Well we're one back in the loss column from the Cardinals.
Really if Darvish gets his crap together, we're formidable. Hopefully we're not too far away from that happening.
We're only as formidable as the bullpen lets us be. It always seemed likely the rotation was going to be pretty good, but it won't be as good as it has been the past two weeks, realistically.
Who in the pen really inspires confidence right now? Strop is throwing pretty well, not great. Kintzler and Brach are well off their top velocity and Cishek looks like he could be spent. The rest of them are all crapshoots, career mediocrities we're hoping will have career seasons. When Chatwood is leading the staff in fastball velocity, that's not a great statement about having a shutdown bullpen.
Some way, somehow, a move has to be coming for an impact reliever of some sort. Since it's not going to Morrow in the foreseeable future and Kimbrel is a pipe dream, it has to be a trade.