Mike Hazen

I don't think it was that much different.

Going into the offseason, I have an idea of what I need to get done on a very broad scale, but it's hard to just develop a checklist and then walk down that checklist, especially where we are in the pecking order of the industry.

You either have to have a ton of good prospects to make any trade that you want, or you have to have enough money available to you and free agent to go out and sign whoever you want.

And most teams aren't in a position to do both, if let alone one, where they could just develop a checklist.

So you have to remain flexible in how it all comes together.

The biggest thing that I took going into the season was our defense wasn't very good last year.

It really cost our pitching.

Our pitching cost our pitching, but our defense cost our pitching too.

And I really wanted to shore up our defense and getting Carlos Santana and Arenado and bringing them into the full, bringing McCann back.

We felt like we really strengthened that side of the ball for us.

And that was very important to me and rebuilding a pitching staff that had lost a number of guys, either through injury or free agency.

A lot.

Yeah.

Yeah, nothing's apples to apples.

If we get out of this situation what we got out of Longo, sign me up.

I know it's not that simple.

One of the main driving reasons we acquired Nolan was what he does not on the baseball field in a game.

There's a lot of what he does in the game on the field.

I think our younger players are – a lot of our best players are some of our younger players.

And I think –