00:00The idea of bringing back Alex Bregman, we're talking about that six-year $156 million type
00:09range.
00:10If we're talking about bringing back Alex Bregman.
00:11Yep.
00:12Yep.
00:13That's it.
00:14All right.
00:15Yeah.
00:16So that's a, I mean, that, that contract is still on the table and, uh, I don't think
00:18that answers are going to budge from it and we'll see, uh, you know, can you get more
00:23per year by somebody else?
00:25Could someone else give him more than six years?
00:27I'm not sure about that or he probably would have already signed it.
00:29So I think Alex would like to come back and I think they'd really like to have them back.
00:34So certainly, you know, they re-engaged a couple of days ago, you know, maybe it was
00:37yesterday in, uh, and said, Hey, we're don't give up on this.
00:41Let it, you know, almost like, let us know if you're about to sign somewhere.
00:44All right.
00:45That is Bob Nightingale USA today.
00:47He was on with the fellas last night from area 45.
00:51You can listen to that in its entirety on the podcast page.
00:54Um, what's, what's your thoughts about hearing that?
00:59This is a mutual thing.
01:00The Astros, what he said, would love to have them back.
01:03It makes me think of Lloyd Christmas earlier saying there's a chance, like it's like, but
01:09they've made all these moves that would say we've moved on from it and they've said it.
01:15What's your feelings about how this is coming about a potential reunion with everything
01:20that's happening?
01:21Look, I'm here for it.
01:22I mean, I'm, I'm here for Bregman being an Astro, especially if it's at the, the, the
01:26original number and contract offer that Kraft offered him.
01:30And it's not, it's not the Astros budging all of a sudden.
01:34And look, if, if, if Bobby two chains is spot on here, if, if we are to believe that, that
01:39he's accurate, it's not hard to make it make sense for Bregman.
01:42I mean the, the, the money's yeah, while, while you know, the thought is that he could
01:46get 30, 30 million per somewhere else.
01:49He's offered 26 here.
01:50That's four mil per year.
01:51Like that's a lot of money, but it's also when you're talking 26, 27 million a year
01:56that additional year is a big number as well.
01:59And in baseball, it's all guaranteed money.
02:00So it would make sense where I could see Bregman saying, I got it pretty good here.
02:07The, the, the, the clubhouse is right here.
02:10I'm comfortable here.
02:11My family's comfortable here.
02:12The money is very similar.
02:15Although you gotta, you gotta figure the six year versus a shorter kind of deal in
02:18there.
02:19You gotta, you gotta do some juggling there, but it's not like it's, it's a no
02:22brainer.
02:23Like most of us thought it was going to be with Alex Bregman.
02:26So, um, I think when you talk about the offer, like it's not crazy if you're
02:31Bregman to think, Hey, let's just ease back into Houston where we know it's right
02:36now.
02:37I think the, I think the thought of Altuve playing left field is plum ass
02:41silly.
02:41Well, yeah, that's, that's the part we got to get to now.
02:44All right.
02:44If you bring him in, that's what I'm saying.
02:46You've made the plans of how you were going to construct his baseball team.
02:51Right.
02:51And we'll get to that.
02:52Tyler, are you, does this excite you?
02:54You've been wanting Bregman back, but does this, does this excite you with how
02:57it is?
02:59Yeah.
02:59I've been in a, I've been in a weird place for like a year with Bregman.
03:03Cause there's definitely, or just no, not sexually.
03:06No, he's just not my type, but I've been in a weird place, stubby ass legs.
03:11He's been in a weird place.
03:12I didn't know.
03:13I bet he's got a bumpy ass, short legs.
03:16I mean, he's probably got red bumps on his butt.
03:18No, but for real, uh, been in a weird place with Bregman because there's
03:22definitely been moments over the last year where, I mean, I've just been
03:25ready for them to trade him, get some sort of value back for that third
03:29baseman, but the way things have unfolded right now with everything.
03:33Yeah.
03:33I'd welcome Breg back with open arms.
03:35I would just also tell him, Hey, need you to wake the hell up before July
03:38gets here and use your bat in the batter's box the first two months of the
03:42season.
03:43Please.
03:43I mean, right.
03:44You're not going to like this, Ron, but, but I mean, well, because I, because
03:48I know we've talked about it before.
