MLB Insider Drops BOMBSHELL… Padres NEWS

MLB Insider Drops BOMBSHELL… Padres NEWS

Padres’s fans, we’re going to talk about a pretty big report coming out from some major insiders. Another bombshell being dropped this off seasonason as the hot stove keeps cooking. What’s going on everybody? Christian Person back with another episode of Padres’s Digest. Thank you very much for tuning in to the show that just you’ll follow me with you’ll follow me on this one, but I I just we’re done with the veteran the show that’s done with the veteran thing. Done with it. I’m going to try and you’ll watch for the next couple minutes as I try and talk myself into it, but I don’t think that I can. And so if you can if you can talk me into the veteran thing, I want to hear from you. Drop a comment below. Also, never going to hit the subscribe button if you want to accidentally click that as well and just forget to ever uncclick it. Here we go. Brace for impact. Blue Jays 45 million star $45 million star projected to bolt for Padres’s after World Series losses. The headline that I want to talk about, the player is Chris Basset. He is a uh Toronto Blue Jay and or was a Toronto Blue Jay is now a free agent. He’s a starting pitcher. He’s 37. He uh with I’ll show you the numbers. So that I’m not uh accused of just uh blatantly overreacting in any way. But here here’s last season 11 and N just a hair under four RA whips pretty good enough strikeouts. Um I we have talked a lot. I have talked a lot about my personal philosophy this offseason is let’s acquire hitting and just sort of let the pitching thing be handled internally by giving some guys some chances. Don’t spend a ton of money on because I don’t think that one piece fixes it. And I I am curious what you think that the the article that I that I was reading about this goes on to talk about how uh it’s Jim Bowden of the Athletic um projecting Chris Basset would sign a big $45 million free agency this winter and uh that he he’s going to sign it from the Padre. So it it it details how it’s a a deal that is going to be estimated to be in the couple of years um couple of like you know somewhere in the 3 years 12 to 15 million which is a it is an okay deal for a starting pitcher. The rationale presented in this article was getting Basset would be the perfect solution for the Padres’s. They need to find an affordable veteran to plug into the rotation for the time being. And there aren’t many veteran arms in the market who bring the same level of consistency that Basset brings. I’ll use the word consistency to base the rest of my questions and arguments off of. Um, right now the San Diego Padres’s have Nick Paveta and Joe Musgrove as people. I’d be like, “Okay, those are consistent starting pitchers that we can hopefully and we not we will not know Mus Gro’s elbow until the season really starts, but assuming that he’s back and he’s healthy, we can consistently rely on those two uh to just hopefully be available and there and working through good innings and being a net positive for the team. past that. If the Padres’s really are in a pinch to spend on anything and we only say get one big on either side or something like that, what does a 37year-old Chris Basset with a four RA do for us? Is it I is having the consistency of a veteran who’s going to just go out during the season and be be the very middle of the bell curve, but it’s uh hey, he did the World Series and he knows deep playoff runs and he’s been around baseball and he knows the mentality and like there’s not much risk to him in terms of like the way that sometimes risk, I think, is categorized with young players as like, oh, you know, we don’t know what he’s going to do. he might leave this fast ball right in the zone and gets hammered and he’s going to give up all like I think the disasters of perception of risk is always younger newer pitchers don’t succeed necessarily but there’s not a lot of it a credit to to what happens when older guys just completely fall off and sure going out there and being 11 and n with a four RA would have been a net improvement over the season that like say Dylan than CESAD. So, I get that it is an improvement for the rotation, but at the same time, I’m kind of like I’m done with the veteran thing and thinking that we’re going to get Chris Basset to come here and be Charlie Morton and be like, “Oh man, he had a little late career revival and a resurgence when he like I just we just have you going on the shelf right now as he’s staring down 40. We’ve had veterans come and go. Obviously, last year I was big on the Jason Hayward and Julie Gariel not being the solution and they both had the wheels come off and fell off into the ditches and were left. U so I I start to just kind of rub the temples and it’s like why would I want to spend my precious little amount of capital that I have if I was the Padres’s on this? And I I get that I’m saying that from my point of view in my uh my plebeian commoner house and I don’t own a baseball team and it’s not my squad to be like, “Oh well, if you’ve got I like that’s what MLB the show is for.” And I can play it and I can be as good of a GM as I ever want to be because I can adjust the difficulty setting and it’s impossible to look into a crystal ball and say like, “Oh, next year Chris Basset is gonna only give us four starts. So for 12 million or 15 million or whatever, it’s not worth it.” Or you can look at it and be like, man, he really is just a fourstarter, but he is a four starter who can give us six plus every five days all season long and just there’s no downside because he’s just going to keep putting 89 to 91 into the zone with just enough like you can make that. That’s what I’m saying. There is a rationale to be made about it. Maybe just having that presence and ability keeps our bullpen relaxed or not relax but like eases some of the tension of being like we got to put Kyle Hart out there every couple of days and so it’s just a nuclear explo it’s Google Captain Dynamite. It’s a guy from the 70s that would skate around on baseball fields and strap dynamite to himself. Like that could be my visual for Kyle Hart sometimes when he’s starting. So what are we talking about here? links Padres’s to spending on a mid-tier Chris Basset signing to fill out the middle to back of the rotation. Not the end of the world, not the biggest signing ever, but I think indicative of like a bad spin is my gut reaction. Let me know what you think. Drop a comment on I think just kind of anything construction-wise of this pitching rotation because I’ve been doing so many hitting videos and so focused on that. Um, do let let’s let’s start this as my diving into actually taking some credit uh some personal responsibility of like, okay, I’ve been saying let’s be reckless with pitching. Let me follow through and actually talk through the pitching side of it. I just like you look at Zack Gallon, you look at I know I didn’t do this video on Gallup, but we got other videos on other pitchers. So that’s why I say hit the subscribe button. You look at like guys that are just kind of being amorphously linked to the Padres’s thing. And this one is pretty more direct than some of the other ones. None of it gets me all that excited. So, I’m like, not that I’m saying like let’s put Crew Schoolcraft in there, but like let’s put let’s put let’s put some guys from the miners in there. Just let’s What’s the worst that can happen from us just gambling and just pulling that that that lever and being like, “All right, uh, you know, Cash Mayfield, Crew Schoolcraft, somebody one of you guys is going to hit and be a 500 starter that has a 40 RA.” and we do it with a rookie instead of a 37y old who’s costing us 12 million. I I I feel like that’s the one that’s the viable strategy. But again, I’m just a I’m just a Joe. So, appreciate you guys uh dropping a comment. You see baseball in a way diverse way than me. So, it is always great to hear from the community. And if you want to join that community by hitting the subscribe button, not going to be mad at you. Going to help us catch Dodgers Digest. Talk to you guys soon.

On this episode Christian Pedersen talks about the Padres being linked to signing free agent Chris Bassitt.
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