Worst trade in Miami Marlins history?

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What is going on?! The Miami Marlins traded Jake Burger to the Texas Rangers for 3 prospects... for no apparent reason. The Marlins also ended up with the 7th overall pick in the draft lottery even with having the best odds to get the number 1 pick. Leroy reminds us how insignificant the draft is in Baseball, specifically for the Marlins.

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00:00I think Tommy's quibbling today. You know, they just send Jake Berger away. You just take Jake Berger away from us

00:08Now you change the cheap guys

00:12That's kind of how this has been going for the last 25 years so

00:18Why would you expect it's weird every time you have anything of value they trade

00:25What I mean, what is that

00:27Jake burgers are just like nah, like Jake. What does he make three million dollars?

00:33Yeah, he's under K too rich for our blood send his ass to Texas

00:36How much do the fans like a lot get out of here? Yeah, they literally gonna have a payroll of 12 million

00:44Oh

00:45Who's like, what is the guy who is the guy just Sandy and whatever they owe left on Stan. Is that it?

00:50Is that all they have to pay?

00:53Yeah, whenever they know if if Sandy's here, you know, we know how this is look soon as he throws one pitch over a hundred

01:04You know, you know Bendix is licking his chops to trade Sandy for like five prospects

01:10We doing though like that's not how you guys but but you're not here in a spa

01:15Margo's see me and Tobin knew what was coming. Here's why

01:20Here's why

01:22Let me let me tell you why

01:26When you hire somebody from Tampa

01:31You know, we're doing dollar store stuff whoo

01:37But not even like we did you know what this is

01:40the team who Marlins

01:42Yeah

01:44Marcus you've saw about this team. Oh, is that what is team? It was teaming like cheap eBay. It's like a wish even your shop

01:51Let me tell you it is

01:54You can get a dress shirt for $3 now

01:59And now here's the kicker. That's expensive

02:02Here's the kicker

02:04You gonna struggle getting the right size?

02:09Because

02:11American-large is like 4x team

02:15man, and

02:17It's not worth returning

02:20hmm, so

02:23You go swing or miss a few times

02:28Because I don't know what it is about anything on there though, by the way

02:32Like I just was like, ah, what would he like and I put in a harpoon you can get a harpoon, right?

02:36I

02:38Mean your little hard desires

02:40We're determined also. We want to win really soon. We want to win for a long time

02:45We want to build something that is successful every single year year in and year out

02:49I think Clayton can be the right leader for that

02:52Cleans like oh you just traded my number one home run hitter. Great. Well, he's a liar

02:58I really know this guy's home runs are overrated

03:01I

03:05Listen this is like

03:08That's what you're gonna hear

03:11Right, you're gonna see a bunch of guys that don't strike out. You're gonna see a bunch of guys that make contact

03:18I don't think that's what they are gonna do because the I think the guys that they're gonna play are

03:25Probably gonna be probably gonna be Norby and and they have this this this young prospect Davidson de los Santos

03:31I think who had like 40 home runs in the minors last year. They're young guys. They're gonna strike. Come on

03:36They're young. Of course, they're gonna strike out a ton, right?

03:40But like, you know, I don't know. I just think

03:45When new people come into a situation

03:50They sometimes

03:53Don't understand the scars of the previous regimes and they come in here like he's coming in

04:00you know with that swagger of he knows what he's doing or whatever, but to us it looks like

04:09You're basically trying to do it for cheap

04:12Which is what the Marlins have done for the last 25 years. I'm just like look maybe these guys

04:18Turn out to be good. It's feel like you know, but

04:22Do you have any doubt if they get really really really good? They're gonna get traded. Oh eventually. Yeah, right

04:29This guy had like the thing with burger was funny. It's like he had like four years before he was a free agent

04:34Right didn't even make a mill

04:37I'm like what is going on here?

04:40This is who we're getting rid of and they got like nobody in the top 15 in this in a system. That's not very good

04:47Right, let's read it for teenagers

04:51Doing what are we doing? You think he maybe he requested a trade?

05:00Reason that I can justify like why you would do this. First of all, first of all, look, this is no knock on burger

05:10You you make three million a year now you ain't demanding no damn tree

05:16Doesn't make three million a year. Well, but that's what my point

05:20Like do you think you do you think?

05:24You know if you're not making premium dollar

05:27You can go into the organization and say

05:31Hey, I think you know, it would be in our best interest if you just trade

05:34Do you want to know the other thing that happened to the Marlins yesterday is I had no idea this was going on yesterday

05:38Do you know yesterday was the MLB draft lottery?

05:42Oh great, they do a lottery like basketball. Yeah. Yeah

05:45I don't know like the the odds of it and all one up

05:49But what I did read was the Marlins had the number one odds to get the number one pick

05:53And they got it and they couldn't finish lower than eight

05:57And they finished eight they finished seventh

06:01Love that absolutely love that I

06:05Think I hate

06:07I'm gonna say this and you guys are gonna probably agree with me

06:18The way baseball works

06:22The baseball draft is the most insignificant draft in all of sports

06:29Because I don't agree with that because here's the deal

06:33You

06:35Can have how often does a top prospect get into the majors quickly and

06:44in the Marlins case

06:48They're not here

06:50Because they've been in the minors and some teams

06:54Think it's more important to hold on to a players rights

06:57Then get the player on

07:00The field I see what you're saying

07:02But also like it's still the top talent are gonna be usually the people they scout up the top

07:07They have to pay usually these guys these guys can kind of you you get a certain amount of money to pay on guys

07:12on a pie and

07:15You know, like some guys will demand more as a signing bonus or they'll go to they'll go to college, you know

07:20They'll they'll kind of they'll walk on you having their rights. So

07:25it's not insignificant and honestly Leroy part of the reason that they have

07:29They've stumbled as much as they have even more so than the the spending of money

07:34They haven't signed that, you know, they haven't drafted anybody of significance, especially an everyday player

07:39I can't remember since when where the hell's JJ blue day. He's an a dude. We do this every time

07:45He's he's I guess is he in Vegas now, where are the A's? Oh

07:51Okay again

07:53Remember that the conversation when he got drafted. Yeah

07:56He had a good month last year, but but that's for the a that but that but that's that's my point is that

08:04first of all before you get into your baseball prime, you're damn near 30 and

08:11This team

08:13Has never shown that they're gonna hold on to anybody

08:18In their system that they drafted until they're 25 30 years old that being said

08:26What's the point for the Marlins to even be in the draft when you can't tell me?

08:32What was the last draft pick that the Marlins had?

08:36that ended up playing a

08:39substantial amount of time for the Marlins

08:44Well, Max Myers been Max Myers been hurt a lot so

08:49Everything is through trades. Yeah, so that like we see other teams

08:55Their star players are coming up and playing right away. Yep. The Marlins are always in the top 10

09:01they haven't had a

09:04signed player a

09:06Drafted player come through their system and play on their major league team

09:11Been a while. The stars have come from somewhere else. You're right about that

09:17so it

09:18so

09:19Who cares if they have their seventh pick you're right below it. I mean they do have that solutions guy plunket

09:26Maybe he'll figure it out

09:28but if

09:30They could draft babe Ruth as the seventh got the seventh pick in the draft

09:36By the time he gets to the major leagues, they will trade him and flip him for other

09:41picks or other

09:43Um

09:46Prospects am I wrong for thinking that no, you know, okay

09:51How can I argue

09:53That's why I say it's been since yella since they've had somebody of all the of all the drafts and all the major

10:01sports

10:02to me in this town

10:05The baseball draft is the most

10:07Insignificant draft in sports from what I have seen down here in Florida

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