Can we stop whining about last season, particularly about the offense?

We were #5 in runs scored in the AL during a season where 4 of our best hitters (Maggs, Grandy, Sheff, Guillen) were injured for extended periods of time and our best hitter (Cabrera) battled a nagging injury through the first half of the season. Continuing to blame this terrible season on the offense fuels this ridiculous talk that we lost because of poor “chemistry” and we need a “scrappy” player with a good clubhouse personality to bring it all together. Bull.

We lost because our best pitcher severely underperformed, our second best pitcher had a rib taken out of his body, our veteran pitcher is toast and our bullpen couldn’t throw strikes. The only concievable way you can pin the season on the offense is to expect that they should have scored 7 runs every game.

That batting order is perfectly fine but if we don’t score at least one quality reliever this offseason it won’t matter, just like it didn’t matter this past season.