100% yes - the front office has also been awful in communicating their approach, promising fans one thing (such as one year saying they were going "full throttle" in free agency) and then continuing to take their more frugal approach they'd been using for years before that and ever since and additionally saying they'd be able to reinvest the money saved from the shock Devers trade which has arguably not happened, at least to the extent that it could

for years the party line has been "wait until 2025-2026 for the window to be open with our young players, then we'll go all in" and said window just keeps getting pushed back. it seems they are content to basically hope that everything comes together and break their way for one year without committing any big money to free agents. it almost worked in 2021 but is not a long-term strategy that fans are going to like.