I would say that we remain in contact.

We made no secret of the fact that Nellie has been a priority for us at the beginning of the offseason and continues to. The reality is, you know, Nellie has earned the right at the stage of his career to kind of work through some things and think through next steps and options. I know he's doing that, you know, as we speak, and the market hasn't moved all that quickly. You know, we all know that. So I think it's more just a wait-and-see approach to some degree.

We're having dialogue, not just with Nelson, but with a number of other players. We certainly have Plan A, but we have to be prepared for Plan B, Plan C, Plan D, and we'll continue to work through that. But Nellie's a special member of the twins and we know that.

Reckless speculation.

It's reckless speculation Thursday on Mackie and Judd.

That was Derek Falvey talking about basically like publicly pleading for Nelson Cruz to sign back with the twins.

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We will take your trade ideas and sprinkle them in throughout reckless speculation Thursday and old tweets exposed.

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Straight talks.

Juicy rumors.

Yes, we love ourselves some reckless speculation Thursday here on Mackie and Judd.

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