Zack Scott

And my feeling on it was, I made the reference to a housing market before.

It is that kind of, in a competitive housing market, a seller's market, that's what free agency is.

But

we're buying depreciating assets.

So I always say like, we're buying cars, we're not buying houses because we're going to buy guys in their thirties.

And so, you know, if we get in that case, you know, multiple years of really good performance, which it didn't end up that way where he didn't take it.

But if we did get what we expected to get over the, what was it?

Three years, four years, whatever it was before he had the opt out.

And then he opts out as long as we're disciplined, that's okay.

You know, I guess like Garrett Cole was kind of similar, right?

Like to me, if the Yankees walked away from that, I think that would have been fine.

You know, a guy in his mid-30s, yes, he's elite, but he's coming off of an injury, a surgery.

Like that would have been fine because, you know, you're not paying for what you got.

You're paying for what you're going to get going forward.

And you, you know, manage your risk and take an educated guess of what that might look like.

And it's probably going to look a lot worse than what you've had those years leading into it.

So, you know, at some point it's like, well, is it really only in the player's benefit?

You treat it that way in a negotiation because that's what the player wants and that's what it's going to take to get the guy sometimes.

But it's not the worst thing.

You have to be willing to give them a whole amount of money because that risk is on the team.