Jed Hoyer
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Yeah, no, it's a really good infield.
I mean, I think it's certainly one of the best infields in baseball.
And Matt Shaw is a player that we feel total confidence in.
And, you know, one of the things we always talk about is, like, you can't just write out your lineup, you know, one through nine or write the positions out.
You have to have real depth.
And, you know, where we are right now and then having Matt Shaw who can move around and, you know, we'll have injuries, we'll have guys in your days off.
And making sure that it's not just those four guys, but also Matt is able to really help out I think is really important.
Yeah, no, it's a really good infield.
I mean, I think it's certainly one of the best infields in baseball.
And Matt Shaw is a player that we feel total confidence in.
And, you know, one of the things we always talk about is, like, you can't just write out your lineup, you know, one through nine or write the positions out.
You have to have real depth and, you know, where we are right now and then having Matt Shaw who can move around and, you know, we'll have injuries, we'll have guys in your days off.
And making sure that it's not just those four guys, but also Matt is able to really help out I think is really important.
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Alex is going to be humble on this, but we didn't ask him to do this.
And I think within two days of signing, he had asked for reports on every player and what they're working on to make sure that he was talking about the right things with those players.
He asked for a meeting with all of the minor league staff that's in Arizona to talk to our hitting philosophy to make sure he was talking about the right things.
He had already called almost all of our players to talk to him.