The upcoming offseason is going to be the most important one in the Shatkins tenure. There's clear needs, 2 guys having career years that are FAs that are begging for extensions. I get the need to try and find those hidden gems in the pen, but I think this teams needs to get past that and really sink some money into proven talents. They don;t all have to be elite arms of course, but we can;t see another season of ******** guys like Dolis and the parade of replacement level garbage behind him.
yes, injuries to Merriweather, Phelps and the guy they wanted to be the closer really hurt, but every team has pen injuries every year. It needs to be better.
Hell, Merriweather is still 4th on the team in reliever war and he only pitched 4.1 innings, Phelps is 3rd after pitching 10 innings. Kinda tells you how much the rest of the pen sucks. #1 and 2 are Romano and Mayza. Cimber has been pretty much the only solid addition.
Also, not that it needs to be said, but Montoyo has to go - that would improve the pen by 2 or 3 wins alone.