January 27, 2025 • 12 mins
Over the course of the weekend amid the Conference Championship games in the NFL, turning to the MLB for a moment the Astros make a major move in regards to tuning up the roster for the start of the 2025 season. As weeks dwindle down before the meeting of pitchers and catchers, aiming to free up some cap space on the roster the Astros have parted ways with veteran reliever Ryan Pressly now sending him to the Chicago Cubs. With Pressly's departure to Chicago along with a payout of $5.5M, in return the Astros received right-handed pitcher prospect Juan Bello. Now with space freed up a bit, the Astros now favor in a chance to bring back their veteran third baseman to the roster before the spring arrives. Sean and Brian take a moment in the seven o'clock hour to discuss the possibility now with Ryan Pressly being traded to the Cubs, could the Astros really look to bring back their clubhouse veteran for a run at another postseason?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Kd E Houston, k t V HD two Houston.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
I heard radio station as a Rocket Sports Talk seven.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Your home for your home team, Salisbury Houston.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Okay, let's do this. Sewn Salisbury to usc true longtime friend,
Shawn Salisbury, Ryan Lima, go Lobos.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
This is the Sewan Salisbury Show.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
You're home for Rockets basketball. Texans firing their offensiveccording to
Bobby Slowick U of h gritty gritty win over the
Kansas Jayhawks in Lawrence two overtimes. What a game that was.
We're gonna talk astros. They traded Ryan Presley to the
Chicago Cubs. They got a prospect back in that trade.
(01:00):
It looks like they're gonna pay about five and a
half million dollars worth of Ryan Presley's fourteen million dollar contract.
The Cubs are gonna pay eight and a half. That
makes some wiggle room for uh potential reunion with Alex Bregman.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
I mean, they really need that space to get Alex Bregman. Well,
if if you're I mean, we've talked about it.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Yeah, with this damn tax threshold, you don't want to
go into the second level. But if you do go
on the second level, it would be for Alex Bregman,
and yeah, they want they want some wiggle room.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
I guess, well, hopefully he'll wiggle his way back in
thettle clubhouse.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Here.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
It just feels like the longer it goes, the more
you just have to admit the market wasn't right. But
he's gonna come back and play for you. Yeah, unless
somebody panics. I mean I don't hear anybody. There's no
national buzz about this, No none. I guess you ask
yourself why, but sometimes we all maybe maybe some undervalue,
(01:59):
some over value. I mean, he's just not getting what
he wants. And I think it's a bit surprising. I
would have never had him, had him back, And I
mean in eighty five, fifteen, maybe ninety ten, that he
was going to go to ten percent that he was
coming back. But the longer it goes, the more you think,
will I hate to say, are the options try? Well,
(02:21):
I don't hear national buzz, and it's it's almost as
if people here we were all convinced that he was leaving.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
So it's it's hard to even say. I mean, you're
sitting your thing.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Let me get back into the mode that Alex Bredman
could actually be a part of this team, and Joe A.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Spottas said he's talked to him.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Josel TV will play some left field, but he said
specifically if Alex Begman comes back. Correct, that was the
only thing he said. If not, he'll be at second
base in DH the whole year. But he did say
that if it was if if Bregman's there, they will experiment.
You know, Parad's over at second base and obviously moving around.
(02:57):
The versatility to put people in competition is going to
be because there's gonna be a lot of competition this in
this spring training. Normally there's a very there's very few
spots open here. There're gonna be some competition. Now, bringing
Bregman back well win competition for a couple for some Yeah,
but if he doesn't come back, then altiov will not
play left field. So I'm just curious about the market
(03:18):
for Bregman if it simply is right now.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
One team, Yeah, and it's here, meaning.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
At the price that he would where he'd be willing
to leave. Is there somebody out there saying, yeah, we'll
give you four years for twenty five million, four years
for one hundred million, or is it And and that's
not enough for you know, what's that twenty five million
a year?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
But I just think about that, it's only.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Two more million, twenty seven to twenty seven to five
of the going rate and add in a year or
two on it.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
So I just if the market was still ripe, would
he be here?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
No, he wouldn't. If teams were gonna gi him two
hundred million dollars, it would.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Have already happened. Even one hundred and seventy five.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Yeah, oh yeah, exactly, yeah, yeah, even it would have
already happened.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Right, I mean, if somebody gonna wake up and say,
you know what, let's let's go. Let's give him twenty
two to twenty four to twenty five more million dollars
over the course of five or six years.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
So the Astros don't get to keep him bringing we
want him here?
