 Welcome in to the Quick Points podcast. This is our second episode on Paddlework, along beside me is Alex Hirsch. What's up? All right, well, baseball today, world series ended. But, obviously here in Boston, especially, baseball never ends. Season never ends. It's an ongoing season, and the off season might be more busy, there might be more attention paid towards the off season and the regular season itself. So the first big development of the off season for the Red Sox was your boy, Clay Buckholtz, his option to be an exercised. What do you think about it? Oh, as much as I hate Clay Buckholtz, as much as I think he is incredibly soft, as much as I think that this guy does not belong on this team, I like it. You like it? I don't know what else to say, and I like it, it's a smart move. You're getting Clay Buckholtz, who's a potential ace, has never really been able to be the ace because he's always hurt, which is crazy annoying, but he's never been able to be that ace, and, but you're getting him at maybe third man in the rotation price at 13 million, and then 13 and a half million next year. You really can't ask for a better deal than that. There's no reason not to do that. I think the one of the best parts about it would be that he, that makes him a great trade trip as well, which is why I want him, because I want him gone, I want him gone, I want him not to do with the Red Sox anymore. You don't want to trade him for just, not for just nothing, I want a good player in return, but I'm not, I'm not sold, we're gonna get a superstar out of him, but I'll take him to the player. But you don't want Bronson and Royal for William O'Painier, at least I don't want that. I don't want, I don't want William O'Painier, I want, I don't know, give me, give me like a, I don't even know. It's hard to think of. It would have to be, it would have to be a lot. Yeah, I mean, I'd like a couple of players. Maybe a Kimbrel type. Yeah, give me a, give me a good closer or give me a, you know, two really, really good young prospects or give me a, I don't know about prospects. Give me a, you know, maybe a, I don't know, I would take like even a Shane Victorino in his heyday type player too. Like, you know, it's solid, doesn't have to be your number three or number four power hitter, but he could be your number two or your number five or six that hits around 280 to 300 and can get you around 20 homers and close to 100 RBIs. Maybe an Allen Craig in his heyday type player, you know, that all-star level Allen Craig. It gets me a potential all-star. It doesn't have to be a perennial all-star, but a potential all-star, I'll take that. But no, you're right. You don't want to trade them for just anything, but in my opinion, y'all want to trade them. You want to get rid of them. I can't expand him. Here's the thing with Clay Buckholtz. We've discussed this. The ace potential's there. He's never put it together, but when he does put it together, we've seen him put it together for two, three months, half a season. He's not put it together for a full season, but we know what his sailing is, what he can do. And if he puts that together for a full season, he might win the Cy Young Award and I want to see him do that here. But he's also, what we've also seen is his griddle. It's 13 million here. He's got a 13 and a half million dollar, 13 and a half million dollar option for 2017. So you got, for all intents and purposes, you have him on the Ryan Dempster contract. You gave Ryan Dempster in 2013. Keep him for this year, maybe trade him next year. That's what I would do. I'm not giving him ace money after he hits free agency or anything like that. I keep him as long as he has that very, very team-friendly control. I would trade him next year in the mid-season trade. I'd trade him today if it was a good enough return. It is a good trade, but most likely you keep him around for 2016. And you get rid of him in 2017. But yeah, yeah, he's showing ace potential. He's also shown that he's more brittle than peanut brittle. I mean, it's ridiculous. This guy cannot stay healthy, a sneeze knocks him out. Just like Sammy Sosa, he is weak. He is pathetic. That's what he is. This is not what you want out of your ace pitcher. He is not the epitome of what Red Sox won. He's not built to be an ace pitcher. He's not built to be a player. He's not built to be a Shubin. He's built to be in the hospital. I don't know if I go that far. He's built to be in the hospital only. He's built to be a patient. He's a high school coach. He's built to be a patient is what he's built for. It's so, he's madingly frustrating. And I talked about this the other day. He is my comparison to Jeff Green on the Boston