Jeff Hathorne

I I'm really intrigued because I mean, I don't know if this could be a here's the tough sell.

Can you walk into a room if you're Dan Muse or Kyle Dubas?

Well, these veterans who might be looking at a last chance and say, we're going to go with a guy who's unproven.

But I think for the franchise, I would love to see them do that.

Like, let's see what this kid has.

But I think you're going to see, because of the experience, as you guys mentioned, we're going to see Skinner, and hopefully he's, like, really good Skinner.

I mean, his numbers and Shelov's are pretty identical.

I mean, let's see what happens.

Maybe Skinner can be Hedberg.

My favorite thing with Ron, guys, is when you look over at the – when he used to have an actual newspaper in his hand and you'd see numbers on it.

And I finally just one day I said, what is that?

And he's like, I'm crossing off the time I have left until the show is over.

so here's why the pirates were looking for him to have sort of a response to adversity he did not i don't want to say he didn't have a good spring but he certainly struggled in areas right like he was pressing he's trying a little bit too hard not going to criticize the kid because it's coming from a position of care but all along they wanted to see how he's going to handle himself and

i mean true to form conor griffin like is just the most mature human being on the planet i'm not sure he could have handled this better he talked to me about i'm going to go to triple a it's still a step away from the big leagues it's still a promotion stays positive um says he's going to get back to being himself the plate discipline's better he had more walks than strikeouts in triple a pop ran the base as well played defense

And he's a very good baseball player.

And he showed a response to that.

He comes up here.

He can help them.

They want to win games.

Shortstop has not been the most productive position on the field for them.