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00:00But I do think Eric Crochet might be the best player on the trade market or as good a player as there is on the trade market.
00:08And a lot of teams, 15 teams apparently have called.
00:12I got to know what the hell the other 14 are doing.
00:16Why wouldn't everybody in baseball call about a player like that?
00:20Yeah, I just think everybody should want that.
00:22And he showed you again yesterday why he's so sought after.
00:25He is dominant and he's got the mentality.
00:28He's got the stuff.
00:29It's nasty, and I understand why everybody would want him.
00:33I think the most interesting part of the report wasn't how many teams were interested in Garrett Crochet.
00:40It's that the Sox had extension talks about a contract extension, and they went nowhere and they gave up.
00:47Well, I mean...
00:48Or did they?
00:49Well, let me say this, you know, I read that, and you know that Bob is locked into the White Sox.
00:56And it's almost, when I see some of his reporting, and I mean this with respect, it's almost like an announcement from the team.
01:04So I wonder, when I see that report, I wonder how sincere an effort they made in terms of a contract extension.
01:14I would like to see some numbers, you know, by all accounts, whatever team would come in and take him would have to give him a contract extension
01:24so that he would exceed the innings limit that has been put upon him.
01:29So he's willing to do it, provided he knows that it's not going to impact him financially over the long term.
01:36I don't disagree necessarily.
01:37I also think that would take some very elaborate, detailed, involved backroom pre-deal discussions between the agent and the team that's trying to trade for Garrett Crochet.
01:50And I just don't know how they would have to give him permission to do that.
01:55I'm guessing that's ongoing.
01:57I'm guessing that if you went to him and made some sort of a half-arsed offer to keep him, you want that out.
02:06Well, we tried to keep him, we couldn't do it.
02:08To me, that's something that they would like people to think.
02:13I got to be honest with you.
02:15When it comes not, I'm not talking about Chris Getz, but I'm talking about ownership.
02:20I have my doubts.
02:22I have my doubts.
02:24I think their credibility has been damaged and I don't know who else to blame for it.
02:29But I don't trust that they made an honest offer to the kid.
02:33I'm sure they made an offer of some kind, but it was a brief one and it went nowhere.
02:37What does that tell you?
02:39Well, if they keep him, then I think that they're going to have to live with that.
02:46But I don't disagree with that.
02:47They've earned that skepticism.
02:49I don't think there's any credibility when you're talking about...
02:51If you want to extend a guy, you know what you do?
02:54You extend him.
02:55That's it.
02:55The White Sox don't have a good history with pitchers and long-term contracts.
03:00And we know where Jerry Reinsdorf historically stands on that.
03:03So anything like this does seem to be either a negotiating ploy or a plant to kind of cover
03:09yourself if they indeed trade him.
03:11I hope they don't.
03:12I think if we're going to repeat this, and he goes back and forth maybe for some people,
03:16but you've got one of the best young pitchers in the American League.
03:20He's under team control at an affordable price for the next several years.
03:24If you do extend him, you're at least showing a good faith to your fan base, good faith
03:28gesture that you are serious about building around something.
03:33And I don't know that you have a more marketable player near the trade deadline.
03:43I just think if you trade him, you would get a lot for him, but you also trade away
03:50your biggest source of hope for the next couple of seasons.
03:53Sure.
03:54And I don't like that idea.
03:56No, I've never liked that idea.
03:58I think you can balance both.
03:59You can have your fire sale.
04:02You can get rid of all of things.
04:04I would rather them trade.
04:06I would rather them trade Luis Robert Jr. than Garrett Crochet.
04:10You know what's laughable?
04:11What?
04:11They're trying to trade Bennett.
04:14Well, that's the, they did.
04:16I thought that was interesting to include that.
04:18What's laughable because there's not going to be a market for that contract or that player.
04:24So if you could find a way to make it conditional, you want to, you want Luis Robert Jr.
04:30You have to take Andrew Benintendi.
04:32You want Garrett Crochet.
04:34You have to take Andrew Benintendi.
04:37Attach that as a clause or a condition that you need to meet before you deal one of the big names.