Celtics. I know you don't do cross-sport comparisons, but he is just so madingly frustrated because he's so, he can be so inconsistent sometimes. And while Jeff Green was inconsistent game to game, Buck Colts is inconsistent year to year. And that's the frustrating part. Well, really it's been like a two-year cycle where he's pitching great. He trusts his stuff. Something small comes up, turns into a bigger thing. Next year comes out. He's got that in the back of his head that, you know, this previous injury. He's out there pitching tentatively. He gets lit up, goes on the DL for, you know, for 10 years. I don't want any pitching that's in his head all the time. This guy is weak-minded. He's weak-minded. I don't want anyone on the team that's weak. He's absolutely, I don't even know a little bit. If a little bit is, you know, means a lot, then yeah, he's a little bit, but he is so weak-minded. And that's, I don't want that out of my one, two, or three. Sorry, that's not what I want. I don't want anyone on my four or five either. I just don't want him on this team. I like this signing. It's smart, but I really don't want him here. I like it because it makes him a potential trading chip. So, but he's not really the only. I mean, there's more to this rotation that needs help as well. The rotation has got a, it's over-stopped right now. There's too many names, and they need more names that are going to be coming in. What the Red Sox really need, they need that one top of the rotation, stud type God. They had to draw on Lester, but got rid of him. I don't think he is. He's not on this team, so he's player X. He's someone we need to sign. So then what we have on this- That's the one player they're away from. Right, he's someone we need to sign a trade for, but the one we've got on this team then is, you've got Clay Buckle, who's now going to be in the rotation if he's healthy, all right? You've got Rick Porcelo, who's not going anywhere with that contract. He's in your rotation. Then you've got Eddie Rodriguez, who proved he could be in your rotation last year. He's probably going to struggle for a year. Whether he struggles or, it doesn't matter. He's in your rotation, starting opening day. He's in your rotation without a doubt. But in terms of, he could be that player X in two or three years, just don't say. Oh, he could be, but he's in your rotation next year, opening day. Henry Owens has earned his spot in the rotation after last year. So who's your fifth spot? If we think player X is going to be in there, then what happens with Wade Miley? What happens with Joe Kelly? Those are, and what happens with Stephen Wright as well, Stephen Wright. For when he was healthy here and just spotting that rotation as well, he was very good. Well, I think Miley is probably the biggest candidate to get traded because of- Oh my God. Well, because of, he has a very, very tradable contract. A lot of people would take on that contract for what he gives you, which is he's a big innings. Which is not, he sucks. He's not a big innings either. He didn't even get 200 innings. He's a very good third or fourth pitcher. No, he's a decent fifth pitcher. He had a four, he was around a four ERA guy. Oh, he was around a fourth, five ERA guy. Well, he was from, from May on, he was four, he was at four. Yep, not, but not the season. He gives you innings. He gives you innings, they're not, he's not an ace. He isn't do, he's not going to carry your rotation, but he's a very good third or fourth piece in a very good rotation. I don't like him. I don't like him. I want him gone. He's, I think he should be gone. He, he, he's, he's this guy that, he doesn't give you innings. He's supposed to give you innings. He didn't even give us 200 innings last year. Yeah, 193. That's not 200. He was a, he was a start shy of, he was one start shy of- It's not 200. If he didn't have his bet in April. He had a, he had a full season and he couldn't give us 200. That's what he's supposed to do. I will take 190 innings. I don't want him on this team. I don't want him on this team. He doesn't make sense to be on this team because you need player X, so get rid of him, trade him for a reliever. I don't care what you trade him for. Just get rid of him. We don't need him here. So then what happens to Joe Kelly? That's the next question. What happens to Joe Kelly? You know my opinion on it. Yeah, I know you want him. I want him as close. You want him in the bullpen. You want him as a closer, which I- I think he's perfect for it. He's a two-pitch pitcher. He's definitely got closer stuff. He's got that amazing fastball. If you have closer command, that's the big question. Who knows? I mean, if he's just pitching