Our stellar pitching (hopefully it continues) somewhat compensates for the lack of the production at the plate.
For comparison purposes, here's the rest of the NL East:
Mets - 30
Atlanta - 41
Philadelphia - 28
Miami - 36
This is a good point, and its one of those context things I always forget - the overall offense is down in the NL for the last several years and will probably continue to be down - sluggers (Fielder, Pujols) left to the AL and a lot of teams have good rotations. Rather than score more than we did last year, if we just duplicate what we did last year while others regress, that's progress.
Still, though, I worry that what we've seen will be more or less like this - Desmond and LaRoche will cool off, Zimm will heat up, Morse will come back, someone else will get hurt, etc. WYSIWYG.
