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In February, when I was asked about, you know, what my hopes, what my goals were for the season,

you know, I talked about how even if we went all the way and won the whole thing,

that wanted to come out of it feeling like, really like this could be the start of something.

Like we had our next core, which would include players from the last championship

and then players who were joining this core being a part of something that we could be excited about going forward.

And, you know, we fell six wins short of that ultimate goal. But I think in terms of this being the start of something, in terms of us feeling like we have a bunch of guys who join this group who are ready to help us win going forward. I think we're there. I think the mission now is just to continue to build on that.

What we had this year, what we had in Fenway Park, playing postseason baseball, meaningful

games, getting almost all the way to the World Series.

That's the type of vibe we want here every year to have a club capable of doing that every year.

So I think we just need to be focused on making moves large and small that push us

towards that goal.

There's obviously a lot of things that can fit into that, but that's how we're going to frame it.

We want to carry this forward and win every year.

All right, welcome into the baseball hour.

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