We know he has received other good offers. But we're very interested in acquiring his services because we think he could be the fourth or fifth pitcher in our rotation.

I was very pleased. I'm sure Eric feels good about what he did. He had a little extra on his fastball. He threw it by some pretty good hitters.

The last time I was sitting in this chair ... it was the day of my second interview. Did I think I was going to be named GM the day of the second interview? I've got to pinch myself. This is pretty special stuff.

I might make a couple of early trips (with the Reds), and then in September. But I think from April through August I'll probably go to the minor leagues.

We know that Jeff received lucrative offers from other clubs,

I would hope by the time we have our organizational meetings at the end of October that we have a better sense of who we are, that we have a sense of where we're going, that we set a game plan, which I wasn't able to do, obviously, this year. This whole year's going to be an evaluation process of a lot of things.