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Speaker 1: Let us gentlemen, We've got some breaking news here on

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the show. Connor, that's one.

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Speaker 2: That's two. Oh we're going three. You want to go four?

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Speaker 1: Oh you're going Wait now, this is not a five.

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I'm stopping you right here. According to Ken Rosenthal and

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Chandler Rome, the Astros and free agent first baseman Christian

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Walker are in serious talks and are progressing towards a deal.

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Speaker 2: We'll discuss that next.

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Speaker 1: Christian Walker an Astro and the best part is he

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was not offered a qualifying offer, which means they don't

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have to give up a draft pick, or he declined

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the qualifying offer, so they'll lose the first round pick.

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They will lose their second and fifth round selections in

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the twenty twenty five class.

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Speaker 2: Who Cares?

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Speaker 1: Details on Christian Walker next eleven forty four on Sports

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seven ninety seven one three two one two five seven

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ninety more Matt Thomas Show with Ross Now on Sports

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Talk seven ninety Another one's on its way. Christian Hacker

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has taken over Tomser Stadium.

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Speaker 2: There is no explanation for this.

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Speaker 1: It just goes on and on and on.

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Speaker 2: It's amazing. He's not even cracking a spile.

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Speaker 1: This defies all logic.

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Speaker 2: My goodness, stay in that bubble, Christian Walker.

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Speaker 1: According to Jim Bowden of MLB Network, Chandler Roman on

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it as well Ken Rosenthal, Uh, it sounds like good

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and Bowden says, as long as the Astros and Christian Walker,

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the physical goes okay. He is now a Houston Astro.

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Reports were he was looking for a four year deal.

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Whether or not that is what the Astros gave him,

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we do not know. They are not particulars being reported

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at this point. But Christian Walker is your new first baseman.

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Isach Peretties, who the Astros got in the Kyle Tucker

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trade is your new third baseman? And Ryan Hollins that

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will officially, I shouldn't say officially, but that basically closes

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the door on Alex Spregman possibly coming back to be

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Houston Astros. So the new Astros infield apparently is set

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for twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 3: That's huge, man, and you know what it says. It

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shows you how serious the Astros are about winning. And

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some were worried kind of with the free agent of

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the trade. Rebelings that you know was this the group

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that just gonna kind of tear it down and start over.

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The Astros said, no, no, no, no, weird gearing up to

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go after another World Series. Man, this is exciting news.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: The numbers for him last year two fifty one batting average.

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He had twenty six home runs, drove in eighty four.

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His OPS was eight oh three, which is considered good.

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His ops plus where our friend Rossvillereral, if you're one

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hundred year considered an average player, his OPS plus was

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one twenty one. He's thirty three years old, he is

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a first baseman. His career ops plus is one fourteen,

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his career ops is seven ninety three, and the Astros

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apparently are going to be grabbing him now. I want

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to make sure I'm clear on the compensation. Nothing that

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really matters. If it indeed is true, the Diamondbacks will

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be owed from the Astros a second and fifth round

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pick in next year's draft. Traft picks, especially in professional baseball,

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are diamond Dozen. You want him to hit, obviously, because

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you're replenishing your minor league system, but you don't have

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to worry about John's ingleton playing majority of first base.

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You don't to worry about Eastsik Perette is being the

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first baseman, trying to figure out what you can do

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at third base.

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Speaker 2: Your infield is set. So it has been an interesting week.

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Speaker 1: Last Friday, Ryan, they got rid of Kyle Tucker, and

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that certainly sends shock waves. Letting a guy go with

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a year love in his contract. You got a third

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basement in return, now you replace it with the first baseman.

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While again it's good news because you're not adding another

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power hitting guy to a corner infield spot. Bregman now

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has one less team that would be going after him.

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I think the dollars and cents were there. My guess

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is that Alex Bregman's representation told the Astros thanks, but

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no thanks, and now it's going to be down to

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some other teams. So we can now can officially be

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mentally prepared to see Alex Bregman wearing a different jersey

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in twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 3: It's a part of the business sometimes. Yeah, you know,

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obviously we don't know sure some level of those reports

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are going to end up coming out, but heads off

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to Ashole's because a lot of times, man, you can

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up in a free agency and while you might say

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this is not the perfect pick, but you.

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Speaker 2: Can swing and miss.

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Speaker 3: So to come out with the best defensive minded you know,

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first basement in baseball right now, I think that's huge.

