Craig Breslow

starting pitching or outfield.

But I think we've prioritized the near term, 2026, pretty significantly.

And so any trade that we make, if we were to go down that path, I think we're mindful of making sure that we come out better in 2026 as a result of doing it.

I'm reluctant to commit to things at this point outside of saying that we know Marcel is going to play a very important role for us.

His defensive skills and also versatility are going to be really, really useful for us.

He's such a functional piece on a roster.

He's still acclimating to the big leagues and he's having a productive offseason, bigger, stronger, moving really well.

So I think those types of questions will get answered as we get into spring trading and we see what comes together.

But in some capacity, he's going to be a big contributor to our success this year.

Yeah, I don't think we're in a position where we have to get two infielders.

What...

we are constantly balancing is what is the most impactful piece or pieces, and also how do we ensure that we have enough depth that if guys were to get injured, as unfortunately has happened a couple times over the last two years, that we're not taking a massive step backward.

We want to...

We want to take advantage of the young core of guys that are emerging and continuing to get better in the big leagues and the starting pitching that we have.

And we need to make sure that an injury and some unfortunate outcome doesn't derail the season.

Yeah, I think just trying to give ourselves as much flexibility as we can and just looking at the way that –

you know our commitments line up like this was the way to do that last year there was a lot of talk about using a six-man rotation before i just kind of took that off the table so with all the options you have right now is that something you'd consider it's something that we've discussed and we'll continue to discuss it because we do feel like our rotation is you know is potentially an advantage for us um and we'll have to balance you know the

the benefits of giving guys extra rest with the impact that that could have on the bullpen over the course of the season between off days and weather like most pitchers don't actually operate on a kind of pretty rigid five-man schedule so that rest tends to get baked in but there may be times where we where we choose to employ that at this point is there anybody from that group that

No, we'll build those guys out for a few reasons.

One, especially for some of our younger guys, I think it's important for their development.