David Stearns

And so I take ownership over the players that are here.

As we continue to develop our players, that is naturally going to change the composition of our position player grouping.

And yeah, I'd say holistically we need to get better defensively.

Look, a day after this season, I'm not going to speculate on a carryover effect into next year.

I think...

Right now, I think everyone's pretty damn motivated to get going and ensure that we can do better.

And so I think that's where our focus is.

How do I judge?

I'm sorry?

We have very good to elite core players.

Yeah.

who at times have played at a very high level, and a year ago had a very good season together.

And so I think the ceiling remains high.

I think most of the industry probably expects Edwin Diaz to opt out of his contract.

Assuming that happens, just what is your appetite to bring or to allocate significant dollars to a reliever like that?

I think rather than speculating on what Edwin might do, I think we'll let him make that decision and then I can comment.

I don't think I have a preference.

I think it's...

We're going to evaluate the market as a whole and see how we can best put together our position player grouping.

We need more innings out of our starting staff.