MLB Free Agency Update: Key Moves & Qualifying Offers

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00:00MLB Free Agency, of course, they've got the meetings going on down in San Antonio.

00:07I saw a bunch of good cashman stuff that I'm going to play for you tomorrow on Coast to

00:11Coast.

00:12But the last night was the deadline to offer anybody's free agent the qualifying offer,

00:18which is $21.05 million for this year.

00:22Now we know how this works, Scotty.

00:23The best guys get the qualifying offer.

00:25That way the team gets a compensatory draft pick if they sign somewhere else.

00:30Only 13 of the 131 free agents actually got the qualifying offer.

00:37Of course, you're going to have big names on this list, like Juan Soto, and there are

00:42a few others.

00:43Corbin Burns, Juan Soto.

00:45You also have Alex Bregman, Max Freed, Willie Adamas, Alonzo Santander, Teosker, Christian

00:51Walker.

00:52And then some other names.

00:53How about Luis Severino, Nick Martinez, and Nick Pavetta also got the qualifying offer.

00:57So that's where we stand as a free agency.

00:59Not one of those players will accept that offer.

01:02So it's a giant waste of time.

01:05I think the only guy I saw that maybe would was Pavetta in Boston, because everybody was

01:11surprised that they even offered it to him.

01:14I don't think Pavetta is going to get $20 million on the open market this year.

01:18So I guess there's a chance, because he stinks, to be quite honest with you, I guess there's

01:23a chance he might take the one-year $20 million.

01:25But most of those guys are going to decline, and their teams will get draft picks if they

01:30go somewhere else.

01:31So that's how it's going to work.

01:33The Yankees, Cashman said the Yankees wanted to keep Cole, but didn't want to add the fifth

01:36year.

01:37This was basically the Yankees, Scotty, with all the reports out, they called Cole's bluff.

01:43Cole and Boris thought that the Yankees would just give him that extra year.

01:47The Yankees said no, and then they changed their minds, because they didn't think they

01:51were going to get the same money out on the open market.

01:54He's a Yankee now, there's still four years left on his deal.

01:58That's pretty much all that it is for Garrett Cole.

02:01I don't blame him, honestly, because then they'd all want pictures of his elbow, right?

02:05They'd all want to give him physicals and look at what he's got in there.

02:08And I'm sure that made them a little uneasy, too, after what he had this year.

02:12Yeah, I think they're going to get burned on this deal at the end of the day, no matter

02:17what.

02:18I always believed when they signed him to this long deal that the last four or five

02:22years of it were going to be burn time based on what happens to pitchers when they get

02:29old.

02:30I mean, let's just face facts.

02:32He's not going to get any better than he's already been.

02:36He's won a Cy Young, and then he went to the World Series, pitched great, got burned in

02:43that Game 5 when they were up 5-0, his defense let him down, and he let himself down on not

02:48covering first base.

02:50And I would pretty much, you know, it's like anything else.

02:54Clayton Kershaw can get his foot and knee operated on all he wants, he's finished.

02:59And he might have one or two, three good starts a year left in his body, but I'm not talking

03:05about Cole, I'm talking about Kershaw.

03:07Cole, I think, will have one good year left in him, and I think it'll be three years of

03:15him getting lit up.

03:16I think he already gives up home runs left and right.

03:19He is a big game pitcher, he's definitely got a four-seam fastball, which will start

03:23slowing down because he's getting older, and that's just all there is to it.

03:28That is all there is to it.

03:29There is not one guy that defies age as pitchers.

03:34Literally.

03:35I mean, there's been pitchers that have pitched well when they're older.

03:38There's no doubt about it.

03:39But look at Kershaw, look at your boy with the Mets and Texas, Max Scherzer.

03:47That guy broke down like a car.

03:49Well, I was going to bring these two guys up for this reason.

03:52Now, Cole just turned 34, so he's 34 years old, he just turned 34 in September.

03:57If you look at Verlander and Scherzer, you know, they still gave you some gas between

04:0335 and 37.

04:06They still had it a little bit.

04:08I don't know, they've hit a wall.

04:11They both have hit a wall and they're finished.

04:13When you talk about Cole at 34, is he still going to get in that zone that they did from

04:1935 to 37?

04:21I think that's the question that you've got to ask yourself, and then they'll get enough

04:25out of the deal.

04:26That's the thing.

04:27He missed two months this year.

04:29Now what?

04:30What's going to happen?

04:32What has he got?

04:33Four more years, right?

04:34Yes.

04:35What is going to happen to his arm?

04:36Just like you said before, they all want to look at his elbow, he's not showing anybody

04:39his elbow.

04:40The Yankees know what's going on in that elbow, and they already gave him all that money.

04:45They just didn't change it.

04:46They already had given him the money.

04:49Nobody was going to give him $150 million with looking at his elbow off of this year.

04:54He's still their best pitcher, but it's going to go like this.

04:59Slow, steady decline, and from 35 on, that's just all there is to it.

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