Zack Scott

It's really hard to actually execute the plan if that's what you're thinking.

And yeah, at some point when you're at a point where it's within your range, even though it's above maybe what your internal valuation says, it should be because I think your models are mostly aligned with what the group of teams that are in on a player may be valuing a guy at.

But the team that actually is going to sign them almost by definition is overpaying what that group thinks.

It's going to move into that level where it's over what your objective models might say.

But as long as it's not ridiculously so, it almost gets down to a point where it's a binary decision.

Do you want the guy or not?

And if so, the market's the market.

This is the price.

You can underbid on a house.

You're not going to get the house.

It's the same concept.

And you just have to decide, where do you draw that hard line?

And it can be slippery.

You don't want to

have this creep where you all of a sudden end up, like I used Pablo Sandoval earlier, like that was an instance where there was way too much momentum pushing that up and up and up and somehow ended at a much higher number than where we started thinking of his value.

Well, it's a very familiar thing, as you mentioned.

I mean, we had a policy that we didn't do full no trades.

We did partial no trades.

But we played games with language to essentially give people full trades.

We did that with Pedroia.