Speaker 3: Hunter Brown.
Speaker 1: You know, we talked about the possibilities for him all
Speaker 1: Star wise, Sean. Here was another thing that came to
Speaker 1: mind for me last night. I immediately started looking, and there's
Speaker 1: a good site you can go to. Spot Track is
Speaker 1: the name of the site where you can check on
Speaker 1: contract situations and how much control do the astros have
Speaker 1: over him? Well, he's got three more years of arbitration
Speaker 1: and he is currently making eight hundred and seven thousand
Speaker 1: dollars this.
Speaker 2: Season, most underpaid pitcher in baseball. Problem easily easily.
Speaker 1: I took it a step further that I know that
Speaker 1: sometimes we kind of feel like there's a slow playing
Speaker 1: when it comes to contracts here, and I feel like
Speaker 1: that this organization turned over a new leaf last year
Speaker 1: of saying kind of like what you guys talked about
Speaker 1: yesterday with Steve Sparks, thirteen years of club control over
Speaker 1: having a guy for one year because we're not lost
Speaker 1: on what Kyle Tucker's doing right now, but so but you.
Speaker 2: Shouldn't be surprised. Sure when the guy's on the field,
Speaker 2: he's been a producer bad right, you knew this was
Speaker 2: and this is you traded him because if he came
Speaker 2: back it was productive. It's gonna cost you four hundred
Speaker 2: million or three eighty or three fifty whatever it is,
Speaker 2: thirty five a million, of course, so you got it
Speaker 2: while the getting was good. He's raking he I mean,
Speaker 2: they're gonna love him there, quiet takes care of his business.
Speaker 3: I didn't expect anything more.
Speaker 2: Heck, I'm actually pleased with the three guys when you
Speaker 2: knew what Kyle Tucker was gonna do. I don't know
Speaker 2: if we knew west Nesky was this good. I don't
Speaker 2: know if we knew that Paradus. It feels like Paradis
Speaker 2: has been a leader on the team for a few
Speaker 2: of me just kind of fits right in.
Speaker 3: You're hitting him in a two hole.
Speaker 2: You can hit him in a two I mean, did
Speaker 2: dive if I'm not mistaken, he was hitting in the
Speaker 2: three or four hole?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, exactly, that's right.
Speaker 2: And uh so I don't and then you obviously Cam
Speaker 2: Smith's a budding superstar. You can see just simple things
Speaker 2: like getting thrown upstairs at ninety eight and fighting it
Speaker 2: off and base hit the right field. I mean the
Speaker 2: guy in then a couple of homers. So yeah, I mean,
Speaker 2: I think both teams are winning with this trade. No shock,
Speaker 2: Kyle Tuck, you weren't going to him, but I got
Speaker 2: news for you. You're right, certain guys fall under the
Speaker 2: you might want to get out in front of this thing.
Speaker 2: He's becoming that guy. Not just a guy, he is
Speaker 2: that guy.
Speaker 1: And that's where I'm going is Dana Brown? I mean,
Speaker 1: just from his words and also just how the Kyle
Speaker 1: A excuse me, the Alex Brugman contract situation was handled.
Speaker 1: I think that more or less it was just looked
Speaker 1: at as hey, look, we're not going to bit against ourselves.
Speaker 1: We know that somebody is going to be a higher
Speaker 1: bitterer than us. We're just we've got to move on.
Speaker 1: We've got to be able to build up our team
Speaker 1: this way. But if you're Dana Brown, now, hey Scott,
Speaker 1: how you doing, buddy?
Speaker 3: It's Dana.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about Hunter and Letty. Let's let's avoid these
Speaker 1: three years of arbitration. Let's get the guy paid right now,
Speaker 1: and let's get this thing locked up. And if you're
Speaker 1: Hunter Brown, you look at it, and he's what twenty
Speaker 1: five years old? You put us six years twenty five
Speaker 1: per in front of him right now. I think he
Speaker 1: takes it because one question is does Scott Boris take it?
Speaker 1: I mean, I get that, but I mean I think
Speaker 1: if you're Hunter Brown as opposed to making five six
Speaker 1: years plus.
Speaker 3: You said six years for a buck fifty.
Speaker 2: Yeah, all going from eight hundred thousand to twenty five
Speaker 2: million years ago. Yeah, that's a hell of a pay race.
Speaker 2: But one thing you got to remember is who you're
Speaker 2: dealing with. Because if you go in right now and
Speaker 2: say six years for a buck fifty, do you know
Speaker 2: what Scott Boriss is gonna say. If that's your first offer,
Speaker 2: You're gonna have to raise that. You get I'm talking
Speaker 2: about if you're boss, because what listen, it ain't like
Speaker 2: he's he low balls anybody. You know, he's gonna he's
Speaker 2: gonna squeeze the turn up for every ounce, knowing what
Speaker 2: he's got as a frontline starter, knowing the premium placed
Speaker 2: on guys like Connor Brown at his age, being that dominant,
Speaker 2: you could actually hold the cards on this one and
Speaker 2: say twenty five is not enough. Now to you and me,
Speaker 2: it's like, come on, man, you get this. You you know,
Speaker 2: eliminate three years of arbitration, You got a six year deal,
Speaker 2: You get your stud locked up quite frankly, by the
Speaker 2: time he's thirty. It's a bargain price, man, even hell,
Speaker 2: it maybe the second he sidnes it right in this
Speaker 2: day and age. So I am with you, Oh, if
Speaker 2: you're I don't know what the price is going to be,
Speaker 2: If you're asking me, do you jump all over it? Absolutely,
Speaker 2: You've got to treat Hunter Brown as the Pitcher's version
Speaker 2: of Jordan Alvarez.
Speaker 3: That's what you have to do.
