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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.