Skip Schumaker

Stand up on this chair.

First, I want to thank our owner, Ray, and obviously our president, CY, and GM, Ross, for giving me this incredible opportunity to lead this franchise for at least the next four years.

And CY hit it.

I mean, the...

The unique opportunity to really learn an organization for a full year just doesn't happen.

I quickly learned the passion CY has for winning and doing whatever he can to make this a first class organization.

The alignment is real.

Our core values and what we expect every single day and making winning the most important part of our day is exactly who I am and what my family is about.

I believe in a winning culture and this is a everywhere you walk around every single department is about winning and winning culture to me is about elite communication.

I've said it before like we are going to be the best at communicating from front office all the way down to the clubhouse staff and training staff.

We are absolutely aligned with what we think winning looks like and giving our best every single day wherever we're at.

It doesn't matter how much we can give, but we're going to give everything we can that day to win.

Our preparation is going to be as good as anybody's because we just believe in...

you know, what it takes as far as players, staff, front office, R&D, you know, giving our players the best chance to win and to execute that day.

So I know it's a lot right there of, like, what makes it attractive, but not every organization wants to win or is ready to win a championship every day.

And the players that we have and the front office that we have, the staff that we have, it made it easily the most attractive place to be.

Well, CY provided me a great opportunity to be home with my family, which was great.

My wife, Lindsay, daughter, Presley and some Brody, which you don't get a chance to kind of reset, you know, during your baseball life and your journey.

So I'm very grateful for that.

I got to learn from a Hall of Fame manager.