Speaker 1: From h Town.
Speaker 2: This is a for h Town, This is Houston, This
Speaker 2: is Sports Talk Saturn night because.
Speaker 1: Right now you see it Leighton Houston.
Speaker 2: Right now, going back to Sean Salisbury, it's a big
Speaker 2: week for the Astros as they pursue to try and
Speaker 2: re sign Alex Bregman.
Speaker 3: Reportedly by Bob Nightingale, the Astros and Alex Bregman are
Speaker 3: fifty million dollars off. Dana Brown spoke to make sure
Speaker 3: I get this correct.
Speaker 4: I believe it was.
Speaker 3: Indeed, it was a MLB network radio on Sirius XM.
Speaker 3: He spoke yesterday at the winter meetings. This is what
Speaker 3: the general manager for Dane Brown had to say.
Speaker 5: Look, Gregman's outstanding, you know, great defender, good bat quality,
Speaker 5: ab all the time, done great things here in Houston.
Speaker 4: We're working, we're working on it.
Speaker 5: You know, we're having a lot of conversations with Scott
Speaker 5: and you know we're optimistic.
Speaker 6: It's certainly going to be an important factor for you,
Speaker 6: and I guess the question is if you don't get
Speaker 6: them right, everybody has to have Plan B. Where do
Speaker 6: you pivot from there? Knowing that maybe you could upgrade
Speaker 6: first base a little bit, you could find somebody else
Speaker 6: for third base and the trade market. We hear Aeronanto's
Speaker 6: name out there at Damas is off the board now,
Speaker 6: so that's another guy that could have gone there. Uh,
Speaker 6: do you have internal solutions for first or third other
Speaker 6: than Singleton and maybe Debond playing But where do you
Speaker 6: where do you see the infield if not Bregman?
Speaker 5: Yeah, I would say the internal solutions are maybe a
Speaker 5: little bit away, so maybe another six to eight months,
Speaker 5: maybe a year, So I don't think it's going to
Speaker 5: be internal. But you know, sometimes these young kids will
Speaker 5: will fool you and you know, they'll come in camp,
Speaker 5: they'll look really good. They'll you know, they've they've worked
Speaker 5: their tail off in the off season, so you never know.
Speaker 5: But we're not taking anything off the table. Uh, you know,
Speaker 5: hopefully you know, maybe by trade or you know, something
Speaker 5: like that. But nothing's off the table. You know that
Speaker 5: we don't have to compete. We want to remain good. Uh,
Speaker 5: but we're focused on Bregman first, So that's our priority.
Speaker 5: It's been our priority from day one. Get a third
Speaker 5: basement signed, so uh, you know, we want him to
Speaker 5: come back.
Speaker 4: All right.
Speaker 3: So there's Astros general manager Dana Brown speaking on MLB
Speaker 3: Network series, XM Radio and the Willie Domas, Sin and Sean.
Speaker 3: You mentioned it last segment briefly, that is going to
Speaker 3: propel Bregman over two hundred million dollars.
Speaker 4: She got one hundred and eighty two.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you'd think at least right around two hundred million
Speaker 1: somewhere in there. I and listening to Dana, and I
Speaker 1: think they do want him, and I think it is
Speaker 1: a priority. Here's a problem if you want to get
Speaker 1: it settled, if it's probably if you want to, you
Speaker 1: want know how you get third basement back? You have
Speaker 1: to pay him, offer him two hundred and ten million bucks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you'll probably get him. So, I mean, I know, hey,
Speaker 1: we want him here, and we're well, and I'm with
Speaker 1: Dan one hundred percent. But the way you're going to
Speaker 1: get him here is probably not by being fifty million
Speaker 1: dollars away. That's just it's pretty simple math. You want
Speaker 1: him here, then you're you're probably, in your book's gonna
Speaker 1: have to overpay a great deal that you're not used
Speaker 1: to doing here. If not, then you're gonna have to
Speaker 1: find a third basement. It's pretty it's really not that
Speaker 1: complex right now. No, No, it's not you know what
Speaker 1: he wants. It's really not. It really isn't you know
Speaker 1: what he wants. You're not gonna you know, you're not
Speaker 1: gonna be negotiating down. And it's not that it's not
Speaker 1: that hard. It may be hard to do them because
Speaker 1: there may be eight other teams are gonna sy oh,
Speaker 1: you offer him two ten, okay, we want him so much,
Speaker 1: we'll give him two twenty five? Who knows? And then
Speaker 1: where's your ceiling where you say, no, that's our that
Speaker 1: that's a etched and stone. We ain't going to pass this.
