Chris Emma

I mean, he just said at one point, it was kind of like, how is my career going to really pan out?

And the fact that he, I think it also too, for that to have worked, Colson himself had to really buy into it and really trust the White Sox organization and really trust Chris Goetz and trust Ryan Fuller too.

I'm so excited to see what kind of step forwards like Colson Montgomery takes, but

I think when you look overall at year one, the 60 wins, they got a taste as to what it's like to win.

And I think for Will Venable and his coaching staff, you have to definitely credit him for the year one foundation that he laid down.

Yeah, they lost 102 games, but I really don't think that happens this year.

I think they're definitely going in the right direction.

But also, too, yeah, that's right.

Muda Takamura Kami.

It is...

It was so fascinating to be there and to really observe it.

At one point, it was Jesse Rogers and I. We were watching him take ground balls around first base and working with Phil Nevin.

And they were kind of working on with him with his hips and stuff, but like the mechanics of all that.

But...

Just seeing like, because his translator was there and seeing in real time, in a sense, how that is, how they are communicating, kind of figuring it out.

One of the players described him as a freakish athlete.

So when he was like taking live VP, it was so, it was like for me, cool to see all the players just like, it's like a unicorn.

He's like, like, what kind of player did we just get?

Obviously having him on the team brings a different level of buzz and excitement.

Because back home in Japan, when I talked to some of the Japan media members, like,