Craig Breslow

But I also think that, you know, there's a chance that that comes into focus now over the next couple of weeks.

I think it allows you maybe a level of patience and discipline to to try to identify exactly what the best fit is and be

you know, very targeted, very specific in, in trying to execute on it.

Uh, you know, I don't think anybody wants to feel like they're in a position, um, you know, of having to, to check off multiple, uh, kind of items on, on the shopping list and feel like you're either running out of time or running out of options.

Um, but that said, you know, our approach all along was to try to be open-minded about as many ways that, that could improve the team as possible.

Um,

But certainly we feel good about where we sit today having made a pitching acquisition.

Sure.

Obviously, we had Walker here last year.

I don't think anyone would say that it worked out as well as we had hoped.

But Sonny, he's got a pretty significant track record of not only performance and consistency, but of shouldering pretty significant workload.

I think the last three years, he's thrown 180-plus innings with

with what I would call impeccable command, right?

You know, this guy's sitting on a 5% walk rate for each of the last two years.

And so, you know, there's not just the 200 strikeouts and swing and miss, but there's also, you know, limiting free passes as well.

So I think they're fairly different, you know, and we obviously made decisions in each of those cases to go forward with the players.

And, you know, hopefully the Sonny's acquisition works out.

I think you touched on it in saying that the versatility or flexibility is a significant benefit because it means that we don't have to be rigidly anchored to one position over another.

We've got a bunch of guys who contributed to wins last year and are capable of playing multiple positions, whether that's

Romy, Marcelo, Hammy, you know, and and others, which gives us a chance to to have multiple options in terms of improving our offense.