3: to imagine that that's all of a sudden gonna stop 107 00:05:50,440 --> 00:05:53,680 Speaker 3: because he's going to be in right field for some reason, 108 00:05:53,680 --> 00:05:57,240 Speaker 3: and I get centerfield jumping over the fence, diving catches. 109 00:05:57,560 --> 00:06:01,760 Speaker 3: You're playing both left center and right center. All those 110 00:06:01,800 --> 00:06:04,760 Speaker 3: balls are yours. So it will cut down a little bit. 111 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:12,960 Speaker 3: But I'm just not sure that that's going to turn 112 00:06:13,000 --> 00:06:19,960 Speaker 3: off the injury injury wagon that has followed Mike Trout's, 113 00:06:20,760 --> 00:06:25,240 Speaker 3: you know, Hall of Fame career, because it just seems 114 00:06:25,279 --> 00:06:28,839 Speaker 3: like he just cannot stay healthy. And for the record, 115 00:06:28,839 --> 00:06:33,000 Speaker 3: Trout has played seventeen career games in right field one 116 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:36,440 Speaker 3: hundred and twenty four and left, but of course he's 117 00:06:36,440 --> 00:06:40,000 Speaker 3: been exclusively a center fielder for most of his career. 118 00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:43,840 Speaker 3: This will be interesting to see. We all want to 119 00:06:43,839 --> 00:06:47,040 Speaker 3: see Mike Trout healthy. Can we just watch and see 120 00:06:47,040 --> 00:06:50,200 Speaker 3: this great player maybe you know, have a full season, 121 00:06:50,279 --> 00:06:53,680 Speaker 3: play one hundred and thirty five forty games, get back 122 00:06:53,720 --> 00:06:58,039 Speaker 3: to being a good player player we pay attention to. 123 00:06:58,720 --> 00:07:01,920 Speaker 3: He's really been buried to where we don't even you know, 124 00:07:02,120 --> 00:07:05,240 Speaker 3: figure out or ask what Mike Trout's doing. So hopefully 125 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:07,120 Speaker 3: this will be a change for the Angels, but you 126 00:07:07,160 --> 00:07:10,280 Speaker 3: know what, nothing seems to work out for the Angels. 127 00:07:10,720 --> 00:07:13,480 Speaker 2: The snake bit number three. 128 00:07:13,640 --> 00:07:17,080 Speaker 3: The New York Yankees have changed their facial hair policy 129 00:07:17,200 --> 00:07:20,880 Speaker 3: that they held for a long time, and it's about time. 130 00:07:22,120 --> 00:07:24,360 Speaker 2: And you know, I've read some comments from people. 131 00:07:24,440 --> 00:07:26,960 Speaker 3: People always thought that was cool that the Yankees kind 132 00:07:26,960 --> 00:07:30,800 Speaker 3: of had no player was bigger than the pinstripes or 133 00:07:30,800 --> 00:07:34,080 Speaker 3: the tradition that they had, and everybody had to conform 134 00:07:34,160 --> 00:07:38,520 Speaker 3: and be a Yankee, and that sounds good, but it 135 00:07:38,600 --> 00:07:39,360 Speaker 3: was never fair. 136 00:07:39,400 --> 00:07:42,640 Speaker 2: It was never fair. Especially for the black players. 137 00:07:42,520 --> 00:07:45,640 Speaker 3: On a team. And I'm gonna tell you why. And 138 00:07:45,680 --> 00:07:47,880 Speaker 3: I don't know if people really know this unless you're black. 