Brandon Gomes

And we know that there's only a handful of guys that run wire to wire who have done that consistently.

So it's like, how do you manage guys to be as good as they can be come October?

And that's the guiding light.

We clearly don't nail it, but last year certainly it played out that way.

No, no, I think we had, you know, we felt good about the info that we were getting, the guys that we had available that are rotation and, you know, 12 to 13 man pitching staff while it wasn't going to look good.

potentially as traditional as you would want, was going to be as talented of a group as we've ever had.

You know, we talked to Glass a lot.

Glass, in 24, Glass threw like 140 innings, I believe.

And we talked about, like, Glass, if we could have flipped that on its head, we all would have taken that.

You know, and it's kind of how it played out in 25, where he missed some time early, but then was a monster down the stretch.

So I think it's, you know, you kind of, you have to understand and make the bets of like, hey, these guys are going to come back and be healthy.

And it's just, we'll figure it out with, you know, Doc and Pryor and Connor and Bardo and Danny.

Like, okay, we're going to put these really talented guys into positions to succeed.

And that was, you know, kind of the mantra leading up while it was like a super uncomfortable situation.

You know, it was like, oh, this is the greatest team ever.

And then we're like struggling to get to 90 wins.

You know, a lot of it was like, okay, we're good.

Let's just make sure we're hitting our stride at the most important time.

And that these guys, it's not going to look traditional, but this group of pitchers is

let's just see what it works, what it looks like.