 Bob we're looking at a former MVP. The Braves won the World Series last year and you're saying to yourself there's no way the Braves would let this guy get away right well it's gotten to this point they didn't sign him before the lockout and Michael points out that there are are being a lot of connections made between him and the Yankees it would be an unbelievable pickup for the Yankees of course they'd want to have freddy freeman his defense his left-handed bat at Yankee stadium and when you flash back to last year Rizzo was a terrific fill in for them when Voight was down and then they were listening to trade offers about Voight. Voight's the only first baseman on the roster right now I do think there's a chance that he looms as a trade chip we should throw Olson in the mix as well from the A's because the A's have pretty much made it clear that they would be willing to trade Matt Olson Brian Cashman engaged with the A's before the lockout began and there wasn't a lot of traction moving back and forward on what the A's might want for Olson. Now you also have to look at it that Olson's 28 years old freddy freeman's 32 the Braves are reluctant and he's a hometown hero there they're reluctant to go six years so if you go six years you're taking him to 38 years old and these decisions are not made in the back a vacuum guys because you still at the end of this year you have to deal with with Aaron Judge and his age might be a factor as well these all have to go into the equation now if you could somehow ramp up a deal with the A's for Olson you could also look into getting Liriano because the Yankees might need themselves a center fielder and you could get a guy like Sean Maniah they can always use another pitcher and then there's the elephant in the ruler move everybody what are the Yankees going to do at shortstop would they go into that pool for Carlos Correa and spend the kind of money that he's going to demand will they go the short-term route or will they move a geo or a shallow over to short and wait for Volpe to be ready in 2023 these are answers that are going to come to us maybe in the next day or so because that's how quickly this stuff has to be solved yeah and isn't that the crazy thing is that you would say on the surface well Correa Correa even though it's a short stop at the price he's going to come at doesn't seem like a fit so reapportion that money elsewhere but you never know what's going to happen in these 24 48 hours he turned down a 10 year 275 million dollar deal from the tiger so again you kind of know where the bar is set other short stops like Seager and Semi and have already signed players who could play shortstop I know Semi and can play second as well but I will say this in some conversations in the offseason with the Yankee officials and Yankee hierarchy the way that they speak about Paraza and Volpe and the future of those two players leads me to believe that we are more likely to see and Rachele at shortstop or a stopgap shortstop while they wait for those two joules in their system as you said Bob and as Michael has said this could all change with one phone call and there could be an attraction between the Yankees and a big player like Correa but I came away from those conversations believing that they believe in their young guys and they're ready to wait