What if the root is that the team is just not good enough?
Bautista has def taken a step back, EE has come down to Earth, Travis's defense is shoddy, Grilli and Benoit are not prime relievers, Happ and Estrada are becoming what they have always been, Saunders is coming back to what he has always been, gone are the days of Tulo's power
What if the answer is simply
They aren't good enough,