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00:00There's two things that are scary about this. I don't care that Blake Snell signed somewhere else.
00:03I didn't want him, you didn't want him, Billy didn't want him, we didn't want him.
00:05So I don't want to be inconsistent on that.
00:07There are two scary things. Number one...
00:09You're not getting guys.
00:10Well, guys are getting snapped up.
00:11Yeah.
00:12Number two, 180 for Blake Snell, 182 over five years for Blake Snell.
00:16That's probably more than I expected.
00:18So Burns is worth 900.
00:20Okay, that just means the price, I think, on Burns and Freed is higher than I thought.
00:26Right.
00:27Which means now I do feel a little less like the Red Sox are going to get one of those guys.
00:31They got priced out on Yamamoto last year.
00:33Oh, we're totally in on him, but then the market got out of control.
00:35They're not... So I am with you, like...
00:37Hang on, but you really think they're not going to get any of these guys?
00:40Well, no, that's not true. I mean, they got Lucas Gilito last year.
00:42So they'll get somebody...
00:43They're not going to get Burns.
00:45They'll get Shane Bieber.
00:46They're not going to...
00:47Oh, Shane Bieber is on the shelf all year.
00:48So that is a guy that fits their...
00:51They're not going to get Freed?
00:52Their M.O.
00:53Uh...
00:55No.
00:55Bob Nightingale, USA Today, the Boston Red Sox, who were in on Blake Snell, more of that,
01:00are now focusing on Max Freed to upgrade their rotation.
01:03They're going to be so close.
01:04They might be the first team just to miss him.
01:06So you're saying...
01:06You're saying no.
01:07Wasn't that tweet, like, five minutes after Snell signed?
01:09Yes.
01:10So how does he know? What does he know?
01:11Well, I don't know.
01:12Yeah, they're going to focus on Freed.
01:13Haven't they been focused on him before?
01:14Well, maybe they're focused on Freed and Burns.
01:18So you're a no on Burns. You're a no on Freed.
01:21They will get neither.
01:22Oh, they'll get neither?
01:24I'm not so sure about that.
01:25So Freed, let me just say this real quick, on the off chance that they do sign Freed,
01:29I don't want to be the guy, like, oh, you're saying this now.
01:31He...
01:32I think you like him more than I do.
01:33I do, but even still, like, he's not a huge strikeout guy.
01:37So there is, like, a little concern, like, how elite can he be?
01:42He finished second in the Cy Young in 2022.
01:45He, uh, this past year had a 3.25 ERA, which is obviously very good.
01:50His, the most innings he's ever pitched is 185.
01:53But that's also maybe kind of the new norm.
01:56How many guys throw 200 innings now?
01:58It's so rare.
01:59Although, you know, if you just do quick math, if they do 33 starts in a healthy season,
02:05and even if they average six innings a start, that's like 198.
02:09So you're, I don't know, is 200 even that, is that, is it still that big of an ask?
02:16Maybe it is.
02:16I mean, a lot of pitchers don't...