You're going to make acquisitions that are bigger than the winter norm for this franchise.

Better have a place to put the morning to you good.

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Line-up games are fun.

Line-up episodes are fun. Line-up episodes are fun. Line-up debates wherever you happen to have them are fun. But line-up debates when you're clearly missing

one player that you know, and I mean as close as you can come to being sure of this,

no is going to be part of this, who just might be the biggest part of it

for all anybody can guess right now.

I'm going to give it a shot anyway this morning,

in part to maybe identify what type of player this is, what type of production

they'd bring, and whether or not it's even plausible to place them somewhere out on the diamond.

I'm going to start, strangely enough, by pinpointing a player that I feel should not be at leadoff.

That, of course, is the player who was at leadoff more often than not in 2025.

O'Neill Cruz.

I'm sorry, you can't put a 200 hitter there.

You can't put a 298 on base percentage there.

And listen, if I'm not going to get a lot of home runs,

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