Chris Murphy

Um,

However, I was very confident at the end of last season.

Like, hey, I can start joking with Andrew Bailey last year.

Like, oh, you need starter for a bullpen game.

Like, Bales, you know, I can still start.

At the end of 23, I think my arm was just kind of falling apart.

In 22, I threw 150 innings as a starter.

In 23, I threw 100 innings pretty much out of the bullpen between AAA and the big leagues.

It was like, oh, I can still put innings together, but at the end of 23, once I got to that fourth inning, I felt out of gas.

writing was on the wall for Tommy John once I got into 24 and I was only able to do it for one inning and then we blew out and obviously that was another story but on my mind it's been like I want to come back a starter and last year showed that I can go I think I had a three inning outing I was going to go out for a fourth a couple times like I and I started a few games in AAA and those were actually my most

efficient outings I think my first one was three innings and 31 pitches like let me let me go back out like I can do this like let me build up to four innings like no no we got a you're limited to three this year I was like okay well there's that um I'm pretty it was a talk like hey we're going to build you up going in a spring with the Red Sox I knew that that rotation is too good I probably would not start there if I was a starter with the Red Sox it would be in AAA right which is not the ideal scenario so hopefully here

With Chicago, I would get an opportunity.

However, I'm not going to press the front office on that.

Whatever they want to use me as, that's what I'm there for.

And that's that.

Hey, I'm doing whatever Will Venable wants me to do, right?

Whatever Get sees me as, whatever Venable sees me as, whatever Bo sees me as.

Just, hey, let's...

be clear with me, tell me what I'm doing and I'll do it.

Like that's, that's that.