I’m happy today. It’s a long season with a lot of peaks and valleys. Take care of business tomorrow, get the split. Not what I hoped for especially after beating the Brewers, but honestly I’ve maintained since March that this is an 85 win team and they still will be If:
- Buxton contributes both offensively and defensively. He needs a rehab assignment.
- the team stops making every, single mediocre starting pitcher look like Cy Young
- the team collectively starts showing the ability to help their pitchers out against better teams
- there are some trade deadline type moves that open up opportunities for guys currently blocked by guys like Kepler
I could go on but we’ve been beating this drum for the first 1/3 of the season. I feel like the pieces are (mostly) there, but something’s just “off”. For example , why is almost everyone on this team striking out way above their career averages? And what’s with the uncharacteristic base running blunders?
It’s still there for this team.