Alex Anthopoulos

And I just remember, as agonizing as it is to make trades and you're giving up young talent to add, it's way better than being on the sell side.

Give us the update on the – I'll do whatever.

If players are like, hey, we'll win two out of three, three out of four, go get us this, that, that, whatever, I'm all in on doing some of those things.

So now look, I guess I would say anytime you don't have the year you have –

It's easy to say, well, you know, we had a ton of injuries and we couldn't overcome them and all that, which I definitely think was part of it.

Nobody wants to hear it, which is fine.

I also think you look at yourself, and I think we, meaning me specifically, because I get to make the final call, got away from maybe putting the right pieces together, not just the best talent.

You know, I kind of bent a little bit and took a little bit more talent and didn't focus so much on the fit part.

of the roster, and I swore to myself after 2014 in Toronto that I would, and I had, and you start rolling back-to-back years, win the World Series, back-to-back years after that of 101, 104 wins, most wins in the league, 2024, a bunch of injuries, but still had the best ERA in the game, made the postseason, and...

you know, you could kind of slip a little bit.

And I kind of like, you know what, our clubhouse is probably strong enough.

Let's add in some pieces.

Maybe they're a little rough around the edges, but they're really talented.

And I started leaning a little bit towards the talent.

And I don't think that helped things.

I don't think that's why we didn't make the playoffs.

But it was really an emphasis for us this winter to get back to some of the values and the things that, you know... I just had to be reminded a little bit.

You know what?

I had to be reminded, but I get my butt kicked.

So from my standpoint, I feel like the group...