But that's not what anyone was expecting; that's just what has happened. It could have happened earlier in the season. It could have been more spread out. Regardless of how it went down, it's playing out so that they're likely to end up more in line with the pre-season projections; baseball being baseball. It would have been unusual for them to just sputter and drastically underperform as a .500 team for the season, and it would be unusual for them to continue to keep playing out of their minds for another month. They're likely the team in between those performances, and that's what they're more likely to do for much of the next 4+ weeks than to go back to sucking or to keep kicking bonkers ass.