David Stearns

That's a really good prompt to have if that's where we are on opening day.

You go into an offseason with many different plans.

It's very difficult to know exactly how an offseason is going to progress.

A lot of things need to fall into place and you need to iterate and be adaptable throughout the course of an offseason.

I was also very clear from the moment we first talked in the offseason that we weren't going to run back the same group.

And we were committed to changing our team, improving our team, becoming better in certain areas.

And I think we've made progress towards that.

No, expectations are always high and we're...

Expectations are always high.

We're always aware of that.

That's going to be true every year I'm here.

That's the fun part about this job.

That's the fun part about being in New York is we have expectations to win and win at a high level consistently.

And I expect we're going to do that this year.

Yeah, I think evaluations in spring are always a little bit fraught, and we know that.

We want to see quality at bats.

We want to see him handle the outfield.

It's also going to depend on what some other guys do, right?

It's not all going to be dependent on how Carson looks.

We're not going to get too preoccupied with surface line results one way or the other, and we'll make the best decision that we can on opening day.