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Honestly if this is the best this front office can do, (which is a total strikeout), they should all be fired.  Falvey and Levine GONE. 
I'm sorry but completely unacceptable.  I understand why they didn't sign Correa because what the Giants did was insanely stupid (amount and length of contract).  I agree 100% with Russo on that. 
But the fact that they haven't done ANYTHING besides dumpster dive moves so far this offseason is a complete utter fail in my book, no ifs ands or butts.  They have way too much payroll flexibility for this nonsense.  Either that or they should have finally committed to a full rebuild at the end of last season.  I mean the Twins had to have known that Correa was going to screw them over and opt out.  I mean the guy is a known cheater with an iffy personality, despite all the hype.  Now they got nothing for Correa when they could have at least traded him for prospects at the deadline. 
This front office doesn't know what it's doing, has no vision, is completely apathetic, and has no real interest in moving the needle either way.  At this point i'd rather have Terry Ryan back to be perfectly honest.

Some people develop quickly & then sputters (Badoo), others develop slower and continue to develop thru out their career (Celestino). I'd have like to have kept both of these guys. Badoo was ready & hungry to take that next step, he'd have emerged as Buxton replacement & thrive, while Celestino could have stayed and properly advanced in the minors.
But due to the situation that was created, they had to choose between Badoo & Celestino. So why did they chose Celestino over Badoo? #1 Celestino's stats were slightly better #2 Celestino was a product the FO trade so it looked better for them. That's the problem, looking only at stats & what makes them look good isn't enough (especially when there wasn't that much difference in stats). You need to look at them as persons not #s. If they looked at them as persons they'd have known that Badoo was ready & Celestino was not. The team that would have picked up Celestino in the Rule 5 draft would have quickly discovered that & returned him.
So you can't cry over spilled milk. 2020 really set Celestino's development back. '21, He was mercylessly thrown into the fire, where he crashed & burned. That'd be enough to destroy any baseballplayer's future. Yet Celestino was called back in action in '22 and he bounced back & gave us a glympse of what a future Celestino can do. Celestino still has things to learn & yet needs the stamina to complete a full MLB season. '23 he'll continue to develop and impress us & show us that he belongs here as a very viable Buxton replacement.
This discussion on getting outside help to aide us at Buxton's back up should have been taken seriously back when Cave was it (hit a HR here & there does not qualify you) not now. We haven't been so deep in CF as we are now. We had some very good duos like Span/ Revere and Puckett/ Hunter but not 3 deep. Celestino will prove all you wrong.

Based off of this type of 1 game rationale:
Jaime Garcia with the Twins is a shut down ace who will lead us into the postseason.
Jaime Garcia with the Yankees is a bum who should retire.

Based off of this type of 1 game rationale:
Jaime Garcia with the Twins is a shut down ace who will lead us into the postseason.
Jaime Garcia with the Yankees is a bum who should retire.

Based off of this type of 1 game rationale:
Jaime Garcia with the Twins is a shut down ace who will lead us into the postseason.
Jaime Garcia with the Yankees is a bum who should retire.

Based off of this type of 1 game rationale:
Jaime Garcia with the Twins is a shut down ace who will lead us into the postseason.
Jaime Garcia with the Yankees is a bum who should retire.