Craig Breslow

And then two, it's just always easy to shorten guys up if that's the path that we want to take than it is to go the other route and have guys prepare to throw in shorter blasts and then all of a sudden ask for them to throw 80 to 100 pitches in an outing.

So far, they're ramping up, and the feedback has been really good.

Both guys are off the mound right now.

So that's the way that we're going to proceed.

The way that our roster is currently constructed, so many of our infielders have versatility that it gives us additional flexibility.

You look at whether it's Marcelo, Romy, Hamilton, Sogard, all those guys are capable of moving around.

And so we should take advantage of that and just find the player or the players that can most improve our team, and then we'll be able to fill in the pieces around that.

What is the emotional feeling in the office?

Ironically, with every decision, I think you think about the alternatives, you think about what else may be in front of you, and you hope for the best outcome.

And the magnitude doesn't have a huge implication on that.

Every decision we make, we hope we get it right.

We beat it up and we think through it, and if it turns out that we didn't, we question how we arrived at that decision.

Obviously, there are kind of more significant financial implications to this one relative to some of the others, but we hope we got this one right the same way we hope we got all the others.

is is ranger maybe somebody that there really aren't changes or have the conversations led to we might change him this way for asking that change yeah he does a pretty good job of optimizing both kind of usage uh intended locations and shapes um i guess all three of those things uh but that's not to say that we can't continue to you know help provide the most information that we possibly can because he's clearly a guy who's got the ability to execute and

kind of pitch to a scouting report and a game plan, and so we want to make sure that we're giving him the best information.

And then I just think as pitchers evolve physically over the course of the contract, there may be opportunities to tweak usage or shapes.

So he's been very successful with what he's done, and we're not here to reinvent his success, but we'll make sure that we can supplement that if possible.

Yeah, well, when there's somebody who has this track record of success and someone that we think can be as good going forward,

You don't want to overcomplicate this, right?

And, you know, like I said, his command gives him, you know, room for error as well, right?