January 28, 2025 • 9 mins
Turning to the MLB, the Astros have been pretty productive in their offseason in regards to adding to the roster and deepening their depth. Picking up infielders and outfielders throughout the offseason mixed with acquiring a few pitching arms, the Astros look to be piecing together their team for the 2025 season. Taking note of a few departures like Kyle Tucker, Ryan Pressly, and Justin Verlander many still wonder what may the Astros tend to do with Alex Bregman as the days course on without any signings or news regarding the third baseman. With rumors arousing that Bregman may return an Astro for the season lots of talk have begun on rather or not the Astros should bring him back. Taking into account his initial offer in the beginning, to him hitting free agency and testing his market value, and now attaining little to any teams interest many wonder is it actually worth bringing the veteran back. Sean and Brian pose the question to listeners after all that's coursed on throughout the offseason with prospects picked up and dropped, would you pay Alex Bregman $30M to bring him back an Astro now?
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
K b E Houston, k t V HD two Houston,
an I Heart radio station. They as that Rocket Sports
Talk seven ninety your home for your home team. Salisbury
Oldbury Salsbury, Houston. Okay, let's do this. Sewn Salisbury.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
To usc true, longtime friend, Shawn Salisbury.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Ryan Lon Lima, go Lobos. This is the Sean Salsbury Show.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
They're back in action tonight in Atlanta taking on the Hawks.
Six thirty is the tip off, five thirty launch bat
right here on seven out of your home for Rockets basketball.
The Texans starting interviews for their open O C position.
They also hired a new team president. Mike Toeman is
the new team president. Seven one three two one two
five seven ninety is the number to join. Also, we
(00:58):
got some astro stuff to get into. Alex Bregnan reportedly
wants thirty million dollars a year. They could be interested
in a veteran outfielder infielder, who could that be? That
would be later on in the eight o'clock hour, Damien,
you're up first, Good morning.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Hey, good morning guys. One on Brian good mar Son,
Hey Son. This these next couple of highs with the Texans.
They've got to absolutely nail these highs. I mean they
have to for the team's sake, for Stroud's sake. I
agree with you saying that they got to get somebody
in there that bows Demiko. I got two names I
want to throw at you, and I'm gonna hang up
(01:33):
and listen to you, guys. One of the names is
Josh McCown. Saw what he done. He was on the
staff that helped that helped Sam Darnold look like the
high pick that he he pretty much was. And another
guy who was right right in our division. He's he's
won the title. Andy Reid guy, if I'm not mistaken.
And uh and Doug Peterson and I hang up and
(01:54):
listen to you, man, have a good day.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Appreciated Damion you as well, real quick. Josh McCown is
the name that we mentioned yesterday that potentially could be
getting an interview with the Houston Texans. And then I
also have seen Sean I've seen Doug Peterson's name floated
around quite a bit over the last couple of days.
He was obviously let go from the Jackson Peterson well.
As a play caller, yeah he really could. He's been
(02:17):
really good at it in his career, he'd have a
better quarterback than what he had in Jacksonville.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Yeah, I would say so right now that that would
be definitely the call. And I don't think there's any doubt.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Of course, Josh McCown has ties here to the Houston Texans.
Remember what Jack uster be basically wanted him to be
the next head coach when he had no head coaching experience.
We saw that drama, but he did. Look, Sam Darnol
had a really, really good year. He just picked the
last two weeks to have his worst games of the season.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
In two big ones, unfortunately for Sam. But listen, I
don't have probably. I love Josh McCown, and I see
now when they were talking about hiring him his head
coach a couple of years ago, it's like it's a
little premature. I didn't know how bad that. Yeah, that
was been in the league a long time, so well
respected and a great dude, but a smart football guy.
Teammates loved him, and he's he's got great mind and
(03:06):
he needed a little more seasoning and he went and
got it from the Kevin O'Connell and Sam's played great
football this year. I listen, you have to I would
think interview him. He's obviously got some ties here, people
love him here and doesn't necessarily mean you gotta hire him.
