Mark Shapiro

And it's how we won those series.

Where is this franchise right now in terms of a window moving forward?

I mean, it's hard for me to characterize that.

I think I need a little more time.

I need to probably see our strategy for the offseason moving forward, but we're certainly in a better position.

We had another good year back-to-back player development-wise.

We really made some progress in the system.

Obviously, we've reaped the benefits of a draft far faster than we ever imagined we'd reap the benefits of a draft.

And...

had the biggest stage possible to showcase our city, our ballpark, our organization, our team, to the entire baseball world.

So those things will all be building blocks for us moving forward.

And just from a bigger picture baseball perspective,

Yeah, I mean, we'll continue to plan with the system in place because that's the only certainty we've got.

I'm obviously privy to all those conversations.

And at some point, if we move past conjecture and to certainty, we'll adjust to the system that it changes to if that happens.