Dave Dombrowski

And then so I did.

So I did let them know we were getting very close to making a deal.

And at that point, we weren't going to be able to make both of them at that particular time.

Yes.

I mean, we did.

We did get to that point.

And I understand.

And it's not an ideal scenario.

It's a difficult situation.

But I think sometimes you have to do things in a professional fashion, even though it's not easy.

Well, I'm not going to get into the blow by blow.

We just thought that we were going to get a deal done.

castellanos you've said change of scenery is that still the plan for nick you still expect uh to make a change of scenery before uh spring training opens yes we do we still plan on doing that and we did designate west for assignment today and um but yes that would be the plans okay thank you okay scott lauber

Well, I don't have a formula.

I don't think anybody has a formula to put on that.

I think it comes with the ability to handle a staff and you just

Um, you yourself have to kind of look at it.

You look at the historical aspects, you look at, I mean, uh, um, not that I'm going to go into blow by blow by it, but at this winter time I was at a meeting and, um,

Buster Posey came up to me and I've gotten to know Buster a little bit.

It's not like we're real close friends, but it was just a curious conversations.