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This week, host Darragh McDonald is joined by Tim Dierkes of MLB Trade Rumors to discuss…
- Shohei Ohtani’s secretive free agency (0:45)
- The Jarred Kelenic trade between the Mariners and Braves (13:40)
Plus, we answer your questions, including…
- If the Dodgers miss on Ohtani, what’s the next logical move? Will the Dodgers be interested in Jung Hoo Lee? (23:40)
- Contracts are getting completely out of hand. Now Ohtani might pull in a $600 million dollar deal this week. Will the runaway inflation of MLB contracts sink the sport soon? It seems like fans will take the brunt of the costs and eventually turn away. (28:00)
- Does anyone from MLB trade rumors attend the winter meetings? (32:35)
Check out our past episodes!
- Sonny Gray, Kenta Maeda and Offseason Questions – listen here
- Aaron Nola, Non-Tenders And The Pace Of The Offseason – listen here
- Top Trade Candidates, Bryce Harper at First Base and the Braves’ Raising Payroll – listen here
The podcast intro and outro song “So Long” is provided courtesy of the band Showoff. Check out their Facebook page here!
Buster Olney has a great piece on ESPN.com about how Ohtani’s whole secrecy thing is a huge missed opportunity to have some fun with it- for everybody. Couldn’t agree more.
It is a good piece. Ohtani proving to be not worth the investment.
Olney couldn’t be more wrong. As usual. Ohtani is intensifying the interest in what is going to happen. Its a masterclass in sports marketing he took from LeBron James.
Just because Olney is fighting to be relevant and failing, doesn’t mean he should lash out at players who do not want to be part of his circus.
Did you read the piece? Because if you did, you missed the point. And he didn’t “lash out” at him at all. Read it and then spew.
I couldn’t disagree more. I thought it was very poor form from Buster Olney.
The Seattle Times is reporting the Mariner owners are having huge financial issues with their team-owned “Root Sports” broadcast empire and are not approving any large expenditures.
With Phillies out and now Seattle, a Snell reunion with SD may happen! Bringing back Sanchez even increases the odds more. A trade of Soto – it’s getting closer. Then if they miss out on Yam – 99.99%.
What it sounds like to me is that Mariners ownership is worried about some of their Root Sports revenues going away and not being as profitable as they have been. It doesn’t look like there’s any chance of the Mariners actually losing money. They’re just in danger of not being one of the most profitable teams in MLB.
I’m not sympathetic.
Julio and Cal need to jump ship while they are young and fairly healthy and get with a team that is truly committed to going to the World Series.
I need John Stanton range targets. This is so LAME!!
This is dumb, MLB already said they will “insure” up to 80% of the TV rights contracts in play. Seems to me that the best course of action would be for teams to lean into MLBTV option and stop blacking out games to teach a lesson to theise cable providers. You want black out rights, you have to pay us a percentage and keep it on the basic package or we walk.
Because in the end it’s all about Ohtani.
Good luck winning anything with guys like that on your team.
Buster Onley has always been one of the most entitled, biased baseball voices out there.
I miss good ol Timmy Kurkjian
I’m guessing you agree with me that the Olney piece was poor form.
Oh well…. Guess that Mariner Championship window was actually a peephole, and the door just slammed on every Mariner player and fans face.
#timefornewownership
46%
A lot is riding on Dipoto & company this time around. I would agree the cost of payroll is outrageous, how about 500 hundred million for Otani maybe its about time somebodies figure out a way to right this. Instead of ever increasing cost pass on to the fans. There needs to do better than a luxury tax in place for teams that can afford to break the bank, and have an equal playing field for all instead of teams that can circumvent this cost as in overrun. As money is to pitching you can never have enough so it does seem. Bytheway don’t trade Gilbert.
If the 150m budget being floated is real, they can still piece together a solid wildcard contender based on their current payroll. It would be nice to see them try and go bigger, but I think that they have the resources to put together a decent team at that payroll if they’re creative about it.
Not when they trade down Suarez to Urias at 3B, everytime he hits a ball to LF, Rick Rizz and Dave Simms are going to sound like Bob Uecker when Willie Mays Hayes tried to bulk up in Major League 2.
MLBtrade – “Contracts are getting completely out of hand. Now Ohtani might pull in a $600 million dollar deal this week. Will the runaway inflation of MLB contracts sink the sport soon? It seems like fans will take the brunt of the costs and eventually turn away.”
MLB is ‘entertainment’, and yes, at some point the consumer will turn their $ elsewhere.