Ross Atkins

One is everyone will say it's early.

We're in April and in May, so you don't want to overreact to a smaller sample size.

Having said that, most teams lean to internal adjustments or internal change, so bringing up a younger player or someone becomes healthy or just making an adjustment that you find that's more development-based.

And then the second reason is you're paying a massive premium.

So if it's already difficult to line up, if you're going to put a tax on that that is beyond just the return of having that player for a longer period of time, it becomes more difficult to do.

And it's hard to present ownership because you're going to step out.

Let's go.

Yeah.

I mean, I think if you just think of it in terms of how you'd present something to ownership, you know, these are massive things.

massive deals even if it's players who aren't making a ton of money it's still such an impact on your organization millions and millions of tens of millions of dollars of implications so you know anything like that has to be presented to ownership I don't know how every ownership situation works but

I would imagine most owners want to see consistency in how you're going about placing a decision in front of them and making one where if they see a big gap in how you're making that decision, that's not going to give them a ton of confidence, and nor should it.

Yeah.

I mean, it's one of the more difficult times in the year for executives because there's only so much you can do.

And you need to make sure that you're setting the right tone for your environment.

And you can't just sit on your hands either.

We have to find ways to make the organization better that...

aren't potentially quite as overt.

Yeah.

Yeah, I mean, I think first and foremost, it is very important.

Very glad to have it done.