Ben Cherington

We're not rooting for them to be unhappy, but it's probably a good position for us to be in if that's the case.

So that's not specific to Nick York.

Generally speaking, we know that we're going to have difficult decisions to make.

We want people to be making those decisions hard for us, certainly.

The expectation is that, you know, it's kind of playing out.

In some ways, the way we hoped it would on the position player side is that part of our goal this offseason was not just to add the more proven bats, but really to create more depth, more competition.

You know, there's fighting for jobs, there's fighting for opportunities, so hopefully that is happening this spring, but expect it to happen throughout the season, too.

You know, we want guys to be pushing up from Indianapolis.

Those who start the season there will be pushing up, and we want guys on our Major League team to know that we believe in them, but know also that there's competition coming, so hopefully that's playing out.

Yeah, I think maybe related to your question is, like, probably not even thinking about number five yet specifically.

I think we have a number of starting pitchers who are building volume up and –

as we get deeper into spring, we'll continue to see that pitch counts, you know, increase.

And, um, so what we're looking for as guys get their pitch counts up is, you know, how they're holding stuff.

Um, what's the execution as they get deeper into outings and you start to think about how guys can come together, uh, to form the best group of 13 that we can leave Florida with.

And, um, some of them obviously will be pitching in traditional starting roles and,

We may ask some to pitch in different roles to help us win a game.

So still thinking about it that way, less specific than three, four, five, six, whatever.

And as we get closer to the flight to New York, we'll have a better sense of that.

I think there's some of that for sure that we'll keep an eye on.

And then