Ross Atkins

Fired up for Vladdy, fired up for our team, for the fans, for the city, for myself.

I mean, it's just it's it's so positive for the organization.

Having said that.

The one thing that matters most is winning.

And how you commit to do that, everything matters.

So nothing can be at all cost.

And when you make decisions in isolation, you have to be disciplined towards all those decisions so that you can maximize your chance to winning because...

There's a lot of ways to do it, as we've seen in today's game.

And you just have to ensure that it isn't at all cost in these types of situations.

Yeah, you know, it's such an interesting thing.

Vladdy handled it really well.

He was extremely professional with me and all of our interactions.

He was not talking about it in the clubhouse.

I think there were a few times that he did some interviews where it's so hard.

You know, he's such a good person.

He gets asked all

all the time to to be out in front and he's good at it and he's done it a lot so there were some times where some things got drug out of him that became public that that was just became a little bit of a distraction in the industry but he handled it exceptionally well and i i did believe that

whether it would have been five months from now or maybe it was this week, but I did believe we were going to get something done because there was no doubt in my mind that Vladdy wanted to be a Blue Jay for life.

But I think the Juan Soto signing, some of the things that were happening in the industry and us coming off of a down year,

I think those things were weighing for him.