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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
Funny part is if you go read last years playoff thread the complaints were all that the team was too reliant on the long ball, didn't have any baseball fundamentals, were horrible defensively, and the starting pitching and bullpen was the issue. Plus the clubhouse was too much of a party with Hernandez and Guriel JR
They over-rotated on it but the team defense, pitching and bullpen were what people wanted tk improve and they really succeeded at that.
Problem is in the end Vlad, Chapman, Varsho etc didn't provide the expected power bats this year
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I don’t really disagree and Vlad falling off like he did is hard to blame Atkins for. But the angle I would add is if you were relying on Chapman, Varsho and Kirk to be a bulk of the offense or fills gaps you were making a risky bet. Can’t be that surprised how it turned out