139 00:07:49,240 --> 00:07:55,400 Speaker 3: The problem with shaving is that for black men, the 140 00:07:55,480 --> 00:07:58,480 Speaker 3: reason that you see most black men with a goatee, 141 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:04,360 Speaker 3: a beer, a mustag, some facial hair is because our 142 00:08:04,520 --> 00:08:09,960 Speaker 3: hair is curly, and so when you shave, the hair 143 00:08:11,040 --> 00:08:13,520 Speaker 3: curls underneath the skin. If you ever look at black 144 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:15,600 Speaker 3: guys right who will clean shade, they see they got 145 00:08:15,680 --> 00:08:20,280 Speaker 3: razor bumps, shaving bumps. That's what that comes from. Most 146 00:08:20,320 --> 00:08:23,520 Speaker 3: white guys don't have that. Or people have straight hair 147 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:26,240 Speaker 3: because they can cut their hair off, it grows back 148 00:08:26,280 --> 00:08:31,960 Speaker 3: out straight. The black hair curls underneath the skin, and 149 00:08:32,000 --> 00:08:35,920 Speaker 3: that's why you'll see black guys with a shaving bumps 150 00:08:35,960 --> 00:08:37,640 Speaker 3: underneath their skin. It's not that they don't know not 151 00:08:37,679 --> 00:08:40,679 Speaker 3: a shave or they did something wrong. It's that the 152 00:08:40,800 --> 00:08:45,240 Speaker 3: hair is ingrown hair underneath their skin, which forms a bump. 153 00:08:46,480 --> 00:08:49,240 Speaker 2: So that's why the policy was never really fair. 154 00:08:49,320 --> 00:08:52,480 Speaker 3: I was always surprised that a group of black players 155 00:08:52,559 --> 00:08:55,160 Speaker 3: like a Reggie Jackson in some Dave Winfield or whatever 156 00:08:55,240 --> 00:09:00,319 Speaker 3: could not speak up to that and inform George Stearin Burner, 157 00:09:00,400 --> 00:09:04,040 Speaker 3: the late owner and people in charge there. The reason 158 00:09:04,080 --> 00:09:08,520 Speaker 3: why black men often wear facial hair not all. I'm 159 00:09:08,559 --> 00:09:11,080 Speaker 3: not saying all, because obviously there's some clean shaven black 160 00:09:11,120 --> 00:09:13,920 Speaker 3: guys who are able to do it. But if you 161 00:09:13,960 --> 00:09:18,520 Speaker 3: ask most black guys about shaving, it's the razor bumps 162 00:09:19,320 --> 00:09:23,439 Speaker 3: that they don't want, and so having hair or beard 163 00:09:23,559 --> 00:09:26,920 Speaker 3: or goateee kind of cuts down on that. It's not 164 00:09:26,960 --> 00:09:29,960 Speaker 3: as bad on your skin. But I think this is 165 00:09:29,960 --> 00:09:32,960 Speaker 3: a good move for the Yankees. We're gonna give Devin 166 00:09:33,000 --> 00:09:37,160 Speaker 3: Williams some credit. Came over from the Brewers their new 167 00:09:37,320 --> 00:09:42,319 Speaker 3: ace closer, and he had the beard. And the weird 168 00:09:42,360 --> 00:09:45,360 Speaker 3: thing is the Yankees didn't make the announcement until after 169 00:09:45,440 --> 00:09:48,559 Speaker 3: Devin Williams shaved, So now you could grow it back 170 00:09:49,480 --> 00:09:52,760 Speaker 3: and look like the Menacing closer he was with the Brewers. 171 00:09:53,360 --> 00:09:55,160 Speaker 2: Now that he's in the Bronx. 172 00:09:56,000 --> 00:10:01,120 Speaker 1: Here comes the big interview. Listen and learn so good. 173 00:10:01,760 --> 00:10:04,640 Speaker 3: We talked with super Agess Scott Boris on the radio show, 174 00:10:04,760 --> 00:10:08,120 Speaker 3: and the first question I asked him was whether or 175 00:10:08,200 --> 00:10:12,760 Speaker 3: not he was surprised that he broke show Hail Tani's 176 00:10:12,800 --> 00:10:17,120 Speaker 3: seven hundred million dollar contract mark with the deal he 177 00:10:17,160 --> 00:10:18,840 Speaker 3: got for Juan Soto. 178 00:10:23,880 --> 00:10:30,040 Speaker 4: Well, going into this the element of we have to 179 00:10:30,040 --> 00:10:33,240 Speaker 4: give one a lot of credit because we had, I believe, 180 00:10:35,000 --> 00:10:38,240 Speaker 4: since