Hey guys, welcome to the Pirates podcast to be named later. My name is Chris Halleck.

Joining me as always is Jose Negeran on.

Pirates offense. Is it happening? Is it actually happening, Jose? Jose, when did this happen exactly?

Of the pirates actually making moves? The timing was impeccable, Chris.

Just absolutely unbelievable.

The timing in which the pirates decide, you know what, we're going to go out and we're going to get some proven bats.

We're going to go out and we're going to actually start executing the plan right when

Jose goes on vacation.

And it's like, it's like Ben Charington knew, okay, we're, we're getting close on this,

but I'm going to hold off just for a couple days because I know Jose is leaving for Puerto Rico.

Yeah.

So, yeah, we'll do it that day.

We'll acquire Brandon Lowe that day.

So that that was the first move that happened literally the day that you went on vacation.

I'm actually, no, no, no, that was the, that was the next one.

So, yeah, I, I, yeah, pirates acquire Brandon Low in the three team trade.

They also got, it wasn't just Brandon Lowe, but there was a couple, there were a couple of other players in that trade, and we can get into that too. I'll let you expand on that because you're a little bit more plugged in on that side of things, but, but obviously getting Brandon Low, we talked about this. We talked like literally the last show we did. We knew we were going to be taking a hiatus with the week of Christmas and everything.

Like here we are.

Like they got to get something done.

They've got to they've got to add.

And it finally happened.

I mean, they,

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