00:00Kyle Tucker, who, you know, was arguably the top free agent out there this offseason, waited three months to just go to the Dodgers.
00:07Like, I mean, couldn't we have done this in day one and just got this over with?
00:11But I suppose didn't love that 10-year deal that Toronto had reportedly out there for him and wants to put himself back in a position maybe coming off the year that he had last year to go back to free agency in a few years.
00:23I'm not really sure.
00:25But, yeah, I am not, Jack, I am not a fan of this move.
00:29Like, I'm also not a fan if they get a Freddy Peralta, too.
00:31Like, I think there comes a point where enough is enough.
00:34I would say, Jack, that to the Dodgers' credit, as I've stated here and everywhere else, they're playing within the rules that they have been given.
00:42But I do think that, in my opinion, in my opinion only, that we have a broken system here that's going to take some fixing here because this is now getting out of control, in my opinion.
00:52Yeah, I won't speak to the system itself, but I will say I'm not a fan of it either.
00:57Like, I'm not a fan of them just paying more money than everybody else.
01:01And I was trying to walk through, you know, the other cases of them acquiring superstars.
01:06And I thought about Freddie Freeman.
01:08That was not the case because Freddie Freeman was kind of giving Atlanta the opportunity to bring him back.
01:13They opted not to, so he goes to the Dodgers.
01:15Mookie Betts was traded to the Dodgers.
01:17Tyler Glass now was traded to the Dodgers.
01:19Blake Snell was a big money move.
01:21The one that this equates closest to for me is Tanner Scott last year, as weird as that sounds.
01:27And Tanner Scott, a bullpen arm for them, that was incredibly underwhelming.
01:30But the reason I say that is everybody wanted Tanner Scott.
01:3530 teams are in the market for a very good left-handed reliever.
01:39But it was the Dodgers that said, you know what?
01:41Let's just give this guy $70 million and nobody else is going to come close to that and we'll have him and he's ours.
01:46And if he's disappointing, whatever, it's okay.
01:47We take our lumps and move on and we sign Edwin Diaz as well.
01:51To me, this is that because there were so many teams that wanted Kyle Tucker's services.
01:56And the Cubs had him last year.
01:57The Cubs were possibly thinking about a reunion during the 25 season.
02:01It didn't seem like this offseason they were signaling that they were pursuing that.
02:05But the Blue Jays could have used Kyle Tucker.
02:07The Mets could have used Kyle Tucker.
02:09The Yankees could have used Kyle Tucker.
02:10The Giants, the Red Sox.
02:11And then the Dodgers come in at $60 million a year.
02:15What are you supposed to do with that?
02:17And I don't know.
02:17The argument that I dislike, to be honest with you, is, oh, it's not a Dodger problem.
02:24It's a 29-other-team problem for not forking up the money to be hyper-competitive in baseball.
02:29And it's starting to be a Dodger problem because they're just hoarding all of the talent right now.
02:34And listen, if you got it, spend it.
02:36And that's clearly what they're doing.
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