How well do you feel that your team should be doing right now?

[Mattingly]

I was going to wait until I had some kind of summary on the Yanks, my own team. However, no such ideas right now. Y'all will have to wait.

Looking at some of those games you'd felt were very winnable but were botched, if you only took a few of those games, and looking at the talent level that your team has, where do you believe they should be in the standings right now? This as opposed to where they are now.

If your team is at .500 or so, even at .600, do you think there's something about your team that's stopping it from doing better than it is right now? If so, then what would that be? Lackadaisical attitude? Inability to hit breaking balls? Relievers who can't keep the ball in the park?

Every team has its woes, every fan has their complaints. Please express yours, and what you feel should and can be reasonably done to improve your team if you were to lend a voice to someone in charge.

Please step up to the soapbox and speak!

Thanks.

[rockin500]

cubs should be better really. they need to play better on the road (they are currently 20-8 at home, under .500 on the road). More consistency in their offense would be a good thing.

[gojays]

It's a testament to the Blue Jays' amazing pitching staff that a team hitting .231 with runners in scoring position can be 3 games above .500. IMO, that is the only thing stopping this team from contending for the Wild Card or even the division.

[Blackout]

yankees stink so far!

this is going to be a long season

[redlegsfan21]

I would say get rid of the 2 guys who went 1-16 in one game (1 infield single) but that would leave my team still with issues. We have 3 catchers and six outfielders though luckily two have secondary positions in the infield. We need pitchers that can keep the ball inside of Petco Park (I thought that was a pitcher's park). I wish Harang and Arroyo would go every 3 days with Volquez to go every 5 and then Cueto and a person off the street pitching on the other days. In fact, I would send so players packing in order to make room for new talent. But, it always seems like we're one year away.

[bigtime39]

It's a testament to the Blue Jays' amazing pitching staff that a team hitting .231 with runners in scoring position can be 3 games above .500. IMO, that is the only thing stopping this team from contending for the Wild Card or even the division.

Pretty much ditto for the Orioles. Nobody on the offense is within sniffing distance of their usual OPS, yet the team everyone expected to lose 100 games is 25-25, and tied with the Yankee$ in a rain delay middle of the ninth inning.

[DodgerBlue8188]

If Brad Penny and D. Lowe were pitching like last year LA would be in first. Chad got off to a rough start too.

[brewcrew82]

The starting pitchings sub-par, the relief pitching stinks, the guys who should be producing on offense aren't. Basically, the Brewers stink! :grouchy

[The Dude]

The starting pitchings sub-par, the relief pitching stinks, the guys who should be producing on offense aren't. Basically, the Brewers stink! :grouchy

I couldn't have said it better myself. And we thought 2006 was a dissapointment ... well ... at least I finally got my Braun Jersey in (ordered it 2 months ago)! And ... we still got some season left to play.

[brewcrew82]

at least I finally got my Braun Jersey in (ordered it 2 months ago)!

At least there's one positive to come out of this season thus far. h

[Honus Wagner Rules]

My beloved Giants are were I expected them to be right now: out of the NL West race. But there are some good signs, Lincecum, Cain, Sanchez at times, Fred Lewis. Even Rowand has surprised me. I still think the Giants overpaid for him but he's having a very good year. On the other side Zito has been a complete disaster.

[Old Sweater]

Rockies just have flat out stunk it up with RISP even before the DL bit us.

Same go's for the pitching with RISP.

[Tenorman]

Awesome starting pitching + abysmal run support = mediocre record.

Given the way the Jays' rotation has been going deep into every game (and 6 CG already), you'd think they'd be better than 2 games over .500.

So much potential... (sigh)

[DownUnderDodger]

The Dodgers are too inconsistent. Whenever they look as though they are going on a winning streak they do the reverse and start losing! They are not too bad in some of the stats in the NL:
AVG .271 4th
OBP .341 4th
SB 48 2nd
ERA 3.94 5th
BAA .255 5th
OPS .701 3rd
WHIP 1.33 5th

however.....
R 232 9th
SLG .390 13th
OPS .732 9th
SV 9 13th
QS 20 11th

Offensively the team is really lagging.
Best BA is Matt Kemp at .315 which places him 15th.
Most HR is James Loney with 5 which doesn't rank in the top 40 in NL.
Loney also tops the RBI's at 29 which ranks him equal 28th.

Defensively, Brad Penny is equal 12th with 5 wins, but his ERA is 5.32. Hiroki Kuroda (2-3) is the best in terms of ERA at 3.48 but is in 19th in the NL.
Lots of work to be done off the mound as well.

That they are only 3.5 games behind the D'Backs and 5.5 games ahead of the 3rd pace Giants doesn't say much fro the NL west division this year.

[TigerFan84]

Nope the Tigers are doing awesome