Cody Ross
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first heard Feb 2025
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Pablo Torre Finds Out · The Room: Behind Closed Doors of the Messiest Ritual in Sports · 6 Feb 2025
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Woody Ross played for the Marlins from 2006 to 2010. First of all, Dan, you're making me dizzy, bro. You're like moving around. I know. I mean, I'm like, I had too much wine last night, maybe. I don't know. But you're going to like stay still for a second.
I do have an office. Do you have an office in your 15,000-square-foot house?
There he is. Anyways, back to me. Yeah, so 2006-2010... Never really got an opportunity at the first few places that I was at. And then got to the Marlins and had an incredible opportunity. I remember being with the Dodgers in spring training in 06. And I was just praying. I'm like, please, let me go to the Marlins. I see what they're doing over there. They're young and they're enthusiastic.
And anyways, yeah. So I guess I always say this to people about David. I say he's the second best president I've ever had. in my life. All right. This is where you ask the questions. Everybody else is tied for first.
That's correct. Yes, and I'll remember mine very vividly. Although I don't remember the actual numbers, you can probably tell me the numbers below.
This is what happens with Marlins. I think we're the first team to start this file and trial deal. So if you file the number, there was no negotiating between the time you filed and the time your arbitration hearing. So there was a deadline. I'll never forget. My agent was calling me at the witching hour going, hey, they're not budging. And I'm like, well, I'm not budging either. And so...
We'll just go to arbitration. And so hung up. And sure enough, the time came and I'm like, let's see if they budge. You think David's budging? Hell no. He ain't budging. And so he texts me or call me the next day. He's like, you idiot. Now we got to go to arbitration in Florida. Oh, gosh, this is going to be painful. Like, just wait and see how much we're going to talk about you.
You're going down. I'll never forget it. To finish my story, I'll never forget. I fly in to Jupiter for spring training and our arbitration case is in Tampa. And David calls me and he's like, hey, he's like, hey, I'm taking my family to Tampa. And do you want to jump on the jet with us to go to your arbitration case? And I'm like, yeah. And so am I, why not? My wife and I get on the private jet.
But meanwhile, it probably costs more to fly there on a private jet than what I'm actually going to either win or lose in arbitration. And so we get on the jet. We get there. We're cutting it up, having a good time, going to the room. And even though I put up a good year going into that year, they bring out some of the craziest stats you've ever seen in your life of how bad you are.
And compared to, you know, some guy from 1973, like, what? How do I compare to that guy?
Like Dan, I mean, I'm coming from basically nothing and I'm, you know, we're talking about a few hundred thousand dollars. Yeah, so basically you're in a hotel conference room and it's like David said, a long rectangular table. On that side of the table is your team that you're playing for. And the commissioner's office has a couple of attorneys. And then over here is the arbiters.
On my side, I have my agents, attorneys, MLBPA attorneys. And then, so I'm sitting closest to the arbiters. And I see David over there. I think, was Vinefest there? I can't remember. Yep. Was Vinefest there? Yes. Yep. Yep. And I just was looking at film the whole time. David's got his little smile and he's like smirking at me and I'm like smirking at him.
And meanwhile, my agents are like, hey, you can't like, when they're talking about you, when we're talking about you, you just like, you're literally like in a courtroom. But I just wanted to go in and hear what they had to say. Because I felt like even that was going to make me better going into the following year.
Yeah, I wanted it. I wanted the smoke. I heard all these horror stories about people going into arbitration and creating bad tension and bad blood going into the season. You could have a bad taste in your mouth for the organization, but... I really didn't, even though they hammered me, which was amazing. At the same time, I'm like, wow, where do they get this? This is incredible.
Like they pull stuff out of there, literally out of there. It was a tough process to go through, but at the end of it, it was, I would do it over a hundred times.
I do not, actually. I mean, I couldn't pick them out of a group of two, any three of them. I have no idea.
He just walked 15,000 square feet away. Into his basement. That basement's amazing. Y'all should go check it out sometime.
I just remember like certain stats that they threw out and I was like, oh man, like that is below the belt. Like I think they were trying to pin me on me not being a starter because I wasn't a starter when I got to the Marlins. I worked my way into being a starter. I was a platoon player. Somebody would get hurt. I would play like, you know, a 30 games in a row.
And then the guy would come back and I would kind of platoon. And so going into arbitration about three years in, I've only been a starter for a year and a half. So they were pounding the arbitration guys like this guy's not a starter. He doesn't, you know, you can't look at him as a starter, even though I came in on my platform year having a really good year.
They were just pounding like, he's not a starter. He's not a starter. And I'm like, okay, I get it. I'm not, I am a starter, but you're telling me I'm not. Now they don't think I am a starter.
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