 If you have voted confidence after the season was over saying you'll be back next year and hopefully many years to come. When did they tell you that they were exercising that 2021 option? Um I guess officially um a couple weeks ago um you know but you know this year's been you know such a crazy year obviously that um you know there's been so many more things that are important to focus on and I've tried to kind of keep my focus there as well and and I know that'll all take care of itself in due time and um you know love love being a part of this organization and uh you know hopefully hopefully it is something that we we we do over the long term and continue this but it's not something in all the 2020s been it's something that I've tried not to really focus too much on because I know there's so many other things going on in the world and within our organization that in due time that'll take care of itself. Erin you mentioned the craziness that was the 2020 season and really what's still happening now how do you wrap your head around all of it and and the way the 60 game season went? Oh man um you know grateful that we got to we've got to do it um you know pretty awesome endeavor that I think Major League Baseball and and the Yankees and every organization took on and to be able to complete a season I think have a successful albeit unique and different um postseason um you know was certainly a challenge um but one that you know in reflection is difficult and it's hard and I used the word heavy a lot it was just it was just a heavy year on so many fronts and and a challenge day in and day out um looking back you feel grateful um to have taken part in it and uh and and to have gotten through it in the way we did. Are you confident that we'll be 162 in 2021? Um I'm hopeful um certainly hopeful um you know one thing this year's taught you is not to be confident in too much that's around the corner so um hopefully there continues to be some good news on the vaccine front and and that continues to develop and uh you know hopefully we can get through this winter as a country and and um kind of weather the storm if you will and um I'm certainly hopeful that we can have a a normal 162 game season um I certainly miss that prospect. I imagine there will be some residual effects from the shortened season how do you go about managing guys knowing that they did not play the entire time in 2020? Yeah I mean again you know like we do and and everything that we try to evaluate you know you try and evaluate guys individually and and try and you know give them what they need try to try to put them in the best position moving forward and make solid evaluations about what they're going to be capable of doing um you know we've got some guys that are going to be playing some winter ball getting more at bats getting more time on the mound you know so that'll be valuable um you know obviously a lot of our guys in player development a lot of our young prospects um you know missed out on some important developmental time so um hopeful that those guys can can really catch up in a lot of ways um you know especially such a crucial time in their career and and that's going to be the challenge that every organization faces is is trying to continue to develop their prospects but also um as we move forward in 2021 season um you know getting guys in the best safest position to to go out and and perform at their highest level and that's a challenge every year but in going into this next season will be a little different a little more unique in making those evaluations. Is it particularly difficult when it comes to the pitching staff gauging not only where guys are but what they can handle not only some of those youthful players that you spoke about in the prospects but also the veterans as well. Yeah I think I think you more look at that from from the youth youth guys the guys that you know haven't you know built up to you know from a pitching standpoint you know innings built up and things like that um you know some of the more veteran guys um you feel like will be more equipped to handle it and um so I don't worry too much about that we'll try and be smart in in how we carve out what their spring will look like ultimately into the early season and then how we build them up from there but that'll be more of a challenge for I think some of the developmental guys and some of our younger players.