[Phoenix1010]

I understand what you're saying now. I think the problems in this team run a bit further back than this year. I thought that this offseason was a good one for us, but the mistakes of our past (mostly Kevin Brown and Jason Giambi, who both looked like great acquisitions at the time, though since they didn't work out, everyone wants to bash Cashman) are hard to get away from. It's going to be really hard to dump Brown, and thus we're going to have some weak links in our rotation for years to come. I do think the bullpen should have been boosted a bit over the offseason though. No one could predict what has happened to Mariano however, so he should not be included in the discussion. As far as hitting goes, we had the same kind of hitting last year and did fine, although I think Miguel Cairo should have been kept. However, given what has happened to everyone else on the team, with our luck last year would have been his last good year.