I have been looking at this as who will most likely be playing once the mutual option on Yelich is denied in 2029. Does Arnold et al view Fischer as a Huira/Gallo with the strikeouts? Won't Made be at 3B if not Fischer...maybe LPena. Maybe Fischer is at 1B with/instead of BBurke. It will be Turang's last year and maybe Ebel or Pena will be at 2B. For now its Pratt at SS but others can project there. Catcher is Quero, Dinges, DMiller or someone not in the organization now. Churio in LF, Payne in CF, Lara or Arias in RF. Ragsdale apparently wants to be considered as an option.
Tons of active pitchers will be here after Yelich is gone and the new ones too. For this exercise pitchers are harder to project and easier to acquire. As long as you are not giving up a easily projectable top of the rotation ace, the options are many...so how does Arnold et al view Letson?
Oh yeah, we also have a few draft classes to make up for top 10 prospects securing an ace for this years team that actually hits and pitches pretty well.
So I am ok with some sort of a combination of Josh AdamOutfielder, Ricky Money$, Knoth, Hardin, maybe Letson, or Jett, as I want a push for a RING and not just a summer of entertaining baseball. Josh is not phasing out Jackson, Jett would be nice but we have others in the OF and INF. Hardin will be forgotten like Reese Olsen and others will fill the rotation (looking at you Manuel Rodriguez) and life will go on...
But man, o man...go spend some top 10s on Skubal and get a ring.
Flags fly forever.