John Schneider

You never know.

I think when we met with him, you felt good about it.

And you felt good about the feedback he was giving about our organization and opportunity here.

But you never really know what a player's feeling in free agency, and there's a lot of things that have to line up for them personally, too.

So you can't really think about what if.

You think about the 26 that we have.

He's a great player.

I'll say it again.

I hope he brought his hat, the Blue Jay hat that he took from us in our meeting.

I hope he brought it back, finally.

And the jacket for Decoy.

It's like, give us our stuff back already.

He's a great player, you know what I mean?

But that aside, I think that we have a great team and just an unbelievable cast of characters and players.

And I think things worked out the way they're meant to work out.

glue guys you know um again i think that's what forms a good team you know it's it's talent and it's it's players but it's people you know and i think that we've done such a phenomenal job of creating a culture where people are just welcome you know whether it's guys coming up from the minor leagues guys we acquire via trade um it's been really really fun to watch it unfold so

It's kind of what we've grasped onto, kind of the standard we've set, you know, not just the type of player we want, but the type of people we want in here, too.

And those guys all fit the mold.

They all got valuable experience last year in a down year to make this year a little bit easier.

And as we've continued to go, there's different things that are new for everyone.