Remember when the team signed Nick Castellanos and Kyle Schwarber to free agent contracts and the excitement they brought to what the offense could potentially be? Adding that duo to Bryce Harper, Rhys Hoskins and J.T. Realmuto led to dreams of an offense that pounded baseballs into dust, striking fear into the hearts of pitching staff and pitching coordinators across the game.
Then, people slowly began to realize that that duo would in fact have to actually play the other part of the game: defense. There is no better image to conjure that can as accurately portray thoughts about that move than this:
The results of said roster construction and the subsequent defensive adventures were pretty much what it was thought to be.