 Brian, you've been on the record for a few weeks now saying, need pitching, going to try and add pitching. Deadline passes, you didn't add any pitching. What happened in that regard? Wasn't for lack of effort. We engaged all teams. Some players, obviously, we didn't match up for. Other circumstances, those players weren't really available, even though they're widely talked about in the public setting. Some of them, obviously, had some, whether it was contract status issues or medical issues. So it was just a lot of different individual circumstances that basically put us in a position to not be able to complete anything. As my job, obviously, is constantly trying to improve this club. And we're doing it for a long time. And just in terms of the circumstance, we didn't get close to anything. But we certainly knocked on all doors, had a lot of ideas and exchange of ideas with clubs and in our effort to improve. But the fallback has always been, we know we have a good club already. And the job is to, obviously, look under every rock to see if you can turn up something to add to what we already have. And just didn't get that done. I feel comfortable with walking away from everything that was in front of me, because those weren't real opportunities as far as my conversations are going. So the fallback is to look in that room and the players we have and feel really good about those guys. Hope that the ones we have that are coming off the DL at some point come back and join the party and keep the scene rolling. But in the meantime, obviously, with the trade deadline, certainly wanted to do more. If we could have done more to improve this club, we've been doing it across the course of the season, whether we were running into a Maybin or an N'Knarcyon along the way amongst others. But obviously, through this 31st, we're unable to add to that from what we've already done. Eric. Cash, given what one of your main competitors or what is assumed to be one of your main competitors in the postseason did in Houston, do you feel like they created a significant gap between where the two clubs are? Well, let's find out. We've got to play the season out. We've got to take care of our own business to put ourselves in a position to be one of those fortunate teams to play in October and then take our roster up against whoever and see where it takes us. Cash, would you characterize yourself as disappointed with how this worked out? I would say disappointed that I can't add to what I already have, which I feel good about and strong about. And the intent and interest is obviously, can I add to it? Can I add to it? And me and my staff worked extremely hard to have no regrets in terms of the effort in trying to match up with others. But again, the various reasons, it didn't work out. So certainly disappointed that you'd like to have more if you could. But I didn't have any realistic chance in my mind, based on the dialogue, to do so. Certainly not something that when the beginning of the month we line up and say, oh, I look forward to being on this day and I've done this enough where you present the various new options that come your way. And here we are. And we're going to augment our roster with these new players and see how it works. But this was a unique deadline. It felt different. What the reasons for that are to explain other than the fact that I'd say almost everything was out of reach based on my dialogues. But we stayed at it and tried to see if the prices were going to change. And then I think I've been fairly public. I met with a number of you up in Fenway Park by last, but we're in front of you. It's saying essentially that we're going to be disciplined and walk through this process. And I can't share obviously the dialogues and the options that were in front of me. But I feel strongly that the decisions that were made were the benefit of the franchise. And despite obviously wanting to add to the roster. So trust me, we're in alignment from top to bottom, sharing everything with ownership all the way through about what the realistic shop options were, sharing the price tags associated with how it puts pressure point, whether it's on the payroll, whether it's the medical risk if you went this way, the payroll risk if you went that way, or the prospect value if you matched up this way. And there was nothing that lined up to the point where we were a go on. So again, you fall back and look at the roster you have and feel like, well, this is a damn good roster. And it can compete we feel with anybody in the game. You always want to reinforce for the stretch drive because of injuries that could happen. And you like the more the merrier. But because of how it shaked out, we're going to basically look to hopefully add from our disable list, which we have some pretty star studded guys sitting there waiting in the wings. And hopefully their rehabs finally finish off properly. And they can join this club and reinforce us and make us the best we can possibly be. Did you have any serious discussions with the Mets in regards to Wheeler and or Cindergarten? I talked to Brody quite a lot. As I did with almost every team, except for obviously, I think I told you in Fenway, we weren't engaged with Boston at all. But I was engaging everybody. So yeah, I talked to the Mets. James to the right. Kesh, you said some of the prices were just weren't realistic. And what specifically do you mean by that? Like financially, prospect-wise, and at that point, like obviously a contending team, the idea that you guys are close and to