Vaughn was a career negative fWAR player coming into the year. By no means is he someone that should have been relied upon. I have no idea how Benintendi just lost all ability to hit the ball hard. I would joke that he stopped juicing after the big contract, but he never looked like a big guy.
When you have 1/3 of your lineup going into the season that are strictly in it to play defense and give no offensive value, you deserve to have a bad offense. Instead of just blaming JR or Hahn or Getz, why can’t we all say they all absolutely suck?
Getz also couldn’t wait to get some of these guys. The Bummer trade was the first transaction any team made I believe, and then DeJong was early in the process as well.
There is no doubt in my mind that when Getz met with Jerry last year after the firings, Jerry complained to him about the bad defense and Getz agreed to go away from the slugger/bad defense approach.
Maldonado, Lopez, Flexen, Hill, DeJong and Leone sucking was the most predictable thing ever. I think we all would have been shocked if they didn’t suck.