Ben Shulman

But I'll be interested to see how he's used because I'm not 100% sure yet.

Yeah, I think that they're not okay with what's happening.

They want everyone to succeed, but I think their understanding of what's going on, I think, as great as he was in that first four or five games for them, they had kept talking about a transition coming over, life-wise, obviously, and then baseball-wise as well.

I think he's the type of guy that you could see really hit his stride in the middle of the season.

You know, you've hit in the big leagues, Kevin.

It's not an easy thing to do, and I imagine it's not an easy thing to transition in.

Even if you're coming from NPB from a decorated career, it's still a completely different animal in the major leagues.

So I think that while it doesn't look pretty at times right now, this was going to more than likely happen.

Very few guys can hit the ground running and just produce right away out of a foreign league.

And if they do, they're usually someone like Shohei Otani, to be honest.

Probably a little bit.

I mean, I could see a scenario where you'd want to do it.

I could see some scenarios where you'd put Vlad at DH and put Okamoto at first.

So in theory, everyone DHs a bit more, and I don't hate the idea of giving him a day or two to really just focus on his at-bats, be able to work in the cage a little bit more in between and zero in with a traject on a specific pitcher that might help set him up for success while he makes this transition.

Yeah, I mean, we have been spoiled.

Anyone around baseball in Toronto from, you know, the Donaldsons to the Chapmans to anyone in between, you know, there have been some really, really good defensive third basemen for the Toronto Blue Jays.

And so it's going to be a bit of a transition period, I think, because, you know,

He's not necessarily going to be a guy right now that I think is going to contend for gold gloves, like a lot of the third basemen that have been around Toronto recently.

And especially when you think about a guy like Matt Chapman, there was so much range over there at third.

I think Okamoto is not looking like he's a plus range guy.