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All right. I am here. Aaron's here. Tommy's back from Houston, but he's calling in because it was probably a late night getting back. And he's going to tell us all about what it was like

to be there. But I'm going to start to show off with a question for both of you.

Given that more likely than not, Strasbourg's going to opt out and become a free agent, and that

Anthony Rendon is going to be a free agent, if you could only choose one to have back, if I told you right now that only one of them

re-signed and stayed in Washington, which one would you want it to be?

Well, for me, that's pretty easy.

It would be Strasper's because starting pitchers who win 18 games a year and are as unhittable as he is sometimes

are much harder to come by than position players who are great.

I mean, and I know Strasbourg is 31, and, you know, he did have the Tommy John surgery,

you know, about, what, nine, ten years ago now,

but he shows no sign of wear and tear. And I want to keep both of them, but I think Rendon

is more replaceable. That's my answer, too. Not to mention the fact that you've got Soto, Robles, Trey Turner, still a really good young nucleus for a team, but I'll take the dominant starting pitcher, who by the way has already proven to be dominant in your biggest games and maybe the best big game pitcher in the game and maybe entering the prime years of his career the next year to three years.

I'll take Strasbourg. It's a tough, tough choice, but I'll take Strasbourg. Aaron, who would you take?

I think I'd lean Strasbourg. The argument for Rendon would simply be that with Strasbourg, yes,

he's entering the prime, but pitchers can, you know, fall

off a little quicker than position players. Rendon is also entering his prime very clearly, and you

could see him being at this level for the next, you know, potentially eight to ten years. So that

would be the argument for Rendon, but I think I'm inclined to say Strasbourg, plus the fact that, you know, just in my head, if one of them's leaving, if only one of them leaving, it's probably Rendon anyway, so I've kind of already resigned myself to that.

Do both of you feel like Anthony Rendon's a top five player in the sport?

Position player?

Yeah, position player.

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