The Astros and Alex Bregman have re-engaged in talks of a reunion, but it seems like the ship has sailed and the Astros have moved on. How do you feel about possibly bringing Bregman back? The Drive's Clint Stoerner, Ron Hughley and Tyler Milner discuss it here.
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00:00The idea of bringing back Alex Bregman, we're talking about that six-year $156 million type
00:09range.
00:10If we're talking about bringing back Alex Bregman.
00:11Yep.
00:12Yep.
00:13That's it.
00:14All right.
00:15Yeah.
00:16So that's a, I mean, that, that contract is still on the table and, uh, I don't think
00:18that answers are going to budge from it and we'll see, uh, you know, can you get more
00:23per year by somebody else?
00:25Could someone else give him more than six years?
00:27I'm not sure about that or he probably would have already signed it.
00:29So I think Alex would like to come back and I think they'd really like to have them back.
00:34So certainly, you know, they re-engaged a couple of days ago, you know, maybe it was
00:37yesterday in, uh, and said, Hey, we're don't give up on this.
00:41Let it, you know, almost like, let us know if you're about to sign somewhere.
00:44All right.
00:45That is Bob Nightingale USA today.
00:47He was on with the fellas last night from area 45.
00:51You can listen to that in its entirety on the podcast page.
00:54Um, what's, what's your thoughts about hearing that?
00:59This is a mutual thing.
01:00The Astros, what he said, would love to have them back.
01:03It makes me think of Lloyd Christmas earlier saying there's a chance, like it's like, but
01:09they've made all these moves that would say we've moved on from it and they've said it.
01:15What's your feelings about how this is coming about a potential reunion with everything
01:20that's happening?
01:21Look, I'm here for it.
01:22I mean, I'm, I'm here for Bregman being an Astro, especially if it's at the, the, the
01:26original number and contract offer that Kraft offered him.
01:30And it's not, it's not the Astros budging all of a sudden.
01:34And look, if, if, if Bobby two chains is spot on here, if, if we are to believe that, that
01:39he's accurate, it's not hard to make it make sense for Bregman.
01:42I mean the, the, the money's yeah, while, while you know, the thought is that he could
01:46get 30, 30 million per somewhere else.
01:49He's offered 26 here.
01:50That's four mil per year.
01:51Like that's a lot of money, but it's also when you're talking 26, 27 million a year
01:56that additional year is a big number as well.
01:59And in baseball, it's all guaranteed money.
02:00So it would make sense where I could see Bregman saying, I got it pretty good here.
02:07The, the, the, the clubhouse is right here.
02:10I'm comfortable here.
02:11My family's comfortable here.
02:12The money is very similar.
02:15Although you gotta, you gotta figure the six year versus a shorter kind of deal in
02:18there.
02:19You gotta, you gotta do some juggling there, but it's not like it's, it's a no
02:22brainer.
02:23Like most of us thought it was going to be with Alex Bregman.
02:26So, um, I think when you talk about the offer, like it's not crazy if you're
02:31Bregman to think, Hey, let's just ease back into Houston where we know it's right
02:36now.
02:37I think the, I think the thought of Altuve playing left field is plum ass
02:41silly.
02:41Well, yeah, that's, that's the part we got to get to now.
02:44All right.
02:44If you bring him in, that's what I'm saying.
02:46You've made the plans of how you were going to construct his baseball team.
02:51Right.
02:51And we'll get to that.
02:52Tyler, are you, does this excite you?
02:54You've been wanting Bregman back, but does this, does this excite you with how
02:57it is?
02:59Yeah.
02:59I've been in a, I've been in a weird place for like a year with Bregman.
03:03Cause there's definitely, or just no, not sexually.
03:06No, he's just not my type, but I've been in a weird place, stubby ass legs.
03:11He's been in a weird place.
03:12I didn't know.
03:13I bet he's got a bumpy ass, short legs.
03:16I mean, he's probably got red bumps on his butt.
03:18No, but for real, uh, been in a weird place with Bregman because there's
03:22definitely been moments over the last year where, I mean, I've just been
03:25ready for them to trade him, get some sort of value back for that third
03:29baseman, but the way things have unfolded right now with everything.
03:33Yeah.
03:33I'd welcome Breg back with open arms.
03:35I would just also tell him, Hey, need you to wake the hell up before July
03:38gets here and use your bat in the batter's box the first two months of the
03:42season.
03:43Please.
