MLB Opt-In or Opt-Out: Imanaga, Brewers, Trevor Story, and more! World Series viewership! Braves finances! (Episode 1376 Hour 1)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Baseball, Sports, Business

4.5 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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NO SHOW TOMORROW Today’s word of the day is ‘options’ as in MLB as in free agency as in player options as in team options as in mutual options. There are some big names we knew would opt out of their deals to become free agents like Edwin Diaz and Pete Alonso and Alex Bregman. Shota Imanaga is now a free agent, and that surprised a lot of people. Trevor Story opted in to his deal with the Red Sox. (22:00) World Series Game 7 was a huge number. Averaged 51 million across the US, Canada, and Japan. Most-watched baseball game in 34 years! (31:00) Review: Lost in Translation. (35:30) NPPOD. (38:30) The financial report for the Atlanta Braves came out and we have to discuss what we saw. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Options.
0:38.3	That's nothing personal word of the day for Thursday, November 6th, 2025.
0:45.3	Today's episode is brought to you by Draft Kings.
0:48.3	Draft Kings, the crown is yours.
0:51.3	I'm all about options.
0:59.0	In every part of your life, you should have as many options as possible.
1:03.9	In baseball, there are player options.
1:05.7	There are team options.
1:07.8	There are mutual options.
1:14.9	In life, you've got your options. You've got to deal with other people's options.
1:23.9	I haven't yet come across in a personal way. What a mutual option is, I guess that's the definition of a partnership where two people get together and they decide what they're
1:29.1	going to do for dinner, whether or not they're going to buy a house, whether or not they're
1:32.3	going to take a trip. Whatever they're going to do, they say, oh, let's have unanimity.
1:38.4	Let it be mutual. I don't like using that word in baseball. You're reading about it every day now.
1:46.0	Mutual options rejected.
1:50.9	Please remember, there is no such thing as a mutual option in Major League Baseball.
1:58.0	We call it that, but we're pretending. A mutual option is a team
2:07.1	option because the team is in control of whether or not they want to exercise the option
2:16.4	on the player.
2:19.3	The only time a player has control of his destiny
2:24.3	is when there is a player option.
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