But if he comes in there and wows you, and
you're gonna get some same production the Vikings got, and
(03:29):
with a quarterback, quite frankly, who's got a chance to
elevate to another level here? Why not? I would interview Peterson.
I would interview Josh McCowan. I would why not? Why not? Yes,
Peterson's called plays and has had Super Bowl run as
a head coach, and I just don't take because they
(03:49):
struggle to Jacksonville as the head coach that Doug Peterson
can't call plays. He can, And I think that'd be
a brilliant interview. Figure it out. And he knows the
division pretty damn well.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
He does, there's no doubt Man. Seven one three seven
ninety Brandon, good morning.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Good morning, guys. I love the show. By the way,
we're talking about Bragman wanting thirty a year, is the
current even initial offer worth it, especially now that we
need the outfield and seeing san Terre signed for eighteen
a year for five in Profar, which I thought would
have been a great get for fourteen for three with
(04:25):
the Braves. Is there anybody else out there that would
be better value or two guys versus even given Bregman
is the initial offer we offered.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
I'll hang up to listening. Yeah, Verdigo is still available
RF he is. Alex Roduguez is still a free agent.
I think with with the way that the lineup is
constructed right now, if you bring back Alex Bregman for
the six for one fifty six uh twenty six a year,
and it extends your lineup tremendously, now, would you have
to move pieces around to uh get al Tuo Vane
(04:57):
left field? We heard it from Joe Spotted himself on
Saturday at Fanfiest. They're going to do whatever, uh to
accommodate it. Hoose yeah about yeah, yeah yeah, Hosey. So
I think for the for the value. Look, man, if
he for me, and we got asked by Tiffany asked us,
what's the max that we would pay Alex Bregnan for me?
(05:17):
I said it since day one and Sean you were
on the same page with me for me and ain't
it's nothing higher than twenty seven million?
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Okay, what's he had down? What do we got from
twenty that's twenty six year, right, correct, I'm willing to
go over six years, add a million bucks to twenty seven. Yeah,
I would stay at twenty mas. That's it. But that's
almost as if I'm if I'm negotiating against somebody else. Yeah,
this offer's been on the table, you've had every you've
had a month, well well more than a month, down
(05:44):
to go out and get whatever whatever you think you
can find. Here's what we have. And since then, now
we've made decisions. We've traded Kyle Tucker, We've got you,
traded a middle infield taken care of. We've traded a
closer who was pitching in the eightheen eighties going to
close for Chicagolander. We've Verlanders. A lot of things have happened.
(06:05):
And in truth, if it was a Prick franchise, which
this isn't, somebody else would go in there and say, well,
we're going to offer you less now because you've got
no we're going to take it down to twenty five
million a year, six years for what would that be
a buck fifty? So six years for a buck fifty.
So we're going to take it down to twenty five
because well some of that money's been spent. Well, you
just freed some up with Ryan Presley regardless, Now you're
(06:27):
not going to do that. That's respect for Alex Spreagman,
I get it. But if that's on the table and
you're not negotiating against anybody else, Because if there's a
twenty eight million dollar offer out there, I think he
would have taken it. He would have. So at that
point in time, if I get to twenty seven and
he says it's thirty or bust, you got to move on.
You just have to move on. Thirty sixty ninety one
(06:47):
hundred and eighty million dollars for six years, correct, that's
what it would end up being. I get why he
wants it, and I would ask for it too, But
at some point in time there, if nobody's giving you that,
why would I give you that? Now it's a do
you love us or do you not?
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Mean?
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Not only do we love him, but he's got to
love us. So if you want to come back at
this offer, it's fine. That's still pretty hefty, but I'm not.
It's twenty seven millions about the max for me. Now,
if we hadn't done anything, there's nobody there then that
he holds the leverage. Does he hold it right?
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Now?
