The shortstop market is so hard to predict.
Last offseason Seager got $325 million while Correa got $105 million. Did that actually make sense? Of course not. It can be totally random who cashes in and who doesn't.
Probably not. Downs has some pop and he has speed and he will take some walks. But if he can't cut way down on his K's somehow, he's not an MLB player.
I have no problem blaming the bullpen 100% on Bloom. If you're going to go cheap, you better make some great pickups. He only made one, Schreiber. Diekman was a terrible choice. Et cetera.
With Houck out we're down to two good relievers, Whitlock and Schreiber. And the main objective with those two now is to keep them healthy for next year.
The horror, the horror...
I don't subscribe to it.
As ornery as the fans are now, just imagine if we were looking at 3 straight bummer years in a row.
The fans do count a little. They're paying good money to watch this.