Bob Pompeiani

What would be a starting point for skeins though?

No, that's the stratosphere.

They will never enter.

Well, Garrett Cole got over $300 million, so I would imagine the price only goes up, right?

And we don't know what that's going to be because there could be a work stoppage before it ever gets to that.

He's going to go to free agency.

I think that's pretty clear.

Detroit has him here.

They've also brought in some other pitchers to help them because they think this is the time to strike.

This year is an important one for them.

They could win.

But then after it, he'll be a free agent.

Sure, he's going to get a lot of different contract offers and money is going to keep going higher and higher, but we may not have baseball either.

So how much does that factor into this whole thing?

Yeah, it's going to be interesting to see what Austin... Well, no, something piqued my interest thinking about this.

I think deferred payments are a stroke of genius by the Dodgers.

No one ever did it.

I mean, the Bobby Bonilla thing comes to mind, of course, because that was just a way of them pushing money down the road.

This is a strategy.

This is a strategy so that they can spend even more money to try to build up their roster day in and day out.