Looking at Juan Soto and Josh Bell, I am concerned but not terribly so. We know these players, we know what they can do. They could bust out at any time, most notably in the playoffs, should we make it there, so we know these guys have plenty of game in them.
What a shame about the offense is that we just don't look good. Everybody sucks at once, or there will be a hot streak by a player here or there, but essentially, we stink. Could the playoffs raise our game? Who knows? The more look at them, the more I believe there is a discord between the players and everybody else. You have a great fan base, dozens of sellouts, a good roster on paper, but few results to show for it. There is a complete disconnect somewhere, and anybody who has watched team sports over the years knows what I mean.
Of bigger concern should be the pitching. Clevy got whacked for six runs over five innings, including three in the first. At this point, Clevy is little more than a long reliever, because he is not helping us on the mound. I know he is one of the more popular players, but at this point he simply can't hang. He and Manaea are not good enough for this staff, so we will need more pitchers in the off season. Remember when we traded for Clevy? We had him and Denilson Lamet, and everything was going to be hunky dory going into the playoffs? We lost Clevy quickly, then Lamet went down to rob us of our last hope.
We have a knack for picking the wrong pitchers, it seems. Either they get hurt, we trade them, or they become average. How many ace pitchers have we developed in our franchise history? Go on, I dare you. The Dodgers develop one per draft, it seems. They have Kershaw, Detroit had Verlander and Scherzer, St. Louis has Wainwright, the Mets DeGrom. We thought we had MacKenzie Gore, but we were off on that one, it appears.
We need better player development, which falls under, ding, ding, ding, what the GM does. Our GM better hope for a pennant, because that's him gone if we don't.
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