NPDS - What will the Rays do with Wander Franco?; Chris Sale and cash traded to Braves!; Yamamoto has an elbow clause!? (Episode 960)
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Dan Le Batard
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🗓️ 3 January 2024
⏱️ 46 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Here you go. |
| 0:04.0 | go. Oh. Cause that's the nothing personal word of the day good morning. It is Wednesday |
| 0:21.1 | January 3rd, 2024, |
| 0:25.1 | cause as in termination for cause. |
| 0:29.6 | As in what the Tampa Bay Rays |
| 0:31.8 | are trying to figure out if they can do to Wander Franco. |
| 0:36.6 | This is a bit of a more serious conversation because we're talking about sex with minors underage. |
| 0:44.6 | Wanda Franco, the player who the Tampa Bay |
| 0:46.7 | raised signed for 11 years, $182 million, |
| 0:50.4 | the all-star in 2023. |
| 0:53.0 | That same very player who last August was put on administrative leave |
| 0:57.5 | after it came out that he was being investigated |
| 1:00.5 | for behavior, unbecoming any human being. |
| 1:07.7 | And what we said last year is that |
| 1:10.0 | MLB was going to ignore this until after the post season. |
| 1:14.6 | Which they did. |
| 1:15.8 | They wanted the focus to be on the playoffs. |
| 1:18.6 | The Rays wanted no part of it. |
| 1:20.6 | They released a simple statement saying, we, the usual, what we were all told we have to say, |
| 1:27.0 | which we all mostly do agree with, which is MLB, we like their policies, we agree with their policies, and we'll have no further comment. |
| 1:36.7 | So the season ended and I was wondering why I hadn't heard anything about Franco. |
| 1:42.4 | And then just a couple of days ago we got an update and I thought |
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