They have more talent than they need to win the whole shooting match and I'm sure they'll be the favorite, but the lack of executing fundamentals has me wanting to pull out my hair that's already gone. Absence of clutch hits with runners on base; no success in advancing runners up a base; unbelievable base running errors. In fact, at the tail end of the stealing home play when Nicky tries to take 3rd, in the highlight video you can see Sully in the background walking that way throwing his arms up in the air like WTF? I was telling my son that one of the cardinal rules of baseball is you don't make the 3rd out at 3rd base. I do appreciate his aggressiveness though and Girand was at the plate so that was probably his best chance of getting there. Girand, god love him, is showing why he doesn't play more. And I was joking with a friend of mine that Dalton had the kind of game that'd make you want to quit. Baserunning error, silly fielding error that led to a run, wore an 0-4 collar at the plate and left four runners stranded. I'm still glad he's ours.
I'm knocking them for a lot of things here, and yet, they're winning. Owning and destroying would be better but just win and advance is all we need. They have every major part needed to repeat but tightening up those small things will be key.