Rich

Rich.

Hey, Bob.

Call him with my typical pirate rant.

I'm going to swim upstream versus the rest of the fan base that thinks that –

sharrington has saved the franchise you know i don't think people are going that far rich the question i would have do you think they're competitive enough to get into playoffs i think that's the bar this based on what they've done well that will to be determined i mean so they've got their highest payroll in a number of years but so here's the team that's going to take the field

Pitching and defense requires pitching depth and requires defense.

They don't have pitching depth.

I don't care what anybody says.

They're going to rely on

A lot of young arms, a lot of returning from injury arms that are going to be relying on innings limits arms.

That's part of it.

The defense, clearly they don't have the defense to win on the pitching and defense side.

The hitting, yeah, they've improved their hitting.

But, you know, I think the article in the Post-Gazette this morning, I think Noah wrote it, you know, this offseason shines because we have the –

We're looking back at the last five or six off seasons.

This is what a typical off season should be.

This is not by any means a spectacular off season, in my opinion.

Agreed.

They're miscast in terms of a lineup.

They're miscast in terms of defense.