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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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Lineup games are fun. Lineup episodes are fun. Lineup debates wherever you happen to have them 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, know 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 lead-off. 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 and I'm probably not no matter who gets added on top

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