Ben Shulman

I guess.

It's not.

It's a lot of fun.

Yeah, it's a lot of fun.

Yeah, this was a surprising one.

I didn't see it coming, I would say.

You mentioned a lot of the positives, 22 homers last year.

He's pre-arbitration right now, so you'd have control of him for the majority of his prime, which I think is probably attractive.

But the interesting thing is, as far as I know, he's out of options.

They're going to have Lydia Sosa on their roster if they're going after him, and I think this probably means, I mean, they hadn't used Tyler Fitzgerald a lot yet.

I think this means that, you know, they felt like they wanted something different in that role maybe because I thought there were some times Fitzgerald might get in there soon that he didn't get in during the last homestand, so...

I think what it means to me is they're just looking for something else in that kind of bench, right-handed hitting infielder spot.

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.