The team has certainly shown a lot more compete this year. The starting pitching, while not anything to celebrate has at least hung around long enough to keep them in the game more consistently than the past two years, they have been easier to watch at the very least. Gibson's progress has been positive, Arcia has shown glimpses of a long term power bat, Santana looks like he might be a player, Dozier is for real, Pinto appears to have a future especially if his defense moves closer to his ability at the plate, Parms and Plouffe look like they can be useful bench pieces on a good team and that doesn't even cover Meyer, May, Berrios, Sano, Buxton, Vargas et al that are on the cusp. Record or not, I'm feeling pretty optimistic.