David Stearns

That is always part of the decision-making process, and I imagine it will be again this offseason.

Look, I think, I think,

Positional versatility is always helpful.

Clearly, Beatty's ability to move over to second base proved to be enormously beneficial both for him and us at various points of this year.

To his credit, he worked really hard and made himself a very viable defender at two positions on the dirt.

I think each one of those guys you mentioned have slightly different defensive profiles, and so how they fit into a potential roster probably differs a little bit for each of them.

I think at this point, you know, we always remain open should the perfect candidate come about.

We always remain open should the perfect candidate come about, but it's not something we're gonna go out and do a robust search process for.

Um, look, we, we played poorly the last two months of the season.

I don't know that I can pinpoint a date, but we played, we played poorly bad baseball the last two months of the season.

So I think Clay had a very successful year.

And I think, to his credit, after maybe going through a little phase of fatigue, he was able to bounce back and had a really strong finish of the year.

He worked incredibly hard.

gave us exactly what we could have hoped for and clearly pitched a very good game for us over the weekend.

I think there were certain cases where we asked players to do things where they were a little unfamiliar with and it contributed to some of the defensive challenges we had.

I do think positional versatility is important to have.

I think it makes managing a game for a manager a little bit easier and certainly makes constructing a roster a little bit easier.

I think probably two very different cases there.

I think Sean's season just never got going.

Sean had an injury in camp, never got into a routine, had some, frankly, poor luck early on when he came back, and then that probably transitioned more into poor results.