In the moment, it feels terrible that we are throwing away the run prevention in the name of sustainability, long term, flexibility, low risk contracts.
It's mind numbingly boring and a bad product. Hopefully a few hitters can do something.
MLB signed a deal for the early Sunday games on Roku:
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This past offseason was a bad free agent class. Guessing the Baez deal made them de-risk everything. Sign guys on the fringes and wait out/develop the hitting over the long term.
Pitching and 'defense' to prevent runs..hope and a prayer for offense until things are settled with various young players.
Right if continues to make that kind of contact in all ballparks, things will turn.
In the first 35 games, he was hitting everything on the ground or popping it up.
They started 6-1 with some elite pitching + bad offense...33 games later the record has normalized and not much has changed.
This is a process without many outs. While it's frustrating, you have to continue rolling out this offense and hope that a few of these guys can unlock something that will turn fortunes.
This was constructed as an 80 win team. That total goes up if their hitting improves; It goes down if they have major pitching injuries. I think we now have a pretty good read on how this will end up.
And the division is much better than we thought; They will not be competitive unless the offense improves.