David Stearns

We were also comfortable with Juan in right field and having left field available to them.

It's just as we were talking with Juan, frankly, didn't make a lot of sense to bounce him back and forth from corner to corner during spring training.

He's comfortable in left, fits with our roster, so we'll go forward with it.

So coming into the offseason, we talked a lot about improving our pitching and defense.

And I think in a variety of ways, we were able to do that.

We've added multiple gold glove caliber defenders up the middle.

We feel like we've improved our pitching staff significantly.

as a whole, and part of that is the expected emergence of young pitchers, some of whom have already been at the big leagues, some of whom are coming.

And so we're excited about that.

We're also excited about the versatility of our position player grouping and the varied skill sets we now have across that segment of our team.

We think over the course of 162 games, the unforeseen always happens.

And we feel as best as we can be right now, we are prepared for the inevitable hurdles of a marathon Major League Baseball season.

Yeah, so he's had soreness, frankly, off and on there for a couple of years, and he's usually able to grind through it, and he's done it, and I think, I don't know when he first felt it, but I think it just persisted to the point where he felt like he should say something about it, and

Once we examined it a little bit more yesterday, our medical staff determined that he should go see a specialist.

Tomorrow.

Oh, tomorrow.

He's seeing the specialist tomorrow, and so by tomorrow evening, we'll know.

No, no, no.

Yeah, as of now, yes, we are optimistic that even if he has to go through with the surgery, he would be available on opening day.

This is a generally sort of clean six month recovery, excuse me, six week recovery.