Ian Happ

place that i could just go to and see like this team offered this guy this you know i mean like i wish you had to disclose like i wish you had to disclose everything of like they were often showed you mean at all do you mean like a library like i want to hear more about this idea it's not like i just want them to have to tell us like this is how much this team offered this player because it's all made up because yeah because otherwise it's like like we said before like

Agents will just say stuff like, oh, there's a mystery team talking to Kyle Tucker.

It's like, okay, is that supposed to scare a team into signing him?

They do that just to try to scare teams into being like, uh-oh, who's the mystery team coming in?

I texted you about it.

I was like, have you ever seen that big of a discrepancy?

It's the biggest gap ever.

Yeah.

The two keys for me, one like important for people to know is like when they go to arbitration, can a deal still get done before arbitration so they can still negotiate?

Okay.

But if it goes to arbitration, isn't it essentially the arbitrator needs to decide if he's worth more than $25.5 million or less than $25.5 million?

Yeah, it's a midpoint.

Yeah, it's like whatever's in the middle, it needs to be above or below, and that side wins.

Yep.

My issue with it, which I texted you guys, was...

What makes me mad about the whole system of arbitration is that Tariq Scooble, if he was a free agent today, would be making $35 million plus AAV without a shadow of a doubt to me.

There would be teams lined up at the door to pay him $40 million AAV.

Yes.

And it will be interesting to see the contract Tariq Schuble gets.

He's a free agent after this year.