Kurtis Seabolt

Is there a way that you can... If you've got power hitters, let them be who they are.

And if you don't, let those guys...

play whatever.

Can you combine the two strategies to some extent?

Because if you take guys who can hit the ball over the fence and you ask them to play the type of game they're not really geared for, then I don't think you're going to be a success.

It almost seemed like you would have to design your entire roster to do that.

which may be the case, and if you're not gonna be able to get a lot of guys who can hit the ball off the fence, that might be, and the Rays certainly are that type of a team, but I wonder if that would force a team to just abandon even pursuing

even in the draft, guys who are someone like Jack Aglione.

If the Rays are going to run that philosophy and be successful and say this is going to be our identity, they probably don't draft someone like Jack Aglione.

Is that eventually a problem?

for an organization.

They've had great success of it now, and they've proven the ability to find the area where they can change and be different.

You just said Zig when others are zagging.

But how much do you have to commit your...

And there they are on top of the division.

You have every reason to believe that when the season's over, they're going to be right there at the top.

They're going to be playing postseason baseball in Tampa in front of small crowds.

Yes.

But they're going to be there, and it's because they continually find ways to kind of cheat the game.

The line from the Moneyball, when he's sitting around with the scouts, if we try to play like the Yankees here, we're going to lose to them out there.