 had $200 million. Do you think that this will just drag out based on the fact that a lot of the big ticket free agents have already signed and they're waiting for that pitching market that bump for Rodin to happen? Well he's the number one free agent pitcher who's on the market right now so as soon as I would say Bob that it might drag on there could be a phone call or a text that changes everything so I'm always hesitant to say that. You see who Rodin has been since 2021 he has put together two terrific seasons heading into his free agency period but you look at some of the teams that might be interested in him that we've heard about the Red Sox are one of them the Twins are one of them the Cardinals have been mentioned even though the Giants have added Manaya and Stripling reports out of San Francisco say that they are still interested in Rodin are any of those teams going to seven years 200 million I'll repeat myself again it could happen we have seen the way that this offseason has unfolded we have seen player contracts of more than two billion dollars every time a contract is signed you say to yourself wow that's for a little more than I thought it was going to be but I think we have to remind ourselves the Yankees definitely have interest in this player they have interest in this player though in the financial neighborhood that they want to travel we'll see if those two sides can coincide. All right Michael in the meantime what else do the Yankees what are they looking at right now probably still focusing on left field well I'll tell you what I'm the one that reported that other than Rodin they were working on something even bigger than that and it looks like I might have an egg on my face although Brian Cashman is usually very stealth about what he does and when he does it and how he does it sometimes he surprises you I think left field is still the big play I can't imagine another play out there but that seems like it's cool just a little bit I'm sure they want to do the Rodin situation first but if they can't do it and it goes into 2023 then they might go for the left fielder I don't know if they're in play on on Brian Reynolds from the Pirates I know that Ben and Tendi is right there Ben and Tendi's market might have changed with the Japanese outfield that the Red Sox signed he's probably thinking I'm a legitimate guy who's proven in the big leagues that I could play I want a world series as well and he probably wants money like that I'm not sure the Yankees are going to go there for that. Yeah apples to apples I think is what his agent is trying to say if the Red Sox gave him that much money why not Ben and Tendi. Right and if you're Ben and Tendi's agent that's exactly what you should be seeking Bob I know when talking to two teams today that are interested in Ben and Tendi they both said that they're hesitant to go to five years and I always wonder how these conversations unfold because you know Ben and Tendi's agent is bringing up Yoshida whereas I'm sure there are teams were saying why should we pay for Boston's mistake because I had a team that said to me they feel that not only did the Red Sox overpay they felt that they overpaid by double that they had Yoshida as a guy in the 45 to 50 million dollar range but Michael I need to Bob I need to go back to Michael my my former baseball writing brethren he says he's got egg on his face Michael you gotta stand firm on your reporting if you believed in your source and you believe that the Yankees still have something brewing perhaps it's still simmering perhaps it hasn't percolated and reached the finish line yet