Select Dipoto Quotes from Today

Couldn’t find a Bluesky source so I’ll just paste the quotes from Aaron Levine and Ryan Divish’s Twitter accounts.

On trading pitchers:

We did have some conversation around our pitchers, particularly when there were so many phone calls coming in right around the time of the winter meetings, but you know, it was it was always our desire to get to to opening day with the five.

On the team’s run of form to end the year and how that impacted their offseason plans:

We talked about the positive trend in our team over the last six weeks - notable uptick in our offense. The group generally played well together...we didn't anticipate a great deal of movement with the team. It played out to be spot on

On Solano:

The addition of Donovan (Solano) really gave us a stabilizer....that came on the heels of falling short in the trade market on a deal or two.

On moving Polo to 3rd:

We feel like Dylan Moore's best position is second base

On our playoff chances:

We feel like we're right in the mix. The early projection systems say we're right in the mix.

On the offseason as a whole:

It's been a pretty quiet offseason, and I think that's reflective of a team that didn't have a whole lot of holes to fill. And you know we we feel great about our farm system, we feel great about the stability in our team, and we feel like our offense doesn't get enough credit for the things that they do well.

And my favorite, the classic, treating mid season trade deals like they’re offseason additions:

I know the offseason has been long and seemingly slow, but we feel like we made a lot of progress last year. The additions of...Arozarena, Polanco, Solano...stand to be positive for us

Other miscellaneous news:

Troy Taylor suffered a lat strain and is expected to miss at least the start of spring training.

Matt Brash’s recovery is on schedule and they expect him back late April.

Gregory Santos will be ready day one.