David Stearns

But we have, over my time here, engaged in very long-term type concepts with starting pitchers and pitchers in general.

And so we're not gonna categorically say no to that.

I don't know.

I think it depends on age.

It depends on where they are in their careers.

I think it's very individual player specific.

I think the trade market in general, agnostic of position, is pretty active.

And I think there is a lot of chatter and has been throughout this off season among teams in the trade market.

It seems like teams in general are maybe a little bit more open and willing to be creative, to talk about different types of structures, to talk about need for need type trades at the major league level that maybe we've seen

over the past couple years at least, and so I think the trade market throughout the industry has been pretty active.

I don't know.

I think we've had a very successful player development growth, and we've had a number of players internally throughout our minor league system get better, and I think that's been recognized throughout the industry.

And so when that happens, you receive a lot of incoming calls about young players, about prospects.

So perhaps there are a few more opportunities like that to make deals.

But we were able to make trades my first couple off seasons here as well.

And so I imagine we'll continue to explore those and probably push something over the finish line at some point during the off season as well.

So I don't know yet.

I think we'll have a better sense of that retrospectively when we look back at spring training and see what actually occurred during the off-season or maybe even opening day and looked at the off-season.

My sense is there is a very large swath of the industry that is very much trying to compete and believes it's in a competitive window, whether it's big market, small market, mid-market.

And so that may provoke a little bit more discussion on these need for need type trades rather than sort of your typical buy sell trades.