he was eighteen years old on. We've had sixty 181 00:10:38,280 --> 00:10:43,840 Speaker 4: eight meetings and certainly after we finished with the Mets, 182 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:46,520 Speaker 4: one looked at me and goes, can we just tone 183 00:10:46,559 --> 00:10:52,000 Speaker 4: that down a little bit? But it's a lot of information, 184 00:10:52,080 --> 00:10:55,440 Speaker 4: a lot of preliminary market data, a lot of historical data. 185 00:10:56,600 --> 00:10:59,120 Speaker 4: We have a thing in baseball called surplus value, which 186 00:10:59,160 --> 00:11:03,120 Speaker 4: is a value gradient that we use, and we developed 187 00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:07,000 Speaker 4: one that I did with based upon my representation. 188 00:11:06,440 --> 00:11:08,920 Speaker 1: Of bonds and a Rod and. 189 00:11:08,440 --> 00:11:11,800 Speaker 4: Their skill sets and what they did and why, so 190 00:11:11,840 --> 00:11:15,440 Speaker 4: that we could really get to him and say, these 191 00:11:15,440 --> 00:11:19,360 Speaker 4: are the valuative points we look at. And when a 192 00:11:19,400 --> 00:11:22,080 Speaker 4: player goes through that, particularly an international player, you can 193 00:11:22,160 --> 00:11:26,040 Speaker 4: imagine the number of people, which is the vast, vast majority, 194 00:11:26,760 --> 00:11:30,280 Speaker 4: that say to one, how could you turn down four 195 00:11:30,320 --> 00:11:32,719 Speaker 4: hundred and forty million dollars? And the answer is he's 196 00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:37,040 Speaker 4: getting all this information from us about perspective values, markets, 197 00:11:37,080 --> 00:11:40,920 Speaker 4: franchise values, revenues, the sport, and really what his valuation 198 00:11:41,040 --> 00:11:43,839 Speaker 4: is going to be as he goes on in his 199 00:11:43,880 --> 00:11:47,079 Speaker 4: career in year four or five and six before he's 200 00:11:47,080 --> 00:11:52,000 Speaker 4: a free agent. And then when Otani signed, and his 201 00:11:52,120 --> 00:11:57,440 Speaker 4: real evaluation is at a four hundred and sixty million 202 00:11:57,480 --> 00:12:00,599 Speaker 4: dollar evaluation. That's that's what the content, because there's a 203 00:12:00,640 --> 00:12:03,000 Speaker 4: lot of it makes two million a year for ten 204 00:12:03,080 --> 00:12:05,559 Speaker 4: years and then gets paid it much later, but the 205 00:12:06,160 --> 00:12:09,800 Speaker 4: real evaluation was around that. So everyone came to want 206 00:12:09,840 --> 00:12:16,440 Speaker 4: and said, you don't pitch Otani's an extraordinary player. He 207 00:12:16,679 --> 00:12:20,040 Speaker 4: in addition to that, he generates, you know, hundreds of 208 00:12:20,040 --> 00:12:22,480 Speaker 4: millions of dollars of revenue for his team. You don't 209 00:12:22,520 --> 00:12:28,120 Speaker 4: do that. So your chances of getting before fifty or 210 00:12:28,120 --> 00:12:34,160 Speaker 4: four sixty that that Otani got are you know, it's 211 00:12:34,240 --> 00:12:36,240 Speaker 4: just not something you're going to be able to achieve. 212 00:12:36,360 --> 00:12:38,640 Speaker 4: Will you get as much as you got from Washington? 