screw off you pessimists and you doom boners it's spring and the world is showing signs of not being a complete disaster within a relatively short time frame. now is the time for optimism. KB, Javy, Rizzo and Willy are going to carry this team in the infield. they are all very good, so hopefully they can all be very good (and healthy) together again...which, yeah, it's been a while. nico will at least field his position really well and hopefully has some improvement in him at the plate. happ is going to continue to take off as a hitter, pederson is going to hit a bunch of dongs and field reasonably well, and heyward may or may not be a negative, but at least "may not" is realistically in play for once. the starting pitching is going to be better than expected and the infield defense is going to be a big reason why. hendricks is hendricks. davies, jake, and williams will do a cromulent job of eating innings and keeping us in games. that dork mills is fine for a 5th starter too i guess. alzolay and his new slider might sneak up on us and become awesome. i'm really excited to see if he can build on what he had going late last year. we'll see about the bullpen but there were some good signs from kimbrel and overall there is some good and bad. hopefully it'll shake out to something competent. at the very least, beating up on the pirates will be fun, but yeah let's go out and win 90+ in a crap division. plus i want to see boog have at least one good season with this group of guys before everything inevitably goes to horsefeathers.