Or they should do like the Angels did last year and sign the best pitcher and best hitter on the market. Hell, they signed one of the best right handed hitters of all time. How did they do?
And the Nats lost to a team that didn't re-sign one of the best right handed hitters of all time. They got beat by the supposedly washed up and declining Carlos Beltran and Peter Kozcma and Daniel Descalso.
And the Giants - who was their big signing last offseason?
The playoffs are basically a crapshoot. We can say that we were eliminated because Gio Gonzalez walked a couple guys or Drew Storen made a couple really sucky pitches. You can make all the improvements you want and still have them undone by one or two moments of sucky performance or luck.
That said, you should still make improvements because it's all about increasing the odds. But we have an MLB-best team already, give or take, and the thing we need most of all is another tilt at the rest of baseball to show we mean business. And a couple fewer ninth-inning balls finding gaps.
