 I'm going to read off of my phone just so I get it correctly. I had it texted to me so I have it down pat. So updated information injury wise. Masahiro Tanaka had arthroscopic surgery on his right elbow to remove bone spurs. This procedure was done by Dr. David Alcheck at the hospital for special surgery yesterday. He is expected to be ready for spring training. Luke Voight has had surgery to repair bilateral core muscle injuries by Dr. William Myers in Philadelphia that occurred this morning. He's expected to be ready for spring training. And Aaron Hicks will have UCL reconstructive surgery on his right elbow October 30th by Dr. Neal Eletrage in Los Angeles. His rehab is expected to be eight to ten months. So that is the most updated medical information for the roster. And I'll take questions. We've got the wireless mics of course who has the first question. Bruce in the front row. Cash Aaron Judge called the season a failure after game six of the ALCS. How would you judge the season? I mean we failed in our ultimate goal and dream of a world championship. I wouldn't but that you know wouldn't dismiss all the tremendous things that occurred you know during the journey though. I'm real proud about a lot of the things our operation has accomplished. You know you know and with the crew we accomplished it with that's with our manager our coaches our players having to to plug and play and adjust along the way and and obviously become American League East champions you know knock out a tremendous foe in the Minnesota twins that were just as capable of moving forward as we were and and unfortunately you know ran into Houston in the ALCS and so you know we failed in our our final goal but we did we didn't have a failed season in my opinion. Dan and Andy. With Hicks is the surgery because of him coming back. Did that have anything to do with with having to get Tommy John? Yeah it's getting Tommy John because he needs it. That's the bottom line. I think you know obviously he was feeling it regardless of getting back you know the again you kind of I think we tried to address this in the past but you know when he had the in-season injury you know there was a rest and rehab process that was put in play that process failed because the pain immediately came back so then he went and saw Dr. Elatraz who put you know who concurred with Dr. Ahmad about the significant of the injury and that it was a probable Tommy John but if the player didn't want that which he didn't understandably so he put in a longer rest and rehab recovery time and then which lead it would lead him into missing the entire postseason and then trying it sometime in the winter probably closer to December. December January ranged with the throwing program and see how he you responded then and if that failed to be Tommy John obviously we know the narrative now which he you know that's why he returned home to Arizona and he decided to start a throwing program behind the scenes in a more truncated time frame you know and felt that it responded well enough to get him back going but obviously once the season ended he played great force in the postseason obviously but but once it ended the you know the feeling of there's something here that's still not right the the follow-up doctor exam etc. it was again the you know led to the ultimate decision we got to get this thing fixed or it's just going to blow you know March February March April so how does that impact your outfield plans going forward we'll see our pro scouting meeting start Monday Tuesday Wednesday of next week obviously you know our current outfield alignment that we have that doesn't include free agency you know what the depth happens to be and obviously it's just an area that we're going to have to you know evaluate and discuss and factor in but I don't have any you know answers to those to that specific question on on personnel at this time Andy had Tanaka been managing that particular elbow situation for a while and did you learn anything new about is about the ligament through this process or is it status quo status quo on the ligament and and I'd say you know from my perspective no one like we were there was his maintenance was his routine so I think this you know was an end result of end of the season just evaluation if there's something going on in the air that anything like that that needs a recommended cleanup like it's had done in the past and then we would address it or it would get addressed and that's all this is but there wasn't anything where start to start what are we going to get here we have an issue that's pending and you know and you're holding your breath and hoping that something doesn't go wrong it wasn't like that at all it was just an end of the season you know examination that with an MRI just because of his history of the elbow and and if something just you know displayed itself then just go ahead and get it addressed and and move forward so it's I don't think it's a complicated procedure or simple procedures one he's had I want to say several times before so it's part of I guess the winner program for him Christie and Wally just to be clear on Aaron Hicks it started out as a flexor strain when did the UCL get damaged the flexor strain is always a precursor typically so when is you in the media or following typically I'd say I don't know what the time time table is is the 80% 90% the flexor strain muscle usually is a precursor to a unstable ligament and so he he had a damage in the ligament you know obviously and I don't know what was announced at the time and you know if it was announced as a flexor tendon strain it would be at the request of probably the player not wanting the full medical out there so he heard his ligament with the flexor strain if you're telling me that the strain was what was announced he heard his ligament with the flexor strain at the same time