Clay Harbor

It's so early that teams are just patient.

And so that's really the reason why you don't see deals.

It's just not realistic that people are going to sell early.

They only do in the most unusual of circumstances.

So the early season is about internal replacements and about

being creative and sometimes a deal comes around, but I think that's just the nature of how our sport is covered.

People focus on external stuff a lot and talk about a deadline already.

And, you know, we're getting to the place where you have a better feel for it, but we're still not that close to it.

Yeah, no question.

I mean, I think we're like, you're always thinking about it.

I think with Justin, you know, the hope going into the season certainly was that, you know, we put him on the 60 day IL.

I think this is roughly when he would have been able to

to come off we were sort of thinking you know going into the season um we're sort of thinking early June which right now that would be a wonderful time to to get him back but obviously that didn't happen and we've had setbacks and I just think you know I say it every year like you go into you go into spring training you go into the season and you know it's going to happen differently than you anticipated right we didn't anticipate Cade being out for the year

Two games in, you didn't anticipate that Justin Steele stepped back given how he was pitching or Matt Boyd getting hurt playing with his kids.

But it doesn't really matter.

Ultimately, all that matters is you have to move forward and you have to do everything you can to find replacements.

Sometimes those are external, but early in the season, they're usually internal.

And like I said, you have to hope that through the struggles and through the

um replacements that you find a couple guys that um can stick and can help you because later on the summer you're right like there's with the trade deadline deadline that does give you more opportunity to find guys externally but i think the best teams are able to find some internal replacements that really help them throughout the course of the whole summer

yeah i mean the whole situation was was regrettable um i don't think it's representative of you know who pete is as a person i mean he's a great kid he's a 24 year old who's pretty emotional and uh you know he obviously uh did something he regrets and you know we've had conversations with him about that obviously i'm gonna