Craig Breslow

You know, I don't know how much sense it makes in November to put a number on a guy, I think,

Sonny is a very talented major league pitcher.

The seasons that he's put up pretty consistently indicate that to be the case.

That said, we still intend to improve our team.

And exactly what that looks like, we don't know right now.

But we'll continue to explore opportunities and figure out where that takes us.

Well,

We start by evaluating the performance on the field and try to understand what, like I said, what abilities and what metrics are sticky year to year because we're making a bet on what anybody is going to be in 2026, not what they have been in the past.

And the strikeout rate and walk rate are, like I said, a good place to start.

Beyond that, though, he is a guy whose secondaries make up a significant part of the arsenal and particularly like sweeper and curveball are just two really, really good pitches.

And you can look at

the whiff rates and the chase rates on the sweeper and say like this this is the foundation of a really strong arsenal and i think he will uh he'll be a great match for bales and the rest of the pitching group and uh you know the philosophies that they have in terms of uh you know leaning into strengths potentially pitching away from slug and often that meaning pitching away from from fastballs when you have secondaries as your best pitches

Like I said, I don't want to paint ourselves into a corner here.

We felt like there was an opportunity to upgrade our rotation in 2026, and so we did that.

It's early in the offseason.

There are still opportunities that I anticipate materializing.

Exactly what those look like, I'm not sure, but we're not going to close off any chance to make the team better.

Sure.

You know, I think initial interest going back even to the trade deadline, you know, and then as you start to have conversations with free agents, with other teams, you can't perfectly dictate timelines.

And, you know, I think in two short years here, I've learned that when you have an opportunity in front of you that makes sense, you need to act on it.