and just comes down to PRP injections and things of that nature you do the conservative treatment see how they respond if it's not an obvious full tear if it's a partial tear in his case it was a partial tear I don't have the percentage off the top of my head but I want to say it felt feels like it was 51% or maybe I'm wrong to say it but it it's it wasn't a small it wouldn't be a full but it was something that was this is big enough problem so but typically you know when you hear a flexor tendon strain it usually means some bad stuff might be happening in the future so you you had a series of injuries you had injuries happened during rehab this year you said you were investigating it can we expect any changes to your rehab or medical staff I I guess if and you know there's no doubt that I have addressed with our media corps here for our fans you know our focus on and concerns on how our process has played out this year and and the numerous injuries that we had the failed rehabs that we had in some cases you know some are the the area focus is going to be in the area that might have been preventable clearly and determination being is are they preventable are these something that we're missing is there something that in our process that is faulty and I can assure you that that has been a laser focus and as I described it as the CSI the Bronx that is has occurred has been occurring and if there are any changes you'll eventually be made aware of them I'm not here to address any of that outside of acknowledging that that is a process that is ongoing and between now and spring training if there anything that gets changed or adjusted or hired new hires or any of that nature eventually that would be revealed so I guess stay tuned if there's something there to be dealt with in the future you know when all those proper boxes are checked and people are discussed with and and the final conclusions are in or if there any new hires or what have you then we'll be in a better position to discuss that well cash over here with Hicks out at least half the season next year maybe the whole season does this increase the likelihood that you bring back Brett Gardner next year and at this stage of his career do you think he's capable of playing center field on a pretty much regular basis for you I can't predict again how we approach the winner yet because we our first step in this process is those free agent and pro scouting meetings that will start taking place next week which I talked about but in terms of Brett Gardner I don't think there's any question about what his capabilities are yet it's tremendous season both sides of the ball offensively and defensively including playing center field so you know and obviously he's a free agent so but so if I guess the main questions can he handle playing center field in 2020 both offensively and defensively I don't think there's any question based on the performance before this year and in past years so I forgive me on this one but is Ellsbury an option for you next year you know it's hard to say uh based on how things have played out you know so right now he's not someone that's in a position health-wise to for me to be answering anything in the affirmative at this time uh jack over here to the right brian I know you said you have the pro scouting meetings looming but you were pretty adamant leading up to the trade deadline about wanting to add a starter and not being able to find a match as you sit here now how aggressive do you anticipate being and trying to add an ace type starter for 2020 I think we're always we're always aggressive and trying to attack areas that need improvement and it just comes down to what's available in the marketplace and and unfortunately I think if as we were you know revisit the summer you know those type of players weren't available and and obviously weren't moved so so all the players we targeted uh they wound up staying put and um you know in terms of front end rotation stuff and and uh and so that you know will continue to engage the marketplace to uh evaluate what's available in the free agent marketplace and then make the phone calls to the 29 other clubs to see what's available in the trade marketplace and then you know act accordingly uh last year last winter that led us to paxton for instance and I you know if I was sitting here right now I didn't even know paxton was available you know at this time last year it wasn't until the GM meetings occurred out in carlsbad so um that that I learned that and then a month later we were able to pull that down and uh you know uh and I think people were pretty satisfied with what he did the second half of the season and what he showed his capabilities are in the post season when our backs were against the wall against a team playing currently in the world series and the Houston Astros so you know we'll continue to do that dance and see where it takes us and and uh if there's something that's available that uh you know that we seem to be able to match up with and push through on you know we'll be aggressive we'll go to the left dave and then sweeney cash i mean every year how how invest on your left over here cash every year how to invest a significant amount of money in your payroll obviously do you think because there's been a long time without a championship relatively speaking for you guys that you'd be more willing to kind of blow through that type of budget lines or just because there are going to be some pretty significant free agent help out that this year you know i don't want to speak for house dimer and i think he's his you know uh the proof's in the pudding i mean he i think he's been blowing through a lot you know along the way you know he he and his family um you put big coin on the on the table to to invest in this club and and even in scenarios where you know sometimes it may be from the