What's more amazing is how far in first they could be with a halfway competent bullpen. That's just it. If you look at the big picture, this is a terrible team that is somehow over 500 let alone in first. The poster children are Sogard and Shaw. Two journeyman scrap heap types who are playing like All Stars. I can't see how they can be consider contenders with the roster they have, but the reality is if they had any kind of real closer they would be a serious threat. Baseball is a crazy game because the analytics says our guys should be contending for last place with the Reds based on career norms, and the Cubs should be in front of this division by 10 games. Shaw is a journeyman? Interesting. It can be challeging to take anything someone says seriously if they speak in hyperbole.