You know what the s***** thing is? There are several things to be legitimately excited about this year. A healthy (knocks on wood) Reyes. Hutchison looking really good. Melky looking better in early action. JPA is gone.
But we undershot at catcher, have a black hole bat at 2B, kept too many relievers, and didn't add a single starter. Meanwhile Baltimore and the Yankees (the teams we had the best chance of leap frogging) have improved themselves.
The injury returns and regression to the mean type stuff isn't enough to get us anywhere this year. And there wee several reasonably priced free agent players (Jimenez, Ruiz, Drew, Garza to name a few) who could have really put us in a better position to start the season.