Paul Gibson

I'm doing great.

Thanks for having me today.

Well, it's been pretty exciting on particularly the lower end of the system with some of the really young pitchers and

all the way up through AA.

Some of the things that have gone on, quite honestly, it was a different kind of spring for all of us with the WBC and the slow buildup.

So a couple guys got out of the block a little bit slower than we hoped, especially in terms of volume of winning.

But we're starting to get our feet under us, and we're getting our pitchers up to 90 to 100 pitches here shortly.

And

So that makes for an exciting time.

So it trickles down all the way from the Major League down.

So on the Major League side, we obviously had several pitchers that were participating in WBC in one fashion or another.

And then because of the WBC, there was one less minor league game all spring.

So when you have 80 pitchers in camp on the minor league side and you have one less game to play and then tie that in with the major league team needing some backups on occasion to go over and be prepared to help the major league team get through their nine inning game, it makes for a little bit of an uneven buildup.

So we made an advanced decision to be on the conservative side.

And in most cases, our pitchers would leave camp

75, 80 pitches.

And in some cases this year, it was 60 to 75.

So a little bit of a trickle down.

But again, having an opportunity to have more games definitely makes for a more productive spring.

Well, with Churio, there's two things that really stand out.