Will the Rangers get in on the Roki Sasaki sweepstakes?

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One of the hottest names on the baseball free agent market this offseason will be Roki Sasaki, a Japanese sensation who is positioning himself to make a move to MLB. Bacsik explains why the Rangers should be in on him and what the competition for his services might look like.

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00:00So we continue on from baseball nuggets. If you weren't listening to baseball nuggets,

00:19I talked about Roki Sasaki. It looks like he's going to get posted. He is going to be

00:24a major leaguer next year. He's a 23 year old pitcher from Japan. The Rangers are in

00:28love with them. The Dodgers are in love with them. I believe there's a couple other teams

00:33that are like super in love with him. This is going to be a very competitive market.

00:39But Kevin, I was looking up articles and you really helped me out on this. It's not a competitive

00:45market before December 15th or by December 15th, it could become competitive. But right

00:51now we have a month of a non-competitive market.

00:53Okay. So essentially that's when the new like business year starts. And so for 2015, excuse

01:04me, 2025, huh? Once you get past December 15th, that resets when 2025 starts with your

01:11international pool money. And as you can probably guess, the Dodgers are not at the top of that

01:18list of teams for pool money, because it usually kind of goes like the draft in somewhat reverse

01:23order between 4.7 and I believe $7.2 million. But that's after December 15th. Until then,

01:31you're still under the 2024 calendar. And guess who has been keeping their money most

01:38of the year?

01:39I read the article with you.

01:40The Los Angeles. Yes, thanks, Mike. The Los Angeles Dodgers. The Los Angeles Dodgers still

01:46have $2.5 million of money left in their international signing pool. Now you can use all of that

01:53however you want. Like if we got past into the next year and the Rangers were like, I'm going to

01:59use all $6.24 million on Sasaki, they could absolutely do that. But if he decides he's going to

02:07sign before December 15th, the team with the most money to spend this year is the Dodgers. Well,

02:12guess what? The Dodgers with Otani and Yamamoto, they have already become a destination. Well,

02:20plus the fact that they won the damn World Series. So most money. And why would you not go there?

02:26That would be a no brainer.

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