Paul Gibson

So he's going to have success at that level, and now it's just a matter of mapping it out and see where we can get him in position to be a starter over the next, let's say, year and a half total.

So relatively easy, actually.

It's the timing, the when and the where.

So a delicate balance between letting them enjoy some success with the arsenal that they came to us with, but at the same time, building a plan for the future, knowing that this guy might need a cutter at some point down the road.

And so we get together with all of our

support departments and we build a player plan.

And, you know, in that player plan, there are month-to-month type things and then there are year-to-year type things.

So in a case like this, when it comes time for instructional league, we'll bring him down there and we might add the cutter, right, just as an example.

And before we shut him down for the year,

We'll introduce the cutter or whatever pitch it might be for whatever pitcher it might be.

And then we give that to them for the off-season plan.

And then we monitor the off-season growing program.

And then finally, when they come in to spring training, we monitor the usage of it and track the productivity of that plan.

And then we revisit if necessary.

It's huge.

You know, a lot of the information are breadcrumbs to get us where we want to be.

In this world that we're in now, many of our young pitchers are so visually oriented in terms of their learning process.

to be able to have a high-speed camera to show them how the grip is working, show them how the pitch is moving, looking at the metric.

And we don't want our pitchers to rely too much on the results of what it says, but I like to use the term of the breadcrumbs that get us to where we want to be, and we're going to use every resource at our disposal all the way from behavioral science, performance science,

the research and development of it, and then finally the hands-on coaching of putting this in place.