Craig Breslow

And I think he's largely done that.

He looks great.

He's moving really well.

He needs to come into camp and compete and show us what he's capable of.

But he's got a ton of potential, absolutely, to be an everyday player.

And he'll have an opportunity in front of him to come in and compete for a spot.

We're excited about the potential that he has and even more excited about the possibility of that manifesting throughout the season.

Yeah, you know, we go into every offseason, like I said earlier, kind of working backwards from what are we hoping to accomplish.

And what we're hoping to accomplish is to put the best team on the field that we possibly can, recognizing that we've got a number of cornerstone pieces that we think can contribute to a championship team.

And we kind of map out a bunch of different paths.

And as we

get information about the market and decisions around players, both in free agency and in trade pursuits, we kind of navigate that path.

And, you know, path was always pursue, you know, pursue pitching in free agency and, you know, potentially address position player needs via trade and also the opposite, right?

So neither of the paths that we would have taken would have been

completely foreign, but without knowing exactly where the market is and what decisions players are going to make, it becomes impossible to chart at the beginning.

But there are a lot of people who did a ton of work in terms of putting us in a position to make decisions around building the roster.

And we're comfortable with where we are right now, knowing that ultimately in October, our season is going to be evaluated by the number of games that we win.

Craig, obviously, you know, probably isn't top of mind as you're making this move, but the fact you've traded, you know, Harris and Hicks and Tims from the Devers return, you know, probably the three most well-known players in that.

Is that, would you have been surprised if someone had told you by February 9th that it happened?

And does it kind of change how you look at that deal, you know, a few months later?