Speaker 1 (07:18):
That's a question to me. I don't believe he does. No.
And like I said, when you say, what you think
you'd do as an owner has nothing to do with
how I feel about Alex Regman the player. I don't
know him personally, but I like the guy and I
think he is a He's got so many traits outside
of baseball that you like. Yeah, and in the club,
all those things. But let's call like we see it.
(07:39):
His offense offensive production must get better like it was
in two thousand and nine, and you may not get
that year, but it's got to be somewhere in between
what you've seen and what he did when he was
at an MVP candidate the whole year. And the most
alarming thing is that year like one hundred and eighteen
walks and he had forty plus this year. That's that's
a that that that it's a major so why and
(08:02):
with more at bats why? So that's something you got
to look at. But I'm not Tiffany. I'm not. He
doesn't get an announced over twenty seven, and if they
do pay him more twenty eight twenty, then they feel
that they haven't answered their questions yet. But to me,
I think that if Alex Bregman wants to move on
for the same price or a half a million more
(08:22):
a year somewhere else, maybe a risk you have to take,
but not at the thirty million a year. If he
was getting it somewhere else, Alex Bregman would have already
been under contract, getting ready to go to spring training
somewhere else.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
If somebody would have offered him twenty eighty year, he
would have been gone. I feel like unless he's just
a really gung hole on thirty million a year.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
So if he is, then he's going to have to
hold out for it.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Yeah, and we're just enging.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Cultures the business side, not what I listen. Do I
want all the best players here? Of course, who doesn't,
but at what expense?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (08:49):
And there comes a point in time when you cannot
let team hold the player hostage and player hold the
team hostage, and you also have a bunch of other
guys you got to think about who do I got
to get ready, and if Paradis is really going to
play second base, you got to take some ground balls,
got to get him going, because once you get there,
third base isn't exactly an easy position to play right,
So he's got to find some focus, just like Altuve
(09:09):
would if breg Bregman dictates about three or four positions
right now, So it's got he You cannot leave it
in flux. If you talk about player empowerment and players
you want to give them a clear conscience and give
them a real chance to compete. We're there. It's time.
It's time to make a decision and live with it. Yeah,
put your put put put the fist down.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Let's go. Yeah, you've got to draw a line, and
it's got to be a concrete not the sand. Yeah exactly. Yeah,
seven seven ninety is the number to join the show.
Let's get to the stake out next right here on
Sports Talk seven to eighty
K b E Houston, k t V HD two Houston,
an I Heart radio station. They as that Rocket Sports
Talk seven ninety your home for your home team. Salisbury
Oldbury Salsbury, Houston. Okay, let's do this. Sewn Salisbury.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
To usc true, longtime friend, Shawn Salisbury.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Ryan Lon Lima, go Lobos. This is the Sean Salsbury Show.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
They're back in action tonight in Atlanta taking on the Hawks.
Six thirty is the tip off, five thirty launch bat
right here on seven out of your home for Rockets basketball.
The Texans starting interviews for their open O C position.
They also hired a new team president. Mike Toeman is
the new team president. Seven one three two one two
five seven ninety is the number to join. Also, we
(00:58):
got some astro stuff to get into. Alex Bregnan reportedly
wants thirty million dollars a year. They could be interested
in a veteran outfielder infielder, who could that be? That
would be later on in the eight o'clock hour, Damien,
you're up first, Good morning.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
Hey, good morning guys. One on Brian good mar Son,
Hey Son. This these next couple of highs with the Texans.
They've got to absolutely nail these highs. I mean they
have to for the team's sake, for Stroud's sake. I
agree with you saying that they got to get somebody
in there that bows Demiko. I got two names I
want to throw at you, and I'm gonna hang up
(01:33):
and listen to you, guys. One of the names is
Josh McCown. Saw what he done. He was on the
staff that helped that helped Sam Darnold look like the
high pick that he he pretty much was. And another
guy who was right right in our division. He's he's
won the title. Andy Reid guy, if I'm not mistaken.
