“There’s this big pie, and I can slice it up and give you a piece of the pie, but if someone might be willing to give you a bigger piece, and if that happens, we’ve both done our jobs,” commented Ballard on Cross’s future with the team.
”We’ve done our jobs developing you, and you’ve done your job taking the coaching and getting better each and every year, and you deserve that opportunity. So we’ll see what the future holds with Nick. I’m proud of him. I’m happy for him. He made it to free agency on a high note, and we’ll see how that works out.”