Of course, it's Corey Seager breaks up the no
hitter to start the seven Texas in the center.
It's three to nothing. Texas. That's, it's
Rangers. It's special. I'm not gonna lie.
It's special to come here in my first year.
You know, with the team that was determined to
play winning baseball and never won a championship as far
as me, that's a by product of what those
guys did out there and what the front office did
. I, I was alone for, right.
Trust me and they did everything they said they were
going to do. They went out and got started
pitching group, the club. We had young talent
coming up. I knew this was a good ball
club. And so, you know, I,
I'm, I'm very fortunate blessed, you know,
to come into this. It's such a great group
of guys. Yeah. You know, I've talked
about it for a lot of it was c why
just the way he laid it out how he laid
it out, you know, you, he didn't
hide, hide from anything. He didn't try away
from anything. He knew where they were and he
knew where he wanted to go. It's just awesome
, you know, this is, I mean,
this is the, this is the vision, right
? It's truly is incredible. Um But it's not
just me, man, what, what this team
did and how we competed and all the guys in
there rallying, you know, we, we don't
really have one leader, you know, that that
whole clubhouse is a leader too. I gotta make
sure that I mention how proud I am of this
team and how proud I am of this um of
this group that stuck together that um that stayed connected
in good and bad times, never doubted uh what
our overall goal was and that was to win a
baseball game today and it landed us in, in
November who would have ever thought that we would have
an extra month of baseball and we would play as
far as long and as far as we did into
the season, I'm really proud of that. I
, I feel like part of my responsibility is to
set reasonable expectations, realistic expectations, not reasonable,
realistic expectations for what we're shooting for. Um And
I don't see any reason why that's not a realistic
expectation within the next year with the team we're going
to have coming back. It's going to take continued
improvement with our younger group. I said this before
that I thought, I mean, you know,
the biggest area that we were going to move forward
in improving sort of our, on the paper,
you know, wins was gonna be for our young
players and their development. And a lot of that
happened this year. I have a visual prop for
this next bit of news. This was Max Muncey's
$10 million option to stay with the Dodgers. They
tore it up and they decided to back up a
truck and give him a new deal, which is
the right move, by the way, for one
of the toughest at bats in the big leagues.
Max Munsey, instead of having his$10 million option
picked up the Dodgers said we love you. Uh
Here's 24 million for two more full seasons. Last
time they were there 2011, they had lost back
to back World Series and one of their members has
decided to hang it up. Ironically, Nelly Cruz
spent eight of his 19 major league seasons as a
Texas Ranger, a prolific home run hitter, seven
time all star 464 homers good for 37th on the
all time list at this moment and he has decided
to hang them up. One of the game's true
, gentlemen. It is really an honor uh for
me to introduce Craig Breslow, uh as our new
chief baseball officer first, I'd like to thank John
Tom Mike and Sam for engaging me in this process
and ultimately, for entrusting me with executing our shared
vision for building a sustainable winner here in Boston.
I think this is I think this is a good
team that does a lot of things really, really
well. I also think the opportunities to improve are
pretty well documented. Uh, and, you know
, when people think about off-season work and, and
this will be a theme that I'll, I'll,
uh, you know, really try to hammer,
we talk about, generally tend to talk about the
acquisition side of things. I think it's really important
not to lose sight of the opportunity to develop our
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