Why Sasaki’s MLB Deal is Suboptimal: Inside Details

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00:00Why is Sasaki not going to make money?

00:06I heard that he's going to get like some crappy deal to play in the major leagues, but why

00:11is he so sought after and he's not going to get paid?

00:16Yeah, it has to do with the complicated and convoluted way players from Japan are classified

00:22and international amateur free agents.

00:27Because Sasaki's only 23 and because he's only played a few years in the Japanese league,

00:34he doesn't have the seniority to qualify as a legitimate true free agent.

00:40It's a little bit like remember when Shohei Ohtani came over a few years back and Ohtani

00:46was kind of the same way.

00:49He could have waited another year or two to post and go to the majors and make a ton of

00:55money, but he didn't want to wait.

00:58He wanted to go now, which is where Sasaki's at.

01:01By going now for Ohtani and now Sasaki, they're still classified as amateur free agents rather

01:07than true free agents because, as I said, Sasaki hasn't pitched in the Japanese league

01:15six or seven years and he's only 23.

01:19Because of the rules he comes over governed under the international amateur free agent,

01:27clubs can only spend what their amateur free agent budget is within that range.

01:32So yeah, I mean, a team could have Sasaki for like six million a year instead of way

01:37beyond that.

01:39That's crazy.

01:40Where do you think Max Freed and Crochet are going to end up?

01:46Yeah, Freed, you know, the reports out of Dallas this week, the winter meetings right

01:51now have the American League East teams hot after him, after Freed.

01:56The Yankees, the Red Sox, the Toronto Blue Jays.

01:59And that all makes sense.

02:00I mean, obviously, you know, the Yankees won the division last year.

02:03They just lost Soto.

02:06You know, they're regrouping and more than winning the division, I think the Yankees

02:12moves this year are going to be predicated this winter on losing the World Series.

02:17They finally got back to their first World Series since 2009.

02:20But you know, obviously it ended in a very disappointing fashion in New York, especially

02:25that ugly fifth inning.

02:27So you know, they're looking to regroup and get back to that World Series and win at this

02:32time.

02:33And, you know, Garrett Cole needs some help in that rotation.

02:36So I could see Freed going there, you know, and obviously Boston's trying to climb back

02:42up the ladder.

02:43And poor Toronto, you know, they took a swing at Otani, they took a swing at Soto.

02:48They just can't convince guys to take their money.

02:51Well, what about Crochet?

02:53You know, Crochet will be interesting.

02:57I mean, you know, you could see him going to the Yankees.

02:59I mean, I wouldn't put even like the Padres beyond Crochet.

03:02I mean, we've seen A.J. Preller and all the crazy trades that he's able to figure out,

03:08including trading for Dylan Cease on the eve of last season.

03:12You know, Crochet will, you know, and by the way, the White Sox cannot blow this one either

03:17because obviously coming off one of the worst seasons in baseball history, the White Sox

03:24have to figure this out.

03:25And they've got to hit.

03:26They've got the prospects.

03:27They get back, be it from the Yankees, the Padres, whomever.

03:33They've got to be legit prospects and they've got to hit because otherwise the White Sox

03:37will be even more of a mess than they are now.

03:40What do you think of the Dodgers and all of the money they've spent and the fact that

03:46they kicked the Yankees ass and then they add Snell and they're just getting better

03:52by the minute?

03:53Yeah, they are.

03:54You know what?

03:55I mean, the Guggenheim ownership, as we know, I mean, they've been on this for a while.

04:02They've spent money and they keep spending money.

04:06And, you know, as Andrew Friedman said during the World Series, their president of baseball

04:09operations, we think, you know, hey, we're in a new golden age of Dodger baseball.

04:17And as long as they have Otani, I mean, just signing him, the corporate deals they have,

04:23Scott, with Japan, with various companies in Japan, it's more than $120, $130 million.

04:31And they've got income coming in from Otani.

04:33They sell out almost every night.

04:35They've got a deep pocket of ownership that wants to win.

04:39And you know, it's only going to create more economic divide in the game itself.

04:44Obviously, the Mets and Dodgers are going north in payroll.

04:47But you know, Blake Snell, Otani, I can see them bringing Tiasca Hernandez back this year.

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