everybody's irish today enjoy it i intend to max will as well good morning this from mex to

open up the show mex writes kevin was our team that bad last year that nobody wants our free agents

suitor's favorite guy jacob martin got the only deal that wasn't one year.

Yeah, Max, yes and no.

Yes, the team was that bad last year, and part of it was, yes, due to, you know, the overall roster composition.

The team's, you know, five and 12 record wasn't due primarily to roster

construction. It was due to injury catastrophe in 2025. But as far as the free agents go,

all of the players that played for them last year who got to free agency last week,

none of them were wave one free agents.

By the way, Jacob Martin got a multi-year deal mex, but so did Chris Rodriguez.

And if you want to count Tyler Beaudish, even though that came before free agency,

he got a multi-year deal as well after they released him,

which means there's no compensation for losing Tyler Beaudish in the 2027 draft.

But in terms of the guys that they had that got to unrestricted free agency, none of them were free agency

week one guys. So the fact that none of them went last week, you know, for the most part,

other than Jacob Martin and Chris Rodriguez, it was expected. If you look at, and I went back

and looked at the ESPN top 100 free agents, Max, from a week ago before free agency began,

Debo Samuel at number 53 on their top 100 free agent list was the highest ranked Washington player on the list. At number 53,

Chris Paul was 61, Marcus Marriota was 74, and Bobby Wagner was 96. So four total players on the list,

none higher than 53. They didn't have true week one free agency guys. Now,

that does speak to the roster to a certain degree, but it doesn't speak to why players weren't

selected or signed last week. They weren't guys that were supposed to be signed last week.

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