Craig Breslow

was great for us while he was here.

He came over in a trade a couple of years ago, um, and was completely bought into what we were, uh, hoping that, that he would do in terms of getting bigger and stronger and adding velocity and leaning into his secondaries.

Um, you know, and then with, uh, with Brandon guy that we drafted really, really exciting stuff.

Uh, and you know,

they're both easy guys to root for.

And, and, you know, you hope that when you have these trades, like it works out for both sides, you know, and so it will, we'll hope that each of those guys goes on to successful major league careers.

And we hope that Sonny is everything that we, we need him to be in 2026 for us.

Still feels pretty early in terms of getting to understand, you know, interested teams, interesting, interested players.

And, you know, I think it's often overlooked in these in these processes that, you know, you need to have mutual interest.

Right.

This isn't just about, you know, the the teams that have interest in particular players, players often for the first times in their careers get the opportunity to choose where they want to call home for the next, you know,

one to 12 years at times, you know, and so there's a bit of a feeling out and getting to know each other type process.

And I think it's still pretty early in that.

Sure.

We've been pretty transparent about our desire to add to the rotation and our desire to add a bat on the position player side.

It's impossible to know exactly what the order of operations will be.

So we'll continue to look for opportunities to improve the team.

But, you know, I wouldn't say we're going to exclusively focus on one thing at the expense of the other.

We want to be open minded.

And, you know, so I don't think this is a, you know, close off all opportunities and look exclusively at position players.