we're thrilled to welcome Kodi to the mets. Um
we've scouted him from afar for a number of years
um, and we knew when he hit free agency
that we would want to make this day a reality
. He was definitely very excited when he finally learned
he had the chance to come over here and um
, he's still full of excitement going into the season
as well. Those two pictures that you named are
obviously legendary pictures that even every player in Japan would
know of, and he's very excited to learn from
those two and be with them in the clubhouse.
It's been my, my dream ever since I was
first introduced to dodger Stadium to play for the Dodgers
since 2015. Um, just the energy and the
, and the atmosphere that uh, the dodger fans
and that they create my performance is always elevated when
I, when I play there, the most confidence
and the staff and the organization to help me get
back to being the old me, unfortunate and blessed
to play for such a great organization that the Dodgers
are, you know, when they came to me
with their, their pitch and how they run the
organization. It was just a short little little video
, but um, you know, I kind of
got the sense that, you know, it's a
very professional organization and um, they take care of
their players. So um kind of made it easy
and, you know, having my girlfriend from the
Bay Area with their family made a little bit easier
to, so fairly easy decision. But um,
yeah, I'm just happy to be here. It
was a crazy process um you know I had the
opportunity to just talk to a lot of teams and
you know I left free agency thinking the game of
baseball is in great hands. There's a lot of
great people running front offices and a lot of really
smart people. Um but as far as the cubs
go, you know, they expressed interest from the
very beginning, I left that meeting feeling like you
know this could be a really great fit. Um
You know I was super impressed by everything they were
doing and you know the interest was there, they
stayed in touch the entire time and I'm really happy
we could make something work. What a weekend indeed
in major league baseball and Dansby Swanson is on the
north side. We had talked a lot about would
that number be around$200 million. It was just
shy of that but certainly a great deal for Dansby
sponsored in a place where he and his new wife
Mallory wanted to be of course Mallory plays for the
Chicago red stars. Dansby now a Chicago cub the
first couple of Chicago sports indeed seven years.$177
million. The braves lose a cornerstone player for the
second straight off season. This is a situation where
J. D. Martinez gets to reunite not only
with mookie betts in Los Angeles but also with hitting
coach robert Van who is credited with getting J.
D. Right offensively and putting up some great offensive
numbers. So that is the reunion there. Justin
Turner speaking of former Dodgers, he now goes the
red sox, he gets two years,$22 million
with an opt out, 100 and 28 games,
had 100 and 16 0 PS plus his lowest since
2013 the Mets, he turned 38 last november but
a two year deal in boston case. What do
you think? Go case race? I love I
love this sign. Ad man I love this sign
I think Justin Turner man, this guy's a pro
, he flat out, he's gonna love that green
monster with the way he can pull the ball and
get inside of baseball. He'll be doing that obviously
him out there in boston to they can use him
in so many different roles they can use him as
the th they can spell Devers for a few days
at third, they can play him at first.
He obviously is one of the best postseason hitters in
the history. So this sign is a good sign
for me. I think Justin Turner's got a lot
left in the tank. The red Sox nation is
gonna love him When you consider the Houston Astros won
a world series title with an ailing Michael Brantley's shoulder
. It scares you to think of how good they
can be with Michael Brantley back and with a shoulder
that's feeling a lot better in 2023 you're right matt
. And I think following the surgery, the expectation
is he should be able to be healthy for if
not all of the season or if not most of
it is certainly very close to it. He's,
he is going to be in very, very good
shape that the Astros believe arriving in spring training.
Seth Lugo's agreement. According to Fabian with the Padres
is expected to be two years just north of 15
million and opt out after 2023 according to sources to
the athletic, we've also been seeing this really heavily
lately. The fact that guys, even in a
two year deal are picking up that opt out clause
. This has really been a strong player market.
What are you talking about? The team that is
all in the san, Diego Padres, they're not
afraid to spend money, they're upgrading their bullpen.
They were in on Aaron judge. I mean,
they've been on just about every marquee free agent that
has been out there and I think says luke,
oh, I know he wants to be a starting
pitcher. He was a very valuable swing guy for
the mats in the last couple of years for more
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