It's both fair and reasonable to suggest that the baseball club could be run a whole lot better than it is.

But way, way, way too often we're pointing to the wrong stuff.

Good morning to you.

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Thursday morning, I'm Dan Kovachwich of D.K. Pittsburgh Sports.

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in the same place that you've found this.

It's about baseball operations. It's about baseball operations.

It's about internal baseball operations, meaning how do you produce and acquire and

develop and instruct and nurture your own talent that you got.

Because in an unfair economic system and Major League Baseball very much has one of those,

you don't have a choice.

You don't have a choice.

This is the one facet of the operation that isn't optional.

You can miss here or there.

You can miss on a trade. you can miss on a free agent.

You can't miss when it comes to drafting players,

acquiring them through Latin America or other international pools.

And then once you do get them, you can't miss in the most general sense in getting them to the majors.

And then once they get to the majors, you can't miss again in a general sense on being able to

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