Dave Dombrowski

Well, it did get very close.

I won't go into the blow by blow, but it's a situation where we got to the point.

And his agent, again, who I talked to, Matt Ricardo, I'd always told him, and I think it's the right thing to do.

If we got to the point where we thought we would go in a different direction, I wouldn't want him to read about it in the paper.

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