03:43I mean, right.
03:44You're not going to like this, Ron, but, but I mean, well, because I, because
03:48I know we've talked about it before.
03:50The, I mean, this screen, I mean, the, the Altuve to left field stuff is silly
03:55and we've talked about, well, it's, it's, it's a short porch to left field
03:58for all the home games and you're okay.
04:00Uh, all right guys.
04:01I mean, let's be real about some other tough left field.
04:04Well, what, what, yeah.
04:04Right.
04:05You don't play every game at home.
04:06Um, I mean, let's, let's be honest here.
04:08This, this screams again, if Bobby two chains is right and the Astros are
04:13entertaining is this screams your Don Alvarez in left field and a floating DH.
04:22It's the only way you can make sense of it.
04:24I'll, I'll, I'll do they go into left field is silly, right?
04:28When I hear that, I mean, I mean, I'm going to go out there with
04:31stilts or whatever he's going to do.
04:32I don't know a guy that, that you've been trying to get in and
04:36out with his, with, with health.
04:37Yeah.
04:39Yeah.
04:39I don't, I just don't, to me, this arm to the plate that arm, you know,
04:43the whole thing, this just screams your Don Alvarez is going to play
04:47left field and your DH is going to float.
04:49Now the Astros will navigate the regular season, the way they navigate
04:52the regular season, like it's a long season and, and they're good enough
04:55to get there and they can make some.
04:57Some moves that are more about getting, you know, load management and
05:00getting there than it is necessarily playing your best guys.
05:03We've seen them do that at all kinds of positions.
05:05Look how they use the DH last year.
05:07I mean, look how they did first base last year, right.
05:09With Diaz and Alvarez and all these other guys within the DH role or
05:13catching or playing first and like, and this comes for you who just
05:18like, give me that lineup.
05:19Yeah.
05:20Give me that lineup.
05:20But then you can, well, that's the part of it that I absolutely love is
05:23like, yeah, just, just, if you're going to do that, yeah, you get your
05:26best bats up there and what does that do?
05:28You, you, you mentioned it yesterday, Ron, like, Hey, sorry guys, but that
05:31outfield, then bats in that outfield, that lineup doesn't support the
05:35pitch, the rotation and the bullpen that you got, they can carry that.
05:37They can't carry it.
05:38Well, all of a sudden you're, you put Yordan in left and you put Altuve and
05:43Bregman and, and, and, and Esau as you're, as you're floating DHS, all
05:48of a sudden you've linked in that lineup a little bit, and now they maybe
05:51can carry that, that bullpen or carry some, some, some, uh, you know, some
05:56slow points in the season, but that, that to me is the only way, right?
06:00Well, here's Bobby, there's Bobby.
06:02Bobby gives an explanation on how he could see the defense aligning.
06:06If, if Bregman comes back.
06:08Well, Paredes has played a number of games at second base.
06:11I want to say, uh, over 50 games at second base in his career.
06:14So the easy thing would be move Paredes to second base, move
06:18Jose Altuve to left field.
06:20Someone's got to play left field and you can mix and match too.
06:23Like, okay.
06:24Yeah.
06:24Maybe Paredes or sometimes Altuve there other, other times, you know, that sort
06:29of thing, you know, where they can, uh, kind of bounce around, but it makes no
06:32sense to move Bregman out of the third base position because it's a goal Glover.
06:36And they said, Hey, but it makes sense to move Altuve to left.
06:39My man said, somebody got to play left field.
06:43That just can't, that can't be the case.
06:45But this is, but this is my biggest issue with all of it is the thing like,
06:50yeah, Bregman coming back.
06:51Okay.
06:52Who is just like, I, like I, you've said there's a lot like, Hey man, I
06:59can understand a lot of things.
07:00I may have to agree with it, but I want it like, all right, you got a plan.
07:03Let's hear the plan.
07:05What is the plan?
07:06Right.
07:06You just fired it up into the air.
07:08Like we got the plan.
07:10Like, all right.
07:10You said, all right, man, guys, we'll give a deadline to Bregman.
07:12If he doesn't do it, bam.
07:13Now we're going to make moves.
07:14All right.
07:15We went and got Christian Walker.
07:16He's going to play first.
07:17We got Paredes.
07:17He's going to play third.
07:19This is what we're going to do.
07:20Now, all of a sudden, now you willing, how much, how much was the, how
07:24much is the money one 60 or something?