Speaker 2: And I think you're at that point because you know,
Speaker 2: it's one thing to keep losing people. You need what
Speaker 2: Jim mister Crane has with had with Verlander, that that's
Speaker 2: just the guy that this is. He's our guy, and
Speaker 2: he's you know, when he came here, We're going to
Speaker 2: pay him extra whatever it takes to keep him here
Speaker 2: for the most part until you know he's in his forties, right,
Speaker 2: and get that production and they did, you know, whether
Speaker 2: it's leave and come back, whether it's keeping here, sign
Speaker 2: another twenty five million dollars, whatever it is. And Hunter
Speaker 2: Brown's a younger version of that for the obvious reasons
Speaker 2: that we all have talked about. But yeah, I like
Speaker 2: the idea and I love where you're going with it.
Speaker 2: I just don't know what it's going to take. And
Speaker 2: I don't know if in Scott Boris's mind, if twenty
Speaker 2: five million year is fair.
Speaker 3: Now you and I are looking like, dude, you make
Speaker 3: eight hundred grand a year and you're the most underpaid pig.
Speaker 3: I don't know what schoobl makes. Do we know what
Speaker 3: he makes? Did he get a new contract? Not yet?
Speaker 2: Okay, so he's on line to get paid, right, But
Speaker 2: I'm just going through and thinking, Man, if if I'm
Speaker 2: if I'm if I'm Scott Boris, wouldn't you battle that
Speaker 2: a little bit?
Speaker 3: I would?
Speaker 2: And if you're Dana Brown, you don't want to let
Speaker 2: this continue on because you know what the truth is.
Speaker 2: If this keeps up by the end of the year,
Speaker 2: you won't be offered in twenty five million a year.
Speaker 2: You'll have to offer him more than that. Right, It's
Speaker 2: almost he can pay me now or pay me later.
Speaker 2: Will you want to jump out in front of it?
Speaker 2: I don't know if they think it's premature to get out.
Speaker 2: The one thing they do, they get after it, but
Speaker 2: they use the term we're not going to rush anything
Speaker 2: injuries contracts, and there might be a certain time when
Speaker 2: you might need to put a little rush order on it, right,
Speaker 2: pay the extra three dollars fee to get it here
Speaker 2: a little quicker.
Speaker 3: But I just don't know.
Speaker 2: The guy is so dominant right now, and every time
Speaker 2: he goes out there, he's added he's changed more money
Speaker 2: to his bank account.
Speaker 1: And that's where I was going with the turnover a
Speaker 1: new leaf. Because you didn't trade Kyle Tucker the last
Speaker 1: few years. You would have let it ride. You would
Speaker 1: have said, one more run with this guy and then
Speaker 1: we'll worry about it from there. But Dana Brown, I think,
Speaker 1: looked at this organization and said, we can't keep living
Speaker 1: this life.
Speaker 2: Guys, Well, eventually you lose a player, a player after
Speaker 2: a player after player. Core Wise, yeah, eventually you don't
Speaker 2: go from restock and you do have to rebuild m H.
Speaker 2: The way they're working it though, by camp Smith playing
Speaker 2: every day, Dezenzo getting his you're thinking, okay, there's a
Speaker 2: future there. Paradis is a good player, you know. Christian Walker,
Speaker 2: although in his thirties, hopefully has more game. You know,
Speaker 2: Payne is young. Al Tuove is not going anywhere. Jordan Alvarez,
Speaker 2: he's going to get it going. You look and say, okay,
Speaker 2: we don't have to. This isn't a rebuild. We're starting,
Speaker 2: I mean with the mix of youth and then the
Speaker 2: pitching staff. You know, if Whitley can continue this, man,
Speaker 2: what a blessing that is. You start to see wiz
Speaker 2: an Eski, You start to see the gustos, you start
Speaker 2: to see the way I mean Fromber's still young, obviously,
Speaker 2: Hunter Brown, you used to look around Arraghetty's young and
Speaker 2: the anticipation of mccullor's coming back. There's a lot of
Speaker 2: good to like with veterans and youth mix, and you
Speaker 2: do have to bridge that gap. That's why they suffered
Speaker 2: with you know when they lost these first round picks
Speaker 2: because of the sign stealing stuff set them back. But
Speaker 2: how quickly you can retool that part of it to
Speaker 2: be able to retool your roster and use it wisely,
Speaker 2: it's huge. So yeah, the mix is there, and the
Speaker 2: question is when do you decide the time. Now you
Speaker 2: have them under control, that's fine, so they really that
Speaker 2: urgency is not there. But the urgency to just secure
Speaker 2: it up so you can go focus on something else.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't be a bad idea. I mean, we see it
Speaker 1: all the time in the NFL. You lock up your
Speaker 1: franchise quarterback. This guy's a franchise pitcher. So the further
Speaker 1: you get into arbitration, the lesser of a chance you
Speaker 1: have to be able to have an agreeable number with
Speaker 1: this guy. So I think you get it done as
Speaker 1: soon as you can. Scooball by the way, has another
Speaker 1: year of arbitration, but he's making ten point one this year.
Speaker 2: Think about that now, and rightfully, the guy's worth far
Speaker 2: more than that. But I think and a premium is
Speaker 2: a lefty right, you're and he's underpaid.
Speaker 3: So now do the math.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you think the guy here is underpaid, You could
Speaker 2: almost triple that. Yeah, no question about it. So the Astros,
Speaker 2: the ball is in your court right now.
Speaker 1: I mean, the Hunter Brown is absolutely worth it, and
Speaker 1: he has proven that at this moment. All right, let's
Speaker 1: stick with the pitching because something that you mentioned in
Speaker 1: the first segment, Seawan, that reminded me of last year,
Speaker 1: and it's much better this time around. We'll talk about
Speaker 1: it here. Sean Salisbury Show