Bryce Harper, Hoskins, and McCutchen are all big on base guys (obviously McCutchen is out for the year), Segura and Realmuto are good offensive players who don't hit a ton of homers, and Kingery is a good looking young hitter. Given all that, they shouldn't need to rely on the long ball. They've really just went into the shitter since McCutchen got injured. They should be able to snap out of it with a pretty deep lineup but we'll see.
That's a pretty good assessment. They made a lot of moves and it's hard to argue with many of them or call any of them a bust, but they are all slightly below what was expected so far. The team in general hasn't hit as many homeruns as you'd hope for but they are still around .500 with a long way to go. It would have nice not to have lost McCutchen for the rest of the year. I would have tried to do a couple things different than the front office - like I would have paid up for a year or two of Grandal instead of trading the top starting pitching prospect for Realmuto. I also think we may end up regretting not having Crawford in a couple years but it's hard to complain about picking up quality players like Segura and Realmuto, McCutchen and Harper.
Yeah, not any more. 6.5 at the moment. People can say what they want about Kapler but I guaranfuckingtee you he would not be rolling out a lineup with Robinson Cano batting 3rd every game the way he is (not) hitting.
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