00:00Do we have any big Yamamoto guys?
00:04Are you hearing anything as far as the international guys that can be signed or no?
00:12Maybe a player or two, but nothing.
00:14Chris is bringing up sites.
00:15There's no mega $200 million guy.
00:19And if you think about it,
00:21EMI really hurt the market last year by signing for $100 million
00:28and being as bad as he was,
00:31I think you're going to find the overseas market,
00:35I think, moving forward for a bit,
00:37somewhere in between the steal that Murakami was
00:40and the bust that EMI was.
00:41So I think the teams are being a little bit more careful about the signing.
00:45And by the way, Sasaki,
00:46I'm not sure that he's even worth the money that the Dodgers signed him to.
00:50So we're talking about like a 50-50 proposition
00:53and not knowing what the salary cap is,
00:56if there's a salary cap,
00:57not knowing if there's a salary floor.
00:58It's really hard for these teams to operate.
01:00But the sense that I get from, you know,
01:03just reading articles and talking to people, Joe,
01:06is that the month of November
01:08is going to be the most exciting month of November
01:10free agency we've ever had in baseball.
01:12I think we're going to have a ton of fun
01:13talking about a lot of signings.
01:15I think a lot are coming.
01:18Might as well get them in under the gun, right?
01:20Before anything changes.
01:23Yeah.
01:23And get them all interested here.
01:26Do you think there's going to be fire sales here, Craig,
01:30this year coming up here?
01:32I mean, are the Giants dismount?
01:34I just read an article earlier today
01:37that the Reds are absolutely open to trading
01:41Ellie Dela Cruz there.
01:42So are we getting those kinds of things
01:46where franchises are like,
01:47time to hit the reset button and it's let's move on?
01:51Yeah.
01:51I mean, look, the team that you and I have talked about
01:53throughout is Houston.
01:54That's the big question.
01:55I think the Astros are absolutely the big,
01:57the big, they haven't hired a new manager.
02:00So I think the direction they go
02:03in the next few weeks will determine a lot
02:05if they move Hayter.
02:07And then all of a sudden you start to talk about
02:09would they move Jordan?
02:10Jordan and then, oh my gosh, could it,
02:13is it possible that Jose Altuve could not be an Astro?
02:17Like that's like,
02:17like unthinkable with the amount of years
02:19that he's played for them.
02:20So I think that to me is the team to watch
02:22just because they're in a pickle right now
02:25where they don't appear to be the favorite
02:27to win the division anymore,
02:28but yet they have enough talent to still compete.
02:31So that's, that's a dynamic that we'll have to learn
02:34here in the next couple of weeks.
02:36Yeah, and I guess the biggest name
02:38that people are going to wait for is Tariq Scoble, right?
02:42But again, there's only, how many teams would be able to,
02:47if he's going to sign prior to all the craziness here,
02:51there's only one or two places he can actually land
02:53that would afford to pay him, right?
02:55Well, well, I mean, I hate to say it,
03:00but, you know, Otani kind of set the barometer
03:03for things that I don't think will ever be done again
03:05in a month from now.
03:07But Joe, who is to stop somebody from giving Otani the,
03:11you know, giving Scoble a deferral deal,
03:14you know, an Otani deal and defer the money
03:16for the rest of his life.
03:17I don't think you're ever going to be able to do that
03:19with this new CBA.
03:20But if you're a baseball team, aren't you,
03:23shouldn't you be the smart team and say,
03:26you know what, we'll give Scoble his 300
03:27and we'll defer a hundred because we can right now
03:31and we can't in a month from now.
03:33So don't be surprised to see something like that
03:35pop up with some team.
03:37One or two teams, that feels light.
03:40I think four or five.
03:42You know, Philadelphia doesn't seem like
03:44they're in a position because they have a lot
03:45of pitching already, but, you know,
03:47naturally the Yankees pitching has been pretty good.
03:49So it would have to be like an offensive team
03:52that needs some extra pitching.
03:53Would Scoble play for Toronto?
03:55That's a good example.
03:56Would he be willing to do that?
03:58I think that should be a team
04:00that probably could use him,
04:02put him at the front of his rotation,
04:03at their rotation.
04:04Baltimore, would Baltimore Joe do a 250
04:08and defer a hundred, you know?
04:10Like the Orioles all of a sudden now have Scoble.
04:12That changes the division.
04:13That changes everything for them.
04:15So, like, yes, you're right.
04:17In the end, probably going to be one of the teams
04:19that you suspect.
04:19But I wouldn't rule anything out
04:21just because teams can get creative
04:23for the final time, I think,
04:24in baseball history, free agent history.
