Ross Atkins

it's not, it's not apples to apples where starting pitching, you are very likely to need more of it than you start with.

And we've already seen that happen with us.

So that that's the first part.

The second part is we feel really good about our position player group as we continue to add guys like Alejandro Kirk and

and getting Addison Barger back here soon.

The emergence of Valenzuela, having Pinengo and others in AAA, McAdoo that we're confident in, it feels like adding starting pitching is the best place for us to focus, but we're certainly not going to limit that in how we're trying to make our team better.

Yeah, I think that we'll have enough of a read to understand how to factor him into a potential addition, the need for another addition potentially.

I mean, we have to always have an understanding of the industry and everything that's happening in it.

We just are very fortunate to have incredible support from ownership.

So in any acquisition, we will present what that could mean in terms of future payroll and the potential of any shutdown.

But ultimately, well, not ultimately, we have had in the past

incredible support in similar scenarios.

And then we'll continue to manage that the same way as we'll present that to them and expect to have incredible support moving forward.

To me, the encouraging thing is that our contact is good and our swing decisions are solid and improving.

Swing decisions get thrown out a ton, and it really just comes down to we want guys to be aggressive at pitches that they can drive, and we don't want guys to be going up looking to walk.

And those decisions and those looks that we're getting seem to be just getting better and better.

And when we don't get, you know, like the line drive that Vladdy hit is a good example, or even the deep fly ball to center is a solid example.

We'll take those all day long.

You know, those are not the results.

We're looking for, but it's certainly the effort and the process and the near outcome that we're controlling what we can.