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Speaker 1: Five on Sports Talk seven Anti.

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Speaker 2: So the question I threw at Ross was, uh, what

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is the number one concern for Dana Brown now that

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he's firmly under contract? Well, at least the contract's there

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and he's gonna work for it in twenty twenty six.

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To me, it's pitching, no if ans or butts. I

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think the first I think the infield positions will be addressed.

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I think there will be some tendering of some contracts,

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maybe some non tendering. The easiest way you fix the

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infield is if you non tender somebody sports RV and

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do you both tender Mauricio Dubon and Ramon Urius.

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Speaker 1: That seems like it's.

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Speaker 2: About the same player that My guess is that Maurius

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is more infield, Dubon is more everywhere. Yeah, and Dubon's

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probably gonna cost you a little bit more, will be

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my guest. And the numbers on his contract situation, this

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is last year of arbitration. Yes, so I think that's

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gonna settle itself. I think, uh, the Esch price is

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hamstring will settle itself ultimately as to what he can

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do and cannot do again, I think it's either going

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to be first base or they try to move him.

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I seem it can be saidt for Christian Walker. I

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don't think you saw Predas as a candidate for second base,

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because you're then have a long time at second base,

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especially if you use Jose al Tuve at second base

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a handful of times. But to me, going back to

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the essential issue you have, is it unfair to say

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one and a half starting pitchers or do you think

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are you gonna put Christian Hoavier in the solid number

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two club as the second second starter for this team?

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One and a half sounds about right, because if you

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were to really judge Christian Heavier, it's a mixed bag.

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And that should not be a huge surprise because he's

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fresh off of Tommy John surgery. Guys are not supposed

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to come off with TJ surgery and come out here

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and start throwing nine eight miles an hour and throwing

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seven ings or two hit ball.

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Speaker 1: Maybe he'll get ah, well he was.

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Speaker 2: He threw six innings of no hit ball and one

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of his starts right, no hi, no hit, no shut out. Sorry,

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but but that was that was a one off. That

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was typically what he was giving you every single time.

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Man if you're a Hunter Brown and you know this

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organization is in depth, desperate need of starting pitching, and

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you've had your best season as a major leaguer. No,

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it was six innings and no hit against the Angels.

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Six no hit innings, see Angel, it's a double eighteen

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three walks still counts. Still no hitter if it would

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have counted, but he ranted a pitch count of shoes.

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I'm assuming, right, eighty five pitch hit or something like that. Okay,

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so still to me one and a half. I don't

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know if Christian Javier. I think Christian Javier has got

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a spot. But is he a guy that I'm trusting

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on the second day of this at the start of

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the season, I don't think so.

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Speaker 1: No.

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Speaker 2: So back to my opponent on Hunter Brown, Hunter Brown, ROSSI.

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He's going in saying, uh, where's your checkbook? I'm won't

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fill it off for what I want to fill it

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off for, right. I mean, if anybody's got the leverage,

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is he represented by rot Rars. He's not a he's

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not a advertising entity. Yeah, but I don't I don't

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like him. Scott Boris, oh Man, it was one hundred

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mile an hour fastball in on the hands that Judge

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sent out too.

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Speaker 1: That's pretty clutch.

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Speaker 2: He's a throwback to the yesterdar in power hitterers, isn't he.

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He's the best hitter walking. He's we best hurt on

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the planet. Well show, I would take Otanas in a

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strikeout as much. Okay, well, but Judge's better power Otani.

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He's a better player because he pitches. But anyways, sorry,

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what we're talking about, uh uh, it'll be Trade Rumors

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puts out their projected arbitration. They have Dubond at five

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point eight million and UEUS at four point four million,

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and these are generally pretty accurate.

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Speaker 1: They do it. This website does a good job.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Hunter Brown five point seven million, Jeremy Peny is

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seven point nine million. Okay, you can overpay those guys

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that number to keep them happy. Buy out arbitration years.

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Give them more than what they think they're or not

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more than it's more what the numbers say they're worth.

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Invest in them. Give them a little bit of a

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bonus for Jeremy Payne's career season. But we also say

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about Penya. That's two instants and the injured list this year. Okay,

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for an obleak and for a he got hit by

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a pitch in the ribs. I know, and I know,

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but you also know attendance is part of the grade,

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regardless of the situation, right It just okay if you

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want to discount him for that, I'm not going to discount.

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Speaker 1: I'm saying.

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Speaker 2: He played one hundred and twenty five games and they

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were great. One hundred and twenty five games. How many

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years you're buying what he's twenty eight O?

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: I know the Astros don't have the reputation doing it.

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They've done it a handful of times. They're gonna try,

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Speaker 1: Well.

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Speaker 2: They tried to do it with Cora, he didn't want to.

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They tried to do it with Springer and he didn't

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want to. They did it with jose Al t V

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and Alex Bregmant. They didn't try to.

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Speaker 1: Arbitration.

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Speaker 2: They probably tried. There was probably some discussions and Nicer

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said I'm good and we'll see what I said, we'll

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see an arbitration court. And they lost and Coyle Tucker's

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like went good, I lost, you lose. I'm getting out

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of here. And now he's a cub and now he's

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gonna get paid. He bet on himself, He's gonna get paid.

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It's gonna get paid, hopefully for seven years. Some people

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bet on themselves and they don't get paid. Jared Kellenck

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was one of the top prospects in baseball. See, I'll

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offered him a long term base deal and then two

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years later he was DFA. He was like, I don't even.