one any, maybe he does. You've got to throw strikes. He does. He hasn't thrown enough strikes. Well, he did in that last month, but Joe- Even then, he was- He was still, it was unbeatable. Oh, he was very good. It was very good. It wasn't like he was- I'll give him one to two innings out of him as your closer. I'll take it any day. He's closer material. We don't know what's going to happen with Koji next year. If he's healthy, he's healthy. If Koji's healthy, he's the closer. He's the closer until he feels. I don't want him to be the closer anymore. I'd like him to be in the set-up, man. I think the bullpen's better when he's the closer. He's been one of the best closers in the major leagues when he's healthy for the past few years. I know his- He hasn't been, though. He hasn't been healthy, even when he was pitching this year. No, he's been fairly healthy. He wasn't good closing material. Good enough for me. He wasn't good enough for me. I liked him. I liked him. I'll take him as my set-up, man. I'll take Tazawa and my seventh innings. I take Koji Uehara in the night innings. Over a lot of people, that includes Joe Kelly. I'd like to move towards the future and build, and I'd like to start giving Joe Kelly his opportunity. I like Tazawa on the seventh, Koji in the eighth, Joe Kelly in the ninth. That's what I like right there. Then I like Steven Wright as your long reliever. And if he can make some spot starts if he wants, you know, his arm's not gonna get tired. He's a knuckleballer. Get rid of the Robbie Rosses, the Tommy Lanes, the Joe Machis, all of those guys, Breslow, all of them need to be gone. We need new relievers. But just like we were talking about, you know, just like the rotation isn't the only spot that needs help. The bullpen isn't the only spot that needs help. The offense needs work as well. Where are the spots on offense that needs work? Well, the biggest thing is the first base. That's the biggest, it's not a hole right now. I think it's a concern. Okay, Travis Shaw's there. Yeah, it's Travis Shaw's job right now. Right, does he- He deserves a chance. He deserves a chance. 65 games, 13 homers, 36 RBI's. He really hit it a 30 homer on pace. So yes, he deserves to be the starting first baseman opening day next year. That said, again, this is something we talked about before the show. He screams of Will Middlebrooks. Yes, he absolutely does scream of Will Middlebrooks. But I don't think that's a fair comparison to make. I think you have to go off what he gave you in the second half of 2015. I think what he gave you in the second half of 2015 was very, very good. I just, I don't think he should be here. I know he gave you great stuff in the second half, but I sell high on him right now. He screams of Will Middlebrooks. I don't wanna take the chance of him being another Will Middlebrooks. So if he's gone, what do you put there? That's the risk you take. If he's gone, then you've got players on this team that you can move around there or you trade for one, you sign a free agent, first baseman. You could move Pablo Sandoval there. You could move Hanely there. I'm willing to give that a shot. I'm willing to give Hanely a shot there. You could move Brock Holt there in the meantime as well. Yeah, I don't think Brock Holt is in every. He's not in every day fix. He's not in every day fix, but he's a fix until you find your fix. I suppose so, yeah. You've got plenty of options there. My biggest one would be move Sandoval over there. If you're gonna keep them, if you're gonna keep the fat so, move them over to first base, put Brock Holt at third base until you find a fix at third base and then you can keep Brock Holt as your utility man that rotates and plays three, four games out of the five. Since we love our prospects, the big name that comes to mind for me at first base is Sam Travis. You know, if we're talking prospects, the big name that comes to my mind is get Pablo Sandoval over to first base and send this Yoan Moncada guy right up the pipeline. Yeah, but I don't know if he's ready yet. Well, I don't know if Sam Travis is ready yet. All right, but maybe Moncada is. Maybe Moncada is. I don't think Travis is ready yet either. He's only played half a season at double A, so. Maybe Moncada moves on up, he's fast. I mean, we spent a lot of money on this guy. Hey, Moncada's a stud, so. I'd like to get third base freed up for Moncada. I think if Moncada takes either second base or third base, then that's where he's going. And that might mean that he's Pedroia's replacement. He's Pedroia's replacement. That could very well be what he is. But you know, that guy's gonna, he started to shoot up towards the end of the year. I mean, his