Richard Griffin

I think that not having to be the acclaimed number one guy on his staff is going to help.

And 220 is my choice.

Oh, we've been putting our thinking cap on for exit philosophy for all winter.

And I thought for sure that he was going to be traded because of bailing out on the postseason on the World Series.

I thought they had an agreement.

You guys have mentioned it.

There's no way he's taking his opt-out and leaving 24 and 24 million on the table.

So he is there.

I thought he was going to be traded either before spring training or during spring training when somebody had an injury.

Now the monkey wrench is that he's got an injury, which has never happened.

So I think as soon as he's healthy and ready to pitch, he will not be in the equation after the trade deadline in July.

I think that if he proves himself healthy, that they'll move him because of.

sort of the feeling in the clubhouse that he's no longer.

You see television shots of the starters together, and he's not in that group.

He's never in that group.

So I think the die has been cast there and that he will be somewhere else by the trade deadline.

They will have forgotten about Cleveland.

And...

To me, they are like Beeston, Gillick, and Cito light.

You know, a trio of guys moving forward together.