With all the work they’ve done since they kicked off their organizational reboot at the 2021 Trade Deadline, selling off expiring deals to jumpstart the process with an influx of young, higher-end talent, the prospects they’ve added through deadline deals over the past two years, as well as the players they’ve added through the first-year and international drafts, GM Mike Rizzo said this week he thinks the club is close to returning to relevance following (a World Series win in 2019 and) three straight 5th-place finishes in the five-team NL East.
In addition to the young talent already in the majors (CJ Abrams, Keibert Ruiz, MacKenzie Gore), with the well-regarded prospects in their pipeline, Rizzo said he sees their plan coming together.