Mark Zuckerman

Hey, Simon, we've heard in recent years about a lot of big leaguers who go to these pitching labs like you used to work at.

Can you just kind of describe what you do at those places, what you did, and how that translates to coaching them on a day-to-day basis at the big league level?

You've been describing to us your background that brought you to this point.

When you think back on that, pitching at Georgetown, getting your degrees, the search for the job you're talking about from five years ago only, was this in the grand plan that you'd be a big league pitching coach at any point, let alone five years later at age 30?

Hi Paul, Mark Zuckerman with Massen, congrats.

I'm sure as you went through the interview process, there's a lot of selling of yourself to them.

I'm curious what you tried to outline in that regard, but I'm also curious what they told you, how they sold themselves to you that made you believe this was the place you wanted to be.

Hey Paul, Andrew Golden, Washington Post.

For you, given there's a lot of responsibilities to hire a general manager, manager, there's a lot of different roles to fill, how do you prioritize what you're supposed to be working on or doing at this current point in time and how do you kind of assess what needs to be done as you look at the organization as a whole?

Hey, Paul.

It's Barry Sperluga with Washington Post.

My question is actually for Mark.

Mark, in your conversations with Paul, what assurances did you give him from ownership that he would have the resources to build a modern front office and pay a competitive payroll like you paid when you were in the playoffs all the time?

Hey, Paul.

Bobby Blanco, MadisonSports.com.

You just talked about the young Red Sox fans, and the Red Sox obviously have a much older tradition than the Nationals do right now.

What would your message be to the young D.C.

baseball fans that you kind of want to get back to Nationals Park?

For Mark and if Ed and Bob wanted to share their thoughts as well, that'd be great.

It was a little over four years ago that the organization started the rebuilding process and I know the results are not so far what you would have hoped and you wouldn't make this kind of change if you felt that way.