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So I'm kind of interested about like spring training performance, about how people approach spring training.

I was just talking to your manager AJ Hinch about this.

It's a tough one, like you go out and dominate, you just want to dominate and then you just hope for the best.

For you as you've gone through your career, how have you approached spring training differently or how do you view spring training differently?

The one difference, and I was talking to AJ about this in the last few years, is that it's not only what you do on the field, it's sort of measurements, analytics, you know, even like bat speed, whatever it is.

I mean, for you, how much do you go back and look at that stuff?

How much are you told that stuff?

How much do you stress over that stuff?

That ball got knocked down by the 50 mile an hour wind gas, right?

I'm covering David Ortiz.

And he had the great line of...

when everyone's stressing out about, hey, we're going one for 40.