President of Baseball Operations, David Stearns.

Thanks for everyone for showing up this afternoon.

I'll say a few words and then

I'm happy to take any questions.

I think whenever the season ends it's not a lot of fun.

It stings, it still stings for me right now and it will for a little while and it should.

That means we care about it. That means we were doing something important that

means we made it far enough for it to really hurt.

I'm also really proud of the group, the entire organization, the effort, the skill that went into. the

skill that went into getting to where we ultimately got.

It certainly wasn't a straight path.

It took some moments of real resilience for us to ultimately get there.

And I think in some ways that made a little bit more special and also a little bit tougher when it ultimately ended.

And I think some of what we learned this year,

and maybe some of the identity that we were able to organically create as an organization will serve us well going

forward, that we can carry it going forward and continue to build off of what we did this year.

I also am keenly aware that nothing is predetermined.

Our success this year does not mean anything for our success next year.

We've got work to do.

I'm energized by that work as an organization.

We feel like we're in a really good spot and we're ready to go.

And we're eager to build off of this and create the type of sustained competitiveness

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