Ross Atkins

So the complete nature of those players, what was so attractive, you know, yes, his defense is exceptionally important to us.

Absolutely.

But for us, it's always about the complete player.

And maybe we have hedged a little bit more into or just placing more value in defense.

subconsciously, but for us it's always been about the whole player and what that means and how it impacts our ability to win.

Standing on the left, Mike.

Yeah, beyond the obvious reasons of the relationships and what it means to him to be a Blue Jay, that has an impact for others coming into the organization that sense and feel that.

But I also think it's exceptionally powerful for all of those coming behind him.

It's really important to us that people that we are developing from within, we have to be open to hiring from other organizations and other

fields as well, but that is very powerful to us and we feel it's powerful to others in the organization.

Well, that's one game, so we'll see how the other six unfold or however many we play.

I mean, the things I talked about, the relationships and this, I've had this conversation with our players that.

This group has won a ton together so over the last five years they've won more than anyone in the AL East other than the Yankees and it's very close you know very high up in the American League and how much this group has won over the last five years we have had some crash landings that have been very difficult for us all the fans us and the organizations to stomach yeah but I'm

Yeah, I'm exceptionally happy for our players and our staff to be sitting where we are today.

Standing in the back left, Jamie.

It's always been great.

I've never had anything but positive interactions.

I mean, I've had a couple of entertaining interactions that maybe they were throwing some jabs, but I've never had anything but just respect.

I think people love the Blue Jays so much, and I feel that, and sometimes I feel maybe that they're wanting a little bit more, but it's always been very respectful.

Yeah, it's interesting.