Ryan Dempster

I think he's full-on ready to go again this year, and he's just a special kid.

He's a special player, and I think the possibility of what he's able to do I think will just continue to grow as he matures.

He's still a young ball player, especially when you look at at-bats and miles and all that kind of stuff on his career so far.

I think he's potentially a guy every year that could be 30-30.

Does he have a 40-40 in him?

Sure, but to put expectations on a guy I think is unfair, and I think we're just going to continue to see a great version of Pete Cromsham.

Yeah, I'm with you on that.

And I think what happens is when we struggle –

I can speak from a pitcher's standpoint because I can't speak from a hitter because I struggled my whole life as a hitter.

So did we.

They don't lie.

099, I had a Wayne Gretzky batting average.

Yeah, safe to say.

When I struggled, as I found that when I tried to force the issue, throw the nastiest slider I got, a guy just spat on it and said, I'm not swinging at that.

And so for a hitter,

I noticed with Pete a lot of the time was he tried to go get the ball and I'm going to go get it and I'm going to swing before it's even there.

And when he's going good and when hitters are going good, that's what makes it hard for us as pitchers is we go, man, this dude is like, you know, locked in.

He's, he's spitting on my nasty, but he's waiting for me to come to him.

And I think to me, that's what we're going to kind of see more and more out of Pete is

just that comfort in himself and say, okay.