David Stearns

It's also the reality of what it costs to acquire good players coming back.

We're acquiring one of the better starting pitchers in baseball, a guy who's been really consistent, and it was going to hurt, and it does hurt, and giving up good players hurts, and those guys...

are going to be playing in Milwaukee for a long time, and we're going to be competing against them.

We're also really excited to get Freddie and Tobias here, and I think both of those guys are really going to help us.

Yeah, no, Matt was serious.

Matt was at my wedding nine years ago, so Matt certainly knows that that was my anniversary.

And so had some conversations at dinner and then was able to wrap up the trade once we got home.

In terms of why now, I think it's a combination of where we see our team.

what we thought was important to add to our team and the type of players we're getting back.

And when you add all that up, we were comfortable giving up the type of quality that we gave up.

Thanks, David.

I'm not going to speculate on that on day one here.

We'll let Freddie get acclimated to the organization.

And, you know, any conversations that we may have or have in the future, I think we're going to do our best to keep private and not talk about publicly.

We're always open to improving the team.

I think we've checked off some of the main goals of the offseason, but if there are opportunities to get better, we're going to explore them.

We've still got time before spring training.

I imagine there are going to be transactions in spring training as well.

There always are.

So we'll keep busy.