Laura Albanese

And sometimes there might be too many voices.

So it will be interesting to see how they streamline all of this as well.

I mean, to quote Carlos Mendoza with the very limited Spanish I knew, he was talking to a Spanish language reporter.

He was like, it's Major League Baseball.

The seat is always hot.

He said in Spanish.

I'm like, yep.

I do think there is.

I think whenever you're in a situation where your entire coaching staff gets gutted.

And you're the last one out.

It's a very godfather-like situation.

Like, well, there's the horse's head.

So yeah, I do think, and again, this is a contract year for him.

So it would be very, very simple to part ways.

And I just don't see why there were certainly times last season where Carlos Mendoza made head-scratching decisions.

You also have to judge those decisions in the context in which they were made.

Most of those being, hey, we have no one with a functioning arm left in the bullpen.

And how are you supposed to do bullpen management when you don't have pitchers who can pitch?

when you're shuttling guys back and forth from AAA Syracuse, when your guys can't go four or five innings, when suddenly like, you know, defense isn't there.

Now, granted, there were times where absolutely it felt like there was a lack of communication, where it felt like maybe people weren't pulling in the same direction.