Contracts, salary caps.

Why do our favorite teams make some of the moves they do?

It's usually the money.

It's time for the Business of Sports with Andrew Brand.

Welcome back to another edition of the Business of Sports with Andrew Brand.

I wanted to take a look at the business of baseball with someone I've admired for a while from Fox Sports and also

a colleague of mine now at the athletic he writing baseball me writing football the business of

football welcome to the podcast to Ken Rosenthal a longtime friend and colleague and someone I've

admired welcome Ken.

Angie thank you and right back at you.

I admire you as well. Appreciate that and right back at you. I appreciate that.

And listen, I talk a lot of business of football a lot, and it always seems to be like, yeah,

they don't get guaranteed contracts.

There's always issues, the teams imposing their will.

And everyone says, well, why can't they be more like baseball?

The players got it easy in baseball.

And for the first time, it seems like baseball players, at least in this free agent market,

are struggling what's going on before we get to sort of you Darvish,

whether he's open up the floodgates or not.

We've had free agency for two months.

What's going on?

A lot of things.

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