yeah, pretty much this, is the unpleasant realization i came to this offseason; outside of minor-league player development, they're probably more or less replacement-level at this point: no real ambition at all, content to waiting for the prospects you've tanked seasons for to come up and maybe make a huge impact that's still basically the old-school conventional way of going about things; i can easily think of like a dozen other teams who are in some stage of that process right now oh well, i'll have a lot more free time this summer we sure showed the industry! (our Travis Wood, Edwin Jackson, Jake Arrieta, Kyle Hendricks, ??? 2015 rotation)