From the Berkshires to the sound from wherever you live in MLB America. This is inside the Parker. You give us twenty two minutes and we'll give you the scoop on Major League Baseball. Now here's Baseball Hall of Fame voter number seventy six, Rob Parker. Welcome into the podcast. I'm your host, Rob Parker. Here we are the Hot Stove League. Of course, the Winner Meetings taking place at Sandy eight though, and of course we're now in our off seas. Demotive will have one podcast a month until we get to the the regular season. On next podcast will drop on Thursday, January twelve. First, there's been so much action at the Winner Meetings. Let's go up to lead off. It's getting robbed and keep him on. Rob's Hot take on the three biggest stories in Major League Baseball Number one. On Wednesday morning, people look up to Aaron Judge signing with the New York Yankees, a his story nine years, three hundred and sixty million dollars to stay in the Bronx. The San Francisco Giants, his hometown team, made a real push to bring up Judge back to the Bay Area and also in the eleventh hour to San Diego. Padres ponied up a ten year, four hundred million dollar deal to bring Judge to that lineup. That would have been an incredible line up with many Machado and uh tattoos coming back and wants Soto. I mean, I just was blown away that the Padres were involved. But Aaron Judge decides to stay with the Yankees, signs a deal that makes them the highest paid position player ever, also the third biggest contract as far as value in the history of baseball. Here's a guy who bet on himself. Was offered a seven year, two hundred and thirteen million dollar extension and instead of taking that, before the season started, he decided he was gonna bet on himself. He put together an unbelievable year, almost won the Triple Crown. We won the American League MVP. He was second in batting. That's why he didn't won the Triple Crown. He broke Roger Marris's home run record with sixty two in the American League. It was a season to remember. It was a season for the Ages and he got cashed out. People thought he would get paid big, and he did so. Aaron Judge in the Bronx. With the Bronx bombers, Yankee fans rejoice. Two. Some people are surprised. We know that there were people who thought that Aaron Judge was a garner from the Bronx. He was gonna leave the Yanighties because they dissed them by offering him two hundred and thirteen million dollars before the season started. People thought that they lowballed him. I didn't think the Yankees lowballed him, giving his injury history, but I'm not surprised that Aaron Judge picked the Yankees. Ultimately, Remember, he was offered the same amount of money to go back to San Francisco to play for his hometown team, the Giants turn that down. He was offered another forty million, ten years, four hundred million dollars by the San Diego Padres. Who doesn't want to live in San Diego, Who doesn't want to play that beautiful ballpark? Look at that team that made the playoffs and beat the Dodgers a year ago. There's a lot of things to like about the Padres. And he also turned that down. And the reason I believe he turned it down is he never was leaving the Bronx. He never was leaving the Yankees. This guy is about history, is about wearing the pin stripes. He came up through the Yankees farm system. Here's a guy who has a chance to be Derek Jeeter, and and I think that there was a time where he probably considered, which guy do you want to be Derek Jeeter who played his entire twenty year career with the Yankees before going to the Hall of Fame, Or Robinson Canoe who was a Hall of Fame type player when he played in the Bronx, who took the extra loote to go to Seattle and that thing flamed out. Forget about the juice. Things just didn't work out of Seattle. And basically you didn't see him because it's the West Coast and late games he disappeared. This guy was one of the best players in the game. And Judge picked that he wanted to be like Derek Cheeter and that he was going to take the Yankees offer if they matched the minimum, which was what the Giants had offered. And it says a lot about him. He fits the city, he fits the team, the Wrons bombers. He's a home run hitter. He's all about tradition. This is a guy who past Babe Ruth and Roger Marrits for the all time home run UM home runs in a single season in Yankee history. This guy is is embedded in in the community, in the fabric. He's the perfect guy for New York. He uh handles the pressure. A lot of guys can't play in the big city in the bright legs, but Aaron Judge can. And we saw that and he carried the Yankees a year ago. This guy has been a fan favorite from almost date one. His first step bat in the major leagues in he it's a home run. His first step back at Yankee Stadium, I mean the next year as a full rookie, he wins the Rookie of the Year. He has an unbelievable UH win in the home run Derby down in Miami. Hit like twenty some home runs in the last round or whatever it was. It was like a a show he put on and uh. The only issue about Aaron Judge his whole career is if he can stay healthy. He's a great play play center field. Last year he leads off. He hits for average. We're talking about UM a time in baseball where guys are hitting