John Schneider

And you never want to undersell what the player understands about themselves, really.

And it's worked out for him.

It's worked out for us.

And it's just a consistent big league player that understands what he's good at and tries to get better every day.

So it's a cool story, and I'm just really thankful that we still have him.

Yeah, for sure.

I think that was definitely a point of emphasis after the first couple of weeks or first month of the season to where you look up and we got we have some elite defenders that I think that we're expecting a lot out of.

And you look up after a month and you're like, OK, hold on a minute here.

Let's let's maybe we need to readjust some things.

But I think it definitely ties into him and Ernie getting used to kind of playing there every day and short in a second.

We talked about the outfield and how that's an evolving thing with Sanch and Pena being around Barsh and now getting Nate back.

But Valley, yeah, I think he's growing every single day and understanding how to prepare, understanding that it's okay to take some chances.

I mean, it's a pretty...

It's a gutsy call yesterday with the tying run at second and the go-ahead run at first.

But being okay with that and leading into your skill set.

So it's definitely something we talk about all the time, something that we've been very good at.

And you go, hey, if we're going to try to be consistent here, we're going to have to do those little things to give ourselves a chance to work a walk in the eighth inning and take the lead or get a big hit late in the game and take the lead.

So it's definitely been trending in the right direction.

No, I think if the player is leading it and kind of living it, you know, it's always better that way.

Those conversations happen so much behind the scenes between the staff and the players and player to player, you know, like.