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Is Detroit or Boston or somebody going to wake up
and say, you know what, like, are somebody that we're
not talking about the jumps in late into the fray
and wants Alex Bregman. I it's it's it's odd that
it's that there's at least not a three way battle
or something going on. Right, It almost feels like right now,
the Texans feel just from our vantage point, we don't
(04:31):
have any extra insight to stop boris what their approach is.
But it almost feels to me like they're if they
changed their salary offer, that they would be negotiating against themselves.
Yeah here, yeah, because I mean it's not normally when
it's like this, people keep coming up. You know, hey, yeah,
there's three teams interested, but bless you, and impass simply
means we're not. We're not on your number or your years.
(04:54):
Bless you, Thank you toch so it yeah, bless you,
bless you. I just don't know how in the world
world is somebody really gonna make that big jumper or
are they now pitting teams against each other?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
But it feels to me, it feels to me this
is this is.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Astros at the original offer or somebody else at less
years and maybe even less money.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
So one thing we've heard, or multiple things that we've heard.
Aj Hinch in Detroit obviously great relationship with Alex Bregman,
wants him a part of his organization. Front office says
no or we're not moving off of this offer. Same
thing in Boston Alex Cora great relationship with Alex Bragman
front office that at we're not going above this price.
(05:40):
We haven't heard one report from any of these national
guys or local guys that any other team has offered
him more years and more money or less years and
more money.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Not one team.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
I don't even know if I haven't seen. And the
insiders here like Brian McTaggart, Chandler Roam and other places,
the past of the national ones right nightingingales and passes
and all those guys where their their job. They normally
know if two or three teams are interested. And maybe
I'm missing it because of the football season, but I
(06:16):
still read their tweets and all that trying to look
for you know stuff. But maybe maybe I've missed along
this six week period or even longer now, did somebody's
coming and said, oh yeah, we'll give him twenty eight
million a year. I have not seen an offer that
tells me that it's higher than what the Astros originally
offered on. If it's out there, I've not seen it.
Not one report, right, you haven't seen it. So normally,
(06:39):
if it's out there, somebody would have told us, right,
they would have made sure matter of fact, you would
have wanted to know if you're in Boris's camp, just
so you know what you're up against. If somebody did
make the album, I almost feel like it's one in
one or nothing right now.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
At that price.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Yeah, a little surprising, yeah it is, But that price
range is the market for, probably even a little higher
than for a two sixty hitter.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
I just hard time looking at him thinking he's a
two sixty hitter.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Yeah, with his eye right and his discipline and his
work at the plate. So if he plays like Bregman
did what in twenty nineteen, you're gonna get a bargain.
If he plays like he has played, then you're gonna
get about what the going rate is for the you know,
the fourth or fifth ranked, third ranked third baseman, whatever
(07:32):
it is. But offensively right now, I think that's the
hold up. I think they that there's a lot of
third basement they have ahead of him. At the plate.
His glove's magnificent, and his bat's better than I think
that the average says. Because he gets on base at
least that's been his history. I just more slugged from him.
It's got to happen. Yeah, he's got he's he's got
(07:53):
a perfect swing for it, and compact and the rest
of it, his slugging percentage and his ability to produce
runs in the where he can carry it like he
did in twenty nineteen for a month on his back.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
That that that's going to have to happen.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Those stats from twenty nineteen are pretty damn good. He
had an ops of over one thousand, He had two
ninety six on base of four to twenty three, slugging
of five ninety two. He walked one hundred and nineteen times,
had one hundred and twelve RBIs and forty one bombs
in twenty nineteen, right, And he didn't get the Once
we saw that, you're like finished second, my gosh, yeah,
(08:26):
Once you saw that, you're like, oh man, this is
what you expect every year.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
And that slugging percentage in those home runs. How many
walks again, one hundred and what one hundred and nineteen?
