Dave Dombrowski

That's a really, really good club.

They are the defending world champions.

And again, that starting pitching, I've been with clubs that have had as good a starting pitching as you will ever have.

And I'm talking about Hall of Famers with a Verlander, a Scherzer, Prices, Porcello, Cy Young award winners, league leader and earner on average, Annabel Sanchez.

That staff we face is as good as any of them.

That's how good they are.

And so you're just in a position that, hey, you... And we beat clubs when we had those guys pitching.

And we lost other series, but we lost when somebody would hit a... We'd lose one to nothing.

Somebody hit a home run, perhaps.

So I think you have to keep in perspective on what happened and why you lost.

And you always look to get better, and we will continue to get better because we're not satisfied at all.

Our goal is to get into a series like that and win this series.

But I don't think you just break up clubs because you think... I mean, some of it happens naturally that we're talking about.

I mean, I don't think...

not make any proclamations on anybody.

Max Kepler, I think, did a solid job for us.

Well, he's not going to most likely be back because he's a free agent and we have Justin Crawford coming.

So there's a built-in type of adjustment.

And then when you deal with your free agents, you deal with those and see what happens.

But when you look back, I don't think any big league clubs have just gone out there and just said the Atlanta Braves way back when