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00:00Jaron Duran asked for 4 million from the Red Sox, the Red Sox filed for 3.5 million, they are taking him to arbitration.
00:07Dude.
00:08Over a half a million dollars.
00:09So, okay.
00:10For a guy who, and the more I read up on this, you know, MLB trade rumors and whatnot, and it's just a projection, but they projected him to get in arbitration almost 5 million, 4.8, 4.9.
00:20Yeah.
00:21So you're getting a deal by him asking for 4.
00:23You're already getting that deal.
00:25You're half a million dollars apart, and you're going to take the player to arbitration over half a million dollars when you spent nothing this offseason?
00:33It's insane.
00:34It's absolutely insane.
00:35And I understand sometimes maybe you do have to take a player to arbitration.
00:38If you just give everybody everything that they want, all of a sudden your payroll kind of balloons.
00:42So I even sort of understand like the business side of it.
00:45Jaron Duran has far exceeded his current contract.
00:50But this is the way baseball works.
00:51So you have to file for arbitration.
00:53Remember when Theo Epstein was here?
00:54Nobody went to arbitration.
00:55He always found a way.
00:56He always found common ground.
00:57Didn't have to have these court cases where you sit there, and you tell the other player, or you tell the player why he's not worth what he's asking for.
01:06Even if you like the player, but now you have to be the business side of it.
01:09You're like, you think you're this?
01:10Famously, Mookie Betts went to arbitration.
01:13They told him, you're not Chris Bryant.
01:15You see what Chris Bryant's doing?
01:17You're not him.
01:18And he's like, okay.
01:19Yeah, he's right.
01:20You're right.
01:21You're right.
01:22And I would ask Jeremy Swayman about the arbitration process.
01:24Now, maybe he took it way too personal, but still, it hurt him.
01:27Corbin Burns famously went to arbitration with Milwaukee.
01:31No shock.
01:32He wasn't in Milwaukee much longer after that.
01:35This is so insane to me, considering it's the same offseason, that they were willing to give Juan Soto $700 million.
01:43I'll put that in air quotes.
01:45They wanted it out there that they would.
01:47I'm the one who shouldn't be putting that in air quotes.
01:49That should be you, because I actually took the cheese on that one.
01:51Well, right.
01:52But to me, they were just close enough.
01:54But publicly, it looks like you were in the bidding for Juan Soto.
01:57You know who had a similar year to Juan Soto?
02:00Jaron Duran.
02:01And you won't give him half a million dollars?
02:04Nope.
02:05Like, what?
02:07He's not asking for $100 million.
02:09He's asking for four.
02:11He was eighth in the MVP voting.
02:13Higher than Devers has ever finished, and you gave him $30 million a year.