Andrew Friedman
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369 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 2 May
Andrew Friedman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And yeah, I mean, obviously the impact he has
for our team in the clubhouse, on the field, and then also what he has helped provide for our organization in terms of increased resources.
All of that, I think, even with the highest of expectations, in a lot of ways has exceeded that as well.
Yeah.
I mean, I think Shohei, you know, even going back to 2017 when he was still playing in the MPB and coming over to the States, we spent a ton of time on it.
You know, we didn't have the DH at the time, but we did everything we could to try to recruit him and sell him on the city of Los Angeles.
In fact,
Hundreds of hours were spent on that.
And when the announcement came that he was going to the Angels, my brother sent me a text and said, hey, great job selling him on Los Angeles.
So it had been front of mind for us for a long time.
And so that's clearly number one.
You know, with Freddie.
He was someone going into that winner that was at the top of our list, but we just thought the odds of accessing the odds of getting him to leave Atlanta were extremely remote.
So had very low expectations until that day where the Braves traded for Matt Olsen.
And that's when we were like, okay, we have a shot.
So I would say throughout 98% of that process, we thought we had no chance.
And then when that happened, we felt like we had a pretty good chance.
There's a number of guys that we talked about at this offseason, Kyle Tucker coming to us on a shorter-term deal.
We've seen guys take shorter-term deals with higher AAVs.
but not when they have a big long-term contract as an alternative.
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