 James how did your throwing session go yesterday? I went well. I've worked on some things, made some good progress, felt good about some pictures that I threw. I think I was got about four or five ups and 65 pitches or so. You mentioned that you were working on some things what exactly were you working on? Well my arm angle was a little low coming in the camp so I was working on getting up just a little bit getting on top of the ball a little better and we were able to do that yesterday so that was good. Was there anyone in the batter's box or was it just you throwing? Boone was in the batter's box. Did he make contact? He wasn't swinging he was just they had someone there calling balls and strikes and he was kind of working through the bats and stuff. Thank you. We could take our next question from Pete Caldera. Pete go ahead and unmute. Hi James. I was just curious so you know with the amount of bullpen arms you guys have the depth of your pitching did you guys feel sort of unique have a unique advantage going into this sort of abbreviated season? Yeah we feel really good about our group you know we have a lot of really good pitchers a lot of great bullpen arms a lot of good starting arms I think we're set up really well to take this season on. Brendan Cutty go ahead and unmute you have the next question. James thanks for taking the time. I wanted to know what you thought when you saw that Buster Posey opted out yesterday where your thoughts were and if you think we might continue to see more of this happen. You know we may I think guys are gauging the situation day by day I think I read for him you know he's got I believe twin babies that have just come into the world and you know that's good stuff like that's gonna be part of that gauge you know and I think he just wants to be as safe as possible with his two young children but to everyone's gonna make their own decision and when it comes to that. And also we're a week into this now how do you gauge the the safety protocols the testing you've gone through better than you expected worse than you expected how do you gauge it? I think it's gone really well you know I only have the experience here at Yankee Stadium I think we've done a great job here we I believe are still you know doing really well on the testing side I think that we have largely negatives you know I think there's only been one positive since camp started and I don't think to my knowledge they've spread any further than that which is great you know we're gonna take this one day to time and just continue to try to do the best we can to stay healthy. Thank you James. James Wagner you have the next question go ahead. James I hope I was a lot of two quick questions is it hard like I mean coming off the mound not to like fist bump people I know it's such a usual thing that you guys do when you walk back in the day. Yeah you know I think it'll be like the elbow tap or the foot tap or you know whatever whatever else but our air high fives something like that well we'll think it's something but you know it's just kind of the world the world that we live in right now. And a lot of like medical experts say that you know people are probably more likely to be infected say in their community than in coming to the ballpark given all the restrictions you guys have how hard or easy has it been to like follow all that stuff away from the park how cautious are you kind of above and beyond I guess to make sure that you know none of that stuff happens wear a mask disinfect things I don't know. Yeah I mean I've been wearing a mask everywhere I go you know when I leave my apartment I mean the only places I'm going is the grocery store you know I go from the stadium to my apartment to the grocery store and that's it. I'm washing my hands lots wearing my mask everywhere I go and doing everything I can to give myself the best best chance at staying healthy. Take another question from Max Goodman. Max go ahead. Hey James thanks for taking the time. We just watched Masahiro Tanaka do a little bit of throwing out on the field exactly one week after he was hit. What have you seen from his recovery and how far he's come after such a scary incident. I mean it's amazing he seems great he seems completely normal. I think we got extremely lucky in that situation it could have been way worse and he's bounced back incredibly. I think he's I believe he's already tested out of the concussion protocol I'm not sure but I think he has and he looks great he's acting normal you know same old mask. Thanks. Take another question from Marley Rivera. Marley go ahead. Thanks for taking the time James quick question when you had your surgery back in February how are you improved like all these months after what has it helped you do and what are you still looking for to know that you're 100% healthy if anything. So like when I was hurt you know it was the pain that was going down my left leg from my glute down my calf and I don't have that anymore which is great you know there's no positions that I get in where I feel that pain so that's that's awesome I'm feeling really good feeling strong I think the next step for me is finding the velocity you know I think I'm not really a guy that gets that velocity in bull pens or anything like that so that'll be more of a game time thing when the adrenaline starts pumping it'll be good to see some you know mid to high 90s numbers come in there and that'll really show me that I'm a 100% back. Thank you. Take another question from Bradford Davis Bradford go ahead and unmute. Hey James good to see you again just one thought you know you mentioned you know you you know you're back in New York and obviously like it's a big change to prepare and you know you can just live your life you know during this you know pandemic saturated year what's been like I guess the biggest change in just your day to day since you know coming back to New York and you know getting ready for season. I mean I love to go out and try new restaurants you know try different restaurants and stuff like that not being able to go out for dinner I've been cooking a lot more I've been challenging myself in the kitchen trying to come up with different meals and keep on cooking so that's probably the biggest change for me is just the amount of cooking I'm doing. What's your best dish? Oh man I've made some like keto chili two times it's pretty good. Keto chili? Yeah yeah no beans it's like two pounds of meat some bacon and tomatoes and lots of veggies and stuff. That's innovative thank you. Let's take a last question from Dan Martin. Dan go ahead you gotta unmute Dan. Got it. James opening day is like two weeks away I mean do you feel ready to like like you're two weeks away from being able to pitch in a regular game given how this this setup has been? Well I better be yeah I've got two more like inner squad sim games I don't know if you have an exhibition or not before it starts but either way I'm gonna be as ready as I can possibly be I feel I feel really good right now making progress each time out and we're ready to go get them