Speaker 1: It is the Matt Thomas Show here on Sports Talk
seven ninety Man and Ross with you here. ROSSI, we
have an arbitration settlement between East Sank Peretties and the
Houston Astros.
Speaker 2: Okay, that's good. I would think it's very very good.
Speaker 1: Chandler rom Our friend from the Athletic says moments ago
that the Astros filed at eight point seventy five million,
Peretti's filed at nine point nine to five million. They
settled at the midpoint of nine point three five million dollars. Oh,
that's beautiful. So they're they're working it all out.
Speaker 2: So they are gonna be paying nine million dollars plus
or potentially a utility man, believe.
Speaker 1: That or not. That's what we have to figure out.
I mean, how much is he going to play? How
much are you going to rotate?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 1: The good thing in a way is that jose Al
Tuvey is older, Carlos Korea is older, and Christian Walker
is older. But all three of those guys that I
just mentioned are going to want to play every day.
Escock Paradis is a top three stick in your lineup.
You need him in there as much as possible, and
by the way of the guys you just mentioned. Paridis
is the cheapest salary, but it's still a lot of
money to pay for the utility player. I don't know
if I mean, is it too late in the game
to say there's going to be a trade. No, you
can trade during spring training. I know, but I know
obviously I'm saying, and Parada's dollar amount for an everyday
starting player, Paridis could be for a different team if
in fact you want to do that.
Speaker 2: That's good money. He's attractive.
Speaker 1: But the problem is the more attractive the player is
to other teams, is the more attractive he is to you.
Escock Parade, as you mentioned, cheap, I think one of
their top three sticks. They talked about also last season,
how he lengthens the lineup because he takes pitches, he
works counts, and he just makes everything easier for everyone else.
How do you keep him out of the lineup. Christian
Walker had a better second half. There is no doubt
in my mind the Astros must be thinking if we
keep Paritis, that means our leashes on some of our.
Speaker 2: Players is externinarily short. I e.
Speaker 1: Christian Walker, Christian stumbles out of the gate, the bad
speed is slower in the strikeout count remains highlight it
was last year.
Speaker 2: Then you could see that.
Speaker 1: How well does he perform at spring training when he's
back taking the second base glove. How many days off
does Joseel Tube want. I love jose Al Tube. You
know this, jose Al Tuobe has never said, Matt I
want three thousand hits. But you know in the back
of the behind if he does, if he takes off
more games than he has ever before in his career,
that slows down his path towards three thousand day they've
been taking off. Those games are going to lengthen your career.
I guess would be maybe the counter argument to that,
but I don't know. Because baseball also in itself is
a game where you can get a hot hand for
a couple of weeks or a month, you can get
a cold hit. You can have some of the great
greatest hitters in baseball can be used to happen to
Kyle Tucker or Alex Regman all the time. I mean
Aaron Judge, how many times he'll just go in this
massive slump for like forty games. You don't have time
to figure that out. If you're Joe Aspota. I'm still
convinced they're gonna move this a because they've got a
trade chip. Paridis is a great trade ship at less
than ten million dollars. And secondly, how much does Joe A.
Spotta want this headache? Constantly being asked about it, not
only from us goofy media, but from the players in
his own clubhouse. I know he's he's a really good communicator.
I know he wants to get in front of it.
He's even said as much to us during Astro FanFest.
But just because you try to calm the waters down
in a clubhouse, you've got competitive guys that want to play. Yeah,
but what if you trade away Paradus and Christian Walker
is a dud or you know, you get injuries. As
I said, all these guys are in their thirties, but
he's now two days. Ops has gone down for three
straight years. But teams don't stash guys making nine and
a half million dollars.
Speaker 2: No, It's an interesting, interesting problem for the for the Astros.
Speaker 1: I'm still not one hundred percent convinced, but I'm more
leaning yes than know than something is going to be
shaken that by the end of the season in twenty
twenty six.
Speaker 2: We're not talking about this congested infield.
Speaker 1: Could be injuries, could be guys moving, and maybe maybe
even if you can't make the right movie to utility too.
But see, I mean it feels like that has to
happen now rather than at the deadline.
Speaker 2: Well you're because at the deadline, I don't think so.
I think you could.
Speaker 1: You could still get great if Pretis is a good
season and he's not been overworked. How's he having a
good season if he's not playing much?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know.
Speaker 1: It's it's interesting. There's I think there's more factors of
the unknown as the season would go along, or maybe
the known, as we said,