Alex Cora

He looks great.

Now he's getting Zach to be good two or three times a week, not only once.

We all go back to that game against the Yankees, right?

Striking out the side with the bases loaded.

But then you go back to his last outing two years ago at Yankee Stadium, up four, and we walked the world and we ended up losing.

So avoid those outings and be more consistent.

consistent can that be a big six nine sevens any piece for you guys yep when you look at the uh the fifth star competition where some of the things are going to be evaluated over the next few weeks i think in the beginning just go out and compete and then we'll decide what we want to do where we go and uh roster construction is always important and that's that's the key especially early in the season understanding that in this case

The vast majority of the guys that are competing, they have options, and not everybody can be in the big leagues.

We're not going on a six-man rotation, I'll tell you right now, we're not doing that.

So we just have to be patient, and what we decide is for the benefit of the team early on, and there's gonna be guys pitching AAA that are gonna be hungry and ready for whenever we call their name to come to the big leagues.

Do you wanna carry a long man early?

We always do, yeah.

Sandoval has that second live BP today like do you obviously he's just making his way just back on the mound for facing hitters from Tommy John but like how many of those do you anticipate I'll have before I gotta talk to the pitching group but uh I think cutter and and they just make sure they're ready to compete you know it's not a given that they get to that point but they're making progress which is important what are you expecting from Yoshida today

Today, just get a bat, getting him ready to play left field in the tournament.

He'll play today, he'll play tomorrow, probably five innings, five innings, and then he'll fly to Arizona and join them in a few days in camp.

But he'll play every day for what I know.

You might help me with that one, but...

He'll have a good tournament, and I think he'll be back late, probably, around March 18th?

No, 28th?

Yeah.