Dave Dombrowski
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I never would have anticipated he had that type of speed.
He actually gained speed, which is unusual.
But he could play other positions.
I don't have any question about that.
Now,
How you do that, how you go about it, I'm not sure even yet that we have that answer.
Because a lot of times with a young player, you don't want to just, he's played some second, he's played some third, but he's primarily been a shortstop.
So we'd have to make sure that we properly prepared him to do that.
And that's still a discussion that we'll have to have.
But he's a really good player and a good athlete.
And he can hit.
Otto Kemp, he's had that all year long, basically, even at AAA.
And, of course, he was leading the league in home runs when he was at AAA.
He is a tough player.
He is tough.
And I'm not sure that a lot of players, a lot of people, period, would play with some of the things that he had.
And I'm sure it affected him to some extent.
But he is really tough.
Well, of course, you can't identify them if they've never been there before.
So that means they've had to be there.