But the 4 man bench is, what? 8 to 10 men deep via shuttle? The pitching has to come together but there's plenty of reason to think that it is and will. Rust on the young starters should be shaken off. Felix, Paxton and Walker can all improve from here on out in their varying degrees of returning. I like their chances too.
Lind has gotten frustrating to watch. In August he's got 3BB/15K, 2 2B 3 HR and .243/.284/.400 a .684 OPS. Isn't it time to seriously try something else? Logan Morrison wasn't good enough and he was .225/.302/.383 a .685 OPS last year after clearly being better than Lind has here the year before. I get that Lee had a .592 OPS from June 12th on, after starting that day at .942. And now .748 in Tacoma. No Vogue yet? OK. Romero, .917 in Tacoma, has been up twice long enough to look around before going back down. Kivlehan is at .850 in Tacoma. I'm just saying there seem to be options there as well and I wish more would be tried with the 1b situation.