two forty. He had three eleven as a power hitter. It's not like he had sixty two runs and bad at two. Ten were just swinging for the offenses. Three eleven is a hell of an average when the league average was two forty four this past year. So he does all those things, he knocks and runs a hundred and thirty one RBIs out of the lead off spot. What what would his number has been? What if he bad at four the third with guys on base. Incredible player and the Yankees knew they had something special from day one. That's why they put the judges chambers and the stands. They built a stand for fans who could wear robes and white wigs, you know, and and something that looked like a courtroom, like who who does that? The Yankees never have done that for an individual player. It talks about the respect they have and last, or not least, you don't have to worry about Aaron Judge getting in trouble doing anything dumb, saying stuff to the fans or being disrespectful. He's like Derek Geeta. I'm telling you, these guys are the same player. I covered Derek Jeter from day one in his career in New York. I was a columnist at Newsday, and he was right away a guy people are, you know, gravitating it too and like and Aaron Judge the same. He's just Derek Geta with muscles and Derek Geta with a with a long ball stick. And that's what the Bronx barmbers are about. So a lot of people thought the trend was that he was gonna move on. I mean, that's what everybody. Even John Hayman is one of the best baseball writers in the country. He had an erroneous report that he was gonna go with the Giants and had to retract it because it was not correct, and he decided to come back to the Yankees. A lot of people thought that Aaron Judge was on his way out in New York. You know why, Freddie Freeman left the Braves, Corey Seeger left the Dodgers, Jacob Degram left the mess Carlos Coreya left the Astros. So it just seemed like, you know, there's a good shot that Aaron Judge was gonna follow suit. But I never believed it. I never believed it. On The Odd Couple, the radio show on Fox Sports Radio. We talked about. I kept saying, the Yankees will not be outbid, and Aaron Judge will not leave. I've never thought that he was gonna leave for one second, because I do believe that he cherishes being in the pin stripes, playing in the Bronx, and playing for the most story franchise in sports history. That's the New York Yanks. Number three. Don't look now, but the Philadelphia Phillies. That taste of the World Series, that taste of being National League champions, that wasn't enough. We know they have Bryce Harper, but they wanted more. And you gotta give the Phillies some credit. They went out and got themselves a three hundred million dollars shortstop and Trade Turner, who of course played for the Dodgers last year about a three sixteen and uh has been a tremendous He has speed, he hits for average. He's a good fielder. I mean, Trade Turner is a really good player and adamant to that lineup for the Phillies has to be good, and Phillies fans have to feel good about it because you know, you still have the Atlanta Braves in the NL East. You got the New York Mats, so they're not resting on their loyals, think on their thinking that you know, it's automatic and they're gonna get back to the World Series and all that. They know that they had at the adds to their team, and they went out and did it. And Taiwan Walker, who they also got. It's impressive Taiwan Walker pitch for the Mets. He got a two year, eighty six million dollar deal with the Phillies. He's a really good picture young guy. Um So the Phillies, both of their team, there's no doubt about it. And their series number four, the New York Metropolitans. We know Steve Cohen is their owner. He's got deep pockets, a couple of billion dollars he's worth, and he went out. They lose Jacob deGrom to the Texas Rangers, and hats off to the Texas Rangers because they got hitting in all that, but they need pitching and if Jacob deGrom can stay healthy, they got a guy at the top of their rotation who could change their fortune. Now it's a big if because he can't stay healthy. But the Mets needed to replace the Grom and their rotation to go along with the Max Scherzer as the ace, and they went out and got the a L Cy Young and come back the year Justin Burlander and I think this is a great deal for the Mets. Two years, eighty six million dollars and with an option for a third year at thirty five. Now Verland is gonna be forty this coming season. You don't want to sign a guy into a lot of years. That's what the Gram got. The Ground got five years from Texas And basically, when you're the Texas Rangers, you gotta pay the bad team tax. You gotta pay those extra years to give people to come your way. And in this case with the Mets, Verlander for two years is great. It weakens the Astros in the A L, but it bolsters the Met. So now you know you're going to a three game series and you have Scherzer and Verlander. Um. They have rekindled their their kinship and and friendship from when they pitched for the Tigers. At one time they had three straight Cy Young Award winners in Justin Verlander, Matt Scherzer and Dave their Price. Can you imagine all three of them had won the three Cy Youngs in three