Episode 505: Saints, Rule 5 and Nelson Cruz
Gleeman and The Geek
John Bonnes
4.8 • 808 Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2020
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
Aaron and John talk about the Minnesota Twins' affiliation with the St. Paul Saints finally becoming official, the other restructuring of the minor leagues, losing two players in the Rule 5 draft, trying to make sense of the Matt Wisler departure, and the latest on Nelson Cruz's contract talks.
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| 0:00.0 | Green Man and the Geek |
| 0:11.5 | Green Man and the Geek |
| 0:14.0 | Green Man and the Geek |
| 0:18.0 | Talking baseball every week and the geek And welcome to And the geek |
| 0:21.6 | Saints edition |
| 0:23.6 | And just sort of |
| 0:36.6 | Saints edition and just sort of a gradual preheating of the hot stove market edition. |
| 0:43.9 | Preheating, you expect a, you kind of a quick thing. This is sort of a maybe hot plate |
| 0:49.9 | edition. Yeah, somebody preheated the oven but to like 12 degrees. |
| 0:56.4 | So it's like, yeah, it's hot, but you won't burn yourself. |
| 1:00.7 | Yeah, it's always weird because we, it's like the NFL free agency. |
| 1:05.5 | I don't know how hockey goes, but NFL free agency all happens in like a weekend. |
| 1:10.8 | Right. And even NBA free agency in a normal year is like a month long. |
| 1:15.9 | But this year's NBA was like a week long because there was no off season, basically. |
| 1:21.4 | And so now you have NFL and NBA that all happen in like the span of 96 hours. |
| 1:24.2 | And then you just have baseball that is just a four months. |
| 1:29.3 | I'm trying to guess if that, I'm trying to, I wonder if that has to do with sort of the salary cap. |
| 1:30.8 | Yeah. |
| 1:31.2 | The fact that it becomes a little more, with only limited amounts to spend, you're just |
| 1:36.7 | trying to grab something real quick while you can, et cetera. |
| 1:39.4 | Whereas with, the fact that there is no real salary cap means sort of the market kind of |
| 1:43.8 | establish, takes a little time to. Right. And with NBA, because there's not only a salary cap, but there's a cap on individual player salaries. Right. So it's like, you know, let's say like Bryce Harper, which dragged on for months and months, he wanted $300 million, he got it from the two off season, or last off season, I guess, whatever it was. |
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