Ross Atkins

And those things are getting better and better.

The compete, you know, he didn't back down and we know that he will make adjustments.

We know he learned from that outing yesterday.

The shapes of his pitches are very good.

All his arsenal is grading out well as well as it has graded out.

You know, he's had more heater in the past, but he's been effective over the last several years with a very similar heater.

And the biggest thing are just his subjective comments that he feels strong and he feels good.

And we believe in his ability to compete and adjust.

Yeah, it's the combination of our tools, our resources, which in this case would be the ability to identify weapons objectively.

And our research department has worked very hard on that to make sure that it's a little bit better.

Then the other 30 organizations are, you know, certainly, you know, we we hope it's the best.

But, you know, it seems in this case, it was one of the better resource resources to identify Spencer Miles that, you know, the work of Dan Goldberg and Joe Sheehan and Sanjay Chowdhury, who in our professional scouting department led by Ryan Middleman.

You know, Meg Evans wrote in a good scouting report on Spencer Miles.

So the combination of our pro scouts working with our analysts to identify objective tools or objective weapons that pitchers have at a better rate than other teams is our goal.

And that's a sign of it working, of that process of our pro scouting department working with our research department and

to say we think this guy has a 70 or an 80 sinker.

We think he has a current above-average curveball, and we think he can develop an above-average slider and he has feel for a changeup.

It's not just one scout looking at it, but it's the combination of the things that I said.

No, no, we did, and I'm so glad you asked that.

We did have insight because of Justin Lear, who had worked with him before, and that was a very significant piece of it.