Byrnes on the players: I probably need to spend more time on the current roster with Paul, the people who’ve been here, Warren Schaeffer, et cetera, front office, to give you anything more than sort of other side of the field answers, although that might be what you’re asking.
There are some guys that, like I said, we’ve liked over time, and you need more of them. You need more good players. And Paul and I have talked about it just conceptually, like raising the floor, like having a deeper team with fewer gaps, innings, plate appearances that are going to players that aren’t quite what we need. So there’s a lot of ways to start attacking it, but there’s definitely some talent in place, and some players over time that I know have piqued my interest and piqued the interest of the Dodgers.
And then to reiterate, some of them, a couple, I know, to just sit down where that player is in his career, like, ‘Okay, how do we get you better?’ And let’s keep going. And I would say even that mentality, one of the many things that allow the Dodgers to be successful is the four sort of “certain Hall of Famers” on the roster never stop. They never stop pushing, trying. You know, ‘Shohei, can you steal 50 bases?’ ‘Mookie, can you play short?’ ‘Kersh, can you pitch with without your 95-mile-an-hour fastball?’ It’s a non-stop quest for improvement, and in their case, greatness. That’s really it. It has to come from the player, but we also have to support it and be right there with them.