213 00:12:39,240 --> 00:12:43,040 Speaker 4: He had to hear that for almost a full year, 214 00:12:44,720 --> 00:12:48,080 Speaker 4: you know, in and of itself, and you know it's 215 00:12:48,440 --> 00:12:50,960 Speaker 4: I give him a lot of credit. He trusted our information, 216 00:12:51,160 --> 00:12:54,880 Speaker 4: our advice and ask a lot of questions, well, if 217 00:12:54,920 --> 00:12:59,520 Speaker 4: Otani's why didn't Otani get what he was worth? Or 218 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:03,280 Speaker 4: all these things which are all the elements of how 219 00:13:03,360 --> 00:13:10,800 Speaker 4: we look at markets and evaluations and Essentially, he trusted 220 00:13:10,800 --> 00:13:14,560 Speaker 4: our data and the information and as it worked out 221 00:13:15,280 --> 00:13:17,559 Speaker 4: his credit, he was able to focus on playing and 222 00:13:18,480 --> 00:13:21,800 Speaker 4: played at a very high level. And then we had 223 00:13:21,840 --> 00:13:28,400 Speaker 4: a very strategic negotiation to arrive at really a true 224 00:13:28,400 --> 00:13:30,520 Speaker 4: expression of his market. 225 00:13:30,600 --> 00:13:34,959 Speaker 3: Now, Scott, I'll say this, he's a great player. He 226 00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:38,199 Speaker 3: could play anywhere. That transfers to anywhere when you're great 227 00:13:38,360 --> 00:13:40,800 Speaker 3: and you're a dynamic player. 228 00:13:41,520 --> 00:13:44,080 Speaker 2: But it looked like the Bronx was perfect. 229 00:13:45,120 --> 00:13:48,480 Speaker 3: Dominicans loved him there, you know, like what the right 230 00:13:48,520 --> 00:13:51,600 Speaker 3: field ports. He had a career high and home runs. 231 00:13:51,880 --> 00:13:54,440 Speaker 3: The Yankees made it to the World Series. There was 232 00:13:54,480 --> 00:13:58,160 Speaker 3: a lot to like there, the lineup and whatnot. And 233 00:13:58,240 --> 00:14:01,720 Speaker 3: I get it. The Yankees offered seven sixty the Mets 234 00:14:01,760 --> 00:14:05,880 Speaker 3: offered seven sixty five, and the Mets offered the Yankees 235 00:14:05,880 --> 00:14:08,200 Speaker 3: had offered what an extra year? Scott, Right, So it's 236 00:14:08,200 --> 00:14:11,960 Speaker 3: a different amount of money spread out over the years. Right, 237 00:14:11,960 --> 00:14:14,480 Speaker 3: the Yankees added one more year than the Mets did. 238 00:14:15,000 --> 00:14:17,560 Speaker 3: But how difficult does that when you know, take a 239 00:14:17,559 --> 00:14:20,400 Speaker 3: player who has excelled and seem to fit in a 240 00:14:20,640 --> 00:14:23,960 Speaker 3: in a circumstance or team. Because you know this, the 241 00:14:24,040 --> 00:14:26,160 Speaker 3: Mets and Yankees aren't the same, even though they're in 242 00:14:26,160 --> 00:14:27,560 Speaker 3: the same city, they're not. 243 00:14:28,800 --> 00:14:31,800 Speaker 2: What goes into that, Scott, Well. 244 00:14:31,920 --> 00:14:35,680 Speaker 4: My job is to provide information. In the end, you 245 00:14:35,720 --> 00:14:40,080 Speaker 4: know who was providing one with the economic appraisal, not 246 00:14:40,120 --> 00:14:44,400 Speaker 4: only those two teams, but you know many others. And 247 00:14:44,440 --> 00:14:48,840 Speaker 4: in each case one had to dismiss teams. I teased 248 00:14:48,880 --> 00:14:52,440 Speaker 4: him because he had uncles and his mother and everyone involved. 249 00:14:52,520 --> 00:14:56,080 Speaker 4: I called it the Supreme Court of Soto. I would 250 00:14:56,080 --> 00:15:00,680 Speaker 4: give him the information, he would go back, and what 251 00:15:00,760 --> 00:15:04,800 Speaker 4: I cared about was the baseball execution information and he 252 00:15:04,880 --> 00:15:08,760 Speaker 4: had a a near eleven hundred ohps at City Field. 