Brewers averaged 4.56 runs per game vs an MLB average of 4.53 runs per game. NL average was a little lower without the DH at 4.46 runs per game. Brewers position players posted a 97 wRC+. Taking out JBJ it would have been about 102. The offense was almost exactly average last year. Once again, it appears that you are defending "average" when we all know darn good and well, that our "average" offense was not good enough to make it out of the 1st round of the playoffs. Our pitching is world class, and as good as it was, it was NOT enough to get us through the first round, and certainly not enough to make it to, or win the world series. So whether or not you think average is good enough, and that average will take us to the promised land, most of us know it isn't enough, and we have living proof based on last season. You can throw out any stat you want to prove your point, but there is no way that the offense we put on the field last year was average, it just wasn't. If having an average offense is our goal, once again, we will waste all of our great pitching. It is obvious to me, a guy who watches every game (well, 90% anyway), that last years offense wasn't good, and if we do nothing but replace Garcia with Renfroe, this year's offense will be no better. We need a thumper, a genuine middle of the order legit bat. Without that one piece, or in a perfect world, 2 of them, we are doomed to repeat last year, and that is assuming our pitching gives us a repeat performance, which we can't possibly hope for.