outside people scratch their heads on whether it was a dj lamehu where it looked like why would they invest that type of money for a player that's there's no obvious fit even though we felt that there was uh uh war or wanton canarcy on that we brought in from seattle you know in season that turned out to be our biggest in season acquisition um you know so all of that costs money and um and because of that you know uh those are just examples and reinforcements of how he's willing to step up and entertain anything and we entertain obviously some big ticket items last winter and hosted them we in the end we chose not to play on it because we had other alternatives and uh and other strategies that we decided to to exploit um but uh his willingness and his desires are always to do what's best for the Yankees um in the near term in the in the long term but he wants a good sound process he wants to make good sound educated decisions uh with predictable outcomes and and um and so you know i i don't see this winter being any different uh is he going to be investing heavily in this roster as he always does the answers yes um i does he get the credit for doing that probably nowhere near as much as as he should because i i know how you know um ultimately the fanbase doesn't care about anything as much as the the final verdict which is a world championship and that kind of you know becomes the exclamation point and the end all and be all and but even though it's you know that holy grail is a lot more difficult to navigate than then i think uh you know uh gets credit for so um you know he'll be the same as he always is uh he'll he'll be honest to find the right mix of personnel and players and and uh at times he'll be challenged with tough decisions about you know it's going to cost this and he'll think about it with his family and and normally he always answers that call with a if you honestly believe in it if he believes that process is good then then uh and sound and it's been talked through you know he's always been there to say yes it's very very few times if at all that i can recall that so no does it for you guys the longer it goes on cash without you i mean this was obviously target as a championship year for you guys does every year kind of feel the same or each year that you guys come back without it does the pressure feel increased to get it done um you know i first and foremost did we have a championship team this was a championship caliber team uh obviously uh as we walk through what's going on here you have uh you have to reflect honestly objectively on what this roster looked like and what its capabilities were and and what it really was had accomplished and on the verge of watching a team that was a wildcard entry in the world series have a two game and to none lead currently it shows you that difficulty of navigating october every one of these teams that enter in one uh form or another obviously have a chance to take that final bow uh and clearly this uh the final chapter of the 2019 season hasn't been written yet um but just because we lost doesn't diminish diminish the fact that this was a championship caliber roster that was capable of winning the whole thing uh we just obviously struggled in certain categories uh in houston uh with houston during that series that you know denied us that ultimate prize um but again it's our job to be objective and and truly evaluate you know the strengths and weaknesses and added up and it was like this was this roster championship caliber and had a legitimate opportunity to represent uh the final team standing the answer to that question is yes so i'm not going to lose sight of that in my discussions with ownership and my recommendations of of where we need to continue to go and and so the winner program will be no different than others it's going to be the type that you would look at the areas of weakness uh with a hundred win team isn't as much you know that's why obviously turn him the clock back to to the summer it makes it more difficult to improve on teams that have that type of you know uh power uh meaning you know talent and so you know we'll look at where what's available and where you know it might fit for us relative to the current obligations and commitments and you know with the arbitrations etc that factor into play and and see if we can add to it if possible uh despite that being a difficult process um but not afraid of it not afraid just to to to admit that this was a great team uh not afraid to acknowledge that we won up against the great team in houston for instance and and uh you know so i think it's very important not to get emotional uh very important to be certainly reflective on areas that you can get better at but obviously objective and and acknowledge the areas that you've been really good at and excel at so the time frame of uh you know in this industry that's not guide the guiding principle for for us or for me personally i'll say uh i can just tell you that i'm proud of of all personnel we have and and uh and what we've done to put ourselves in a position to take our shot and disappointed that that at least in 2019 it wasn't enough but but i know that you know most teams would love to be in a position that we've put ourselves in and would love to have the roster players that we have and and and many in most cases the personnel that we have running it and and um so you know we'll we're not going to lose sight of those facts was as we navigate what's next whatever that happens to be so even if you aren't ready to announce any of the personal changes were there changes that you made to the process the evaluation process about the injuries and the rehab situations that you went through this year are there anything that you did differently during the course of the year that you can enlighten us on no no it's not something i'm going to address