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There is a new favorite to sign Alex Bregman
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2/6/2025
The favorite to land Alex Bregman in free agency is a team that other former Astros have gone already this offseason.
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Alex Bregman, rumors swirling right now
00:04
that the Chicago Cubs are the leader
00:07
in the clubhouse to sign Bregman.
00:09
Several of the big insiders for baseball
00:12
are saying they're the front runner.
00:14
I've not seen what terms of the deal are gonna be,
00:16
but let's just say that it's,
00:19
let's just play pretend for a second, Seth.
00:22
Let's play make-believe and pretend
00:24
that it's a four-year, $110 million deal.
00:29
So 20, what would that be, 27 million,
00:31
thereabouts, something like that?
00:33
Yeah.
00:34
But for less time,
00:35
so about the same amount of money for fewer years.
00:38
They're basically not as good a contract as the Astros.
00:40
Right, same average per year,
00:41
but for less year, less total money.
00:44
So it's, and it's where, again,
00:48
I just remain skeptical that the exact same offer
00:51
from the Astros is still on the table.
00:53
If Bregman accepts a deal that's less total money
00:57
and it's with a different team,
01:00
I gotta think that he either,
01:02
either the deal wasn't on the table
01:03
or he flat-out just doesn't wanna be back in Houston.
01:05
Yeah, well, we know, at least outwardly,
01:08
the deal was still on the table at some point
01:10
after the Paredes and Christian Walker deals.
01:13
Do we know that?
01:14
Dana Brown said the door's still cracked.
01:16
You're right, but that's not the same
01:18
as the deal still being on the table.
01:19
Well, you're right.
01:20
Specifically, we don't know that that deal
01:22
was what they were offering Bregman.
01:23
That's fair.
01:24
And it'll all come out in the end.
01:27
But if we're gonna talk about the react,
01:31
the belief by fans is that the deal
01:32
was still on the table, right?
01:34
We're just, whether rational or irrational,
01:37
I think there's a lot of fans out there
01:38
that think the team is still offering six years, 156.
01:41
There were some people that would be in the know
01:43
that were reporting that.
01:47
How are Astro fans gonna react
01:48
if he takes fewer years to go to the Chicago Cubs?
01:52
Then the divorce, the emotional divorce will be complete.
01:55
Then they'll actually, they'll turn to,
01:57
at the very least, not being,
02:00
at one end of the spectrum,
02:01
not being as sentimental about Alex Bregman
02:04
because he specifically didn't even have
02:05
the motivation of money to leave Houston.
02:09
And then some will just use it
02:11
as a reason to absolutely hate him.
02:12
I think the only scenario where he leaves
02:16
to go to the Cubs or any other team,
02:18
the Cubs may hit a little differently too now
02:20
because Tucker's a Cub, Presley's a Cub.
02:22
These guys are all going to the Cubs.
02:24
I think the one thing, the one mulligan
02:26
that Astro fans would give him,
02:28
if it's on paper a lesser deal,
02:31
is if they've got those opt-outs in there.
02:34
If he's allowed, like Correa did with Minnesota,
02:37
if he's allowed to opt out after one year,
02:38
because I couldn't, I think he's,
02:40
I think it would be, I don't think it's a smart move
02:42
for him versus signing a six-year deal, 156.
02:45
But if he thinks I can go have a big year
02:49
and go get 30 million a year or whatever,
02:51
I can't really fault him for that.
02:53
It does tear away a little bit at his,
02:56
like his Astro-yness, you know what I mean?
03:00
I think, man, at the age of 31,
03:02
the smart business decision is take as much
03:04
guaranteed money as you can get
03:06
because the likelihood of you all of a sudden,
03:11
next year, the year after that,
03:12
you're going to be one year older
03:13
and teams are still going to be reluctant
03:14
to give you a long-term deal at that point.
03:17
If he performs up to his averages since 2019,
03:21
which, you know, haven't been as good as the-
03:25
He hasn't been close.