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And that's something Again, you got an organization that's still

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very serious about winning. Now going into the dark age,

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it's not gonna, you know, go step backwards, you know,

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and you gotta be excited for the For the Astros

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fan base, this is this is big time.

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Speaker 2: This is great news. Mm mmmmm.

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Speaker 1: Now again Jim Bounden saying it's based off of physical

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being completed. And again I don't I don't know much

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about his history. He is thirty three years of age,

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he played on I'm gonna take a look at his

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career numbers. You just see what he has done the

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last few years. That's my computer tries to refresh here.

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Six feet two o eight throws right place, first base,

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right handed. Obviously, let me look at his bioinformation here.

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Speaker 2: It's terrible.

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Speaker 1: Meant to look at the internet while I'm trying to

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a radio show at the same time. I know this

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is not good. It's not good, Okay. In twenty twenty three,

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he batted, had thirty three home runs, one hundred and

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thirty one hundred and three RBIs. He's had won two

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to two thirty plus home run seasons. He had a

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twenty six home run year last year with Arizona. He

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had twenty nine for the Diamondbacks in twenty nineteen. He

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started his major league career very short amount of time

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at Baltimore, but the majority of his career from twenty

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seventeen to twenty twenty four as a member of the

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Arizona Diamondbacks. Okay OPS plus OPS career, baut I have

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seven ninety three. His high water mark of OPS was

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eight twenty five in that twenty nineteen season, act and

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twenty twenty three and OPS of eight thirty dropped a

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little bit this year. Played one hundred and thirty games

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this past season, the year before that one fifty seven,

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the year before that one sixty, So it's been fairly

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durable as a major leaguer. We'll give you more detail

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on him as we move along here. Ryan, I appreciate

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you hanging out with you today.

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Speaker 2: It was fun.

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Speaker 1: A little baseball breaking news in the middle of the

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show was interesting, uh you learning about bull riding was interesting,

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and we did get video of Vanessa actually on the

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video bull riding a couple of years back. So I

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hope you get a chance to see that.

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Speaker 2: Where where's this video at? It's on my Twitter? Can

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go look it's on your Twitter? Let me go, Yeah

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go look that's her. Wow. Very talented, right she is? Yeah?

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All right, and please.

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Speaker 1: Bundle up because you're gonna're gonna be in Toronto tomorrow.

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I'm gonna freeze our rare ends off. You know this, right,

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stir fry. Maybe I've told the audiser for how much

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you love the stir Fry.

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Speaker 2: It's it's what you live for.

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Speaker 3: I do, I do. It's with you, Matt.

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Speaker 2: It's our thing.

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Speaker 1: It's it is our thing, it is our thing. You

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are my guy too. Thank you, Ryan, Well to see

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you on the plane tomorrow, friend, thank you for visiting.

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Speaker 3: All right.

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Speaker 2: That's Ryan Hollands a Space City Network. All right. So

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we got a lot to get the news, and noon's

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going to be chock full of stuff.

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Speaker 1: We got Texans, we had the Rockets winning last night,

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and we had the Astros apparently ridiculously close to grabbing

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a new first basement. Eleven fifty six is our time.

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If you want to jump in on not only Christian

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Walker coming here. But this is it for Bregman. Are

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y'all mentally ready to him to sign somewhere else? Now

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it's there's no chance, it's it's zero percent chance.

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Speaker 2: Perette's at third Walker at first.

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Speaker 1: Provided everything works, you know, on the semantics of the

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contract and whatnot, We're done.

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Speaker 2: That's it. Alex Bregman is no longer going to wear

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an astro Ji uniform. Let me know how you think

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about that.

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Speaker 1: Seven one three two one two five seven ninety seven

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Speaker 2: It is the Matt Thomas Show with Ross. The News

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at Noon is coming up in a minute.

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Speaker 1: We are going to wake the strippers up, maybe some

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more Christian Walker highlights.

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Speaker 2: Do you think of the News at Noon?

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Speaker 3: Connor?

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Speaker 2: Will that be a part of the U the opening conversation?

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I can do that. We can do that.

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Speaker 1: We gotta get people ready for it, especially if Robert

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Ford's gonna be calling a lot of those home runs

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for him. Seven one three two one two five seven ninety.

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So Christian Walker apparently is super super close to signing

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with the Houston Astros to replace whatever combination of first

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base the Astros had last year. Especially after the Jose

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