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And the quote that stood out to me from that discussion with Noah was about Connor Griffin.

And he said, quote, I can't see any logic for him starting the season in AAA.

Austin, I believe you were somebody that was in favor of him starting the season in the minor leagues, correct?

That is correct.

Has that changed at all since spring training started?

Maybe you got a little case of the buck of flu and you thought, you know what, let's just have this guy start in the majors.

Yeah, you don't have to have this kid come up and count on him right away to be a star.

I think that benefits him.

Think of some of the ugly Pirates teams we have seen in the last five, almost ten years.

And they would call a guy up and he would have such, I don't want to say the expectations were unfair because they should be high for somebody like this.

But I always think the time that Cole Tucker and Brian Reynolds came up around the same time is kind of funny.

Same game.

I was at that game.

Cole Tucker homered the center field in that game.

Yes, and Cole Tucker is the former first-round pick we all get excited about.

He's the one that flames out pretty quickly, and now he's only relevant because he is married and I believe has a child with a former Disney star.

Brian Reynolds, even though he's coming off a bad season, a much, much, much better Major League Baseball player.

But we've also seen players like Brian Hayes in a way.

He came up, we had very high hopes for him at the plate.

We knew what he could do defensively, and he was great defensively, elite defensively.