This is an important tournament to us. It's competitive and it offers us a good evaluation tool.

What we are naming is 23 solid commitments. We've committed them, they've committed to us, all the paperwork is in place, there's no physical issues and concerns on the part of the clubs.

Absolutely we will with players of that level and potentially of that impact for us. But I'd like to think and I'm pretty confident that those decisions will get made in a timely manner.

We had a good talk recently and I'm going to chat with him again in another week or so to see where we stand.

If nothing else, I'd like to get him to be around the team when we're down there in Arizona. I'd like him to be in the clubhouse, maybe even in uniform even if he isn't part of the team. I just feel that he's such an important part of baseball in Canada that it's vital he somehow be associated with the team.

He's disappointed it's probably not going to happen. We're going to revisit things with him in another 10-12 days, see if things are moving quicker than maybe he thought. If there happens to be a change of view on his part, we've been given assurances that we can reopen that scenario.