David Stearns

We'll let Freddie get acclimated to the organization.

And, you know, any conversations that we may have or have in the future, I think we're going to do our best to keep private and not talk about publicly.

We're always open to improving the team.

I think we've checked off some of the main goals of the offseason, but if there are opportunities to get better, we're going to explore them.

We've still got time before spring training.

I imagine there are going to be transactions in spring training as well.

There always are.

So we'll keep busy.

We'll keep in touch with both the trade market and the free agent market.

And in terms of what exactly is next, I don't know, but we'll keep working at it.

No, no, honestly, it wasn't.

I think I and we as an organization knew what the response was going to be when we made some of the decisions we made early in the offseason.

We completely understand it.

I understand it.

Those are tough decisions.

And everything we did is in the effort to create a consistent championship caliber organization.

Everything we do going forward is in the effort of creating a consistent championship caliber organization.

um and i and we also understand that some of those moves are going to be very difficult to digest especially in the near term for a fan base so i was not surprised and we as an organization were not surprised by some of the noise earlier in the offseason next question is from tim britain hey david uh you've talked about adding freddie as a to the top half of your rotation but there's kind of top half starters and there's number one starters wondering in your mind is is freddie a kind of prototypical number one starter for you now

I think we have multiple starters in our rotation who at various points in their career have pitched as number one starters.

Certainly Freddie qualifies as that.