The Strategy Behind MLB’s Huge Trades (With Jeff Passan or Jefff Pasann)

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🗓️ 10 August 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Major League Baseball’s trade deadline left the rich even richer...well, at least the Dodgers. L.A. landed three-time Cy Young winner Max Scherzer, and his former Nationals teammate Trea Turner. Jeff Passan explains how and why L.A. made this deal, with the small market thinking behind their strategy. Plus, the goods on other big deadline deals. Then, yet another athlete comment shows racism persists against the Asian American Pacific Islander community. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The one-two.
0:07.0	He stuck him out.
0:09.0	Blood by him, 10 K's in his Dodger debut.
0:14.0	A night to remember for Max Scherzer and everybody here.
0:18.0	This is moments ago.
0:20.0	A curtain fall in his Dodger debut.
0:23.6	You know, not everybody is great at being rich.
0:29.6	Some squander their fortunes.
0:31.6	Some billionaires are still somehow emotionally invested in Twitter.
0:35.6	And then there are the Los Angeles Dodgers who use their
0:40.3	absurd wealth to trade for Max Scher and Trey Turner at the trade deadline.
0:46.5	So today, Jeff Passon takes us inside the empire atop the major leagues, and he explains
0:52.8	how the sports spending spree is giving us a glimpse
0:56.3	into baseball's future.
0:59.9	I'm Pablo Torre. It's Tuesday, August 10th.
1:04.6	This is ESPN Daily.
1:12.2	So, Jeff, we're now on the other side of the anarchy that was the trade deadline in
1:19.0	Major League Baseball.
1:19.8	And now that you can sort of look back at everything, I mean, how much Mountain Dew did you end up actually consuming?
1:30.2	Let's clarify first.
1:33.1	It's diet Mountain Dew, Pablo.
1:36.0	Jeff Passon is an MLB insider for ESPN
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