Sure they could but it's likely what they are now is closer to what they are moving forward than anything much better. Unless their 3 young starters all with injury/other question marks stay healthy/improve and their aging superstar has a good mid-late peak career season. Which sure all are possible. I'm just not buying it. I'd bet a lot more on a Mccutchen bounce-back if so much of his decline wasn't defense. They're definitely a team where everything will need to go right for them to compete. just move cutch to a corner if he's really that much of a liability and put polanco there. he came up as a highly regarded CF, iirc.