As always, thanks for the kind words. How the team manages this supposed future budget increase is going to be critically important to the club’s competition in the future. It’s unlikely that if the team spends $50-$60M a year, however, that they can maintain this sort of surplus value, because there’s only so many spots on the team for playing time. Still, I agree, hopefully they can keep mining talent the way they are and continue to be as efficient as possible after a budget increase.

At the same time, I do hope they manage the budget with the same value analysis that they currently have used in recent seasons. That is, spend more money, but spend it wisely. Don’t become the next New York Mets.