00:00So, Nick Martinez, former Texas
00:21Ranger, current Cincinnati Red,
00:25accepts the 21 million dollar
00:27qualifying offer to stay with
00:29Nick Martinez. Nick Martinez, you
00:31might think is younger than Nathan
00:33Evaldi. He is by six whole months.
00:35So, if you're looking at this
00:37going, well, and it's a
00:39qualifying offer. The Reds offered
00:41it and he took it. That
00:43can happen. If you remember, this
00:45happened with Martin Perez, I
00:47believe, two years ago after he
00:49made the All-Star team. I believe
00:51if I'm remembering correctly,
00:53Rangers offered him arbitration
00:55and he signed the arbitration
00:57number. So, if I look at this
00:59and I look at
01:01Nathan Evaldi
01:03and I compare him to Nick Martinez
01:05last year, I look
01:07at it and I see that
01:09170 innings for Nathan
01:11Evaldi, 142 innings for Nick
01:13Martinez, a 3-10
01:15ERA for Nick Martinez, a 3-8
01:17ERA for Nathan Evaldi.
01:19Evaldi goes 12-8,
01:21Nick Martinez goes 10-7, both on
01:23disappointing teams last year. Both
01:25teams underperformed and I'll tell you what,
01:27there's a part of me, guys,
01:29that wants to pick the Cincinnati Reds
01:31as the 2025 World Champions.
01:33Oh, who do they
01:35beat in the World Series, Baltimore? I don't
01:37know, but what I'm looking
01:39at is Terry Francona
01:41and Terry Francona is very
01:43Bruce Bochy-like
01:45and I would have never guessed
01:47that the Rangers would have won the World Series
01:49in 2023. I thought, they're going to
01:51be better. I predicted them to win 84 games,
01:53they won 90, they won the World Series.
01:55Are the Reds probably going to
01:57beat the Dodgers and the Mets and the
01:59Phillies and all the teams in the National League?
02:01Probably not, but nobody
02:03expected the Rangers in
02:052023, one to make the
02:07playoffs, two then to beat Baltimore
02:09and to beat, I guess, Tampa
02:11before that and then to beat the
02:13Houston Astros and they did and the Reds
02:15have talent.
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