07:26Now you willing to unload that to get Bregman to now try to figure out what
07:32the hell, because the plan was we want you're not Alvarez to DH more
07:37because we want to keep him healthy.
07:38That was a part of the original plan.
07:40Now you just thrown up a plan up into the air to now give him six years.
07:46Like for me again, if you are now willing to give him six years, one
07:5060 or whatever it is, well, how come you wouldn't have been willing
07:55to go give an outfielder money?
07:57Like if you could give that, like, I'm not saying maybe you didn't want Santander,
08:01but he went for five years, 90.
08:03Like, I'm not saying that was it.
08:05Profar didn't go for this much.
08:07What is the plan?
08:08That would have made more sense.
08:10The plan can't be that you're 30, whatever your old second baseman who
08:15went through a post season of having the yips of throwing it from second to
08:19first to go and play left field.
08:21And your guy who has been a corner infielder and a power here, go, if
08:26you've not taken a look at, at, at Brady's, there's really not a lot about
08:31Brady's that says second base and turning two, right?
08:34Like not saying he can't, he's played 50 games.
08:36You know, there, but that, that could not have been the plan to, Oh man, this
08:40guy's going to play corner infield, man.
08:41We're going to, we're going to slide him over in second base while we have a guy
08:44who plays second base and left field.
08:46Like, that's just, my thing is what is the plan?
08:51And I, and like someone texts in relax.
08:53It's all for clicks.
08:54Like this is more than Bobby.
08:56This is, this is something that at least is out.
08:59Yeah.
08:59I hope it's not all for clicks.
09:00I now hope the Altuve stuff is for clicks, but I hope it's not all for clicks.
09:04Um, I mean, I agree with Ron's point of like, Hey man, that now you're, you're
09:10blowing whatever your plan was with Brady's and Christian Walker and moving on from
09:15Bregman, whatever it was now bringing Bregman back into the fold, you potentially
09:18blow that up and you have to change course significantly, especially again, if you
09:23listen to two chains about Altuve in the outfield.
09:25Um, but you know, I shoot, man.
09:30I mean the value of Bregman.
09:32I mean, clearly this organization thinks highly of, uh, of Bregman.
09:36Their best player does.
09:37He's so, he's so willing that he said, I'll go to left field.
09:41Like Jose, I don't give a damn what you're willing to do.
09:43You're not going to go play left field.
09:47You think, you think, uh, they said they can reach home plate on a, on a crow hop.
09:52Well, in all seriousness, if, if there's one positive to this crazy ass idea, I
09:57mean, it is how little a space there is that short porch out and left.
10:02I mean, I, I'm not saying this should happen.
10:05I'm just playing devil's ad right.
10:07The, the, the, the silver lining here is that we've seen how the, the Astros
10:10operate and ultimately how several teams operate is, is it's not crazy.
10:16If you're just talking about a path to get to the playoffs, but if we're talking
10:18about the option is get to the playoffs and this, this is, is an option, we're
10:23silly, right?
10:23I mean, ultimately the plan has to be, you get to the playoffs, it's your
10:26Don and left and, and, and you, you float the D D H.
10:32I mean, that, that can't be, it can't be serious about this.
10:35Look, I, I just, I just, this is just weird to me.
10:41Like they've, they've gone from an org, they've gone from an organization.
10:45I like, all right, man, we're out on Kyle Tucker.
10:47We're going to trade him.
10:49And, and then we're going to make these plans to bring in Brady's right.
10:54Didn't with pre eighties, didn't that come with a, a top third base, uh,
10:59prospect, like that was the top thing in the deal was that guy could
11:03play outfield as well, though.
11:04Okay.
11:05But I'm just, but I mean, they brought that in as, as, as a part, like, all
11:08right, we're making the move pass Bregman.
11:12Now the willing and the thought is we're going to, we're going to bring
11:15back Bregman for another six.
11:17Like, how did that, how did that change?
11:18And it's with, and the way you said it, the only way it works is
11:22your dime being the left fielder.
11:24That's it.
11:27I mean, that's, that's, but then again, as I said, that solves a lot of problems
11:30that just punts away the, the, the plan that you had, right?
11:34Like, I don't know.
11:36Let's see, man.
11:36I just like, this thing is all right, baby.
11:39We can flip on a dime, baby on the plan here.
11:41We'll see.
11:41We'll see what happens here.
11:42I just, hmm.
11:44Interesting decision.