00:00You had a big winter, and the biggest part of that winter was signing Alex Bregman.
00:04You had tried the previous year to sign him.
00:06This year, I think a lot of people figured he'd go back to Boston.
00:09Take me through it.
00:10How did this come about?
00:11Were you surprised in the end that you were able to land Alex Bregman, and why him?
00:16I had a good feeling that it was going to be us or the Red Sox, I guess,
00:20even going back to the beginning of the offseason.
00:23We had had good communication with him last year.
00:26He knew of our interest.
00:27We immediately kind of rekindled that to start the offseason.
00:30But I knew he had a really good experience in Boston.
00:33They're a good young team.
00:34He meshed with their young players.
00:36And so with that, I knew it was going to be challenging to not have him be a Red Sox.
00:40So I had a sense that it was going to be one of those two places.
00:43And obviously, I'm thrilled with the way it ended up.
00:46But he's a really good player.
00:47He plays good defense.
00:48He makes great contact.
00:49He has power.
00:51He makes good decisions.
00:52On top of that, I think he provides a level of leadership to a team that's
00:56ready to win.
00:57And I think that's really important.
00:58He wants to make other guys better.
01:00He wants to lead.
01:01And I think that there's not a lot of guys like that in the game that want that
01:05responsibility.
01:05And so that was definitely a factor in the decision.
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