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Players obviously have sky high expectations as well.

We saw Kike Hernandez allude to it quite a bit.

He's back for three.

And so I just kind of wanted to get a general sense of what the vibe is at camp.

So it's interesting you bring up River Ryan and Gavin Stone, both those dudes coming back from different things.

But Gavin Stone, obviously surgery, big time surgery, getting kind of back in the groove of things.

And I think to kind of your point, there's an opportunity there for those guys to probably kind of get ahead of the thing.

I wanted to ask you, we've seen both of those guys now.

What was kind of your initial takeaway from seeing those guys?

Yeah, I think it's a very healthy competition because they both have really, really good stuff.

And I think you're right.

I think Gavin might end up kind of getting, I don't know if the nod is the right word, right?

But it's just, you know, out of the two, you kind of give Gavin the edge.

Speaking of prospects,

Roki Sasaki is, I want to, I'm curious from your perspective, how long, and kind of from what you've heard, because I mean, we all forget too, you're very plugged in all over the place with the Dodgers.

With Roki, what do you think the leash looks like for 2026?

Because I feel like

Speaking of like a proven commodity, I don't know if Rookie is a proven commodity, right?

I think it was interesting kind of in the offseason how they made emphasis of, hey, he's going to be a starter and not a reliever, especially kind of coming out of the World Series stuff.

And listen, he was put in some very serious situations throughout the postseason.