Sahadev Sharma

Of course, happy to celebrate that Illini win with you all.

I did not.

I was talking to Boog about it yesterday.

I picked them because I struggle not to pick them in my brackets, and I still felt they were going to lose last night.

To see them come out and play that defense was really fun, really exciting.

I stayed up with my son to watch it, and it was really nice.

It was a nice palate cleanser for that rough opening day, as was that Nico Horner extension, I'm sure, for the fans.

Yeah, I think it's pretty clear that they know what they want.

Jed Hoyer, I think this started with building this team back up.

He focused on defense.

He picked Desby Swanson of all those free agent shortstops because he

They believed he could stick at shortstop and was the best defensive one.

And from that moment on, Jed has really thought about why did we win a World Series?

Because we had this backbone of defense.

That's really what he believes.

He believes that they can win another World Series.

You know, obviously you need to score.

You need pitching.

You need all those things.

But the defense can be the backbone, something you can rely on every day.