right now so uh did did did you actually do things or you're not i just not going to address any of that right now clearly a respect for the personnel working in in those environments uh just not going to address it clearly or as an area of focus and it's an area that we are looking into without question and it's a process that's ongoing and but i'm not going to address you know if anything was changed along the way but i just acknowledge that yeah there's areas of concern areas of problems areas of focus that we are looking into and have looked into and if we've made adjustments to certain things along the way in season i don't feel like i need to address that publicly there are several starting pitchers over the last few years that you passed on that are in the world series right now i didn't pass on them you didn't no i didn't pass on them how would you characterize it well i guess why would you characterize it that i passed on them were there opportunities to get some of these guys give me some specifics justin verlander garret coal patrick corbin justin verlander uh was a player what two three years ago that was in play that under our current if you recall the payroll structure they were under was not going to fit in our environment given the directives from above and that's not blaming ownership on that aspect at all but we had overspent to a level we're going to be under our payroll and and they're the ultimate goal was to get our luxury tax issues we're rewarding our opponents around the game you know back in check so so verlander was not passing verlander was not someone that was in play because of those protocols that were in place so that's one so what's the next one but that that that question had been answered several times over it's it's semantics then as far as what we're describing is why they're not well like if you talked about patrick corbin did we not make an offer for patrick corbin yes or no you tell me you know the answer do you not know the answer i was told no uh did you make an offer we made an offer in patrick corbin the washington nation nationals made us a more significant offer than patrick corbin so i don't know who told you no that would be false okay so has how or you expressed any regrets so would you categorize that as a pass i would categorize it as we're arguing semantics and they're currently not here all right and my question though is garrick coal was traded from pittsburgh to houston did we make an offer to pittsburgh for garrick coal yes or no yes okay did that mean we passed on it or he nor pittsburgh made a determination you did not increase the offer enough to get him did you houston made an offer that in pittsburgh's mind was a better offer than arms you know these are this is all ancient history but these are all facts but that doesn't mean we passed on anything my we made attempts to try to acquire my question to you is had as how expressed any regrets over any of these decisions that did not go in your favor over the course of the last couple years and or do you regret anything i would i don't regret our process and there's certain things in that process that that's controlled and some things that are out of our control in terms of knowledge of you know i have no knowledge in free agency of what an opposing team is offering until ultimately it comes out after the signings elsewhere so you know whether it's dallas kykel this summer or or patrick querman this past winter and you know it's not like obviously it's illegal to be calling the other clubs to find out what they're offering so you don't know until then so that in the kykel situation for instance which you didn't bring up but but i remember i used that that line of hair by you know we lost out by the hair of a chinny chin chin or something like that which is it was a very close number from where our offer was but how would i know that you know so uh so you put your best foot forward and you live with it i have no regrets if we have a strong process and we put our best foot forward based on a lot of pressure points and then you live with it um so am i living with that i'm living with that am i comfortable with with every decision and everything that we went through our process or i think we have a strong healthy process that leads us to to make whatever offers we're making at the time and for good reason and something we can be comfortable with and um you know so you know you don't get everything you want at all times but i think what we've done is was do a lot of great things along the way so you know i i can sleep at night with the process we have in place and it served us well and put us in a position to take a legitimate shot of the championship so far uh in the more recent years and and that's despite you know obviously you know some of the the options that went elsewhere um so Brian to the right and then clap cash uh two things first do you anticipate the entire coaching staff coming back for next year uh this press conference is ahead of the the protocols that we go through so me and Aaron Boone have to decide uh obviously what we want to do next if we want to make any changes if we don't want to make any changes that means reviewing with each individual staff member first and foremost their area of specialties and uh and then mapping out moving forward if that's the best fit for as we move forward so i can't i'm not in a position um to say yes or no on that because we haven't gone through that process yet so second uh this team was really built on power hitting and power bullpen did anything that happened in the alcs change your opinion about that that can work in october no i mean no i mean this team this team uh had a lot of strengths uh ultimately we just didn't hit in a timely manner um compared to our opponent in that particular series we out home or the astros um you know uh they just