253 00:15:08,880 --> 00:15:13,000 Speaker 4: He played well at Yankee Stadium. We wanted to cover 254 00:15:13,120 --> 00:15:17,360 Speaker 4: the fact of execution, doing it in optimal places, and 255 00:15:17,400 --> 00:15:20,960 Speaker 4: he had choices there and as far as what works 256 00:15:21,000 --> 00:15:24,240 Speaker 4: best for him and his family, the ability of an 257 00:15:24,280 --> 00:15:30,640 Speaker 4: owner to support a winning roster was very important to 258 00:15:30,680 --> 00:15:33,520 Speaker 4: one because he wanted to win during the fifteen years 259 00:15:33,520 --> 00:15:37,640 Speaker 4: of his contract. So all those things were considered by him. 260 00:15:37,640 --> 00:15:41,400 Speaker 4: But in the end, when you go to make these decisions, 261 00:15:41,520 --> 00:15:43,760 Speaker 4: the key point what you do. I think in being 262 00:15:44,840 --> 00:15:47,960 Speaker 4: I think in being a former player, you understand how 263 00:15:48,000 --> 00:15:51,120 Speaker 4: you play and what makes you comfortable. I trust that 264 00:15:51,200 --> 00:15:56,280 Speaker 4: one knows that, and he certainly expressed it, and also 265 00:15:56,400 --> 00:15:59,200 Speaker 4: being around his family and giving us direction. I wanted 266 00:15:59,480 --> 00:16:05,160 Speaker 4: them to make that decision. And he certainly looked at 267 00:16:05,160 --> 00:16:10,120 Speaker 4: all that information, and you know, we spent a lot 268 00:16:10,160 --> 00:16:12,960 Speaker 4: of time covering it and called me on the phone 269 00:16:13,000 --> 00:16:16,600 Speaker 4: and said, look, go ahead and work the final with 270 00:16:16,440 --> 00:16:20,560 Speaker 4: the Mets. And we all think as a family that 271 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:23,320 Speaker 4: it's best for us to do so. So I certainly 272 00:16:23,360 --> 00:16:26,600 Speaker 4: trusted in that it was very informed and has been 273 00:16:26,960 --> 00:16:30,960 Speaker 4: very methodical about his decision making, and so we we 274 00:16:31,000 --> 00:16:34,800 Speaker 4: went and executed the contract to get down with the Mets. 275 00:16:34,840 --> 00:16:37,360 Speaker 3: Hey Scott, last thing, we got a minute to go here. 276 00:16:37,880 --> 00:16:40,960 Speaker 3: Pete Alonso going back to the Mets, I thought he 277 00:16:41,040 --> 00:16:44,560 Speaker 3: got jobed a two year contract for just fifty four 278 00:16:44,640 --> 00:16:49,920 Speaker 3: million dollars. Very few players this guy plays every day. 279 00:16:50,560 --> 00:16:52,720 Speaker 3: He knows how to play in New York under the pressure. 280 00:16:52,760 --> 00:16:54,960 Speaker 3: It's some of the biggest home runs in the postseason. 281 00:16:55,560 --> 00:16:57,800 Speaker 3: And they didn't have that seven hundred and sixty five 282 00:16:57,800 --> 00:17:00,960 Speaker 3: million dollars for Juan Soto, but it's only fifty four 283 00:17:00,960 --> 00:17:02,240 Speaker 3: million for one of their own. 284 00:17:02,600 --> 00:17:04,439 Speaker 2: How tough was that for him to go back to 285 00:17:04,480 --> 00:17:06,320 Speaker 2: the Mets and for that contract. 286 00:17:06,359 --> 00:17:09,600 Speaker 4: Well, the truth of it is is that when you 287 00:17:09,640 --> 00:17:12,720 Speaker 4: are a thirty year old player in our game and 288 00:17:12,800 --> 00:17:14,800 Speaker 4: you have a qualifying offer, meaning that you have to 289 00:17:14,800 --> 00:17:18,560 Speaker 4: give up draft picks and international money, major league teams 290 00:17:18,600 --> 00:17:20,000 Speaker 4: do not want to do that. They'll do it for 291 00:17:20,040 --> 00:17:21,919 Speaker 4: a twenty six year old or a twenty seven year 292 00:17:21,920 --> 00:17:23,840 Speaker 4: old or other, but they won't do it for a 293 00:17:23,880 --> 00:17:27,679 Speaker 4: thirty year old. And I've had issues with Matt's with Snell, 