Yeah good pull at least. I bet the FO had some advanced stats showing Civale would be good to throw against the Yanks. Francona noped the hell out of that. Unfortunate that the first ball the Yanks hit ended up in the seats.
Adding a starter or two is a given, should be #1 priority. I also think there’s a decent chance Mitch White turns out to be a good back-end rotation piece, I don’t mind him as the 6th/depth guy.
Houston seems to do just fine with Maldonado. Yankees were content getting rid of Sanchez in favor of Higashioka/Trevino.
A lot of good teams seem to see catching as a defense-first position. We could honestly be fine keeping 1 of Kirk/Moreno and trading the other 2.
I think the clearest way to address run prevention is to add an elite defender in CF, pushing Springer to a corner and having only one of Teo/Lourdes in the outfield at any given time. Again, Tampa has rolled with elite D noodle bats in CF for ages and it works.