And the offense should be above average.
For context- last year the offense finished with an ops+ of 110, which was I think top 5 in baseball offensively.
WE replaced Bregman's OPS+ of 116 with Paredes who has a career OPS+ of 113. And he's tailor made for Daikan park.
We replaced Abreu and Singleton's roughly 80 combined ops+ for the year with Walker- who has a career OPS+ of 113
We replaced 80 games of Tucker with his OPS+ of 180, and 80 Games of mostly crap in RF (Cabbage- 67, Gamel, 113, Dezenzo, 83, Heyward 111, Leon, -29)- call it 135 or 140 out of the position, with Cam Smith- who I would project to have roughly a 110 OPS plus. Everyone else is the same player. Pena and Diaz should be improving in their career points, Yordan & Meyers and Chas should be about the same, Altuve should be in decline.
Netted altogether we should be even at 3B, much better at 1b, decently worse at RF from the aggregate, netting out to about the same level of offense, which was top 5 ish in ops+ and top 10 in runs scored. If that expected offense shows up whoo boy.
That's the hope man. I don't start putting a lot of stock in much of anything about what a team is until then. Yordan and Yainer are on the clock for me.