E-Rod kills trade to Dodgers. Did Harris overplay his hand?
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🗓️ 1 August 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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The Tigers had an agreement in place to trade Rodriguez to the Dodgers, but the veteran lefty used his 10-team no-trade clause that includes the NL West leaders to kill the deal, according to ESPN.
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| 0:00.0 | One hour down and well looked like there was a deal in place breaking news Eduardo Rodriguez |
| 0:14.0 | uses his no trade clause |
| 0:17.6 | kills a deal that would have sent him to the Dodgers deal was in place Jeff passon |
| 0:22.6 | ESPN reporting Erod said no thank you I don't think I will join the Dodgers who are a world |
| 0:29.2 | series contender |
| 0:32.6 | yeah so now with an hour to go Scott Harris has to scramble you back yourself into a corner |
| 0:38.8 | deadlines in 59 minutes can you get the Orioles back on the phone can you still land a top 100 |
| 0:45.3 | prospect what about the braves can you get |
| 0:50.1 | Von Grissom majorly ready in field or what Rico this was the fear you wait till the very end |
| 0:58.6 | something out of your control happens now what now what here's the thing they made the deal |
| 1:12.4 | for everybody saying Scott Harris was doing nothing he was working the phones Dodgers have a bunch |
| 1:20.2 | of top prospects mm-hmm sounds like you were gonna be happy now I guess rule of thumb you |
| 1:27.3 | probably should have talked to Erod and may sure this has just come up now that he was okay |
| 1:32.8 | because you got to think dude we're sending you to a contender yeah that's what I don't get it's |
| 1:37.2 | you can opt out if you're unhappy in LA for a couple months they don't win a world series the |
| 1:41.3 | beaches aren't to your liking you opt out and you become a free agent right but you're you have |
| 1:46.8 | a chance of we're we're gifting you a ring okay pretty good shot at it we're not we're not |
| 1:53.5 | sending you to the A's right okay we're sending you to a contender right everybody else waived |
| 2:00.2 | their shirts everybody waived their no trade clause and said yeah you know what I'll go ahead and |
| 2:05.6 | take this I'll be a rental player he decided he was not going to now you got to go to the plan B |
| 2:14.5 | the only problem is I now know I'm your plan B and you're gonna get what I give you leverage |
| 2:23.8 | cut now you had all the leverage when you told me no I have all the leverage now so remember all |
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