Sam McDowell

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The Program · H3 Sam McDowell · 21 Jul 2026 podcast

at the plate, and they haven't actually acquired a bat.

Now, this year they've been assisted by the fact that Jack Caglione and Carter Jensen look like they have futures, and they're part of the core in the future.

Yeah, and the other thing that Piccolo even acknowledged was

that most of their talent is in the lower levels of the minor leagues, that it's not in AAA.

It's in A ball, and they do have some guys that, I mean, even over the past couple weeks have hit really well or pitched well at the lower levels.

But I think when you look at where they are these next two weeks, and look, they already should have had this conversation, but I think overall when you look at where they are, it should tell them that,

They do have the core that he's talking about.

I mean, anytime you have Bobby Wood Jr., that's a pretty good place to start with your core.

But do they have enough surrounding pieces to be competitive next year?

Is next year really the year they should be targeting?

I don't think so.

I don't think so either.

We don't even know what free agency is going to look like this with the CBA coming into this offseason.

So I don't think that if your plan – So why wouldn't you use that as cover fire?

That's what I think.

If your plan – and this goes for all 30 teams.

If your plan requires you to make offseason additions –

via free agency that we don't even know what that's going to look like in December.

I think that should persuade you to lean one way as opposed to the other.

Well, and here's the other thing that I look at with Michael Walker is your three quality starters that led you to the playoffs, and they had more than three, but the three horses that led you to the playoffs two years ago were Cole Reagan, Seth Lugo, and then Michael Walker.

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