There is a chance the offense won't be as potent next year. Bautista and EE are both good for missing some time each year and both are getting older. I don't think Collabello can be counted on to replicate 2015. I love Donaldson but wouldn't be shocked if he hits a few less dingers next year. He was amazing last year, is that his new norm or was it his career year? Tulowitzki being Tulowitzki would go a long way to negating any possible regression but he did look pretty bad 90% of the time after coming over. I expect he'll be better, but you never know. Martin's career has been littered with off years as well, offensively at least. Even Pillar could see his BA drop and since he doesn't walk, he could find himself into Goins territory very easily. I guess what I'm saying is everything went right last year with the bats, I don't think it would be wise to count on that exactly again, from a managerial perspective anyway.
Bottom line is this is an extremely unbalanced team that was picked apart by a very balanced team in the playoffs, and that's when we had Price. I think anyone who is expecting the offense to make up for the pitching might be in for a surprise. How well did that work out before we got Price and some decent relievers? Well, now we're back to having a bad rotation and an average bullpen, we'll see how well that works out for us. I suspect it won't be much better than those pre August Jays of last year. For all the offense they had, they weren't going anywhere without pitching upgrades.
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