Speaker 1: But fifty million, ain't it?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: Okay? That that much distance. So it's it's not like,
Speaker 1: oh man, we got to go through here and we
Speaker 1: got to go trade for him, and we're gonna have
Speaker 1: to give up. It's real simple. Do you want him
Speaker 1: outpay the opponent? If you're fifty or four million dollars short,
Speaker 1: then there's nobody who can say that. Well, they may
Speaker 1: have given it their best shot, but it wasn't a
Speaker 1: shot good enough to keep Bregman interested. And if you're
Speaker 1: going in today and you see a Domins's contract in Soto's,
Speaker 1: even though a different position, you start to think about
Speaker 1: the money that's moving, and it will move this offseason.
Speaker 1: If you're Alex Bregman, you're sitting there saying you're for me,
Speaker 1: the timeframes running, You're you're not waiting around. No, you
Speaker 1: don't want to miss the first wave of big bucks.
Speaker 1: And he's probably now I mean now that Soto's off,
Speaker 1: I mean one of the prized catches in the off
Speaker 1: season right now. So if it's like I said, it's
Speaker 1: not that big, we you know where you are, you
Speaker 1: know where they are if you want to do it,
Speaker 1: and you know where the market's probably going to be.
Speaker 1: It's a pretty simple thing. Scott, where are we Well
Speaker 1: we want six years, two ten, Well we're only willing
Speaker 1: to pay you one seventy. Okay, that's great. Is that
Speaker 1: your final offer? Yeah, we can't go any higher now, okay,
Speaker 1: why wish you luck? Yeah, and I'll see letter, see
Speaker 1: you in Boston or wherever else you're going. It's really that,
Speaker 1: it's not. I mean, you can get creative and say,
Speaker 1: well can we do this more upfront? One more money, whatever,
Speaker 1: But really the creative, you know, how do you shape it?
Speaker 1: You can tie that fifty million dollars up anywhere you
Speaker 1: want early, later, pay me now, pay me later, whatever
Speaker 1: it is you want to do. But there's a number
Speaker 1: that I'm sure Scott Borse is gonna want to get to.
Speaker 1: And if he doesn't, somebody else will. And that's just
Speaker 1: the simple math of this. Yeah, you don't have to
Speaker 1: go through trading prospects or any if it's you and
Speaker 1: a guy sit in a room. What's he want, Here's
Speaker 1: what we're willing to offer. What's your final offer? And
Speaker 1: it's either going to be good enough or it's not.
Speaker 1: There ain't gonna be a whole lot of Well, we're
Speaker 1: within fifteen dollars. Now, when you're within fifteen million, you're
Speaker 1: probably in striking distance. But other than that, he's as
Speaker 1: Soto left for the same price for one extra year
Speaker 1: off it was it for sixteen years.
Speaker 3: There were the Yankees offered him sixteen and it was
Speaker 3: like four million, five million less per year.
Speaker 1: Right, So, but what I'm saying, when you're up in
Speaker 1: a billion dollar area, yeah, you're like, so, yeaht caught
Speaker 1: in the tax wash, ok, five or six. But he
Speaker 1: literally is going across the street. And when I say
Speaker 1: at Brooklyn, through the Queens area, but literally across the
Speaker 1: Street to change a uniform play in front of similar fans,
Speaker 1: although Yankee and Bets fans may be different ones at
Speaker 1: the ball bar, but New York fans, same media is
Speaker 1: gonna cover him every day. Yeah, And he did that,
Speaker 1: and in truth, it probably came down to twenty million bucks, Yeah,
Speaker 1: million max. Right when you give all the years forty
Speaker 1: five million bucks a year right on on a guy
Speaker 1: who's going to make a billion dollars if you count endorsements,
Speaker 1: by the time this contract's over, he'll be well over
Speaker 1: a billion dollar over yea, counting his salary in that, Yes,
Speaker 1: that he will have just made in that fifteen years. Yeah. Problem.
Speaker 1: Matter of fact, we're probably if he plays like he's
Speaker 1: been playing, it'll be more than that.
Speaker 4: Right, So.
Speaker 1: And is and I'm sure back in his home country
Speaker 1: and internationally too. I mean, all the endorsements we don't see, right,
Speaker 1: It's it's it's a he's a a billion dollar player.
Speaker 1: So my point is is, and he can opt out
Speaker 1: after five years. Yeah, but why would you anyway? So
Speaker 1: to see what there so you scale that down into Bregman,
Speaker 1: it's a pretty it's it's simple math when you're not
Speaker 1: trading prospects or players. It's just how much money got Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, throwing into like we'll throw in a range
Speaker 1: Rover's probably not going to be enough.
Speaker 3: You can buy ten of those. So what are you
Speaker 3: gonna do to get me to where I want to get?
Speaker 3: Fifty million dollars apart? According to uh Bob Nightingale, he
Speaker 3: also said the plan is for Houston to quote unquote
Speaker 3: enhance their offer soon.
Speaker 4: Okay, well what does that look like this week?
Speaker 1: Well, I'm sure that people thought Willie Domas was going
Speaker 1: to be around a little longer off the board. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and mayor he was a possibility for this team if
Speaker 1: in fact.