arrow's pointing very high. He had a huge, oh. Huge second half. Huge second half, I think again, this isn't the Sally League. We've still got a ways to go. They need help at third and first base because Hanely or Pablo's gots to go. One of them has got to go. And right now they're kind of plugged in as your first and third base. So you need help at those spots because if one of them's gone, you got to figure something else out. So what are some of the options out there in free agency? We're headed into Winter Meeting. We're headed to Winter Meetings. Well, I gotta say Chris Davis is the big name at first base, but again, I don't think he's a good fit for Fenway. He's a left handed bat, but he doesn't go into the office opposite field. He goes more, he's more of a left handed pole hitter. That usually doesn't work in Fenway Park. So I don't want Davis. Plus I think he's, I don't think he's the big power hitter that some people think he is. I think he's probably a little bit more of a flash in the pan type. One name that's getting brought up in free agency a lot on the offensive side is Alex Gordon in the outfield. Love Alex Gordon. Yeah, you like this move. I hate this move. Well, first off, the move hasn't been made yet. Yeah, but if we make this move, I hate it. He might not even be a free agent. I mean, the Royals have an option on him that can be picked up. I hate this move. Tell me why you like it because I don't even see a point in it. Well, first off, this outfield that you love, it was a very good outfield. They had a great two months. Offensively a great one month between Jackie and Rusne. I just don't, I need to see more or yeah, Jackie and Rusne is that left and center field. I don't, I'm still not 100% soul in them just because I don't know how they can hold up over a full season. We know what Jackie Bradley is on defense. We know what Rusne is on defense too. He's still an unknown offensively. He had one good month. I think you can say both of them for a defense. And Rusne, you didn't know Rusne is good at defense. Before the season, Alex Gordon had, it was 161, 159, 156, 156, in terms of games played. And this season? Yeah, well yeah, he knows four years. So 162 game season, he missed, he missed, I think, this year, but this year he missed about 15 games. Rusne Castillo misses, if he can miss six games in a month, I would, I would be happy. I mean, that's, that's what you're expecting from Rusne Castillo. We haven't, I don't- I knew guys are gonna be out there in the field, they could play out there in the field, they aren't gonna have hamstrings, they aren't gonna have groins, they aren't gonna have tight calves. 20 years ago. Gordon was down for 50 games this year. I don't, I don't want that. I don't see the points in it. You finally got an outfield that is producing the way you wanted to produce. The reason why you gave Jackie Bradley Jr. all this time was to see that if he could be one of your outfielders of the future. The reason why you moved Mookie Betts from second base to outfield was to see if he could be one of your outfielders of the future. He is now. But Mookie Betts definitely. And then you, you've got Jackie Bradley there that has proven he is your defensive outfield of the future if there was no such thing as offense. Rusne Castillo, the reason you paid him all that money was to be an outfielder of the future. The three of them clicked, they worked when they finally were playing together. This is like the first time they actually ever got to play together. When they finally did, it worked. Why are you messing with that? There's zero point. Let it, let it stay. If it, let it keep going the course. If it sucks, you've got Brock Holt. That's why he's on this team to play there until you figure out a different option. I don't want to touch it. I feel like there's way more pressing needs on this team than fixing, than fixing something that really doesn't need to be fixed yet. If it's not broken yet, don't fix it. Like I said, I just have, I have concerns about having Castillo and Jackie Bradley Jr. as my big plans for 2016. I wouldn't, I'm not, I would not complain if they were, if they were my starting left fielder and center fielder on opening day, but I would have, I would have my worries. I feel a lot better about Alex Gordon. You, but you, your worries, your worries are solely based on there at bats. All right. You, a team can afford to have two bad at bats on their team. A good team can afford to have seven out of nine good players hitting. Yeah. And we've got seven out of nine that should be hitting pretty well. So if Ruznay, who at the bottom is four is- Well, we don't know about first base. First base isn't