Austin Bechtel

So you'd imagine you'd want to keep those two as a two-headed monster at the top of the rotation.

Jack Flaherty's good for them, too.

But if they trade him, Bob, this is a blueprint for what a potential Skeens deal would look like.

And, of course, we don't want to really talk about that and dwell on it now, but that is the harsh reality of it because I don't think the Pirates will carry Skeens into his final year and have him going into free agency around the deadline.

They'll probably trade him with one year left, maybe even two.

But if Scooble does go at that deadline, it just shows what you can get for skeins and probably a lot more.

You're talking about $30 million at the end of that deal.

I would think 8 and 140 would make some sense.

Yeah, let's say you add on a club option to that too.

And it becomes like a 9-year deal with incentives and other escalators in the contract.

That's what Roman Anthony had.

It's over $200 million when you consider club options and stuff like that.

He could still be a free agent at 28, 29 years old.

And if you're Griffin and you get a chance to make $140-plus million just out of the gates, guaranteed to you at 19 years old, and then you get to go to free agency still in your prime...

Bob, how do you say no to that?

He could be making $5, $6, $7 million in each of his first three years or something like that when he'd be making $1 million as a pre-yard player.

I just am willing to take the risk on it too, though, Bob, because sure, the Jose Tabata deal didn't work.

Sure, the Gregory Polanco contract ended up being a bad one.

So Roman Anthony was the number one prospect in baseball, either when he signed the deal or at least when he debuted.

Mm-hmm.