consecutive years. I don't think that's ever happened. And guess what, they didn't win a World Series. In fact, they got swept in a three game series against the Baltimore Orioles and all three of those guys pitched. And I remember seeing a picture in the Baltimore Orioles clubhouse and they had the three side Young Awards pictures of the cy Young Award, three of them taked up on the wall and they had an exco each one that they beat three Cy Young Award winners to win that playoff series. So the Mets also picked up Jose Quintana, uh, two year contract, twenty six million dollars. Uh. And definitely with the loss of Walker, they definitely needed to add another picture from the You know the guy who who was a star with the White Sox. We remember that went to the Cubs for big money, that didn't work, bounced around on a few teams the last couple of years. Uh. But here we go, They're gonna give him a shot, uh with the Mets. And the Mets needed another arm, so they picked him up as well. Now bringing the clothes, Here's why MLB is better than the NFL. Or NBA, and it isn't even close. Reason the number five hundred and one why baseball is better than the NBA in the NFL. Ken Rosenthal from Fox and of course, uh The Athletic. He reported that the Dodgers did not go after free agent shortstop Callus Correa, who played last year with the Twins after stellar run with the Houston Astros where he won a World Series, because Dodger fans would not accept him because of the cheating scandal that cost the Dodgers potentially the World Series in seventeen. That was a year when the Astros cheated, So Dodger fans want no part of an Astro player. Maybe that's why they didn't get Gerlander as well, he was on that team. But definitely the hitters, as we know, stole signs. So the dodgerss figure they don't want to bring in the guy like Carlos Correa onto their team and their their their franchise, and teams like that can happen. Their teams will look the other way, act like stuff that happened. But when you're a blue blood and when you're one of the franchises in a sport like the Dodgers, like the Yankees, like the Cardinals. You call the shots. You're the one who decides who's gonna wear your uniform and who won't wear it, And in this case, the Dodgers decided Carlos Correa ain't happening, and since then the Dodger fans no one's crying to tear in Los Angeles that he's not coming. In the words of New York TV legend the late Bill Jorgensen, thanking you for your time this time until next time. Rob Parker out. He can't get it. This could be an inside the Parker to see you next weekend, same bad time. Save Matt Station

From the Berkshires to the sound from wherever you live in MLB America. This is inside the Parker. You give us twenty two minutes and we'll give you the scoop on Major League Baseball. Now here's Baseball Hall of Fame voter number seventy six, Rob Parker. Welcome into the podcast. I'm your host, Rob Parker. Here we are the Hot Stove League. Of course, the Winner Meetings taking place at Sandy eight though, and of course we're now in our off seas. Demotive will have one podcast a month until we get to the the regular season. On next podcast will drop on Thursday, January twelve. First, there's been so much action at the Winner Meetings. Let's go up to lead off. It's getting robbed and keep him on. Rob's Hot take on the three biggest stories in Major League Baseball Number one. On Wednesday morning, people look up to Aaron Judge signing with the New York Yankees, a his story nine years, three hundred and sixty million dollars to stay in the Bronx. The San Francisco Giants, his hometown team, made a real push to bring up Judge back to the Bay Area and also in the eleventh hour to San Diego. Padres ponied up a ten year, four hundred million dollar deal to bring Judge to that lineup. That would have been an incredible line up with many Machado and uh tattoos coming back and wants Soto. I mean, I just was blown away that the Padres were involved. But Aaron Judge decides to stay with the Yankees, signs a deal that makes them the highest paid position player ever, also the third biggest contract as far as value in the history of baseball. Here's a guy who bet on himself. Was offered a seven year, two hundred and thirteen million dollar extension and instead of taking that, before the season started, he decided he was gonna bet on himself. He put together an unbelievable year, almost won the Triple Crown. We won the American League MVP. He was second in batting. That's why he didn't won the Triple Crown. He broke Roger Marris's home run record with sixty two in the American League. It was a season to remember. It was a season for the Ages and he got cashed out. People thought he would get paid big, and he did so. Aaron Judge in the Bronx. With the Bronx bombers, Yankee fans rejoice. Two. Some people are surprised. We know that there were people who thought that Aaron Judge was a garner from the Bronx. He was gonna leave the Yanighties because they dissed them by offering him two hundred and thirteen million dollars before the season started. People thought that they lowballed him. I didn't think the Yankees lowballed him, giving his injury history, but I'm not surprised that Aaron Judge picked the