they lost Rendon but I do like
their acquisitions of nine
stripping, you have a better
chance to pitch in that ball
park than any other ballpark in
the game other than Seattle, I
love the hanniger acquisition, I
think he's a really proven
professional player, just Stay
on the field healthy.
But getting back to that point I
was gonna make, I think Farhaan
really felt the pressure this
year because you know, he was
Treinen in my mind any way to
get to the point that some of
those young prospects, I start
seeing the light of the day, but
reality is in 2022, a lot of
those guy's took a step
backwards.
So now all of a sudden when
you're developments some kind of
stalls on what you thought
you're future was going to
represent, then you really have
to be aggressive in the free
agent market to try to bridge
that gap until you can get them
two catch back up again.
That's a hard thing.
That's a hard path to walks.
So question for u dan Gm
meetings are before the winter
meetings.
I'm sure the organisation gets
together before the GM meetings.
Do you make that point as the
GM?
Hey, our prospects aren't like
they have before that like we,
you've got to give me, you've
got to give me a couple of more
dollars because this is not
going to work unless that part
gets right.
You can't just buy a
championship.
You can't take undervalued
players and put them in your
process and have them turn
around and constantly churn out
great years.
You've got to develop a core of
players from your inside your
organization that's going to
augment anything you had from
the outset.
So dan, this is where I want to
start with you on this one.
There was a discussion this
morning of course on a hot stove
where baseball was the sport,
you could play into your fortis
because it afforded you that
longevity compared to Haki or
football and now you are
starting to get back to that a
lot of these players with
contracts guaranteed until they
are 41.
But in the middle, it's like you
said, we've seen guys who has
broken down, There's been so
much discussion about Albert,
Pujols Miguel cabrera who
probably aren't in the game
unless these Mondo contracts
that really hi teams in what we
have to play him.
So where do you sort this out?
I mean, I know that player a
training has evolution eyes well
the first too, players you
mentioned to me, Miguel cabrera
and Albert Pujols So I'm a big
believer that baseball is a game
of movement patterns.
If you watch Mike Lowell move,
he, his movement patterns would
be different than a middle
infielders movement patterns.
So you've been identified two
players that are corner players.
I'm not sure.
I think corner players are gonna
age better, but I think guys in
the middle of the diamond that
athletically move will, will
actually age.
Okay.
Especially if there is a running
bob in Carlos case.
I'm not sure because I don't
think you paint everybody with
the same brush, hes very
rotational for me and theres
some stiffness in his game.
But his bats going to play at
third base when he has to do
that.
But one of the points I'd like
to make strongly is I do think
are games involved.
I think the money that is going
to be poured or is being poured
into performance development,
technology development to keep
the, keep the players as good as
they can't throughout the course
of their career by the team and
the individual player and I
think age regression models,
guys Are, are not things of the
past.
I just think they're going to
need to be updated.
I don't know Michael?
I don't know sure there will be
updated the ages 38 through 41,
but That 33-36, which was taboo.
I don't think it is so much any
more.
I agree.
And I think the players also,
everything is based on
information of how we can
prepare, you know, to get the
most out of the talent that each
person has.
And I think I players nowadays
our much more willing to invest
in themselves as well because
before I was like, well the team
is not doing this, the team is
not doing that now.
I think there's a little bit of
an onus on guys saying I have my
stretch guy, I have my wake up,
this is the way I eat in the
morning.
You know, it's very different.
Even you look at the clubhouse
spreads um, how they've changed.
Yeah, every facet of the game.
Heat, stem ice massage.
How often this is measured for
guys to be able to perform at a
high level and not have that,
you know, what was it 31 32
where you, okay, everyone's
declining.
You know, this has to be a case
by casing.
I think now it's a little bit
more a case by case by the
things you say, body types,
athleticism.
But I think as the whole players
are building themselves to be
Melanie, you know, you like, ugh
in Baltimore, I don't think that
Khris Davis of the world clubs
are gonna still have read flags
around those type of players.
But I think biomechanics gonna
here, biomechanics so much in
our industry right now, it's
gonna make you nauseated because
I think the teams are going to
really dig in to say, okay,
that's movement pattern, that
type of body type, that's
sustainable, that movement
pattern, that type of body type
that isn't sustainable.
I think we're going to get so
scientific in how we look and
players and how they compete on
the field that I don't think
you're gonna see everybody being
payed into their late thirties,
early fortis.
But I do think you're going to
see more risk on top of it the
way wee use war within are
industry like when I looked at