We have resources and there are
tens of millions of dollars
going into the front office that
you don't necessarily see.
Nobody talks about it.
Everybody talks about free
agents and this money has gone
into.
We go continue to go in a lot of
spots have been filled.
We'll continue to go into all
our minor league complexes.
Everything we do in Dominican
Republic and most importantly,
the quality of the people are
hiring is pitching directors is
hitting directors, it's catching
directors, the steal base base
running director, defensive
directors slots we really
haven't had before and that's
what we're gonna power them all
and they've been empowered to do
that.
So when the requests have been
made for technology, the money's
been there and the question is
to leave $6.
And when the requests have been
made for um improvements to the
player development area, they
all happen.
You don't see it but it's
happening simultaneously in
order to supporting it in a
tremendous way.
And in terms of spending the
money, the question is, was he
responding, you saw us spend
money at the trade deadline in
23.
That was good money to spend we
will do it again in 25 in the
season.
If we have the opportunity to do
that, we're not going to spend
the money to swing.
You can look at some of our
trades in the fans.
You can look at some of our free
agents on these, they're only
gonna get better and even you
look at our moves in the
offseason nine out of the 26
moves we made at the trade
deadline as well as the smaller
deals we made from rule five.
And so I think they've been
extraordinary if you, but you
gotta do a deep dive into it.
You got to do a deep dive.
We're determined to win.
Also, we want to win really
soon.
We want to win for a long time.
We want to build something that
is successful every year in and
year out.
I think Clayton can be the right
leader for that.
Our farm system improved
tremendously over the course of
the year.
I think that our major league
team, by the end of the year, we
had a lot of interesting
talented players on the major
league team.
In addition to the minor
leagues.
We've got a lot of talented
players in the upper levels of
the minor leagues players that
we expect to see this season.
And I think that there's just a
ton of talent that's coming to
our team very very soon.
We've made tremendous progress.
A lot of that progress didn't
show up in wins and losses and
that was really disappointing.
We know this is something where
it's going to be, what we're
building behind the scenes is
going to show up on the field
sooner rather than later.
I'm really excited about the
progress we did.
We have a lot of really talented
players and that gives you a lot
of options, talented players,
win games.
We're going to have our pitchers
healthier, hopefully this year
than they were last year.
We're gonna have some of the
players that we traded for last
season that we've already seen,
made them a Julie's team, make
an impact.
We're gonna have more guys that
come up this year.
Just a really exciting group.