Agreed. At this point your doing a lot of "hoping" at many key additions
1. Schwarber some how isn't an abomination at the plate
2. Bell can turn half a season into a career going forward
3. Kieboom/Garcia take a Soto like jump
4. Robles can find himself to be a professional hitter
And that's not even touching the rotation concerns AND how much worse we are defensively. Im not hating on the Bell/Schwarber moves as much as the rest of this place but if you're going to go all in on offense, you need to actually go all in. Not throw some stuff against the wall and hope it sticks.
"Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things," A. Dufresne.
Every year we have to hope that things will go well, it's the nature of the game. Last year we hoped that Kieboom could be a serviceable 3B and that Thames would provide power in the middle and protection for Soto, that obviously didn't work out.
The year before we hoped that Kendrick would return to form, that Soto wouldn't have a sophomore slump, and that the pitching would hold together. That obviously did work (except for Dozier at 2B and the bullpen).
I don't think we need Kieboom or Garcia to take a Soto-like jump, we just need them to post average or slightly above league average offensive numbers. And we need Bell and Schwarber to return to something close to 2019.