Yankees. Ultimately, Remember, he was offered the same amount of money to go back to San Francisco to play for his hometown team, the Giants turn that down. He was offered another forty million, ten years, four hundred million dollars by the San Diego Padres. Who doesn't want to live in San Diego, Who doesn't want to play that beautiful ballpark? Look at that team that made the playoffs and beat the Dodgers a year ago. There's a lot of things to like about the Padres. And he also turned that down. And the reason I believe he turned it down is he never was leaving the Bronx. He never was leaving the Yankees. This guy is about history, is about wearing the pin stripes. He came up through the Yankees farm system. Here's a guy who has a chance to be Derek Jeeter, and and I think that there was a time where he probably considered, which guy do you want to be Derek Jeeter who played his entire twenty year career with the Yankees before going to the Hall of Fame, Or Robinson Canoe who was a Hall of Fame type player when he played in the Bronx, who took the extra loote to go to Seattle and that thing flamed out. Forget about the juice. Things just didn't work out of Seattle. And basically you didn't see him because it's the West Coast and late games he disappeared. This guy was one of the best players in the game. And Judge picked that he wanted to be like Derek Cheeter and that he was going to take the Yankees offer if they matched the minimum, which was what the Giants had offered. And it says a lot about him. He fits the city, he fits the team, the Wrons bombers. He's a home run hitter. He's all about tradition. This is a guy who past Babe Ruth and Roger Marrits for the all time home run UM home runs in a single season in Yankee history. This guy is is embedded in in the community, in the fabric. He's the perfect guy for New York. He uh handles the pressure. A lot of guys can't play in the big city in the bright legs, but Aaron Judge can. And we saw that and he carried the Yankees a year ago. This guy has been a fan favorite from almost date one. His first step bat in the major leagues in he it's a home run. His first step back at Yankee Stadium, I mean the next year as a full rookie, he wins the Rookie of the Year. He has an unbelievable UH win in the home run Derby down in Miami. Hit like twenty some home runs in the last round or whatever it was. It was like a a show he put on and uh. The only issue about Aaron Judge his whole career is if he can stay healthy. He's a great play play center field. Last year he leads off. He hits for average. We're talking about UM a time in baseball where guys are hitting two forty. He had three eleven as a power hitter. It's not like he had sixty two runs and bad at two. Ten were just swinging for the offenses. Three eleven is a hell of an average when the league average was two forty four this past year. So he does all those things, he knocks and runs a hundred and thirty one RBIs out of the lead off spot. What what would his number has been? What if he bad at four the third with guys on base. Incredible player and the Yankees knew they had something special from day one. That's why they put the judges chambers and the stands. They built a stand for fans who could wear robes and white wigs, you know, and and something that looked like a courtroom, like who who does that? The Yankees never have done that for an individual player. It talks about the respect they have and last, or not least, you don't have to worry about Aaron Judge getting in trouble doing anything dumb, saying stuff to the fans or being disrespectful. He's like Derek Geeta. I'm telling you, these guys are the same player. I covered Derek Jeter from day one in his career in New York. I was a columnist at Newsday, and he was right away a guy people are, you know, gravitating it too and like and Aaron Judge the same. He's just Derek Geta with muscles and Derek Geta with a with a long ball stick. And that's what the Bronx barmbers are about. So a lot of people thought the trend was that he was gonna move on. I mean, that's what everybody. Even John Hayman is one of the best baseball writers in the country. He had an erroneous report that he was gonna go with the Giants and had to retract it because it was not correct, and he decided to come back to the Yankees. A lot of people thought that Aaron Judge was on his way out in New York. You know why, Freddie Freeman left the Braves, Corey Seeger left the Dodgers, Jacob Degram left the mess Carlos Coreya left the Astros. So it just seemed like, you know, there's a good shot that Aaron Judge was gonna follow suit. But I never believed it. I never believed it. On The Odd Couple, the radio show on Fox Sports Radio. We talked about. I kept saying, the Yankees will not be outbid, and Aaron Judge will not leave. I've never thought that he was gonna leave for one second, because I do believe that he cherishes being in the pin stripes, playing in the Bronx, and playing for the most story franchise in sports history. That's the New York Yanks. Number three. Don't look now, but the Philadelphia Phillies. That taste of the World Series, that taste of being National League champions, that wasn't enough. We know they have Bryce Harper, but they wanted more. And