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Speaker 1: Know where he is.

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Speaker 2: I believe he's in I believe he's in the Canadian

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Rocky League Canadian Rockies. Wow, he's at BAMF he's Yeah,

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he's playing for the Calgary Sheep. Heard of vamp Bears.

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Can you give me a second second city in that

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part of the world.

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Speaker 1: What do you mean?

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Speaker 2: Uhh, Saskatoon Okay, Yeah, he's playing for the Sasacoon Sasquatches.

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Speaker 1: I like that.

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Speaker 2: That in two nine with plenty of power, got a

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huge ops. Yeah, so we'll see. Man, that's for Dan

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to earn. His feeling has been and I'll stick with it,

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is that of the two Hunter Brown gets paid. They

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figure something out. He gets a long term deal because

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he's younger as well. So on the big board, we

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have both get paid. Neither get paid, one gets paid.

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Favorite feels like neither.

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Speaker 1: I know.

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Speaker 2: I don't want to think that Scott Boris wants to

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hit the open market. And there are they both Scott

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Boris clients. Yes, Oh we're screwed. That's the reality of it, right,

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isn't Let me ask you this. Jose l two base

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Scott Boris client. But but Jose was a special situation.

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He bought out the Astros bought out arbitrations. Does Scott

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I'd have to go up and I don't want to

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know that. You've got much more important things to do.

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Speaker 1: I don't hear that a lot.

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Speaker 2: You know, generally, he well, first of all, Scott Boris,

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if you're like a quadruple player and you're struggling on

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a minor league deal, you're probably not a Scott Bors client.

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Scott's like, talk to me when you're a PS it's

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eleven hundred exactly. So I mean you're dealing with a

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kind of a different level of clients. Isn't it crazy?

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are guys that were with other agents that were just

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trying to get their feet wet into being major league players,

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and all of a sudden, he scoops up and takes

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these guys once they hit that level, because Hunter Brown knows,

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if Scott Boris takes care of you, you're gonna get paid.

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Speaker 1: And Jeremy Penney thought the exact same thing.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm just trying to find a list.

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Speaker 1: Man. Matt Chapman signed a big deal.

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Speaker 2: I'm just looking at Wikipedia literally of Scott Boris, one Soto,

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that guy got paid, but he had he went to

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free agency. Blake Snell, remember Blake Snell was all upset.

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then opted out, but then got a brain new deal

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after that. Yes, and now he's got a big deal

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with the Dodgers. By the way, the Dodgers are beating

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up on them Phillies, I'm trying to see somebody who

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did like a you got paid early.

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Speaker 1: I see.

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Speaker 2: The thing of it is, here's the question. I don't

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know if the askers are going to think this way.

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I don't think they're gonna go, let's go all in

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on one guy because we got we got a better chance.

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Speaker 1: Of keeping him.

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Speaker 2: Everything looks I would hope the ASTERS is an organization

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would say, look, we got a lot of money coming

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off the books here in the next couple of years.

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Let's do what we can to try to keep both.

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And I think they will do so. But it's almost

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like the same thing we were talking about nic Cassia

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last ross. If you say, well, we put together an

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offer and you don't get them, you don't. You don't

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get brownie points for at least trying unless the deals

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elsewhere are so astronomical that it doesn't make sense. That'll

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be The question is if they don't sign here and

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they get these ridiculous For instance, the astros in theory

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could have signed Kyle Tucker to a ten year deal

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wor three.

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Speaker 1: Hundred and seventy five million dollars.

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Speaker 2: Right, there's the financial that they're within their opportunity to do,

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so they just chose they didn't want to do that.

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then you're gonna say, okay, that makes sense.

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Speaker 1: But if they get.

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Speaker 2: Mid level money or being who they are and the

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astros could have afforded them, and that's when I think

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the criticism ownership would be fair. That's why data go

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to go have dinner with Jim, have us few cigars,

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drink a bottle of wine, and do something outside the

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norm because you're in a tumultuous time for an organization.

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gotta be start thinking two to three years down the

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road and you're gonna It's hard to get these to

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lead shortstops that have turned the corner in their professional careers.

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It's hard to find a one dash one in a rotation,

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and I think Hunter Brown has certainly proven that. And

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by the way, you're about to lose your second best

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starter due to free agency. You gotta you gotta if

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you're gonna get him back if you want. Will they

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even qualify offer him? I would say yes. I would

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say yes, and he rejects it and hits the market.

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he knows. I mean he's pretty smart. He Chandler Rome

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thinks that that they will give a qualifying offer from

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then probably go somewhere else. But if they might circle

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back late in the game, if if Frommer's not liking

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the deals he's seeing, I don't know. Do you think

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people would be excited Frommer came back. No, they I wouldn't.

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a lot of more Farmer supporters than I thought. I'm

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out on him. I understand. That's okay. Yeah, way would

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depend on the money, of course. Yeah, it's like one

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year's twenty one year, twenty million dollars deal. Why not

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Speaker 1: No chance?

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Speaker 2: One twenty five lower one twenty. That seems about right.

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Speaker 1: I think so?

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two five seven ninety. There's no topic, all right, I'll

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come up with one here.

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Speaker 1: I did. I did that. Our Live yesterday.

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Speaker 2: I did my part seventh grade seven one three two

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one two five people.

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Speaker 1: You didn't help other people