David Stearns

I think it's always individual player specific.

With starting pitching, you do have greater injury risk.

And that is just a truism about pitching.

And so that is factored into how we look at contracts and how we look at structuring a pitching staff and a team in general.

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.