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welcome Eddie to our organization. It's nice to have

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him on this side of the ball at this point

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. I have many years and many, many memories

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of him hitting pitches from all different locations out of

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the ballpark against us. So it'll be good to

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have his bat in our lineup. We think he

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fits in really well and add some quality major league

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outfielder to our mix. Uh, we're still working

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through whether or not he'll play left field the right

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field, something we will work during spring training.

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But we see him as a capable defender and either

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spot, and he's open to playing either position.

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There's enough information out there on the right now that

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we try to make an objective assessment of players,

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you know, regardless of where they may have played

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last year. So if the National League player would

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have been a better fit like Cesar was for us

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last year, we would have gone down that path

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. It's just, you know, we felt Eddie

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was a really good fit for our team and our

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the mindset. We although there was a lot of

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different scenarios that could have played out and still might

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play out. What we've communicated our players and staff

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is. Let's make sure we're ready to go Day

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one of spring training and prepare for a non time

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start and if we need to adjust, will do

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that. But right now it looks like that's the

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path we're headed on and our guys will be ready

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to go.