Yup. The current situation is absurd:
- the team coming off a 74-win season
- possibly the worst farm system in the league
- right up against the luxury tax
- their two best players a year from free agency
- zero controllable star players
- President and GM have contracts expiring in a year
And the team is pretending that they're going to contend in 2025. Nobody in baseball ops is incentivized to care about anything beyond 2025, and yet the team is a long shot to compete next year. We're all just waiting on the regime change that will be announced a year from now.
The good news is that they can't gut the non-existant farm, and they can't commit to a bunch of albatross contracts if they only have 40M or so to add to the 2025 payroll.