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Originally Posted by Roof-Daddy
It's going to be interesting to see what this regime does at the deadline this year. This team clearly has the guns to be dangerous, especially if healthy and even more especially if Manoah shows he's the real deal as we move forward.
So will Atkins use some prospect capital to try to add and stay in the fight? Or will continue to be patient and let the farm continue to develop in a season where despite being a very good team, they may still be only the 4th best team in the division?
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The problem with the AL east is the "we're a really good team but still not top 2 in our division" can easily be an issue through an entire build, no matter how good you get, so if you're in the vicinity of 2nd I think you should always be making some sort of push.
Red Sox and Yankees will have a couple of down years every so often as they reload, but usually not at the same time, mostly they will both be mammoths and the Rays seem to swing about 50 times higher than their payroll every so often as well.