The AA FO deserves full credit for the current state of the team:
- drafting and developing Strider and Harris II
- cheap extensions for Acuna, Harris, Albies
- acquiring Murphy for almost nothing, then locking him up
- acquiring Olson for almost nothing, then locking him up (they haven't really benefited yet from replacing Freeman, but the 4-year age difference could make a huge difference soon)
- not just acquiring Olrando Arcia, but extending him for dirt cheap before he put up a 4-win season that probably no other org in baseball thought it was capable of
And then a bunch of smaller ones: the Morton signing, signing Donaldson for a year then letting him walk after a 5-win season, bringing Iglesias in etc...
And the craziest thing is that a couple years ago they were supposed to be built around their young rotation of Fried, Soroka, Anderson, and Wright. Three of those guys have died and Fried has missed most of the year, and they're still going to win like 105 games.