add, I guess, would have to quote unquote overpay at some point. Was that just beyond a comfort zone for you, the way some other teams maybe add and just essentially have to give up top prospects to do so? You know, I think they're all individually answered, the overpay, as a buyer, for the most part, it has to hurt. I get that, you know, but I was not willing to do what was available and what was being presented. And clearly, my counterparts were unwilling to do what I was willing to do in my offers. So maybe my counterparts felt my offers were underwhelming, and I certainly felt their offers were overwhelming. We just never matched up. And again, as I said, there's a lot of players that were allegedly available in the marketplace that really weren't. As you see, they weren't moved. We had the conversations, regardless, and knocked on the doors. And then some of the players that were available in the marketplace, we didn't really value, especially for them. But we'd knock on the door. Maybe they have a different role for us, be a long man or something like that. But those prices weren't really good. So listen, we tried to look at different ways to navigate, see if we can match up and add to, again, what we have. But, you know, and I fall back. We have a very strong position group, you know, obviously a very deep bullpen. You know, the rotations, obviously, was a focus. And if it wasn't the rotation, you know, we could fall back into the bullpen. We navigated all of that. But we still came away with the best play was we did nothing. And we did nothing for a good reason, because we felt that everything that was in front of me was really not obtainable based on the associated costs. And that's with understanding as a buyer, you have to step up and overpay. But these were prices that I felt were making things way out of reach. So way out of reach and way out of line. So, you know, that's why we're here today talking about the decision to do what we did, which was stand pat, fall back on that current roster of guys we have in there. And then obviously wait for some of the people that we have on the disabled list to come back. Pete, Ryan, with the situation with Voight now and with some of the other position player injuries you're dealing with that have you in other markets, other than the pitching market today? We talked about it briefly, you know, obviously the unfortunate thing. We're watching this game play out today and you start seeing DD and you see, you know, Geo and they get banged up a little bit, you know, like, oh, and you already know what happened, you know, the day before Voight. But, you know, we got a very, as of this day, you know, a very deep roster of talent and options and it goes right into AAA. So we kicked around, do I need to get another bat? Or, you know, the fact that we have the Tokmans, the Mavens, the Clint Frazier's, you know, we got Edwin and Canarsione and when we talked about getting him it was with the understanding of, all right, you know, we're gonna get Stanton back here at some point too and, but Edwin protects us, you know, if there is an issue at first base, you know, so, but we looked at the versatility that DJ LaMayu's providing, you know, he can play first, Edwin can play first and with a lot of those younger guys or versatile guys, whether it's the outfielders I already referenced in the Tokman and Maven and Frazier, you know, some of the younger, you know, talented infielders, whether it's the Strata, Valera, Tyler Wade, what have you, you know, it gives us a lot more flexibility. Not that we want it, we want Voigt back, but did I feel we needed to go to marketplace to get a bat after that dialogue we felt no, we felt like we would, you know, double down on the bats we already have and continue to focus on the pitching. Yeah. Boone said that Voigt, it might be a six-week thing if he has surgery. Are you confident that if that's the case he will be a player for you down the stretch? Well, I don't know if anybody's determined surgery is required just yet. I'm not confident he'll be back in six weeks if he has a surgery. I think the standard doctor evaluation from the specialist would be like, yeah, six weeks and stuff, but then you got to factor in baseball activities and baseball game ready and all that stuff which usually adds on to that timeframe. So hopefully it's not something that comes across his table for the playing season, but if it does, and I just kind of spoke to the fact that, you know, we have other ways we can play this thing because, you know, that the importance of the Incanarsion acquisition earlier in the season. And do you think there might be a correlation between the abdominal injury he had in London and this one? Yeah, I would say so. I mean, the abdominal injury is a core injury and I think it's all probably related to ultimately affecting him, you know, in that area. And so that's, I think, why we called it a core injury back in London. So yeah, I think it's all related. Is that disappointing then? I mean, to have him go through the protocol of going back and then suffering a similar injury? No, I think it happens. I mean, it's disappointing you have an injury, but it's not, when we're in London, we knew that there could be potential problems moving forward. It's, hey, it looks like this is an area that let's see how he responds to rest and recovery. And if he does, you know, then you're okay and you can start to forget about it. If obviously he doesn't, then, you know, we've got some more issues to be dealing with, which