Rich Keefe

I mean, you're still going to get a bat, and you're still going to get a pitcher.

Like, I still think that.

And now you're hearing about relief pitchers.

I do think, to come back to what we can learn from this move, is that this is clearly a, hey, 2026 is an important year.

We have to keep moving forward.

Because as much as we say, oh, well, Richard Fitz, Brandon Clark –

Listen, the guy who was just traded for Richard Fitz and Brandon Clark might not have made this trade because he liked Richard Fitz and Brandon Clark too much.

There is that element of prospect hugging in baseball, which drives everybody crazy.

And we know what Richard Fitz is, but Brandon Clark is, he's the ultimate guy where you look at and say, oh,

Oh, yeah, look it.

He's throwing almost 100.

He was a fifth-round pick, but he came out of spring training like gangbusters.

He started the year like gangbusters.

And we're just going to ignore that he had over five ERA in Greenville and couldn't throw strikes because he's still a work in progress, which might be true.

But that's no reason to hang on to him when you can get a guy that actually can help you for 2026.

I don't know if it's underwhelming, but it's odd.

I know that they want that bat.

They like the leadership.

Real Moodle is still a really, really good catcher, but you're sitting there with Carlos Narvaez as a really, really good catcher as well, who's a lot younger.

So if you're going to allocate resources to Real Moodle, that one just seemed odd.