 first and foremost how has the offseason been treating you. It's been great so far. I have made progress in my rehab which is awesome. I started to throw so I felt like a baseball player haven't felt like that in a good three months but no it's been great. I've been kind of back and forth between Tampa and New York in New York right now for Thanksgiving but it's good. When did you actually start throwing and how was your arm feeling. Yeah through a week ago today was that Monday. I only out to 60 feet so far but I went Monday, Wednesday, Friday last week and so far this week I've only thrown today. I will progress to four days a week next week and then continue to progress from there but I've been feeling great. I think the problem that I have right now is actually how I'm feeling too good and I have to kind of pull the reins a little bit which I think is a good problem to have so I got the coaches down in Tampa, our PTs up here really helping me out so we created a good program that will hopefully lead me right into spring training. Going back to when the injury originally happened there was some thought that potentially your ligament could have been affected as well. You couldn't essentially find out until you could position your arm in a way that you can go in and do that MRI and make sure that it was okay. Just what type of relief was there and that it was just a fracture not like that's a small thing by any stretch of the imagination but that the UCL wasn't involved? Yeah definitely a nerve-wracking experience for me because I know that if it's just the bone it's a six to eight month recovery and I'd be totally fine for game one of 2023. If it wasn't then I'm probably missing most of 2023 if not all of it so going into that MRI was a little nerve-wracking for me. I obviously held hope. An optimistic guy tried to put out all the positive vibes that I possibly could and once I found out that news and the ligament looked great fully intact it definitely eased my mind and also then just kind of made me really excited for the throw and start. I didn't have to go back under the knife. I was ready to go so I'm very relieved. Prior to the injury last season you were throwing the ball incredibly well. What do you think clicked for you on the mound? Yeah I'd say it was a combination of a lot of things. I went into this season not focused on a roll. We're in the past I know I've kind of been in between. I'd have a couple of spot starts. I would be a long reliever. I had a couple times where I was in high leverage and to me that got to me it was a learning curve for me to not care about my roll and just go out there and pitch. Because I was looking at the high leverage relievers and I wanted to be that or I was looking at the starters that started every fifth day and I wanted to be that I felt like it took away from me actually being out there and pitching and so I know that as a young guy you're usually never given a roll coming in and I want to establish myself as fast as possible and I think that was the wrong mindset. It should have just been more of a go out there and pitch to the best of my ability and let the let the coaches kind of define my role for me. And so this year coming in all I said was I'm going to give my best effort not care about roles in every single inning that I pitch. And I think it kind of molded myself into getting that role. I felt like early on it was kind of a long reliever but in high leverage and then unfortunately when Chad Green went down we had a hole in the in our back end of the roof of the bullpen. So I kind of molded into his role and absolutely loved it. We've already talked to Matt Blake about what role he thinks is best for me what role I like the best and also just kind of making sure that I'm filling in for spots to help the team win. And we have so many like guys that can close for us. I know we've talked about a ton and yeah I'd love to close if I'm going to be a reliever. I'd love to start if I'm going to be a starter. So there's a lot of question marks coming into this year again and I just want to keep having that same mindset.