00:00But if you were watching the Dodgers all season, yeah, it started with Kyle Tucker's four-year, $240 million contract.
00:06That's not an error, people. That's not 14. That's four years, 240, with opt-outs, $60 million per year.
00:15And the funny part about this is, is we'll talk the Mets in the next segment here.
00:18The Mets were hot on Tucker's tail until the Dodgers just pulled up with the most ridiculous offer you can
00:23have.
00:24And by the way, it worked. He's a Dodger.
00:27You know, every time I see one of these signings for the Dodgers, you know, I remember a Gatorade commercial
00:36from the mid-2000s,
00:38which was Michael Jordan and Mia Hamm, and it was anything you can do, I can do better, which was
00:44like the theme of the commercial.
00:46And that's just what it is. Anything someone else can do, the Dodgers, they can just do it better.
00:51Where five years, $200 million? Oh, five years, $250 million? No, no.
00:55We'll give you four years and $240 million, $60 million a year.
01:01Anytime some team offers X player, Y contract, the Dodgers just come in with Z and go over the top.
01:08That's just what it comes down to. And we've seen them do this for a number of years now.
01:11It started with Otani. I want to say it really started when they signed Betts.
01:14Betts, they signed Freddie Freeman, or they traded for Betts, they signed Freddie Freeman, they signed Otani.
01:19Things just keep happening, and the Dodgers are pushing all chips to the middle every single offseason.
01:25And, Tom, they're not even team-friendly deals. They're all player-friendly, which is on top of it.
01:29Like, if he's really bad and injured, he's guaranteed $60 million a year for four years.
01:34If he's unbelievable, he opts out there year two and goes, I'd like $70 million a year.
01:39And the Dodgers, hey, you know what, that makes a lot of sense at this point.
01:41That's how crazy it is. It's like, oh, well, the team's got him over a barrel.
01:44No! He can opt out and do whatever he wants if he's having an even better season.
01:49Incredible to take a look at this.
01:50How about this Bill Lucy tweet that we have?
01:52The Dodgers' 2026 projected payroll is $429 million.
01:59$360 million more than the lowest projected payroll in Major League Baseball, the Marlins.
02:04Baseball, there is a discrepancy gap, unlike the NFL and the NBA.
02:08You pay to play, and apparently it has back-to-back champions and maybe a third on the way for
02:14the Dodgers.
02:15It's absolutely unbelievable that seeing where some of those bottom five teams are,
02:22we're going to see tweets throughout the year.
02:24And I can already tell that the combined salary of the starting lineup plus the pitcher for X team
02:31does not even equate to one or two of the players combined for the Dodgers.
02:36Like, that's where we're going to see, like, oh, Tucker and Otani, their combined salaries is three or four X,
02:42the entire starting lineup of the team that they're facing.
02:45The discrepancy is massive.
02:47Obviously, we'll talk about this in one of the closing statements as it pertains to the future,
02:50but a very important topic for baseball now and moving forward.
02:55Tom, look at this lineup.
02:56We're handicappers here.
02:57We deal in numbers.
02:58Like, yeah, the Dodgers should win their majority of games,
03:00but how much are you going to pay for those games that you have?
03:03Minus 180, minus 280, minus 380.
03:06The one through nine expected here as the depth chart for the Dodgers?
03:10Otani, Betts, Tucker, Freeman, Smith, Muncy, Hernandez, Pajes, and Kim as a one through nine.
03:17Good luck, pitchers.
03:18No breathers in that lineup.
03:20It's really not.
03:21And, of course, you know, as you said, we're handicappers.
03:24What does that mean?
03:25What do we look for?
03:25Or, you know, Donnie, my mind immediately goes to Otani, Betts, Tucker, the three of them for the HRR market
03:35date.
03:35Yes!
03:36Plus run, plus RBG.
03:37A three may not even get you to minus 120, right?
03:41We may be looking at games where the three of them, you're still sitting at minus 170 for an HRR,
03:46Otani, Betts, Tucker.
03:48You may have to add in that fourth leg just to get to plus 100.
03:51That's what my mind goes to because there are times where we love the two.
03:56Sometimes you get a two, but the three is really the sweet spot.
03:59You get two at minus 115, sign me up, or three, I should say, minus 115.
04:02We may not get that with the Dodgers.
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