Ross Atkins

If you,

believe in the people that are working through the information working through a process to come up with an assessment and evaluation of the risk that you're taking on or not then you can't react to another team's decision based on that unless there's something that you learned differently that is changing it so you know

That didn't change our view based on the information that we had, and we believed that our medical process was strong, and we're glad he's here.

Yeah.

I mean, I can't imagine doing anything else.

I absolutely love it.

I think that it doesn't come without a ton of sacrifice and a ton of time away from your family.

But what offsets that is...

is the relationships within the game.

So the 400, 500 people in baseball operations, the scouts, the coaches throughout our player development system, our analytics team, our very robust coaching staffs and performance staffs these days.

some of which now have worked for more than 10 years because some of them I worked with in the past in Cleveland.

Those bonds and relationships are like nothing else.

I can't imagine finding them in other pursuits.

I really couldn't.

Maybe the military.

I don't know because of just the time and energy spent on a common goal.

Yeah.

and face to face time with these people.

So, you know, more than I've spent more time with Mark Shapiro than I will ever spend with anybody in my life.

Yeah.