Quote Originally Posted by msstate7 View Post
If minter's blister issue is lingering, we screwed
Not really. Sobotka has closer stuff. He could be the guy tomorrow and I would be totally fine with that. I think the off-season plan was probably to get a closer thinking we would have a good year this year and build on that in the offseason.

Now we are mid August leading the division and we are seeing some of the deficiencies. No true closer (never was a huge fan of Vizcaino even when healthy). Not enough bullpen arms. No game changer at catcher. No power bench bat and the guy we traded for in Duvall is awful.

I think in the end we miss the playoffs. The national league is deep this year in terms of quality teams. 10 teams over .500. It's a tough league and every team has some good and bad. We've had some struggles hitting good teams enough to win. We need our starting pitching to continue being good and Newcomb to buck up and quit sucking. The bullpen has to get it together. Albies has got to start swinging it better from the left side. I think we miss the wild card by a game or 2 but will have some very fun and exciting games down the stretch to propel us for next year.