Julio Rodriguez, Big Money, and trying to strike oil early; Why the MLBPA wants minor league players; What happened to Josh Hader? (Episode 650)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Baseball, Sports, Business

4.5 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Today’s word of the day is ‘scratch the surface’ as in looking for a diamond in the rough as in the early stages of talent as in the Seattle Mariners signed Julio Rodriguez to a massive contract. He’s played just 109 games in his career. A rookie. A $200M deal that could reach $470M. So many clauses. So many details. This new trend is going to hurt plenty teams. Fernando Tatis? Wander Franco? Michael Harris? Ronald Acuna? Luis Roberts? (17:25) Are minor league players joining the Major league union? Maybe! What happens if this happens? What would MLB do? Contraction! (30:55) Review: Top Gun: Maverick. (34:55) Josh Hader is broken. Hader was traded to the San Diego Padres and he stinks. He has a 25.71 ERA with the Padres. What the heck happened? Remember Tyler Glasnow? Well, the Rays just signed him to a short extension before he entered free agency. He is rehabbing from TJ surgery. Why would they do this? To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is the end of the video.
0:20.4	Scratched the surface is the nothing personal word of the day.
0:24.8	This Monday, August 29, 2022, and we've got quite a bit to get to, but we're starting
0:31.1	with Julio Rodriguez and scratching the surface.
0:34.4	Scratching the surface means that you believe you have found gold diamonds in the rough where
0:41.9	you take it out of the ground and you see a little dirt, but you say, oh, there must be
0:45.8	something great under here.
0:47.1	Like a frickin iceberg, scratching the surface is when you sign a player and you think you've
0:52.6	gotten the best deal because you're underpain him because he's going to outperform the
0:57.3	deal because you know something that no one else knows.
1:00.1	You know that he's only scratched the surface of his talent of his skill, but when in reality,
1:05.5	what the deals are these days, there's no scratching the surface.
1:09.8	You've got right down to the core.
1:12.2	We're talking about the Seattle Mariners player, the 21 year old Julio Rodriguez, who has played
1:17.7	108 games, now it's 109, but 108 games or 110, whatever, after 108 games, 4, 6, 9, after
1:28.1	108 games, that's it.
1:30.6	That's not even a full year.
1:31.8	He's a rookie.
1:33.4	The Seattle Mariners made an announcement on Friday where I looked and I said, this can't
1:40.5	be true.
1:42.0	Are you telling me that the Seattle Mariners, wait for it, are giving him an eight year
1:47.7	$1470 million deal?
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