How many do you have last year? Forty four exactly?
Speaker 3 (08:39):
He had ninety two in twenty twenty three, and then
eighty seven and twenty twenty two and then forty just
forty four last year.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
That's that's a massive.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Seven hundred nineteen or in twenty nineteen one nineteen, Yeah,
what is that?
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Like?
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Seventy four different seventy five? Is that seventy five less?
Is that seventy five less walks? Or they were sixty five,
which was seventy five less walks?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Seventy five? What you think about that? Seventy five freaking alarming?
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:08):
How many at bats did you have in nineteen?
Speaker 3 (09:10):
In twenty nineteen he had five hundred and fifty four
at bats in this past year. This past year he
had five hundred and eighty one, so he had more
at bats than he did in his MVP year. Yeah,
and seventy five less walks. Yeah, that's a problem and
it's going to have to change. Yeah, I mean you
just look at just look as if he comes back here,
(09:30):
just look at twenty twenty three, ninety two walks, forty
eight less walks this past year.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
That's an alarm lesumber.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Fifty percent less more than fifty percent.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Less five years, seventy five walks, Yeah, in five years
been here, that's the difference. And more at bats last
year than then. Yeah, dude, that's a trip now. But
so maybe people are looking at if you're looking at
the analytics of it the numbers that that may very
well be offensive production.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Why he hasn't got what he's.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Wanted, I think the biggest thing, and I'm just assuming
front offices have got to see the notorious slow starts.
It's every year, man, every April, every April, every May,
every June.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Can you continue to say at thirty will be thirty
one in March when the season starts. Can we continue
to say, Man, I love his game, but can we
continue to say, oh, it's okay, it's Alex.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Until June.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Yeah, I just something's got to change with that. It's
almost like he needs to start pretending, like you simulating
he's in games today. Yeah, so by the time spring
training gets here, he's got his two months, right, Yeah, right, exactly.
But I mean he is a difference maker and having
him on this team for a lot of other you
heard pain to say it for a lot more reasons
than just his play on the field, And we've heard
(10:52):
that a million times. But I still don't know. Okay,
if this is where he's gonna what's the hold up is?
Speaker 2 (10:58):
What are we wait?
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Are you waiting for some to jump in because you're afraid?
And now Bregman is coming back here. You're hoping somebody gets,
you know, to the point where they panic a little
bit and then raises it five million a year in salary.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
What are you waiting for?
Speaker 3 (11:11):
If a team was going to offer you the big money,
it would have already happened, I would think. So, I
just don't feel like a team's going to add a
nowhere and be like, oh man, the Astros traded Presley,
They've got the door back open for Bregman.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Let's go give them thirty million. They're not. It's not
gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
If I was the Astros, I'll be one percent honest
with you after all this, because it's business. It's not personal.
It's not you and I love Bregman, it's not personal.
If I was negotiating, I wouldn't give him a nickel
more than our original offer. And there'd be a part
of me that says, if you don't take the offer
by a certain time, we're done.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
We're gonna give lesson that's right, or we're gonna come
down to twenty five years.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Because what you also have to realize is the guys
that are here are trying to figure out what their
opportunity is, right so you want to not that they
need to know, but it'd be nice where there's a
path where he say, okay, he's not there. Now we got,
you know, pray a third base. Now we're going to
move around with to find outfielders we got. The truth
is you got to find three consistent starters in the outfield. Yeah,
where are you finding it? So the Bregman the all
(12:09):
the playout from Bregman's deal. But I wouldn't I wouldn't
offer any more money. Yeah, because it apparently then, like
I said, you're just giving money away for the helmet,
because it doesn't seem to me like there's a You're not.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
In a bidding war right now.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
You're not.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
You're not. And I'm not going to put myself in one.
If it wasna me against me.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Yeah, I was gonna say, why would you even try
to put yourself into that position?
Speaker 4 (12:30):
If they come back and say, hey, we were offered
thirty million a year for five years from somebody else
for six years, you'd say, well, congratulations.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Go get that back in congratulations. I don't play your time.
