Dave Dombrowski

When you talk about shortstop, you can talk about center field.

You can talk about catching.

And you don't want to not acknowledge how important those are.

What dollar figure do you put on it?

I guess you look at it a case-by-case basis.

But it's not easy because there's no simple answer to that one for me.

Well, I mean, I did talk to Bryce.

I've talked about this a while ago.

So it's not I'm not going to go into that again in further detail.

But I have spoken to Bryce, had a great conversation with him.

That goes back a while ago.

That goes back into November.

So a couple of months ago.

And I do think he will have the ability to be one of the faces of a franchise and look forward to have a tremendous year for us.

I think he will.

Jim Salisbury.

No, you know, I can't because you never know 100 percent what's going on from their perspective.

I don't know where they were.

The Tucker thing, signing played into it, I believe, the timing of it.

I think, you know, organizations that are smart and the Mets and Dodgers are smart.