Luis Severino

Yeah.

I mean, Rogers pitchers get paid, right? Like what's he going to, he's not, he's not going to get worse than like the Luis Severino contract.

Right.

And that was like three or 70 million or something.

I'm not against a floor, but I don't think 180 is the right floor at all.

And I think also you're going to get these deals like Sacramento had a couple years ago where they're just signing Luis Severino so they don't get penalized for not having enough of a salary for your team under a certain amount of years.

And so you give a person that doesn't necessarily... earn three for 67, but you need to have that so you can hit the floor.

That's what you will have with the White Sox and all these 12 teams that need to get up to a level.

And then you're just going to be seeing teams like, I have to spend money on players that don't earn this money.

And that, yeah, I can see... owners saying, hey, players, look, you're giving a player money, more money than he should.

He's happy, but also there's a player who's making the same amount of money as Luis Severino who actually earned that contract and is looking at Luis Severino making the same amount of money, performing the same way he performed before he made that same amount of money while you're still thriving and overperforming your contract.

And you're like, why is this guy making that much money? Oh, because they need to hit players.

Not that he'll get to rehab with the team over the offseason.

Luis Severino opted into $1.22 million.

Again...

No, I'm shocked by this, although our projections were a little kinder on him than I expected when I saw them.

All right, let's take a look at your comments here.

And we got some good views on yesterday's episode, so I appreciate all of you watching the Cutting Ties episode where we talked about Luis Severino coming back and some guys not coming back.

And we got some good comments here, some fun stuff here in the comments section.

At Real Talk with Uncle Adam.

And I think it's very important if you want to be successful to have veteran pitching depth.

So that's why I would keep Jeffrey Springs.

At Elephant 2024, not terribly surprised about the decisions to not bring back Jeff McNeil or Jeffrey Springs, nor Luis Severino opting back in.

McNeil was good and offered a lot of versatility, but the A's were not going to pay him.

Could be wrong.

Said the same thing about Luis Severino.

I thought Luis Severino was going to be phenomenal with the A's, and obviously that did not turn out well.

But I think Mize is going to be the guy that's really going to click it into gear wherever he signs.

And if I were him, I'd be looking at the A's.

But before we get to the next player, we're going to just dive real quickly into the MLB side of projected starting pitchers.

Outside of Luis Severino and Gage Jump, maybe JT Genn.

I don't see why Jacob Lopez and Luis Medina's spot is not up in the air for 27.

And, you know, if Jamie Arlen just pitches lights out in spring training, there's a slight, slight, slight chance that he makes the opening day roster.

But between Arnold and Lynn, Lynn's going to be the guy first because they're going to want to get Arnold a full gamut before they're not going to just bring him up for a spot start.

They're more likely to bring him in for a full run at the major league level when he's ready.

Now, talking about that depth for the athletics, Luis Severino has a player option for $22 million.

I cannot imagine him turning that down, especially since he really didn't pitch at all due to injuries.

Jose Barrios of Toronto decided not to opt out of the final two years of his $131 million seven-year contract with the Jays.

Luis Severino, we remember him.

He exercised a $22 million player option for 2027, which is the final year of that three-year deal he signed.

Milwaukee declined an $8.5 million mutual option on Gary Sanchez, who gets a $250,000 buyout.