Look at these teams and don't look for cheap arms with alot of control. They won't trade them. Look for older, expensive vets or people about to hit free agency. Try to remember our teams from a few years ago. What bullpen arms on these teams fit this description?
I still feel like our offense isn't clicking on all cylinders yet. Santander has been down, Adley hasn't found alot of extra base power, Holliday has been a black hole so far, Hays was bad and now injured, Urias hasn't hit well.
Batting average leaders in the AL in 2016
1st-Machado (not surprising)
2nd-Trumbo (really!?)
5th-Joey Rickard (He was on that team?) (He finished with a .257 AVG and only played in 85 games)
Talk about small sample size.
https://www.fangraphs.com/leaders/war?lg=&teamid=2
If I use this site and do some simple addition and subtraction, I get 6.9WAR for this season so far, which projects to 62.1 WAR for the season. A 0.0 WAR (a replacement team) would win 52 games. This puts on on pace for 114 wins. Hope that math is correct.