David Stearns

Sure, we would expect some new players on our team somewhere around the diamond.

That's natural in an offseason.

But we're going to need our current group of players to play better games.

The brand of baseball, the brand of defense,

that we played over the last two months of the season wasn't close to good enough, it has to get better.

I'm sorry?

I think Juan's one of our players who we believe can perform better defensively than he did last year, and I think he believes that.

He's going to work hard on it this offseason.

He's motivated to do that.

He's proven that at previous times in his career that he can perform better in right field, and we believe he will.

Yes, I do.

Because there have been points in his career where he has, and he's also a very motivated, dedicated player.

Sorry, appetite for...

Allocating serious to austerity.

Look, I think we're always evaluating each situation on the individual situation.

I try not to draw lines in the sand.

Certainly we understand the benefits and risks of

investments in every segment of the player market.

That's part of the work that we do.

But we're never going to rule out any particular type of player or going after any particular type of player.