Introduction
While the team gamely attempts to keep their season going and their postseason hopes alive, we can also start to look forward to a promising 2026. Jordan Lawlar represents one of the key pieces of that hope for next year and the years beyond. The former eleventh-ranked prospect in the game has had multiple rough cups of coffee in the big leagues so far. So it shouldn’t be a surprise then why Blake asked the writers what our opinion was of the young righty and how it might inform the team’s offseason plans in the most recent Roundtable. I was pretty firmly in the, “wait and see” camp while others were at least open to the idea of moving Lawlar as part of a package to get much-needed pitching for next year and beyond. I maintain that just 92 career at-bats is not enough to even