00:00I don't know how you can be confident in it other than what Catillo says at the start
00:04where he's like, all right, they didn't get Pete Alonzo or Kyle Schwarber,
00:07so maybe they can slightly up the offer.
00:10But if they're worried about the long-term deal and if that's what Bregman –
00:13because then he later in his answer says Bregman's not going to want the short-term deal.
00:18So how's that going to line up?
00:19Who's going to give in?
00:20Is Bregman going to settle for two or three years
00:22or are the Red Sox going to go to five or six years?
00:26I don't think either are going to happen,
00:27and that's why I feel like he's going to go somewhere else.
00:29And he even named a bunch of teams that are interested.
00:31So it's not like he has a small market.
00:34There's no real third baseman really available.
00:37So you add all that together, factor in his playoff success and everything else.
00:42When he was healthy last year, he was productive.
00:45He was good.
00:46I mean, I don't think he should have, but he did make the All-Star team.
00:49So he had a good year, 50 games missed a side.
00:54So if somebody's going to offer him a bunch of money,
00:56there's always, like, people were so surprised locally
01:00at how much Pete Alonso got by the Orioles.
01:03And I was like, why?
01:04It's free agency.
01:05I don't think it was a lot of money at all.
01:06I don't either.
01:07And going into free agency, there was a lot of these projections,
01:10and Alex Bregman was expected to make more money than Pete Alonso.
01:15And Schwarber.
01:16So if you look at what those guys just signed for,
01:19the Red Sox aren't giving him that.
01:20No.
01:21So he's gone.
01:21So what's the pivot and what's the plan?
01:23Oh, man.
01:24I'm reading Brad Foe here at WEI.com.
01:26Okay.
01:28He says only 21 of the Athletics' top 50 free agents have been signed.
01:33Now, he makes that sound like that's a small number.
01:3421 out of 50.
01:35Okay.
01:36He makes that sound like a small number.
01:38That's a lot of free agents.
01:40Only half the free agents.
01:41Also, like, the 45th best free agent.
01:44Okay.
01:45Like, who even is that?
01:46Right.
01:46Yeah, yeah.
01:46No, I think if you look at some of these top 10 lists,
01:48like, half of the top 10 is gone.
01:50Tucker's still out there.
01:51Bregman's still out there.
01:52Forever Valdez is still out.
01:53Like, it's not like no one.
01:54Bichette is still out there.
01:55It's just not nobody.
01:56But, like, Tucker.
01:57Yeah.
01:57Like, where's he going?
01:58Not here.
01:59Right here.
01:59That's my point.
02:00So it's like, all right.
02:00So some of these guys aren't on there, but also, okay.
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