Skip Schumaker

He allowed me in and learned his processes and what he thought winning looked like, and you don't get that opportunity as a young manager every day.

And then, you know, sitting in the suite or via text message if they're on the road,

with Ross and CY, the senior advisors and Michael Young and Nick Hundley and Ian Kinsler, just bouncing ideas back and forth, talking with Pipe daily and trying to figure out exactly what he sees and how he's trying to get players better every single day.

You just don't get that opportunity in my seat just to learn everything.

every single department and how it works and how we can push back and make things better.

So I'm very grateful for that.

It just doesn't really happen.

Usually you get an interview or two during this process and you're trying to figure out if it's just the right place for you.

immediately I knew that we aligned and what we think, you know, like I said, winning looks like and, and the details and the standards and the core values, all of that is who I am and what we are.

And so it was a very, I'm very grateful for that whole year of watching how this thing works.

Yeah, you always try to grow from every experience, whether it was year one, year two, different rosters, different front offices.

And the last thing that I ever wanted to be was one foot in, one foot out of anything, even though I had an idea of where that was going to end up.

But I got to learn how different front offices think.

You know, how they acquire players, how they try to get players better, learning how different minor league systems are run.

So I was very grateful for the first regime in Miami and the second regime in Miami because they were both different in how they thought.

And I'm very grateful, even though it didn't end like we wanted it to end, obviously, the second year.

You know, they treated me really well and my family well.

And

And I can take some of those experiences, hopefully, and try to make this place as good as it can be.

Yeah, I try to navigate that as carefully as I could.