Nick Krall

First off, I know that some of you have school children that are off today, so sorry about doing this today.

Didn't have unmuted.

Um,

To bring a guy in that is a middle-of-the-order bat, that did 49 homers last year, that he's a great clubhouse guy, great guy with all of your fans, you know what you're getting with him.

He's just a tremendous individual, and it's really been something that we weren't sure we were going to be able to do, but it was great that we were able to get Geno.

Yeah, I mean, we kept tabs on everybody.

Jeff did a good job staying in touch with his agents.

And, you know, we talked a lot with folks, but we didn't know – we didn't really negotiate and, you know, come to a, hey, this is going to be the road we can go down until probably about 10 days ago.

No, I mean, this is more.

We went to ownership last week, and I talked to Bob and Phil, and we said this is probably where it's going to go and what we're going to need that would be above and beyond our budget.

And they approved it, and we're excited to be able to do that and go get it.

Yeah, I mean, it is obviously a guy that we know and that's a guy that's

put up a lot of numbers for us in the seven years he's played here.

And, you know, obviously when he left here as well.

So, but, you know, I think we had a lot of good discussions and it was something that we talked about, you know, regardless of the player.

And it was good to be able to do that.

We extended for it because it's a player we wanted.

We made some moves in the Lux deal that saved us a little bit of money, but it wasn't necessarily to make this move.

This was something we were able to do above and beyond.

I think first off, we're going to go into spring training and let some guys get some, some acclimation to some positions.