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Joining us right now as he does every Wednesday at this time. It's Mike Rizzo, President and General Manager of the Washington

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all the guys how are you I guess we should lead off with James Wood you know somebody

asked me well why didn't he when you guys announce that he was coming, why didn't he, when you guys announced that he was coming up,

why didn't he play on Saturday or Sunday, you guys waited for the home game,

and I just said, they're waiting for the home game.

Tell us about the decision to bring up James Wood what it means for the franchise and just the impact that he should have on the lineup down the road.

Well, the rumor he was coming out, weaved out on Friday or Saturday, the plan was all

long to bring about July 1st, to start a long home stand where he's a little bit more comfortable at home and that type of thing.

So, but you know the thought process behind it was, you know, he had he had done all the all the prerequisites and the and

things that we wanted him to work on in in triple A. We wanted him did. We

wanted them to you know get about 200 at bats we wanted to see some left-end

of pitching we wanted them to play you know all three outfield positions and

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