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00:00with the names that you brought up as next targets for the Red Sox here in free agency.
00:04Freed and Burns, in that order, is how you wrote it.
00:07Teoscar Hernandez, and then you said the focus is immediately prioritizing, or might immediately
00:12be prioritizing, Alex Bregman.
00:14What's the buzz in Dallas about the Red Sox landing one of these big fish?
00:19Yeah, so with the pitchers, ultimately we've said this all along.
00:25It was priority 1A and 1B.
00:27You know, okay, Soto is priority 1A, but not too far behind it, maybe not even behind
00:32it at all, is getting that starting pitcher, getting that guy at the top of the rotation.
00:37But now what you have is that you have to compete with some of these other teams, including
00:41the Blue Jays, by the way, who lost out on Soto, who are in the same desperation that
00:46you are to get a Max Freed or get a Corbin Burns.
00:50I do think that Max Freed is a more realistic thing than Corbin Burns.
00:53I think Corbin Burns wants to stay on the West Coast, and Max Freed, it makes some sense
00:57for them.
00:58But at the same time, you know, so you have to do that, and Crochet, I heard you guys
01:03mention Crochet.
01:04Well, if I'm a team and I have a Zach Gallin for Arizona, I absolutely say, hey, this isn't
01:12going to cost as much as Crochet, say Boston Red Sox, you need a starter, here you go,
01:18trade for him.
01:19So I think that there might be a starter out there that we aren't talking about that they
01:24might trade for instead of maybe getting uncomfortable for one of these other guys.
01:28I'll come back to what I wrote, though, is that I do think what they are focused on is
01:35Alex Bregman, and I would not have said that 24 hours ago.
01:39I did not account for Alex Bregman in the way that maybe I should have accounted for
01:44and how much they prioritize, because right-handed hitter, obviously open to a move to second
01:50base, a championship predicate, yes, I understand about the championship he won in Houston,
01:55but still, the type of guy that they need in that clubhouse from a position player standpoint,
02:01it checks off a lot, a lot of boxes.
02:04His price is going to be, right now, it's uncomfortable because Boris is feeling good
02:08about himself, but still, I mean, to me, like, from what I hear, like, this is a very, very
02:14real thing when it comes to the Red Sox prioritizing this guy.