David Stearns

We like our rotation, and I think being able to add Freddie as somewhat of a stabilizing force to help lead our rotation probably gives a little bit of space to some of our younger pitchers and keeps the opportunity for real bounce back seasons from guys like Sean Minaya and Kodai Senga, who we're still going to rely upon and still believe are going to give us some really quality innings this year.

So we like where our rotation is.

I think it's got a nice combination of youth and established major league veterans.

And we're also going to really like what we start the year with in AAA.

And I know a number of those guys are going to contribute over the course of our season as well.

Next question is from Andrew Trepnik.

Hey David, this is perhaps a little bit similar to Abby's question, but with the reality that Peralta is an unrestricted free agent at the end of this year, I guess how do you kind of square giving up two of your top five prospects in Jett and Brandon?

Always tough to give up good players, and those are two really good players.

It's also the reality of what it costs to acquire good players coming back.

We're acquiring one of the better starting pitchers in baseball, a guy who's been really consistent, and it was going to hurt, and it does hurt, and giving up good players hurts, and those guys...

are going to be playing in Milwaukee for a long time, and we're going to be competing against them.

We're also really excited to get Freddie and Tobias here, and I think both of those guys are really going to help us.

Yeah, no, Matt was serious.

Matt was at my wedding nine years ago, so Matt certainly knows that that was my anniversary.

And so had some conversations at dinner and then was able to wrap up the trade once we got home.

In terms of why now, I think it's a combination of where we see our team.

what we thought was important to add to our team and the type of players we're getting back.

And when you add all that up, we were comfortable giving up the type of quality that we gave up.

Thanks, David.

I'm not going to speculate on that on day one here.