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We sucked. Big time.
When you're 3rd from the bottom at crossing the plate, 2nd from the bottom at preventing the other team from crossing that same plate, and the very bottom at playing defense, it's not exactly the formula for making the postseason. Now even in my most koolaid drinking moments, I never considered this year's team to even sniff the playoffs. But I did expect fewer blowouts against us and fewer 8th/9th inning chokes from our pen. I would have been satisfied with a team playing something like .425 ball, yet keeping ourselves in many more games. I was expecting them to live up to the hype of "Ricky's boys never quit."
Individually, my three biggest disappointments have been Moncada, Giolito, and to a lesser extent, Abreu. The upside for the first two is they seem to be turning the corner, but it's a shame that it takes a little over half the season for them to get started, so to speak. Abreu OTOH started fairly hot, but has been steadily declining the past couple of months. Let's hope he's on the upswing for the remainder of the season.
Altho overall our minor league reports have been pretty decent, the injury bug has hit a lot of key names, and the one man who has avoided the bug, Michael Kopech, our #2 prospect, has definitely shown that he's not ready for the bigs yet. His last start was electric, but he'll need to string together a bunch of those to prove he can make it up here by September.
As dismal as this post reads, I'm still keeping my chin up that in the long run this will be a winning club in the thick of the playoff hunt for a number of years. Now it's more a matter of when this will start happening.
When you're 3rd from the bottom at crossing the plate, 2nd from the bottom at preventing the other team from crossing that same plate, and the very bottom at playing defense, it's not exactly the formula for making the postseason. Now even in my most koolaid drinking moments, I never considered this year's team to even sniff the playoffs. But I did expect fewer blowouts against us and fewer 8th/9th inning chokes from our pen. I would have been satisfied with a team playing something like .425 ball, yet keeping ourselves in many more games. I was expecting them to live up to the hype of "Ricky's boys never quit."
Individually, my three biggest disappointments have been Moncada, Giolito, and to a lesser extent, Abreu. The upside for the first two is they seem to be turning the corner, but it's a shame that it takes a little over half the season for them to get started, so to speak. Abreu OTOH started fairly hot, but has been steadily declining the past couple of months. Let's hope he's on the upswing for the remainder of the season.
Altho overall our minor league reports have been pretty decent, the injury bug has hit a lot of key names, and the one man who has avoided the bug, Michael Kopech, our #2 prospect, has definitely shown that he's not ready for the bigs yet. His last start was electric, but he'll need to string together a bunch of those to prove he can make it up here by September.
As dismal as this post reads, I'm still keeping my chin up that in the long run this will be a winning club in the thick of the playoff hunt for a number of years. Now it's more a matter of when this will start happening.