294 00:17:27,800 --> 00:17:31,960 Speaker 4: with Matt Chapman, and now Pete Alonzo with Bregman. They 295 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:34,600 Speaker 4: don't want to do the long term contracts for those, 296 00:17:34,960 --> 00:17:37,960 Speaker 4: but the next year when they're free agents, then they 297 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:40,880 Speaker 4: get their true free agent value and the market because 298 00:17:40,920 --> 00:17:43,600 Speaker 4: they are truly free there's no draft picks given right 299 00:17:44,119 --> 00:17:46,959 Speaker 4: and the clubs will then go out and pay their value. 300 00:17:47,119 --> 00:17:51,040 Speaker 4: So the system is working to where they have a 301 00:17:51,080 --> 00:17:54,480 Speaker 4: restricted free agency, which Pete was under because of the 302 00:17:54,560 --> 00:17:59,679 Speaker 4: qualifying offers. And you also see people talking to me, 303 00:17:59,680 --> 00:18:02,040 Speaker 4: where are the players signed so late? Because teams go 304 00:18:02,119 --> 00:18:04,960 Speaker 4: after players that are true free agents where they don't 305 00:18:04,960 --> 00:18:07,920 Speaker 4: have to give away the draft picks, and they approach 306 00:18:08,320 --> 00:18:10,560 Speaker 4: last in the mark at the teams where they have 307 00:18:10,640 --> 00:18:12,840 Speaker 4: to give away the draft picks to sign the players. 308 00:18:12,880 --> 00:18:15,919 Speaker 4: So the Meths, obviously because he was his team of origin, 309 00:18:16,040 --> 00:18:18,520 Speaker 4: didn't have to give up draft picks, and all the 310 00:18:18,600 --> 00:18:23,040 Speaker 4: other teams involved did not bid for Pete because, after all, 311 00:18:23,320 --> 00:18:25,200 Speaker 4: they all say, why would I ever give up draft 312 00:18:25,200 --> 00:18:28,520 Speaker 4: picks when the reward of that is getting anywhere from 313 00:18:28,560 --> 00:18:30,840 Speaker 4: thirty four to fifty home runs and having a player 314 00:18:30,880 --> 00:18:33,320 Speaker 4: with one thousand ops who has key home runs in 315 00:18:33,320 --> 00:18:37,000 Speaker 4: the postseason. 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Here's 350 00:20:43,200 --> 00:20:47,000 Speaker 1: why MLB it's better than the NFL or NBA, and 351 00:20:47,080 --> 00:20:48,399 Speaker 1: it isn't even close. 352 00:20:50,480 --> 00:20:53,720 Speaker 3: Reason number one thousand and fifty five why Major League 353 00:20:53,720 --> 00:20:58,640 Speaker 3: Baseball is better than the NBA and better than the NFL. 354 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:00,560 Speaker 2: Are you ready for this? 355 00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:07,639 Speaker 3: Fox Sports put out a top ten pole biggest athletes 356 00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:09,840 Speaker 3: currently playing in New York? 357 00:21:10,920 --> 00:21:14,719 Speaker 2: Hello? Is this on? Okay? You got it? 358 00:21:15,640 --> 00:21:19,360 Speaker 3: Biggest athletes currently playing in New York? 359 00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:19,960 Speaker 2: Top ten? 360 00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:25,119 Speaker 3: How many baseball players do you think made the top four? 361 00:21:27,200 --> 00:21:29,200 Speaker 3: I'll tell you. In the top ten, it was five 362 00:21:29,720 --> 00:21:34,760 Speaker 3: baseball players. As far as top athletes currently playing in 363 00:21:34,800 --> 00:21:38,119 Speaker 3: New York, five were baseball players. 