 right now let's get it out to San Diego, Jack Curry, and Meredith Morrocovitz standing by. I know you've got your ideas of what you want to talk about. We just gave you a lot to chew on about a lot of players. Negative Michael Kaye. We got a lot going on back here. What's going on out there? Man Bob, Michael Kaye is fired up early in this one and we love to see it from San Diego. Bob, I can tell you there's been a lot of hustle and bustle in that lobby already from GMs to job seekers. A lot of business is being conducted and you already talked about some of the chips that are off the board in Tray Turner and Justin Verlander, but Jack, as we know, everybody wants to know where is Aaron Judge going and Michael mentioned the reports that he's expected to be here in San Diego tomorrow. What do you make of all of it? It's a conversation that has dominated everything that is going on at the meetings and some of the other players that have signed that the guys just detailed obviously those are big players too but everywhere you turn Meredith you're being asked about Aaron Judge and the questions you get is who is he going to sign with? When is he going to sign and how much is he going to sign for? Let's talk about some of the things we know. We know the Yankees have made an eight year offer in the range of 300 million so about 38 million dollars a year and they believe that that is a top of the market offer and they like the offer that he has made so is he coming here tomorrow on the heels of cashmen agreeing to a new deal to say to the Yankees yes I'm ready to sign with you. Look I know you were networking in that lobby I was speaking to people down there as well and it seems like the consensus is that most people believe that Aaron Judge will in fact sign with the Yankees still a question mark as we know what are you hearing on your end? Well I mentioned that there are a lot of questions that are being asked and I did have one baseball person who said to me today you've had the Yankees come forward with Hal Steinbrenner talking about how much he wants to have Judge you've had Brian Cashman talk about how much he wants Judge there's a question to be asked to Aaron Judge how much do you want to be a Yankee he has talked about wanting to be a Yankee wanting to finish his career here well he has the opportunity to do that he has the opportunity to agree to a deal and both of those sides have to get together and have to figure out a way to make this happen we know that there's been talk of a ninth year will that be part of anything going forward Meredith but you and I have both covered Aaron Judge's career and I think being a Yankee is very important to him Michael mentioned DeGrom earlier I don't think staying with the Mets was important to DeGrom I think that DeGrom was ready to leave that environment we'll have to see whether or not Judge would ever make that move away from New York with DeGrom it was pretty clear he had no interest in pitching in New York and clearly there were some differences with organization over the years even though there is the new ownership but with Aaron Judge he's just voiced it so many times but at the end of the day it is business and he's going to make the best decision for both him and his family but when I look at that decision Jack if there's no Aaron Judge what is this Yankee's team identity it's a great question where do you pivot to what is your plan B and I think we have to emphasize that plan A and it's a capital A is Aaron Judge because after that the best position players on the market are short stops we know Turner is now off the market but you have Correa you have Swanson you have Xander Bogerts well the Yankees best minor league prospects are short stops and last year they had a stopgap shortstop in kinder Falefa because they're waiting for those players to get closer to the major leagues well now that they're closer to the major leagues are you suddenly going to turn around and sign a free agent shortstop so Meredith I think they have plan B's and plan C's but I don't even think they want to go there I think they are all in on wanting to make sure they get judge and as negative Michael K said earlier being able to move forward and do other business after that there's no question that's holding everything up on the Yankees and they are certainly willing to wait to see what that decision is but you mentioned some of the young short stops in the Yankees organization we're going to be speaking to Kevin Reese later talking a little bit about Anthony Volpe Volpe and guys like Paraza but when I look at this Yankees roster right now as it's constructed they have some other needs it's not just right field and Aaron judge they need a left fielder and they need some pitching help Jack they do on both ends and I think that Ben and Tendi who they acquired last year I think he looms as a nice option for them Nemo is obviously out there he's a center fielder I think he's going to cost more in free agency I think they like Ben and Tendi because he puts the ball in play he gets on base he's a gold glove outfielder and from the pitching side you look at Carlos Radon the Yankees talk to the Giants about acquiring him last season it would have been for half a season obviously because free agency was looming well Radon is going to cost a lot of money and Radon is a guy who might get a five or six year deal for 30 million dollars plus are the Yankees willing to swim in those waters or are they going to go with some of the pitchers at the back end of the rotation that they currently have guys like Schmidt and Hermann judge aside what are you most curious about over this week I just think the money that is being spent Michael teased it earlier and we're teasing him by calling him negative Michael K but Jeff Passen who does a great job covering the offseason and actually baseball all season for ESPN he had the number at over a billion dollars that has already been spent and that number is just going to go up because we know judge is going to add to it and Correa and Swanson and Bogart so baseball is an 11 billion dollar industry and when you come to these meetings you see how the pursuit of these players that the numbers just keep going up and up so I'm just curious Meredith to see where some of these players end up going and what the numbers end up being