00:01when you get word that your stud is going to be your stud for a long period of time.
00:10Now, I don't know about you, Rico.
00:12I don't know what the rules are in terms of getting a commitment.
00:17If you like it, you got to put a ring on it.
00:19I don't know what the rules are in terms of how long that takes.
00:23I don't know.
00:25I knew when I met my wife, I knew like right away that she was the one.
00:30And I hated people who said, when you know, you know, shut up.
00:33I don't know squat.
00:34And then I met my wife and I was like, all those people were right.
00:38And I was talking to my old man and he goes, well, if she's everything you say she is, you
00:42better lock that up.
00:44So what?
00:45Right.
00:46So I'd locked it up in three weeks.
00:49Three weeks.
00:51You know, for three weeks, you gave her a ring?
00:54No, no, no, no.
00:55We just go steady.
00:56You know?
00:57Yeah.
00:58Like just, hey.
01:00You're kissing me.
01:01You're not going to be kissing somebody else.
01:03Right?
01:03More information I need to know.
01:04That kind of conversation.
01:06Right?
01:06So I think for most people, there's kind of like a three date thing or like maybe a four
01:13week or a six week or an eight week thing.
01:15But rare is the woman that allows you to go more than two months of dating without saying,
01:21yo, well, it's, what's, what's happened?
01:23What's going on here?
01:24I will tell you this today after, oh, a mere couple of weeks of the season going on, about
01:3618 days of the season ongoing, the Tigers put a ring on it with Kevin McGonigal.
01:41And I think this is freaking tremendous, tremendous.
01:47Eight years, $150 million, $18.75 million a year.
01:54In a market where Kyle Tucker is getting $60 million a year because Shohei Otani got paid
02:03as two players $70 million a year.
02:07In a world where Beau Bichette, who I would argue Kevin McGonigal might already be better
02:14than, is getting $40 plus million a year.
02:18Okay?
02:18Better than Beau Bichette.
02:19Well, he, he tracks similarly to Beau Bichette.
02:23I realize there's a Blue Jay to my right.
02:25That's none too pleased with what I'm saying right now.
02:27I'm just like, let's.
02:30Okay.
02:30He got paid.
02:31But is he not tracking that way?
02:33Let's let him track.
02:35Okay.
02:35Let, let, let him track.
02:36Okay.
02:37Continue to track in that way.
02:39Okay.
02:40They inked him today.
02:42Eight years, $150 million.
02:44What does this mean for the big picture?
02:45Well, they had Kevin McGonigal under team control until 2031.
02:50They would have had him on until 2032, except they brought him in at the beginning of the
02:55year, which was the right move because he'd earned that.
02:57So they can get the first round pick back, pick at the end of the first round.
03:02If he wins the AL rookie of the year today, they put a ring on it for eight years, $150
03:08million.
03:09This is a longer duration than most marriages last.
03:13And now Kevin McGonigal will be a Detroit tiger through 2034.
03:19You have the soundboard today.
03:21I think, you know, which one I would say to that.
03:24And it's the one everybody knows me by, right?
03:26It's, it's the one everybody knows me by.
03:29I am thrilled.
03:31I am elated.
03:32I am beside myself with the light at this news.
03:37Rico, uh, I'm not going to speak for you.
03:39You seem much more tempered in your enthusiasm than I am today.
03:44No, uh, as a matter of fact, we had this conversation, uh, Mike, before he left.
03:49And we talked about what would you give after the pirates gave their rookie and they signed
03:54him.
03:54And I'm like, well, you would probably give McGonigal like an eight year, $150 million.
03:59And they were like, no, no, no, that's a little too, too much.
04:01And I was like, eh, that's probably about right.
04:03Well, it ended up being eight years, $150 million.
04:08Now I agree with what you're saying.
04:11Personally, I would have waited.
04:13I would have probably waited till around the all-star game.
04:17Need to make sure that you're just not that one hit wonder.
04:21Let me see you go through the second time around with teams and see if you're still that
04:26good.
04:26Who are the all-time one hit wonders for you?
04:29Oh, geez.
04:30Blur.
04:31Remember, this member of the group Blur, they did woo-hoo, that song.
04:34You have, uh, Chubba Wubba, Tom Thumping.
04:36Yeah.
04:37I get knocked down.
04:38I mean, never heard from him again.
04:39They did get knocked down.
04:40They didn't have another song.
04:41Right.
04:42I mean, you got a bunch of one hit wonders.
04:44I didn't want him to be that.
04:46I probably would have given it to him.
04:48I would have waited a little bit, but I'm okay that you decided you saw enough.
04:52Let's just go ahead and get this thing done.
04:54That's why I was never worried about this whole service time thing.
04:57That's why I was really hoping that they brought him in last year for the playoff run so that
05:04he could at least come off the bench and just got some playoff experience instead of manipulating
05:08his service time.
05:09I heard when you guys did the question, where would they have been had they brought up McGonagall?
05:14And I was like, okay, uh, they would have won the division.
05:21And I didn't think he was anywhere close to ready.
