looking back it's funny how much of this we could have at least squinted and seen coming Lester is old and has tons of tread on his tires, so the possibility was always there for the wheels to come off quickly (two car metaphors.) Like he's always been such a hoss that I never would have called it, but we all had to be aware the possibility was there. Hendricks was a finesse guy throwing 85 mph in his prime, so the odds of locking him in as a 4 WAR guy forever was unlikely. Darvish is a good pitcher and I won't deny that (and if he comes back healthy I think he'll probably be our best SP down the stretch) BUT this offseason when we went through that couple weeks where he was just sitting there on the market and we thought "well you know maybe we won't get him," I really did find solace in the fact that at least you could look back and see him getting completely shelled in the WS and convince yourself you don't want that guy on your team for 5 years. Chatwood .... was just never good lol. I mean like you had to go all the way to spin rate before you could find a metric in his favor. Quintana is the real weird one, but a bunch of 200 IP seasons in a row is always a red flag.