we are dealing with now. So, you know, I was getting to the point where I was forgetting he had the London injury till this occurred, so, but it's occurred. So it's either gonna have to be dealt with or they'll treat it more aggressively with an injection and hopefully he responds well to that and then we get back into that forgetting it ever happened mode. Sometimes I've been around the block here long enough. We've had this stuff before where players get through the season with some aggressive treatment, so to speak. And then they get it dealt with in the off season. That's occurred, you know, and with a number of our players, I don't wanna name who in the past and so, but for the ones that it's declared itself that's unreasonable, you have to go ahead and deal with a surgical intervention and then, you know, the downtime comes with it. So hopefully that's not the case because there's no guaranteed get back in the timeframe we want, but I guess first things first we'll see how he reacts to the conservative, the more aggressive of conservative protocols. Brendan, to the right. Does not adding a starter today over to your right side? All the way to the right, Cash. Does not adding a starter today make it any more important that Severino comes back as a starter, you'd mention that it's possible you'd maybe use him as a reliever? No, not necessarily, I mean, certainly optimally we'd love to have him back as a starter and I know optimally that's what he wants to because he is a starter and a very good one. You know, so listen, Loisica just started off on a good setting yesterday with his two winnings on his rehab assignment and then he'll go three innings, his next one out, Seve and Patanzas will progress along their lines and ultimately all of them will have a chance to play a role yet to be determined in the future of this roster. So we just got to wait on them. But no, me not getting a starter wasn't necessarily that we shouldn't have any impact on whatever Seve can do. So we just want to get him back, get him healthy and have him be a legitimate choice for a boonie and then we'll determine, you know, in terms of how many pitches that choice realistically can be. But we'll kick that can down the road till we get closer to seeing the light at the end of the tunnel on that. To the left, Brian. Cash, why did you make the trade you did today with the Rockies? Well, obviously part of the roster cleanup, so to speak, in anticipation of healthy return to play guys coming off the 60, it's gonna start knocking things, picking people off. And as you know, as you start with these major league contracts with the New World Order with August and September, you know, you start designating guys for assignment, you can't trade them now. You know, it's really a waiver claim scenario. So it's trying to get ahead of the roster crunch that you see that could very well play its way in season in 2019, as well as in anticipation of the rule five issues in the future. So that's why. Randy, you mentioned that there were some players that weren't moved that were reportedly available. Did you have any serious talks with the Giants? Did you, were you ever optimistic that you could get a deal done with them? I think I've been reinforcing for many people about my lack of optimism about getting deals done with anybody based on the price tags out there. I have talked as I said, everybody, but they're Red Sox. So, you know, I had several conversations with all teams, not in Red Sox and, but have nothing to show for those talks other than, you know, talks. Christie. Just first with boy, is it just to be clear, is it inevitable that he will have to have surgery on this maybe in the out season? It's not been determined either way. Obviously, if he responds to the more aggressive treatment on it, which includes an injection, then it does, I can't rule out that he won't have any issued as he moves forward to deal with. But those are the things they're going to have to determine here in the near term. With Severino and Betances, they've had setbacks so many times. Was there a point or something that happened that gave you confidence that they would be able to come back and impact this club this year? I mean, outside of them returning, they're returning from injuries that they should resolve in a certain time frame, unless there's something new that pops up that's unrelated. The full expectation and hope would be that they would return to who they were in a proper time frame before the season's over. Last one, Lindsey. With what was ultimately available at this deadline, how do you reflect back on not meeting the asking price for guys like Corbin, Keichel, where you wouldn't have had to give up that prospect depth? I mean, they're all related. If obviously, if you turn the clock back to the Corbin, then there's a lot of guys currently sitting in that locker room that wouldn't be here, because again, all that money would have gone in one direction, and which therefore takes away from other directions. So it's all interrelated. So we certainly had a lot of good, healthy dialogue with the agent on him, and I'm not sure if you mentioned anybody else, but it depends. Obviously, the bigger the payroll ticket item, the more impact and domino effects it has elsewhere. So we repackaged that money and produced various assets, like DJ LaMeilleux and Ottavino, amongst others in there, that might not have materialized if we went all in on one particular player. So again, it's all interrelated. So OK. Thanks, Cash. Thanks, everybody. See you.