David Stearns

So we're very encouraged about how Kodai is progressing through the offseason.

I think it's always a balance.

It's always a balance.

I do think we are, you know, we believe defense is really important.

And so in any acquisition we make, we're going to be cognizant of what that player does when he's standing at the position, not just what he does when he's in the box.

Without getting into any specifics about our interest or non-interest, he's a really good player.

I think he's going to be exciting for American fans to watch.

There's a lot of power, and it'll be exciting to see how his major league career unfolds.

So I don't know that we've not been on the same page.

In fact, I think Kodai has done a tremendous job and through Hiro has done a tremendous job communicating with our medical staff and ensuring that our medical staff understands what his routine was in Japan, how he goes about things, what he feels most comfortable.

And we've done our best to educate him on

and the practices that we're more accustomed to using here.

And I do think there's been a meeting at the middle, and I think Kodai has been very motivated to do that, and I think we're in a really good spot there right now.

Oh, yeah.

Yep.

Yeah, both progressing very well.

You know, Scott is going to come to spring training as a full participant, ready to go.

AJ is looking more along sort of that original timeframe where I don't know if he's going to be good to go on opening day, but it could be shortly thereafter.

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