Speaker 4: He was their a quote unquote backup plan.
Speaker 1: Right, Well, that backup plan is now a starter. He's
Speaker 1: not a backup. But you know I started at a
Speaker 1: star for for somebody else. So goes fast. When you
Speaker 1: say well soon, I would suggest that offer soon means
Speaker 1: like today, I would think so by tomorrow. It's because
Speaker 1: if it gets to my point, I'm also somebody makes
Speaker 1: me an offer that I can't refuse. Are you turning
Speaker 1: it down? Are you gonna sit there and go back? No,
Speaker 1: you're gonna say, oh, well you want to come up
Speaker 1: seventy million dollars to catch me. I'm just signing. I'm
Speaker 1: not going to miss out on it, which begs the question,
Speaker 1: is Pete Alonzo staying in New York?
Speaker 4: Yeah, they're going to do both. I have no idea, man,
Speaker 4: that's that's going to be.
Speaker 1: You think you'd want to You just add a great player.
Speaker 1: You don't want to take a great player away from it? Right,
Speaker 1: you get both those power bats in your lineup. You
Speaker 1: really need that, Judge and Soto, Alonzo and Soto. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you'll take that if you're the Mets. I'm not. I'm
Speaker 1: not convinced he's leaving automatically. He California guy, isn't he?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 4: Pee Alonzo? Yeah, come on now, I.
Speaker 1: Thought he's an Orange County or a California California. Well,
Speaker 1: he wouldn't have handled the means he went to Florida.
Speaker 1: Let's see Pete did. And Pete don't want to. He
Speaker 1: didn't want to come to Esco.
Speaker 4: He could scared. Yeah, oh yeah, that big polar bear mother.
Speaker 1: You know, he don't want to roll up on my
Speaker 1: in the mean streets. He's not He's not that dumb.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he looks smart.
Speaker 1: Guy's not gonna roll up there.
Speaker 4: He looked a little lost walking through Esco.
Speaker 1: You don't want to do that.
Speaker 4: Hey man, what's that big white guy doing over here?
Speaker 6: Man?
Speaker 3: The only basic white guy we allow here. I know
Speaker 3: he's actually from Tampa. Oh yeah, so he's a Florida guy. Yeah,
Speaker 3: one of those coasts you know where there's water, Yeah,
Speaker 3: right right, southern California. Yeah, you know, Florida's a big peninsula,
Speaker 3: you know whatever. It is, left coast, West coast, best
Speaker 3: good players from both. So he's a Florida guy.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't see him going to the Miami Marlins.
Speaker 4: I doubt it.
Speaker 1: But he rolled out, he rolling into Esco either. You know,
Speaker 1: what do you say? The only one seals?
Speaker 4: Hey man, The only big greeno that we like around
Speaker 4: here is Susy.
Speaker 6: Man.
Speaker 4: I don't like you pull up.
Speaker 1: It's gotta be that.
Speaker 4: I don't think so. No, I don't know, man.
Speaker 1: You know you're not allowing pads up. But what do
Speaker 1: you mean, Oh, it's Whitey blows everything?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, it's it's it's it's hey man, what
Speaker 3: l a?
Speaker 4: What do you call him? We call him Beeter.
Speaker 1: That guy's name, that Peter Alonzo.
Speaker 4: Man huh Alonzo, Yeah, I mean kind of Yeah, baby,
Speaker 4: we'll welcome you, We would get maybe welcome him in.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's uh, he's I don't know if he's gonna
Speaker 3: go back there.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: Willia Domas, by the way, headed to the Giants seven year,
Speaker 3: one hundred and eighty two million dollar contract only twenty
Speaker 3: nine years old.
Speaker 1: Yeah, big signing for the uh for the Giants and
Speaker 1: uh yeah, but but Pete Alonzo, he's fraid he's gonna
Speaker 1: get paid. So there's another big catch in this, in
Speaker 1: this price market.
Speaker 3: So yeah, and well Cohen's got a ton of money,
Speaker 3: so I wouldn't be surprised if they dump money into
Speaker 3: him too.
Speaker 1: Well, look, the Dodger's philosophies. One's not enough. So if
Speaker 1: you want to keep up.
Speaker 3: With you know what Steve Cohen's like, man, forget that
Speaker 3: deferred money. Gets your bat here you go. Oh yeah,
Speaker 3: ain't the dodder. No, he's a get it up, get
Speaker 3: it out, let's go. How much money you're like, that's
Speaker 3: final with me. I'm good to go.
Speaker 4: It's insane.
Speaker 1: I can get some interest off that principle. Man.
Speaker 3: Something else interesting coming from Bob Nightingale is that the
Speaker 3: Astros are aggressively trying to train one of their bullpen guys.
Speaker 4: Who is it. We'll discuss the next right here on
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