05:25So I was defending the Tigers at the time.
05:28Seeing this kid now, he's got the most plate discipline now of anyone on the team.
05:33There's no way he would not have helped them last year.
05:36Probably would have felt better him coming off the bench doing something.
05:40So no, that's why I'm, I'm okay with this.
05:44I like this.
05:45I think this is a very smart move for the Tigers.
05:48You know, he's going to be your guy.
05:50You've been waiting all this time.
05:52We've seen enough.
05:54Lock the kid up.
05:55And when you break it down over years, it's not as expensive as it seems, but he's going
06:00to be yours.
06:01You don't have to worry about arbitration.
06:03You don't have to worry about any of that school stuff.
06:05He's your guy.
06:06He's going to be a corner piece of this team for a long time.
06:10So I'm cool with this.
06:12Well, okay, but not really.
06:15Two points here.
06:16Why am I not really cool with this?
06:18Well, because you said you wouldn't have done it now.
06:21Right.
06:21And that's, that's our opening question to the audience on this.
06:24In my opinion, it is, have you seen enough to make this commitment right now?
06:30This is quicker than you make a commitment in the dating circles.
06:33This has been less than three weeks.
06:35I don't, I didn't think that he was going to become Chris Shelton.
06:38Okay.
06:39The red pop.
06:40I don't know if you, you weren't here for that, but he came to Detroit and he had like
06:44the greatest two weeks of his life.
06:46This kid was just knocking balls off the park.
06:49Red pop, Shelton jerseys.
06:51If you ever go to Comerica Park and you see a Shelton jerseys, it's because somebody bought
06:55in early on him and it didn't, it didn't, that investment wasn't a wise investment, but
07:00they paid 300 bucks for that jersey.
07:02So damn it, I'm wearing this jersey.
07:04Is that what they cost now?
07:04I don't know.
07:05$300?
07:06I don't know.
07:06But I just wanted to make sure.
07:09That's me.
07:09Well, you would have waited longer.
07:11I would have waited until the All-Star break.
07:12Until the All-Star break.
07:13So from now until the All-Star break is circa about 80 more days or so?
07:19Well, yeah, I just need, I need you to face pitchers for a second time to see, okay, they're
07:25going to make adjustments on you.
07:27Can you make the adjustments on them and not getting shipped back down to the minors to
07:31go work on some stuff?
07:33No, you're a legitimate major league everyday player.
07:36All right.
07:37I think you're special.
07:38Here's your deal.
07:39And I would have told them like, look, we got a deal waiting for you.
07:43You just got to live up to it for the next two months, two, three months, and it'll be
07:46yours.
07:48Well, the agents, this is where the agents get you by the balls because the agents say,
07:53I'm going to give you a two-week window to sign Kevin McGonigal.
07:58I'm going to give you two weeks, Rico.
08:00And if you don't sign him by the end of April, it's off the books.
08:04Not everybody do you get to this rookie extension, but those teams that seem to kind of have a
08:10dynasty in terms of their competitiveness, they all do this.
08:14The Atlanta Braves, they wrote the book on this kind of deal.
08:20Riley and Ron Lacuna Jr. and all of the different guys on their team.
08:24And you're thinking to yourself, that's a hell of a deal.
08:27He's a better player than that.
08:29Well, why does the team do it?
08:31The team does it because they're getting the player for 50 cents on the dollar.
08:34The player does it because they're broke.
08:37Well, the player's broke, but also that they're now in with this John Hancock, they're going
08:42to have more money than they're ever going to need in their life with a single John Hancock
08:46and it protects them from injury.
08:47Right.
08:48Now you have money.
08:49Now, you're hoping that if you're that good, then you can go out and sign that Shohei deal
08:54later down the line and you get the big bucks.
08:57But for right now, if he fails and does nothing and he's out of the league in three years,
09:03he's still got this money.
09:04That's it.
09:05That's it.
09:06So, have you guys seen enough from Kevin McGonigal for the Tigers to make this commitment?
09:12Easy for you to say, right?
09:14It's not your money.
09:15Right.
09:15But $150 large for a player that has given you what?
09:2317 good games?
09:2517 good games.
09:27$150 million.
09:29That's almost $10 million of commitment per game that the Tigers have played.
09:35$150 million, 17 games.
09:38Almost $10 million per commitment per game.
09:41Right.
09:41Is that a little too rich for your blood as a Tigers fan?
09:44You know, the irony here is we're used to having the opposite complaints about this team.
09:50They're not going to spend.
09:52Now, Rico says, I would have waited a little bit.
09:56Well, what say you?
09:57248-539-9797 is where you guys can get to us on the show.
10:02To me, this is a hell of a good news day as Kevin McGonigal is yours through 2034.
10:10It is for me as well, Mark.
10:12And I do want to ask the listeners a question on the other side because I want to take this
10:18another step further.
10:20He's here.
10:21I want to ask the listeners a question.
10:24I'll give that to you next.
10:2597.
10:26A little bit of a fun time.
10:26I'll give a little bit of a couple times.
10:26I'll give it to you next time.
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