Justin Willard

And when this opportunity just came up, I just had to jump at it and really excited to get to know the Mets and get to know their system and get to know the players and start a new kind of journey and adventure.

Yeah.

Start connecting the players and where's their head at?

Like, who are they as a person?

What do they value?

Right.

Are they something that loves baseball or baseball is just a job?

And that's the way you approach those guys just as human beings, first of all, is super important and get to know them and really what drives them.

We've got a couple that I've crossed paths with with both Minnesota and the Red Sox, but really beyond that, it's a lot of just new faces, new names, new people.

Yeah, a lot of relationship building.

No, Zach Kelly might be the only one from college.

Yeah.

So I was his coach at Concord University.

See, I did not know that.

How did I not know this?

Yeah, all the way in Princeton, West Virginia, me and Zach go back.

Oh, exponentially.

It's the same as a player.

It's like, yeah, how much you've grown over 10 plus years and you have different resources and knowledge and information and even just ability to communicate.

Right.