I see 3 issues at hand offensively:
1) Injuries. This one is obvious. Not only is it just missing Belyeu, but Mendoza is playing hurt, Rodriguez is playing hurt, Williams keeps coming in and out of the lineup.
2) Our best players aren’t being our best players. Schloss himself said preseason that our top guys were going to have to carry us this year because the depth wasn’t where it needs to be 1 through 9. Flores is struggling badly. Gasparino is in a bad funk. Galvan has cooled of late. Winfield was benched a month into the season.
3) We have a few guys playing who are just not quite the quality of player you need to compete in the upper class of his league. We know who they are. A few of them could still be good players down the road but they are struggling to keep their head above water right now.
Issues 1 and 2 could be fixed in the next few weeks. Issue 3 isn’t going away and could be what ultimately caps the ceiling. I will also say that the offense has struggled numbers wise for a while, the pitching was just bailing them out and we were winning the low scoring games. Now we aren’t.