03:50The, I mean, this screen, I mean, the, the Altuve to left field stuff is silly
03:55and we've talked about, well, it's, it's, it's a short porch to left field
03:58for all the home games and you're okay.
04:00Uh, all right guys.
04:01I mean, let's be real about some other tough left field.
04:04Well, what, what, yeah.
04:04Right.
04:05You don't play every game at home.
04:06Um, I mean, let's, let's be honest here.
04:08This, this screams again, if Bobby two chains is right and the Astros are
04:13entertaining is this screams your Don Alvarez in left field and a floating DH.
04:22It's the only way you can make sense of it.
04:24I'll, I'll, I'll do they go into left field is silly, right?
04:28When I hear that, I mean, I mean, I'm going to go out there with
04:31stilts or whatever he's going to do.
04:32I don't know a guy that, that you've been trying to get in and
04:36out with his, with, with health.
04:37Yeah.
04:39Yeah.
04:39I don't, I just don't, to me, this arm to the plate that arm, you know,
04:43the whole thing, this just screams your Don Alvarez is going to play
04:47left field and your DH is going to float.
04:49Now the Astros will navigate the regular season, the way they navigate
04:52the regular season, like it's a long season and, and they're good enough
04:55to get there and they can make some.
04:57Some moves that are more about getting, you know, load management and
05:00getting there than it is necessarily playing your best guys.
05:03We've seen them do that at all kinds of positions.
05:05Look how they use the DH last year.
05:07I mean, look how they did first base last year, right.
05:09With Diaz and Alvarez and all these other guys within the DH role or
05:13catching or playing first and like, and this comes for you who just
05:18like, give me that lineup.
05:19Yeah.
05:20Give me that lineup.
05:20But then you can, well, that's the part of it that I absolutely love is
05:23like, yeah, just, just, if you're going to do that, yeah, you get your
05:26best bats up there and what does that do?
05:28You, you, you mentioned it yesterday, Ron, like, Hey, sorry guys, but that
05:31outfield, then bats in that outfield, that lineup doesn't support the
05:35pitch, the rotation and the bullpen that you got, they can carry that.
05:37They can't carry it.
05:38Well, all of a sudden you're, you put Yordan in left and you put Altuve and
05:43Bregman and, and, and, and Esau as you're, as you're floating DHS, all
05:48of a sudden you've linked in that lineup a little bit, and now they maybe
05:51can carry that, that bullpen or carry some, some, some, uh, you know, some
05:56slow points in the season, but that, that to me is the only way, right?
06:00Well, here's Bobby, there's Bobby.
06:02Bobby gives an explanation on how he could see the defense aligning.
06:06If, if Bregman comes back.
06:08Well, Paredes has played a number of games at second base.
06:11I want to say, uh, over 50 games at second base in his career.
06:14So the easy thing would be move Paredes to second base, move
06:18Jose Altuve to left field.
06:20Someone's got to play left field and you can mix and match too.
06:23Like, okay.
06:24Yeah.
06:24Maybe Paredes or sometimes Altuve there other, other times, you know, that sort
06:29of thing, you know, where they can, uh, kind of bounce around, but it makes no
06:32sense to move Bregman out of the third base position because it's a goal Glover.
06:36And they said, Hey, but it makes sense to move Altuve to left.
06:39My man said, somebody got to play left field.
06:43That just can't, that can't be the case.
06:45But this is, but this is my biggest issue with all of it is the thing like,
06:50yeah, Bregman coming back.
06:51Okay.
06:52Who is just like, I, like I, you've said there's a lot like, Hey man, I
06:59can understand a lot of things.
07:00I may have to agree with it, but I want it like, all right, you got a plan.
07:03Let's hear the plan.
07:05What is the plan?
07:06Right.
07:06You just fired it up into the air.
07:08Like we got the plan.
07:10Like, all right.
07:10You said, all right, man, guys, we'll give a deadline to Bregman.
07:12If he doesn't do it, bam.
07:13Now we're going to make moves.
07:14All right.
07:15We went and got Christian Walker.
07:16He's going to play first.
07:17We got Paredes.
07:17He's going to play third.
07:19This is what we're going to do.
07:20Now, all of a sudden, now you willing, how much, how much was the, how
07:24much is the money one 60 or something?
07:26Now you willing to unload that to get Bregman to now try to figure out what
07:32the hell, because the plan was we want you're not Alvarez to DH more
07:37because we want to keep him healthy.
