Mark Shapiro

They have to do with kind of the parts of the game that are still beautiful because they're they have to do with makeup, character, you know, chemistry, culture, those kinds of things which are hard to quantify.

The pieces of our where that toughness kind of.

manifests itself in the way we play, you know, the defense, the tough top to bottom lineup.

I'm not sure there's secrets there.

You know, it just came, it came together with this group, you know, incredibly well.

So, um, again, we've been criticized for the defense, the great defense in the past this year, it was a big part of our identity.

So I think it has to, a lot of different things have to come together.

Um, I, I'd like to think that there'd be some things that would serve as an example for others to kind of build off of, but yeah,

We can't rest either.

As I said earlier, to Gregor, we're going to have to keep working to get better and build off of what we have in this year.

I think probably just putting too much weight into the outcome last year.

Not to say that the outcome this year is something that anyone would have anticipated, but there is some randomness that happens within a season, and we...

We and our baseball ops group did some serious soul searching and made some changes and sought to learn from last year and get better.

Those things, I think, made a massive impact and made us better this year.

But the group of players, you know, were still good.

A lot of the individual performances last year were still indicative that we would be better.

So, you know, credit to Ross and our group for not panicking, for not feeling we need to blow it up and start over.

They believed in the plan.

They believed in the group we had.

They made some adjustments, which you always need to do in both how we use that talent and in.