The padres Owners Just made a BOLD Move...

The Padres went and made a really bold move today, and let's talk about it. In an off-season so far defined by more who they are letting go and questions about whether or not the ownership is ready to put their money where their mouths are and start spinning like it's going out of style. And then the only bright girls we got is, oh, well, Yuki's coming back. We have a big one today. Today was the deadline for all the qualifying offers in baseball. What's going on, everybody? Christian Pedersen back with another episode of Padres Digest, the show that is eternally optimistic and really likes what was done today. And that today, my ladies and gentlemen, friends, boys and girls, the Padres have given Adrian Morihan a $23.15 million qualifying offer. This qualifying offer being confirmed. by Jeff Passant to be one of the eight players that were given qualifying offers in all of baseball. So we'll have videos actually about all of these guys probably potentially being still in play because a qualifying offer does not entirely guarantee that Mori Hone is coming back. For those of you that have not ever done qualifying offers, what those do is... That if Mori Hon does reject this one-year $23.15 million deal and go with somebody else, then the Padres can receive some draft compensation. And while that does not immediately fix... The issues of out on Mori home. It is certainly something on the front of tangibly. We would get something back, but I think that this is also, I have a lot of positive thoughts and really no negative thoughts about this actually. Cause I think that this is something for me that if we get, if we get a draft, if we lose Mori home, yes, that's a bummer, but get a draft. And then we would not have actually spent that money. So the same thing I keep telling myself with all the other guys who have either declined their offers or we have declined their offers is saving big to spend elsewhere. The second thing being that $23 million in on Mori Home is absolutely the spending big in a way that is the money where their mouth is. Like I said, I'm curious with the Michael King and the... Like Griffin Canning and Nick Pavetta and all the other guys that have been declined on the options. Is that to position to do longer term and other negotiations? Or is that the owners saying, hey, oh, my God, we love Peter Seidler's vision. We want to do this. But then coming up with all sorts of excuses to be like, oh, well, this is why we weren't able to fully capitalize on the market and yada, yada, yada. For Adrian Morihan, the numbers, I think. I think the numbers, despite the way that it ended with him. Having some blown opportunities down the stretch run and into the playoffs still panned out that he is one of the most elite receivers. I keep saying receivers instead of relievers. I just got football season on the mind. My bad. I think he's one of the most elite receivers. Did it again? Free YouTube show. You get what you get. He's lefty. He's good. Is he the best? No. But we also saw that with Mason Miller last year that everybody's human. So $23 million, singularly, individually, this season, maybe is worth it, maybe is not worth it. That might not be, to me, the entirely right metric to judge this move by. But I think that, for me, the key here that is actually clutch and why I like this, A, is because it's a big spin, and so do the qualifying offer. Don't let him get away for nothing. This to me. I said this a couple of weeks ago in the first Adrian Morihan video that I did. For as much as he is projected to get some massive, oh, he's the best young lefty in his late 20s, he could be a closer for all these other teams that don't have a Mason Miller. Sure. Let's also maybe discuss this as a one- or two-year window right now of offenses. We're rapidly old, but Manny and Xander are starting to get a little bit older. We don't know fully what the starting pitching situation is. For as good and close as we are to being the ultimate champions and finally getting that monkey off our back, there, I think, is also things more important. than signing Adrian Mori home to a five-year, $100 million, $200 million, $300 million, whatever kind of runaway contract he was going to get. So if he wants to be here in San Diego, but addresses, as he said in his quotes that he said offseason, his value, it does come with a catch. Apologies, hitting the wrong button there. Thank If Morihan is somebody who can be a very good reliever for us right now for one more year to hold this bullpen together of having the back end of the bullpen be Yuki and Morihan you. and Miller and David Morgan and Tucker Musgrove, I think in my personal, this is a whole other side rant, but I think Joe Musgrove is going to wind up in the bullpen. And that's, you know, you throw in one or two more righties. He's in a waddy. That's a really good bullpen. And also one that we don't need to go spend any more money on right now or spend any longer-term commitments and then can give our ownership some real focus on, okay, we need to spend on Ty France, bring him back, and then just go effing buck wild on the starting rotation and throw out a bunch of chum into the water and bring back some dudes. Or go get trades or go do whatever, but just like really can provide some clarity of just like, okay, Mori Hone's here for one year. Let's see what we get in terms of. Building up a starting rotation, because I would assume that some of these starting rotation deal, like a Michael King deal, a Nick Pavetta restructured new deal, Walker Bueller for a couple of years, some of these are not going to be one year to show me fix it deals. We could potentially have a starting rotation locked in for a couple of years and then have a greater understanding of what our long-term financial commitments are and go through a great season. Find something to work with Moriho long-term or find that he stepped up a little bit and we locked in Mason Miller. We got to pay him at some point for a longer term deal and that, you know, maybe just Moriho and us part ways, but we didn't have to do it in a way of like, we got one, we got one more good year and then could go. So I. We will see what Morihone is going to do in terms of his ability to bring it home. And he has time still now to bring it back and make his decision. The deadline for all of this is in December. Remember, so. If he accepts it, if he declines it, we will not know for a while. I'm assuming that this is not going to be something that he is going to jump at right away. He's going to want to get some opinions on what his true market value is. But for now, I think that this is step one of the Padres' ownership finally moving, like, actually moving forward. No disrespect to Yuki and Kyle Hart and those guys, but... Those guys are not key, shut-it-down pieces of the bullpen. Adrian Morihone being in our bullpen is absolutely a lethal left-handed 7th and 8th inning. It can also be a closer on nights where Mason Miller needs a night off because of work. So this is, to me, all in all, great news both in the X's and O's and in the front office sort of just vibes. Curious what you guys think on all of this. Let me know in the comment section. Like, subscribe, share, follow, all those other YouTube buttons. Until next time, go Padres. We'll talk to you guys soon.