That's exactly right. I'm not going over the twenty six million. Sorry,
you know what they haven't been offered that. No, exactly
why you're still here, right, exactly why you're still a
free agent. Let's get to the stake out next, right here,
on The Shawn Salisbury Show.
Kd E Houston, k t V HD two Houston.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
I heard radio station as a Rocket Sports Talk seven.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Your home for your home team, Salisbury Houston.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Okay, let's do this. Sewn Salisbury to usc true longtime friend,
Shawn Salisbury, Ryan Lima, go Lobos.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
This is the Sewan Salisbury Show.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
You're home for Rockets basketball. Texans firing their offensiveccording to
Bobby Slowick U of h gritty gritty win over the
Kansas Jayhawks in Lawrence two overtimes. What a game that was.
We're gonna talk astros. They traded Ryan Presley to the
Chicago Cubs. They got a prospect back in that trade.
(01:00):
It looks like they're gonna pay about five and a
half million dollars worth of Ryan Presley's fourteen million dollar contract.
The Cubs are gonna pay eight and a half. That
makes some wiggle room for uh potential reunion with Alex Bregman.
Speaker 4 (01:14):
I mean, they really need that space to get Alex Bregman. Well,
if if you're I mean, we've talked about it.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Yeah, with this damn tax threshold, you don't want to
go into the second level. But if you do go
on the second level, it would be for Alex Bregman,
and yeah, they want they want some wiggle room.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
I guess, well, hopefully he'll wiggle his way back in
thettle clubhouse.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Here.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
It just feels like the longer it goes, the more
you just have to admit the market wasn't right. But
he's gonna come back and play for you. Yeah, unless
somebody panics. I mean I don't hear anybody. There's no
national buzz about this, No none. I guess you ask
yourself why, but sometimes we all maybe maybe some undervalue,
(01:59):
some over value. I mean, he's just not getting what
he wants. And I think it's a bit surprising. I
would have never had him, had him back, And I
mean in eighty five, fifteen, maybe ninety ten, that he
was going to go to ten percent that he was
coming back. But the longer it goes, the more you think,
will I hate to say, are the options try? Well,
(02:21):
I don't hear national buzz, and it's it's almost as
if people here we were all convinced that he was leaving.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
So it's it's hard to even say. I mean, you're
sitting your thing.
Speaker 4 (02:30):
Let me get back into the mode that Alex Bredman
could actually be a part of this team, and Joe A.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
Spottas said he's talked to him.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Josel TV will play some left field, but he said
specifically if Alex Begman comes back. Correct, that was the
only thing he said. If not, he'll be at second
base in DH the whole year. But he did say
that if it was if if Bregman's there, they will experiment.
You know, Parad's over at second base and obviously moving around.
(02:57):
The versatility to put people in competition is going to
be because there's gonna be a lot of competition this in
this spring training. Normally there's a very there's very few
spots open here. There're gonna be some competition. Now, bringing
Bregman back well win competition for a couple for some Yeah,
but if he doesn't come back, then altiov will not
play left field. So I'm just curious about the market
(03:18):
for Bregman if it simply is right now.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
One team, Yeah, and it's here, meaning.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
At the price that he would where he'd be willing
to leave. Is there somebody out there saying, yeah, we'll
give you four years for twenty five million, four years
for one hundred million, or is it And and that's
not enough for you know, what's that twenty five million
a year?
Speaker 2 (03:38):
But I just think about that, it's only.
Speaker 4 (03:41):
Two more million, twenty seven to twenty seven to five
of the going rate and add in a year or
two on it.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
So I just if the market was still ripe, would
he be here?
Speaker 3 (03:50):
No, he wouldn't. If teams were gonna gi him two
hundred million dollars, it would.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
Have already happened. Even one hundred and seventy five.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Yeah, oh yeah, exactly, yeah, yeah, even it would have
already happened.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
Right, I mean, if somebody gonna wake up and say,
you know what, let's let's go. Let's give him twenty
two to twenty four to twenty five more million dollars
over the course of five or six years.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
So the Astros don't get to keep him bringing we
want him here?
