00:00Why do you feel like it's not common practice for these executives to come out and say, we're not trading this guy?
00:06So I think, and, you know, this is purely an observation.
00:09I could be full of it, right?
00:11My observation is that that almost says a lot about how closely connected to the players in the clubhouse that a given general manager is.
00:21My impression of Mike Azen is he's like this with players in his clubhouse.
00:25Like he's very closely tied to them.
00:27And he understands their frustrations, understands how they think.
00:33And he wants to make sure his players, from his perspective, are as best prepared for spring training as possible.
00:40And so part of how he's doing that is, hey, guys, the team we have is a team we're going to go with.
00:46Let's go.
00:47And that's why you take him at his word.
00:49We saw the Tigers moves at the trade deadline last year.
00:53They weren't necessarily aggressive when the Tigers had a big deal.
00:56There probably was some disappointment in that clubhouse that they didn't do more.
01:02Harris doesn't put as much stock in that as Mike Azen does.
01:07And there's a wide range of that, right?
01:09I mean, Billy Bean, he's one of the most influential general managers of all time.
01:14I don't think he really paid attention to, like, what the players wanted or what they didn't want or what made them more comfortable or what made them less comfortable.
01:24I think Theo Epstein, who's going to go down in history, is probably the greatest GM of all time because of the Red Sox and Cubs' success.
01:30I think he paid close attention to that.
01:33You know, that informed a lot of his decisions.
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