Steve Phillips

And remember, the Dodgers pay 110% tax.

on that $57.1 million present value, he will cost them $119.9 million for 2026.

Just him.

And so, like, it's absurd now.

They can do it.

They can afford it.

They've got the revenues to justify what they're doing.

Their business plan and their baseball plan is rolling in the same way, and it's very successful, but nobody else can do that.

You have to let them walk at that point.

There's nothing you can do, and you have to pivot to the next guy.

The problem is the pivot for the Blue Jays went to the Mets because they got crazy with him, and I think a knee-jerk, desperate reaction

of signing Bo Bichette, who doesn't even fit for them, considering they traded for Marcus Simeon, and they talked about wanting to improve their defense, and so they're now going to take a square peg into a round hole, and Bichette tried to play him at third.

Then they're going to take the third baseman, Brett Beatty, and say, oh, we're going to move him to left field and pound another square peg into a round hole.

So the Mets are playing reactive roster building, and it's really getting them in a hole.

Yeah, so I didn't think they could afford both of them.

Dylan Cease, Cody Ponce, and Tyler Rogers in the bullpen is a really big improvement on the pitching.

You've got to get a healthy Barrios back, a full year of Trey Savage.

Then on the offensive side, I mean, last year was a lost year for Anthony Santander.

But the step forward that Addison Barger made and Nathan Lucas made and Ernie Clement made, I think is significant.

A full season of Dalton Varshow this year.