Out in Left Field

Official X account of the baseball podcast, Out in Left Field. Presented by The Trash Can League Network and founded August 2020.

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Episode 33 is officially out! Ryan and Gabe review a week of baseball trades and free agent signings back in January. Released very late due to editing bugs and glitches.

Listen on our website, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, etc.
https://t.co/cRaIu18RE9

#baseball #mlb

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Update! We are making plans to start producing content once again! Ryan has 2 existing episode projects in the works. One is minor bug fixes to an unreleased off-season episode, and the other deals with college baseball.

[Out in Left Field @OutinLeft_Field]

We will not be recording an episode this weekend. Ryan has had a few personal issues come up and is still behind on editing the last 2 episodes. Hopefully we'll be back the 28th.

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We apologize for delays of Episode 33 and 34. Both are recorded and in the editing stage. Ryan is trying to work out some difficulties.

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We apologize for the delay of releasing Episode 33. While in the final stages of editing, Ryan discovered that a large majority of the audio was not lining up. He is in the process of starting over... again...

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We apologize for releasing this episode so late. Ryan ran into a few tech errors during the editing stage. Episode 33 is on track to be recorded Jan. 7 with release late that day or sometime the 8th.

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Episode 32 is officially out! Ryan and Aiden review the past two weeks of baseball trades and free agent signings.

Listen on our website, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, etc.
https://t.co/ZvPHl613lX

#baseball #mlb

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Episode 32's recording will be pushed to Monday, January 1. Our recording software is producing an error and Help and Support has been contacted and should be looking into the issue. We hope the problem can be solved and apologize for the delay.

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No new episode this week since everyone has already made plans for Christmas. We shall cover two weeks of news during our next recording.

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Credit for details on Ohtani's contract goes to these tweets from financial analyst @JoePompliano:

https://t.co/l7FNmvt0dR

https://t.co/VZJ7Ouhcpg

[Joe Pompliano @JoePompliano]

One of the biggest misconceptions about Shohei Ohtani's contract is that the Dodgers will have an additional ten years to pay him the money.

But that's not how it works.

Major League Baseball's CBA requires teams to fully fund the present-day value of deferred payments within two years of when it is earned.

That means the Dodgers will have to place $44 million in cash into an escrow account every year.

The money will then grow with interest, and Ohtani will be paid his $68 million annual payment when the contract comes due.

It's still beneficial to the team — but it really only buys the Dodgers an additional two years when it comes to the cash leaving their bank account.

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Episode 31 is officially out! Ryan and Sam dive into the latest baseball news and Shohei Ohtani's contract.

Listen on our website, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, etc.
https://t.co/DQPL2VOhjY

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We are having some trouble with our transition audio for Episode 31. We apologize the episode is taking so long to upload.

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We are throwing an episode together today on short notice! Are we truly back? Stay tuned!

[Ryan Bexten @BextenRyan]

If all goes well and according to plan, I will be releasing a solo episode for @OutinLeft_Field tomorrow. Time to get stuff done.

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Looking like we'll be back at it very soon! Ryan is starting to pushing for new episode by August 6 so we can take a dive into the trade deadline! 👀

Stay tuned!!!

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Hey, hey, hey! We are live on Twitter!

We are currently undergoing a few technical upgrades to ensure more consistency. Hoping to start releasing new episodes within the next couple weeks.

In the mean time, you can check out past episodes on our website: https://t.co/gSD8570kog