Thanks for this article... it can be hard to make sense of front office inaction, but these items do make sense. I felt like the third point was probably overstated... I don't know that it'd be easy to make a case that the FO believes our MLB is incapable of doing anything in the playoffs. My take is that they believe in what they built back in March; that when Royce Lewis returns in a couple of weeks, they'll have enough to be noisy.
I think the team has proven they probably won't hit well enough to be dangerous, but great options were either not affordable, or not compelling enough to pull the trigger.