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The Nats Are Out Of The Juan Soto Sweepstakes, Long Offseason Ahead?
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Soto, by the way, who has said he loved to play in DC, loves it here, best performance of his career right here in the nation's capital, you'd stand a reason you want to get in on those sweepstakes. You have zero payroll. You know the highest paid national is on their payroll for this year? Luis Garcia making $5 million, you know, the second highest paid national in their payroll is this year? I'll tell you, just listen, K bear or we, here we go, making $5 million. They're not paying anyone. If they want to, they can go get one Soto. Now they don't want to, and we knew all along. They weren't going to get one. So don't we've tried to let everybody know that was not going to happen, but five teams are at least pretending to be in on one Soto by putting up their panel. He's pretending here are the teams. The Mets. Yeah, you knew that, right? The Yankees. The Red Sox. He's going to say nationals in a second. I know he is. The Blue Jays. Okay. One more. It is a national league team. Oh, so here you go. The, they did play in that Nat Stodger's division series in 2019. One played in that series. Yeah. Yeah. The Dodgers. Damn it. Mets Yankees Red Sox Blue Jays Dodgers. Now, here's the thing, there's 25 teams that aren't raising the paddles because they know it's unrealistic. They know it's probably that make a lot of sense in terms of team building to pay somebody that much money. They get you can start doing that with every person that plays major league baseball. If they cost more than 17 cents, are they in on anybody? And the answer is no, that'll be the big question. No, they're not. But look, it's football season. We're coming up on Thanksgiving, Washington's got a seven and five team that could be playoff bound. So the nats are getting a little pass on that. But I will just say as an aside, that it is absolutely time for them to spend some money as an ownership group. And if they don't fans, and that means you guys should be irate because to my knowledge, they're not lower in season ticket prices, it's on a cheap ticket to get. It's not easy to go navigate Nat's park, right? The baseball operation staff led by Mike Rizzo and this is Mark Shalaba and Mike the Bartilow and that whole crew of guys that run that outfit. They have saved ownership's bacon with trade driven efficiency in the rebuild. They're in a really good spot, actually, if they were to actually supplement with some star major league decent talent now, they're going to be interesting and middling as of right now, just based on the young core that they put together. But if they want to be good and competitive, they're three or four additions away probably. And that's where ownership has to come in. And the payroll with Luis Garcia and Cabar always is your highest paid players at this point is the tell. There's nobody on the payroll that they look like the Marlins or the A's Danny when you look up who they're paying. I mean, seriously, it's like Miami Oakland, Washington. That's what it looks like. Yep. So. Doors take us to summers away or winter adventures and afternoon getaways. Your dedicated Fidelity advisor can help you open those doors by working with you on a comprehensive plan to help you reach your wealth's full potential because doors were meant to be opened. Visit Fidelity.com/wealth, investment minimums apply Fidelity Brokerage Services LLC member NYSE SIPC. Shop deals on gifts now on Amazon, like makeup for the beauty lover, electronics for the tech pro, and even gift cards for the more, um, particular people in your life. Shop grade deals now on Amazon. Ho, ho, ho, come out and celebrate the season with my incredible friends at the sharpest rides for their holiday, ho, ho, down. 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The last few years of the rebuild, I'm on board, there's no reason to spend big. You're not blocking kids, you got to see who's good and who isn't, you got to give opportunities to your youngsters as they graduate, it's now time to do that. And frankly, the media needs to start, I'd say beating the drums and sounding the bugles a little bit because if there's no pressure, if it's just this big, well, whatever, you know, it's okay that, you know, they have a payroll of 40 million and they'll go out and they'll win 73 games. It's not okay. Nope. In the nation's capital. Nope. And I understand how we got here. It's a lot of bad luck, a lot of things that's nobody's fault, right? Global pandemic happens the year after you win the World Series. That's that changed things. There should have been a huge cash influx, the TV deal isn't necessarily anybody's fault. I understand how we got here. But my point is we are here. Nobody's saying you've got to do what the Red Sox and the Yankees and the Dodgers do, which is printing your own money and go crazy. What everyone I think is saying, I want to put words in your mouth, but what I'm saying is when you move on from Kyle Finnegan after not trading him, you just give him his walking papers, you could have got something back that's a human being that's at someone with a pulse. Maybe it may be a shot at someone. If you're moving on from him, because he's too expensive, you're