unknown. We should have- What's the problem I'm going to give you? Well, most likely have people hitting at least 250 and Ruznay will be one of those people hitting 250. The question is whether Jackie Bradley Jr. could hit 200. All right. But they're saving you so many, they're saving you so many more runs than you're giving up. So it makes sense to keep them there. You can afford to have Jackie Bradley Jr.'s bad bat because you've got Blake Swyhart who has a good bat at catcher. So your crappy catching statistics are going into center field or left field or right field, wherever Jackie Bradley Jr.'s playing. Swyhart can be the catcher next year. Yes. He's going to be the catcher next year. It's dumb to think that Christian Vasquez isn't going to be, is going to be the catcher. Vasquez is clearly going to be the backup. I don't want to get into this anymore. Why don't you want... Why don't I want? Because Blake Swyhart earned his time. He's the catcher in the future. Everyone knows. No, Christian Vasquez did not earn his time. He earned his time as a backup catcher. He was hurt for the year last year. Blake Swyhart clearly superseded him. He clearly... He blew his ECL. It's not his fault, but he got superseded. Just like in any other sport where Alex Smith, done for the year, Colin Kaepernick comes in, earns his time. He gets... This is a Wally Pip, Lou Gehrig type situation. I'm saying get to any team that a player goes down and someone comes in and does better. It's Tom Brady and Drew Bledsoe. It's every sport. Blake Swyhart has earned his time. They're not taking him out of that. I'm not saying Blake Swyhart doesn't deserve to, deserve to be the starting catcher in Boston or somewhere else. No, he deserves to be the starting catcher in Boston. Christian Vasquez deserves to be his backup until Vasquez proves that he's good enough to come back and then you have a potential great combination as catcher or you have a trading chip. But you can't trade one of them yet. I think Swyhart could be an option at first base as well. Well, that's a possibility. With his bat. That's a possibility. Maybe he could be an option at first base. I wouldn't mind seeing that. But I'm not sold on Christian Vasquez being my everyday catcher until he's back fully healthy. And in that case, then you have a potential trading chip. Here's the big thing with Vasquez. This will be our parting before we move on. We know how good Vasquez was defensively in 2014. Last month of 2014. So, you know, kind of when you start to figure things out a little bit as a major league hitter. 277, 736 OPS, that's something I would take every day and twice a Sunday from a catcher. That's contradictory to your stuff about what you said about Jackie Bradley Jr. Rusnick Castello is where they picked it up at the end of the year too. You're not sold. So what makes you so sold on Christian Vasquez? Center field and left field, you want the offense. Not if you're cat, but not if you're cat. You don't need to if your catcher's hitting well. And Blake Swyhearth hits well. I'm talking about with catcher. I need that. That's a defense first position. And Blake Swyhearth's defense was good. You're controlling the defensive. Blake Swyhearth's defense was good though. You're controlling the pitching staff. Sure. That's what the catching position was. Swyhearth's position was, he was good though. And Swyhearth was good at that. He wasn't Christian Vasquez, but he was good enough to be a good starting catcher in this league. So therefore your crappy offensive statistics can go into the outfield towards Jackie Bradley Jr., who we know is an amazing defensive outfielder and is not hurt. So isn't coming back off of an injury like Christian Vasquez is we know what we're gonna get out of Jackie Bradley Jr. And you could get something potentially even more phenomenal if you could figure out to have a consistent swing. That's way more, Jackie Bradley's upside on offense is way higher than Christian Vasquez's upside on off. Oh my God, come on. Are you kidding me? Look at what Jackie Bradley Jr. did in a month. All right? It was a month. It was a month. And then look at what Christian Vasquez did in a month. Well, who's was better? No, there's no, yeah, exactly. Thank you. Bradley was a little bit better. A little bit better. Jackie Bradley Jr. was better than every single baseball player in baseball. He was way better. All right? If Jackie Bradley Jr. has the ability to do even half of what he did in that month, that's still better than what Christian Vasquez did. So yes, Jackie Bradley Jr.'s upside is way better on offense than it is. But his downside is way lower. Yes. Okay, he's either gonna be, he's a hit