03:25
Previously, right.
03:26
In 2019.
03:27
So there's a lot of it that we just don't know
03:30
until he signs a deal.
03:31
I think that if it has the opt-outs,
03:33
that's the part where at least Astros fans
03:35
can then say, okay, well, that makes sense.
03:37
You know, he still feels like there's more money
03:40
out there for him and the Astros
03:41
weren't going to give him those opt-outs,
03:42
so at least it makes sense.
03:43
Yeah, if he's just signing a basic four-year deal
03:46
for about the same amount of money per year
03:48
somewhere else, I'd be like,
03:49
that tells me that he doesn't believe in the Astros.
03:52
Yeah.
03:53
You know what I mean?
03:54
That tells me he thinks he has a better chance
03:55
to win with the Cubs or whatever team it is
03:58
he's signing with.
03:59
Like, you know what I mean?
04:00
Like if it's, the Astros are giving you more years
04:02
at this dollar amount average per year.
04:06
This team is giving you fewer years
04:07
at about the same average dollar amount.
04:09
I'm going with it because he's not going to be
04:11
four years, at 35, he's not getting the big bag.
04:14
Yeah.
04:15
If he's 32 next year, if he opts out of a deal
04:19
after one year, that would be like,
04:20
okay, well this guy just,
04:22
he either really wants to live in Chicago,
04:23
he doesn't like living in Houston,
04:25
or, you know, he just wants to play in Wrigley Field.
04:27
I think the statement would be,
04:28
if he were signing a deal that was a conventional deal
04:31
without the opt-outs, but it's for fewer years,
04:33
he believes in that organization's ability
04:37
to win a World Series more than he believes in this current.
04:40
That's how I would read it.
04:41
It's a vote against the viability of the Astros
04:44
as a franchise.
04:46
I think that's been a question all along.
04:47
It feels like, yeah, it's, we're
04:52
running on fuel that being part of,
04:54
he can be the veteran guy that is looked at as,
04:57
oh, wow, yeah, he helped these younger guys
05:00
learn how to be a winner.
05:01
They're the teams, he would be going to a team
05:03
that's trading for Kyle Tucker,
05:05
not trading away Kyle Tucker.
05:07
All right, let me ask you this, Sean T. Pendergast.
05:08
Yeah, yeah.
05:09
At this point, would you be cool if the Astros
05:11
gave him a deal that had a bunch of one-year options on it?
05:15
Boy, I think, you know what?
05:18
I think I would.
05:19
They need his, they need a bat.
05:21
Yeah.
05:22
You know, I think I would.
05:23
I don't think the Astros would.
05:24
Yeah, but if that came out,
05:26
I was just trying to think about
05:27
how I would process that emotionally,
05:29
and I'd be cool with it, too.
05:30
That would more be, because it gives,
05:34
I mean, it doesn't give the Astros options.
05:37
It handcuffs them to Bregman,
05:38
even if he ends up being injured for the next three years,
05:40
which is unlikely.
05:41
He's very durable.
05:42
He's very, he has been very durable.
05:44
I can live with the business side
05:48
of somebody making decisions
05:49
that you can explain as smart business decisions.
05:53
Where it would get tough for me is just, like I said,
05:56
Astros are offering you this much money for six years.
05:59
This team's offering you the same average annual value
06:01
for fewer years, and you take that one.
06:03
That one, to me, is-
06:04
That's a conscious decision
06:06
to get away from the Houston Astros.
06:07
That's correct, yeah.
06:08
Whether, I mean, just literally, he's trying,
06:12
now, for what reasons and why,
06:13
that's all up to speculation and conjecture,
06:15
but he consciously does not want
06:18
to be on the Houston Astros.
06:20
If that were the case, so we'll see how it plays out.
06:22
Maybe he just doesn't like the heat.
06:24
Maybe he's been, he grew up in New Mexico,
06:27
and then he comes to a hotter,
06:30
more humid, and maybe he just wants to get up
06:33
and experience baseball played
06:36
in a more conventional spring and autumn.
