ORLANDO, Fla. — Phillies president of baseball operations Dave Dombrowski doesn't play on the winding roads. In a sport where execs hedge, posture, overthink the value of a trade, and talk in circles, he usually tells you exactly where he's going.

He sticks to the same lane. The lane that he believes will achieve the most success for his club. So at the start of the 2025 MLB Winter Meetings on Monday, Dombrowski made it clear what the plan was for his Phillies.

"We're not running our club back," Dombrowski said from his suite an Orlando hotel.

Yet what does that look like?

Dombrowski, true to form, laid it out without being asked. Left-handed-hitting Max Kepler isn't coming back. And Nick Castellanos won't be either, with the Phillies still working on a move that gives both

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