Ross Atkins

Yeah, I mean, I do think that it is harder and harder to beat teams to identifying things or opportunities because of the underlying information that essentially everyone has.

Not to say that certain teams don't have better information or more robust information to tap into, but you do see the underlying things where you don't have to have an army of scouts identifying and...

triangulating information in a way that's going to be able to suggest that maybe there's this hope that we can hang our hat on this.

There is a lot more.

To me, it's just more difficult to win trades.

Everyone always says you want to do a trade that is good for both teams and they like good baseball trades, but at the end of the day, everyone's trying to win the trade.

Everyone's trying to get the better end of the deal and

you stop at probably what's fair and occasionally you'll maybe do something that is seemingly to the industry a little less than fair, but you still have a rationale for that or reasons for that, that maybe the underlying information or something that you don't think the industry may be aware of about your talent or the other team's talent.

But I think in today's game,

more teams are speaking the same language again.

We went through a bit of a transition where there were some teams that were speaking heavy scout and some teams speaking heavy information and data and lining up in terms of value was, you know,

a little bit less efficient than it is today.

So trades at the deadline are still, you're still, you can make them.

There's deals everywhere.

But you're not going to win them.

No.

Maybe as much.

You're going to pay, we're going to pay two or three times like you want, right?

Yeah.

Yeah, you're just going to, you're going to have to pay a price that is probably going to be deemed usually as, oh, that's pretty fair for both teams.