J.J. Cooper

I don't think that there's like this like impending decision point coming anytime soon.

Obviously, the trade deadline is still more than two months away.

I think you have plenty of time here still to see like what is this team going to shape up as?

And I just keep coming back to like a lot of that's going to be.

is Sally Perez more what you expect Sally Perez to be?

You know, is Vinny Pasquantino more what you expect Pat Pasquantino to be?

Can they figure out kind of a plan in the outfield that's a little bit more productive than they got in the first half?

Can they figure out, you know, basically develop one or two more bullpen arms that are reliable guys that they can depend on?

If that all happens, then okay.

But if it

doesn't, then the trade deadline ends up being kind of a natural decision point because you've got to decide are you buying or selling at that point.

I mean...

It's never – the best way I can answer it is never that easy, right?

It's never one thing.

It's always, you know, like you've got to figure out how – if that happens, and again, too early to say that, but if it does, you've got to figure out, okay, what percentages, right?

There are very few times baseball – baseball teams are very complex organisms, right?

It's not something where you say, well, if you do this –

I know that someone could probably look at the Phillies right now and say, see, they fired the manager, they brought in Don Mattingly, and everything was solved.

I promise you, it's not that simple.

It was well-timed, and maybe he did help.