Mark Budzinski

When you got a veteran, you know, gold glove infielder in there, you can be a little tentative.

And, you know, as a young player, that can happen.

And so that's kind of why I've started off the conversation today with, with the younger is like, I want you to be aggressive.

I don't care who is in the infield.

Obviously we don't want anybody running anybody, but take the ball.

If you can get it, you can, if you can catch the ball on your feet without leaving your feet and, and you know, you got to call them off.

You know, that's, that's our, that's our right.

Having the right away as a, as an outfielder, no matter who it is.

So, and I'll, you know, I also talked to Andres about it and just said, Hey, I've let him know to be aggressive.

He's, he's, he's going to be coming to get the ball.

So if you hear him, just,

you know, get out of the way.

And Andres knows that.

And I said, man, we trust you more than anybody going back.

But as you know, it's much easier coming in and going back on the ball.

Yeah, I don't feel like he's lost a step, Kev.

I feel like there's been some reads where he's broke back on and the balls have fallen in in front of him because of that.

So for me, it's more of a read standpoint than anything.

And the way you fix that is you get as close to game reps as possible.

Things like live fungo or drop ball fungo where we kind of toss the ball from the side, take a swing at it.