If having one of the best records in baseball so far this year is mediocrity, your definition of mediocrity is skewed. If winning 93 games last year was mediocrity, only 4 teams of 30 were above mediocre. Mediocre teams are more than a deadline move away from being serious WS contenders. The mediocre teams are the teams debating whether or not to sell.
I want the Brewers to get a Suarez or O’Hearn because I don’t want a repeat of the past two years in the playoffs, and I think a bat will help. But under no circumstances do I believe that what I’m watching is mediocre, no matter how many times the word is used by some to describe what I’m seeing.
and as far as “settling”? I have no control over what the team does, and it’s impossible to prove the effect of a trade that didn’t happen.