going to get and you're not going to fill that void. Like all you're doing is being cheap. There's no longer a this is, there's a strategy behind it or whatever. Any type of move that's made simply to not pay somebody, not have nothing to do with big good, bad or indifferent. If the move is we can't afford Tanner Rainey. We were patient with that guy for a rebuilding team for years for potentially the season where he finally comes back, removed from Tommy John, et cetera to be good. And he's gone because he might cost $1.7 million on arbitration. What are we doing? On Finnegan, by the way, I think this is an important thing to hit. Kyle Finnegan is now a free agent. He'll be leaving Washington very likely unless they get him back, I guess on a cheaper deal than they would have paid him. He was not set to be a free agent. This is very different. Arbitration. If a guy is contracts ending and he's leaving in free agency, that happens. They opted to let him become a free agent by non-tendering him instead of paying him for another year on his contract because he was set to make upwards of, say, eight and a half, nine million dollars. And they probably view him more as a seven or seven and a half million dollar player. And from a baseball perspective, they are right. The counting stats, 38 saves last year, don't really match the underlying number. That would entitle him to a pay raise. And if their point is that's an overpay, I have no degree, by the way, but I don't think it's crazy. The nat's math of, well, we got to spend $12 million this year. So let's hurry up nine million from Finnegan and now you're only really paying three million dollars. That's nat's math. The math should be, is Finnegan a helpful good reliever? Then who cares if you're overpaying him by one point five or two million? And if the Braves or some winning team that has a real payroll and has actual money being spent on players did what the nats are doing with Kyle Finnegan, I would say that's really smart. That team gets it. I like that data driven approach because they know he's not quite worth it. But when the nats do it and you're paying no one and then you say, oh, this guy at nine million, probably two million more than we think he's actually worth, no, we'll save that two million. And we just won't pay him at all. And we'll let him hit free agency and reallocate the money. Forgive my skepticism. I'm not really sure if you're reallocate the money. Again, baseball wise, that's Rizzo in his group looking at this saying this guy is not worth nine million. They're not wrong. But if it matters that much to maybe be right on two million dollars. When you're when you're zero outside of him, nothing. We got problems here. Right. I mean, to me, you know, and you might disagree with this, I think that's fine. But I need an organization to know, hey, we don't think he's worth what he's going to get next year in arbitration or we don't want to have the pay increase. There's a trade deadline. I know compending teams aren't going to go. He's worth, you know, I don't know. Our top, our third best prospect in the org. And here's, here's a trade package that you would get for Juan Soto or for trade Turner or somebody that's legit. I understand that. They don't have a stake about it. They botched it. They absolutely should have traded them in July. They screwed that up. And that's kind of my point here. So if the, if the baseball folks had any kind of communication with, with the ownership staff going, Hey, this might cost us a little bit more, but he's good guy to have. All he's ever done is the right thing here. He's, he's consistent. He answered the bell every day. The metrics aren't probably worth what he's going to command. But that's, there's worth having somebody that's done the right things, the organization reward someone. And if ownership goes, you know what, we, it's probably too rich for our blood. We could better allocate elsewhere. Now I know that. And I can do a baseball move where I can trade this person for something else. I have no problem. Instead, they have nothing and they're going to fill it with nothing. Correct. That's everything about that's wrong. I'm so upset about it. All I wanted to do for days is scream about it. Yeah. And I'm glad that we are. Also, it makes me worry that the communication from ownership to the front office either wasn't there at the deadline or has shifted, like maybe they didn't know in July that they were going to have so little to spend. And now they need the nine million that you free up with Finnegan so that you can spend elsewhere because you're not getting what you thought you would get. I mean, these are all my own theories. I don't know that I can back any of them up. But what I know is it's been a long time since they've spent any real money. That's what I know. And that they're in a pretty good spot because they've got a savvy front office that's made a bunch of really good trades. If not for that, they'd be one of the Drex of Major League Baseball. And it is time to open up that checkbook and to spend some money this off season. Do we really need another computer when it's faster, more powerful? 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The Nats were once rumored to be in on Juan Soto, and that is now not the case... Do we have a long offseason ahead?