 from Nate a little news yesterday which I don't really think is news because I mean what else was he gonna say so the GM meetings are going on right now that they're not the winter meetings but a lot of the the the groundwork is laid for any possible deals or free agent signing. So you'd say it's winter meetings of Jays. It's kind of winter meetings of Jays. Got it. Thank you Peter. So cash from the Yankee GM said that the Yankees are indeed in on Garrett Cole and Steven Strasburg. But I think would they would they like to sign Garrett Cole and Steven Strasburg. Yeah I think they would. But remember this is a team that has limits and draws lines in the sand and they drew a line in the sand they would not give Patrick Corbin a sixth year. You're not getting Garrett Cole for less than seven years and Boris is probably going to ask for eight and I'd say he's going to be the highest paid pitcher of all time closing in on thirty five million dollars a year. I just don't think the Yankees are going to play in in that deep end of the pool and you can say well they're cheap well they're not cheap that one of the highest payrolls in baseball. They are going to sit there and rationalize. We lost to the Astros in the ALCS because we didn't hit. The pitching was fine and they can also sell to themselves we've got Jordan Montgomery for the whole year we're going to have Louis Severino for the whole year the kid Davey Garcia sooner or later is going to be called up and they can make a lesser move and get a lesser pitcher and their payroll would not be skyrocketing because I think it means something for Brian Cashman and the Yankees where they can't be told the only reason you want to championship is because you bought it and you could say that in 2009 2009 they bought it. We're going to a new stadium let's spend whatever we have to spend Sabathia Burnett to share and you know what they want the championship I think they want to do it their way they'll feel better if they do it their way and I'm going to tell you right now not from any inside information I will be very surprised if either of those two pitchers end up in pin stripes very surprised I just don't think they're going to play that game because they don't value players the same way I will be too I think it's going to go the same way when we're Corbin yeah we're in we'll offer them five years whatever amount of money and then somebody else will offer six and the Yankees will say no we're good and we'll have conversations when Niespa went when Strausberg and Cole signed someplace else will be taking the phone calls what are the Yankees doing how do the Yankees not get this guy because we'll find out that they ended up giving more money than the Yankees thought that these pitchers were worth it'll go exactly the same way Michael that's the way it is they want pitching but at a certain price and you know there are going to be teams out there that will go the extra mile to land Cole and Strausberg you know it now Brian does not lie he I mean he he'll talk around a subject but he said of course we're going to talk to Strausberg we'll talk to Cole we'll talk to the higher end guys clearly all right there's a rule in baseball everybody gms can't come out and say we're not interested because Brian almost gotten a lot of trouble last year when he said we really don't have a space for Harper because if a GM comes out and says that publicly it is hindering that player's marketplace if other teams know that the Yankees are not in so his only viable answer to the question about Cole and Strausberg is that they they're in on those guys even if they're not in on them they're in on them but but I don't want to get ahead of myself would they like to get those guys of course they'd like to get those guys but do they want an eight-year 35 million dollar deal contract for Cole I just don't think they do even though he's 29 and again look at it this way what they have right now will be good enough to compete and win the division and go to the playoffs you would think I know Tampa is pretty good I think the Red Sox are going to rebuild Toronto I still think is a few years away and Baltimore's got awful excuse me I'm sorry for being accurate you didn't mean the city oh you meant the baseball yeah oh no we're not we're not talking geography geography they're talking about baseball the Ravens are great also by the way so it's about the postseason and if the philosophy is we don't want guys going a third time through the order we want to go to our bullpen then why spend all that money on guys that are only going to pitch five six innings anyway here's the one thing though maybe you could explain it to me nobody's ever been able to explain it to me they are very at this point in the Yankee history they're so smart they're smarter than most organizations they're fiscally responsible they're not going to send money like drunken sailors I wonder why that is did drunken sailors spend a lot of money a ton of money okay well because they get their paycheck right they're already you know they're sailors and they're drunk the commissary on these boats very inexpensive all right so you you're not you're not going to play in that part of the park and that's fine if you made an organizational decision that's cool why did they get john carlos then because it was just too easy but again so let's say I think on average what they have to pay him after the marlins picked up a certain amount of money and starlin casher's contract is about 24 25 million dollars a year for a player that was repeating a talent that Aaron judge gave you if you had never gotten this guy and I think he could still be a really good player he's never going to opt out so if they thought that he was going to opt out they're crazy because that money is never going to be available to him again then you'd have 25 million dollars to play with but I don't think they look at it that way Michael I think they they go bargain hunting all right they know they can take his contract they could they could afford they could afford to pay coal what he wants strouzburg what he wants they could afford a 350 million dollar payroll that's not the issue the issue is they bargain hunt so yeah we could take on the we could take on the contract of stanton but boy we're getting them for nothing how do we pass that up and then when it comes to the pictures they're getting him for nothing they're getting him for a bargain for the reigning MVP but it's not nothing because that's money that you can't spend on other but but Michael if you if stanton retired tomorrow right and they didn't have to pay him a dime they still would treat coal and strouzburg the same way because I think they they they don't want to pay anybody more money than they're worth they're not willing to do that I get that but you you could actually splurge on something if you get down from the threshold because the threshold isn't about taxes the threshold is about repeat offender and also the fact that you lose draft picks I understand that's important for them to keep a good farm system but you know splurging Michael as you put it these things don't happen in a vacuum so if you splurge for these two pictures right then when a contract comes up for like let's say paxton all of a sudden catches fire at the end of his deal he's going to say well I want mine or to knock his end of his deal or judge or some of the younger players when they all of a sudden become time for contracts like oh this is just splurged on him what about me you drafted me I've been here so I think they realize that whenever they go at the extra mile for one guy they might find themselves the burden of now trying to go the extra mile for everybody else yeah but but okay along those lines let's say that you're right you don't think when our judge becomes a free agent you could say well you essentially gave stan this money why not me why don't I get a 13 year contract then the other theory could be Michael that a lot of the decisions they've made since Stanton or because Stanton hasn't worked out so that that's scare them off of hey well you can't really say that it didn't work out this year last the year before you had 38 home runs a hundred yeah but but but Michael we saw what Alex Rodriguez nobody cares about the regular season with the Yankees it's about winning a championship so if you fail in the post-season or you don't play well then the Yankee fans are gonna hate your guts what do they he can go out hit 60 home runs if the Yankees you know gets you know lose the wild card game next year you think anybody's gonna care about it they didn't care about all the MVPs a rod won until he won the championship at 0-9 do you know one thing no don will stat that you might know in the games he played in the post-season they were 5-0 I know so if he was fully healthy because of him or he just happened to be on the team he did a big home run hey I'm a fan I think they I think the Yankee fans are way too hard on them but clearly Michael he's not worth the money that he's getting paid that they just they happen to see a bargain and so they did it I just wonder if you couldn't if you couldn't inject Brian with truth serum if he would do that deal again here's here here's the analogy I would give there's no question the Yankees are rich right but does a rich man who's got a hankering for a roast beef sandwich go into Don Pepe's append station and pay 50 bucks for it he can he wants to he wants to meet he wants the roast beef he's he's flush with cash but he's not going to pay 50 bucks for a roast beef that's the way the Yankees are everybody thinks because they're so rich they should be able to throw any money they want they still hunt for bargains they still are low than maybe this is the analytic side of things to pay somebody a penny more than they think that guy is worth and again