Logan O'Hoppe

Because, like we talked about, you've got Cam Sanders, Loeb.

I will never stop calling Alex Hoppe Logan O'Hoppe for some reason, but you have Alex Hoppe, you have Josh Walker, a lot of talented arms, not to mention any guys they could bring in potentially.

So I think it's extremely bold.

And with the way his fastball and slider are working right now, you throw him in the bullpen, he's going to be pretty dominant from the start, in my opinion, like a souped up Michael Bauman almost for me.

Unless you did some sort of weird big package deal where, like, you were going to Texas and you were saying, "Hey, we'll give you Murphy's.

You just trade him for Logan Ohoppe so Murphy can help teach Ohoppe defense because Ohoppe's terrible behind the plate, and we'll give you some other pieces, and we want back Jacob deGrom and Corey Seager with all their money," or something like that, right? So unless you do some sort of weird convoluted trade like that, it's hard to kind of see how you could just get rid of Murphy's money via trade.

The 82...

Like, the port- th- thing to note here, though, the important part of this, the $82 million isn't a reward for what Baldwin's done.

But, um, I mean, you look up and down, you look up and down this, uh, this roster here and it's, uh, it's tough.

I mean, even to say like a trade of Logan O'Hoppy was kind of a big bust for, for, for me this year because of what everybody was hoping and expecting that he would be.

Um, a- and he was, you know, he ended up not being that and the Angels didn't really get anything back for him either.

Um, so yeah, I, I think, I think again, the development of young players is still a, a, young position players is still a bit of a, a bit of a bust for, for me.

So that 40 million, what do you do with that? Well, you gotta, you gotta pay the, uh, prepare for the increases in arbitration.

Okay? Josh Jung, Jake Burger, Mackenzie Gore, Wyatt Langford, Jake Latts, Logan O'Hoppy, Evan Carter all do pretty significant raises, either from the league minimum, like Latts and, and Carter's case.

Uh, Jung and Burger will get a bump for sure after their first year of arbitration.

They were around the 3 million mark, a little bit above, a little bit below.

So I want to jump over, before we talk about the pitching, I want to jump over to Steve's team a little bit here and look at his hitters, and we'll go through his team.

So he started also with Ben Rice and Logan O'Hoppy.

Logan O'Hoppy, another miss that he dropped, I'm assuming.

Alec Burleson, massive hit.

Hi, son, Kim.