Jeff Passan

Yeah, it's been a disaster of a season.

And, you know, I think there are plenty of things that we could point to.

The ineffectiveness of the offense and the struggles of everybody not named Bobby Witt Jr.

And, you know, even offensively, Bobby Witt's having a very good season, but it's not up to the MVP runner-up type caliber that he's had in the past.

Mikel Garcia wears the slug.

Salvador Perez has always had trouble getting on base, but 26% of the time is just not going to cut it.

Vinny Pasquantino, you know, a 630 OPS.

I thought coming off the WBC especially, he was primed for a great season.

Jack Caglione has shown flashes.

Carter Jensen has shown flashes, finally getting a home run yesterday to the opposite field, but...

Just the offense has been pretty dreadful, top to bottom.

Then you go to the pitching, and when you have the injuries that they do, whether it's Cole Reagans or Chris Bubich now, even if you do have effective starting pitching in Michael Waka and in Seth Lugo, and...

You know, league average earned, I suppose, slightly below from Noah Cameron.

But, you know, you have Daniel Lynch with a breakout type season.

There's just not enough, though.

There's not enough depth.

There's not enough effectiveness.

There's not enough quality.

And at the end of the day.

I think you're exactly right.