Juan Soto told everybody immediately after the World Series,

and I mean immediately, I mean standing there in the Yankees locker room,

that he's available.

He considers himself to be available to all 30 teams in Major League Baseball.

Last I checked, one of those 30 teams is based in Pittsburgh. Good morning to you.

Good. Friday morning, I'm Dan Kovachievich of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports. This is Daily Shot of Pirates.

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because it's worth it. The pirates can't afford Soto. I mean, they can't even come close to

affording Soto, right? Okay. That's just conventional wisdom. It's, if it's not universally accepted, it's got to be really close to universally accepted. And bringing it up here is just completely comical. No, I mean all of that.

I mean all of that.

There's no but in this.

However, see, you can do a however when we're going to have a butt, and you're trying to

avoid saying but, so you say however instead.

However, let me throw some math at you.

Just for fun, Just for fun.

Soto comes to Pittsburgh.

Soto signs a deal that's for $30 million a year.

And I know he'll actually end up getting more than that.

But for my math purposes, if it's not Soto, it's somebody else that would be in the 30 million range.

So Soto comes and the public goes totally nuts.

Just, wow, this is just a whole new outlook for the pirates and the management and even Bob Nutting and the people who own them and we just can't

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