Unlikely Your Js gonna do much before/at the deadline, given the spin coming from management/ownership.  This idea that Your Js are still in it, they have a great 2nd-half record, it's all PR to keep the hordes both appeased and enraptured, on board, buying tickets, eyeballs, streaming, the whole 9 yds.

Ownership is a media conglomerate that uses Your Js as filler to sell subscriptions, et al.  A winning team really helps with all that.

Stuck with a lot of past-their-prime players whose contracts repel other GMs.  Nobody wants Tulowitzki nor Martin, so by default you are stuck with these horrible contracts for 2+ yrs for guys who're already past their best by date.

Staying the course, mostly be default rather than design, it's just prolonging the inevitable.

You hafta get younger, faster, more slash-and-dash over the next 2/3 yrs.  Looks like it's spit and duct tape now, cross your fingers/toes, hope for a miracle.

This fan base, they will need a scapegoat when things go south.