How bad has Dayton whiffed this year?
The Moss signing looks horrible, but its really just guys all not performing. Dayton's best bet in the offseason was to try and get one more good season out of the Duffy/Herrera/Yordano/Moose/Cain/Sal/Hos/Gordon/Escobar core, and its those guys who are the issue (RIP ACE). 2nd Base is still a hole as it has been for seemingly forever outside of the glorious months with Zobrist, but I was ok with him giving Mondesi and Whit a try.
Biggest things Dayton whiffed were Moss, letting Holland get away for cheap, and not upgrading the RF position. Its not Dayton's fault the WS core has produced 2 or less runs in half our games.
You are absolutely right about the Core offensive players as a Whole not being good this year.
I'm not sure there were a lot of options for RF upgrade. You have to have a trading partner if you are doing a trade. It's not like we had 2 or 3 other proven players that were available to be had in a trade with Davis. Moss signing looks awful right now.
A lot of teams passed on signing Holland. He wanted to be a closer. He wasn't gonna be the first choice here to do that. And he got a pretty nice deal from Colorado, considering he didn't overwhelm anyone with his throwing sessions prior to Spring a Training.
If this offense was just "not great" and not "dreadfully bad"....we are a 15-15 team.
1) We have scored 0 or 1 in 11 games. 37% of the time we can't even score 2 runs.
2) We lost games where Our Opponent has had 0,0,1,1,1,2,2 after 7 innings. We really should be able to have gone 5-2 there, 4-3 at the worst.
