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I am not too optimistic about the first half of the season. Why?
We have a CF that has never played there. His replacement is a SO waiting to happen.
We have a SS that has never been a MLB regular there.
Our catcher has played half of a season.
Our bullpen has had significant injuries.
Most of our SP have less than 1 season of experience.

However, I'm much more optimistic about the 2nd half of the season.
Manzardo will be here. Probably DeLauter. Plus all those inexperienced players will then have more experience.
Just pray for good health. :fnd (2):
 
Mott the Hoople said:
I am not too optimistic about the first half of the season. Why?
We have a CF that has never played there. His replacement is a SO waiting to happen.
We have a SS that has never been a MLB regular there.
Our catcher has played half of a season.
Our bullpen has had significant injuries.
Most of our SP have less than 1 season of experience.

However, I'm much more optimistic about the 2nd half of the season.
Manzardo will be here. Probably DeLauter. Plus all those inexperienced players will then have more experience.
Just pray for good health. :fnd (2):
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Hopefully we don't have our usual April/May nosedive. If we can keep it at or above .500 going into July, I'm pretty optimistic about our chances.
 
Damage said:
Not as dire as you might think.

Dion, Clemmey, Messick, Cantillo, Hajjar, Hankins are all dudes (especially Dion and Clemmey) that could/should make some noise. @Alabuckeye pointed out the main driver: we promoted 3 rookies last year and have been devestated with injuries to 2 of our best minor leaguers.

I trust this pitching dev staff
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Lots of names, very little in the way of solutions. Clemmey isn't going to be there in a long, long time and pitcher success rate is very low. The rest are either some distance away or a few upgrades away from being BOR options. There's not one name you mentioned who you could throw in MLB today and expect to hold their own. Dion and Cantillo are the closest but you're either looking at questionable stuff or what's looking like a reliever's command. You could throw Leftwich in there too. None of them actually give me any kind of confidence.

You'd need a lot more of these kinds of names for the odds to work in our favor. I remember just last year there was discussion here about how somehow Curry, Pilkington, Battenfield etc. were good enough that we could afford to trade away some live arms for them. Give me a break lol. And the recent promotions are just filling in holes left or soon to be left by guys like Bieber, Plesac, and Quantrill. We're not net adding.
 
KluberSociety said:
Lots of names, very little in the way of solutions. Clemmey isn't going to be there in a long, long time and pitcher success rate is very low. The rest are either some distance away or a few upgrades away from being BOR options. There's not one name you mentioned who you could throw in MLB today and expect to hold their own. Dion and Cantillo are the closest but you're either looking at questionable stuff or what's looking like a reliever's command. You could throw Leftwich in there too. None of them actually give me any kind of confidence.

You'd need a lot more of these kinds of names for the odds to work in our favor. I remember just last year there was discussion here about how somehow Curry, Pilkington, Battenfield etc. were good enough that we could afford to trade away some live arms for them. Give me a break lol. And the recent promotions are just filling in holes left or soon to be left by guys like Bieber, Plesac, and Quantrill. We're not net adding.
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I feel like you are underestimating our AA arms, but that is a fair assessment, but I personally believe they will be better than you are giving them credit for
 
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