I gotta make sure that I mentioned 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 and I, I will make sure that I
get that message out to these players. I'm gonna
start, I'm gonna give them a little time away
. Um Let them decompress a little bit, but
at some point, we're gonna start to, I'll
start to connect with them and I'm gonna make sure
that I, they, they know how proud I
am of them and how proud um this, this
entire organization is of them because they made something very
magical happen this year. I didn't do my job
well enough to help us win a World Series and
I, I wanna do that I want to do
that for everybody in this, in this community in
the state. So I'm sorry, and I'm going
to learn and I'm gonna die trying to win a
world championship as a manager of the Arizona Diamondbacks.
That's my promise to them. 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 moving into
next year with the team, we're gonna have coming
back, it's going to take continued improvement with our
younger group. I said this before that, I
thought the, you know, the biggest area that
we were gonna 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 on
our internal roster. That's not to say the external
additions that are gonna need to happen to continue to
improve that even bigger gains. But I still think
with the group of 21 to 3 year olds that
we have a lot both in the rotation and,
and, and in the lineup. Um And in
the bullpen that uh uh another big jump um for
this team will happen with continued development of that group --> .