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Is Detroit or Boston or somebody going to wake up
and say, you know what, like, are somebody that we're
not talking about the jumps in late into the fray
and wants Alex Bregman. I it's it's it's odd that
it's that there's at least not a three way battle
or something going on. Right, It almost feels like right now,
the Texans feel just from our vantage point, we don't
(04:31):
have any extra insight to stop boris what their approach is.
But it almost feels to me like they're if they
changed their salary offer, that they would be negotiating against themselves.
Yeah here, yeah, because I mean it's not normally when
it's like this, people keep coming up. You know, hey, yeah,
there's three teams interested, but bless you, and impass simply
means we're not. We're not on your number or your years.
(04:54):
Bless you, Thank you toch so it yeah, bless you,
bless you. I just don't know how in the world
world is somebody really gonna make that big jumper or
are they now pitting teams against each other?
Speaker 2 (05:07):
But it feels to me, it feels to me this
is this is.
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Astros at the original offer or somebody else at less
years and maybe even less money.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
So one thing we've heard, or multiple things that we've heard.
Aj Hinch in Detroit obviously great relationship with Alex Bregman,
wants him a part of his organization. Front office says
no or we're not moving off of this offer. Same
thing in Boston Alex Cora great relationship with Alex Bragman
front office that at we're not going above this price.
(05:40):
We haven't heard one report from any of these national
guys or local guys that any other team has offered
him more years and more money or less years and
more money.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Not one team.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
I don't even know if I haven't seen. And the
insiders here like Brian McTaggart, Chandler Roam and other places,
the past of the national ones right nightingingales and passes
and all those guys where their their job. They normally
know if two or three teams are interested. And maybe
I'm missing it because of the football season, but I
(06:16):
still read their tweets and all that trying to look
for you know stuff. But maybe maybe I've missed along
this six week period or even longer now, did somebody's
coming and said, oh yeah, we'll give him twenty eight
million a year. I have not seen an offer that
tells me that it's higher than what the Astros originally
offered on. If it's out there, I've not seen it.
Not one report, right, you haven't seen it. So normally,
(06:39):
if it's out there, somebody would have told us, right,
they would have made sure matter of fact, you would
have wanted to know if you're in Boris's camp, just
so you know what you're up against. If somebody did
make the album, I almost feel like it's one in
one or nothing right now.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
At that price.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Yeah, a little surprising, yeah it is, But that price
range is the market for, probably even a little higher
than for a two sixty hitter.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
I just hard time looking at him thinking he's a
two sixty hitter.
Speaker 4 (07:11):
Yeah, with his eye right and his discipline and his
work at the plate. So if he plays like Bregman
did what in twenty nineteen, you're gonna get a bargain.
If he plays like he has played, then you're gonna
get about what the going rate is for the you know,
the fourth or fifth ranked, third ranked third baseman, whatever
(07:32):
it is. But offensively right now, I think that's the
hold up. I think they that there's a lot of
third basement they have ahead of him. At the plate.
His glove's magnificent, and his bat's better than I think
that the average says. Because he gets on base at
least that's been his history. I just more slugged from him.
It's got to happen. Yeah, he's got he's he's got
(07:53):
a perfect swing for it, and compact and the rest
of it, his slugging percentage and his ability to produce
runs in the where he can carry it like he
did in twenty nineteen for a month on his back.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
That that that's going to have to happen.
Speaker 3 (08:05):
Those stats from twenty nineteen are pretty damn good. He
had an ops of over one thousand, He had two
ninety six on base of four to twenty three, slugging
of five ninety two. He walked one hundred and nineteen times,
had one hundred and twelve RBIs and forty one bombs
in twenty nineteen, right, And he didn't get the Once
we saw that, you're like finished second, my gosh, yeah,
(08:26):
Once you saw that, you're like, oh man, this is
what you expect every year.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
And that slugging percentage in those home runs. How many
walks again, one hundred and what one hundred and nineteen?
How many do you have last year? Forty four exactly?
Speaker 3 (08:39):
He had ninety two in twenty twenty three, and then
eighty seven and twenty twenty two and then forty just
forty four last year.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
That's that's a massive.
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Seven hundred nineteen or in twenty nineteen one nineteen, Yeah,
what is that?
