 A week left before you guys break camp what has struck you about this team with with six weeks of spring training under your belt? well Couple things I think I put on it before in the interviews the depth we have on this team Up and down through our rotation our relievers Even our lineup, you know, we got five or six outfielders quite a few infielders all guys that you know should be You know caliber of you know starting somewhere starting on this team starting, you know on 29 other teams and That's what you want. You know, especially going in the camp and fighting through spring training You want that competitive atmosphere of you know guys fighting for jobs. So it's you know the depth of this team and You know guys just coming ready ready to go from the jump, you know, that's one thing too You know with you know uncertainty of last year with the season everything and they come in this year If it's gonna be the same thing We're gonna start on time or they're pushing it back a month Man guys, you know came into camp in shape, you know ready to go and you know ready to compete from day one Uh glaber was in a while ago talking about his Relationship with dj lamehiu and how that that's grown and and benefited him and I was just wondering What have you seen of glaber of the last few years? Has he grown as a more inquisitive player? A guy seeking advice and being open to suggestions about his game Yeah, pete that's one thing I actually noticed early on in glaber's career and even in uh 2018 You know as a rookie coming up, you know, we were this might have been a month of this season We were playing in houston and he was kind of asking me about you know, hey, how do you? You know, how do you sit? How do you hit the breaking pitch? You know, how do you drive that? You know, I feel like I get ready I get loaded up and you know, just can't pull the trigger and I said man like you got You know, you got the swing you got everything you do to swing the bat You know, we ended up later that game the eighth inning You know sitting back on a breaking pitch and driving it to left field and scoring us some big runs You know, so he's a guy that you know, he wants to learn he wants to improve He's not satisfied where he's that you know, even as a rookie You know, he just got called up and you know I've been in that position to get called up as a rookie man You think you made it and you think this is it but you know from day one He's a guy that's continued to push himself You know he continues to push the guys around him and it's been It's been pretty cool seeing the relationship between him and dj. You know continue to grow They're playing you know every single game together They're up the middle together getting that chemistry that you need, you know to have a good You know strong, you know defense up the middle. So it's uh It's been fun to watch Aaron with the season just 10 days away How driven are you overall to win a title and How did the past postseason disappointments fuel your fire? Yeah, I'm Bruce I'm as fired up as ever You know every year I know I say come in here and you know say that's our goal To win a championship, but You know for us, you know the first thing to do is we got to win our division and that starts with game one, you know and Starts with game one and we're gonna have a tough opponent with Toronto at home But you know we got to knock off the rays first, you know, that's a team that won the division last year Got all the way to the world series, you know beat us in the division series Um, you know, that's our first first goal That's the first goal for me is you know to continue to let guys know that hey You know, we're playing even though we're playing 162 games It's not a sprint like it was last year every game still matters because I know every year You know starts come down to the end in September and also it's like oh It's a couple games from either a wild card or you win your division and we don't want to be in that predicament You know we want to go out there and you know win our division and put ourselves in a good position the postseason You know with this depth with the pitch and we have Um with this lineup, you know to put us in the you know the right position to go out there and win a championship Aaron it seems uh each of the last You know three four years here the depth of your lineup has been tested by injuries As you're getting ready to start this season. Have you guys started to talk about the idea Of of what you know really what kind of maybe what a first inning looks like against the starting pitcher and what you guys can do I mean we spent so much time talking about You and john carlo and how teams approach you guys, but you haven't been able to be in the lineup together a whole lot Have you have you guys started to talk about the idea of of getting off to a good start with a healthy lineup? Yeah, we've kind of you guys have kind of seen it all spring training, you know That's one thing with this lineup, you know, you got from the very first pitch, you know, you got dj Lemay you an mvp Um type player, you know leading out the game Who's he can work the count or he can jump you first pitch and hit a home or he can get on base Um, you know and then you know kind of going through a lot of especially having hicks bat and third for us You know a guy that can get on base You know has can't hit for power, you know, he's you know, he just keeps that for me You know, he turns that lineup over, you know to get you know, if he walks You know if me and dj get out to start off the game and all of a sudden, you know Hey, skid it gets up gets a walk and then big g comes up and hits a homer man It's two runs, you know in the first and you know, we're halfway through the lineup You know, so it's something with this lineup that you know, there's no rest There's no break, you know all the way down You know if you got gary sanchez or clint frazier betton, you know seven eight nine, you know, that's uh That's a scary thought right there. So, you know, we're looking forward to you know, keeping everybody healthy and Seeing what this lineup can actually do The way teams bullpens are constructed now It seems getting a starter out after four or five innings Isn't necessarily the same advantage that it used to be But is a first inning Maybe, uh, you know trying to get them out after two or three Is that kind of more of the goal now and the way your lineup is constructed with the patients that you're talking about? Yeah, you know, I've always been you know about trying to get that starter out because it's not really about the game You know tonight, you know, it's kind of about the whole year You know if we're playing the rays, you know blue jays and if we're able to get to those starters early And say we got a four game series against these guys You know that third and fourth day, you know, that bullpen's gonna be kind of wearing it If we're able to get to the starter and kind of have them use their big guns You know how to pin early, you know, it's going to kind of help us down the road You know, so that's all I've always looked at is you know a lot of these teams around the league have You know some pretty some pretty good bullpum bullpen arms coming out of there You know throwing, you know 100 miles an hour some great breaking pitches But you know if we can just wear those guys down, you know, and over the course of a season 162 games That's gonna you know help us in the end