Rob Radford

But is it worth it for you to allocate that?

Because that is also one of the hardest things to develop too, right?

Along those lines, I want to ask you, you were there with the Chris Sale trade, which was we're allocating to the top prospects in baseball, but this guy who had made five All-Star games, had two years left on his contract.

and that was the way we're going to go this way instead of free agency.

I don't even know who was available in free agency, but you knew you wanted that player.

A guy who was sort of along those lines, but not really, is Garrett Crochet now, right?

A little bit younger than Sale was, has, as Crochet pointed out to me,

in the entirety of his pitching life, college and professional, is just up over 200 innings.

Like, total.

Forget about a year.

I mean, we're talking about six years.

Total.

But has shown a ton of ability.

Is 25 years old.

How would you view that?

Would you prefer to make a move like that than have some semblance of certainty and free agency with what's available?

I think it's an interesting time this offseason.

Yeah, two.

I always say this, I always admire the executives who understand that you have to get uncomfortable.

Yes.