I just took the clubhouse comments to mean that the players and the manager believe they are good enough to overtake the Mets without adding anyone. What would one expect highly competitive people to say?
I'm not expecting much of anything to happen. Like last off-season, I think Anthopoulos waited a bit too long and couldn't land someone like Escobar. But who knows what others were asking and whether our offer matched up with the perceived value of the player in question and the needs of the potential trading partner. I think at base level it shows how thin we are at the minor league level right now.