At some point soon, if we're 44-50 just after the All-Star break, we have to consider selling assets. Valencia, Dyson, Pazos, Cruz, maybe. Guys who might bring something young in return. At 44-50. 88-72 looks a LONG way away, and the Wild Card road is littered with teams with better records than you. So you have to get REAL hot, and hope that a KC or Minn. doesn't do the same. REAL hot would mean 44-22. It would be a rally of historic proportions. Could we win as many games in 66 tires as we just did in 94 attempts?
Of course, rather than going 3-5 over the next 8 games, we could go 5-3 and then you're at 46-48, on a mini-roll. The future looks brighter there. The next three series may just well tell us how much of pretenders we are or are not.
Go team.