you gotta give the Phillies some credit. They went out and got themselves a three hundred million dollars shortstop and Trade Turner, who of course played for the Dodgers last year about a three sixteen and uh has been a tremendous He has speed, he hits for average. He's a good fielder. I mean, Trade Turner is a really good player and adamant to that lineup for the Phillies has to be good, and Phillies fans have to feel good about it because you know, you still have the Atlanta Braves in the NL East. You got the New York Mats, so they're not resting on their loyals, think on their thinking that you know, it's automatic and they're gonna get back to the World Series and all that. They know that they had at the adds to their team, and they went out and did it. And Taiwan Walker, who they also got. It's impressive Taiwan Walker pitch for the Mets. He got a two year, eighty six million dollar deal with the Phillies. He's a really good picture young guy. Um So the Phillies, both of their team, there's no doubt about it. And their series number four, the New York Metropolitans. We know Steve Cohen is their owner. He's got deep pockets, a couple of billion dollars he's worth, and he went out. They lose Jacob deGrom to the Texas Rangers, and hats off to the Texas Rangers because they got hitting in all that, but they need pitching and if Jacob deGrom can stay healthy, they got a guy at the top of their rotation who could change their fortune. Now it's a big if because he can't stay healthy. But the Mets needed to replace the Grom and their rotation to go along with the Max Scherzer as the ace, and they went out and got the a L Cy Young and come back the year Justin Burlander and I think this is a great deal for the Mets. Two years, eighty six million dollars and with an option for a third year at thirty five. Now Verland is gonna be forty this coming season. You don't want to sign a guy into a lot of years. That's what the Gram got. The Ground got five years from Texas And basically, when you're the Texas Rangers, you gotta pay the bad team tax. You gotta pay those extra years to give people to come your way. And in this case with the Mets, Verlander for two years is great. It weakens the Astros in the A L, but it bolsters the Met. So now you know you're going to a three game series and you have Scherzer and Verlander. Um. They have rekindled their their kinship and and friendship from when they pitched for the Tigers. At one time they had three straight Cy Young Award winners in Justin Verlander, Matt Scherzer and Dave their Price. Can you imagine all three of them had won the three Cy Youngs in three consecutive years. I don't think that's ever happened. And guess what, they didn't win a World Series. In fact, they got swept in a three game series against the Baltimore Orioles and all three of those guys pitched. And I remember seeing a picture in the Baltimore Orioles clubhouse and they had the three side Young Awards pictures of the cy Young Award, three of them taked up on the wall and they had an exco each one that they beat three Cy Young Award winners to win that playoff series. So the Mets also picked up Jose Quintana, uh, two year contract, twenty six million dollars. Uh. And definitely with the loss of Walker, they definitely needed to add another picture from the You know the guy who who was a star with the White Sox. We remember that went to the Cubs for big money, that didn't work, bounced around on a few teams the last couple of years. Uh. But here we go, They're gonna give him a shot, uh with the Mets. And the Mets needed another arm, so they picked him up as well. Now bringing the clothes, Here's why MLB is better than the NFL. Or NBA, and it isn't even close. Reason the number five hundred and one why baseball is better than the NBA in the NFL. Ken Rosenthal from Fox and of course, uh The Athletic. He reported that the Dodgers did not go after free agent shortstop Callus Correa, who played last year with the Twins after stellar run with the Houston Astros where he won a World Series, because Dodger fans would not accept him because of the cheating scandal that cost the Dodgers potentially the World Series in seventeen. That was a year when the Astros cheated, So Dodger fans want no part of an Astro player. Maybe that's why they didn't get Gerlander as well, he was on that team. But definitely the hitters, as we know, stole signs. So the dodgerss figure they don't want to bring in the guy like Carlos Correa onto their team and their their their franchise, and teams like that can happen. Their teams will look the other way, act like stuff that happened. But when you're a blue blood and when you're one of the franchises in a sport like the Dodgers, like the Yankees, like the Cardinals. You call the shots. You're the one who decides who's gonna wear your uniform and who won't wear it, And in this case, the Dodgers decided Carlos Correa ain't happening, and since then the Dodger fans no one's crying to tear in Los Angeles that he's not coming. In the words of New York TV legend the late Bill Jorgensen, thanking you for your time this time until next time. Rob Parker out. He can't get it. This could be an inside the Parker to see you next weekend, same bad time. Save Matt Station