If Ben Cherington doesn’t believe in this team to make a run, he’s not going to sit there and say that. It would be career suicide. Also notice in that quote he uses phrases like “could be something we look at” and “puts us in a position to get better after 2024.”
But again, that's what most people here are expecting.
At least from what I can tell, a dream deadline for most fans here would be (or would have been) adding Chisholm and Diaz to help them compete both this year and in the next few years. No one here is really expecting this team to chuck out the Johnson/Chandler/Ashcraft caliber prospects and pull off Robert.
I'm expecting they'll trade for like Lane Thomas to platoon with Suwinski in RF and maybe get a rental CFer to push Taylor. That's about all I'm expecting.
Ramirez is a 45+ FV prospect that's ranked #5 in the Yankees system, but the other two are just throw-in lower minors prospects. Feel the equivalent of this would probably be Davis and some lower minors guys, which sounds about fair to me.
Abraham Ramirez is hitting the shit out of the ball in Rk ball right now (.960 OPS), so it doesn't seem like a nothing piece as well.