David Stearns

I think Cliff had a great year last year on both sides of the ball, really improved his outfield defense, has become a very viable outfield defender in both corners, we believe, improved his defense at first base, and had a really good offensive season last year as well.

He's going to begin the year in AAA.

Whenever you're in AAA, you're a call away, and we'll see how it goes.

His rehab is progressing well.

At this point, we're looking at early May.

I think it's a realistic timeline for him to return to the major leagues.

No, this was just a collaborative conversation where our manager and our player were talking about different things.

Juan was working out in left field and it kind of emerged organically.

I don't think it was really dictated by one side or the other.

We would expect Juan to have a better defensive year in right or left this year.

I think Juan expects to have a better defensive year in right or left.

And so we were and are open to either, but it made sense for our roster and certainly Juan feels comfortable there.

to have him in left field.

Yeah, I think all the players you mentioned either are or are nearing the top levels of our minor league system.

And they've all had really good minor league careers, performed at a very high level.

And so when you get to the top level of the minor league system, things can move very quickly.

And we saw that last year.

So I wouldn't preclude any of those names at some point impacting our major league team.

Tobias Myers indicated he's been told to stretch out as a starter.

Just kind of how do you view him?