or miss for you, all right? No pun intended. But so I want Jackie Bradley Jr. I want Ruzny out there. Blake Swire, keep Christian Vasquez. I'd like him here. He's not a trade chip right now because you don't know how healthy he's gonna be. Keep him until he's healthy. Let him play Ryan Anakin spot until he's healthy. Then make your decisions. Maybe then you start working up Blake Swyhard at first base. Maybe then you could start thinking, well, should we trade Swire? Should we trade Vasquez? What do we see out of it? Swyhard's improved his defense so much. Absolutely get rid of Vasquez. Well, so Swyhard's improving defensively. I don't know if he'll ever be as good as Vasquez is. I mean, Vasquez is one of the best. Vasquez, if he hasn't missed the beat, like, I think a lot of the handling of the staff and the whole control and the running game, a lot of that's upstairs, which, you know, he's, I doubt he's lost any of that. It's really the big concern is his arm. And, you know, can he throw out, you know, if he can't throw out 40% of the base stealers, then I can live with that. But handling the staff is very important. And that's gonna be even more important next year. Swyhard's improving, but that's excellent. It's gonna be even more important next year because we're gonna have a staff that needs to be handled. There's gonna be a lot of young players and player X. So let's talk about who is player X? Who's player X? Who's the ace on the staff next year? For you to see, there's three big names, obviously. You know, David Price, you got Jordan Zimmerman. You've got Johnny Cueto. Yep, you got David Price. That's it. That's all you want is David Price. Yeah, if I were to choose one of them, I'd say go Price. He's it. That's who you go for. If you want Cueto too, fine. Okay, go both of them. I don't care. I would go both of them. I would go both of them. My all means go both of them. When is the World Series next year? I'm okay with that. But you want David Price. Price is the guy that gets you. Back to the playoffs, he's what you want. He's what you lost in John Lester. He's good. We assume it's what you lost in John Lester. My big concern with Price is can you pitch in Boston? That's your concern with any person, though. No, but. Yes, there's no person that can prove he can pitch in Boston that hasn't pitched here. When you see things, I mean, you're seeing it from afar, you know, you see the mentality of these guys. You see the way they carry themselves on the mound, in the media. Price has proved he's can pitch in three different markets. What makes you think he can't pitch in Boston? Well, for one thing. Detroit's a pretty big market for baseball. Yeah, but it's not Boston. It's not Boston. No place is Boston. Tampa Bay is. No place is Boston, though. Playing in Tampa Bay is like playing in the studio. No one's disputing that, though. There's more people watching in the studio than there is. But there's no place is pitching in Boston unless you pitch in Philadelphia, really. That's the only place that can be comparable to Boston. That's the only place where you're banned. Philadelphia. Yeah, I'd agree with that. You have the ability to sign and keep this young core intact. That's what I like about Price. Price is the guy that gets you back to the playoffs. He's the ace you want. He's the ace you need. He should be able to pitch in Boston. He technically, he has pitched here multiple times. Multiple, he's probably pitched at least over his career a full season in Boston. Maybe. It's just. He's good enough to pitch in Boston. That's the big thing with me with Price is I don't want to give. And you're going to give him probably six and six years at 25 to 30 million a year. For a guy going into his age, you've got the money. But going into his age 31 season. I don't care. Pay it. This guy's going to be 35, 36 years old and you're paying him 30 million a year. So then what's your other option? Show me another option. Trade market. That's the worst option, the dumbest option. You've got so many prospects. But you want to, but you need to trade. In order to get the starting picture that you need on this team, you have to trade one of your prospects that is a core member of this team already. You can't just trade. The only one that you can. Yeah, there's only one player that you could trade. That's not a core member of this team. There's one player I wouldn't trade in that's in Bogart. Blake Swyher. You really have to follow me on that. But you're saying that Blake Swyher and Mookie Betts and who am I missing there? I trade Swyher. But they're core members of this team's future and right now as well. And you don't have to trade them by getting an