00:00I would imagine Banner's going to be the player development guy, I guess, just take over what Matt Blood was
00:05doing.
00:06No surprise that Elias would still be, you know, doing trades, free agency, stuff like that.
00:14That's kind of what I assumed.
00:15The draft.
00:17Oh, yeah, the draft, of course.
00:18International signing.
00:19So, yeah, but I think, you know, we shouldn't really just dismiss Banner's role just because he's not making trades.
00:27Oh, I'm not.
00:28If anything, you know, the one area that I think most people would look at this organization and say is
00:33lacking is that player development for the guys that are already here or the next wave.
00:39You know, some of the recent draft picks, the guys that they acquired from the Red Sox, for example, that
00:43are still pretty young and untapped.
00:46Right.
00:46How do we get them to ensure that they are cornerstone pieces of the future or right some of the
00:51wrongs that they had with, you know, some of Mike's earlier draft picks?
00:55So, there's a lot of work for him to do just in that area alone.
00:59His presence is certainly welcome.
01:01But expecting him to come in and change the way that they approach free agency, the way that they approach,
01:08I don't know, what kind of guys they look at.
01:10That's my fear, I guess, is that if Elias is still fully in control of free agency.
