Rich Hill
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Everybody has a shelf life, whether that is, you know, kindly shown the door or, you know, hey, don't let it hit you on the ass on the way out.
um and that's something you know where i think in in raffi's case you know the shelf life kind of uh expired um you know because of the i don't know if you want to say just that that lack of accountability and also just understanding what their role is and you continue to
grow up in an organization and you continue to get older because you can't view yourself as a 17 year old in a 26 year old whatever 24 year old body 25 year old body you grow up twice as fast in baseball in professional sports you're asked a lot out of uh you know young kids to be able to handle themselves in a in a you know dignified manner to understand what they're what they're
Yeah, well, that's what I was going to say.
But you're also taking a guy like Bregman who has the pedigree of winning, who understands what it looks like, what it walks like, what it talks like.
And, you know, to me, those guys are very difficult to find.
To be able to, in a good way, that emanates off of a player.
And like a Dustin Pedroia, like a Clayton Kershaw, and guys follow.
Like a Corey Seager.
You know, we've said it before.
You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.
You can drink the water and show how beneficial it is to the horse.
Then the horse, in turn, does what?
Works.
So that's where you get those players that freaking work.
and put in every single day, no matter what the day before was, and everybody starts to see it.
And then it starts to be beneficial for everybody.
Pete's tremendous.
Pete's tremendous.
Lindor's tremendous.