07:38That was a part of the original plan.
07:40Now you just thrown up a plan up into the air to now give him six years.
07:46Like for me again, if you are now willing to give him six years, one
07:5060 or whatever it is, well, how come you wouldn't have been willing
07:55to go give an outfielder money?
07:57Like if you could give that, like, I'm not saying maybe you didn't want Santander,
08:01but he went for five years, 90.
08:03Like, I'm not saying that was it.
08:05Profar didn't go for this much.
08:07What is the plan?
08:08That would have made more sense.
08:10The plan can't be that you're 30, whatever your old second baseman who
08:15went through a post season of having the yips of throwing it from second to
08:19first to go and play left field.
08:21And your guy who has been a corner infielder and a power here, go, if
08:26you've not taken a look at, at, at Brady's, there's really not a lot about
08:31Brady's that says second base and turning two, right?
08:34Like not saying he can't, he's played 50 games.
08:36You know, there, but that, that could not have been the plan to, Oh man, this
08:40guy's going to play corner infield, man.
08:41We're going to, we're going to slide him over in second base while we have a guy
08:44who plays second base and left field.
08:46Like, that's just, my thing is what is the plan?
08:51And I, and like someone texts in relax.
08:53It's all for clicks.
08:54Like this is more than Bobby.
08:56This is, this is something that at least is out.
08:59Yeah.
08:59I hope it's not all for clicks.
09:00I now hope the Altuve stuff is for clicks, but I hope it's not all for clicks.
09:04Um, I mean, I agree with Ron's point of like, Hey man, that now you're, you're
09:10blowing whatever your plan was with Brady's and Christian Walker and moving on from
09:15Bregman, whatever it was now bringing Bregman back into the fold, you potentially
09:18blow that up and you have to change course significantly, especially again, if you
09:23listen to two chains about Altuve in the outfield.
09:25Um, but you know, I shoot, man.
09:30I mean the value of Bregman.
09:32I mean, clearly this organization thinks highly of, uh, of Bregman.
09:36Their best player does.
09:37He's so, he's so willing that he said, I'll go to left field.
09:41Like Jose, I don't give a damn what you're willing to do.
09:43You're not going to go play left field.
09:47You think, you think, uh, they said they can reach home plate on a, on a crow hop.
09:52Well, in all seriousness, if, if there's one positive to this crazy ass idea, I
09:57mean, it is how little a space there is that short porch out and left.
10:02I mean, I, I'm not saying this should happen.
10:05I'm just playing devil's ad right.
10:07The, the, the, the silver lining here is that we've seen how the, the Astros
10:10operate and ultimately how several teams operate is, is it's not crazy.
10:16If you're just talking about a path to get to the playoffs, but if we're talking
10:18about the option is get to the playoffs and this, this is, is an option, we're
10:23silly, right?
10:23I mean, ultimately the plan has to be, you get to the playoffs, it's your
10:26Don and left and, and, and you, you float the D D H.
10:32I mean, that, that can't be, it can't be serious about this.
10:35Look, I, I just, I just, this is just weird to me.
10:41Like they've, they've gone from an org, they've gone from an organization.
10:45I like, all right, man, we're out on Kyle Tucker.
10:47We're going to trade him.
10:49And, and then we're going to make these plans to bring in Brady's right.
10:54Didn't with pre eighties, didn't that come with a, a top third base, uh,
10:59prospect, like that was the top thing in the deal was that guy could
11:03play outfield as well, though.
11:04Okay.
11:05But I'm just, but I mean, they brought that in as, as, as a part, like, all
11:08right, we're making the move pass Bregman.
11:12Now the willing and the thought is we're going to, we're going to bring
11:15back Bregman for another six.
11:17Like, how did that, how did that change?
11:18And it's with, and the way you said it, the only way it works is
11:22your dime being the left fielder.
11:24That's it.
11:27I mean, that's, that's, but then again, as I said, that solves a lot of problems
11:30that just punts away the, the, the plan that you had, right?
11:34Like, I don't know.
11:36Let's see, man.
11:36I just like, this thing is all right, baby.
11:39We can flip on a dime, baby on the plan here.
11:41We'll see.
11:41We'll see what happens here.
11:42I just, hmm.
11:44Interesting decision.
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