got you know a big home run for instance a more timely manner than we did we had obviously without naming names we just sort of you know had some serious struggles with runners in scoring position that you know ultimately decided the outcome of that series they were able to um you know step up and and put us down when it counted the most when those important times came came into play and that was with some seriously talented gifted hitters um that have a history of uh of track record and performance but um so you credit them but in terms of how we approached pitching the opposing team that we faced how we approached all aspects but i thought we we did a tremendous job and and even though the the pitching is a highlighted of why you know going back to swinney's question about regrets pitching is not what cost us that series with the astros um at least that's my opinion i i felt that our um hitters hitting with runners in scoring positions what sent us home um that's ultimately when you peel the union that's the the true fact of the matter of what decided the ultimate outcome of the houston astro new york yankee series clap to the right against the right um you mentioned a moment ago that it's important not to get emotional about the way the season ended but your players understandably took took that loss very hard in houston considering how abruptly it ended i'm wondering how you yourself reacted to it uh are you over it do you still think about it or is everything that now at this point forward directed everything's forward directed um and even when the postseason is playing out it's forward directed so you know that i get a lot of questions constantly after for instance the trade deadline in september hits like what are you up to like we're dealing with 2020 and like really i'm like oh yeah like you know damon oppenheimer flew up with the his amateur scouting department and went through the the debriefing of the 2019 amateur draft and we're moving forward there and and that goes on with all similar departments department so despite as we're entering postseason and getting you know the first round with who's going to be our opponent turns out to be minnesota and we're preparing for the advanced scouting stuff behind the scenes with various baseball ops departments that you know they're in season has been completed you know we start the 2020 process of mapping out where are we weak where we need to be better what's the you know challenge our process here there and everywhere unfortunately when you walk into that clubhouse post elimination after 10 minutes or 15 minutes or what have you of of the raw emotions of what happened yeah you got you're going to get you know some you better get really if you're as you walk into that environment those emotions that's obviously you know so you get a chance to interview an Aaron judge and you get a chance to talk to obviously the manager and the coaches and the players and their immediate you know massive disappointment of having their season you know abruptly end sooner than they wanted it to and um obviously this press conference feels like it feels like 10 days later even though it's not 10 days later uh so i'm in a much better position um you know to be you know objective and less emotional about what happened uh but it's you know it's the nature of the beast have been around a long time where you know there's only going to be one team gets the pound on the chest pound their chest um and then everybody else comes up with excuses of why they weren't good enough uh everybody else come and some have more legitimate re excuses and others um but you know we're happened to be in that category of finding reasons why it wasn't us when eventually one team is going to be and it's down now down between the washington nationals and the houston astros one team is going to be crowned all the glory for better for worse whether they have deficiencies or not you know i remember every year we've won the world series i knew going into the postseason i'm like you always wish you could have done done a you know a better job here had one guy or more guys healthier there and is it going to be good enough and it was standing but when they win all those questions and concerns or areas of weakness that that you know would be picked apart get forgotten because ultimately you overcame them and uh unfortunately obviously in 2019 you know we over we overcame a lot but not enough when it counted obviously in the alcs to take that next step and and take the final phase and the final shot so so we're in that category of doing what we're doing to hear and we'll do all winter and get dissected by by everybody um and we'll just we'll dissect ourselves at the same time but again while doing so we don't want to make mistakes and and and get emotional and uh so then when you start addressing areas you start making mistakes because you're emotional and so that's you know that's a challenge but it's one that we're up for one other follow-up in terms of dissecting i'm just curious at this point how would you evaluate gary sanchez's body of work i thought gary sanchez had a great season obviously outside of the injuries um you know gary is is part of the solution uh you know i think he listen what we did against their offense in terms of compressing their offense was was as much to do with our pitchers and as gary sanchez but gary's a big part of that he follows the game plan he executes the game plan um you know uh he limited the astros the two storm bases the whole series and they're a very aggressive base running team uh so he shuts down the opposing running game and again if you if you look at the offense that they produced and what they're capable of you know you you know as i said we didn't lose assists this series because of pitching and then i when i say our pitching did a great job during that