Ben Cherington

And obviously we want to try to marry that up with him, helping the pirates when he's been in games as possible too.

So that will continue to guide us.

You know, we're reminded all the time about, you know, spring training versus the entire body of work.

I believe that spring training is a tiny slice of information and,

the entire body of work that we owe it to players to look at the entire body of work.

And in Connor's case, there's a hundred plate appearances above high A. So, you know, that's important information too.

So we'll see where this goes, but our job will be to put him in a position to have the longest, best career possible.

I think we just haven't gotten there, Noah.

You know, like take it a day at a time as we get,

A little bit deeper into March here, we will start to make decisions as we get closer and start to get organized the roster and just continue to take that a day at a time.

Yeah, you know, I think there are things we can learn from spring training and there are things that we can't and there's things that can be deceiving about spring training.

I think the things you can learn certainly are, you know, sort of like the physical side, health, you know, the sort of raw physical skills.

Like if you see pitchers, you know, you can see a new pitch, for example, or you can see that a guy's healthy or you can see how a guy's moving.

I mean, I think that's information that's valuable.

Um, in terms of the performance in a game, it's really noisy.

You know, it's, it's you trying to control for sample size and who they're facing.

And, you know, it's just, it gets, it gets really noisy, which is why I think we generally owe it to players to look at the entire body of work and not just spring training.

Um, so it's a little bit of both, but I would just go back to that.

The spring training is going to be a smaller slice of it, uh, than, than the entire body of work.

Yeah, kind of a guy we've had our eyes on for a while.