Welcome to Warrants in Beryl's Tuesday, December 10th, day two of the winter meetings here at the Hilton, Anatole.

Derek and Riper, Inoceris, here with you.

We got a bunch of great guests lined up again today.

We got Keith Law from the Athletic, joining us a bit later in the show.

Philip Stringer, International Cross Checker from the Cincinnati Reds, stops by,

and Mike Farron from MLB Network Radio.

But the good news, Eno, aside from the great guests,

we have breaking news to begin this episode. Max

Freed is headed to the Yankees. Eight years, $218 million, according to Jeff Passon of ESPN.

I didn't think Freed was going to get eight years. And we knew

the Yankees had to pivot somehow

with the money they were hoping to give to Juan Soto.

I didn't think it'd be this much for this long

four pitcher.

It's too many years

and too much money for me.

I know that

I'm pretty sure that dollars per win is going up in this free

agency and that we're talking about a number that'll settle when it's all said and done around

$12 million per win. So that'll explain some of the big numbers that you're seeing on these deals.

And so maybe some of them aren't as big overpays as they first seem. We used to be thinking about dollars per win and sort of the eight to nine to ten. I think we've crossed over that. People are, it's post-COVID now. It's we're through that. We're through, I think, some of the TV issues, like maybe that's teams just feel like that's going to be figured out.

You know, we're in the middle of a CBA. So maybe this is going to be a lurch forward. So I'm not maybe as worried about the money as I am the eight years because we're talking about a guy who's already had TJ once. He's 30 years old. And he also had, you know, forearm flexor problems, which are, you know, at least from a peer-reviewed study that I've seen, you know, preview for Tommy John.

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