# MLB's Top Insider Jeff Passan Answers EVERYTHING: Ohtani, Lockout, Dodgers Ruining Baseball?

An episode of [All The Smoke](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1483638752), 5 Aug 2026, 50 min.

Audio: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/DFT9505775589.mp3

MLB insider Jeff Passan joins Matt Barnes for a wide-ranging conversation covering the looming MLB lockout, the wildest trade that never happened, why he gave up his Hall of Fame vote, breaking the Ohtani gambling scandal, the business behind Ohtani and the Dodgers, the Tommy John surgery epidemic in youth baseball, and much more. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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