What will the Rays do with Wander Franco?; Chris Sale and cash traded to Braves!; Yamamoto has an elbow clause!? (Episode 960)

Nothing Personal with David Samson

David Samson

Baseball, Sports, Business

4.5 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2024

⏱️ 46 minutes

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We’ve been nominated in two categories for the Sports Podcast Awards! Best Baseball Podcast! Best Sports Business Podcast! You can vote for us here: https://www.sportspodcastgroup.com/shortlist-category/ Today’s word of the day is ‘cause’ as in termination for cause as in contract details as in Wander Franco as in the Tampa Bay Rays. We haven’t heard from Franco since last august because of an investigation into a relationship with a minor. Details are starting to trickle out of the Dominican Republic about his arrest for not appearing in court. What is baseball doing? (17:07) The Atlanta Braves have traded for Chris Sale. They also get a wheelbarrow full of cash so they’ll only pay Sale $500K. Why did the Red Sox do this? Why would the Braves do this? (27:45) Yoshinobu Yamamoto contract details have come out. Elbow clause!? (37:50) Review: Saltburn. (40:20) The NFL has fined David Tepper $300K for his drink throw. And then he released a lame statement. (45:20) NPPOD Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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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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