And uh and Doug Peterson and I hang up and
(01:54):
listen to you, man, have a good day.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Appreciated Damion you as well, real quick. Josh McCown is
the name that we mentioned yesterday that potentially could be
getting an interview with the Houston Texans. And then I
also have seen Sean I've seen Doug Peterson's name floated
around quite a bit over the last couple of days.
He was obviously let go from the Jackson Peterson well.
As a play caller, yeah he really could. He's been
(02:17):
really good at it in his career, he'd have a
better quarterback than what he had in Jacksonville.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Yeah, I would say so right now that that would
be definitely the call. And I don't think there's any doubt.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Of course, Josh McCown has ties here to the Houston Texans.
Remember what Jack uster be basically wanted him to be
the next head coach when he had no head coaching experience.
We saw that drama, but he did. Look, Sam Darnol
had a really, really good year. He just picked the
last two weeks to have his worst games of the season.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
In two big ones, unfortunately for Sam. But listen, I
don't have probably. I love Josh McCown, and I see
now when they were talking about hiring him his head
coach a couple of years ago, it's like it's a
little premature. I didn't know how bad that. Yeah, that
was been in the league a long time, so well
respected and a great dude, but a smart football guy.
Teammates loved him, and he's he's got great mind and
(03:06):
he needed a little more seasoning and he went and
got it from the Kevin O'Connell and Sam's played great
football this year. I listen, you have to I would
think interview him. He's obviously got some ties here, people
love him here and doesn't necessarily mean you gotta hire him.
But if he comes in there and wows you, and
you're gonna get some same production the Vikings got, and
(03:29):
with a quarterback, quite frankly, who's got a chance to
elevate to another level here? Why not? I would interview Peterson.
I would interview Josh McCowan. I would why not? Why not? Yes,
Peterson's called plays and has had Super Bowl run as
a head coach, and I just don't take because they
(03:49):
struggle to Jacksonville as the head coach that Doug Peterson
can't call plays. He can, And I think that'd be
a brilliant interview. Figure it out. And he knows the
division pretty damn well.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
He does, there's no doubt Man. Seven one three seven
ninety Brandon, good morning.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Good morning, guys. I love the show. By the way,
we're talking about Bragman wanting thirty a year, is the
current even initial offer worth it, especially now that we
need the outfield and seeing san Terre signed for eighteen
a year for five in Profar, which I thought would
have been a great get for fourteen for three with
(04:25):
the Braves. Is there anybody else out there that would
be better value or two guys versus even given Bregman
is the initial offer we offered.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
I'll hang up to listening. Yeah, Verdigo is still available
RF he is. Alex Roduguez is still a free agent.
I think with with the way that the lineup is
constructed right now, if you bring back Alex Bregman for
the six for one fifty six uh twenty six a year,
and it extends your lineup tremendously, now, would you have
to move pieces around to uh get al Tuo Vane
(04:57):
left field? We heard it from Joe Spotted himself on
Saturday at Fanfiest. They're going to do whatever, uh to
accommodate it. Hoose yeah about yeah, yeah yeah, Hosey. So
I think for the for the value. Look, man, if
he for me, and we got asked by Tiffany asked us,
what's the max that we would pay Alex Bregnan for me?
(05:17):
I said it since day one and Sean you were
on the same page with me for me and ain't
it's nothing higher than twenty seven million?
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Okay, what's he had down? What do we got from
twenty that's twenty six year, right, correct, I'm willing to
go over six years, add a million bucks to twenty seven. Yeah,
I would stay at twenty mas. That's it. But that's
almost as if I'm if I'm negotiating against somebody else. Yeah,
this offer's been on the table, you've had every you've
had a month, well well more than a month, down
(05:44):
to go out and get whatever whatever you think you
can find. Here's what we have. And since then, now
we've made decisions. We've traded Kyle Tucker, We've got you,
traded a middle infield taken care of. We've traded a
closer who was pitching in the eightheen eighties going to
close for Chicagolander. We've Verlanders. A lot of things have happened.
