Arden Zwelling

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915 appearances 9 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2025 last heard 3d ago

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Blue Jays Talk · JTP: Rays Check-In, Eric Hartman & What’s Happened to Toronto? · 20 Jul 2026 podcast

the loopholes, whatever the system becomes.

So now you see like the deferrals loophole and the signing bonus loophole where, okay, we got a ton of free cash flow.

We could put that aside and pay Shohei Otani or Juan Soto or Vladimir Guerrero Jr.

a whole bunch of money in like 2045 and 2046 when he's like retired on a beach somewhere and give him a huge signing bonus up front so he can work around like the tax situation and in our environments.

Or in Vlad's case, if there is a lockout, he still gets his signing bonus.

It's not tied in salary.

No, he got that in a lump sum.

That just popped up direct deposit in his bank account.

However many millions of dollars that was.

A lot of millions.

yeah that's wild right yeah so and if you can if you have the free cash flow to put aside to show that you can pay the deferrals someday like with whatever the interest is which is part of the rule they're like okay you want to defer this money you need to show you have the money today yeah and put it aside in a high interest savings account or whatever it is right an index fund the S&P 500 and then yeah that's

like teams like the blue jays who are owned by rogers which has a ton of free cash flow they can do that guggenheim with the dodgers they can do that a lot of other teams can't so if you're the blue jays and you're operating at this trade deadline you sort of assume okay just because of our ownership whatever the state of play is going forward the next cba will be able to work around it because we have the greatest power in this game and in life and that's cash

Yeah, I know one of their assistant GMs had like a, I don't know, a model, I guess, just running at all times of like, all right, what's this going to mean if we do this deal or even things like if we select this player from AAA or if we like, you know, grab this guy off waivers, like what is...

the consequence of that going to be just, and in concert with the league as well, like double checking your work just to make sure that they finished under the tax.

That was a real priority for them then.

I don't know if it would be a huge priority now.

They probably won't tell us because they don't want that information out there, right?

Because it's leverage to them, right?

So in these discussions, so I don't think they're going to publicize that at all, just as they didn't publicize it in 2024, even though it was clearly by their behavior.

a goal, but yeah, that's one of the advantages the Blue Jays have at a trade deadline when they're selling and when they're buying as well is the ability to take on money.

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