series um gary's a big part of the reasons why and how he uh you know called those games and you know how he kept changing the signs obviously to to try for instance to to make sure that we're protecting our our pitch selections and i just thought he did a remarkable job uh but i don't think he gets the credit that he's due um i obviously on the offensive side you know he didn't swing the bat as much as he's capable of but he's one of the biggest difference makers at that position in the game and uh so uh i think gary's been a big plus for us and one of the reasons why we've been able to excel um so i'll take a few more pete in the back right brian um in hindsight would you have done anything differently regarding uh statins racha spot in the alcs and was incarnacion a completely healthy player for you in that series uh i'll take the incarnacion first uh was he a completely healthy player the answer is yes at least uh as far as we know and you know and the way he was swinging the bat as hard as he was and i would say hard slash violent whatever you want to call i mean he was taking some huge cuts uh so i would say that based on what we witnessed there that i would have severe doubts that that there was any injury issue lingering with him with the rib cage um he had a tremendous series of thought against minnesota one of the reasons why we advanced and and we played great baseball during that series and he him included um yeah he struggled obviously against uh the houston during the houston series and that was a surprise um so the question line incarnacion was he healthy i believe a hundred percent the answer to that is yes uh switching on the stan um stan had a grade two a low grade two uh strain um and obviously if this was in season he would have been put down but in the post season it's all a different category and there's a penalty if you put him down he wouldn't be available for the world series and so um right or wrong uh you know i made the determination that to keep him in play for the for the potential uh next stage you know i weighed that as being more valuable than replacing him with somebody else on the roster uh to come in who would then sit the bench and and you know so whether it was for instance luke void who i talked about is having surgery now or or if it was somebody else um was that person going to go in and then be starting immediately and the answer to that was no somebody else was going to be taking that those reps and so uh you know because obviously you know um you know talkman wasn't a hundred percent finished off yet he was at about 85 so talkman was available for the world series but not for the alcs um so as we navigated our legitimate choices and then if whoever if we did replace stan out the long uh the framing it properly would be that would be for a bench player that i didn't see how many how much if at all he would get a role so i thought the upside of waiting on having this healing process kick in and have stan available for the next round if we were fortunate enough to get there that overshadowed replacing stan with a bench player somebody was going to not have an everyday role for us during that astro series uh right or wrong but that was the the essence of the decision mark and bradford cash we know chatman has an opt out date coming up do you anticipate talking to his agents at all before that opt out date to see if something can be worked out and if he does leave do you look at zack britain as a guy who could close well i'm sorry repeat the question again chatman has an opt out date coming up do you anticipate speaking with his his agents prior to the opt out to see if like when you did with cc adding something to the back of his contract to prevent him from opting out and if he does leave do you look at britain as a guy who could step in and be your closer if he does appreciate the question is you know so it's a sensitive aspect of it he has an opt out clearly we all acknowledge that um he'll have decisions to make i don't think it's in it's healthy for me to openly talk about whether um we intend to have discussions if discussions are currently happening or any of that nature prior to then so ultimately uh you know dates coming um and uh you know we'll see what happens between now and then or or obviously at that date um and i don't want to you know um speculate on alternative options uh when i currently don't have to because i don't think that's either it's healthy to the process either um so i respectfully duck bradford second row on the right hey brine um pitching staff of course was very good cumulatively against the astros um but players didn't mention an immediate aftermath of the game six being uh overexposed tired um specifically i think uber exposes when one pitcher said you know do you believe that the construction of the rotation and the starting staff and anything to do with the overexposure and do you plan on addressing that well i think i think we thought we we took a big hit when we lost one of the best starters in the american league in late september you know and that had a cascade effect so as we entered entered october i mean obviously the loss of domingo herman was not you know you lose people for various reasons injuries would have you but herman going down but tanzas going down you know players that we were actually anticipating and expecting to be a part of the october process disappeared on us in the last two weeks of the season so uh with that um it had a cascade effect that's certainly you know worth in on us um and yeah i would say that um it forced us to be more even in the we're utilizing our our weapons out of the pen and plan to do that regardless but we had to lean on that even more because we lost certain you know players along the way that that had us reconfigure and uh you know that's all part of you know uh you don't you just like