Jeff Gold

For the Q&A, just give them, fill your eyes and come up with a local media.

If you could just say your name.

Skip, Jeff Wilson with BLS.

What about this job was so attractive to accept the offer to be manager?

When you look at this roster and the performance last year, maybe the last two seasons, where are the

areas of improvement that you think needed hit on the most as you kind of move into the offseason in spring training?

Jeff Gold with Fox Sports.

Skip, congratulations.

I'm curious, when Skip became available after he left Miami, what do you remember about how much you wanted him in that process for getting him in there?

And with Bochy, you had said the other week that you hoped that maybe he would stay around in a different capacity.

Is there still hope for that?

And Skip, if not, do you feel like you could still lean on Bochy?

Hey, Skip, John Radigan, DLLS.

So you mentioned what respect you had for the staff and the grinding they were doing.

Have you had enough time to sort of analyze your feelings about them and or what their futures will be like?

Yeah, I mean, I think Skip's touched on this.

One of his greatest attributes is his ability to develop relationships with people.

So connecting with various folks that we had in the minor leagues and being able to have baseball conversations with them and navigate some of that.

We've had quite a bit of back and forth.

And I think as much as anybody in this last year,