Valenti On Bregman Signing With Red Sox: "I'm Relieved"

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🗓️ 13 February 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Mike and Rico start the show reacting to Alex Bregman finally signing with the Red Sox last night.

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0:00.0	All right, Thursday.
0:01.7	We're here.
0:02.8	Snowmageddon was a letdown.
0:04.5	Thank God.
0:05.5	Let's get to business, shall we?
0:07.5	So the Bregman saga, Rico, it comes to an end, and I have never felt this way before.
0:14.0	I'm relieved.
0:16.1	I'm not even busting your balls.
0:18.3	Relieved?
0:18.8	Good relief?
0:19.5	Yeah.
0:20.2	Great relief.
0:20.9	Or just relieved like Nona's finally in a happy place.
0:23.9	I'm relieved Alex Bregman didn't come here because if they had signed him to six years
0:27.8	and $170 million, I think one thing really jumps out at me. He don't want to be here.
0:33.3	You offered $170 million. He gave him the term he wanted. He'd rather go to Boston and play second base, not third, and take the shorter deal,
0:41.3	albeit with opt-outs.
0:43.1	And if it was going to take me, look, I was willing to pay a higher AAV,
0:46.9	but you know what I wasn't willing to do?
0:48.3	Pay him more than Aaron Judge.
0:50.2	Alex Bregman's going to make more money than Aaron Judge this year.
0:53.4	So you get to a point where you go, you know what.
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