Daniel Bard

You know, if you normally get off the mound, start getting off the mound early.

January 15th now you're looking at January 1st right so um for guys that pitch in the postseason the year before like that that makes a really short uh off season short rest time so I was coming off you know like I said it was a good I pitched well but I was my elbow was not feeling great at the end of that year so I'm I'm basically rehabbing my elbow

Not injured, but it just, that tendon I ended up having surgery on was just not 100%.

But at the same time, I'm getting ready for it.

Not just the season, but then knowing that I've got what I felt like at that time was the biggest baseball tournament of my life.

The biggest baseball stage that I was going to be on.

So there was times where I was like, I don't feel 100%.

I should probably be rehabbing, maybe even starting the season on the IL, trying to get this thing really strong so I can get through the last five months of the season.

And instead, I'm like, nope, I got to be ready to be on my A game on March 10th.

Not using spring training as a preparation.

You're just like, I need to be full speed ready.

uh, playoff mode in, in March.

And that's tough.

Um, we had some guys throw really well, I'd say almost nobody was at least the veteran guys.

You know, we had a pretty veteran bullpen out of, you know, uh, Brooks, Rayleigh guys like that.

Not only anybody was at full velocity, you know, despite being in a huge, uh,

environment that should breed a lot of adrenaline, just like the playoffs.

Everybody was down two or three, it seemed like.

It's just hard to get up to full speed that early.

I don't know if I answered the whole question.