Matt Spiegel

People very excited about this team and seeing the urgency right from the get-go from every single player in camp.

I don't know if this is just me being a prisoner of the moment, but I feel like the Alex Bregman signing has a little bit to do with this.

I see a lot of stuff from him.

We had the chance to talk to him, and we like him.

He's a pretty serious dude.

He's very...

He's a student of the game, and he brings that to him.

So when you're watching him, and he posts stuff, the team posts stuff, the league posts stuff of him doing his work, and you go, oh, okay.

That's a guy where you know it's not yaha time.

It's...

get-yourself-ready time.

And for a team that has expectations, it's the type of player that you need.

For sure.

And what the signing signified to everybody in that locker room and what Nico told us last week about how a lot of guys, including him, are on the last year of their deal.

And you don't know what's going to happen.

And there's the whole, like, you know, is there going to be baseball next year?

There's that whole thing.

There's an urgency to the entire endeavor that you can spin positively.

So, look, why don't we continue this?

Like, you were our eyes and ears down there.