(06:05):
And in truth, if it was a Prick franchise, which
this isn't, somebody else would go in there and say, well,
we're going to offer you less now because you've got
no we're going to take it down to twenty five
million a year, six years for what would that be
a buck fifty? So six years for a buck fifty.
So we're going to take it down to twenty five
because well some of that money's been spent. Well, you
just freed some up with Ryan Presley regardless, Now you're
(06:27):
not going to do that. That's respect for Alex Spreagman,
I get it. But if that's on the table and
you're not negotiating against anybody else, Because if there's a
twenty eight million dollar offer out there, I think he
would have taken it. He would have. So at that
point in time, if I get to twenty seven and
he says it's thirty or bust, you got to move on.
You just have to move on. Thirty sixty ninety one
(06:47):
hundred and eighty million dollars for six years, correct, that's
what it would end up being. I get why he
wants it, and I would ask for it too, But
at some point in time there, if nobody's giving you that,
why would I give you that? Now it's a do
you love us or do you not?
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Mean?
Speaker 1 (07:04):
Not only do we love him, but he's got to
love us. So if you want to come back at
this offer, it's fine. That's still pretty hefty, but I'm not.
It's twenty seven millions about the max for me. Now,
if we hadn't done anything, there's nobody there then that
he holds the leverage. Does he hold it right?
Speaker 2 (07:18):
Now?
Speaker 1 (07:18):
That's a question to me. I don't believe he does. No.
And like I said, when you say, what you think
you'd do as an owner has nothing to do with
how I feel about Alex Regman the player. I don't
know him personally, but I like the guy and I
think he is a He's got so many traits outside
of baseball that you like. Yeah, and in the club,
all those things. But let's call like we see it.
(07:39):
His offense offensive production must get better like it was
in two thousand and nine, and you may not get
that year, but it's got to be somewhere in between
what you've seen and what he did when he was
at an MVP candidate the whole year. And the most
alarming thing is that year like one hundred and eighteen
walks and he had forty plus this year. That's that's
a that that that it's a major so why and
(08:02):
with more at bats why? So that's something you got
to look at. But I'm not Tiffany. I'm not. He
doesn't get an announced over twenty seven, and if they
do pay him more twenty eight twenty, then they feel
that they haven't answered their questions yet. But to me,
I think that if Alex Bregman wants to move on
for the same price or a half a million more
(08:22):
a year somewhere else, maybe a risk you have to take,
but not at the thirty million a year. If he
was getting it somewhere else, Alex Bregman would have already
been under contract, getting ready to go to spring training
somewhere else.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
If somebody would have offered him twenty eighty year, he
would have been gone. I feel like unless he's just
a really gung hole on thirty million a year.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
So if he is, then he's going to have to
hold out for it.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Yeah, and we're just enging.
Speaker 1 (08:42):
Cultures the business side, not what I listen. Do I
want all the best players here? Of course, who doesn't,
but at what expense?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (08:49):
And there comes a point in time when you cannot
let team hold the player hostage and player hold the
team hostage, and you also have a bunch of other
guys you got to think about who do I got
to get ready, and if Paradis is really going to
play second base, you got to take some ground balls,
got to get him going, because once you get there,
third base isn't exactly an easy position to play right,
So he's got to find some focus, just like Altuve
(09:09):
would if breg Bregman dictates about three or four positions
right now, So it's got he You cannot leave it
in flux. If you talk about player empowerment and players
you want to give them a clear conscience and give
them a real chance to compete. We're there. It's time.
It's time to make a decision and live with it. Yeah,
put your put put put the fist down.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Let's go. Yeah, you've got to draw a line, and
it's got to be a concrete not the sand. Yeah exactly. Yeah,
seven seven ninety is the number to join the show.
Let's get to the stake out next right here on
Sports Talk seven to eighty
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