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Speaker 1: It is the Matt Thomas Show here on Sports Talk

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seven ninety Man and Ross with you here. ROSSI, we

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have an arbitration settlement between East Sank Peretties and the

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Houston Astros.

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Speaker 2: Okay, that's good. I would think it's very very good.

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Speaker 1: Chandler rom Our friend from the Athletic says moments ago

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that the Astros filed at eight point seventy five million,

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Peretti's filed at nine point nine to five million. They

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settled at the midpoint of nine point three five million dollars. Oh,

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that's beautiful. So they're they're working it all out.

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Speaker 2: So they are gonna be paying nine million dollars plus

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or potentially a utility man, believe.

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Speaker 1: That or not. That's what we have to figure out.

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I mean, how much is he going to play? How

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much are you going to rotate?

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Speaker 2: Now?

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Speaker 1: The good thing in a way is that jose Al

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Tuvey is older, Carlos Korea is older, and Christian Walker

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is older. But all three of those guys that I

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just mentioned are going to want to play every day.

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Escock Paradis is a top three stick in your lineup.

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You need him in there as much as possible, and

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by the way of the guys you just mentioned. Paridis

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is the cheapest salary, but it's still a lot of

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money to pay for the utility player. I don't know

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if I mean, is it too late in the game

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to say there's going to be a trade. No, you

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can trade during spring training. I know, but I know

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obviously I'm saying, and Parada's dollar amount for an everyday

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starting player, Paridis could be for a different team if

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in fact you want to do that.

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Speaker 2: That's good money. He's attractive.

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Speaker 1: But the problem is the more attractive the player is

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to other teams, is the more attractive he is to you.

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Escock Parade, as you mentioned, cheap, I think one of

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their top three sticks. They talked about also last season,

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how he lengthens the lineup because he takes pitches, he

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works counts, and he just makes everything easier for everyone else.

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How do you keep him out of the lineup. Christian

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Walker had a better second half. There is no doubt

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in my mind the Astros must be thinking if we

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keep Paritis, that means our leashes on some of our.

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Speaker 2: Players is externinarily short. I e.

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Speaker 1: Christian Walker, Christian stumbles out of the gate, the bad

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speed is slower in the strikeout count remains highlight it

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was last year.

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Speaker 2: Then you could see that.

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Speaker 1: How well does he perform at spring training when he's

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back taking the second base glove. How many days off

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does Joseel Tube want. I love jose Al Tube. You

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know this, jose Al Tuobe has never said, Matt I

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want three thousand hits. But you know in the back

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of the behind if he does, if he takes off

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more games than he has ever before in his career,

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that slows down his path towards three thousand day they've

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been taking off. Those games are going to lengthen your career.

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I guess would be maybe the counter argument to that,

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but I don't know. Because baseball also in itself is

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a game where you can get a hot hand for

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a couple of weeks or a month, you can get

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a cold hit. You can have some of the great

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greatest hitters in baseball can be used to happen to

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Kyle Tucker or Alex Regman all the time. I mean

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Aaron Judge, how many times he'll just go in this

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massive slump for like forty games. You don't have time

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to figure that out. If you're Joe Aspota. I'm still

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convinced they're gonna move this a because they've got a

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trade chip. Paridis is a great trade ship at less

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than ten million dollars. And secondly, how much does Joe A.

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Spotta want this headache? Constantly being asked about it, not

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only from us goofy media, but from the players in

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his own clubhouse. I know he's he's a really good communicator.

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I know he wants to get in front of it.

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He's even said as much to us during Astro FanFest.

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But just because you try to calm the waters down

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in a clubhouse, you've got competitive guys that want to play. Yeah,

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but what if you trade away Paradus and Christian Walker

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is a dud or you know, you get injuries. As

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I said, all these guys are in their thirties, but

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he's now two days. Ops has gone down for three

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straight years. But teams don't stash guys making nine and

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a half million dollars.

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Speaker 2: No, It's an interesting, interesting problem for the for the Astros.

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Speaker 1: I'm still not one hundred percent convinced, but I'm more

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leaning yes than know than something is going to be

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shaken that by the end of the season in twenty

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twenty six.

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Speaker 2: We're not talking about this congested infield.

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Speaker 1: Could be injuries, could be guys moving, and maybe maybe

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even if you can't make the right movie to utility too.

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But see, I mean it feels like that has to

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happen now rather than at the deadline.

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Speaker 2: Well you're because at the deadline, I don't think so.

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I think you could.

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Speaker 1: You could still get great if Pretis is a good

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season and he's not been overworked. How's he having a

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good season if he's not playing much?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I know.

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Speaker 1: It's it's interesting. There's I think there's more factors of

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the unknown as the season would go along, or maybe

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the known, as we said,