Best/Worst off seasons of 2015

[NinersSBChamps]

Out of all the teams in the game.

Worst:
Colorado Rockies
Lost Matt Belisle, Cuddyer, and Brett Anderson.
Gained Nick Hundley and Descalso.

Going to have horrid pitching yet again this season which has been their identity since forever. I feel like they need to unload Tulo or Cargo. It's not necessarily what they lost, it's the fact they didn't make any positive moves which makes this a bad off season.

Best:
Miami Marlins
Lost Eovaldi, McGhee, and Andrew Heaney.
Gainted Matt Latos, Dee Gordon, Prado, Morse, Haren, and Ichiro.

They are making a push and should be a legit division title hopeful. Granted this team will be very different in a few seasons, but today they have themselves a very good squad.

[zbhargrove]

I think San Diego easily had the best off season.

[thethe]

I think San Diego easily had the best off season.

I actually like what the Yankees have done. Not only in getting a guy like Eovaldi but not being tempted to trade from their farm system which is very strong right now. They lost their way for many years but I think now that Jeter/Mo are retired they can become slightly more prudent of a franchise. They will spend like crazy on the amateur markets and try to build from within again. If Pineda/Tanaka are healthy I think they will be in the playoffs.

[NinersSBChamps]

I think San Diego easily had the best off season.

Sure they did, but I was looking at some other teams. My bad though. Should have prefaced it.

[gilesfan]

I don't see how Florida had a great off season. Signed a bunch of over rated or over the hill guys.

Good:
Padres had a great offseason, but they did trade away some future in the process.
Red Sox had money, spent wisely.
Mariners
Nationals

Bad:
People disagree, but I didn't like the As offseason.
Tampa
Baltimore
Detroit

[sturg33]

Nobody made their team worse than Atlanta

[NinersSBChamps]

I don't see how Florida had a great off season. Signed a bunch of over rated or over the hill guys.

Good:
Padres had a great offseason, but they did trade away some future in the process.
Red Sox had money, spent wisely.
Mariners
Nationals

Bad:
People disagree, but I didn't like the As offseason.
Tampa
Baltimore
Detroit

I guess when the Marlins win the east over your team you will agree they had a good off season.

[NinersSBChamps]

Nobody made their team worse than Atlanta

Agreed. There were teams that sat back and didn't do much though. Although it's hard to argue that there was a worse off season than ours.

[gilesfan]

I guess when the Marlins win the east over your team you will agree they had a good off season.

I do not expect Florida to win the East. Good luck with that.

[weso1]

Nobody made their team worse than Atlanta

I don't know that we'll be worse than we were last year record wise.

[thethe]

I don't know that we'll be worse than we were last year record wise.

And if the record is worse it probably won't be by many wins.

[sturg33]

I don't know that we'll be worse than we were last year record wise.

I'm comparing our expectations of next year from the start of the offseason through the end.

On November 1st, our team was a heckuva lot better.

[weso1]

Worst - Tampa

Best - Padres, although I didn't like their trade for Justin Upton. I mean the pieces to get him were fine, but I feel like they should have gone after Dexter Fowler instead. I think a CF made more sense for them. But I still gave them best because they got dude from Rays.

I'd put Nats in the bad category personally. Did not like the deal for Scherzer at all.

[50PoundHead]

I think it's long term v. short term. Short term, I think we're worse and we're rolling the dice on the long term.

I'm with gilesfan. I think the A's screwed themselves in long term without improving themselves in the short term. Of course, those problems started with the set of odd, future-mortgaging deals at last year's trade deadline.

[thethe]

I think it's long term v. short term. Short term, I think we're worse and we're rolling the dice on the long term.

I'm with gilesfan. I think the A's screwed themselves in long term without improving themselves in the short term. Of course, those problems started with the set of odd, future-mortgaging deals at last year's trade deadline.

Those moves had a desperate ownership written all over it. Just don't see why Beane would have made those deals based on his history.

[weso1]

I'm comparing our expectations of next year from the start of the offseason through the end.

On November 1st, our team was a heckuva lot better.

Debateable. We only had three starters in November. Now we have quite a bit of depth in the rotation. I know we lost a lot of offense, but also gained some pitching and some of these new platoons might bring some of that offense back more than some would think. Also, I'm personally hopeful that Peterson can be a decent player at 2nd.

[Braves1976]

I don't agree that the Padres off-season has been the best or all that great, though their GM has certainly been very active. They potentially added a lot of offense at the expense of defense and are still unlikely to contend for even a wild card spot. The Marlins should at least be closer to contending for a playoff spot and if Fernandez returns strong they may well take one of the two wild cards. The Nats should win the NL East division again after adding Scherzer to an already solid starting staff.

[gilesfan]

The defesne won't be great and I'm skeptical of Myers being an uber prospect, but they had no hitting last year at all.

Now, they have a very well balanced (and potentially very dangerous) lineup:


Solarte
Myers
Kemp
Upton
Alonso
Gyorko
Norris
Amarista

[gilesfan]

Debateable. We only had three starters in November. Now we have quite a bit of depth in the rotation. I know we lost a lot of offense, but also gained some pitching and some of these new platoons might bring some of that offense back more than some would think. Also, I'm personally hopeful that Peterson can be a decent player at 2nd.

75 wins would be a huge accomplishment for this team. Chances are they won't score over 600 runs and it takes a legit top staff in the NL to allow anywhere close to 600 runs or less. And a 600/600 season is a 81 win team.

[thethe]

75 wins would be a huge accomplishment for this team. Chances are they won't score over 600 runs and it takes a legit top staff in the NL to allow anywhere close to 600 runs or less. And a 600/600 season is a 81 win team.

Braves allowed less than 600 last year and I think this rotation has a chance to be better when you consider improvement from Teheran/Minor and a full year of Wood. I think Miller is going to thrive here but nothing to the effect of a TOR. The fifth spot is a bit dicey but I'm not sure why this years pitching can't be as good as last years.

The team was so dreadful hitting last that I think by sure dumb luck we will score around the same amount of runs as last year. I think the production out of 2B/3B/SS/CF should be slightly better. Around the same in RF. Big downgrade in LF/C while 1B could go either way.