ace. You can sign an ace instead of trading them. Not trading Swyher. I'm not trading Betts. I'm not trading Bradley. I'm not trading Castillo. And I'm not trading Bogart. It is so dumb to trade any of those guys. I want some of the pitchers. Owens, how about Brian Johnson? There's no point. See, I would trade Henry Owens. There's no point. Why would you break something up that's good? Why would you break that up when you have the ability to not break it up and just add to it? How do we know it's good? Because it's been good. We do know it's good. What we saw is good. A few good months. A few good months and that's OK. From young players when they came up. From what they showed was good. Young players playing for nothing. But they showed it was good. There was no pressure to win. People stopped being attentive. Oh, my God. There was so much pressure, though, to perform. It wasn't playing in the pen and race in Boston. It wasn't. It doesn't. But they still felt pressure. They had nothing to lose. They still felt pressure. You go out there with a team of these kids and you go out to another bad start. We'll see. We'll see what happens then. It'd be much harder. There's a lot more pressure with a team. But the team we saw in August and September, there'd be a whole lot more pressure going into the season. And with an ace on this team, David Price on this team, ahead of them, as well as Clay Buckholt ahead of them, and Rick Porcelo ahead of them, Rodriguez and Henry Owens as you're four and you're five, you don't have to worry about that pressure nearly as much. The pressure is off their shoulders that you're speaking of. Why break this up? You're saying you'd rather get rid of a core piece of this team to acquire another core piece of this team rather than just acquiring a core piece of this team and getting rid of no one. That makes no sense. I don't want to be paying a guy in his 30s. Why? We can spend money. This is baseball. But yeah, you can spend money. Yeah, you can spend money. This is baseball, and you can get out of it, too. They want to be the Los Angeles Dodgers. Does every team want to be the Los Angeles Dodgers? We're almost made it to the World Series. Yeah, the Dodgers, they've made it to the playoffs and they've got knocked out on the ALCS or the ALDS, the last three or four years. And LCS and NLDS. They've never been a team where you say, oh my god. You know how much better that is than we did the last two years? A million times better. Yeah, I agree. I agree with that. So I'll take that right now. Boston, you want to win the World Series. OK, and I agree. And I don't think signing. Go to the ALDS, go to the ALCS. There's a difference, though. There's a difference because they're signing multiple players. I'm talking about signing one player, one player that is exactly what you need. And you're not losing anything else on it. I'm not sold on any pitcher in Boston. You're taking a chance on anyone you bring in. I'd rather take a chance on someone that you don't have to lose someone as well. I'm not giving up someone for another. I'd rather have a guy in his 20s than a guy in his 30s. He's prime years ahead of him at less money. And giving up a piece. Yeah, if you want to get something, I'd give it up. As Tony Maserati would say, that's stupid. Oh, god. S-T-O-O-P-I-D, stupid. You're going to make a higher pitch. That's stupid. S-T-O-O-I-P. That's better. I can't even spell it. That's how stupid it is. All right, it doesn't make sense. You can acquire, win now and build towards the future. That's what Dombrovsky wants to do, is win now and build towards the future. By signing price, you're winning now. And you're still building towards the future. There's no better way to do it. That's what I think. I think you want to. No, there's silence. You're out of pause. That was it. You want to get something good. You got to give up something good sometimes. But you don't have to in this situation. And that's the point. All right, that's the end of Quick Points today. Alex tapped out. I'm done with this argument. All right, that's the end of Quick Points today. I hope you enjoy it. Tune in. Later this week, we're going to do our inaugural foreign out. We're actually going to do it. We're going to do it. It's going to happen. It's going to be a video piece you can find out on BU News Service. It should be really good for fast-paced arguments, then a quick prediction, all right? And it will be fast. Before and out, it's going to be about four minutes long. So that's the goal. Hope you enjoyed it today. Have a wonderful week. I'm Alex Harris, alongside Pat O'Rourke, sports editor for BU News Service. Take it easy. Have a good week, everyone.