06:39
Yeah, maybe so, maybe, yeah.
06:42
I mean, it is a cool-
06:43
Pretty awful in the summer up there.
06:44
It is, it's very humid in the summer.
06:46
It is a cool place to play.
06:47
I hate the stadium as a fan, Wrigley.
06:49
Yeah.
06:50
It's because it's built,
06:51
at least it was when I lived there.
06:52
I split season tickets for the Cubs
06:54
when I lived in Chicago with a few buddies.
06:55
I lived there for three years.
06:57
It was back in the early 2000s, right after Bartman.
06:59
I was there for the three post-Bartman seasons,
07:02
and it's a miserable place to watch a game,
07:06
like, just comfort-wise.
07:07
Oh, really?
07:08
It's built for people in the 1920s.
07:10
Oh, tiny people.
07:10
Yeah, it was built for tiny-
07:11
Tiny malnourished people.
07:13
Yeah, yeah.
07:14
They've been working in a factory for 14 hours a day.
07:17
I was more than nourished when I was living in Chicago
07:19
at that stage in my life.
07:20
It's a pretty well-fed city in general.
07:22
Very well-fed.
07:23
Their signature food is a hot dog.
07:25
It's good-eating cities, yeah, yeah, yeah.
07:27
Italian beef sandwiches.
07:28
Maybe he just wants to go somewhere,
07:30
this is the business side of things,
07:31
maybe he wants to go somewhere
07:32
where people wouldn't know or realize
07:35
that his salsa is a fraud,
07:37
that people in Chicago would be like,
07:39
wow, this is genuine Tex-Mex here,
07:42
right from Alex Bregman's kitchen to my,
07:45
that's not how, that's a horrible Chicago impression.
07:47
Not even close to how they talk.
07:48
That's Chicago with an influx of people from Knoxville.
07:52
This is, so, oh, so this is genuine, authentic salsa.
07:58
This is how it tastes.
07:58
This is how gringos do salsa in Texas, okay, all right.
08:02
Brutal.
08:03
Take your salsa and get out of my city.
08:06
Ben saved that.
08:10
The Cubs.
08:11
In bad ways.
08:12
Oh, yeah, oh, jeez.
08:15
And your quesadillas.
08:19
The Cubs come to Minute Maid Park
08:21
June, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday,
08:23
June 27th, 28th, and 29th,
08:26
so if Kyle Tucker, Ryan Presley,
08:28
and Alex Bregman are on the Cubs,
08:30
what's the reaction for each one?
08:31
Bregman's got the biggest capacity to be booed.
08:34
Easily out of those three.
08:35
100%.
08:36
I think Tucker gets the,
08:38
would get the biggest ovation.
08:41
I think people would fondly remember Presley
08:43
and give him an ovation,
08:44
even though the last year wasn't great.
08:46
Well, and even though a lot of,
08:47
I always felt like I wanted to stick up for Presley
08:51
because I felt like people were down on him
08:54
way more than they needed to be
08:56
just because he wasn't a conventional and classic closer.
08:59
He wasn't a hammer.
09:00
Yeah, so I always felt like I need to stick up for him.
09:03
I feel like after he, or now that he's left,
09:06
I think people will start to have more of a,
09:08
just a general overall appreciation for like,
09:10
yeah, he did some really good work.
09:11
If you don't, I would just encourage you
09:13
to go to baseballreference.com
09:14
and pull up the game log of the 2022 postseason
09:17
where he was incredible.
09:18
I mean, he was one of the biggest reasons
09:20
they won a World Series that year.
09:21
So yeah, and then Bregman,
09:23
I think they all get highlight video.
09:25
I think they all get the welcome back video treatment.
09:27
Boy, you might have to get to that game early.
09:29
That's a lot of tribute videos to play if Bregman signs.
09:33
It's already a lot.
09:34
You got two former Astros on there.
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