So I get attacked in the hallway by Evan.

Oh, yeah? Yeah. I don't want bed sent down yet. I don't want bed shut down yet. I said, look, I didn't say he should be sent down today. I just said, how much longer are you going to be patient with the young man to allow him to get the confidence back that he had when the season started coming out of spring training. That's all I said.

And I said, would I be surprised? They want to send him back down to get his confidence back up again? I wouldn't be surprised if they decided to do that. Yeah, but not any time in April. But Evan's like, hey, did you see his last at bat? I said, all right, so he hit the ball hard and it got caught up in the wind. I mean, that's one at bat.

Yeah.

This is, it's too early to have that discussion.

And I think that, you know, as I mentioned, David Stearns loves the guy, wanted him to be a starter for them.

He had a great spring.

He had a ton of confidence in him. And now it's his first foray into the big leagues. You've got to give him some time. Well, all I asked, and I did not say, and I specifically told Evan, because he gets nuts when it comes to the Mets, I told him, I said, I did not say, send him down now. I just said, how much longer are you going to give him before you decide we got to get him back and we got to get his confidence back? Because right now,

and maybe that last about yesterday helped him, I don't know. I mean, you know, baseball is a very

weird and wacky sport, but I also know that rookies can become overwhelmed when they feel like

things aren't going their way and they want to start pressing. And then next thing you know,

they can't find their way out of it. Yeah. I mean, I think if, like, let's say Juan Soto is out

for the full three weeks. You got to keep him here for at least that period of time? Yeah. And then

if he's still looking completely overwhelmed, you know, when Soto comes off the IL,

maybe that's a discussion you have.

But I just, I don't think anything will happen before that.

I just, it's too soon.

And by the way, now that they've won four in a row, it also gives a little more freedom. I mean, if they had gone on an extended losing streak and he wasn't doing anything, you feel like they'd just shake things up. But, you know, the offense has been pretty good of late. And you can kind of hide someone who's having a rough start. I mean, for God's sakes, I mean, Francisco Lendor is that a rough start too. But it's different. I know it's different, but I'm just saying it's a lot easier to deal with big slumps when you're winning baseball games and, you know, you don't feel the need to have to make a major shake-up early in the season if you're winning. They've got a four-game winning streak going on right now what do you think kai korea thinks that he's going to make a shiv out of a shard of a bat

at some point during the season yeah it'd be a be a shiver right carlos bendoza. I just eventually

something's got to come.

And they know because they obviously

watch these guys every single day.

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