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Like?
Speaker 4 (08:52):
Seventy four different seventy five? Is that seventy five less?
Is that seventy five less walks? Or they were sixty five,
which was seventy five less walks?
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Seventy five? What you think about that? Seventy five freaking alarming?
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (09:08):
How many at bats did you have in nineteen?
Speaker 3 (09:10):
In twenty nineteen he had five hundred and fifty four
at bats in this past year. This past year he
had five hundred and eighty one, so he had more
at bats than he did in his MVP year. Yeah,
and seventy five less walks. Yeah, that's a problem and
it's going to have to change. Yeah, I mean you
just look at just look as if he comes back here,
(09:30):
just look at twenty twenty three, ninety two walks, forty
eight less walks this past year.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
That's an alarm lesumber.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Fifty percent less more than fifty percent.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Less five years, seventy five walks, Yeah, in five years
been here, that's the difference. And more at bats last
year than then. Yeah, dude, that's a trip now. But
so maybe people are looking at if you're looking at
the analytics of it the numbers that that may very
well be offensive production.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
Why he hasn't got what he's.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Wanted, I think the biggest thing, and I'm just assuming
front offices have got to see the notorious slow starts.
It's every year, man, every April, every April, every May,
every June.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
Can you continue to say at thirty will be thirty
one in March when the season starts. Can we continue
to say, Man, I love his game, but can we
continue to say, oh, it's okay, it's Alex.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Until June.
Speaker 4 (10:29):
Yeah, I just something's got to change with that. It's
almost like he needs to start pretending, like you simulating
he's in games today. Yeah, so by the time spring
training gets here, he's got his two months, right, Yeah, right, exactly.
But I mean he is a difference maker and having
him on this team for a lot of other you
heard pain to say it for a lot more reasons
than just his play on the field, And we've heard
(10:52):
that a million times. But I still don't know. Okay,
if this is where he's gonna what's the hold up is?
Speaker 2 (10:58):
What are we wait?
Speaker 4 (10:59):
Are you waiting for some to jump in because you're afraid?
And now Bregman is coming back here. You're hoping somebody gets,
you know, to the point where they panic a little
bit and then raises it five million a year in salary.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
What are you waiting for?
Speaker 3 (11:11):
If a team was going to offer you the big money,
it would have already happened, I would think. So, I
just don't feel like a team's going to add a
nowhere and be like, oh man, the Astros traded Presley,
They've got the door back open for Bregman.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Let's go give them thirty million. They're not. It's not
gonna happen.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
If I was the Astros, I'll be one percent honest
with you after all this, because it's business. It's not personal.
It's not you and I love Bregman, it's not personal.
If I was negotiating, I wouldn't give him a nickel
more than our original offer. And there'd be a part
of me that says, if you don't take the offer
by a certain time, we're done.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
We're gonna give lesson that's right, or we're gonna come
down to twenty five years.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Because what you also have to realize is the guys
that are here are trying to figure out what their
opportunity is, right so you want to not that they
need to know, but it'd be nice where there's a
path where he say, okay, he's not there. Now we got,
you know, pray a third base. Now we're going to
move around with to find outfielders we got. The truth
is you got to find three consistent starters in the outfield. Yeah,
where are you finding it? So the Bregman the all
(12:09):
the playout from Bregman's deal. But I wouldn't I wouldn't
offer any more money. Yeah, because it apparently then, like
I said, you're just giving money away for the helmet,
because it doesn't seem to me like there's a You're not.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
In a bidding war right now.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
You're not.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
You're not. And I'm not going to put myself in one.
If it wasna me against me.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Yeah, I was gonna say, why would you even try
to put yourself into that position?
Speaker 4 (12:30):
If they come back and say, hey, we were offered
thirty million a year for five years from somebody else
for six years, you'd say, well, congratulations.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
Go get that back in congratulations. I don't play your time.
That's exactly right. I'm not going over the twenty six million. Sorry,
you know what they haven't been offered that. No, exactly
why you're still here, right, exactly why you're still a
free agent. Let's get to the stake out next, right here,
on The Shawn Salisbury Show.
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