Tigers Reportedly Have Best Offer on Table for Bregman

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Stoney and Costa react to the report that the Tigers have the best offer on the table for Alex Bregman, but the former all-star may not want to sign with Detroit.

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00:00Jim Bowden, yeah

00:01Baseball insider where's he at these days the athletic and he does MLB radio former, you know

00:07General manager of the what Reds and the Nationals I think at one point. Yep. Yeah former executive of the year. Mm-hmm

00:13Yeah, so here's what he is hearing about Alex Bregman and the Tigers

00:31He

00:35Might not want to be here hmm best offer on the table, but might not want to be here now

00:45Some people might say well make that a best offer even better

00:48Essentially bid against yourself. Yeah, which there's a danger in doing that. Yes indeed. So if indeed that is true

00:57That the Tigers do have the best offer and he doesn't want to be here. Well, you know what I'm not gonna hate on the Tigers

01:04for that I

01:06Would hate on the Tigers if they were cheap

01:09So the best offer that we had heard was from Houston, right? Was that six years?

01:15156 some like that. Yeah, he turned it down turned it down. Are the Tigers offering more than that?

01:20I don't know. Nobody's been able to put numbers on it, correct

01:24Are they offering that sixth year we know they don't want to go over 200 million, which is fine

01:29No one appears to be willing to pay Alex Bregman 200 million dollars

01:35Boy it would be a tough pill to swallow that he just doesn't want to be here, right?

01:39Because the Tigers and Scott Harris and AJ Hinch pride themselves on

01:43We're a great destination. We get guys in here and we get the most out of them

01:48We've seen it with the pitching

01:50Correct and they'd like to believe they will do the same with these young hitters as well and they've seen some success

01:55It would be quite a blow to the ego

01:58For those guys specifically Hinch who has managed right before to be like, yeah AJ. I'm not gonna go to Detroit

02:04I'm not gonna play for the Tigers. You guys aren't whatever enough good enough compelling enough

02:10Yeah, they don't have enough money though. They correct me if I'm wrong. They beat your ass

02:16Beat his ass and Astros. Yes

02:19Yeah, I don't know I don't know what to believe

02:23It's it sucks in one way because

02:28Feel like oh, he doesn't like us

02:31But in the other aspect it says all right, at least the Tigers have stepped up

02:35They've made the best offer according to him. I want to know numbers. I know

02:41Because are we all off low-balling him is that what's happening right now?

02:45All the teams are unwilling to offer what it would take to sign him is that what it comes down to you know

02:50What maybe he's just maybe he's wrong. Yeah, maybe he's overvalued himself. That's possible, too

02:56The question is how big a priority is he done?

02:58Yeah for the Tigers because if they're gonna sit there and nickel-and-dime him like everybody else in the market. I

03:04Don't know if it's nickel-and-dime me though. I know I mean, it's like I don't know what to believe right? I mean

03:10at least

03:11You know as well, I always say make the call do whatever at least they have they're in there in

03:16whatever he signs for we're gonna look at that and say did the Tigers offer more and this report would indicate that

03:24Yes, they've offered the best deal on the market, right?

03:30It would be it would be great it would be really good he's a very good player is he a great player anymore

03:37maybe

03:39But he's very good

03:42Yeah, I I think to last year last year people go

03:45He's starting to trend the wrong way last year

03:47He would have been the third best player on the Tigers behind only Riley green and Tarek schubel in a down year

03:53Last year his walk rate was abnormally low for his career. It's much higher. He also won the gold glove

04:0130 year old slightly past his prime Alex Bregman is a major upgrade for the Detroit Tigers

04:07The problem is you want to be able to get better and

04:14Whilst you still have schubel, right? That's the problem. Yeah, because there's no guarantee that

04:21The Tigers are gonna be able to re-sign schubel. Yeah, why do you consider that a low ball or not?

04:25so two comps for the schubel situation would be

04:30Garrett Cole was on a very good Astros team and left for simply more money with the Yankees, correct, right?

04:36Corbin Burns was on a very good Orioles team left for more money

04:41Schubel could be on a very good Tigers team. Yeah, if you don't offer the most money, he'll play for somebody else Burns

04:48Evidently could have gotten more money to go somewhere else besides, Arizona, but he's from there

04:56My point is you could be on a good team and it Tigers are a good team

05:00And it doesn't mean you're gonna get a discount or you're gonna get anything

05:03They could still leave schubel may only have two more seasons in the old English D, right?

05:08What are you doing to win with them?

05:11one year deals, yeah

05:12I'm hoping what you said earlier is right if they do miss out on Bregman and it's not their fault, correct

05:18They have an aggressive pivot in the trade market

05:21Because this can't be the whole offseason. No

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