What's your pre-game like?

Um, it's just getting the hands activated.

Um, getting the hands and the feet activated, and then just making sure I'm reading hops correctly and, um, not letting my feet die on, on the dirt.

Um, basically try and get a short hop or a long hop.

Never try and get in between hops.

Just, uh, um, I'm a big believer in, uh, you, you create your own hops.

So, um, use your feet to create your own hop.

Just to touch on one other aspect of the game, how has the base stealing experience been for you, uh, thus far, trying to figure out how to be good at that?

Uh, has that been something that's just been always such a big part of your game?

For sure.

I mean, uh, since I was a little kid, we- me and my brother grinded at, uh, ground balls and our defensive work and, um, I feel like at the end of the day, if, if, uh, if your bat's not gonna work out, you can always be a good defender.

So, um, trying to impact the game defensively 'cause there's guys in the big leagues that, um, their, their job is to, uh, be a good defender and, um, they get paid to do that.

So, um, just continue to do what I do on the field, um, and to g- continue to develop as a player.

Has that even maybe surprised you at points?

No, I, I knew it was in there and I knew it was just an- another, another stepping, uh, block in my development.

And, uh, at the end of the day, it's just continue to develop into the player I am and continue to do what I do every day.