Tom Glavine

Every once in a while, you'd have to pull somebody back on track.

But for the most part, guys did their thing, and it was because Bobby trusted us to do it.

He did, but obviously, listen, is it 100% fair to say that was the case?

Maybe not.

I mean, are you going to treat the 26th man, 25th man on your roster like you're going to treat Chipper Jones or myself?

I mean, listen, the veteran guys who are established and have been around, of course they have a little bit more leeway than the guy who's in year one or year two.

However, I will say that Bobby made a point every single year at the start of the year

you know, the team meeting before the season was going to start and you're laying out expectations or whatever.

He made it a point every single year to mention that.

They'd say, hey, listen, you know, the 25th, every guy in this roster is going to play a role.

Everybody on this roster is going to be important from the one through 25.

And the 25th man on this roster is going to do some things to help us win some games, which is going to matter at the end of the year.

And that was true.

And I think for us, a couple times we won our division by one game.

So you never know when that one key hit or that one key appearance by a relief pitch or whatever is going to be the difference.

But he did.

He made it a point of letting everybody know, listen, we need everybody in this room.

And it's going to take everybody in this room.

And then I think the icing on the cake, so to speak, in that situation was Bobby was really, really good.

at putting guys in situations where they were going to succeed.