Jeff Passan

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The Dan Patrick Show · The Best of The Dan Patrick Show · 31 Jul 2026 podcast

I think if you're a player...

The way you look at it is this guy is doing things on a field that I could never have conceived of.

Somebody who's that much of an outlier, that different than all the rest of us, by the nature of his skills, he must be the best.

I think you see the Tampa Bay Rays, the Milwaukee Brewers, the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Atlanta Braves, and the Chicago Cubs as the main five right now.

Could the Yankees sneak in?

Could the Phillies potentially do it?

I suppose, but I think at the end of the day, the likeliest three right now are probably Milwaukee, Los Angeles, and Atlanta.

And what it's going to come down to, Dan, is the team's appetites to give up their tippy-top prospects.

Now, I don't think Jesus Madé, who's the number one prospect in all of baseball, a shortstop in the Brewers organization, I don't think he's going anywhere.

Would the Dodgers include Josue DiPaola, their top prospect, an outfielder who looks like Jordan Alvarez and is produced like him in the minor leagues?

Would the Rays include Theo Gillen, their number one prospect, the top 10 guy in the whole sport, center fielder, young, dynamic, athletic, everything's good about him.

Would any of these teams do these high-level players for what is a rental?

And that to me is why I thought from the beginning that the Dodgers had the advantage over all these other teams, Dan.

The lifeblood of the Tampa Bay Rays and the Milwaukee Brewers

is drafting, signing, and developing young players and watching them blossom under six years of club control in the big leagues.

The Dodgers do it just as well as them and also spend four times as much as both of them.

So the Dodgers don't need these prospects.

quite like the brewers and the rays do.

And so the incentive is just there for them to say, hey, if all it takes is prospect cost in the same way, we're going to approach this that we do free agents.

If all this takes is money and we have more than everyone else.

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