David Stearns

Pieces of news just update everyone on as we get going here.

Francisco Lindor is going to be evaluated tomorrow for a left stress reaction is left hammock bone experience some some soreness, some soreness.

in his left hand wrist area over the past couple of days, informed our medical staff.

So he's going to go to a hand specialist tomorrow.

It is possible this will result in a hamate surgery.

If it does, that's a six-week recovery, which puts us right at opening day.

So at this point, even if it does require surgery, we would remain optimistic that Francesco would be back for opening day.

Second piece of news, Juan Soto is going to play left field for us this year.

Over the last month or so, as Mendy and Juan were talking about the season, Juan was working out in left field because he's going to play left field for the DRWBC as they had their conversations.

He felt really comfortable there.

It made sense for us from a roster perspective.

So we're gonna go forward with it and everyone's on board with it.

Not something we had really contemplated coming into the off season, but as we've had conversations over the last month, it made sense for all involved to do this.

So making news right out of the chute and happy to answer any questions.

Yeah, you know, I think it's just where he is comfortable.

He's done it in the past.

He feels good over there.

We've talked about it a lot.

We've got a lot of athletic outfielders, both at the major league level, nearing the major league level.

And so having right field available to them isn't a bad outcome.