Bob Pompeiani

His first at-bat to me was notable.

Him sort of sticking his bat out there and just getting the bat on the ball and getting a little fillet single.

I don't know.

Maybe that lightened the load a little bit.

He's a tough player to figure out, man.

And to talk big picture about it, like the Pirates –

made this commitment to him.

You can disagree with that, but they've signed up for the whole year.

They're going to see this through.

They're going to play him.

They're going to figure out what they have.

That doesn't mean he has to play every day.

It doesn't mean they don't have to address things when they go awry, like you're talking about with opening day.

But you're not going to DFA him.

You're not going to bench him.

There's just so much there that you need to figure out.

You need to see improvements.

I thought it was interesting talking to Ben Charrington on the show we do now on Sundays and talking about the World Baseball Classic sort of disrupting some of the progress

Cruz made Tony Beasley's been working with Cruz.

Talk to me about the same thing.