Alex Anthopoulos

He's known the front office.

He's known the clubhouse staff, the travel staff, the training staff.

So his desire to be back.

What's good, y'all?

That was clear, so... That's not to take anything away from everybody, but he already had those answers.

That wasn't a discussion.

There's nothing I need to tell him, right?

He just... He lived through it for parts of four seasons, so...

You know, in terms of the interest from other clubs, look, you read stuff, you hear stuff.

Ultimately, look, he's a really good reliever.

You know, he's a really good reliever.

He's a really good teammate.

And, you know, of course there's going to be interest in a guy like that.

And you know it's going to be competitive in order to get him and to sign him.

So we're grateful that he wanted to be here.

He clearly wanted to be here.

So, yeah.

You know, that obviously, you know, if you're competing with someone you don't know, you don't know if they haven't been here, they don't know you, all that kind of stuff.

There's always advantages to someone having been in your clubhouse before knowing your support staff.

And look, I'm sure all 29 other clubs would tell you the same thing.