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The Valenti Show

What Blake Snell's Deal Says About A Potential Skubal Extension

The Valenti Show

Audacy

Sports

4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Valenti starts the second half of the show reacting to Blake Snell signing with the Dodgers, hypothesizing what a potential extension for Tarik Skubal with the Tigers might look like.

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0:00.0

All right, four o'clock. Good to have you with us. Got an interesting note.

0:03.7

And I think there's relevance to the Scoobel conversation. Then we're going to get our Thanksgiving draft, have our annual discussion.

0:10.4

Just why my people can't get this holiday right. But I wanted to see what you guys thought of this.

0:18.6

And tell me if it leads you to what I took so much flackover months ago that I may end up

0:24.9

being right.

0:25.5

Not that I'll ever get those receipts or flowers.

0:28.6

The Dodgers signed Blake Snell last night.

0:31.2

Five years, $182 million.

0:33.9

Okay, so just a shade under $40 million which is what I said it's going to take to

0:40.2

sign scuba. He's a 40 million dollar a year arm. He's a lefty. He's 27. He's a Cy Young Award

0:46.2

winner. He's awesome. All right. Garik Hall was making 36. Blake Snell slots in just above that. Well,

0:53.5

Scoobel would be next. Also, Blake Snell is going to be

0:56.8

32. He's a full five years older than Terrick Scouble. The Dodgers will have him his age 32 through

1:05.5

36 season. So it's 182, but here's the interesting part. The deal includes 60 million in deferrals.

1:12.8

So that reduces the present value of the deal, not by 60 total because they do a net net, but by about $30 million less, right?

1:22.0

He gets a limited no trade clause.

1:26.5

I don't have the deals on that, but what it does include is this, a $52 million signing

1:32.7

bonus up front.

1:34.3

He just gets that money, which lowers the AAV on a year in, year out basis, right?

1:40.6

He gets, they get the deferrals.

1:43.0

And if they trade him, he gets a little bumpy bump,

1:46.2

$5 million assignment bonus in case of a trade. So here's why I bring this up. The only thing

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