Alex Bregman

And I think that's a positive, you know.

And, you know, we have guys that can play different positions really well.

And, you know, in my experience in baseball, but also with the Cubs and, you know, players that, you know, have been a part of a lot of winning here.

moving guys around the diamond, it works and it can work really well.

I think that we're going to be celebrating 2016 this weekend and Chris Bryant played a lot of third, a lot of left field that year.

Javi Baez played everywhere.

We didn't have to just have one position for those guys.

You can move really good players around and I think that you're not going to have perfect health throughout the year.

You're going to need days off and there's a lot of

There's a lot of bats out there if you can move around and play different positions.

Well, I think that we talked about all the players in the clubhouse and how focused on winning they are.

Just a good group of guys, a combination of veteran players and young players and guys that want to win, guys that are pulling on the same end of the rope.

When it comes to leadership, I feel like you need to find out what makes people tick, what makes people get the best out of themselves and hold them accountable to it every day.

Yeah, I would just add, you know, Alex is going to be humble on this, but we didn't ask him to do this.

And I think within two days of signing, he had asked for reports on every player and, you know, and what they're working on to make sure that he was talking about the right things with those players.

He asked for a meeting with all of the minor league staff that's in Arizona to talk to our hitting philosophy and make sure he was talking about the right things.

He had already called almost all of our players to talk to him.

So these are the things that he's already talked about.

And actually, another thing, he came to my office yesterday and he said, hey, I hope you're okay.

committed to the wbc you know to play uh in may i hope you're okay with that and i was like you know sure of course he's like don't worry i'll come in in the morning before we have workouts and make sure i'm with the guys and so um it isn't just a it's in four or five days he's been a cub like there's already been like you know countless examples of things he's working on that no one's asked him to do but that's how he thinks about his role it's not just about getting his workouts in it's about making sure he's integrated with the entire team