you lose stanton in the middle of the alcs uh you know or in the beginning of the alcs it's just injuries happen or circumstances occur that that force you to stay away from certain guys um britain had a hamstring during the red sock series the previous postseason and and which affected decision making on how you can deploy the rest of your roster um that comes with the territory um but those are just facts that you can't ignore either so uh john right right a couple more at triple a you guys had a lot of players who were ready to come in and be major leaguers or had been major leaguers philosophically at this point with all the injuries and everything and also the 26 man next year is the number changing for the number of major league players you need to be acquiring in the off season i don't know i mean obviously next year we're gonna have a 26th man so it's gonna certainly be a new wrinkle in how to construct rosters because you'd be at 26 and 40 not 25 and 40 so um so how that works out and and how people determine to utilize that it'll be interesting because it'll be a new world order there uh and a new focus to to dissect on who's doing it better than others and um but yeah i'm proud of the fact that we assembled enough quality alternative talent that we had to tap into or that we wound up acquiring elsewhere uh that could help plug gaps along the way and we do feel that we have you know whether it was a what my mic forward or a or a clint frazier uh you know Tyler Wade or you know all of them have various levels of abilities uh and ceiling uh but they all impacted us in the positive way at one time or another and and certainly had to utilize that you know Nestor Cortes that pitching side of it in in many times because of the the ability with the options and stuff and so Nestor came in and really did an amazing job for us along the way and and i can't i'm gonna miss so many because we had to be tapping into that scranton shuttle to such a degree um and in almost in every case it really paid off for us you know in one time or another or for extended periods of time that allowed us to not just tread water but to excel um i don't know if it would change the equation i think your main question is is that a new focus i think everybody desires and hopes to have massive deep talent uh and it's just not typically realistic or possible uh because you got 29 other clubs and the the uh talent uh pool isn't really as deep as you prefer it to be you know that exists in the baseball industry so uh that you can at least tap into for a major league ready plug and play type uh you know circumstances but you know we're going to try about we'll have to go about that process again this winter and see if we can line up as much depth you know as we possibly can you know because i know as the season started you didn't see geo coming you know and ohara supposed to be your third baseman and thankfully geo was sitting there waiting in the rings and boom you know um one of the amazing year he had for instance and that's a really prime you know shiny example of of something special and then obviously talkman along the way and amongst others so it's probably hard to replicate that you know um that's why you know we thought we're on a magic carpet ride with all the good things going our way but it uh that ultimately you know ended in houston we're going to take two more back and brendon sorry i know there's more hands Ryan as of today where does her mind fit in your short and long-term picture uh in his circumstance we have to wait for this whole process still to play out you know um i don't have any answers to where they are in this process is between major league baseball the players association and domingo herman um uh so i and we're not privy to anything on that process so so i can't speak to it and am i allowed to speak to it's not not by choices by you know by directive as well brendon cash out on your left side thank you the fillies are reportedly or reportedly hiring joe giordi what kind of manager are they getting got a great one you know joe was here for 10 years for a reason um you know i obviously did an interview process back to replace a hall of fame manager and joe tory uh and and so that led me to you know an amazing candidate and joe giordi um and that was obviously a difficult process to go through you know obviously i had to add some huge names in that mix don mattingly tony panier who had been a uh an american league manager of the year with the cancy royals but ultimately joe giordi prevailed in that interview process and ultimately you know had a massively successful run here with ultimately a world championship uh in 2009 so uh anybody who's ever asked me which they have trust me every team that's done gone through this interview asked me about joe giordi and and uh you know to me if you're going to marketplace and he was available in the marketplace you could find no better candidate and so he's going to represent their franchise well um you know he is going to be all in as you all know whoever covered him and see the passion and the fire that he possesses in that dugout and and he's been a winner one of the things that gravitated me to joe back then was uh you know i i had the perfect uh had a great relationship with him as a player you know i was a general manager here when he was a player he was a coach for me then he ultimately managed for me um he was a broadcaster for yes that's not has anything to do with me um but um you know uh he's been a winner his entire career and so i would expect nothing but the same that's going to continue there in philadelphia so um so wish him luck i thought they had a great selection uh and um rather it be not the american league east i guess that's the biggest compliment i could give thank you brian we'll be back in a minute or two with erin boone thanks cash thanks