Jeff Passan

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8,355 appearances 53 recordings 8 series first heard Oct 2025 last heard 3d ago

Jeff Passan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Program · H1 Monologue, Jeff Passan · 22 Sep 2026 podcast

What are you going to do, put them at first where you've got Ben Rice, Luis Garcia, matched

got traded. matched

That's not exactly the threshold I'm looking for if I'm trading a future Hall of Famer who is like... matched

the definitional player for the definitional franchise in baseball for this generation. matched

Aaron Judge is not going anywhere. matched

Ben Rice is not going anywhere. matched

Luis Garcia is a free agent after next year, so maybe that's a possibility, especially if Giancarlo Stanton isn't coming back and you've got a DH spot open. matched

All of a sudden, that seems to solve that problem. matched

But trading a really good player, Saran, is hard. matched

It's a hard thing to do because most of the time you're not going to be getting back a really good player. matched

Teams that are going after guys of Aaron Judge and Ben Rice's ilk tend to be good teams already and they don't want to move forward. matched

productive players off their big league rosters and so all of a sudden you're you're trading a stud for a bunch of question marks yeah that can surrender that can work out great washington nationals juan soto san diego padres they got james wood they've got harlan susana who's down in the in the minor leagues throwing 103 like matched

Even in that deal, they got Robert Hassel, who didn't turn out to be good, but hey, C.J. matched

Abrams was, and they got two all-stars out of that trade. matched

So it is possible for you to make a great deal in which you trade the best player. matched

It just tends to be rarer than the alternative. matched

I think they just want to gather as much talent as they can. matched

And I think there's also I can't prove this. matched

This is just my sense. matched

I think that teams fall in love with players, with their own guys. matched

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