Alex Anthopoulos

And he's a good teammate.

Good energy in the clubhouse and all that stuff.

So it just made sense for us to get this deal done today.

Like I said, we had talked about him during the summer.

The Astros weren't in a position to move him.

But we did spend time with him last summer, beginning of the offseason, had some conversations.

There wasn't anything there.

And then finally today it came together.

I just couldn't tell you the guys that at the time.

Now, that being said...

The offers that we got at the time were just, you know, Iggy's numbers at the time were okay, right?

They had started off slow and they really rebounded in August and September, but his numbers didn't.

So, you know, again, you're still going to be open-minded.

You're going to listen to what people have to say, but there was nothing even close.

They were, you know, again, that's not a disrespect to Iggy, but the deals were more salary dump deals, you know?

So just giving the guy away and saving salary.

So, you know,

If the net return is just get a non-prospect or a guy that we don't think is going to impact us.

And then also what we felt would have significantly impacted our ability to sign him back.

I've seen that happen.