Well, Brian Cashman will join us coming up at 220. He met the media earlier. If you missed, he could

rewind it on the Odyssey app during the midday program. And I listened to everything Aaron said,

and listen to everything Brian Cashman said. And there's certainly a lot of things you can take away from it.

But I will give you the number one thing that changed my opinion. And that is, I sat here

yesterday and over the last few days when discussing the Yankee

off season, one of the things I thought was, wow, you have a surplus of starting pitching.

You could deal from a strength.

Well, it would have been easy two days ago to say, but Evan, pitchers get hurt.

Why would you deal from a strength?

Well, they're already hurt. Because Carlos

Rodan, in news none of us saw coming, needed surgery to clean up some loose bodies in his elbow,

and it was confirmed by both Cashman and Boone, he will not be ready for opening day. It doesn't

mean he's missing the season. It doesn't mean he's missing the first half. But he's going to miss the first few weeks of the season.

And because it's surgery, you don't actually know if it's just the first few weeks of the season. Combined that with the fact that Garrett Cole is indeed coming off Tommy John's surgery, we already had an idea he wasn't going to be ready for the start of the year, but he's not going to be ready for the start of the year. So I think what this reinforces to me, Sean, is that you need to wrap your arms around the starting pitching that you have and not deal from a strength, but actually keep as much of it as you can because you may need every morsel of it. Yeah, I agree with you on that front. I think if the Yankees are going to make upgrades to this roster, it will not involve trading, let's say a Luis Heel or a Will Warren or somebody like that, because you are going to need them. Now, the caveat is, I don't think that this changes my approach in the offseason in terms of what additions the Yankees make. You can never have enough starting pitching. of that I have no doubt. But, you know, I'm not going out of my way to find another starter he assigned for three or something like that. They are still going to start opening day with four of their baseline starters there with Warren, with Heel, with Schlittler now, and with Max Fried, of course, injuries notwithstanding in February or March. Ultimately, I still think Yankee starting pitching is going to be a strength of the 2026 team, but it's going to be a little nerve wracking out the gates at April. Yeah, I don't become super aggressive adding starting pitching by any stretch. I just think that now you have to wrap your arms around this and not say, you know, let's see what Louise Hill could get us on the open market. I floated the idea a few days ago

about Carlos Rodon.

I'm not even sure what his value

would be considering he's coming off of surgery.

Nothing, by the way.

Probably.

I wouldn't say nothing.

Are you going to take on the last three years of that contract

and a guy coming off loose bodies?

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