Paul Hembekides

You know, it was not a tear.

It was, you know, more sort of nerve stuff.

They end up doing the surgery a couple years down the road.

I don't know if the rehab was... I mean, I don't know all the details, but I don't think the rehab, based on the timeline that we're at at this point, I think it was a little rocky and wasn't easy.

So we got to see.

But I think, unfortunately, we moved him down to 11 in the last update.

And I think, unfortunately, we're probably...

The trajectory has changed where this is probably more a good bullpen arm at this point than somebody that we can reliably look at and say this is somebody that's going to be able to handle the innings game in and game out as a starting pitcher.

We just don't know at this point.

I hope that he gets back to that point because he was one of my favorite pitching prospects when he was –

Fully healthy and, you know, was the Ricky Tiedemann that we saw over that first year or so in pro ball.

So it's kind of been an unfortunate one.

I tried to hold on as long as I could, but, you know, eventually he slipped outside of the top 10.

I think some of that is just the inertia of a lot of guys performing well and getting good feedback from scouts and just frankly being available and being on the field.

Roman Anthony had said it to me a few years ago when I was interviewing him and he said, you know, availability is the best ability.

And it's like being on the field and being able to play in games is really important.

That's an important sort of six tool that I think people sometimes overlook.

And it's not out the window.

Yeah.

It's not out the window.