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Originally Posted by metsandfinsfan
honestly
do you expect
delgado to be better or worse?
I expect roughly the same out of Delgado. I don't think it was a fluke. Willie left and a switch flipped. I find it more than coincidental.
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church to be better or worse?
Better. He missed half a season.
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murphy to be better or worse?
About the same, maybe slightly better now that he has some experience under his belt.
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tatis to be better or worse
Worse.
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even pagan to be better or worse?
Worse, Angel Pagan is irrelevant.
Hard to be anything but. (But if there's one guy who can prove me wrong, I'm guessing it's Luis Castillo)
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wright/beltran/reyes prob the same
Agreed. We know what to expect out of these guys year in and year out now.
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but after that, who knows?
Nobody knows, but we have a barometer of this offense from last year. Some guys will outperform what they did last year, some will underperform; net net, we should still be in an ok place offensively. There's always the possibility of acquiring another bat as well -- have heard reports that given the economic situation, teams may not be sitting around until July 31 to unload expensive players if their teams are struggling early.