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I don't feel super confident in any of them. Overall it is a good, young group to select the best performers from. The actual on field 2013 results of a couple of the most key guys (Capps,Farquhar) were 2 runs or so worse than xFIP. From what I observed they both have a tendency to implode. This could resolve with experience. Or not. Farquhar had a good stretch the last couple months. Justin Smoak has done that many times as well. I don't want to pin my entire bullpen hopes on underachievers turning things around. It would be nice if we could acquire 2 reliable arms that have put up some consistent numbers and let the rest battle it out for the remaining spots. I don't believe we're going to have to lay out $40M deals to do this, money should be a minor concern.
Overall the group has potential but surely not so good that they don't warrant improvement. One or two guys at $3-6M a year isn't exciting but it helps stabalize a volatile group. If I'm running the club. It sucks watching our offense finally scrape together enough runs to get Felix a lead after 7 only to watch *whoever* come in and relinquish the lead in the 8th. And it happens over and over and over again. For years on end.