364 00:21:38,960 --> 00:21:39,880 Speaker 2: The top two. 365 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:46,000 Speaker 3: At number two Aaron Judge, at number one Juan Soto, 366 00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:50,360 Speaker 3: and number four was Francisco Lindor. Now, I'll argue all 367 00:21:50,440 --> 00:21:54,399 Speaker 3: day that there's no way Juan Soto should be ahead 368 00:21:54,400 --> 00:21:57,920 Speaker 3: of Aaron Judges. And I get the season, he's coming 369 00:21:57,960 --> 00:22:01,560 Speaker 3: off of the record contract. Aaron Judge won the American 370 00:22:01,640 --> 00:22:05,720 Speaker 3: League MVP last year. Can we stop Juan Soto still 371 00:22:05,760 --> 00:22:10,760 Speaker 3: hasn't even won an MVP. I get the money and 372 00:22:11,359 --> 00:22:14,840 Speaker 3: all that, but there's no way he's currently better than 373 00:22:14,880 --> 00:22:19,240 Speaker 3: Aaron Judge as far as the number one player playing 374 00:22:20,119 --> 00:22:23,199 Speaker 3: in New York. But this does tell you about the 375 00:22:23,240 --> 00:22:25,840 Speaker 3: baseball especially in the town like New York where I 376 00:22:25,880 --> 00:22:30,879 Speaker 3: grew up. Baseball supersedes the NFL, supersedes the NBA. 377 00:22:31,119 --> 00:22:33,560 Speaker 2: It just baseball is a way of life. Don't forget 378 00:22:34,600 --> 00:22:36,120 Speaker 2: three of three. 379 00:22:36,440 --> 00:22:40,720 Speaker 3: New York once had three baseball franchises, the New York Yankees, 380 00:22:41,000 --> 00:22:45,000 Speaker 3: the Brooklyn Dodgers, and the New York Giants, three major 381 00:22:45,080 --> 00:22:49,120 Speaker 3: league teams in one city. In two thousand and nine, 382 00:22:49,119 --> 00:22:51,440 Speaker 3: when the Mets and Yankees open up their new stadiums, 383 00:22:52,600 --> 00:22:57,280 Speaker 3: are you ready for this? Eight million people bought tickets 384 00:22:57,280 --> 00:23:01,480 Speaker 3: for both ball parks total eight million. 385 00:23:03,200 --> 00:23:05,240 Speaker 2: Hello, yes, eight million. 386 00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:08,919 Speaker 3: So I'm not surprised that baseball is heavy in this 387 00:23:09,480 --> 00:23:11,640 Speaker 3: and I get it the Giants and Jets aren't really 388 00:23:11,640 --> 00:23:12,919 Speaker 3: that good, but it doesn't matter. 389 00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:16,400 Speaker 2: I'm telling you, New York is a baseball town. 390 00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:19,240 Speaker 3: The other two baseball players that made the list number 391 00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:23,320 Speaker 3: nine John Carlos Stanton and number ten Peter Lonzo with 392 00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:23,840 Speaker 3: the Mets. 393 00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:25,320 Speaker 2: So there you have it. 394 00:23:25,720 --> 00:23:31,400 Speaker 3: And the first non baseball player was number three, Jalen Brunson, 395 00:23:31,880 --> 00:23:35,919 Speaker 3: So there you go. Another reason why baseball is better 396 00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:45,240 Speaker 3: than the other sports. In the words of New York 397 00:23:45,280 --> 00:23:48,520 Speaker 3: TV legend the late Bill Jorgensen, thanking you for your 398 00:23:48,600 --> 00:23:50,359 Speaker 3: time this time until next time. 399 00:23:50,760 --> 00:23:54,240 Speaker 2: Rob Parker out d can't Gavin. This could be an 400 00:23:54,240 --> 00:23:55,159 Speaker 2: inside the Parker. 401 00:23:55,280 --> 00:23:58,480 Speaker 3: See you next week, same bat time, from same Matt's station.