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